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Rabies threat
worries DeKalb
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) — A DeKalb County animal
shelter spokesman says 90 per cent of all pet dogs in the
county are not innoculated for rabies and that could
present problems if a northward-moving rabies epidemic
reaches DeKalb.
Gwynn Hardee, supervisor for the animal shelter, said
in addition, nearly all the dogs picked up don’t have
county licenses even though two-thirds of them are being
fed and cared for.
In another survey, Hardee found that 60 per cent of the
persons who buy dogs from the shelter never bother to get
the dogs innoculated for rabies even though the price of
the innocualtion is included in the purchase.
He said the dog owner is supposed to take his pet to a
veterinarian within five days and present him with a form
that the shelter issues when the dog is purchased. The vet
then vaccinates the dog and reimburses the owner for the
amount paid to the shelter for the shots.
Hardee said rabies in raccoons have been found as close
as Henry County.
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta said there has
been a major outbreak of rabies in animals throughout the
nation in the last several years.
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Griffin.
Oil slick threatens Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) —
An “unbelievable” oil slick 100
miles long today threatened
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Some diets can do as much harm as good
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
(First of Six Parts)
Does that old tired feeling
keep you from really enjoying
life because you lack energy?
Many people have this problem
because they don't understand
metabolics, the basis for
healthy eating and living
patterns.
Everyone talks about diets.
Book after book is written on
what you should eat. What is
missing is factual information
about what the body does with
food after you eat it.
Doctors call the study of what
the body does with foods
metabolism. Metabolics is all
about how the body changes,
literally by using energy and
chemicals from food to build
body structures.
Metabolics involves, one of
the most fascinating processes
of nature — the proces in which
the steak you eat is converted
into simple chemicals within
the cells. Part of the food can
be used to release energy for
body functions. Most of it is not
used for physical work. A lot of
Florida’s lower Keys. The
Coast Guard called in a marine
pollution “strike team” today
to try to stave it off.
Coast Guard spokesmen de
scribed the spill — estimated at
40,000 to 60,000 gallons — as the
biggest they could recall off
Florida in recent years.
“It’s unbelievable,” said
Petty Officer Jerome Walker.
By nightfall Sunday, the
Coast Guard said, the slick
stretched from Marathon, in
the middle Keys, to the Dry
Tortugas Islands, about 65
miles west of this island city —
a distance of about 100 miles.
A southeast breeze was
blowing the pools of oil in a
triangular shape both toward
the islands and westward into
the energy in your food will be
used to build new compounds
and, more important, to move
uncountable numbers of
chemicals into and out of your
active cells.
The most active cells are not
fat cells, incidentally. Every
cell in your body is a chemical
processing plant. There is a
processing unit to tear down
chemicals and another unit to
assemble new compounds, such
as proteins, for enzymes and
hormones. Chemicals must be
carried into the cell and the end
products transported out of the
cell. This constant massive
migration requires energy.
Energy is also needed to build
new body structures, the
process that keeps you young.
The steak you eat contains
proteins made up of amino
acids, the building blocks used
by the body to manufacture new
pro.teins. It takes energy to
hook one amino acid unit to
another, much as heat energy is
used to weld two pieces of
metal together.
Food, then, must provide the
Griffin mail on schedule;
agreement averts strike
Mail was being delivered on schedule today in Griffin
after a nationwide strike was averted.
Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar predicted the new
agreement which headed off the strike would spawn
increased mail prices this year.
Negotiators for the U.S. Postal Service and unions
representing 600,000 workers agreed on the new pact
slightly more than two hours after the midnight Sunday
deadline.
Postal wages, “one element of our cost ... are going to
go up” under the new two-year contract, Bailar said,
reiterating his prediction the increases will bring higher
cost mail service to Americans this year.
“The financial situation of the Postal Service is pretty
grim,” he said.
The agreement, which will take about a month to ratify,
came 81 days after the start of bargaining that chief
federal mediator W. J. Usury called some of the “toughest
I’ve been in.”
Although neither side was entirely satisfied, union
leaders predicted the pact would be accepted. Different
procedures by each of the four unions involved account for
the lengthy ratification process. Salary and fringe benefit
terms were not disclosed.
Bailar said the settlement struck “a proper balance”
between the interests of the postal employes and the
American public.
James Rademacher, president of the 193,000-member
National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO,
agreed.
“The contract was the best possible we could get,” he
said. He added that bargaining made it “very evident”
post workers must have “the benefit of the right to
strike.”
“I anticipate ratification by a large majority,” he said.
But he indicated everyone will not be happy with the pact.
“We must realize that if we outprice ourselves we won’t
even have a job,” he said.
Francis Filbey, president of the 318,000-member
American Postal Workers Union, AFLCIO, also said the
settlement was “not going to make every member ...
happy.”
Rademacher said union negotiators “were able to
preserve the no-layoff guarantee” —a key issue that
“was solved in the last moment.”
Retention of the clause was opposed by the Postal
Service and apparently deals a blow to its plans to
streamline some operations and cut down its payroll, one
of the largest in private industry.
Union sources also said they had retained previously
won cost-of-living raises.
the open Gulf of Mexico. The
slick measured about five miles
wide at Marathon and 10 to 15
miles wide off Dry Tortugas.
Investigators said they had
no idea what caused the oil
spill. They ruled out the
possibility of a sinking vessel
because no craft had been
reported overdue in the area.
They estimated 40,000 to
60,000 gallons of oil had been
spilled in the Atlantic off the
east-west line of Florida’s
southernmost islands.
Samples of the oil, not
thoroughly analyzed by Sunday
night, appeared to be either
crude oil or bunker C-type oil, a
spokesman said.
building blocks for new body
structures, as well as the
energy to do the building. When
food is not used for energy or as
building blocks it is converted
to a storage form for future
use. A small amount is stored
as animal starch, called
“glycogen,” and the rest as fat.
The body makes no distinction
as to whether the food is fat,
carbohydrate, protein, or even
alcohol. If there are excess food
products available after the
small amount of glycogen is
formed, they will all be con
verted to fat. So protein you
don’t need for building or
energy is just another way of in
creasing your fat deposits. Just
as you can use wood, coal, gas
or electricity to produce heat,
the body can use fats, car
bohydrates, or proteins to
produce energy. When you see
how the body does this you can
begin to understand — and
make some value judgments
about — some diet fads.
If you are overweight you
need to know just what your
body does with the food you eat.
GRIFFIN
Vol. 103 No. 171
Convicted murderer is teacher
CARSON CITY, Nev. (UPI) — Convicts
in prisons dream about far-away places —
but a 29-year-old convicted murderer has a
way to bring them down to earth.
Richard Dunn is teaching celestial
navigation, seamanship and great circle
sailing to inmates and “free people” at
Nevada State Prison — the only such
program of maritime arts offered in this
state.
“In prison besides women, most inmates
think about sailing on the ocean and flying
... These are the only freedoms,” says
Dunn, who has served 5% years of a life
term for shooting another man in a bar in
Las Vegas.
His 13 students from the prison are
“landlubbers” who have never set foot
aboard a ship. The three civilians who
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, July 21,1975
This is the only way you can un
derstand what you need to do
about your eating habits. It
seems like almost everyone is
on a diet. If you are one of those
people, you may be sapping
Does that old
tired feeling
keep you
from really
enjoying life?
your energy. What’s worse, the
diet, if successful, may make it
more difficult for you to avoid
getting fat in the future.
The public has been
brainwashed for years to diet to
lose weight, or to “burn off
those calories” with exercise.
Cosmonauts land safely
after handshake voyage
HOUSTON (UPI) - Russia’s
two Soyuz cosmonauts landed
gently and triumphantly in a
cloud of dust on a Central
Asian prairie today, carrying
five United States flags to
symbolize their historic meet
ing in space with three
Americans.
The world watched on televi
sion as Valeri Kubasov, 40, and
Alexei Leonov, 41, emerged
smiling from their scorched
spaceship after it came to rest
on its side in the middle of the
wheat belt of Kazakhstan.
Moscow control said they were
in excellent health.
“This is a wonderful place,”
Kubasov said after he climbed
from the Soyuz capsule and
greeted rescuers with a bear
hug. “It is a happy place of
landing. I will remember it
always.”
Leonov, obviously tired from
Missing men found
BUFORD, Ga. (UPI) —
Buford police said that three
men, believed missing in Lake
Lanier, were found in Roanoke,
Ala. today.
A search party of about 50
policemen and scuba divers
looked for the men for six
hours Sunday after the mother
of one of the men reported
them missing. The men were
identified as Larry Watson and
brothers Charles and Larry
Sheppard, all in their early
If you are like many thouands
of moderately overweight peo
ple, you may not need to do
either. And doing it may actual
ly be dangerous. Rather than
talk about treating the symp-
toms of being “overweight,” I
would like to explain the most
common cause of obesity in our
society and what to do about it.
The result will give you a lot
more energy, and you will feel
better without going on a highly
restricted diet that may harm
his six days in space, staggered
slightly when he emerged and
said, “It was difficult, very
difficult. We are a bit shaky
due to tiredness and to
happiness.”
U. S. astronauts Thomas
Stafford, Vance Brand and
Donald “Deke” Slayton re
mained in orbit for three more
days of scientific work. Their
Apollo, 3,450 miles to the east
at the time of the Soyuz
landing, is due to return to a
Pacific Ocean splashdown
Thursday.
The astronauts were asleep
when their comrades returned
to earth but later radioed
congratulations.
One of the Apollo experi
ments planned for today —a
scan of the sky with an x-ray
detector — was delayed be
cause of trouble with the
instrument. But the pilots went
20’s, of Palmetto.
Authorities said the three
men left Friday night on a
scuba diving outing and told
one of their mothers that they
were going to Lake Lanier and
would return at 6 p.m. Sunday.
When they did not return, the
woman called police and
reported them missing.
One of the men called home
this morning and told his
mother that they had changed
their minds and gone to
Alabama instead.
come to the prison one night a week for
class have some experience. At least one
owns a sailboat he uses on weekends at
Lake Tahoe.
There’s a lot of good natured ribbing of
Dunn and his students about the seagoing
and navigational courses he offers in the
high desert country, more than 200 miles
from the Pacific Ocean. And it’s a time
worn joke that the class is the crew of the
“U.S. Neversail.”
)
But Dunn and his class of dope users,
killers and burglars are serious.
“They’re not in here to make parole,”
says Dunn. “They’re in here to learn a
skill.”
The inmates pay $3 a credit for the
maritime courses, unlike the other
ahead with plans to make earth
observations and measure dust
particles in the atmosphere.
The Soyuz was eased to a
gentle landing at 6:51 a.m.
EDT by a big parachute and
the cushioning of four landing
rockets fired a few feet off the
ground. The thrust from these
rockets kicked up much of the
dust.
The Soyuz came down only
six miles from its bullseye 33
miles from the town of
Arkalyk. The site was 310 miles
northwest of the Baikonur
Cosmodrome from which the
cosmonauts rocketed away last
Tuesday.
Television cameras aboard
two helicopters followed the big
orange and white parachute
and the capsule swaying below
it for five minutes before the
landing, described as a
“thumpdown” by U. S. of
ficials. It was the first telecast
of the end of a Soviet
spaceflight.
Russia’s leaders quickly radi
oed congratulations to the
spacemen and praised the joint
project as a major step in
cementing peace and furthering
cooperation between the two
superpowers. Leonov and Kuba
sov replied in a special
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 67, high yesterday
89, low yesterday 70, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight near 70, total rainfall
yesterday 1.09 inches.
you. The facts have been large
ly ignored because of the
overemphasis on semistarva
tion diets and on the number of
calories used in specific
physical activities. That is only
part of the story. The rest of the
story is what happens while you
are resting. I am not proposing
that calories don't count.
A host of mistaken ideas are
accepted by the public daily
because they do not understand
what the body does with food.
Many swallow various food
preparations and supplements
in the hopes that these will im
part a greater level of health or
energy.
Energy can be improved by
improving your diet, if it needs
improving. Our sense of energy
and well-being is dependent on
the release of energy within the
cells. This requires not only the
right food elements, but also
adequate delivery of oxygen to
the cells to accomplish the im
portant metabolic changes. In
dividuals with poor circulation,
lung disease, or anemia severe
enough to limit the oxygen
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community college programs offered by
the prison which are mostly free. There is
stricter discipline.
The students and Dunn have scrounged
to equip the small classroom with nautical
books, charts, ropes and mock-ups of
ships. Completion of the courses leads to
an associate degree in applied science in
the maritime arts.
“We’re training these people to be
temporary third officers in the merchant
marines,” he says. The success in getting
former inmates into the maritime business
has been limited, but that hasn’t hindered
the course’s popularity.
Associate Warden Bill Lattin, who heads
the education programs at the prison, said
persons who are locked up “like to think in
terms of going to sea.”
delivery, all experience fatigue.
All these conditions can hinder
the cells from getting the vital
chemicals from the food and
the oxygen needed to release
food energy.
Symptomatic of the general
lack of understanding about
food and what the body does
with it is the habit of saying
that a substance is bad because
“it’s chemical." No foods, ad
ditives, minerals, or other sub
stances are good or bad simply
because they are chemicals.
Our entire body is chemical. To
stop eating because something
is chemical is to stop eating en
tirely.
(Next: Understanding Car
bohydrates)
Excerpted from
“Metabolics” by Lawrence E.
Lamb, published by Harper &
Row. (c) 1974 by Lawrence E.
Lamb.
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message to Russia’s officials:
“In this space flight, impor
tant for the cause of peace and
progress of all the peoples of
the world, we were inspired by
the high assessment of the
work of scientists, designers,
workers, cosmonauts and the
warm words of greeting by
Leonid Brezhnev.
“The crew of the ship is ready
to fulfill new assignments of the
Motherland.”
Lawmen
find more
marijuana
Griffin lawmen found two
more plots of marijuana plants,
bringing the number to four
found here within a week.
Around 25 plants were found
growing in a plot on Thompson
street, off North 17th.
Lt. Glen Whidby of the Griffin
Police Department’s Narcotics
Division said the plants ap
parently had just been trans
planted from another location.
Agent Dean Ray and Spalding
Sheriff’s Investigator Larry
Campbell found 11 plants
growing in the Sunny Side area.
Earlier last week, 83 plants
were found in a washtub behind
a South Eighth street residence
and around 25 were discovered
near Orchard Hill.
No arrests have been made.