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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, October 22, 1975
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Recruiting
Lynn Mitchell (standing) and Nan Carley of the Griffin
Utility Club plan an extensive telephone campaign to
recruit donors for the Nov. 3 visit of the bloodmoblle at
Cheatham building of First Baptist Church. The club will
sponsor the visit.
Smokers take
a holiday
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) — Fussing and fidgeting, licking
lollipops and chewing gum and fingernails, more than
30,000 Minnesotans took the pledge to stop smoking —for
24 hours.
It was Tuesday, the second annual statewide D-Dav —
“Don’t Smoke Day" — in Minnesota.
They gave up the habit for the day, or tried to, just to see
if they could do it.
Promoters said 160 centuries could be added to the lives
of Minnesota’s 850,000 smokers if the campaign were
successful. They hoped 10 per cent of the puffers would
give up the weed for a day and that many would swear off
smoking for good.
Sponsors said it was too early to tell how many smokers
actually kicked the habit for 24 hours, but indicated many
had persevered. Their hope that there would be a number
of permanent “cures” was embodied in the slogan for the
event: “Take a day off from smoking. Maybe you’ll even
like it.”
The attempts of many smokers, however, were
exemplified by Barbara Huber, 31, a suburban
Minneapolis housewife.
“I should really quit but 1 didn’t,” she said. “I thought
seriously about stopping, but don’t you suppose I’ve had
about five cigarettes. That’s much less than I normally
smoke though.”
“I really would like to quit,” echoed David Kirscht, 36,
Minneapolis, who smokes a pack a day and forgot about
the antismoking day until he had six cigarettes. “It’s
surprisingly easy to quit.
“The trouble is, I like to smoke.”
Sponsors of D-Day included the Minnesota Division of
the American Cancer Society, the Minnesota Lung
Association and the Minnesota Heart Association.
Smokers and former smokers who wanted to check their
breathing capability and blood pressure were given free
lung and heart tests.
“All heavy smokers will show signs of breathing
difficulty at some time in their lives,” said Ruth Rinker,
37, a former smoker and a volunteer from the University
of Minnesota School of Respiratory Therapy. “If you quit
three days you’ll get a surge of energy or nerves.”
More than 30,000 persons, 10,000 more than last year,
signed pledge cards to desist on D-Day. A survey taken six
months after the 1974 observance showed 1,400 persons
had given up smoking for good.
D-Day started in the small Minnesota town of
Monticello. It was the brainchild of Monticello Times
publisher Lynn Smith, who quit smoking after 18 years at
the age of 34.
Smith said statistics show every cigarette takes 14.4
minutes off one’s life and nonsmokers age 25 will live eight
years longer than smokers on the average.
Ford doing better
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) — A federal judge has
ordered President Ford, described by the defense as
“maybe our most important witness,” to give videotaped
testimony on what he saw when Lynette Fromme aimed a
loaded pistol at him.
Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Thomas Macßride
directed that Ford be questioned by both prosecution and
defense attorneys within the next 10 days, possibly when
he visits California Oct. 29-30, or at the White House.
The videotaped deposition containing Ford’s sworn
statements then could be shown at the Nov. 4 trial of Miss
Fromme, 26, the red-haired Charles Manson cultist who
became the first person accused under a new federal law
of attempting to assassinate a President.
John Virga, co-counsel with Miss Fromme, called Ford
“maybe our most important witness.”
The White House had no comment on the order Tuesday
and reported the Justice Department was handling a
response.
The jurist termed it “unfortunate that the chief
executive has to be put to this burden,” but said Congress
must have contemplated such a situation when it passed a
1965 law making it a crime to attempt to assassinate the
President.
Federal judge orders Ford to give tape testimony
WASHINGTON (UPI) — With his doctor reporting
“marked improvement,” President Ford appears to be
getting over a persistent cold and sinus infection that has
kept him confined to the White House family quarters for
two straight days.
But the President had no official appointments planned
again today, and press secretary Ron Nessen said, “I
think it is pretty likely” that Ford will curtail his activities
for the rest of the week.
Nessen said White House physician William Lukash
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wanted to examine Ford this morning before deciding if
the President was well enough to go back to his desk in the
Oval Office.
On Tuesday, Lukash found Ford’s temperature was
down almost to normal and that his coughing and
congestion had lessened — leading him to conclude that
“the President has shown marked improvement during
the day,” Nessen said.
Nonetheless, the doctor told Ford to keep taking an
antibiotic drug to try to wipe out the sinus infection that
began bothering the 62-year-old Ford over a week ago and
forced him off the job for the first time in 14 months in
office.
The precautions suggested Ford and his doctor were
taking no unnecessary chances so the President could be
at full strength for a hectic pace next week.
If all goes as scheduled, Ford will meet here with
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on Monday and
Tuesday, then attend Republican fundraising events
Wednesday and Thursday in Los Angeles and San
Francisco.