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Mary Hurt and BUI Early have the lead roles in “6 Rms
Riv Vu” which the Griffin Footlight Players will present
March 4,5, and 6at Dovedown Center. The Griffin Utility
Club will sponsor the dinner theater.
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Grand Jazz, a local music group, will furnish music. The
Utlity Club members as weU as the library, the music
store on West Taylor and Prothro’s have tickets.
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Roach
poison
detected
WASHINGTON (UPI) - En
vironmental Protection Agency
officials say they have found
faint, mysterious traces of
kepone — an ant and roach
poison — in human milk taken
from nine new mothers in
seven Southeastern cities.
No one knows precisely
where the kepone originated,
the agency says, and no one
knows what harm, if any, such
minute amounts of the pesticide
in mother’s milk might cause.
Blood tests are planned for
the women and the EPA says it
will provide doctors if medical
complications develop. The
agency is taking human tissue
samples in several Southern
states, trying to learn the
source and extent of the
kepone.
An EPA spokesman said
Thursday the nine women were
among 298 in nine Southern
states whose milk was tested
for kepone during the past six
months. Milk samples from all
the other women were free of
kepone, he said.
The amount of kepone found
in each woman was miniscule
— ranging from less than one
to 5.8 parts per billion — the
spokesman said. He said
kepone levels recently found to
have caused serious illness in
Hopewell, Va., were about 1,000
times higher.
Although the EPA is unsure
where the kepone in the milk
originated, the spokesman said,
scientists think it may have
been formed by the degredation
of another pesticide called
mirex.
All nine of the women had
given birth days before the
milk samples were taken. The
spokesman said he did not
know if any were nursing their
babies.
The nine women found to
have poison in their milk live in
five Alabama cities — Birming
ham, Cullman, Decatur, Hunts
ville and Mobile — and in
Atlanta, Ga., and Whittier,
N.C., the spokesman said. He
said he did not know how many
women were tested in each
city.
Tests of other women in
Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina and
Texas showed their milk was
free of kepone, the spokesman
said.
“The EPA is uncertain
whether there is any special
significance attached to where
the kepone was found geogra
phically,” the spokesman said.
Kepone, though no longer
produced, once was made in
Hopewell by Life Sciences, Inc.,
a subcontractor to Allied
Chemical Corp. Workers in
Hopewell exposed to kepone
have suffered “severe illnes
ses,” the EPA said, and the
pesticide has contaminated
large sections of Virginia’s
James River Basin.
“The EPA began analyzing
mother’s milk in response to an
anouncement by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture that
small amounts of kepone had
been found among chemically
degraded mirex, a related
pesticide,” the spokesman said.
Mirex, once produced by
Allied, has been widely used
throughout the South since 1962
to control fire ants, the EPA
said. It said Allied stopped
making mirex in mid-1975,
although the poison still is used
on a limited basis.
“It is unknown whether
mirex decomposition is the
source of the kepone in the
milk samples,” the spokesman
said. “The EPA will be
conducting tests to see if it can
confirm USDA’s findings on the
connection between the pes
ticides.”
The spkesman said the EPA
also is running background
checks on the nine women with
the tainted milk “to determine
if the kepone may have come
from sources other than
mirex."
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Planting a tree
A Bicentennial tree-planting ceremony took place at Spalding Junior High
School, Unit n. The project was sponsored by the English Dept.. The
purchase of two maple trees and a marker were made possible by voluntary
contributions from the eighth grade students. Hie inscription on the
marcker reads: Presented by Class of 1980, February, 1976. Planting the
trees was supervised by William Walker, principal of Unit 11, and teachers.
Salesman wins right
to drive armored car
BONN, West Germany (UPI) —
Herbert Mittlaender, a 34-year-old
automobile salesman, gets only two
miles to a gallon of gas but he’s content.
“Automobiles keep their distance,"
he said. “I am not crowded.”
Mittlaender has just won a seven
month legal battle for the right to drive
his armored car.
He might have set a precedent. There
are 59 other unarmed schuetzenpanzer
— armored cars — in private hands in
West Germany but his is the only one
registered as a motor vehicle for
personal use.
Mittlaender bought a 1958 model of a
French Hotchkiss armored car for
$1,568 15 months ago from the surplus
property office of the West German
army.
He disarmed it, replaced the steel
tank treads with rubber and asked the
Vehicle Registration Office in his home
town of Frankfurt for a license.
He got it - FV 58.
“I used it for shopping, to go to the
opera, for weekend trips to the
mountains,” he said.
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It rumbled along at a top speed of 37
m.p.h. among the Volkswagens,
Mercedes and other automobiles for
eight months without denting anyone’s
fender.
But it naturally caused attention and
authorities banned it on the grounds it
endangered traffic.
“Danger?” he asked. “How about the
speeders, the drunks, the joy riders?”
Mittlaender appealed the ban to the
administrative court for the state of
Hesse in Kassel.
He pointed out that possession of the
armored car was legal whether he had
permission to use it or not.
“If he can’t use it should he get rid of
it?” his lawyer asked. “Suppose he
sells it to someone who wants to use it in
a political demonstration?”
The court Tuesday recommended a
compromise.
It proposed that Mittlaender keep off
the streets in the rush hours and avoid
streets in downtown Frankfurt.
Mittlaender and the city of Frankfurt
agreed on a 24-mile route he could use
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, February 27,1976
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Those representing the student body at the dedication ceremony were, (1-r)
Mark Reid, Cameron Fisher, Bryant Beeland, Barry Ellis, Lisa Morris,
Vickie Gibbs, lisa Pollock, Nancy Benedict, Tim Cooley, Fred Scott, Doug
Segars, Maria Hurt, Kelly Coleman, Cindy Kay Maddox, Robin Ricketts,
Karen Quick, Kelvin Walker, and Charles Bartholomew. Mrs. Virginia Stein
represented the English department.
Motorists invited to speed
EUGENE, Ore. (UPI) -
Motorists will get a chance to
push their cars over the limit
for one day without getting a
ticket, but it will be in the
interest of highway safety.
The Lane County Sheriff’s
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on Centennial Boulevard Satur
day so motorists can check
their speedometers with read
ings on the agency’s radar
screens.