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Breakthrough in birth control may be near
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (UPI) — A major breakthrough in
the field of birth control may be in the offing, according to
a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher.
An instrument called Ovutimer has been developed to
detect a woman’s fertility period — the time she can
become impregnated.
MIT researcher Louis Kopito said Monday although the
device has been tested only on a limited basis, “it’s been
very successful in aiding women (who had trouble
conceiving) to pregnancy.”
McGovern scolds reporters
for pushing Carter phrase
United Press International
George McGovern scolded
reporters for making a big deal
over Jimmy Carter’s use of the
phrase “ethnic purity." Ronald
Reagan owned up to a “cash
flow” problem all the presiden
tial candidates have. A civil
rights leader said Jimmy
Carter is talking like a racist to
“lode up the Polack vote.”
Monday was that kind of day,
politically speaking.
Henry Jackson campaigned
in Indiana, where he predicted
he will end up with most of the
organized labor support that
went to George Wallace four
years ago in the state. Morris
Udall campaigned in Pennsyl
vania, where he said of course
he is trying to “stop Carter” —
he has been all along.
Carter rested at home on the
peanut farm before hitting the
trail again today with a news
conference and rally in Atlanta.
San Francisco strikers
call latest offer ‘absurd’
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
City supervisors have made
another proposal to end a 14-day
strike by municipal workers
that has brought public
transportation to a halt but
strike leaders have termed the
offer “absurd.”
The Board of Supervisors, the
city’s governing body, Monday
night presented the striking
craft unions a proposal, subject
to voter approval, that would
stretch scheduled pay cuts over
a three-year period.
“The whole thing is absurd,”
said Joseph O’Sullivan of the
Carpenters Union.
“This is unrealistic in terms
of collective bargaining,”
George Evankovich of the
Laborers Union told newsmen.
Mayor George Moscone made
a plea Monday night to “keep
negotiations going until the city
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Another veto
WASHINGTON—President Ford vetoes ■ bill that would
have modified the Hatch Act to allow federal employes to
take part in partisan politics. The President said “public
business must be conducted without the taint of politics.”
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President Ford told a White
House reception for his cam
paign workers he is certain he
will win the nomination in
August and thinks he will win
the May 1 Texas primary where
Reagan is the favorite.
McGovern, who lost all but
Massachusetts and the District
of Columbia to Richard Nixon in
1972, scolded reporters for
making a big deal over Carter’s
use of the words “ethnic purity”
in discussing segregrated
neighborhoods.
He said the resulting furor
was due to “superficial and silly
reporting.”
Failure of a congressional
conference committee to agree
on campaign law reforms,
which would allow the Federal
Election Commission to resume
disbursing money to presiden
tial candidates, all but closed
the book on any hope of opening
that purse for several weeks at
strike is settled.”
The strike was called because
voters last year approved a
measure cutting the pay-fringe
package for craft workers
employed by the city.
Some 1,700 plumbers, elec
tricians, machinists,
sheetmetal workers, gardeners,
glaziers and carpenters were on
strike. But 14,000 other civil
servants were on the job,
crossing picket lines.
The largest bloc of city
workers to honor the picket
lines were the Municipal
Railway bus and streetcar
drivers. This left some 250,000
persons without public tran
sportation.
The situation worsened Mon
day when Golden Gate Bridge
District bus drivers walked out
to back demands for higher pay.
This forced about 9,000 Marin
Kopito claims Ovutimer to be 100 per cent safe. If it can
be developed to have the same success rate for women
who want to prevent pregnancy, it may become a maior
development in the field of contraception, he said.
Ovutimer is designed for use by gynecologists treating
women who have difficulty conceiving.
Ovutime Inc., manufacturer of the device, said a
consumer version is being developed for home use,
“providing women with a means of accurate and natural
family planning.”
best.
In Sherman Oaks, Calif.,
Reagan said his campaign is
undergoing some “cash flow”
difficulties, and added: “Until
Congress gets off the dime and
does something, we’re held up
as I’m sure other candidates
• are.”
In Atlanta, Georgia civil
rights leader Hosea Williams
asked several of his colleagues
to withdraw their support from
Carter, who, he said, made the
“ethnic purity” statement
“knowing it would disturb
Blade America but thinking he
could pat us on the head and
smooth it over ... to lock up the
Polack vote or that aristocratic
vote out of Virginia.”
In Boston, conservative writ
er Ayn Rand said Reagan is
doing a disservice to America
by stressing the relative
strength of the Soviet Union.
“To exaggerate the power of the
County residents into the
automobile for trips here.
Traffic on the Golden Gate
Bridge during the morning
commute hour was better than
expected because of the in
creased use of car pools. But the
evening hours saw traffic
backed up from the toll plaza
well into the city.
In a related action, Superior
Court Judge John E. Benson
ruled the city strike illegal and
issued a preliminary injunction
against it.
“The right to strike by public
employess has been defined
time and time again by the
courts of this state,” Benson
said. “The rule is that public
employes do not have the right
to strike against their em
ployer.”
Senate approves $412.6 billion
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate has approved a 1412.6
billion federal budget for next
year. No one involved seemed
too pleased with it.
Conservatives were appalled
by the $50.2 billion deficit it
would create.
Liberal Democrats felt it
contained too much for defense
and not enough for social
programs.
Republicans loyal to Presi
dent Ford were on the spot
because it contained sl7 billion
more in spending than he
recommended. Nevertheless, 17
Republicans voted for it.
Ford’s budget director,
James Lynn, said it “plays
Russian roulette with inflation”
and expressed hope the House
“will know better.”
Even Sen. Edmund Muskie,
D-Maine, chairman of the
Senate Budget Committee, who
fought for it through a barrage
of proposed amendments to a
final vote of 66 to 22, wasn’t
completely happy.
Personally, he said, he would
most incompetent nation in the
world” is hardly patriotic, she
said.
In Washington, Democratic
congressmen Paul Simon of
Illinois and Bob Bergland of
Minnesota wrote 15,000 letters
to remind past and potential
national convention delegates
that Hubert Humphrey is still
around and available — in case
they had forgotten.
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, who in
1972 became the first black
woman to seek the Democratic
presidential nomination, says
her preferred ticket this year is
Humphrey and Carter. In that
order.
Searchers
find man
RIDGECREST, Calif. (UPI)
— Searchers Monday found a
74-year-old man lost for two
days in a desolate area of lava
flows near Death Valley used by
Navy planes for bombing and
rocket attack practice.
Everett Messemor of Rid
gecrest survived heat, cold,
rain, lack of food and water.
There were no bombing or
rocket attacks on the area
during the weekend.
He apparently became con
fused while on a sightseeing
tour of Indian archeological
sites and wandered into the
desert Saturday at the China
Lake Naval Weapons Test
Center. The area, about 60 miles
southwest of Death Valley, is
covered by lava flows and was
used as a training ground for
astronauts to accustom them to
a lunar-like setting.
A search force of Navy
helicopters and ground patrols,
and the Indian Wells Valley
Search and Rescue Unit, found
him Monday about 20 miles
from where he had gotten lost,
wandering across a dry lake
bed.
He was reported in good
condition at Ridgecrest Com
munity Hospital.
have preferred it contain more
jobs for the unemployed. But he
saw it as a key test of a
congressional budget process
fully in effect this year for the
first time.
In years past Congress
considered government spend
ing only in pieces. Now it
reviews the whole budget and
the national priorities within it.
This year the Senate’s regular
authorizing committees, each
dealing with its own subject
area, piled up proposals totaling
$440 billion. Muskie’s budget
committee trimmed that by $27
billion.
On the Senate floor, Muskie
talked again and again of
maintaining the “discipline” of
the new budget process. On his
urging, the Senate voted down
proposed additions that Muskie
conceded were politically
“sexy”:
— A $3.2 billion increase for
doubling public service jobs,
increasing meals for the elderly
and restoring cuts in Medicare
and Medicaid, defeated 58 to 27.
The instrument detects fertility by measuring the
fluidity of cervical mucus within a woman’s body.
“It’s 100 per cent safe. No chemicals are involved and it
doesn’t interfere with a woman’s cycle. It just measures,”
said Kopito. “You could say it’s a totally vassive method.
“Ovutimer has been tested for over two years — in 1,340
tests on fertile and infertile women — and through 69 full
monthly cycles. An instrument for (medical) office use
will be commercially available to physicians this year,”
Ovutime said in a news release.
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MIAMI—One of Its pontoons burst like a balloon,
helicopter sits where it crashed in a lane of 163rd street
yesterday. Car behind the copter was waiting for a traffic
Colson says ‘lies’ not drinking
drove Nixon from the White House
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
Former President Richard
Nixon may have gulped drinks
and made mistakes, but was
ultimately driven out of the
White House by his lies,
according to a former aide.
Former Nixon hatchet-man
Charles Colson Monday chided
authors Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein for their portrait
of Nixon in the best-selling book
“The Final Days.” In it, Nixon
is depicted as drinking heavily,
acting irrationally and contem
plating suicide.
“There was a time when there
were certain things that just
weren’t talked about,” said
Colson, who served seven
months in prison on an
obstruction of justice charge. “I
don’t understand why the
national media keeps kicking a
man when he’s down.”
While Colson’s new book
“Bom Again” describes Nixon
— An extra sloo' million to
improve juvenile justice, failed
46 to 39.
— An amendment to cut SSOO
million from defense, voted
down 58 to 27.
—An effort to trim $6.8 billion
from the overall budget, failed
Where is man, who needed vacation?
CHICAGO (UH) - Estel Blevins
called his office and said he was
beginning an unscheduled vacation ...
“that he needed time off.”
Three days later, on March 25, a body
was found floating in the Chicago River
north of the Loop.
On March 27, a man who said he was
William Hamilton of Jackson, Mich.,
Blevins’ brother-in-law, identified the
body as Blevins’ and ordered it crema
ted.
Now police aren’t too sure.
Eight days after the cremation, a
routine fingerprint check from the FBI
in Washington identified the dead man
Copter crashes
“gulping” drinks on more than
one occasion, Colson said the
former president prided himself
in being able to cut his alcoholic
intake after two or sometimes
three drinks.
“He always told me you could
judge a man by whether he
could take two drinks and then
stop,” Colson said.
Colson downplayed reports of
Nixon’s irrationality, but
agreed Nixon was untruthful
about the Watergate affair.
“It was his lies that drove him
out of office,” he conceded.
“But I think every, man’s got a
little Watergate in him. I think
every man’s got a little Adolph
Hitler in him.”
Colson, whose book
celebrates his conversion to
Christianity, told his audience
the nation should concentrate
on the future instead of
“chewing up the dead carcasses
of past political leaders.”
62 to 23.
— A request for sl2l million
more for agricultural research,
defeated 55 to 30.
—Even a proposal to add SBOO
million for veterans — usually
unstoppable — was defeated 53
to 21 when debate began last
as Joseph Tallarico, 55, a retired Navy
diver who lived in Chicago.
Police suspect the man, who falsely
identified the corpse, may have been
Blevins himself, who had “some large
insurance policies.”
Blevins, a 32-year-old stockbroker
from Clearwater, Fla., had been
missing since March 22, when his wife
drove him to the airport for a two-day
vacation in Chicago.
Earlier that day, he called his office
to announce he was beginning an
unscheduled vacation ... “that he
needed time off,” an office spokesman
said. Blevins was a stockbroker for
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The home use version, which may be available next |
year, would be tampon-size and disposable.
“The woman will be able to use the Ovutimer every non
menstrual day to determine her fertile period exactly, or
she can use it just before intercourse to see if she is
ovulhting or is about to ovulate, and likely to conceive,” M
Ovutime said.
The reliability rate of Ovutimer as a prevention of
pregnancy has not been established because of limited
testing, said Kopito.
light to change when the machine fell, hitting the car with
its tail and rotor. No injuries were reported. (UPI)
week.
“If I had blinked just once on
any of those numbers, the door
would have been wide open,”
Muskie said.
The House will vote on its
proposal later this month.
In an aside, Colson told of
Nixon’s “great sense of
humor,” as evidenced in a
practical joke on Henry Kissin
ger.
According to Colson, Risin
ger’s habit of walking unan
nounced into a room irritated
the former [resident. So one
day, when Kissinger entered,
Nixon pretended not to notice
and turned to Colson:
“Yes, Chuck, I think we
should drop the bomb on
Hanoi,” he said in conversa
tional tones. Kissinger’s jaw
reportedly dropped.
Colson, who is touring the
country to promote his book,
said America expects too much
of its leaders.
“We expect him (the Presi
dent) to be a superman,” he
said. “I suppose anything could
happen to a man who is under
those pressures under those
circumstances.”
Congress will approve a target
budget resolution in May, which
will be used as a guide as
individual spending bills are
passed.
A final budget resolution will
be approved in September.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and
Smith.
“This is the most bizarre case I’ve
ever encountered,” Police Homicide
Unit Commander Joseph DiLeonardi
said. “Anyone who can unravel this one
deserves a Pulitzer Prize.”
* Police became suspicious of a
possible insurance fraud case when the
description of Hamilton given to police
by county morgue attendants matched
that of Blevins, DiLeonardi said.
Developments disclosed Blevins
“had some large life insurance policies
and probably now this was the reason
for the false identification.