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Belton Dykes . . . hospital therapist.
Mrs. Nixon remains
in serious condition
LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) - Pat
Nixon is in serious condition in a
hospital bed today, “moderately to
severely paralyzed” by a stroke that
left her unable to walk or talk normally
as doctors labored to determine
whether her condition will deteriorate.
The wife of the former president was
on the critical care floor at Long Beach
Memorial Hospital — where her
husband came close to death 21 months
ago — but a neurologist said her life
was in no immediate danger.
However, there was a possibility her
condition could grow worse, he
cautioned, and a chance she may never
walk normally again.
Nixon, who rode in an ambulance
People
...and things
Two retired men taking brisk early
morning walk, almost running.
Man riding bicycle on East Solomon
Street, cradling baby in one arm, baby
nursing bottle.
Person spray-painting beds set up in
front yard of home.
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PLAINS, Ga.—A front lawn press briefing by Jimmy Carter and Sen. John
Glenn, D-Ohio was interrupted by a playful Amy Carter, 8, when she jumped
into her father’s arms. Carter and Sen. Glenn spent two hours discussing a
possible slot on the ’7B democratic ticket for the former astronaut. (UPI)
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Amy steals show
with his wife and their daughter, Julie
Eisenhower, to the hospital from the
family home in San Clemente, did not
speak to newsmen about his wife’s
illness.
But Dr. Jack M. Mosier, the
specialist called in by the Nixon family
physician, said the former president
was “being very nice and being very
realistic,” and told him “he wanted me
to treat her like I would any other
patient.”
In Chicago, former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan told reporters Nixon
had told him by telephone that “her
condition is stabilized and that they are
very hopeful, but they won’t really
know — because of the nature of the
stroke —for some 48 hours” the
seriousness of her condition.
Nixon left the hospital late Thursday
afternoon but Mrs. Eisenhower stayed
as her mother ate a light meal and
waited for the Nixons’ other daughter,
Tricia Cox, to arrive from New York.
She reached the hospital shortly after 8
p.m. and spent about an hour with her
mother. The two daughters left
together and refused to speak with
newsmen.
“Mrs. Nixon is a very charming
patient,” Mosier said, “a good intellect,
bright, alert and is taking things very,
very well and very cheerfully.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, July 9,1976
Hospital offers therapy
Patients who have been getting
physical therapy treatment out of town
may now get it in Griffin.
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital has a
new physical therapist and a therapy
room housing the latest equipment.
Belton Dykes, the hospital’s first full
time physical therapist, works in a
basement section of the new wing. He
treats both out-patients who come to
him and also goes to the rooms of those
admitted to the hospital.
Duties of a physical therapist include
treating neuro-muscular disorders,
such as arthritis; building up weak
Gasoline, steel force
wholesale prices up
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A surge in
the cost of steel and gasoline forced all
wholesale prices up 0.4 per cent in June,
the Labor Department reported today,
While price increases for food and
farm products eased during June, the
second quarter of 1976 —April, May and
June— produced an annual inflation
rate of 6.6 per cent in the wholesale
market.
This meant inflation has been
heating up substantially since the first
quarter, when wholesale prices
declined at an annual rate of 1.8 per
cent. President Ford’s economic ad
visers have long insisted the first
quarter rate was too low to be main
tained.
The June increase in wholesale prices
was 0.1 per cent larger than during
May, but only half as big as April.
Metals and fuels prices accounted for
more than half of June’s 0.5 per cent
increase in industrial commodities —
the largest such increase in six months.
An 0.4 per cent rise in processed food
and feed prices and an 0.3 per cent
increase for farm products were
significantly smaller than in the two
preceding months.
The Wholesale Price Index stood at
Queen eyes N. Y.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip bade
farewell to Washington Thursday night
with a sumptuous banquet for their
host, President Ford, and turned their
attention to New York City today.
The British monarch and her
husband, who began their Bicentennial
visit in Philadelphia Tuesday, hosted
an array of dignitaries from within and
without Washington after a busy day of
sightseeing.
Seated at tables decorated with 5,000
roses and black and white Wedgewood
candlesticks and bowls, the guests
drank vintage wines and dined on
creme de cresson froide, pain de sole
Normande, Selle d’agneau Mont
pensier, and souffle glace de I’Am
bassade.
World famous violinist Yehudi
Menuhin played, as did students from
his school at Stoke d’Abemon, Surrey,
England.
The royal couple were to fly from
Washington to Newark today, there to
board the royal yacht Britannia for the
voyage past the Statue of Liberty into
New York Harbor and a greeting from
Mayor Abraham Beame and Gov. Hugh
Carey.
First Lady Betty Ford did not attend
the banquet at the British Embassy
because of a bad cold.
Only 84 guests received coveted
dinner invitations, but another 1,600
persons were invited to an after-dinner
reception.
At the reception, the Queen chatted
briefly with heavyweight champion
Muhammad Ali. She discussed the leg
injury he sustained in a recent bout
with a Japanese wrestler. That “sounds
very painful,” the Queen said.
Dinner guests included the
Rockefellers, Chief Justice and Mrs.
Warren Burger, Cabinet members
including Secretary of State and Mrs.
Henry Kissinger, and five Com
monwealth ambassadors.
'Other guests included AFLCIO
President and Mrs. George Meany,
muscles of stroke victims so they can
walk and use their arms again; treating
traumatic injuries from auto, industrial
or other accidents; giving heat or cold
treatments to people with back
ailments; and working with any other
illnesses affecting the muscles.
Mr. Dykes is quick to say he’s not a
doctor. He can’t treat anybody until he
gets a doctor’s prescription. He then
carries out their instructions.
The hospital has purchased the latest
equipment for the therapy.
There is an ultra sound machine,
whose high frequency sound waves at
183.1 in June, a 5.4 per cent increase in
the last 12 months. This meant that
wholesale goods costing SIOO in 1967
now cost $183.10.
Selected steel price increases were
blamed for most of the 1.1 per cent
increase on all metal products. Prices
of steel mill products rose 3.3 per cent
before seasonal adjustment.
Economists warn these steel price
increases—combined with other in
creases announced recently for copper,
aluminum and some other metals—will
begin to hit the consumer directly this
summer in the prices charged for home
appliances.
Fuel prices rose 1 per cent, primarily
because of soaring gasoline prices.
Natural gas, electric power and crude
petroleum costs also climbed, but the
price of conunerical jet fuel declined.
Industrial prices, which make up
about 70 per cent of the items
measured, have generally been in a lull
since the beginning of the year.
Following increases of 1.9 per cent
and 1.3 per cent in the two preceding
months, developments among food
prices during June came as welcome
news to shoppers.
violinist Yehudi and Mrs. Menuhin,
historian Prof. Henry Steele Com
mager, movie star Elizabeth Taylor,
the Alfred Lunts, and comedian Bob
Hope.
Earlier Thursday bagpipes played
and 6,000 members of the Washington
National Cathedral sang “The Battle
Hymn of the Republic” as the Queen
and President Ford stood together,
solemnly watching workmen ease a
stone from 1,000-year-old Westminster
Abbey into the Churchill Memorial
Porch, named for the late British
Prime Minister.
The Senate and House honored the
royal couple at a luncheon in the ornate
Statuary Hall of Congress. The Queen
told the legislators “Yours is a task
which needs courage, vision and
compassion.... For it is in times such as
these, which demand so much
resolution, that old certainties and tried
friendships take on a new importance.
Anglo-American friendship is both tried
and certain.”
They’re watching you
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Georgia State Patrol has or
dered a strict enforcement of the 55-mile-per-hour speed
limit on state highways in an effort to reduce the number
of car crashes on two-lane roads.
The action will put an end to the 10 to 15 mph tolerance
margin over the speed limit which had been left to the
discretion of the individual officer.
“We don’t intend to jail every driver who’s going 56
miles per hour,” said Public Safety Commissioner Her
man Cofer, “but we do intend to eliminate the speed
tolerance we have been giving and insist upon a
reasonable compliance with the 55-mile limit.”
Cofer said he would hold a patrol staff meeting today to
emphasize the need for the crackdown, especially on two
lane highways where some 518 persons — 94 per cent of
the state 1976 traffic death total — have been killed in car
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750,000 cycles per second cannot be
heard by the human ear. The sound
waves penetrate soft tissues and have
chemical, thermal and micro-message
effects, Dykes explained.
Other equipment includes parallel
bars, hot pack unit, parafin bag for
treating hands, treatment tables and a
whirlpool.
Water is agitated in the whirlpool and
acts as a heating massage to back
patients, Dykes said.
The new physical therapist is a native
of Savannah. He and his family are
moving to Griffin from DeKalb County
Disbar
NEW YORK (UPI) - The New York
state Supreme Court’s Appellate
Division Thursday ruled 4-to-l to disbar
former President Nixon. The ruling
condemned him for “obstruction of the
due administration of justice,” in both
the Watergate bugging and the break-in
at the offices of Daniel Ellsberg’s
psychiatrist.
Neither Nixon nor any attorney
representing him was present at the
disbarment hearing. The action carries
no criminal penalty, but prevents him
from ever practicing law in New York.
Accused
DALLAS (UPI) - Police Thursday
confirmed retired Army Maj. Gen.
Edwin A. Walker was arrested last
month on a misdemeanor charge of
public lewdness and probably would go
on trial in late August. The charge
carries a maximum penalty of a $2,000
fine and a year in jail.
Walker was arrested, after allegedly
fondling a plainclothes officer in a Cole
Park restroom late in the evening of
June 23, according to police spokesman
Bob Shaw.
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Queen in Ford’s honor at the British Embassy. (UPI)
crashes.
“What bothers me,” Cofer said, “is that a driver error
can be noted in most fatal accidents and there is evidence
of excessive speed in virtually every one.”
Cofer said some traffic court judges in Georgia “are
reluctant” to fine drivers charged with speeding less than
10 miles over the posted limit. He said the action was
apparently the result of a misunderstanding of a law
originally designed as a safeguard against speed traps.
A 1974 state law permitting communities to use speed
traps specified the devices could only be used against
drivers who were at least 10 miles per hour above the
speed limit, he said.
“I think some judges and policemen got the idea that a
driver had to be going more than 10 miles per hour above
the speed limit before a case could be booked,” Cofer said.
“But this simply is not the case.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 88, low
today 66, high yesterday 87, low
yesterday 64, high tomorrow in upper
80s, low tonight in upper 60s.
FORECAST: Fair and warm tonight.
A slight chance of thundershowers
tomorrow mainly during the late af
ternoon and nighttime hours.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Widely
scattered afternoon and evening
thundershowers with not much day to
day temperature changer
where he was a therapist at Atlanta
West Hospital.
He has a B.S. degree from The
Citadel and is a graduate of the Duke
University physical therapy school.
He has worked as a therapist in the
U.S. Army at Memorial Medical Center
in Savannah and at South Side Com
prehensive Health Center in Atlanta.
His wife, Mary Lou, a dietitian, is a
native of New York City. They met at
Walter Reid Hospital during Belton’s
army stint.
They have two sons, David, seven and
Eric, four.
Raid
TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) — Lt. Gen.
Mordechai Gur told reporters at a
special briefing Thursday the Israeli
commando raid went off with un
precedented precision. He credited
exceptional intelligence work for the
mission’s success.
Gur also said three of the hijackers
may have slipped past the Israeli force
in the assault of the old terminal
building at Entebbe airport Saturday
that freed more than 100 hostages from
pro-Palestinian terrorists.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“A fellow’s more inclined to
complain about one flat tire
than to rejoice about three that
aren’t.”