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Growing evidence links paralysis to flu shots ATLANTA (AP) - There is growing evidence that the mys terious Guillain-Barre syn drome is a reaction to the swine flu vaccine, says Dr. Philip S. Brachman, director of the bureau of epidemiology at the national Center for Disease Control. The swine flu vaccination program was suspended last month on the advice of the ad visory committee on immuniza tion practices because of a ris ing number of syndrome cases. Meanwhile, Brachman said records of Salk vaccine used in polio epidemics in the 1950 s and Chip to work for his father WASHINGTON (AP) - Chip • Carter has sold the old house trailer down in Georgia and is living in the big city waiting for the day he and his father move into the big white mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue. Chip, the son of President elect Carter, will be working for his father after the Jan. 20 inauguration. But, says a Car ter spokesman, he won’t be on the government payroll. , Ann Anderson, a staff worker for Mrs. Carter, said Thursday that Chip, 26, will be an “emis sary” for his father, attending • meetings and functions to which the President is invited but unable to attend. ’ “We envision a lot of travel for him,” said Mrs. Anderson, adding that details have yet to be worked out. She said she did not know if the President-elect will be pay ing his son out of his own pocket, Stuckey, Sr. • dead at 67 EASTMAN, Ga. (AP) - Wil , liam S. Stuckey Sr., who turned a Depression-era roadside pe can stand into a candy and res taurant chain along roadsides in • half the country, died Thursday afternoon after a short illness. He was 67. NEED HELP ON INCOME TAX? Call BALLARD'S SERVICES Bill Ballard or Shirley Padgett 228-1340 629 West Taylor St Toyland Clearance All Toys Now f Price Games Match Box Cars Tonka Trucks Dolls Stuffed Toys And Save A Big 50 % JCPenney 1205 W. Taylor St. Griffin, Ga. ‘6os are being studied to deter mine if there was any relation ship with the syndrome. He said there was nothing pointing directly to the Salk vaccine, and that this phase of the investigation was routine. Brachman said blood speci mens from syndrome victims will be sent to various labora tories throughout the nation for study. “We think it is a reaction of the body to the swine vaccine,” he said. Thursday in an inter view. “It is something foreign to the body. It is directly related to “but I can tell you one thing. He won’t be on the White House payroll. There will be no nepotism.” Chip and his wife, Caron, sold their house trailer in Plains, Ga., and moved to Washington this week. They are living tem porarily in the handsomely renovated, government-owned townhouses across the street from the White House. The town houses are being used as office space during the transition period. Mrs. Anderson said the young Carters will be unavailable for interviews until after the in auguration: “They want to keep a low profile.” But some of their friends are wondering how Chip, a former clothes salesman, will adjust to the White House spotlight. “He’s a wild man,” said one. “He likes to party, he likes rock ’n’ roll, he likes to have a big time. Chip’s the rebel." Until the inauguration, the young Carters are working for the inaugural committee. Chip Carter acts as liaison between the committee and his family. With his wife assisting him, he helps work out logistics for the family during inaugural week, such details as who will repre sent the family at the different events, where they should plan to be at any given time, what they should wear and where they should sit. something in the vaccine—some material, not a virus or an agent of some kind.” Earlier, officials at the CDC said there was merely “signifi cant evidence of association of the syndrome with the swine flu program.” Brachman said, “It is not in conceivable that it might be a reaction to several kinds of ma terial. It might be something in the makeup of that individual that causes them to react to something in that vaccine.” Salk vaccine was pronounced safe and effective in April 1955. Trials and inoculations were sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paral ysis. There is no relation between poliomyelitis, which is an in flamation of the brain and spin al cord, and Guillain-Barre syn drome, which causes mostly temporary paralysis. Death re sults in about 5 per cent of the victims of the syndrome. Since October, 571 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome have been reported. Os these, 287 in dividuals received swine flu vaccine, 261 were not vacci nated, four received B-Hong Kong vaccine and the status of 19 is unknown. news Air conditioning plant FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The Rheem Air Con ditioning Co. said Thursday it will build a S2O million plant in Milledgeville, Ga., to manufacture residential heating and air conditioning units. A company spokesman said the Georgia plant would help supply the company’s eastern market. He said the company’s Arkansas operations would not be affected. Hosea f s trial delayed ATLANTA (AP) — Court officials agreed Thursday to delay the criminal trespass trial of Rep. Hosea Williams, D-Atlanta, until after the legislative session. Williams is charged in connection with two demonstra tions last year. One protested the alleged lack of black contractors working on the Richard B. Russell Federal Building and the other involved a taxi drivers’ protest. Committee asked to postpone hearing on Bell WASHINGTON (AP) - A black leader who opposes the nomination of Griffin B. Bell as attorney general is calling on the Senate Judiciary Com- Carter nominates seven to state department posts PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Presi dent-elect Carter announced to day the names of seven persons he is nominating for State De partment posts and his choice to head the U.S. Information Agency. The announcement confirms recent news reports involving all eight persons. Two of those proposed for State Department jobs were breakaway members of the Na tional Security Council staff when it was headed by Secre tary of State Henry A. Kissin ger. Anthony Lake, 37, is Carter’s choice to be director of the State Department’s policy planning staff. Lake, currently executive director of the private, multinational International Voluntary Services organization, quit the NSC staff in 1970 in protest to then- President Richard M. Nixon’s military intervention in Cambodia. He is suing Kissinger over secret federal wiretaps on the telephones of certain newsmen and Nixon administration officials. To be deputy undersecretary of state for management, Car ter has chosen 44-year-old Rich ard M. Moose, who resigned from the NSC in 1969 to join the staff of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee, where he was co-author of several staff reports critical of Nixon-Kissin ger policies in Southeast Asia. The nominees also included Lucy Wilson Benson, 49, a for- M SUSP jflHI fib SHI IwEn x’ I I HBn v w BBJRbmQI bl Hollywood posters mittee to postpone hearings on the appointment until Presi dent-elect Carter takes office. Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington office of the mer president of the League of Women Voters, who last year was secretary of health services for Massachusetts, to be undersecretary for security as sistance, science and tech nology. The announcement em phasized this was “the highest office in the State Department ever held by a woman.” The other nominees: Richard N. Cooper, 42, a Yale University economics professor and a deputy assistant secre tary of state in the Lyndon Johnson administration, to be undersecretary for economic affairs. FONZ’S WORLD OF UNISEX STYLING (Across From Old Post Office) GRAND OPENING Wednesday, Jan. 5 thru Saturday, lan. 15 • Perms $5.00 Off Reg. Shop Price • Bleach Reg. S2O to S3O, Now sls to S2O • Frosting Reg. $25 to $35, Now S2O to $25 • Color Reg. sls & Up, Now $lO & Up • Sculptured Nails, Now sls Mrs. Ella Tuggle, Shackley Supervisor, will be here all day Friday, Jan. 14, to give free facials and make up lessons. Stylists: Phyllis Newman b Lynda Hill Owner - Alphonso Walker Call 228-5755 For Appt. Inmate late returning ATLANTA (AP) — A 28-year-old female prison inmate reported arrested during her Christmas furlough actually was merely late returning to the Women’s Advancement Center in Atlanta, a Department of Offender Rehabilitation spokeswoman says. Barbara J. Harris missed her bus in Statesboro, the spokeswoman said. A state employe said at the time she was being held at the Fulton County jail. She is serving a 10-year sentence for voluntary man slaughter, the spokeswoman said. Columbus gets plant COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — The Columbus Chamber of Commerce says it expects a new Westvaco Corp, corrugated box plant to employ several hundred people. Westvaco, a major producer of paper packaging and chemicals, announced plans to build the plant Thursday. It will use Columbus’ Quick Start program for training employes in facilities provided by the Columbus Area Vocational Technical School. A company official said the new factory will improve service to customers now served by Westvaco corrugated box plants in Cleveland, Tenn., and Gastonia, N.C. National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, said in a telegram to the com mittee Thursday that Bell’s nomination has “grave implica- John E. Reinhardt, a 56-year old black and former ambassa dor to Nigeria, who is currently assistant secretary for public affairs, to be director of the United States Information Agency. Philip C. Habib, 56, to retain his post as undersecretary for political affairs. Matthew Nimitz, 37, a White House aide in the Johnson ad ministration and now a New York attorney to be State De partment counselor. Richard N. Gardner, 49, a Co lumbia University law profes sor, to be ambassador to Italy. SAN FRANCISCO — Dan Faris poses in his San Francisco Cinema Shop with some of the movie memorabilia he has for sale. Faris says his stock pile now includes 250,000 movie posters and some 2 million photos. Movie memorabilia is far more than a business to Faris, who has traveled around the country adding to his archives. (AP) tions for the future of civil rights in the United States.” Mitchell said it seems to him the hearings shouldn’t be held until after Carter takes the oath of office Jan. 20 and then has the constitutional power to submit appointments to the Senate. Mitchell said, nonetheless, that he wanted to testify at the hearings, which begin Jan. 11. Senate majority leader Rob ert C. Byrd, D.-W. Va., said the timing of the hearings was in accord with numerous prece dents. Byrd, a member of the Judiciary Committee, also said he intends to support Bell to head the Justice Department. The committee is expected to approve the nomination. Bell, an Atlanta lawyer and former judge on the sth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, visited Byrd and other committee I GRANO OPENING SPECIAL I I Sat. from I I 12 Noon to Close I All the homemade I Spaghetti & Meat Balls I & salad from salad bar that you can eat. I SOOO I I Rogers II Restaurant I 201 W. Vineyard Road at N. Expressway I 228-3213 I — Griffin Daily News Friday, January 7, 1977 1 Page 3 Murphy, Busbee differ ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Speaker Tom Murphy says Gov. George Busbee’s budget would spend $55 million more than the state will collect in revenues. But Busbee says his estimate that Georgia will be able to fund a $2.1 billion budget is on the low side. “I feel confident with it,” he said. “It is a conservative, safe estimate.” Busbee sees a 12.2 per cent increase in revenues over the revised estimate for the current fiscal year. But Murphy said Thursday, “I would say 8.5 to 9 per cent is absolutely tops.” Drop 12th grade bill ATLANTA (AP) — The chairman of the state House Education Committee is reviving the idea of abolishing the 12th grade. Rep. Ben Ross, D-Lincolnton, said Thursday a complete education program from kindergarten through the 12th grade is so costly. Ross said he’s sympathetic with Gov. George Busbee’s number one budget priority, a statewide kindergarten program. But he says if Georgia is going to add kin dergarten, it should drop 12th grade. members this week to get ac quainted with them in advance of the hearings. Mitchell didn’t detail what he finds wrong with Bell’s civil rights record, which Carter has called superb. The NAACP is one of nine or ganizations that have asked to testify on Bell’s appointment. Estate Sale One Day Only Household Items • Furniture • Dishes •Books Many, Many Items Saturday Jan. 8; 10-6 909 W. Poplar St. ’77 FORD TRUCKS CHEAP! 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