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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.
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‘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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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