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• A'* I **? JmUI ■HOP Jb B ;< IF H. * ' s r MJLj r ' ~ 'W?>JIBr ■ . g.p Mrs. Flournoy Man says gadget * will save energy ATLANTA (AP) — Homeowners and apartment renters can save up to 15 per • cent and more on their heating bills 1 with a simple $7 to $8 gadget, Warner Guedry says. “The beauty of it is that it’s very 4 simple, anyone can do it,” said Guedry, 41, an Atlanta real estate man. “You save money and it helps the natural gas ; shortage.” The idea is to use a small light bulb to “fool” your thermostat into thinking , the house is warmer than it is. • The items needed are a seven-watt nightlight, 89 cents; a utility timer, such as those used to turn on lights or i coffee pots, $5 to $7; an extension cord, 89 cents, and a spring clip of the type used to hang brooms or mops on a wall, r 49 cents. 1 Attach the clip to the wall just under your thermostat, said Guedry. Put the t light in the clip, plug the light into the 4 cord, the cord into the timer, and the timer into the wall. You c&n tape the light to the wall instead of using the ; cup. Set the timer to turn the light on about an hour before bedtime and off about an . hour before you get up in the morning. f Depending on how close to the thermostat you place the light, it heats it by up to 12 degrees. \ When the temperature in the house drops the amount the thermostat is being “fooled” it turns the furnace on to • maintain that temperature. When the light is turned off before dawn, the thermostat cools off, and it , raises the temperature in the house to • the desired temperature. The same system works for persons who work, turning the heat down before ? they leave and raising it before they re turn. The Atlanta Gas Light Co., Georgia’s largest gas utility, said a five-degree *' drop in thermostat setting overnight would save nearly 10 per cent on the heating bill. A 10-degree drop would v save 15 per cent. Guedry, who cuts his temperture 12 degrees, saves 17 per cent. The savings is a net figure allowing for the heat needed to bring the house up to the set temperature before rising or returning home. • There are kits available to do the Carter appeals for sacrifices in first fireside chat WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is moving ahead on Carter administration proposals to create jobs and cut taxes after hearing the President appeal for sacrifices by the people and promise that the government will join in giving up comforts once taken for granted. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall and other top officials of the new administration were before congressional committees today. They were to provide details of the economi' measures President Carter has proposed to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment. DAI LY#NEWS Daily Since 1872 Measles on the rise The Spalding County Health Department plans a push beginning in March to get immunizations against childhood diseases up to date for pre school children. Mrs. Isabelle Flournoy, public health nurse supervisor at the Spalding Health Center, said the campaign would be on an appointment basis. She said the department planned to schedule immunizations on Wednesday afternoons beginning in March. Immunization against measles is part of the overall program. The surge of measles in Georgia in recent weeks serves to underline the importance of immunizations, according to Mrs. Flournoy. The shots against childhood diseases including measles cannot be handled on a crash basis, she said. To bring immunizations up to date ■MF Werner Guedry, Atlanta real estate agent, demonstrates his way of saving energy to heat a home. (AP) same thing, or special thermostats can be purchased, a spokesman for Atlanta Gas Light said. But they run S3O to $125. “I attempted to find some less ex pensive means of doing it, something that wouldn’t cost $125,” Guedry said. “I decided I needed an external heat source that could be controlled by a clock that’s not connected to the thermostat.” Guedry’s system, the gas utility spokesman said, has one advantage for apartment tenants — they can take it with them when they move. Bandits rob couple here Two armed bandits entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Manley on Patterson road Wednesday night, held the couple at gunpoint and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money. The two black males entered the home through the rear entrance shortly before 8 o’clock and charged into the family room where Mr. Manley and his wife, Vallye, were watching television. Each was armed with a shotgun. They demended money and Mr. Manley gave them what he had. One of the bandits tied Mr. Manley’s feet with cord while the other was holding his gun In his first nationwide address since his inauguration two weeks ago, Carter, clad in beige cardigan sweater and seated before a fireplace in the White House library, evoked memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who made fireside chats over radio during the De pression and World War 11. Carter’s low-key address mixed promises of action on the nation’s most pressing problems with calls for sacri fice as the only path to longrange solutions. He appealed to Congress for cooperation and made clear his intention to cultivate direct GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, February 3,1977 Spalding Health center battles them and other childhood diseases would take about a year and a half, she said. This would mean five visits to the Health Center or to a private doctor, she said. The overall program attempts to protect children against measles and rubella, polio, pretussis (whooping cough), diphtheria and the like. Mrs. Flournoy said she has the certificates to be filled out by private physicians who bring immunizations up to date for their patients. The Health Center here will handle the certificates for those getting the shots there. The certificates are required for admission to school. They serve as proof that children have been protected, Mrs. Flournoy said. Stricter enforcement of immuniza tions laws and a greater public aware- People ••• and things Member of Follies cast: “I’ve got butterflies.” Man, suitcase in hand, in Griffin- Spalding Hospital hallway early in evening, reading every door sign, apparently looking for admissions office. Downtown businessman, watching helplessly as what little heat he has inside store, escapes through crack in display window. The Country Parson by Frank Clark Bwm “Poor reception Isn’t just a TV problem — it happens in the pew, too.” against Mrs. Manley’s head. Mrs. Manley said during the entire ordeal she tried to reason with them and offered them a little more money she had in her bedroom. The total amount taken was small, she said. While she was talking, one of the men told her to “hush” and hit her on the head with his gun. Before they left, one helped untie Mr. Manley by cutting part of the cord with a knife. Spalding Sheriff’s officers were being assisted in their investigation of the robbery by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. communication with the American people. And even as Congress labored over his economic proposals, Carter promised to send it by the end of the week his request for authority to reorganize executive departments and agencies of the government. Carter outlined his initial proposals aimed at solving immediate problems, from the natural gas shortage brought on by extreme winter weather to the problems of unemployment and a stagnant economy. But the strongest message Carter had for the American people was the need ness are needed to curb the rising incidence of measles, according to the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Most states have immunization laws, but they are not being enforced, said Dr. Walter Orenstein, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC. He said before a child is enrolled in school “you need documentary evidence that a child has been vac cinated—not just the word of the parent.” Last year 39,585 cases of measles were reported nationally. This was the largest number since 1971. The all-time low was 28,094 cases in 1974. The increase in measles, first noted in 1975, was gradual at first, but in the first three weeks of this year the in cidence was two and one-half times that of the same period last year. ' ? ? t nJ? Plenty of cold Hang-glider pilot killed near Trenton TRENTON, Ga. (AP) One of America’s best hang-glider pilots died as he atempted an acrobatic maneuver in the valley behind Lookout Mountain, officials said. Dade County sheriff’s deputies identified the victim as Roland Kenyon Davies Jr., 24, a former resident of Winter Haven, Fla., and entertainer at Cypress Gardens. Witnesses said Davies had taken off from McCartney’s Bluff at the back of Lookout Mountain and was attempting a “wingover” when his kite inverted and he fell into it. The kite collapsed and Davies plunged some 800 feet to the ground. Rescue workers ana snenn s deputies followed an old logging trial into the heavily wooded area to bring for personal sacrifice to solve national problems — sacrifice on the part of government officials as well as the people. Sen. Alan Cranston of California, assistant Senate Majority leader, described Carter’s speech as “a recognition that the real power in the country lies in the hands of the people.” House Majority Leader James Wright, D-Tex., said the most important facet of the Carter speech “was his call for cooperation of the American people. He obviously trusts the American people, and this I’m convinced will inspire their reciprocal Vol. 105 No. 28 Dr. E.F. Savage of the Georgia Experiment Statiod in Griffin strolled through one of the peach orchards he had nursed over the years at the station. The number of cold hours required for a good crop already has been passed with the unusually cold weather the area has had. Dr. Savage has been keeping tabs on possible cold damage. He’ll not be able to see this year’s peach crop at the station through the summer harvest. Mandatory retirement will catch him in June. Dr. Savage plans to continue to make his home in Griffin. He is a leading expert on peaches in the U.S. The CDC said 2,562 cases have been reported for the three-week period, compared with 1,171 for the same period a year ago. “We are speculating that several things are happening,” Orenstein said Wednesday in an interview. “One is that many children not vaccinated in the 1960 s would have gotten measles then, but there was so little virus around that they didn't. “Now they are in an older age group and they get around more. They are among other children. We are seeing the increase in the 10-plus age group,” he said. The mortality rate for measles is about one in 1,000, but it also causes permanent brain damage. The CDC has recommended that children be vaccinated after 15 months instead of 12 months because the the body out Tuesday evening. The identity of the victim was withheld until Wednesday to permit notification of next of kin in Florida. “He was a good pilot, but he just pushed it beyond the kite’s capabilities,” said Dick Seen, an official of the Tennessee Tree Toppers, which certifies the ability of hang gliders. Last August, Davies won second place ■ in the World Delta Glider Championship at Cypress Gardens, an event in which a water skier is towed behind a speedboat until be becomes airborne and discards his skies. In October, he won seventh place in the World Hang-Gliding Championships in Austria. At that meet, he was rated the best American competitor. trust.” House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., D-Mass., said Carter’s speech “inspired trust. What America needs is confidence in its government and he is giving it to us.” Just before addressing the nation, Carter signed an emergency measure passed by Congress that gives him authority to shift natural gas supplies to the areas of the nation hardest hit by extreme winter weather. And even as he spoke natural gas began moving eastward from California and the Paciic Northwest. (Continued on page 16.) Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 55, low today 32, high yesterday 50, low yesterday 29, high tomorrow in mid 50s, low tonight in mid 30s. FORECAST: Rain likely tonight and ending Friday. EXTENDED FORECAST: Saturday through Monday, mostly fair. A return to cold temperatures. vaccine gives better protection at that age. “The basic problem that we have to deal with is that the disease is most infectuous before anyone realizes that the child has measles,” Orenstein said. Here are the states that the CDC considers to have disturbing numbers of cases for the first three weeks of this year: Indiana (199), Wisconsin (100), Pennsylvania (83), California (80), lowa (75), Texas (41), Kansas (39) and Minnesota (34). The actual number undoubtedly is higher in each state, Orenstein said, because not all cases are reported and many are even misdiagnosed. He said all states except Idaho and lowa have either laws or state health regulations requiring vaccination, although Vermont has a local option vaccination law. Four arrested in kidnaping COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Four persons have been charged with kidnaping a 13-year-old Columbus girl, police said today. Police Chief Curtis McClung identified the four as Robert Rhodes, 21; Patricia Mae Tarkington, 19; James Richard Patrick, 22, and Patrick’s wife, Margaret Marie Patrick, 20, all of Columbus. He said Kelly Maley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Klugh of Columbus, was abducted late Tuesday afternoon as she was leaving school. She was released Wednesday night about 10:40 p.m. after a ransom of $15,000 was paid, police said. Columbus police and FBI agents found her at a phone booth where she had called her parents following her release. McClung said the girl had not been harmed. He said the four were arrested early today at their Columbus homes. The ransom money was recovered, he said. Carter
