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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
