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■I r - *teV w / ftlOft s«, ” r ’j«3 /. w 'Z>l Hr i W Lj i GM '* i wH/ Wi. \\ LZ i iln la No comment CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Former Senator Sam Ervin, who Ervin was enroute to Charlotte when they were televised, presided over the Senate Watergate hearings, refused to (AP) discuss the Nixon-Frost interviews until today. Senator McNurney charges ‘double standards’ in prosecution of federal agents ATLANTA (AP) - Prose cution of federal agents alleg edly involved in illegal wiretap ping shows “a double stand ard,” says the head of a nation al organization for federal law enforcement personnel. “They pardoned Nixon, they gave amnesty to the draft dodgers, and President Carter says he wants to forgive the il legal aliens,” said John S. McNerney. “But they won’t for give agents who thought at the time they were protecting the public.” McNerney, national president of the Federal Criminal Investi- f NITA’S GREENHOUSE lit Wisso Road. - 228-8300 • Bedding Plants • Hnt Plants • Ferns • Mother’s Day Hanging Baskets, 5" • Cactus, 1“ • Tomato Plants, 6 lor 1" Go Jackson IS East, Miles, Turn Right on Wisso Road. First House On Right Hours: After 4; All Day Saturday; 1-6 Sunday. Julian’s Cady Happy Mother’s Day Our very best wishes to all mothers in Griffin r and surroun ding areas. The perfect gift ideas for Mother’s Day /J J are here. \ / //a Give Julian’s Gift Certificates Y ff\ “the gift that always fits” / ' Julian’s Cady 1111 Ethridge Mill Village Griffin, Ga. gators Association, was in At lanta Wednesday night for the association’s spring national law enforcement seminar. He said the association prob ably would issue strong resolu tions against the prosecution of agents for alleged illegal wire tapping. Retired FBI state supervisor John Kearney has been indicted on charges of illegal wiretap ping in New York State. The association, which is meeting today through Satur day, includes FBI agents, cus toms inspectors, IRS agents, and other federal law enforce- ment personnel, “dedicated to watchdogging not only for fed eral investigators, but for citi zens as well,” according to publicity chairman Robert Ros si. Some controls on agents’ ac tivities are needed, McNemey said. “We’re not for giving carte blanche to wiretap,” Rossi agreed. “But the fact is, if you’re not involved in any ille gal activity, it really shouldn’t matter to you.” Gene that directs growth hormone isolated, analyzed SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Genetic engineers working with minute fragments of the chem ical that transmits heredity say they have isolated and analyzed the gene that directs the pro duction of a human growth hor mone. The gene is one that orders the human placenta — also called the afterbirth — to pro duce the hormone lactogen, which directs the growth of a fetus from a tiny cluster of cells McNemey said agents “are finding it harder and harder to work with informants, to tap telephones, to do anything that can help catch criminals who are stealing from ordinary people like us.” He said the prosecution of agents is “like saying soldiers are great while the war’s on, but as soon as the war’s over, they’re no good. “And the war’s not even over.” to a fully-formed infant. 1 The researchers said the de velopment could speed the day — still years away, however — 1 when scientists can use genetic engineering to “order” bacte rial cells to produce the growth hormones needed in the treat- 1 ment of dwarfism and other 1 genetic defects. Other scientists have been • successful in analyzing genes > from lower animals, but human 1 genes are far more complex and New Hope volunteer firefighters did their best after plane crash NEW HOPE, Ga. (AP) - The New Hope volunteer fire department finished a 60-hour refresher firefighting course less than two days before a Southern Airways DC-9 jet crashed and exploded in front of the community’s fire chiefs house. Seventy persons, 62 of them in the airplane, died in the firey crash last month when the jet, with both of its engines dead, was put down on a rural north Georgia highway about 35 miles northwest of Atlanta. Fire Chief Johnny Clayton re called in an interview Wednes day that just two days before the crash, when the firefighters graduated from the course, “I had remarked...that we’d never had to go into a burning building or an auto to rescue anyone. And I said I hoped that we would never have to. “Then, just 48 hours later, we had this dumped right into our laps.” The plane sawed off two gasoline pumps at a country store, causing the newly filled tanks to erupt. When the plane broke apart across the highway from Clayton’s home, its fuel exploded, sending a huge fire ball into the air. Wreckage littered the high way just in front of the small building housing the town’s fire trucks, which were loaded with 1,500 feet of new fire hose. As it came down, Clayton said, the plane missed the lone fire hydrant in the immediate crash area by only three feet. The fire chief said, “If it had hit the hydrant, our nearest source of water would have been 1,500 feet away.” Clayton said: “They’d taught us that you couldn’t put out an airplane fire or a gas tank truck fire with water, that you had to use foam. difficult to work with. The report by a research team at the University of California-San Francisco represents only the second human gene scientists have been able to analyze. “We’re concerned with understanding the control of the growth hormone,” said Dr. John Shine, a member of the UCSF research team. “We would hope to be able to get bacteria to produce the growth hormone,” he said in an inter view here on Wednesday. The research was presented this week by Dr. John Baxter of the UCSF Metabolic Research Unit to meetings in Washington of the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Shine said the next step is to plant the gene into bacterial cells and analyze the results. It is this kind of “recombinant DNA” research that some sci entists fear could lead to the creation of new life forms haz ardous to man. 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