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1 I Ws A - ♦ * nBF JMImMR . _ kJ Pull hard ASHEVILLE, N.C.—An Asheville fireman apparently decided it would be easier to leave his gloves with the wrench at a recent fire on the city’s Blake Street. (AP) Rep. Tonry resigns, will seek re-election Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Richard A. Tonry stepped off the airliner that had brought him back from Washington where he had just resigned fom Congress and began campaign ing to win back his seat in a new election. Tonry, 42, his election tainted by alleged vote fraud, resigned from the House on Wednesday after six months and two days as a congressman. “Keep my seat warm,” Tonry said in his resignation letter to House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, “and tell my colleagues not to forget me because I am running again and will win again.” The House accepted Tonry’s resignation a few hours after he left town. Two members of a three-man panel that in vestigated the election said that if he had not quit they would have recommended that he be thrown out of the House. It was not that Tonry himself did wrong, they said, but the election was so crooked it could not be straightened out. In Chalmette, a New Orleans suburb, Tonry shook hands and kissed babies. He found his law office jammed with about 60 supporters. He asked for contributions to the campaign, which is likely to m Vb! Bbfl > \Jt i Bn’ X* NEW ORLEANS, La.—Former Louisiana Congressman Rick Tonry laughs as he holds hands with his wife, Irene, after returning to New Orleans Wednesday afternoon following his resignation. Tonry, who has been under fire on fraudulent vote claims, said he will seek the post again in a new election to be called. (AP) Sleep said not essential to rest WASHINGTON (AP)-Sleep isn’t essential to rest, says Na tional Geographic, but dream ing is. Tired muscles can be re freshed by rest in which sleep is not essential, and scientists now think it is dreaming that provides the mind with some time off. Since the brain apparently functions like a super-comput- SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES INCREASE NEW YORK (AP) — The »number of one-parent families in the United States is increas ing seven times as fast as that of traditional two-parent fami * lies, according to the Public Af fairs Committee. There are now nearly five million single parents in the country raising about 10 million children, reports the nonprofit group which has just published, “One-Parent Families,” a Pub lic Affairs pamphlet by Eliza beth Ogg. be a long one, stretching through a Democratic primary election, with a runoff likely be tween the two top candidates for nomination, and then the general election. Gov. Edwin Edwards must set a date for a new general election in the Ist Congressional District, which spreads into four parishes — with 58 per cent of its total vote in New Orleans. Most of the fraud, outlined by 22 pleas of guilty entered in U.S. District Court by election officials, took place in St. Ber nard Parish, where the casting of ballots for dead or nonexist ent citizens has long been re garded as a common way of politics. Tonry said, once again, that he will outline evidence that backers of James A. Moreau, a former New Orleans coun cilman, stole a thousand votes, compared to a few hundred by his side, in the Oct. 2 Demo cratic runoff. He did not elaborate on what this evidence might be. In that election, Moreau was upset by 184 votes. Tonry went on to defeat a Republican and an Independent. But the legal fight over the outcome of the runoff never ended. Now state and federal suits er, says Geographic, and a computer must spend some time “off line” so that correc tions, updating and new pro grams can be fed in, hence the brain also needs a time when it sorts out and absorbs new data. Dream researchers say that everybody dreams, and that people who say they don’t are deep sleepers who simply do not remember their dreams when they wake. Dreaming may be the chief reason for sleep. Dr. Ernest Hartman, dream expert from Boston State Hospital, feels that the amount of sleep people need is determined by how much dreaming they require. Practical persons like Thom as Edison or Winston Churchill needed little sleep, but deep thinkers like Albert Einstein slept as much as 12 hours a night. For such people, he points out, dreams may be a way of working out trouble some problems. still pending are expected to be declared moot and dismissed. 1 Julian’s Cady g- Ethridge Mill Village / /SR BL w \ f r i'* \ $ iimßllk LOMC! 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With the help of instructors in the Agriculture Equip ment Technology Depart ment, rescue workers are receiving training in the basic controls of common farm machines. They are being taught to start, stop, reverse or disengage components of the most used field machinery, and how to detach significant parts. They are also shown the areas of the machines where farmers are most likely to become entangled, and what steps to take to free the victim. The short course is directed by Jesse Cham bless, head of the Agriculture Equipment Technology Department at ABAC. The first class of rescue workers were volunteer rescue workers, ambulance attendants, and firemen from Tifton and nearby towns. They were coor dinated by Civil Defense Director H. L. Crumley. The rescue workers were divided into small groups, with each group con centrating on one machine. By the end of the evening, each group had learned how to operate a combine, hay baler, forage harvester, feed mill, and sickle mower. They also learned to manipulate a plow and harrow. Instructors for the first class were Wright Crosby, Gene Barber, Gene Paulk, Scott Bridges and Radean Sauls. The rescue workers praised the training and predicted that it would be very valuable, perhaps lifesaving. "-it - »< W . •*7 Hugging Chip MATEWAN, W. Va.—President Carter’s son, Chip, gets a mountain-size hug from a bear of a man, Allan Hatfield, 84, a descendant of the Hatfields of the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud. A not-so-pleased Secret Service agent watches in the background. Carter visited the Tug Valley Tuesday to inspect relief efforts for the victims of last month’s flooding. (AP) Page 9 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 5,1977
