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Train strikes pair
FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) — Two Fort Valley residents
were reported in serious condition Monday at a local
hospital after being struck by a train Saturday night.
Authorities said Johnny Dewberry, 57, and Eloise
Hinton, 37, apparently were walking on the tracks when
the train struck them. The woman lost an arm and a leg in
the accident.
Officials said the Southern Railway train had just taken
on some cars and was backing up when the brakeman
heard screams and signaled the engineer to stop.
LaGrange, Ga. fires
LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Three fires in and near La-
Grange Sunday apparently were started by sparks from a
passing train, the Troup County Sheriff’s department
says.
One of the fires caused 111, 500 damage to a storage
building and an estimated $3,000 of damage resulted when
a power pole holding three transformers fell across a fire
truck, officials said.
The other fire was put out before causing any damage.
Mayor resigns
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Donald Powell,
former mayor of Jeffersonville, has been named business
manager of Wesleyan College in Macon.
Powell resigned as mayor after being appointed
assistant business manager at the college. He also served
for several years as a member of the Jeffersonville City
Council.
Road funds shifted
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — Funds allotted for Interstate 175
will be used instead to change three two-lane highways
into four-lane projects, Georgia Transportation Com
missioner Tom Moreland said Monday.
Moreland told a news conference that U.S. 257 from
Albany to Cordele will connect with Interstate 75 in the
same corridor in which the proposed 1-175 would have
been built.
He said the s6l million approved for 1-175 also will be
used to four-lane U.S. 82 from Sylvester to Tifton and U.S.
19 from the Dougherty County line to Pelham in Mitchell
County.
Farmer charged in death
LYONS, Ga. (AP) — A Toombs County farmer was
charged with murder in the shooting death of his neighbor
Monday after an apparent property line dispute, author
ities said.
Toombs County sheriff’s officers said Elbert Todd was
charged with shooting Forrest A. Bradham, 63, who was
shot in his head.
Sheriff Charles Durst said the two men had a long
standing dispute over their property line. He said
Bradham was clearing underbrush and small trees near
the property line when the shooting took place.
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FLOATING CITIES
NEW YORK (AP) - By the
year 2000, it is estimated that
80 per cent of the world’s popu
lation will live in “coastal
zones” — areas within 50 miles
of where land and ocean meet
— according to The Compass, a
publication of MOAC, a com
mercial marine insurer.
One way to relieve the
crowded seashore is to move
the cities, suggests the ocean
ographer, inventor and futuro
logist, Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus.
“We could design full-scale
floating cities on hollow con
crete cylinders for floatation,”
he explains in the magazine.
Instead of going up into the
sky, large buildings would ex
tend beneath the surface of the
sea — “bottom scratchers,” as
Dr. Silhaus calls them.
People would work above the
surface; machinery would be
beneath the surface.
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borhood kids for a grand tour of his parents’ unusual
housewarming gift — their own outhouse in the backyard
of their new home in north suburban Chicago. Brian’s
parents had been looking for a home with more than one
Guillain-Barre Syndrome victim
dies of complications from illness
COLUMBUS, GA. (AP) - A
15-year-old Phenix City, Ala.,
girl who contracted the rare
Guillain-Barre syndrome in
February but returned home a
month later after her condition
improved, has died of com
plications from the illness.
Barbara Ann Bond, a ninth
grade pupil at South Girard
High School, died Saturday
after contracting miliary pneu
monia, Dr. Marvyn Cohen said
Monday. Cohen is the attending
pediatrician who diagnosed her
illness as Guillain-Barre syn
drome in February.
She originally was hospi
talized at the Columbus Medical
Center Feb. 21, with the
Guillain-Barre syndrome, a
temporary paralysis which can
be fatal, but generally is not.
Within 10 days, the disease
had spread to such an extent the
young girl could only move her
4 women
terrorized
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Au
thorities say four women, in
cluding one with a baby, were
terrorized and beaten during
the weekend by two men who
attempted to force them into
prostitution.
One woman escaped Monday
and called police who rescued
the others and the baby, police
said.
All five were treated at a
hospital.
Police Director Ronnie A.
Jones said the women were
picked up at different times
Friday and Saturday and taken
to an apartment. When they re
fused to take part in the prosti
tution offer, they were forced to
strip and were beaten.
Two men were arrested Mon-
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head and at times could breathe
only with the aid of a ventilator.
Her condition improved, how
ever, and she was released in
March — still unable to walk —
in the care of her mother, Mrs.
Vera Bond.
Last Monday, the young girl
was returned to the hospital
after contracting pneumonia.
Cohen said the pneumonia
was a secondary infection
caused by the weakened condi
tion of her lungs, and had noth
ing to do with swine flu.
The national influenza immu
nization program was sus
pended last December after re
ports of a possible connection
between flu vaccine and an out
break of Guillain-Barre syn
drome.
A spokesman for the national
Disease Control Center in At-
day, police said. Officers identi
fied them as John Wesley
Thomas, 26, of Columbus, and
Howard Hill, 25, of Birming
ham, Ala. Both men were
charged with three counts of
aggravated assault and four
counts of false imprisonment,
police said, adding that Thomas
was also charged with rape.
PLANT KEEPERS
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP)
— Three-fourths of all house
plants owners “enjoy caring for
them,” while the remaining one
quarter did not, according to a
survey conducted by Phillips
Products.
The survey found that most
people keeping plants have a
“nurturing” or caring, “protec
tive attitude” toward their
plants.
bath. When they moved into the new home, they found a
good-spirited friend had placed the one-holer in the
backyard as a joke. It’s complete in every detail, but
there’s no hole dug underneath.
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lanta said a study of the recent
outbreak of Guillain-Barre syn
drome showed about half of the
cases were in no way related to
swine flu or the vaccine.
Mrs. Bond said her daughter
had never been sick, was ex
tremely active, and had never
had a swine flu vaccination.
“As far as I’m concerned, the
doctors and staff did all they
could do to save my daughter,”
she said.
Mrs. Bond said she asked for
an autopsy to be performed in
hope medical authorities can
find out what happened “so
that, maybe, they can keep it
from happening to someone
else’s child.”
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Most Georgians
won’t lose cool
ATLANTA (AP) - Most
Georgians won’t lose their cool
this summer, if they just follow
a few hints, the state’s largest
electric utility says.
Last summer, Georgia Power
made several pleas to custom
ers to curtail electricity use be
cause there was more demand
than the firm could supply.
But this year there is a new
generating unit which will give
the utility a reserve of 26.5 per
cent over the anticipated peak
demand of 10 million kilowatts.
In order to avoid a series of
blackouts, Leslie Lamkin of
Georgia Power had the follow
ing advice for consumers:
—Set the thermostat on your
air conditioner at 78 degrees.
—Check the thermostat by
placing a thermometer next to
it. If there is a difference of
more than four degrees have a
serviceman look at it.
—ls you leave home, set the
thermostat 10 degrees above
normal and the fan on automat
ic to protect against mildew.
—Customers with crawl
spaces under air conditioned
homes should cover the earth
with plastic sheets to cut down
on moisture evaporation into
the house.
—lnstall a vent fan in the attic
to get the hot air out of the
house—and prevent the ceiling
from acting like a heating unit.
—Buyers should check the
unit’s efficiency rating. A rating
of seven to 10 is good. Such units
usually cost more, but are
cheaper to run.
—Don’t put a window unit
where it is blocked by furniture
or drapes inside or shrubbery
outside. Place it where it will
blow air evenly around the
room to be cooled.
—Seal the window around the
air conditioner.
—Keep the unit’s air filter
clean by washing or vacuuming
it monthly.
—lnvest in a timer that turns
the unit off in the morning and
on in the afternoon if you’re not
home during the day.
300 MILLION
LETTERS A DAY
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) —
“The U.S. Postal Service each
year handles the equivalent of
half the free world’s mail vol
ume and delivers it faster than
ever before. This amounts to
some 90 billion letters a year or
300 million letters per day,” ac
cording to Fred T. Allen, chair
man of Pitney Bowes, a manu
facturer of mail handling sys
tems.
The federal government’s
General Accounting Office re
ports that the Postal Service
now delivers local letters over
night approximately 95 per cent
of the time. On-time delivery
for two-day and three-day mail
has reached 94 and 93 per cent
respectively.
