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Artificial sweetners
New findings
reinforce ban
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food
and Drug Administration says a new
Canadian study linking saccharin to
bladder cancer in men reinforces its
decision to ban the artificial sweetener
and may change the minds of some of
the, ban’s critics.
The unpublished study, by Canada’s
National Cancer Institute and four
universities, shows that men who use
saccharin or artificial cyclamate
sweeteners have a 60 per cent higher
chance of developing bladder cancer
than those who do not.
Attempts by a Senate health sub
committee to delay the effective date of
the proposed ban “will be held in
abeyance” until the new study is eval
uated, a spokesman for the panel’s
chairman said Friday. Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., heads the sub
committee.
The FDA proposed the ban last
March on the strength of an earlier
Canadian study showing a link between
cancer and laboratory animals fed
huge amounts of saccharin.
FDA spokesman Wayne Pines said
Friday the new study “clearly draws an
association between using saccharin
and bladder cancer in humans.”
Pines said most of the 130,000 persons
who contacted the FDA to comment on
the proposed ban have opposed the
move. He suggested the new findings
General gets slap on wrist
for candid war statement
WASHINGTON (AP) - A three-star
general called on the carpet for a
controversial speech is heading for his
new command with a light reprimand
from Army officials coupled with
praise for his record.
Army officials took no action to
sidetrack the scheduled promotion or
new assignment of Lt. Gen. Donn A.
Starry, who had warned publicly that
the United States may wind up in the
middle of a Soviet-Chinese war.
Army Secretary Clifford Alexander
and Chief of Staff Bernard Rogers met
privately with Starry for 30 minutes
Friday night. They said in a joint
statement issued following the meeting
they had told him of their “mutual
concern” that he had not followed
regulations to have his remarks cleared
in advance.
The Army leaders emphasized that
Starry’s remarks did not contradict
established policy — as was the case
with another Army general last month
— and called the speech a lapse in the
good judgment required of a senior
officer.
Starry’s nomination for a fourth star
j has been stalled on Capitol Hill at the
request of Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., so
members of the Armed Services
Committee could read the general’s
remarks and see what the Army would
do about the matter.
The promotion, making him one of 10
four-star Army generals, is expected to
be approved.
may change their minds.
Many “questioned the scientific
validity of the animal studies,” Pines
said. “There appears to be some belief
that there is no correlation between
animal studies and human beings.”
The new study, Pines said, “will help
the public understand that saccharin
poses a potential cancer threat and sup
ports our position that it should be
eliminated in bulk form.”
In the new Canadian study, 480 men
who had bladder cancer were asked
about their lifetime diet habits. The
study showed men who used artificial
sweeteners and smoked cigarettes had
the highest incidence of cancer. Cancer
victims who smoked were found eight
times as often as those who used sac
charin or cyclamates.
The study, planned for publication in
Lancet, a British medical journal,
found no increased cancer risk for
women using artificial sweetener.
The findings of the new study differ
from the conclusions of researchers at
Johns Hopkins University. That
research group, which studied more
than 1,000 persons over a four-year
period, concluded consumption of
saccharin did not have a significant
effect on the development of bladder
cancer.
Pines said the FDA would examine
the report in detail before im
plementing the ban.
Reporters waiting outside the Army
secretary’s office did not see Starry
enter or leave the building. Earlier in
the day, in a brief stopover in New York
on his way home from his command of
the sth Corps in Germany, the general
said only that he had been ordered to
Washington to discuss the speech.
Starry told a high school graduating
class in Frankfurt last week that the
Soviet Union and China probably would
fight a major war during their lifetime
and that United States likely would get
involved. He also criticized “the liberal
press” and said it “is not interested in
the truth, only in the five per cent or so
of the news that deviates from the
norm.”
Alexander and Rogers said “the
judgment exercised by Gen. Starry in
this incident was uncharacteristic of his
otherwise outstanding performance”
and that “the lesson learned in this
incident will serve him in good stead”
in his new assignment as head of the
Army Training and Doctrine Command
at Ft. Monroe, Va.
Last month, Army Maj. Gen. John K.
Singlaub lost his job in South Korea
after warning that President Carter’s
plans to withdraw ground troops from
the country would lead to war.
Singlaub, who was chief of staff in
Korea, was reassigned as chief of staff
of the Army’s biggest command, at the
Armed Forced Command headquarters
at Ft. McPherson, Ga.
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Griffin bus ministries successful
through dedicated organization
Buses of all colors are seen on the
streets and roads of Griffin and
Spalding County on Sunday mornings
and some ministers feel the church bus
ministries are effective.
Ministers agreed that a church must
have a dedicated organization to
operate a successful church bus
ministry.
They also agree that some of the
programs of the church must be geared
to serve those persons who attend
church by riding buses.
Some of the churches operate buses
that are not used for a Sunday ministry
to transport people to and from church.
These buses are used for activities
locally and out of town involving church
members.
One minister quipped that his
church’s bus was “ready to roll every
time there is a ball game.”
The ministers agreed that a visitation
program was necessary for a suc
cessful bus ministry.
One of the most successful bus
ministries in Georgia is that of the First
Assembly of God Church on Old Atlanta
Road in Griffin. The church has four
school-type buses and one van.
Approximately 180 people are
transported on the vehicles on an
average Sunday morning, according to
the Rev. Thurman Fountain, pastor.
The Rev. Fountain said the church
has an organization that is responsible
for the bus ministry. “It is absolutely
essential that the people involved in the
bus ministry be dedicated to their
task,” he said.
The Rev. Fountain also said that
churches who have a bus ministry for
the purpose of adding numbers will be
disappointed. “A bus ministry requires
a total ministry for the entire family,”
he said. He said the total ministry
includes the initial contact, the
transport of the people to church on
Sunday and mid-week services and
follow-up contact by members of the
church.
“The whole church must be behind a
bus ministry for it to be successful,” the
Rev. J. Ray Allen, pastor of DeVotie
Baptist Church said. He agreed with the
Rev. Fountain that a church must have
organization and that a hap-hazard bus
ministry could be detrimental.
All of the ministers interviewed
People
...and things
Old grey mare abandoning favorite
spot at fence for coolness of shade on
balmy afternoon.
Backyard gardener standing beside
dusty garden with face lifted toward
sky looking for rain.
Line of 5 tiny tots following mom
through department store in search of
Father’s Day surprise.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
it
“Drought may destroy the
harvest but fear of drought can
be worse — it can prevent the
planting.”
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Warm and humid with chance of
thundershowers. High today in upper
80s. Low tonight near 70. High Sunday
in low 90s.
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agreed that a bus ministry was
expensive. Most of the bus ministries
operating in Griffin and Spalding
County are financed through the
general church budget. The ministry at
the First Assembly of God is
underwritten by 42 members who have
pledged to pay one cent each for each
bus rider.
The Rev. Paul Lawrence, pastor of
the First Church of the Nazarene, said a
ministry could be effective in some
places, but it was not worth it in the
average situation. He also said he felt it
would not be necessary for churches to
amend programs for the bus ministry.
The Rev. Lawrence’s church does not
have a bus.
The Rev. Billy Southerland, pastor of
the Second Baptist Church, said the
church must have a love for the people
it is trying to serve through a bus
ministry.
Second Baptist has three buses it
operates for services and for other
trips. The church has a bus director and
House committee waters down
Carter’s proposed energy tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - A key House
committee, approving a new tax
designed to encourage utilities to
Six killed
in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — Six blacks in two segregated
townships near the South African coast
have been killed by police gunfire,
pushing to nine the number of blacks
killed in two days of scattered rioting in
this whiteruled nation.
Thirty-three persons were wounded
in confrontations with police Friday
while property damage totaled an
estimated >1.5 million in the black
townships of Kwanobuhle and Kabah,
outside the white city of Uitenhage 500
miles southwest of Johannesburg.
Some 278 blacks were arrested in a
police sweep of Kwanobuhle.
Police Brig. P.J. Hugo, head of riot
control for the townships, said officers
shot and killed five blacks trying to loot
a Kwanobuhle liquor store. One rioter
was fatally wounded in Kabah.
Police said another black was killed
Friday, but the circumstances of his
death weren’t explained. Two blacks
died when a store they allegedly were
looting caught fire Thursday night,
police said.
Griffin children board bus for trip to church
a captain for each bus.
Ministers agreed that the passengers
on the buses primarily are children, but
included teens and adults.
Dr. Bruce Morgan of First Baptist
Church urged any church planning to
enter a bus ministry to take a hard look
at its own situation.
He noted that some churches had
dropped their bus ministries recently
because of problems and the expense.
He apparently was referring to
inadequate organization and support in
the churches by “problems.”
Agreeing that a bus ministry can be
effective when it is properly organized
and has the support of the church were
the Rev. Lamar Cherry of First
Methodist Church, the Rev. C. F. Speer,
pastor of the Pentecostal Holiness
Church and the Rev. George Pinion of
Vineyard Baptist Church.
The Rev. Pinion said his church
operates two buses and averages
transporting 45 members each Sunday.
He said expenses for the bus ministry in
switch to coal, wants a levy half as stiff
as President Carter proposed.
The 19-1 vote Friday by the Ways and
Means Committee approved a tax on
industy and utilities using oil and
natural gas to raise $44.6 billion, com
pared with the $90.5 billion Carter’s
proposal would have raised.
The tax would be in effect from 1979
to 1985.
The panel is expected to decide next
week on a system for returning to in
dustries and utilities most of the money
they would have to pay under the levy.
Officials have said the tax approved
by the committee would result in a
savings equivalent to 3 million barrels
of oil daily by 1985. Carter’s proposal
envisioned saving 3.3 million barrels
daily.
The entire administration energy
program, proposed in April, aims at
saving roughly 4.5 million barrels of oil
daily. The country currently uses 17.4
million barrels of oil a day.
The committee approved several
exemptions, including one to permit
firms to use 50,000 barrels of oil a year,
or an equivalent amount of natural gas,
before the tax takes effect.
Carter proposed a smallusers
exemption of 85,000 barrels of oil a
year, but said firms using more than
250,000 barrels annually should pay the
tax on their full consumption.
The committee called for a tax of 30
cents a barrel to begin in 1979, rising
gradually to $3 a barrel by 1985. Carter
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his church had been reduced because
some of the men in the church are
mechanics and do all of the mechanical
work necessary.
Many churches in Griffin have one,
two and three buses and they
apparently are serving the purpose for
which they were purchased and put into
service according to the ministers.
The ministers also agreed
“gimmickry” does not work with bus
ministries. The ministers said they
honor those who ride the buses with
lunches or with a “Bus Sunday,” but do
not dole out “goodies” to keep the
people coming to church.
“You can shoot down a bus ministry
in a hurry with gimmickry,” one
minister said.
Some of the churches sponsor
contests in the church, among bus
captains to see which one will have the
most riders on a particular Sunday, but
does not involve the riders.
“This is a program that requires self
sacrifice,” the Rev. Pinion said.
wanted a tax starting at 90 cents in 1979
and rising to $3 in 1985.
Industrial natural gas would be taxed
at 20 cents per 1,000 cubic feet in 1979,
reaching sl.lO in 1985. That compares
with Carter’s recommended average of
39 cents in 1979 and $1.89 in 1985.
In all instances, the tax would be
adjusted annually starting in 1981 to
account for inflation.
Utilities would start to pay a tax in
1983 at $1.50 a barrel of oil, as Carter
proposed. The use of natural gas by
utilities would be taxed beginning in
1983 at 55 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, 65
cents in 1984 and 75 cents in 1985 under
the committee version.
The President suggested $1.34, $1.53
and $1.89.
That was a
Pike deputy
Donald Buffington was the deputy
who helped Eagle Scout Bill Scott
rescue a man from a burning
apartment home on South Hill street a
week ago.
He is a deputy with the Pike County
Sheriff’s office.
Buffington said he was passing the
area and saw the fire. He and Scott who
lives across the street from where the
fire broke out went to the second story
of the apartment to rescue the man
from the flames.
