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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1977)
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 7,1977 Page 16 Griffinite to help promote funding for cancer home Plans for a new home away from home for families with youngsters undergoing treat ment for cancer, leukemia and other illnesses at Emory University Clinic are under way. Melissa Smith of Griffin, a leukemia victim, will help get the building fund campaign started. Melissa will be an honored guest at a press conference held July 7 at the Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children in Atlanta. The house, known as the Ronald McDonald House, will be owned and operated by Children’s Oncology Services of Georgia, Inc. The Greater Atlanta McDonald’s Operators Association and the Atlanta Falcons are doing much of the financial support of the facility. The rest of the money needed for the house will be raised by C.U.R.E. (Children United Research Efforts), community groups, women’s organizations, and business leaders. The purpose of the house is to provide lodging facility for families who must commute daily or travel a great distance to the hospital for their child’s treatment. In many cases, parents would sleep on clinic cots, sofas, or chairs while their youngsters were undergoing treatment or rests. Many parents paid high hotel bills. The house will enable parents to talk with other parents of cancer and leukemia victims. The house was patterned after one in Philadelphia and one in Chicago. These houses were established with the help of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears. The house will be near the Henrietta Egleston Children’s Hospital in the Emory area. Here are located the only research centers for such diseases in Georgia. Currently, there are nearly 200 children being treated for leukemia. Melissa was chosen to represent the leukemia patients at the conference by her doctor, Dr. Abdel Ragab. Dr. Ragab is co-originator of the house in Atlanta, is associate professor of pediatrics and director of the division of pediatric Hematology Oncology for the Emory University School of Medicine, he is on the board of directors for Children’s Oncology Services of Georgia Inc. He chose Melissa because of her terrific outlook and her age. Along with Melissa, guests at the conference will be Mary I v Wi H it w ./\Wi'HHI ■^peßP • ,'c <■■■ .'■■ ,\ ‘iMHHMMMH Get reliable one-hour - - (in many cases) eyeglass service in Griffin P EARLE Vision Center’s eye- So, for one-stop eyeglass glass service is good and fast shopping, stop into PEARLE Good, because we have our own Vision Center, in-store laboratory. That gives 1 ' -J7" us complete control over the quality f PEARLE 1 of our work. And fast, because vision center in many cases we’ll have your new glasses ready in just one hour. The “ Happy Face" Place. 505 West Taylor Tel. 228-3450. Open daily 9 to 5:30 Monday thru Sat. Grand Opening July 9 Beth Busbee, the governor’s wife; Rankin Smith, Jr., president of the Atlanta Falcons; Tommy Nobis, ad ministrative assistant for the Falcons; Barbara Walsh, president of Children’s Oncology Services of Georgia Inc.; Bob Swoszowski, president of Greater Atlanta McDonald’s Operators Association; and Dr. Ragab. Melissa, 14, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Smith of 206 Introductory CPR program held at local hospital An introductory program for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been conducted at the Griffin-Spalding County Hospital. Registered nurses, Ms. Denise Kilbride and Ms. Judy Gaylor, conducted the demonstration to emphasize the program’s importance to the public concerning using CPR to save lives. There were some 50 persons in attendance for the session and by the end of the presen tation they said they wanted to learn to perform CPR. The hospital will be offering the course at a later date at no charge to the participants. It will be under the In-Service Education Department of the hospital and will be directed by the two nurses. The course outline will follow guidelines set by the American Heart Association. CPR is applied to persons Microwave cookoff planned by the Georgia Council The winner of a statewide Microwave Cookoff will take away $725 in prize money for entering a favorite microwave recipe. Contestants are urged to enter their favorite microwave recipe in the contest before the July 15 deadline. Entrants may send as many recipes as they wish to Mrs. Martha Chastain; P.O. Box 4545; Atlanta, Ga. 30302. The contest is sponsored by the Georgia Electrification Council, Home Service Com mittee. The contestant may win, however, only in one of four categories. Contest categories include; appetizer; main dish using meat, seafood, cheese or eggs; Maddox road. She contracted leukemia in June, 1976. She received four weeks of chemotherapy treatment, then radiation. She now takes oral medication daily. Melissa will enter Griffin High in the fall as a sophomore and plans to attend college. She leads a normal life and enjoys swimming, horseback riding and loves to talk on the phone. Right now, her main interest is learning to water ski. whose heart and breathing suddenly stop, most often because of heart attacks, but also from drowning elec trocution and choking. Several of the persons in attendance at the demon stration related incidents where family members had stopped breathing in their presence. The group was interested in knowing the correct procedure to follow when this occurs. Griffin-Spalding County Hospital is especially concerned since CPR can prolong an in dividual’s life until qualified medical help can arrive. “We would like to see Griffin become another Seattle, Wash., where it is reported that one out of every four people knows CPR,” said hospital executive director, William Feely. Hospital officials feel the community will benefit from the courses. vegetable casserole and desserts. In addition to the microwave awards from the proceeding categories, there will be several special awards. The Georgia Egg Commission will award SSO for the best recipe using three or more eggs; the Poultry Federation will award SSO for the best chicken recipe and another SSO for the best poultry recipe using eggs, turkey, broilers or some combination. The Peanut Commission will award SSO for the best recipe using peanuts in a dessert or appetizer dish and SSO for the best recipe using peanuts in a vegetable casserole or main dish. ■ * Ks Mrs. Smith and daughter Melissa talk about House. ©Happy Birthday! 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Manufacturer and government differ on measles inoculation By JACK STILLMAN Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) — A differ-' ence in what the government recommends for use of measles vaccine and the directions given by the manufacturer has ex isted for about a year but came to light only recently, the na tional Center for Disease Con trol said Wednesday. The difference became known when the state of New Mexico withdrew requirements that fe males 12 years old and over be inoculated against measles be fore they enter school. Public health officials usually recommend the vaccine for anyone facing the risk of measles, including pregnant women. However, Merck, Sharpe and Dohme Inc., of West Point, Pa., the nation’s only manufacturer of the vaccine called Attenuvax says in its directions on the package that it should not be given pregnant females or to a female who will become preg nant during a three-month peri od after receiving the in oculation. Dr. Allen Hinman, director of the CDC’s Bureau of Immuniza tion, said, “That discrepancy has been there for about a year and it only recently was noticed. It sort of slipped up on us. It has some potential for giving us problems.” He said the government rec ommendations are made by the Bureau of Biologies of the Food and Drug Administration on ad vice from the Advisory Com mittee on Immunization Prac tices of the Public Health Serv ice and the American Com mittee on Pediatrics. Hinman said government au thorities plan to meet soon for “a clarification” of the conflict. “We are going to consider the problem as it exists,” he said in an interview. He said the disease itself is known to affect the fetus but there are no data to indicate the vaccine has such an effect. “I do not know of any data to indicate a risk to a woman who may become pregnant,” he said. “There are no studies that show the vaccine has any affect on the fetus.” A spokesman for Merck, Sharpe and Dome said the statement was put into the package “because of the thero tical risk to the fetus.” The statement in the package says: “Do not give Attenuvax to pregnant females, the possible effects of the vaccine on fetal development are unknown at this time. When vaccination of postpubertal females is under taken, pregnancy at the time of Happy doner Dr. William Day’s expression reveals that “it doesn’t hurt a bit” while he is giving blood in the Red Cross Blood Drive on the Gordon Junior College campus. A member of the humanities faculty at Gordon, he also gave blood in the drive in February. Dr. Day, who is a resident of Griffin, is attended by Red Cross Nurse Faye Davis. vaccination must be ruled out, and in addition, the possibility of pregnancy occurring in the three months following vac cination must be eliminated by medically accepted methods.” The spokesman said, “The company realizes this dis crepancy exists. We have long been in discussion with the CDC and our medical people, legal people and project manager are going to Atlanta next week to further discuss away to resolve this.” Public health authorities have expressed concern over the in crease in measles with nearly 48,000 cases already reported for the year, compared with about 31,000 for the same period last year. The mortality rate is about one in 1,000 but the disease also can cause permanent brain damage.
