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l — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977
Humphrey surgery
scheduled for today
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Sen.
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COLUMBUS, MlSS.—Ronald and JoAnne Labreque, both airmen first class assigned to
Columbus, Miss., Air Force Base, watch the screen a radar screen as part of their
assignment as air traffic controllers. After graduating together in 1973 from West Brook,
Maine, High School, they got married, joined the Air Force together, picked the same job
training and studied together. (AP)
termine the nature of an ob
struction that has partially
blocked his large intestine.
Dr. John Najarian of Univer
sity of Minnesota Hospitals said
doctors would not know whether
Humphrey was suffering from a
recurrence of cancer until the
surgery, known as a colostomy,
was performed.
Humphrey, 66, has been un
dergoing periodic chem
otherapy treatments since his
cancerous bladder was re
moved last Oct. 7.
Najarian, head of the univer
sity’s department of surgery,
said the colon surgery would
take several hours and he did
not expect to report on its out
come before late afternoon.
Calls from well-wishers — in
cluding President Carter, Sec
retary of State Cyrus Vance and
Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Joseph Califano —
streamed into University
Hospitals Wednesday night.
Vice President Walter F.
Mondale, in his home state on
vacation, visited with Humph
rey for about 30 minutes.
A hospital spokeswoman said
Carter called the Minnesota
Democrat about 5 p.m. She said
the conversation lasted about
five minutes and Humphrey
described it afterwards as
“super.”
Humphrey was admitted to
the hospital Tuesday and was
examined by Najarian and can
cer treatment specialist Dr.
B.J. Kennedy.
Budget chaos
State employees
threaten to strike
By TIM PETTIT
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -
A demonstrator attacks a state
House member in the Capitol
rotunda. House members
scuffle in their chamber. A leg
islator too sick to appear in
court arrives by helicopter to
vote. A vote is cast for a legis
lator lying in a hospital bed.
It was just another unsuc
cessful attempt to pass Penn
sylvania’s state budget, 49 days
overdue.
And before the chaos subsided
Wednesday night, the union
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Mayor Bilandic
Chicago Mayor Michael Al Bilandic and his wife, Heather, smile as they walk through
crowd while attending a church celebration on Chicago’s south side. Bilandic, seven months
ago only a face in the crowd at city hall, is now the mayor of the nation’s second city. (AP)
Elvis fans strip albums
from record store shelves
By MARC CHARNEY
Associated Press Writer
Elvis Presley’s fans across
the country raced to record
stores when he died, stripping
the shelves of his albums.
They were young and old —
— many were women 20 years
beyond their teens — giving
vent one last time to the hero
worship they had felt back then.
In city after city, record out
lets reported being sold out of
Elvis albums and tapes by the
close of business Wednesday.
representing two-thirds of the
108,000 state workers said they
would strike on Friday if they
aren’t paid.
Pennsylvania hasn’t been
able to spend a cent because it
doesn’t have a budget.
•Democratic Rep. James
dergast walked into a more
immediate problem as he
walked through the heavily
guarded rotunda, passing a
group of demonstrators protest
ing the cutoff in welfare checks.
As the guards watched, one of
the demonstrators tried to
splash Prendergast with a cup
of soda. She missed, but before
state troopers had subdued her,
she cut Prendergast’s ear with
the plastic cup. No charges
were pressed.
Earlier, House Democrats
went to the sick bay for some
budget votes.
Rep. Ulysses Shelton, a
Philadelphia Democrat who has
been too sick to appear in court
on federal extortion charges,
was brought to the Capitol by a
state police helicopter.
But the 35.1 billion budget still
failed 97-97, five votes short of
the 102 required to pass.
Moments later, Reps. Mat
thew Cianciulli and William
Rieger grabbed fellow Demo
crat Philip Ruggiero and kid
dingly said they were going to
get him to change his ‘no’ vote.
But Rep. Roger Duffy, a
Democrat from the Pittsburgh
area, took it seriously and
jumped in to free Ruggiero.
At least one punch was
thrown and Duffy’s suit coat
was ripped at the shoulder.
Shops in Boston, Shreveport,
La., Wichita, Kan., and San
Diego were inundated.
RCA Records, for which
Presley had recorded since
1956, put an Indianapolis plant
on round-the-clock schedules to
press his latest album, “Moody
Blue.”
The Indianapolis plant, which
handles half the demand for
Elvis albums nationwide, re
ported sales of 250,000 “Moody
Blue” albums alone on Wednes
day.
When Elvis was alive, he had
sold more than 500 million
records by 1975, according to a
spokesman for RCA.
t A record industry source said
the current craze could add 100
million records to the total
number of Presley albums ever
sold.
Many record stores said most
of their customers seemed to be
those who had grown up with
Elvis — people in their late 20s,
30s and 40s, many of them
women.
“Everything’s gone. A couple
of people have come in here and
been close to tears,” said
Richard Klave of LP Goodbuy
in Albuquerque, N.M.
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i idol’s death.
For Jerry Friebert, manager
i of Radio Doctors, a record out
let in Milwaukee, “the amazing
thing is that we’re seeing
i middle-aged people coming in
with their kids, and saying,
‘See, this is the man. We’re go
i ing to have this now. You’re go
ing to remember this.’ I’m talk
ing about kids 11 and 12 years
old. They’re not into Elvis that
much.”
Friebert said that “people
were waiting at the door before
we opened this morning. It has
just been unbelievable.” The
crowd wasn’t sad, he said; it
was a “carnival type” at
mosphere. “They just want to
buy, buy, buy.”
At the Oz in Birmingham,
Ala., it was different. “People
came in with tears in their
eyes,” said the proprietor. A
spokesman at Medusa Sound
Inc. in the same city, said, “All
we had were some Elvis Christ
mas albums and they sold real
fast.”
In Chapel Hill, N.C., Eddie
Long of School Kids Records
said, “This place is going ber
serk. If Elvis put out anything,
good or bad, we’ve got to get it.”
University system
Committee preparing
integration plan
ATLANTA (AP) - A Board of
Regents committee which is
preparing a plan to broaden de
segregation of the University
System of Georgia is consid
ering how admissions practices
may be used to increase black
enrollment.
Standard testing of those
seeking admittance to the Uni
versity System should be elimi
nated, says a group of faculty
members and students calling
itself the Committee United for
Open Education.
The group urges the admit
tance of pupils who have a high
school diploma or its equiva-
He said 22 persons, most of
them women, were on a waiting
list. “One lady said she wanted
every Elvis album ever made. I
don’t even know how many
albums that is.”
In San Diego, clerk Denise
Wolfe at the Licorice Music
Store said, “We sold out Elvis’
new album within an hour after
his death was reported.”
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However, state officials argue
that the University System cur
rently practices open admit
tances, since any student who
applies can get into a college
within the system, even if it is
not the one of his choice.
University officials said that
nearly 70 per cent of last year’s
freshman class would not have
been admitted if the entrance
requirement had been set at the
national average Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT) score,
which is 900.
A meeting of the regents
committee Wednesday was the
second of three sessions sched
uled to review new guidelines
issued last month by the U.S.
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
The regents are expected to
submit a plan to HEW by Sept.
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