Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, September 08, 1977, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPage 8 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, Septembers, 1977 & wk ijf ' Mar. t <• W ~Jr{'-. '\ ■SB & z Ja w> WR ’ * t # feSZI y£L z nh?g jfchnr- JB ■ f < L.. A i t 1 F x/: " * \ \ w I \ i ' I •f*. > $ I \JfitW* i ! Channel swimmer Toronto swimmer Cindy Nicholas completed a record double crossing of the English Channel Thursday when she landed in Dover. Photo shows Miss Nicholas in 1976 after swimming the Channel once, flanked by trainer Terry Noakes and pilot Vai Noakes (left). (AP) Heavy drinkers increase risk of o ff s P r i n g s being sickly BOSTON (AP) — Women who drink heavily are twice as likely to bear sickly, deformed babies as mothers who use liquor moderately or not at all, a new study shows. “There is definitely increased risk to offspring of women who drink heavily during pregnancy,” said the study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine. The study said the health of the babies of moderate drinkers — women who drink more than once a month but do not fit into the category of heavy drinkers — and teetotalers was virtually the same. The findings are based on a review by Boston University doctors of the drinking habits of 633 pregnant women at Boston City Hospital. Earlier studies have warned of the dangers of drinking to the unborn, but this is the first report that measures the odds of this damage occurring. Dr. Eileen M. Oullette, who directed the study, said she recommends that women give up drinking completely while pregnant. “It’s unknown whether there is a safe amount that can be ingested,” she said in an interview. “Alcohol crosses the placenta and goes directly into the baby.” Hair Jungle 227-6137 - 431 W. Solomon It happy to announce we have added to our staff Marie White. Other Operators To Serve You Are: • Becky Harper • Susie McLean • Kay Brannan • Brenda Bunn • Gail Dixon • Francis Martin •Judy Berry, owner Gospel Singing Featuring The Rex Nelson Singers (Formerly The LeFevres) Benefit Pike Co. Assn. For Retarded Citizens I Friday, Sept. 9, 1977 7:30 P.M. Pike Co. High School Auditorium Adults , 3 50 Children under 12 *2 50 Some of the women cut down on their drinking during pregnancy, but the doctors said only two of the 27 women who drank heavily throughout pregnancy had normal infants. The study defined heavy drinkers as those who consume five or more drinks daily, or an average of more than 1% ounces of pure alcohol a day. However, the heavy drinkers in the test consumed an average of more than 6 ounces of pure alcohol a day. The doctors discovered a variety of abnormalities among the babies of the heavy drinkers. Seventeen per cent of the heavy drinkers’ children had serious birth defects, they said, compared with 3 per cent of the babies of nondrinkers, defined as women who drink less than once a month. The babies of the heavy drinkers were also far more likely to be jittery, unable to suck well and have small heads and brains and poor muscle tone. Overall, 71 per cent of the heavy drinkers’ children had some kind of abnormality, compared with 36 per cent of the nondrinkers’ babies, they said. Board sets first life, death hearing ATLANTA (AP) - The Board of Pardons and Paroles will hold its first life or death hearing in seven years today for a man whose scheduled exe cution this summer was stayed temporarily by Gov. George Busbee. Attorney David Botts said he would ask the board to com mute the death sentence for Charles Harris Hill because of the disparity in his client’s sen tence and that of Hill’s code fendants. Hill and two others were charged in the April 1975 slay ing of Elmo Pressley in DeKalb County. One codefendant pleaded Suspected pot dropped near Bowdon, Ga. BOWDON, Ga. (AP) - Au thorities were searching today for two packages of what they Man charged in killing LAKE CITY, Colo. (AP) - Authorities have charged a 28- year-old Michigan prison es capee with first-degree murder in the death of a Georgia back packer, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a south western Colorado wilderness area last month. Gordon Daniel Wingard was charged Wednesday with the fatal shooting of Sam Hudson, 26, of Savannah, according to Hinsdale County, Colo., Dist. Atty. Michael Stem. FBI agents arrested Wingard in California last month on a fugitive warrant from Mich igan, where he was wanted on another murder charge. Pontiac, Mich., prosecutor Brooks Patterson said Wednes day that Wingard had admitted guilty to murder and was given a life sentence. Another pleaded guilty to manslaughter and re ceived a 10-year sentence. Hill had been scheduled to die July 7, but Busbee signed a 90- day stay of execution to give the board time to review the case. The five-member board, by a majority vote, can commute a death sentence to life imprison ment. Or, if all members agree, it can reduce the sentence to less than life. Under the terms of a recently ratified constitutional amend ment, persons whose sentences have been commuted from death to life imprisonment must „ serve 25 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole. A spokesman for Dist. Atty. Randall Peek of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit said the prosecution opposes com mutation of the sentence. “We did ask for the death penalty initially. The defendant chose to go to trial and take his chances with the jury. The jury returned the death sentence,” the spokesman said. The case already has been reviewed by the Georgia Su preme Court, which must con sider every death sentence in the state, and was allowed to stand, the spokesman added. J.O. Partain, a veteran parole board member, said, “All cases are difficult. You have a man’s freedom at stake, or his life. And on the other hand, we have society to protect" suspected to be marijuana dropped by a four-engine prop plane in a wooded area south of killing Hudson, whose body was found covered with rocks near Granite Lake about 35 miles from Pagosa Springs, Colo. Hudson disappeared June 16 while hiking. Hudson was a graduate of the University of Georgia forestry school. Relatives said he de cided to go on a backpacking trip to collect material for a paper he was writing for his master’s degree. They said he was carrying |1,500 in trav elers’ checks. Patterson said Wingard also had confessed to the 1976 slay ing of a woman prison doctor in Michigan whom he allegedly killed after escaping from jail. He said Wingard met Hudson “by chance” on a wilderness trail and shot him four times. Patterson said Wingard would be sentenced later this month in the Michigan murder and then extradicted to Colora do. “He’s on a personal destruc tion course,” Patterson said of Wingard. “I think he is suffer ing frim the Gary Gilmore syn drome.” Gilmore, a convicted murder er, was executed by firing squad in Utah earlier this year after repeatedly demanding the death penalty. Apalachee fish unsafe ATLANTA (AP) - Fish ermen have been advised not to eat anything they catch in the Apalachee River now that the insecticide toxophene has been identified as the contaminant that killed thousands of fish in the river. Georgia Department of Natu ral Resources officials said Wednesday heavy rains appar ently washed the insect poison from farm land into the river in Oconee, Walton and Morgan counties, killing 20,000 to 25,000 fish. .—FINAL WEEK 1 // / /C)/ / MOA I \J/I/U /y r/i tot; QUANTITIES A \2/' Z 9th and Poplar Street Griffin, Ga. LIMITED — x f o / [ THIS WEEK OHLY Ih) Ls (lawn Furniture \ I Goll Clubs Camping Equipment VWs)* A Boat Motors SUMMER TIME SPECIAL Igg LAWN MOWER TUNE-UP • OIL & FILTER CHANGE ... • Your Choic. Os 20 Or * A " Seaso " Oil S0 ‘ Ex KOO 30 Wt. Oil In Stock And *™ . _ . .1 A Whit. Oil Filt« * M ° |Or BfOnd V SI.OO Extro here Wednesday afternoon. Authorities said they believed the packages may still be in the area, although they speculated that the bundles could have been retrieved by persons waiting on the ground. Carroll County Chief Investi gator J. D. 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XX Hug, jo- Ex.™ rx Hug Harwell said the area in which the packages were dropped is a sparsely populated section of the county near Black Jack Mountain. “We’ve had reports of this same thing in the past in that area,” Harwell said. “It’s pret ty isolated and it would take 15 or 20 police cars to block off all the dirt roads leading out.”