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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 28, 1977
Page 12
Heavy-duty tin helps treat divers
ATLANTA (AP) - George
Krasle built his heavy-duty tin
can to help treat divers suffer
ing from the bends, but doctors
use it to help people suffering
from many ailments.
It is a hyperbaric chamber,
Busbee says
bill favors
the north
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia
and other Southern states will
be victimized unless Congress
overrides its conference com
mittee’s approval of a >12.4 bil
lion housing and community de
velopment program, Gov.
George Busbee said Tuesday.
Busbee said the program, ap
proved Monday, would give
Northeastern states 71 per cent
more money while Southern
states would receive less.
“I hope the House and Senate
will stop this silly game of
stealing from the less fortunate
to help the rich, and reject this
conference committee report,"
he said.
Busbee charged that the com
mittee ignored conventional in
dicators for determining need
for federal assistance in order
to “artificially” enrich North
eastern cities.
He said he was particularly
upset by the program’s decision
to base allocations on pre-1940s
housing. Since most housing in
the South was built after the
19405, Busbee said the approach
gives a disproportionately large
amount of the funding to North
ern states.
Maddox
continues
to improve
ATLANTA (AP) - Hospital
officials reported Tuesday night
that Lester Maddox’s condition
continued to “stabilize,” but
said the former Georgia gover
nor remained in guarded condi
tion following a heart attack
last weekend.
Maddox, 61, was stricken
Sunday while working in the
garden of his Marietta home.
Family members said he had no
previous history of heart
trouble.
Maddox served as governor
1967 to 1971 and lieutenant gov
ernor from 1971 to 1975. In 1976,
Maddox ran for president on the
American Independent Party
ticket. He used the race to
criticize Jimmy Carter, with
whom he had often clashed over
Georgia politics.
Inmates
start
fire
JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) -
Inmates were temporarily
evacuated from the Jackson
County jail Tuesday night when
a prisoner set two mattresses on
fire, authorities said.
Sheriff Neil Ward said guards
took the inmates outside after
the burning mattresses filled
the jail with smoke.
No injuries were reported in
the blaze, which Ward said al
legedly was set by a man lodged
in the jail on a drunkenness
charge earlier in the day.
Ward did not identify the
man. He said no charges had
been filed in the incident.
Carter wishes
Maddox well
ATLANTA (AP) - President
Jimmy Carter has called his old
political foe Lester Maddox to
wish him a speedy recovery
from the heart attack Maddox
suffered Sunday.
A White House spokesman
said Tuesday that both the
President and Mrs. Carter
spoke briefly to Maddox’s wife,
Virginia, Monday night at Ur
ban Medical Center near Mar
ietta, where the former gover
nor is reported making a satis
factory recovery from the heart
attack.
The spokesman said Carter,
also a former governor, asked
to speak directly to Maddox, but
Maddox has been in the in
tensive care unit since he suf
fered the attack.
which looks like a white water
heater on its side. A person in
side it can be subjected to pres
sure many times the normal at
mospheric pressure of 15
pounds per square inch.
“I guess I’ve definitely saved
10 lives,” Krasle said.
“Here in inland Atlanta, we
have more of a need for treating
diving injuries than almost
anywhere else,” said Krasle.
“We have a diving population
that exceeds 20,000. I’ve trained
more than 12,000 myself,”
Krasle said by phone after a
training class at the YMCA.
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“And here we’ve got an awful
lot of deep diving," he said.
“What makes it interesting is
the depth. There are springs in
Florida which are more than 200
feet deep.”
He said the more popular div
ing in tropical waters seldom
takes the diver down very deep.
Krasle said he built the
chamber at the front of his div
ing shop 19 years ago to treat
the bends, a condition which af
fects divers, “because it wasn’t
there” and because “I got bent
once myself, and there was no
place to go.”
The bends occurs after a di
ver has gone down to a depth
where water pressure dissolves
nitrogen in his blood.
When he rises to the surface
too quickly, the nitrogen turns
to bubbles of gas in the blood
stream, which are at the least
very painful, and at the worst,
deadly.
A hyperbaric chamber recre
ates the pressure of depth,
which is slowly lessened, allow
ing the nitrogen to escape from
the body through normal
breathing.
“We don’t have that many
diving victims,” Krasle said,
“but we do get them from
Chattannooga, Florida, from all
over.
But the chamber is a lifesaver
in other ways.
A recent case involved an 18-
year-old DeKalb County boy
shot in the leg in a hunting ac
cident. Gangrene set in, and
doctors thought he would lose
his leg.
The youth was placed in the
chamber and oxygen was
pumped in until the pressure
reached 30 pounds per square
inch, forcing more oxygen into
his bloodstream.
Because the bacteria which
causes gangrene can’t live in
the presence of oxygen, the
youth is improving and “the
doctor is now talking about sav
ing his leg and all of his toes,”
Krasle said.
The chamber is the only one
of its type in Georgia — al
though there are others around
the country, some big enough to
treat several adults at a time,
Krasle said.
“It’s kind of a last ditch
treatment,” he said. “But no
body knows where the ditch is.”
Bank deposits
up in South
ATLANTA (AP) — Com
mercial bank deposits in the
Deep South last month were
$45.7 billion, an increase of 1 per
cent from July and an 11 per
cent jump from August 1976, the
Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta reported.
The report said Southern
banks lent $31.36 billion in Au
gust, an increase of 2 per cent
from July and 12 per cent for the
same month last year.
The report covered the 6th
Federal Reserve district —
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and
parts of Tennessee, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
Florida had the largest de
posit volume, $16.71 billion, up
2.4 per cent from July. Ten
nessee had the biggest monthly
rate of increase, 2.7 per cent, to
$5.93 billion. Georgia’s total
bank deposits in August were
$7.66 billion, up 1.3 per cent.
Other states and deposit lev
els in August were: Alabama,
$7.26 billion, up 1.5 per cent
from July; Louisiana, $6.19 bil
lion, up 0.8 per cent; and Mis
sissippi, $2.61 billion, up 0.9 per
cent.