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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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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.
