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One inevitable consequence of setting such high goals — origi nally, they were 4.5 per cent unemployment, 4 per cent in flation and a balanced budget by 1981 — is that good news is viewed as fair, and fair as poor. The administration currently says it expects growth in Gross National Product, the total of all goods and services produced, to f/LOOK! "11 LOOK 111 »| 0 J 171? 1717 f HUNTER’S SPECIAL W® Hi 30 -30 RIFLE * o » BOW WITH 6 ARROWS \J|f| 121 With Purchase Os Any New Truck - Ramcharger - Power Wagon Or Van. Limited Number Os I Rifles And Bows So Hurry! So Hurry And Beat The gush. M[ S ★ Mum Be 18 Years Os Age Or Older Offer Good While Supply Lasts [’77 CLOSEOUT SPECIALS ! I TRUCK & VAN INVENTORY REDUCTION | THE 78 MODELS WILL BE COMING SOON AND THE 77's MUST GO. SO COME ON BY AND MAKE I US AN OFFER. NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED JJ __ RAMCHARGERS M @ *6i3i h 10 KISOUBl! 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The latest figures from the Wharton Econometric Fore casting Associates, a group which analyzes the economy every three months, foresees real growth of 4 per cent or so, a decline from this year, but hardly a disastrous one. In fact, Lawrence Klein and at Big Ridge State Park, in the Cumberland Mountains. (AP) others at the Wharton unit fore see some areas of strength, in cluding a “boomlet” in fixed business investment, or capital spending. Such a development has been awaited for many months. Re peatedly forecast, it never seemed to develop. But now, as some forecasters expect some moderation in consumer spend ing, capital investments are likely to take up the slack. This probability also has been expressed by the leasing financing unit of Commercial Credit, which reports that in the past two months its clients have stepped up their capital spend ing plans strongly. At the same time the Joint Economic Committee was is suing its report, a group of top business executives was telling President Carter that the econ omy is in somewhat better shape than some of the bearish forecasts indicate. Business, of course, some times sees things from a vastly different point of view than does labor. It is perhaps more concerned about inflation, for example, than it is about unem ployment. Still, business profits suffer along with unemployed work ers, and so to some extent the two, business and labor, share a mutual concern for economic conditions. The business execu tives see a slowdown, but not a recession. Nevertheless, there is no de nying that a mood of dis pleasure, and even a sense of failure, is mixed into the atti tudes of many students of the economy. And there is little doubt that some of it originates with the administration’s own projections. Laetrile State legislature faces legalization By MARK O’BRIEN Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) - Most medical authorities say laetrile doesn’t fight cancer. But Irving Alperin, and a lot of other people, say it does, and that it should be legalized. Alperin was on his way to visit his terminally ill motherin-law last June when he saw a book claiming that laetrile controls cancer and helps victims live long after doctors predicted they would die. A few days later, the Decatur, Ga., man flew to Mexico, and paid SI,OOO for a three-month supply of laetrile for his mother in-law, who was hospitalized in New Jersey. “She was doing fine after I got the laetrile for her, and there was a great deal of im provement until the hospital stopped the treatments because laetrile is illegal,” says Alperin. “Then she got worse and a few days later she died.” The Georgia Legislature probably will be asked to decide whether laetrile should be legalized in the state next year. 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But supporters cite testi monial after testimonial by vic tims who say injections or ta blets of laetrile have kept them alive long past doctors’ pre dictions that they had only a few months to live. State Rep. Charles C. Mann, D-Elberton, said he thinks Georgia should legalize laetrile, a substance derived from bitter almonds and peach and apricot pits. His support, however, is based less on laetrile’s value as a cancer-fighter than on his be lief that doctors and patients should be free to choose what ever treatment they want, pro vided it is not harmful. “I’m not saying that it cures cancer,” said Mann, a phar macist. “The question is, doesn’t the physician have the right to prescribe a treatment? Nobody has shown me that there’s any direct physical harm in laetrile, and until somebody does, I will support it.’ Most of the medical estab- Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 28,1977 lishment opposes laetrile, which was legalized in several states this year when lawmakers gave immunity to doctors who pre scribe it. Interstate distribution still is illegal. Among laetrile’s opponents are the state Board of Human Resources and the Medical As sociation of Georgia. “Patients should not be en couraged to forsake proven treatment methods for an un proven panacea,” the board said. MAG, which represents about 4,500 Georgia doctors, says use of laetrile “has resulted in great economic loss, anxiety and frustration to recipients and their families.” Legalizing laetrile would only tempt cancer victims to forsake sometimes painful, but proven conventional treatment such as chemotherapy and radiation, the FDA says. “It will be used by people who have early detectable cancer that could be controlled by available effective treatment,” FDA regional administrator M.D. Kinslow of Atlanta wrote in a recent newspaper article. “This is the hidden danger of the so-called ‘safe’ laetrile.” Kinslow and others call laet- rile false hope in a bottle. “My answer to that,” says Alperin, “is what have we got to lose? ” laetrile, originally developed to soften the taste of bootleg whiskey, has been called a can cer cure for 25 years. But this year it burst onto the national scene, propelled by advocates who said it controlled cancer and argued that doctors and patients should have “freedom of choice” in picking a treat ment. “Freedom of choice,” says the FDA’s Kinslow, is no more than a “catchy phrase.” “Freedom of choice to use laetrile in treating cancer is the equivalent of permitting any citizen to commit suicide in public and prohibiting wit nesses from interfering with the self-destruction,” he said. But Mann, a member of the House Committee on Health and Ecology, said he sees “pretty good support” in the Georgia Legislature for legalizing laetrile. Gov. George Busbee, who would be asked to sign such a bill into law, says he hasn’t made up his mind, and that he will decide only after hearing testimony.
