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-Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 4, 1977
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Fairly effective treatment
for Legion disease
ATLANTA (AP) - A fairly
effective treatment exists for
“Legionnaires disease,” which
has caused 12 deaths in Bur
lington, Vt., the national Center
for Disease Control said Mon
day.
There have been 12 deaths
among 16 confirmed cases of
the disease at the Medical Cen
ter Hospital of Vermont in Bur
lington since August, the hospi
tal said, making it the third
largest known outbreak of the
form of pneumonia. More con
firmed cases are expected.
The only larger outbreaks
were 81 cases and 14 deaths in a
Washington, D.C., nursing
home in 1965 and 181 cases and 29
deaths at an American Legion
convention in Philadelphia in
July 1976.
Since the convention, 66 cases
and 23 deaths have been report
ed to the CDC by health depart
ments in 19 states.
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Scientists at the CDC have
isolated the bacterium which
causes the disease, but “we
don’t know where the bacterium
lives,” said spokesman Betty
Hooper.
One thing that has come from
the research at the CDC and
other laboratories around the
country is the knowledge that a
commonly available antibiotic,
erythremycin, is effective in
treating the disease.
“We’ve found that eryth
remycin is fairly effective" in
treatment, said CDC spokes
man Don Berreth.
“The only thing we can say is
there is no evidence of person-to
person spread,” Mrs. Hooper
said. “We do know what the
bacterium is. We have lab tests
to be used for diagnosis.”
Berreth said researchers
have concluded that the sacte
rium has been a part of the en
vironment “for a long time,"
and that the deaths it has
caused have been attributed to
other forms of pneumonia.
The bacterium hasn’t been
named, Berreth said, because
scientists haven’t determined
where it fits in the family of
bacteria and are waiting until
they know more about the “Le
gionnaires disease” bacterium
so they can find a name which
describes it accurately.
Hospital officials in Vermont
said about 15 per cent of the
patients known to have suffered
“Legionnaires disease” have
died. They said they expect to
find enough non-fatal cases in
their state to lower the high
percentage of deaths there.
Berreth said 15 per cent
“would be a pretty high fatality
rate," but fatality rates depend
on treatment.
As an example, he used cho
lera, “which used to be a no
table cause of fatalities.
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SEATTLE — Shades of “Star
Wan"? No, it’s a bicyclist
making his way along Seattle’s
waterfront. The unidentified
rider apparently overdid the
reflective gear to make sure the
hurried motorist didn’t miss
him. (AP)
Georgia
offers
compromise
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is
offering the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
a compromise to avoid paying
Washington some $6.7 million in
social services funds which fed
eral officials claim were mis
applied.
HEW has been trying to col
lect $l.B billion from 28 states
since the early 19705.
When it was appropriated, the
federal money was intended for
day care, child protection,
family planning and other serv
ices.
But Caspar Weinberger, for
mer secretary of the U.S. De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare, said Georgia used
the money for such things as
uniforms for prison guards.
There have been “differences
of opinion about whether the
funds have been misapplied,”
Dr. W. Douglas Skelton, Geor
gia commissioner of human re
sources, said Sunday.
Haldeman is repentant,
Mitchell ‘truly sorry’
WASHINGTON (AP) - H.R.
Haldeman is repentant. John D.
Ehrlichman has “demonstrated
continuing contrition.” John N.
Mitchell is “truly sorry.”
Their lawyers argued before
U.S. District Judge John J. Si
rica today that for those rea
sons, and others, the three men
should be released from prison
now.
Each man was close to Rich
ard M. Nixon when he was
president. Each was among the
most powerful men in the first
Nixon administration. Each is
serving at least 2% years in
prison for multiple criminal
acts in the Watergate coverup.
Ehrlichman, 52, will have
served a year of that sentence
on Oct. 28 at the federal prison
camp at Safford, Ariz. Halde
man, who will be 51 later this
month, entered prison at Lom
poc, Calif, on June 21. Mitchell,
64, became a prisoner at the
Maxwell Air Force Base facility
in Alabama the next day.
Pregnant students
offered same courses
MACON, Ga. (AP) - Thirty
seven married or pregnant fe
male students are to be offered
the same courses, programs
and extracurricular activities
available to other students un
der a plan filed by the Peach
County School Board.
The board filed the plan last
week in response to a Sept. 14
order by U.S. District Court
Judge Wilbur Owens Jr.
The order came in a suit by
Linda Hill, who said in March
she and the other students were
being denied equal opportun
ities to gain an education.
She said the 37 were forced to
attend a special class in a
building about one mile from
the school. She said only two
teachers were provided to teach
the 37, who were in grades 9
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They are the last Watergate
figures still in prison.
Haldeman, chief of staff in the
Nixon White House, and
Ehrlichman, the domestic
counselor, asked that their sen
tences be cut to time served.
Mitchell asked only a reduction
of his sentence.
Sirica has granted similar
pleas in the past for such Wa
tergate figures as John Dean,
Herbert W. Kafrnbach, James
W. McCord Jr. and Jeb Stuart
Magruder. He has said that a
necessary ingredient of such le
niency is contrition, a thread
that ran through the petitions
filed by the three convicts’ at
torneys.
Ehrlichman’s lawyers plead
ed that he has been disbarred, is
hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in debt, is in danger of los
ing family ties and has been
punished enough.
They said all the money he
received for his novel “The
Company” and the television
series that it spawned had gone
through 12, and the students
were denied access to school
facilities, including libraries,
and to extra-curricular
activities.
Museum Bequest
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The
New Orleans Museum of Art
has announced the settlement
of the estate of Victor K. Kiam
and the acceptance of his
bequest of 17 paintings and
sculptures by eight European
and American artists.
It says the bequest also in
cludes a collection of 180 Afri
can and Oceanic sculptures.
E. John Bullard, museum di
rector, said, “The Kiam
bequest, added to previous
holdings, gives the museum the
most important and diverse col
lection of 20th-century Eu
ropean paintings and African
art in the Southeastern United
States.”
to satisfy lawyers fees. All three
of the convicted men made
similar references to being
impoverished by the Watergate
scandal.
Like Haldeman, Ehrlichman
mentioned the pardon
granted to Nixon, speaking in
his petition of “the ironies of
serving a superior who is later
pardoned.”
Haldeman’s petition said Nix
on had made clear in his tele
vision interviews “that he was
the principal actor in the ob
struction of justice in 1972 and
1973.”
Haldeman’s lawyers argued
that if that information had
been available to Sirica when he
sentenced the former chief of
staff, “perhaps the court would
have imposed a lesser sen
tence.”
Mitchell made no mention of
Nixon, who remains his friend.
But his petition noted that
since his sentencing he has be
come a widower and that his 15-
year-old daughter, Martha, has
been “the principal victim of
these events.”
The former attorney general
said he also needs a replace
ment hip and that he suffers
from an enlarged heart.
Newborn
baby left
on porch
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Po
lice searched Monday for the
mother of a newborn baby girl
found wrapped in a light blanket
on the porch of a Chatham
County home Saturday.
“We feel it will be just a
matter of time until we locate
the mother,” said County Police
Chief Al St. Lawrence. He said
the infant — who was suffering
from low body temperature
because she had been left
outside in the cold — was in
good condition in the Memorial
Medical Center.
Nurses at the center named
the baby “Hope."
6 candidates
seek Albany
mayoral post
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A
court-ordered plan for increas
ing black representation in city
government gets its first test
today when primary elections
are held in this city 30 miles
from President Carter’s home
town.
Six mayoral hopefuls and nine
city commission candidates are
facing off in Albany’s first
primary election since U.S.
District Court Judge Wilbur
Owens expanded the city’s ward
system from five to six wards in
August, with the sixth ward
mostly black.
His order capped a two-year
dispute over the method of
electing city officials.
One of those running against
incumbent Mayor James H.
Gray Sr. is city commissioner
Mary Young, a black woman
considered one of the white
mayor’s top opponents.
Since her commission seat is
not among the three involved in
the election, the city attorney
has ruled that she may keep her
post if she loses the mayor’s
race.
The dispute over Albany’s
elections began in 1975, when
Owens overturned the at-large
method of electing all seven
commissioners, including the
mayor and mayor pro tern.
Blacks called the system dis
criminatory because no blacks
could win an at-large election.
Owens ordered the city to
elect the mayor and mayor pro
tern at large and the five other
commissioners by wards only.
That order resulted in elec
tion for the first time of two
blacks commissioners, Mrs.
Young and Robert Montgom
ery. Neither of their seats are
up for election this year.
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