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Putting on new face
Workman putting new face on old post office building. It
will become Personal Development Center where several
types of health services will be provided.
Plants
help fight
cancer
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Most
beachcombers on Jekyll Island
gather seashells and driftwood,
but the Pelletier family of
Athens collects plants which
may help fight cancer.
Dr. S. William Pelletier and
his daughter, Sarah Lynn, have
found plants on the Georgia
coast which show an ability in
laboratory tests to inhibit
growth of tumors.
Pelletier, director of the Uni
versity of Georgia Institute for
Natural Products, is in
vestigating several native
Southeastern plants for the Na
tional Cancer Institute.
“We collect these plants, dry
them, grind them and make ex
tracts to send to the cancer in
stitute for testing,” he ex
plained. “If their tests show
that the extract is active
against cancer cells, they ask us
to recollect the plant for con
firmatory tests.”
Pelletier said cancer institute
scientists are testing the ex
tracts from the plants he and his
daughter found against car
cinoma and a form of leukemia.
If the extract shows promise as
an anti-cancer agent, they will
ask the university institute to
chemically separate the extract
to identify the components.
The active components then
will be tested on animals. If the
compound “really looks good, it
will be used in clinical tests on
human patients,” he said.
Pelletier, a chemist, said the
institute is sending second ex
tracts for confirmation.
Two of the most successful
anticancer drugs now used are
derived from plants, Pelletier
said. One, an alkaloid from the
periwinkle plant, is used to treat
Hodgkin’s disease, and the
other is used to treat childhood
leukemia.
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Short circuit
causes blackout
BOSTON (AP) - Electric
company officials blamed a
short circuit in a substation for
a power failure that blackened a
30-block downtown area for
about 3% hours.
Police reported no looting or
other disturbances due to the
outage, which began just before
10 p.m. Wednesday and ended
early today.
The blackout cut service to
about 30,000 customers.
It darkened Kenmore Square,
the Back Bay section, the Copl
ey Square area including the
large Prudential Center com
mercial and residential com
plex, the John Hancock Tower
and the nearby South End.
A Boston Edison Co. spokes
man said power was returned to
the Prudential Center, Hancock
and Kenmore Square areas by
about midnight.
Resumption of power to the
Back Bay and South End areas
was delayed by a minor ex
plosion in the Carver Street
substation that occurred while
repairmen were returning it to
service.
Boston Edison said the short
circuit occurred in an under
ground generating unit in South
Boston.
Police sent special tactical of
ficers to the blackout areas.
CD develops
evacuation plan
(AP) - Georgia
Civil Defense officials have de
veloped a partial plan for the
evacuation of Georgia cities in
the event of a serious threat of
nuclear attack.
According to Jim Morris,
head of the Nuclear Civil Pro
tection planning staff, the plan
is a “prototype” for other
states, and Georgia officials
have been commended by the
national Civil Defense office for
their work.
Although final studies still are
being conducted, the final
evacuation plan probably will
call for the “relocation” 63 per
cent of the state’s five million
persons to specified “host coun
ties” thought safest from at
tack.
Evacuation plans have been
completed for persons in the
Macon-Robbins Air Force Base
area, thought to be the No. 1
strategic target in the state, and
for Valdosta-Moody Air Force
Base as the secondary target.
“People seem to be taking it
calmly,” said Sgt. Paul Con
way, who is in charge of police
communications.
He said the city was plagued
with false fire alarms, but there
were no fires as a result of the
outage.
A fire department spokesman
said the department had “only
about four or five calls” to free
people from stalled elevators.
Several radio stations were
reported knocked off the air.
Many have transmitting facil
ities atop the Prudential Center,
the second tallest building in the
city.
A spokesman for the Mas
sachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority, which has its own
auxiliary generators, said all
subway lines were operating.
He said, however, that one
station, at Arlington Street near
Copley Square, was bypassed
because the emergency lights
there malfunctioned.
Crowds gathered on side
walks in some areas, and one
group outside a popular eating
spot in Back Bay struck up a
chorus of “God Bless Amer
ica.”
Several students from college
dormitories were on the streets
with flashlights, directing traf
fic.
Eventually, the evacuation
plan will include 96 of the state’s
159 counties.
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KANSAS CITY—Tony Pace, an employer of a concrete
company, seems to have solved the problem of dressing
for cold mornings and warm afternoons for fall. As the day
warms up Pace wears cut-off shorts over his long un
derwear. (AP)
