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From mules
9 to bulldozers
Wilkerson has seen
lots of changes
Floyd Wilkerson is the one man in the
county who could be left alone on any
dark country road and still not be lost.
The newly appointed Director of
public works has driven on every road
in the county in the capacity of work
camp warden in charge of road
maintenance.
Prior to his employment with the
2 injured
in explosion
CLAXTON, Ga. (AP) - Two men
were seriously hurt today when an
explosion and fire damaged the
Southern Bell telephone exchange.
They were identified by officials as
Edward Rogers, about 55, of Savannah,
and Lloyd Gordon, about 58, the
facility’s manager.
Both were transferred to a Savannah
hospital.
The men were working on the air
conditioning system when an air
compressor motor exploded, officials
said. That started a fire in the battery
room, which still was burning an hour
later.
A spokesman said fumes from the
batteries were preventing firemen from
effecively fighting the flames.
Telephone service to the area was not
interrupted, a spokesman said.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Mostly fair and cool tonight with lows
around 50. Increasing cloudiness
Tuesday with chance of afternoon
showers.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning 45, high Sunday 64.
By LOUISE COOK
Associated Press Writer
The chill creeping into the air brings
the approach of the flu season, and it’s
time to start thinking about protection
and treatment.
The widely predicted swine flu
epidemic of 1975-76 never materialized.
But new strains of influenza A virus, the
kind that causes pandemics or world
wide outbreaks, usually appear every
10 years and the last major problem
was in 1968, with the Hong Kong flu.
Experts meeting in Maryland
recently said a wide variety of flu
He’s seen lots of changes.
Time to think about protection against flu
county in November, 1957, Wilkerson
was self-employed as a grading con
tractor.
He said he thought his work with his
company tended to make him think he
knew the county fairly well. Upon his
acceptance of the deputy warden
position, he said he found out a little
differently.
His work required his travelling each
road in order to schedule work crews
for repairs and paving details. After
constantly traversing a network of
county roads totaling some 620 miles,
state roads included, he found he ac
tually knew about a fraction of the
roads in the county.
Wilkerson’s new job as public works
director means he will be doing
basically the same type activities as he
did as warden. The exceptions will
include regulating soil disturbing ac
tivities under the Soil Erosion and
Sediment Control Act. The act prevents
injurious unregulated drainage at
construction sites. He will enforce and
supervise development activity
through the Subdivision Ordinance.
Wilkerson will also supervise the
construction activities of the county to
include road and bridge construction.
Working with a rolling stock of
machinery valued at |1 million,
Wilkerson has seen many roads im
proved and repaired.
He estimates that since he has been
warden and in charge of county roads
some 250 miles of paving has been done.
He remembers in 1957 there were 2
mules still living that had been used in
paving project undertaken by the work
camp. They gave way to modern
machinery and were later used to
cultivate the work camp garden.
Some years after they died, the camp
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viruses was circulating in the world this
year. They said they still expected a
relatively mild flu season in the United
States, but declined to make firm
predictions in the aftermath of the
swine flu incident.
Influenza is an acute respiratory
illness, whose symptoms include fever,
headache, coughing, sore throat, runny
nose and muscular aches, especially in
the lower back and eyes.
The disease is caused by one of three
types of virus — A, B or C. Both type A
and type B can result in epidemics, but
the latter is usually much milder.
DAI LY N EWS
Daily Since 1872
Greater mail volume
may slow price hikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans
are using the mails more and more, a
trend the Postal Service says will mean
stamp prices won’t rise as fast in
coming years as previously predicted.
A new five-year forecast by the
agency predicts that the volume of
mail, estimated at nearly 92 billion
pieces this fiscal year, will hit almost
100 billion by fiscal 1981.
With many of the agency’s costs
virtually the same regardless of
volume, more mail means more money
in the service’s treasury and thus less
need to raise rates.
Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar
has said it costs “about the same to
have a letter carrier walking down your
block whether he brings you 10 pieces of
mail or one.”
The five-year forecast predicts rising
mail volume will produce a surplus of
$282 million next fiscal year. That
would be the first surplus since the
Postal Service was born six years ago.
After 1979, rising costs are expected
to bring new deficits, an estimated $391
million in fiscal 1980 and $1.4 billion the
year after.
While an agency spokesman noted
that stamp charges would still have to
go up by 1980 or 1981 to avoid the
deficits, he said the increase would be
less than once thought.
The forecast of growing use assumes
new postal rates requested by the
Postal Service will begin next June and
will stay in effect for five years.
Under the plan, first-class letters for
businesses would go to 16 cents while
indviduals would continue to pay 13
cents.
Last April, the Commission on Postal
Service had predicted first-class rates
rising to 22 or 23 cents by 1981.
But Francis Biglin, the Postal Ser
vice’s chief financial officer, noted in
his report to the agency’s governing
board that “we will obviously need a
first-class stamp price quite a bit less
than the 22 or 23 cents...”
Biglin, senior assistant postmaster
general, did not predict the rate that
would be needed if the forecast of
higher volume proves correct. He was
unavailable for comment on the report.
Biglin noted in his report that the new
forecast squarely contradicts former
predictions of declining mail volume
and called the rise from fiscal 1976 to
1977 of two billion pieces “a very
healthy condition for the Postal Ser
vice, its employes and its customers.”
Biglin’s report said the “flattening of
volume (in the mid-19705) resulted
from the recession.”
People
...and things
Umbrella, inside out, abandoned on
downtown sidewalk in downpour during
weekend.
The sounds of hammers and saws
coming from fairgrounds Sunday af
ternoon as exhibitors rush to get ready
for opening.
Driver leaving service station with
fingers crossed, having emptied his
pockets to pay for a gallon of gasoline.
Flu outbreaks often occur suddenly.
The disease spreads through areas,
peaking in about three weeks and
subsiding after another three to four
weeks. From 20 to 50 per cent of the
susceptible population may be affected,
with the highest incidence among
children aged 5 to 14.
Most patients recover from the flu
within a week, although they may feel
tired or run down for some time. In the
aged or chronically ill, the disease is
more serious and, together with
pneumonia, influenza is the fifth
leading cause of death in the United
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, October 10, 1977
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SPARKS, Ga. — For budding cowboy “Gogi” Flap, 8, the
specter of a simulated Brahma bull ride on a mechanical
bull was too much to turn down. He mounted the con
traption and stayed on for a full 20-second ride following
Bottle battle
lines are set
ATLANTA (AP) — Battle lines are
being drawn over bottles in Georgia.
Some environmentalist groups want
to ban the no-retum bottle, but bottlers,
declaring “it’s not the container that’s
the problem, it’s the people who throw
it,*’ say the ban would increase
beverage prices and contribute to
unemployment.
Ron Mitchell, a spokesman for
Georgians Onto A Litter Solution
States.
Vaccines have been developed to help
guard against influenza. The Depart
ment of Health, Education and Welfare
says studies have shown the vaccines
can be 70 to 90 percent effective when
matched to the current virus. The
problem is that the viruses change their
genetic makeup slightly every year, so
annual revaccination is recommended.
Once you’ve got the flu, there is not
much to do except go to bed, drink
plenty of liquids and take aspirin to
relieve some of the symptoms.
The symptoms of the flu — or any
Ride ’em
the conclusion of a professional rodeo at the Cook County
Livestock arena in Sparks, Ga. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Grover Flop of Cecil, Ga. (AP)
(GOALS), says the group will ask the
state’s Joint Highway Litter Study
Committee to support a plan for a five
cent refund on presently non-returnable
containers.
Mitchell, a three-year veteran of
environmental lobbying, says the plan
has helped clean up other states.
But opponents, including bottling
industry lobbyists in Keep America
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other virus, such as the one that causes
the common cold — may be confused
with allergies or bacterial infections.
There are ways to tell the difference,
however.
A runny nose, for example, is
frequent with a complaint caused by a
virus or allergy, but rare with one
caused by bacteria. You probably won’t
have aching muscles as a result of an
allergy or a bacteria, but you usually
will with a virus. Both allergies and vi
ruses will result in several symptoms,
rather than a single complaint, such as
Vol. 105 No. 240
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“Folks usually listen more
carefully to what’s being
whispered than to what’s being
shouted.”
a sore throat or earache. A bacterial
ailment may infect only one part of the
body. A cough is rare with an allergy,
occasional with a bacteria and frequent
with a virus. And dizziness usually
accompanies a virus, but almost never
is a sign of a bacteria or an allergy.
More information on influenza, what
causes it and what is being done to
combat it is available from the Depart
ment of Health, Education and Welfare
in a nine-page pamphlet, “Flu.” It costs
35 cents. To get a copy, write: Con
sumer Information Center, Pueblo,
Colo., 81009.