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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 (Continued on page 3.) 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 i . ■ . ... ■■ ■■ ■■■ v. w . I I F II W * ■ iff s < fl 1 X rx Ms , 1 I"."mz r j MF, ;■ K 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 (Continued on page 3.) 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 "jfREL g|S “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.