European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 3, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9 he s open to propositions tight lipped on pay Billy Carter picks a Piggy s pizza Winner Boston up is there anything you won t do for Money a woman reporter Carter s smile wilted for a moment under the Klieg ," Billy retorted. Then he smiled. But if you proposition me i la do it q. How much Money Are you being paid to be Here a. That Ain t none of your damned Busi then the smile again. Billy Carter came to Boston saturday to pick a Winner in the miss Piggy s pizza Beauty pageant and to say How much he liked Piggy s pizza. At midday he held a news conference at Jason s nightclub. I m awful glad to be Here with these pretty girls said the 40-year-old brother of president Jimmy Carter. Behind him against a backdrop of ferns were the 20 finalists in Piggy s pageant. Billy kissed four of them. He stroked the Lapel of his beige Leisure Siut and sipped at a Glass of Beer. Q. What Are you doing to help Bert Lance a. Bert does t need any help. Bert was one of the two Best men in Washington. I d say it s a toss up As to who was the q. What did you get the president for his birthday today a. I bought him the same thing he bought for me. q. Don t you think you re commercializing the presidency a. I did t capitalize so much on Jimmy s Fame. Sure i would t be doing this if Jimmy was t president but most of the towns i go into now say Billy s coming not Jimmy s brother is coming. I campaigned for Jimmy All Over the South. I think it s kind of a q. How Are you going to judge the Beauty contest a Bald refusal meets police lock out plea new York up the Fri needed More than a Barber to get a lock of hair from John Oliphant 23, a suspect in an armed robbery last month at Chase Man Hattan Bank. Agents needed a court order As Well. The Fri wanted a few locks of Oli Phant s hair to compare with hair found at the Bank but Oliphant refused a grand jury subpoena for some and when he was brought before . District judge Thomas c. Platt Oliphant was Bald. He had shaved his head while at the metropolitan correction Center officials said. Platt Friday ordered Oliphant not to get a haircut until he grows enough for the Fri Sample. Fallen . Giraffe gets a . Namesake Brookfield 111. Up the Brook held zoo has acquiesced to Public pressure and named its 4-Day-old Giraffe Victoria after the fallen Victor of the Winchester Park zoo in England. Dozens of phone Calls and letters to director George Rabb were instrumental in his Choice Rabb said. Victoria is the 34th Giraffe born in the zoo West of Chicago. She was about six feet tall at birth and weighed More than 100 pounds. She is the fourth offspring of Carol and the 13th of shorty. Victor died of injuries sustained in a fall during a mating session. A. Back and front. Top and . What do you do for a living a. Dennis Kearney gave Billy a key to the Charles Street jail. Mayors in Lynn and Chelsea declared saturday Billy Carter Billy said he would begin promotional work nov. For the Falls City brewing co. Of Louisville by. It s a hard Job. I la work 12 Days a he has Long since Given up running the family Peanut business. Q. Is it True you will make More Money this year than the president Carter draws a $200,000 annual salary As presi Dent. A. I already have then the smile again. It s fun but getting rough Fluffy 4-month-old Tiger cub with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus enjoys Good natured rough housing with a dog named Cheri in de troit. But the Tiger s getting rougher and the romps May soon end. Up legionnaires disease is termed a Type of pneumonia by scientist Atlanta up the scientist who discovered the cause of legionnaires Dis ease said saturday it is a Type of pneumonia present in the general population capable of breaking out in epidemics or in isolated cases. It is a disease that is endemic i the general population said or. Joseph Mcdade a microbiologist with the National Cotter for disease control. It can occur in isolated cases or there can be clusters Mcdade said legionnaires disease has been around for a Long time but has gone undiagnosed. It is another Type of pneumonia that occurs in a certain proportion of the popu lation he said. It was Mcdade who found the legionnaires disease bacterium while re checking some slides under a Microscope at the cd during the Christmas and new year s Holiday season last year. He found that the Rod like organism while difficult to grow in the Laboratory also was extremely hard to illness according to Mcdade does not represent a major Public health threat because of its infrequent occurrence. The isolation of the bacterium by Mcdade and its identification As the agent that caused the legionnaires disease that took 29 lives in an explosive outbreak in Philadelphia last year led to the development of lab tests that can now be used to Venice s Gold horses must move indoors Venice a the four Gold plated horses that decorate the facade of St. Mark s Cathedral in Venice must be re moved because of the damage caused by pollution and substituted with replicas a commission of experts has reported after four years of tests. The commission s report said pollution was causing irreparable damage to the four horses and there was no other Solu Tion but to Transfer them indoors. The commission was appointed in 1973 to study the problem. One of the horses was removed temporarily and examined in a Laboratory set up inside the Basilica. The experts said almost All the Gold had been eroded by pollution which was also damaging the horses Bronze Structure. Spot the illness wherever it occurs. Although this diagnostic expertise be Longs almost exclusively to the cd medi Cal scientists there Are working on what they describe As a sensitive yet prac tical Serologic blood test which could be made readily available to All serology lab the cd recently sent out a report de scribing the Progress made in its investigation of legionnaires disease listing its clinical symptoms describing what was known about the bacterium and soliciting specimens from doctors treating persons with severe cases of pneumonia. The response to that report was a greatly increased flow of specimens into cd laboratories from persons suspected of having the disease. Mcdade who does much of the diag Nostic work himself said his own lab handles about 100 tissue and blood samples per week and that a diagnosis can be completed in about a Day. Since the Philadelphia epidemic 55 con firmed cases of the illness and 14 deaths have been reported to the cd from 19 states. Three clusters of the ailment have occurred in hospitals at Columbus Ohio Burlington it. And Kingsport term
