European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 3, 1978 girl on the Grid Mary Liebl 16, takes her lumps like one of the Guys while carrying the Ball during football practice at Madison wis West High school. Her coaches say she has a Good Chance of making the Junior varsity this year. A 11 states get word on Dpt reactions Spur a plea to Stop using vaccine Atlanta a health officials in 11 states have been urged to Stop administer ing a vaccine to children because of reactions suffered by 24 persons the National Center for disease control said Friday. The reactions were not life threaten ing and none of those affected were hospitalized said cd spokesman Don Ber Reth. In West Virginia where reactions were reported in two counties state health director or. George Pickett said the reactions included Marble sized lumps on the Arm unusual swelling and redness pain elevated temperatures and several Days of discomfort. The Dpt vaccine which immunized against diphtheria whooping cough and tetanus was part of a 500,000-dose lot manufactured by Sclavo biological inc., Berreth said. He said the 24 people developed abscesses or sores after being Given injections. N. Chile in state of siege Santiago Chile a the military government has imposed a state of siege impart of Northern Chile and began detaining workers at the world s largest Copper min after a month of labor conflicts. The Interior ministry said the action was taken because the proscribed chilean communist party was trying to take advantage of the situation with political ends. Pamphlets signed by the Small under ground party were reported circulating among the miners urging them to fight the dictatorship. The vaccine in lot 110-d was distributed in West Virginia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Alabama Oklahoma Ari Zona Colorado Missouri Kansas and Washington Berreth said. A spokeswoman for Sclavo in Wayne n.j., declined to comment. The cd asked health officials in the 11 states to withhold the vaccine pending an investigation into the reactions he said. We really Don t know for certain if that is More than the expected number he said. There Are a certain number of those kinds of reactions that  cd officials will try to determine How Many doses of the vaccine were administered and whether any More reactions occurred. Or. Page Seekford health director of Kanawha county in West Virginia said the parents of children who received the vac Cine recently should Contact health Agen cies or a doctor immediately. The vaccine usually is Given to very Young children but children entering school also Are frequently Given Dpt shots Berreth said. West Virginia officials said the vaccine had been in heavy use in that state because of preparations for the Start of the school year. Pickett said he did not know what could have gone wrong with the vaccine. But obviously something has he . John Bruff head of the West Virginia health department s Laboratory said he believes the problem could be that one of the products in the vaccine was not Puri fied enough to protect against allergic re action. Stateside Calif rejects a first on  amendment Sacramento Calif. A the state Senate has killed an attempt to make Cali fornia the first state to ratify a constitutional amendment giving Washington d.c., votes in Congress. The upper House refused to suspend its rules so a ratification Resolution could be taken up before the legislature adjourned. The motion to waive a Rule requiring that legislation wait 30 Days before being considered picked up 22 of 30 votes needed. The proposed amendment which must be ratified by 38 states within seven years would give Washington s 770,000 residents two . Senators and one or two representatives. Washington now has Only a non voting representative. Soap opera fans get visit from Archie Bunker Kansas City to. A Archie Bunker went visiting dropping in at Gen eral Hospital then entering another  soap opera fans watching their favorite shows did t appreciate the intrusion of the All in the family patriarch and let local television stations know with a flood of Telephone Calls demanding an explanation. Station officials said the scrambled soaps were the result of a Telephone com Pany transmission foul up which mixed signals for shows on the three network affiliates of channels 4, 5 and 9. The problem lasted for about five minutes in the time Slot Between 2 30 and 3p.m. Engineers at All three stations pointed toward Chicago contending the problem apparently resulted from problems within the american Telephone & Telegraph co. An at to official in Chicago said the failure apparently occurred somewhere Between Chicago and new York where the programs originate. . Ordered to pay $600,000 in Plant blast Savannah a. A a Federal court has ordered the . Government to pay nearly $600,000 in damages to a former chemical company employee and his wife in connection with a 1971 explosion that killed 29 people and injured More than 50. . District judge Alexander a. Lawrence awarded $594,272.50 to Thomas f. Aretz 60, who lost his right Arm and suffered severe Burns fractures and nerve damage from the blast and to his wife of 24 years. It was the first damage award granted in a series of suits totalling $718 million filed since the feb. 3, 1971, explosion at Thi Okol chemical corp s Woodbine ga., Plant that manufactured trip flares used by the army in Vietnam. Lawrence ruled last year that the . Government is liable for All damage claims by employees and their families and dismissed Thi Okol As a co defendant ruling that the government was negligent by not transmitting to the company a 1970 decision upgrading highly sensitive Illuminant powder used in the flares manufacture. Man stuck in Chimney was t Santa Claus Eugene Oregon up state police said the unidentified caller told them he became suspicious because the Man stuck in the Chimney did not have a Sleigh or re indeed and it was t Christmas. A state trooper was sent to the Mckenzie Ridge area and after More than an hour s Effort managed to pull Michael j. Fleig 18, Schenectady n.y., out of the Chimney of a summer cottage. After his Rescue Fleig who ended up with an assortment of bruises and Abra Sions was charged with first degree Bur Glary. Storm wrecked Blimp will be reassembled Augusta a. A the damaged Goodyear Blimp Mayflower torn from its moorings during a thunderstorm will be dismantled and reassembled to make a new Airship a spokesman for Goodyear  Blimp one of five owned by the com Pany was torn away from a temporary Mast and deflated and fell to the ground slightly injuring a Crew member slightly. Ron Bell a spokesman for Goodyear said the Gondola and fins will be sent to a Ron Ohio where they will be refurbished and sent to Houston Texas where they will be reassembled. He said the envelope which holds the he Lium was ripped into strips and could not be used again. . Traffic deaths up in first seven months of 78 Washington up traffic death during the first seven months of 1978 were More than 2 percent higher than for the same period in 1977, the department. Of transportation has announced. The department s National Highway traffic safety administration said the traffic toll for january july 1978 was 26,-784, compared to 26,148 for 1977. Administrator Joan Claybrook said i the trend continues the death count could reach 50,000 by the end of the year for the first time since 1973." last year traffic fatalities totalled 47,-671, a 4 percent increase Over 1976. In pot plot police found a Field of marijuana on actor Clint Eastwood s Carmel Valley Calif., ranch but officials say he did t Plant the pot. They arrested a caretaker on the ranch who subleased East Wood s property. A photo