European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 24, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 water led to legion disease Memphis Tenn. Up water in a Hospital s standby air conditioning unit activated when a heavy rainfall knocked out the regular system was pinpointed Friday As the source of 11 cases of legionnaires disease in Memphis. Or. George s. Lovejoy director of the Memphis Shelby county health depart ment said a team of medical investigators found a bacterium closely resembling a legionnaires disease agent in water contained in a Cooling tank for the auxiliary air conditioning system. Eleven people five Hospital workers and six patients became ill with the Dis ease earlier this month including one Man who  Cooling tank which was in use from aug. 8 until sept. 7, was activated after heavy rainfall knocked out the regular air conditioner which serves the 1,900-bed Baptist Hospital. No longer hazardous the Cooling tank was wrapped in polyethylene and was flushed for several Days with chlorine to decontaminate it Lovejoy said. It no longer presents any health Hazard he  of a number of patients with symptoms of the pneumonia like illness the Hospital set up a Laboratory to diagnose the disease. They reported the first five cases sept. 7, just hours before the first victim died. Over the next two weeks another six patients were diagnosed As having the Dis ease or having recovered from it. Lovejoy said the medical investigators believe the source of the illness has been identified and there will be no further  would like to re emphasize that we have Good reason to believe the source of legionnaires disease has been located and decontaminated and no longer presents a problem Lovejoy said. Or. Timothy Dondero jr., an epidemiologist from the National Center for disease control in Atlanta said the organism found in the Hospital s Cooling tank was not a new  be found this kind of organism in a Cooling Tower in Bloomington ind.," he said. It is Only the second time we have isolated it from a natural specimen. Previously we have taken it from autopsies or from living  distinct possibility1 police unit allegedly has files on political activists Detroit a a police intelligence unit created to keep tabs on organized crime is also a Clearinghouse for information about political activities of private citizens a citizens group charged Friday. The National organizing conference to Stop government spying a Chicago based coalition of civil rights groups and others released documents it offered As the first evidence the Law enforcement Intelli gence unit operated a spy network on political dissidents. The Leiu was set up in 1956 to Aid local police departments in keeping track of organized crime activities. The group claimed the police unit based not what it seems to be paper clip definitely not. It is a flexible Metal Bellows for use in atomic re search. This unit and others in the foreground Are used in Industrial and scientific applications requiring absolute sealing and flexibility. Produced by a Plant in Temecula calif., they con Sist of a series of precision stainless steel diaphragms welded alternately along the inside and outside edges. This provides an accordian effect for expansion or contraction. Up photo Reagan hints at 1980 candidacy in Sacramento calif., kept secret records on antinuclear demonstrators Vietnam War protesters Black activists and Ameri can indians. The files on political activists were in addition to records about 25,000 suspected organized crime figures and associates kept by the Leiu according to the coalition of 80 groups. The documents obtained in a lawsuit that the coalition had filed against the Chi Cago police covered eight persons the group claimed were targeted for police scrutiny solely because of their political  Ruxlow vice chairman of the Leiu and head of the Iowa division of investigation denied in the Washington Post s Friday edition that his group maintains files on political activists. He told the Post that if such files were kept in the past they have been purged from the group s re Cord. However he said it was possible that the Chicago police May not have followed Leiu instructions to purge its files. The conference said the police unit a private organization received taxpayer Money indirectly through Federal state and local governments. Among the eight included in the Docu ments were Michael Phillip Lerner a University of a Ashington professor peace activist Leland Kater Lubinsky of Redlands calif., and Black activists Richard Henry of Jackson miss., and Michael Zinzun of Pasadena  named in the Leiu documents were Ann Mccarty a Louisville woman identified by the records As a longtime communist party member an unidentified Man said to be a War and tax resister and american Indian leaders Clyde and Vernon  the file supplied by the red lands calif., police listed no arrest record for Lubinsky it identified him As a recognized Leader in peace  he has connections in several states including new York new Jersey and Cali fornia. Has operated draft evasion coun seling peace demonstrations locally. He organized meetings and arranges financing the file card said. The conference claimed that perhaps As Many As 10 percent of the Leiu s records were kept on private citizens who had never been in trouble with the Law. It could not offer details on those files. The documents were sent to the Leiu by police departments in Seattle California new Orleans Louisville and South Dakota and were available on request or through computer to the unit s 250 members. The non profit police unit has said it keeps files Only on organized crime figures and that the documents Are kept under tight Security to prevent disclosure. Chicago up Ronald Reagan said Friday there is a Strong possibility he will run for president in 1980, and he believes the Republican party will enter the Campaign unified behind a tax Cut platform. Sounding More like a candidate All the time Reagan joked when a reporter asked when he would announce for president. You did t even ask if i m going to run he said. Then turning serious he said there is a distinct possibility i will be a candidate. Maybe it would take something unforeseen to make me decide not to run. But Well talk about that some time in 1979." the former California governor joined 50 gop leaders on the final Day of their 5,000-mile Cross country tax Blitz push ing the Bill. The team made appearances in Chicago before flying to Oklahoma City and on to California for a Windup rally Fea Turing former president Gerald Ford. Reagan denied reports he is making a special Effort to mend fences with Ford his 1976 Republican rival. I did t know any Bridges had to be built Reagan said. I campaigned for him in 25 states did television commercials sent out a nationwide mailing that raised $1 million. There is no problem of that kind in our  Reagan said that if he does run in 1980, one of his major Campaign themes will be the Roth Kemp 33 percent tax Cut Bill which the republicans have adopted As party policy. Reagan said he was amazed when a recent poll showed a majority of those contacted believe the democrats Are More Ca Pable of cutting taxes than the republicans. This just goes so against history that you wonder How in the world with All the communications we have today a fairy $250 million credit to airline Frankfurt up the Dresdner Bank has announced that a German French consortium has granted a 10-year credit of $250 million to Eastern airlines to help finance its Purchase of 23 airbases. Tale of this kind can continue he said. Between 1900 and 1972 a period of 73 years the republicans were in charge 37 years and the democrats 36 years so they had equal time to get things done. The Republican party has reduced taxes 13 times and the democrats reduced them Only once. The republicans raised taxes four times and the democrats eight  at the Chicago Stop Republican nation Al chairman Bill Brock said that despite Small crowds and often sceptical taxpayers the 7-City tax Cut Campaign was a Suc Cess. He said the trip Cost the party about $150,000 and reaped millions in free Adver Tising. I would say we could t touch the Tele vision alone for a million dollars both in terms of time and Quality Brock said. We were on the news shows in every City which is the Best time to communicate on a serious Issue. I Haven t seen a crowd at a political event in six years. That s not the Way to communicate any More. It s the Media. That s How you  of time sept. 24, 1948 the new York Yan Kees Sank a full game behind the league leading Boston red sox and Cleveland indians by dropping a 4-2 contest to Chicago. Sept. 24, 1958 the government pronounced the Boeing 707 Jet transport air worthy and ready to carry passengers. It is the first american built jetliner to receive official approval from the civil aeronautics administration. Sept. 24, 1968 president Johnson signed a Bill providing for hostile fire pay of $65 a month extra for each of 81 military members of the Crew of the Pueblo Cap tured by North Korea