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First Edsel owners in Lawrence
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sanders stand behind their 1958 Edsel. Mrs. Sanders is secretary of the Heart of America Edsel Club, which met Sunday at the Sanders' home. The 22-member blub is a branch of the nation-wide Edsel Owners of America. The national club, organized last year, has a membership of more than 800.
New drug may be used on poisoning victims
EL PASO, Tex. (UPI)—Physicians treating two children and a young woman poisoned by a mercury compound in pork may try a drug used by Harvard Medical School with "gratifying results" in another mercury poisoning case.
The three children are Dorothy Jean Huckleby, about 20; her sister, Ernestine, 8, and her brother, Amos Charles, 13, of Alamogordo, N.M., about 100 miles west of El Paso.
They are being treated in an El Paso hospital for a poison case that has no known parallel. Dorothy Jean now understands conversation and responds. The other two are blind, largely comatose and still in critical condition.
Physicians at Harvard once used a drug called N-acetyl DL penicillamine in a mercury poisoning case unlike that of the Huckleby children.
The Hucklebys' physicians want to study the application of the drug before deciding whether to use it. It may be the younger children's only hope.
Without a previous case to serve as a landmark, physicians fear that the damage to the children's bodies and brains is irreparable.
They will be kept in the El Paso hospital until physicians decide whether to use the new drug. If they decide in favor of the drug, it will be administered in El Paso
If the physicians decide against the drug, Dorothy Jean will be sent to a rehabilitation hospital in Roswell, N.M. Ernestine and Amos Charles will be returned to Alamogordo for nursing care in a hospital.
A recent television news program showed Amos Charles grimacing horribly with his mouth. Physicians said however, he usually is comatose and "just lies there." He has occasional periods of agitation for which they give him drugs. His sister Ernestine "just lies there . . . very quiet."
Their father, Ernest Huckleby,
a janitor in the Alamgordo
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public school system, fed his hogs on grain that had been treated with a fungicide -cyane methylmercuri guanadine.
The Agriculture Department in Washington last Thursday banned further sales of the fungicide.
The effects of the mercury compound in the fungicide are slow and cumulative and Huckleby had slaughtered and let his family eat some of the hogs before the hogs began to die.
Dorothy Jean went to the El Paso Hospital in December. The others followed in a few weeks.
The Hucklebs have seven children and 40-year-old Mrs. Lois Huckleby is expecting an eighth in a week. Mercury is in her system, though she shows no outward effects of it. Psysicians fear her child may be affected.
The fastest growing car club in America has come to Lawrence. Twenty members of the Heart of America Edsel Club met Sunday at the home of Mrs. F. C. Sanders, 1613 Vermont, to discuss future Edsel jackets and hats and a future trip to California.
Edsel now collector's car
Jim Gully, central zone governor of Edsel Owners of America, organized the local club last summer. He said the national organization, founded a year ago, now has 800 members.
Retired prof died Friday
Merrell D. Clubb, former head of the Department of English at the University of Kansas, died Friday at the age of 72. He had suffered a heart attack earlier in the week.
Clubb received his BA degree from Pomona College and earned his PhD at Yale University in 1924. He taught at four universities before coming to KU.
Clubb had served for 22 years in the English department before his retirement in 1968. His academic specialty was Old English literature.
Clubb was a Fulbright Scholar lecturing on English literature in Egypt in 1955-56. He also spoke by invitation to the KU Humanities Series in 1967.
Memorial services were held Sunday afternoon in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall.
He is survived by his widow and two sons, Merrell D. Jr., a professor of English at the University of Montana in Missoula, and William G., professor of French at the University of San Francisco. A third son, Roger, a former faculty member of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, died while on a hiking trip in the Grand Canyon.
Median age drops
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The median age of Americans is 27.7 years, down from 29.5 years at the time of the 1960 census, the census bureau reported Tuesday.
The bureau said youth, which it defined as 14 to 24 years, increased by 44 per cent during the decade from 27.2 million in 1960 to 39.1 million last year.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service says 456,614 immigrants entered the United States in 1967.
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After the meeting, Wayne Highnight, president of the local club, talked about the Edsel.
Highnight said the Edsel had become a collectors item. The most valuable one, he said, is the '60 Citation convertible. He said the Wall Street Journal had said the Citation would be worth between $15,000 to $20,000 in 20 years.
Highnight said he thought the reason the Edsel lost $200 million was poor market research by the Ford Motor Co. "It was the wrong size car for the time," he said. "The market was for smaller cars at that time."
The Edsel engine of 410 cubic
inches was designed to go into the Lincoln, Hignight said. It had a built in thermostat with a 440 degree constant operating temperature.
Concerning the Edsel trademark, its horseshoe shaped front grill. Hignight said that Pontiac had come out with a similar front grill and proved it could sell. The people just weren't ready for it at the time, he said.
Other members at the meeting agreed the Edsel was a great car. "I don't think you could find anyone here who wouldn't buy another one if he could get it," said one member.
Chicago 'seven' urge focus on appeal bond
CHICAGO (UPI)—Five men convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention appealed to their followers Sunday to focus attention on efforts to obtain appeal bond.
U. S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman denied the defendants bond Friday on grounds they are "dangerous," men," after he sentenced them to five years in prison and fined them $5,000 each plus court costs.
"We urge our supporters to focus now on the issue of appeal bond," the defendants said Sunday in a statement issued from "conspiracy" headquarters which remains open in Chicago.
Attorneys for the defendants filed emergency motions Saturday in an attempt to obtain bond for the seven jailed men. Two of the seven—Lee Weiner and John Frones—were found innocent of
all government charges against them and are serving contempt sentences imposed by Hoffman.
The other five men—David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis and Thomas Hayden—have begun to serve jail terms imposed on the riot conviction and also are serving contempt sentences.
"If bond is not granted," the defendants said, "we will be forced to serve most of our five year sentence even if the case against us is later reversed."
"Thus the issue of bond is really the issue of our freedom."
About 5,000 persons massed Saturday at the Federal Building, site of the tumultuous five month trial of the defendants. The demonstrators protested conviction of the five, and contempt sentences imposed on the entire "Chicago Seven." The rally was peaceful.
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