The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 8

S-THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MD. November 23, 197? No measles shots 600 students face suspension Cause of fire traced to hot plate Continued from 1 Wayne.Bobbit, a state health officer, said the risks involved in getting the shot are far less than those associated with catching the disease. School officials say they will work all next week to vaccinate as many students as possible. But as of Tuesday, every Western Maryland county reported it would be faced with "excluding" some students from class. Frederick County school officials told health officers they expected some "exclusions," but didn't think it would be a large number.

Allegany County school officials said they expected to suspend 250 to 300 students. And Garrett County officials reported they were expecting to exclude about 190 students from school. In Washington County, most private school officials said Tuesday that each thought fewer than 15 of their students would have to be told they continue their studies. At Highland View Academy, principal Harvey Bristow said he thought most of his students had the necessary Immunization. And a clinic was scheduled for next week to take care of any who didn't.

Father -John Owens at St. James' School said the school, hadn't done anything about the health department requirement. He said the regulation had never been brought to his attention. Byron comforts the wrong patient ConrlniMd from page 1 Tuesday. "On receiving the first complaint, we changed our policy." Baker said the hospital is also evaluating whether to continue giving the lists to (he local newspaper.

Byron's letter, similar to ones he has sent for several years to discharged patients, said: "i was sorry to hear of your recent illness, but I'm glad to learn you are now out cf (fie 'Hospital and hope you're feeling better. "If there Is anything I can do to assist you, please do not hesitate to call on me. kindest regards, 1 am Mrs. Eader wrote back to Byron, saying "It is an invasion cf my privacy by you and FMH to have my record of admission to you. "Secondly, I feel you are doing a great disservice to the taxpayers of your district by sending politically motivated form letters at the taxpayers' expense." "If this letter was intended as a means to gain iny political sympathy, you are very mistaken," she wrote.

"It has only served to reinforce my determination not to vote for you in the future." Byron, returning from a trip to the Middle East Tuesday evening, could not be reached for comment. But Bob Witt, his press secretary, said a decision would be made shortly on whether to continue sending letters to former patients. The purpose of the letters, he said, is not political, "but to stay in close contact with (he people of the district." He said the letters to discharged hospital patients have resulted in replies from many asking Byron for help in working out Medicaid or Medicare problems, or other problems relating to hospital slays. "Most of the problems are with red tape people don't know who to go to or where to go to get things squared away," Witt said. Witt said Byron's office did not know it had been receiving names of people who didn't want their hospital stays known.

"We shouldn't have been given them to begin with we had no way of knowing." Byron's office said it has been routinely furnished names of discharged patients from some, but not all, hospitals in the Sixth Congressional District. Robert E. Baer administrator of a i i a i Hagerslown said his facility does not release names of discharged patients to the newspapers or anyone else. The practice of releasing names was discontinued several years ago, lie said, "because of possible invasion of privacy. I dangerous." Mrs.

Eader agrees. "I think there's a point where Big Brother has to stop," she said. Sh'e said she complained because "f've got so fruslrated with government and corruption. Watergate made me so much aware of what's happening." She said she heard that one government department has been selling its lisls to private enterprises and she. fe'lt that releasing the hospital lists'to Byron was more of the same thing.

Her complaint, detailed in a "letter to the editor" of the Frederick News-Post earlier this week, has spurred "quite a few calls" to Byron's Frederick office supporting the letters, a Byron aide said. And Mrs. Eader said she has also heard from a woman who said she "treasured" the letters Byron wrote her after two members of her family died. "I don't think the woman realizes that fliese are form letters, produced on a mag card machine," Mrs. Eader said.

"He doesn't know her." Mrs. Eader, a housewife, said she is "not for or against Byron" politically. She' said she, like Byron, is a Democrat. She said she is surprised that her one complaint changed a long-standing hospital policy, and is also surprised at the attention her protest got. Maybe, she said, "it's because I was attacking two sacred institutions the hospital and Goodtoe Byron." Baltimore harbor faces general strike NEW YORK AP) General strikes al waterfronts in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Baltimore were authorized Tuesday night by the head of the International Longshoremen's Association in an effort to end "dilly-dallying" in negotiations at the three deep-water ports.

Immediate impact of the general strike call was at Baltimore, the second-largest port on the Eastern Seaboard, where 4,000 docfcworkers said no work orders would be accepted for today on any vessels. Limited talks continued under the threat of general walkoffs in New Orleans and Philadelphia. The stumbling block in Baltimore came during negotiations for agreement on working conditions lo supplement the master salary pact reached earlier for North Atlantic ports. Earlier Tuesday, Thomas W. "Teddy" Gleason, who authorized the general strikes, reported good progress in settlement efforts on the Gulf Coast.

Nevertheless, Gleason still held off Tuesday, the 53rd' day of the walkout, from scheduling ratification votes in the 34 port areas from Maine through Texas, despite aiming for a Friday vote. He had expressed confidence of a settlement in N'ew Orleans after flying back lo his headquarters here. herald-moi make shopping easier THANKSGIVING DAY SALE Nov. 24,9:30 A.M. SALTILLO AUCTION CINTIR SALTIUO, PwtM.

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Huge amount! of grocery producti were lost in the Company officials estimated they lost teas of turkeys, 90 tons of dry dog food, up to tons of charcoal, tons of coffee and up to 000 packages of paper toweli, But company officials were optimistic about their chances of returning to business. "We have a remarkable bunch of people. Come back and look at us In a couple of weeks," said Robert Gates, a company vice president. By noon Tuesday, downtown traffic returned to normal patterns after being blocked during the fire. Franklin and Church streets were open tor the first time In 14 hours.

How- ever, Walnut Street between Franklin and Church Streets remained closed to traffic. As the "mopping up operation" began Tuesday afternoon, city fire were trying to analyze how the fire managed to crow a cement' block wall separating the center section from the front part of the warehouse. According to Deputy Chief William Kara, the fire created so much beat that It caused the aluminum roof of the center warehouse to collapse and fall lower than the adjoining section. At that point, said, the fire crossed underneath the roof to the stacks of dry good products in that section. Kara said able to stop the fire from advancing under the roof because "we couldn't get to It." The high heat drove firefighters back, Kara said, and consequently, "we couldn't get back there." Fire Investigators said efforts at containing the fire were hiadered because tie build- Ings weren't equipped with sprinkler systems.

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