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2lje certifier: PAGE 2C MONDAY, JULY 16, 1984 Birmingham Firm To Work On Pill To Fight Radiation Foul Play Feared in Girl's Disappearance GREENVILLE Foul play is suspected in the disappearance of a 12-year-old Butler County girl last seen in a Greenville parking lot June 6. "I believe somebody took her," said Raymond Stringfellow, stepfather of Sherry Marler and the last person to see her on the day she vanished. "I think she's been kidnapped." Greenville Police Chief Kenneth Flowers said he also sus r.r; testing of the drug, first produced by chemists at the Birmingham labs, isn't conclusive yet. "We're interested in making sure when the soldier is in the battlefield, he has as much protection as we can give him," said Paul Klein, a spokesman at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. With a growing international arsenal of nuclear weapons and the possibility that they would be used in a war, Klein said, "we have to consider what's going to happen if a soldier is exposed" to radiation produced by the explosion of a nuclear weapon thus, the search for the so-called "radio-protector" drug.

Klein said animal testing of a drug patented as WR-2171, shows that "normal, healthy cells can be exposed, to vastly increased amounts of ionizing radiation" without damage. The Southern Research Institute's injection drug is "unfortunately not a pill that can be administered on command as the bombs are falling," Klein said. BIRMINGHAM (AP) Researchers working with an injectable drug designed to protect soldiers from radiation produced by nuclear weapons have been asked to develop a pill which the U.S. Army said would be more practical. Working under a long-term contract with the U.S.

Army, researchers at Southern Research Institute developed an injectable drug 21 years ago that apparently offers laboratory animals some protection from the lethal effects of radiation. More Practical But the Army has said the injectable drug is not practical and has asked for an internal radiation shield in pill form. Southern Research Institute, a 40-year-old private firm, conducts research for industry and the government. The firm developed the anti-radiation drug as part of a contract' with the U.S. Army Research and Development Command.

The drug's protection capabilities are still being determined, and human AP wlrepboto interview, was caught in a storm which dumped .37 inches of rain in 30 minutes. Storm Break Motorcyclist Tim McPherson takes shelter from the rain recently under the 1-85 overpass in Columbus, Ga. McPherson, on his way to a job Alabama Symphony Musicians, Management Agree to Contract pects foul play Marler and hopes that rewards totaling $2,000 may turn up some Wads in the case. Flowers said his investigators still have no suspects after questioning dozens of people who knew the girl, whose photograph has been posted at truck stops and stores throughout the country. "Runaways are usually found in a few days and that is why we believe that foul play may be involved," said Flowers.

"The citizens in this area are very concerned." According to her stepfather, he and Sherry drove to Greenville about 9 a.m. and, as he got out of his red pickup, he placed a dollar bill on the seat for her to buy a soft drink. He said he heard the passenger door slam shut, did not look around and walked to a bank. When he returned to the truck about 15 minutes later, Stringfellow said Sherry was not there and he began to look for her. He later called police to assist in the search.

"She had so many things to look forward to that I can't believe she'd run away," said Stringfellow, a retired army sergeant who runs a farm about 12 miles west of Greenville. He said she told him she wanted to be back home that morning to watch a favorite soap opera and that she was also looking forward to visiting her grandmother in Enterprise. Stringfellow said his stepdaughter was wearing faded blue jeans, a red plaid work shirt and new tennis shoes when she rode with him to Greenville. Sherry preferred farming to school, he said, adding she was able to run his tractor and combine and often helped him in the fields. ALABAMA RADIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES, PA.

WILLIAM W. HELVIE, M.D. GREGORY A. PATTON, M.D. ANNOUNCE TIIE ASSOCIATION OF STEVEN H.

STOKES, M.D. FOR THE PRACTICE OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY Extending the symphony season from 34 weeks to 37 weeks during the upcoming season, and to 40 weeks the following two seasons. Increasing minimum salaries to $425 a week in the second year of the contract and to $475 a week in the final year. Musicians to be paid only during the symphony season. The contract increases annual base salaries from $11,200 to $14,060 in the first year, to $17,000 in the second and $19,000 in the third.

After discussing the contract most of Saturday, negotiators appeared relieved the talks are over. "That's an understatement," Ed LaMonte, executive secretary to Mayor Richard Arrington and the moderator of the talks, said in a hastily called late-afternoon news conference at Birmingham City Hall. BIRMINGHAM (AP) A new contract that includes pay hikes for musicians and a longer work season will be presented to members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, negotiators for the players said. Representatives of the musicians and management agreed Saturday on a new, three-year contract which lengthens the season and raises the players' minimum salary from $330 a week to $380 a week during the 1984-85 season. Had Canceled Season Management had canceled the upcoming season when pay talks broke down last month.

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