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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Joly 6, 1972 Qm DOCTORS URGE EXERCISE FOR HEALTH Man Mental Ward Blaze Kills 30 i. SHERBORNE, England (UPI)-A flash fire swept newly renovated ward in a mental hospital early killing 30 of the 36 male patients who were too severely re- tarded to flee through an unlocked door. Harry Kempshaw, secretary of the Coldharbor Hospital, sail one of the patients in the ward was 16 and the rest were middle-aged but their average mental age was "about 5 or 6." "It was a tremendous, horrifying fire," he said. "I i sir i in i never seen anvminu nice u. floor walk.

If you're going up more than one, you can take the elevator. If you're going down one or two floors, walk. If you're going down more than two, you can use the elevator. of us walk up two floors instead of one," Dr. Skorapa says.) And eat lightly soups and salads, not meat and potatoes.

After: Lots of things. "For example, people who watch the 7 o'clock news can sit on a stationary bike (they cost about $60) and pedal while watching. Warm up slowly for 3-4 minutes, go full tilt for 15, slow down for another five. Do it like a race horse, and I think you've got it." Three more things about exercise, says Dr. Skorapa.

One, it should be regular. you play tennis once a week and that's all, it's better to do Two, get checked out by a doctor before you exercise. Finally, use your leg muscles more than arm muscles. So there's hope for office workers. But if things keep going the way they have, how will we be in five thousand years? "Taller, thinner and probably weaker," says Dr.

Carr. So weak we can't push a button? He smiled. "The way labor-saving devices are coming along there mightn't be any buttons to push." By BOB GEURINK 'Man wasn't made to sit at a desk from 9 to five sosaj millions of office philosophers. And so say two Atlanta doctors. They're both worried about thousands of perfectly healthy people here who aren't using Jheir muscles.

And they're more worried about the big fcxcuse; "How can I move around if I've got to stay cooped up In the office?" "Man was given muscles to use," says Dr. Richard Carr, assistant professor of Physical Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. "He wasn't intended to just sit on his posterior. And when he doesn't use his muscles he becomes more prone to heart attacks, pulmonary problems (like pneumonia), sprains and injuries from falls." Office workers can muscle in on a long, healthy life, Dr. Carr says, by starting at home.

This way: 1. Don't take the car a couple of blocks to shop or see a neighbor. Walk there. And if you park downtown, park a good walking distance away, maybe half an hours' walk it'll probably be cheaper, too. 2.

If you take a bus, get on or off a lot of stops before or after your regular stop. You can get 15 or 20 minutes walk right there. 3. Elevators are fine for going up 20 floors. But not for going up one.

"I've seen people, wait for 15 or 20 minutes for an elevator to take them down just one floor," Dr. Carr 4. You might be able; to spend half your lunch hour just walking around. And keep moving. If you window-shop too much, all that stopping is just going to make you lazy.

5. Isometrics are fine "perfectly good exercise," says Dr. Carr. But they aren't as popular as they used to be, maybe because they sometimes don't blend in too well with desk work you may have to stop what you're doing to concentrate on them. In the Physical Medicine department at Grady Memorial Dr.

Mary Z. Sko-rapa took out two pictures. One showed the Harvard University junior varsity rowing crew in 1914. The other showed the same crew in 1964 gray or bald but still at their oars and looking fit. "This doesn't prove that rowing will keep you from having a fatal heart attack," she said.

"But I think it's interesting. Young people aren't getting the exercise they should and it's those who need it most who try to get out of physical education in the schools." And in offices? "I have a friend who works at Eastman Kodak in Rochester," she says. "There are only three categories of jobs there that are considered and I'm doubtful about all of them." One is fire-fighting. "How often do they have a fire," Dr. Kempshaw said a night nurse spotted flames in the dormi-.

tory of the hospital's single-story brick Winfrith Villa wing 5 shortly before 3 a.m. and sounded an alarm to wake the sleeping patients. "Within seconds the blaze was an inferno," he said. Dr. Peter Johnson, chairman of the hospital management committee, said there was no sprinkler system in the ward which had been open only two months after the 25-year-old wing was remodeled.

A Kempshaw said at least one of the ward's doors was unlocked and it would have been relatively easy to flee. "But," he said, "remember, this was a deep dependency ward, housing men who were severely mentally handicapped." The nursing staff rushed to the building and brought ou. seven of the patients, one of whom died later. Some of the 1 men who escaped were able to walk from the ward with nurses supporting them while others had to be carried. Jtihnson said most of the victims died in their beds, appap ently overcome by smoke.

The survivors suffered from shock-: and smoke inhalation. Coldharbor Hospital, in the rolling hills of Dorset about 100 miles southwest of London, houses 356 mentally and psy- chiatrically handicapped patients. Wednesday was to open house for friends and relatives of the patients but the event was cancelled after the fire. There was no immediate indication of what caused the, fire but one nurse was quoted as saying she saw a "blue flash" moments before it broke out. Fire engines, police and ambulances converged on the hospital from two counties.

So the office force tends to stay put more these days. This Grady physician says they can make up for it by exercise before, during and after work. Before: Try rapid walking. Not just-strolling; really get moving. This doctor isn't too high on before-breakfast jog ging because you should be checked out thoroughly first.

Anyway, jumping rope is just as good as jogging and you can do it indoors. During: Use your coffee break to walk you can get in 15 minutes of it that way. And workers at Grady must go by this rule about elevators: if you're going up one Skorapa asked. "And what do the firemen do when there isn't any fire?" Another is thesecurity force. Well, how often is there a break-in? And how much exercise does looking at passes take? A third was a box-lifting job requiring 4.5 calories a minute.

"That's just a little heavier than walking down steps," she says. Million State Has 33 A 40 Mayb Left Over, Mmm Mis Rapid Transit Authority)," he said. "We have realized what was anticipated in the laws as passed," Blackmon said. Net revenue collections for the state increased 20.5 per cent over the previous fiscal year, the revenue chief said, and would have increased by about 14.5 per cent even without additional revenues from tax increases and windwalls. Total 1972 collections were $1,144,011,864.24, an increase of $195,208,799.19 over 1971.

unanticipated revenue from income and sales tax windfalls and increases in the cigaret and motor fuel taxes, totaled $57,600,000. All categories of state revenue showed substantial increases over 1971. Revenue units reported the following total collection increases: Sales and use tax up 17.8 per cent; motor fuel tax up 26.3 per cent; individual income tax up 29.7 per cent; corporation income tax up 11.2 per cent; cigar and cigaret tax up 30.8 per cent; motor vehicle taxes up 6.8 per cent; liquor tax up 4.7 per cent; malt beverage tax up 4.1 per cent; estate and property tax up 21.2 per cent; wine tax up 13.3 per cent. By BOB FORT Georgie ended its fiscal year 'with a $33 million surplus that may increase to $40 million when all accounting is State Revenue Commissioner John A. Blackmon said Wednesday.

Attributing the unexpectedly surplus to "an overa-all good economy in all tax areas," Blackmon said un-1 spent funds which state agencies put back into the Treasury could boost the total of unused state money. Blackmon said anticipated "state revenue collections for 4he year, including sources outside the Revenue department, totals $1,205 billion, or a $33 million increase over the -latest budget estimateof $1,172 billion. "Considering the lapsed funds, to be determined later this month, it appears the sur-" plus for fiscal year 1972 could reach $40 million," he said. Blackmon said, "There ap-. "pears to be no single reason as to why we have a surplus the taxes we collect," pointed out the over-all jood economic picture, espe-dally in the sales tax and income tax.

The commissioner said collection figures indicate that statewide increases in the cig- 'GOOD ECONOMY' John Blackmon aret and motor fuel taxes, along with revenue to be derived under 1972 "windfall bills" were accurately estimated, "and we have collected the anticipated funds." Blackmon credited the unusually good revenue year to changes in Revenue department procedures. "We have implemented improvements in collecting procedures which produced the largest state (revenue) increases in the last 25 years, and we implemented collection procedures for a large local tax collection for MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Model 72 Price Difference Riviera $104 less this summer. Electra225 19 less this summer. Estate Wagon 51 less this summer. Centurion 56 less this summer.

LeSabre 34 less this summer. LeSabre Custom 38 less this summer. Skylark GS 60 less this summer. Sportwagon 71 less this summer. Skylark Custom 60 less this summer.

Skylark 43 less this summer. Fischer and Spassky Lock Horns Sunday When the government eliminated the Federal Excise Tax on new cars, the price of every new 1972 Bulck and any extra you might add was reduced. Price differences shown based on a comparison of Manufacturer's suggested retail prices for May 1 1971 and the present. These prksinclude dealer newvehicte preparation charge.State and local taxes. destirrton charges.

options and accessories are additional. ument has yet been presented to the Russian world champion, but Dr. Euwe said he was satisfied that it would be forUicoming. Fischer presented an apology of sorts Wednesday when he broke his silence with a statement regretting the delay of the match. Fischer said it was not Spassky's fault that the match had been delayed and said he "respected grandmaster Spassky as a player and man." Russian officials said the statement was expected to satisfy Spassky if delivered to him with Fischer's signature attached.

Dr. Euwe already fulfilled two other Soviet demands Wednesday night when he issued a condemnation of Fischer's behavior in failing to turn up in time and also admitted that he himself had violated the FIDE rules by granting a postponement of the first match. REYKJAVIK (UPI) The Boris Spas-sky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match will open Sunday or Tuesday at the latest, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) said early Thurs-. day. FIDE President Dr.

Max Euwe said he felt the major outstanding differences had been settled at a meeting between FIDE, the Icelandic organizers and Spassky's advisers ending early Thursday. "The match will start on Sunday or at the latest Tuesday," Dr. Euwe told newsmen. But Lother Schmid, the FIDE arbiter of the match, warned that "this is if everything 1 goes according to plan. Things can still go 1 wrong," he added.

'IZ Schmid said the draw of lots to decide is to play white in the first of the 24 games in the $250,000 match will be held at 8 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT) Thursday. Dr. Euwe said a new meeting, also involv-' ing Fischer advisers, would be held Thurs-1'day.

He also said he felt the Soviet demand for a penalty for the 29-year-old American chal- lenger for showing up late for the start of the match, originally scheduled for July 2, be settled later" at thtFIDEcon-. gress later this year in Skopje, Yugoslavia. But Schmid said the Soviet demand that Fischer loses the first game and a crucial point in the battle for the world title was still not completely solved. Chess sources said Gudmundur Thorarins-. son, president of the Icelandic Chess organisation, was communicating with the Soviet chess federation in Moscow concerning the "demand.

One other point to be settled is Spassky's 'demand for an apology from Fischer with the American's signature on it. No such doc- 40 Divorces Invalid; Mexico Nabs Lawyer CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (UPI) State police Wednesday arrested a divorce lawyer and warned that many of his American clients may still be married. Police said Vicente Gonzalez Santillan falsified documents in about 40 divorce cases and pocketed $5,120 in fees that should have been paid to the State of Chihuahua in which Ciudad Juarez is located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Tex. They said the 40 divorces are invalid. They include many Americans and some Japanese who obtained quickie divorces before the federal government abolished them in 1970.

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