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it 1' THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION ft The beat goes on Ordinarily quiet life has piped up since flutist led ASO musicians on strike 3B Pemleetc 1 SECTION Thursday, Sept. 22, 1983 A oms9 smoking may hurt children's lungs 1PW 1 9 mm Ron Hudspeth tial would have been," said Dr. Ira Tager of the Channing Laboratory of Brigham and Women's Hospital. "From this study there is reason to tell mothers of younger children, at the least, to minimize smoking around them," he said. Tager said the researchers have yet to analyze their data to determine if the children of smoking mothers go on to have poorer health as a result.

But he warned smoking by the mother "may be important" in determining if children develop breathing problems later. Previous studies have found such children suffer greater numbers of respiratory infections early in life, and doctors think that up to 20 percent of infant respiratory infections may be associated with parental smoking. United Prtu International BOSTON Children who grow up around smoking mothers may suffer stunted lung development in yet another indication that inhaling others' smoke may be hazardous to the health, doctors reported Wednesday. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine of more than 1,100 Boston children found those with smoking mothers had impaired lung development and by the time they stop growing, lung functions would average about 4 to 5 percent less than what they otherwise would have been. "This doesn't mean the children are sick it's just their lung development on average was impaired from what the maximum poten lung function on average only 93 percent of what would have been expected.

"Over the course of their growing, we would project that on average they would have about a four to five percent impairment of their maximum potential," Tager said. He cautioned that results of a similar study in a warmer climate where children spend more time outside may be different because then they "would be outside more in the fresh air." He also said the study found no link between smoking by the father and a child's lung development "That could be because the father isn't around as much or because some of the impaired lung development might be associated with smoking in pregnancy," he said. Several studies have also found indirect exposure to cigarette smoke in the workplace or at home slightly affects adults as well. Tager said it was not known if the impaired lung development in the children was the result of maternal smoking while they were in the womb or as infants or was the result of culmulative exposure. Eighty percent of the mothers smoked while carrying their infants.

Only a small amount later quit so doctors couldn't determine if quitting led to an improvement in the child's later lung development. In the six-year study, doctors measured the children who ranged in age from 5 to 19 annually to test their lung functions. They found over five years that the children of smoking mothers had a growth rate in Cooling trend breezes on in The Mary Phagan legacy lapers part of Smurfs' life now Victim's namesake opposes pardon for convicted Frank By Ron Marti Staff Writer For years the name meant nothing special to her except that it was her name, a good name, Mary Phagan. It was not until she was 13 years old that Mary Phagan discovered she was named for her great-aunt, Little Mary Phagan, the girl whose brutal murder in 1913 resulted in one of Georgia's most controversial trials and provided the impetus for the formation of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the Atlanta area. "When I first heard the story of Little Mary Phagan, it really just went in one ear and out the other because I don't feel I was ready for it at that age," said Mary, now 29 years old and a teacher of visually impaired and blind children in Cherokee County schools.

Two years later Mary Phagan again heard the story of her great-aunt. She heard of how Little Mary was strangled when she went to the National Pencil Co. in downtown Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1913, to collect her weekly wage of $1.20. She heard how the factory supervisor, Leo Frank, a Jew, was convicted of Little Mary's murder and later taken from his cell in the state prison at Milledgeville by a mob and lynched near Marietta. And she learned of the heartache that had been a part of the Phagan family for 50 years.

"That's when I began to think that maybe there was more to this than I really thought there was," said Mary. "A lot of people I met knew about this, and that's when I decided to do more research into it." Although she did not hide her name, Mary and other Phagans preferred to publicly remove themselves from the anti-Semitic controversy that had been irrevocably tied to the history of these events. "We never said anything because we never had anything to say," said James Phagan, a nephew of Little Mary Phagan and the father of Mary. Now, Phagan and the daughter he named in memory of the aunt he never knew have decided Cool breeze. That's a term a friend of mine likes to use for someone who thinks he's a bit cooler than he really is.

But that was a real cool breeze whipping up Marietta Street and biting the face Wednesday. Before you know it, we'll be building that first fire and talking about Snowjams. Are the seasons whipping by faster, or is it me? Seems like only yesterday I was sitting in West Palm Beach watching the Braves in spring training. And if the cool wind isn't enough reminder, in the mail comes notice of the first run of the Autumn Leaves Special, the Atlanta to Chattanooga and Toccoa train, leaving Oct. 29, to view the splendor of the fall colors.

And the touch of cool caught the Atlanta Jaycees a bit off guard. The Jaycees are tossing a Braves pep rally "Party In The Park" at 5 Friday in Central City Park as we await the arrival of the dastardly Dodgers that evening. And the press release advertises "cool off with cold beer and wine." Make that a hot-buttered mm. HUDCAPS: Out in Mayretta this week the North Georgia Fair is in full swing. I took a nostalgic stroll through it the other day the sights, sounds and smells take one back to his childhood roots and the vanishing small-town carnival.

But Cobb County manages a slightly different twist. Not only are there the predictable exhibits from 4-H'ers, the Lions Club, local Baptist churches and the Garden Club, but there with its booth is the Ku Klux Klan. Ford's John Erickson says those "Gas, Food Next Exit" signs on 1-75 are most descriptive, but the next one should read "Ro-laidsAlka Seltzer, 30 Miles." PEOPLE SPOTTER: Scott Hoi-man, born Tuesday, will no doubt be an on-time sportscaster like dad Steve of WGST radio. Young Scott was born right on the frequency 920 AM of his dad's station. He arrived at 9:20 a.m.

on 920. Wife Mary Jans and Scott, weighing in at 7 lbs, 3 oz. not nine pounds, 2 oz. are both doing well Jim White, owner of the Half-Shell and Jas restaurants, marrying Leslie Mof-fatt Saturday and, no doubt, serving his own tasty Jim White-label wine secured from a French vineyard Soupy Sales opened a week-long engagement Tuesday at The Comedy Spot and immediately confessed to the club's Judy Landy he is a chili dog freak. So, off to the Varsity where else? they went in Judy's little Honda.

They parked in the curb service section and waited and waited. "I guess you need a big old car before they'll serve you," said a disappointed Soupy. Must have been Flossie's day off. Kim Calos, better known as Princess Win-A-Lotta, out of the hospital after an auto accident, and the good news is her injuries are not as serious as first be v. LOUIE FAVORITEStaff James E.

Phagan and his daughter Mary with a portrait of her great aunt special attention in recent weeks and still plans to stick to the original intention of making a decision before the end of the year," Moore said. The petition was presented to the board by a coalition of Jewish groups which includes the ADL, the American Jewish Committee and the Atlanta Jewish Federation. That petition was based primarily on information provided last year in a sworn affidavit by Alonzo Mann, an office boy in the pencil factory at the time of Little Mary's murder. See PHAGAN, Page 11-B to air their opposition to recent efforts to have Frank posthumously pardoned. "People where I work know who I am and even refer to me as 'Little Mary said Mary.

"But it took a long time, 29 years in fact, before I decided to go public with this." A petition seeking Frank's pardon was filed last October with the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Silas Moore, deputy director of central operations for the board, said Wednesday that the petition is still under consideration. "The board has been giving this case some By Itabari Njeri The Miami Herald Aonce-in-a-blue-moon act has been completed: To the Smurfs a babe is born. "Smurfs," the animated children's show that leads the TV ratings on Saturday mornings and is populated by 100 blue-skinned inhabitants, got a kid delivered by none other than the stork on its season debut last week. The show airs locally Saturday mornings at 9 on Channel 11.

And, get this: In the medieval forest where these three-apples-high characters live under mushrooms, there are 99 dudes and ONE woman. That would be Smurfette, the enthralling beauty who, in the words of one network publicist, "keeps the little Smurf village percolating." Hmmmm. Whose kid is this anyway? The program's executive director is evasive: "The baby arrives mysteriously," says Joe Barbera. "A sociologist may not like to admit that Smurfs are brought by storks, but it IS so. I have seen it." Seriously now, wouldn't a contemporary young audience have understood and benefited from a more realistic delivery? How about the Lamaze method? "What's that?" said Barbera.

OK, so he hasn't heard about natural childbirth. What about child care? Is Smurfette, the only woman there, going to be responsible for the needs of 99 males and a baby, too? "I think it's going to be adopted by everybody," said Barbera over the telephone from his Hollywood office. So what is this little package going to be called? "It," said Barbera. "We haven't been able to settle on a sex yet There's been so much back and forth on it (we'll) try to let it find its own sex." Well then, is it likely that the child will become a girl and end Smurfette's role as the sole female? That might do a little to help dispel the program's sexist image, a complaint raised by Action for Children's Television, a public-interest group. "The point is WE introduced the girl, the first woman" in Smurfland, Barbera responded.

There were no women in the original Smurf comic strip and books created 25 years ago by Belgian artist Pierre "Peyo" Culliford. What about the issue of race? All the Smurfs are blue. Are you a blue supremacist, Barbera? "No," he said. "The first television cartoon we ever made, we introduced a blue dog, Huckleberry Hound. That very first year we won an Emmy for Huckleberry Hound, and people said to me, 'Why did you make him And I said, brilliantly, 'Why If Smurfette is indeed the mama, which of the men will own up to being the papa? Will it be Hefty, described as the "strong and feisty Smurf who possesses boundless energy and on occasions even defied the natural law of gravity?" Or, in a blow against ageism, another insidious prejudice, will it be Papa Smurf, the 550-year-old be- whiskered little gentlemen who faces the audience and proclaims in Smurfese: "I came, I saw, I mmJmtmMmmmmmmummmmmmmmim lieved, bne recuperating and is already able to walk Bill Vander ford, Pine Isle's fishing expert, had a shadow the other day Phil Niekro nr fi iiOTSti $S5 IM- Vt v' --f--y tm mil -1 followed him to his favorite fishing holes at Lake Lanier.

No word on whether Niekro brought home a big one. Andrew Young lunching at The Sandpiper. Today's birthday congratulations: Tom Lasorda, 56; Harold Carmichael, 34; Debby Boo Bruce Jenner calls his family the gold in life By Paula Crouch Staff Writer When high school track star Bruce Jenner went off to college in 1967, he figured he'd major in physical education and become a coach. He didn't know he would one day be called "the world's greatest athlete." It just so happened that down the road, in 1976 in Montreal, he won the Olympic Decathalon and nothing worked out quite like he expected. "You never know where life's gonna take you," says Jenner while lunching at an Atlanta restaurant Wednesday, after polishing off the sort of salad you'd expect a California golden boy to order: avocado and tomato in a taco shell.

Tall, tan and fit, Jenner makes a Ken doll look like a slouch. Certainly he was suited for overnight-celebrity status. But Jenner didn't get where he did on good looks alone. Maybe in the glamorous world of Hollywood, but not in the grueling decathalon. It was fierce determination and a competitive drive that he says fueled his quest for success in television, films and broadcasting as well as in tennis and race car driving.

Both in the business world and in acting where "they don't allow you to make mistakes," he has found being competitive keeps him on the cutting edge. And in the spirit of the decathalon, he is happiest when he's involved in a lot of different projects, including working with Special Olympics and the American Diabetes Association. "It's very nice to be in a position to lend your name and a minimum amount of time to make a difference and raise a lot of money to go to some very nice people." He also lends his name to commercial ven- 27; Scott Baio, 22; Lite 106's George-ln-Tho-Morning, 30. JOCKING AROUND: Norm Van Brocklin was loved and hated but no one has ever captured the essence of the man better than does Jim Klobu- TOM LEVYStatf Bruce Jenner now emphasizes acting, not athletics char in the article "Dutch" in the October issue of Pro Magazine. Writes Klobuchar: "For all of his intellect, he had a tubular view of what constituted professional football.

It was divided into two simply documented classes: the achievers and the hanger-ons. The real ones and the phonies. His cata logue of phonies was thick and broad spectrumed. It included most general managers, most administrators pencil most Next is a film version of the story of Peter Revson, the Revlon cosmetics heir and international playboy who died in a race in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1974. He will produce the film and cast himself as Revson.

Undaunted by critics of his acting ability, he says, "You're never gonna satisfy everybody," and begins to document the ratings success of the TV movies he produced. He is philosophic about what he needs to do to make it as a respected actor and producer. "When I work, I try to be as professional as I possibly can as professional as someone who's See JENNER, Page 6-B tures. He was here Wednesday to talk about his latest promotion, Activision's Decathalon, a home video game. One reason he likes the new game is it'j potential to promote the real thing.

"We desperately need to inspire people to get into this event," he says of the Olympic Decathalon. "Right now we don't have an American even close to doing well in 1984." For Jenner, the definition of success is "when you can't tell the difference between work and play." In that respect, Jenner says he's successful. He's proud of his work in two made-for-TV movies he produced last year, "Grambling White Tiger" and "Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid." sportswriters, most Big Ten fans, most Notre Darners, and most people who disagreed with how he looked at the world." Powerful stuff, but I guess I'm one of those who will always look at our local team and think of them as the Van Brocklin Falcons. 1.