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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1979 GOP^ cheaper by the dozen? Haig added to list of contende rs Almost better than Grandma’s United Press International WASHINGTON — Retired Gen. Alexander Haig, the man who led the White House staff through the last stormy days of the Watergate scandal, has brought the number of potential Republican presidential candidates to an even dozen. A national committee was formed Monday to draft Haig for the GOP nomination. He joins seven an nounced candidates, two unan nounced, one other draft possibility and one — Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., who announced and drop ped out. The “Draft Haig Committee” was filed formally with the Federal Elec tion Commission, and organizers said, “We have every reason to be lieve that he will seek the Republi can nomination for president once the depth of his support is seen. ” While there has been consider able talk of Haig’s entry into politics since he retired as NATO comman der in Europe early this year, he has been a reluctant candidate. “There’s a very crowded field on the Republican side and as of now I have no wish whatsoever to enter that race,” Haig said last month. The Draft Haig Committee is headed by Charles A. McManus Jr., former head of the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action and once an official at the Republican National Committee. McManus, a political consultant, said he decided to organize the Haig effort because of recent interest in the general that he has found among business political action committees he has been involved with. “With (Ronald) Reagan and (John) Connally at loggerheads and some of the others faltering, it might be time to test the waters,” McManus said. There were reports Haig, now doing foreign policy research for the University of Pennsylvania, would run for the Senate from his home state of Pennsylvania. But one source said Haig is recon sidering the presidency and has dis cussed a race with one-time top TOooooooommdmmmmo ^ond Bno/c. INT’L., INC. 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Couple s home lot to $3.05 in taxes United Press International QUINCY, Fla. — A legal services attorney says he is going to court to try to regain the modest home an elderly black couple lost for failure to pay $3.05 in taxes, but he doesn’t have much hope. “I’m going to bring some kind of court action, but it will be difficult because a tax deed is almost in violate,” Milton Wright of the North Florida Legal Services office in Quincy said Monday. About the only reason to inva lidate a tax deed is if the taxes were not owed in the first place, he said. But he said he is considering a chal lenge based on the ground that Fedo Kenon, who owned the property, was mentally incompetent. Hattie Mae Kenon, 63, who toiled in the tobacco fields to help acquire the home outside Quincy where the couple raised seven children, only recently found out real estate broker John G. Barrow had bought the tax certificate. Barrow said he will evict the Ke- nons, who live on $478 a month in Social Security, unless they buy their land back from him for$10,i„ Barrow bought the tax ctrtifiai by paying the $3.05 in taxes a after the April 1976 tax deadliij passed. He waited three years,out more than the minimum two prescribed by law, and in July Hi! bought a tax deed making him tin legal owner. It cost him a tol $107, representing back taxes county expenses. “I cried some, and 1 praynj some,” said Hattie Kenon. “Tliis the onliest place we have and itreal hurt to know we were goingtol« everything we had.’ Her husband, she said, hashes committed twice to mental hospital has his way, once for for two and a half yeai irs,® since his release has been treateili US. Constil Tallahassee mental health clinics. Mrs. Kenon said she does know why )ier husband did the taxes. She said “His mind is mixed about the land,” and at times, thinks his brother, now dead, oi the property. “If I had known it, I surewoil have paid that money,” shesaih Forecasting method may prevent flu deal United Press International ATLANTA — Federal health offi cials say they have found a system of forecasting flu epidemics that could allow active medical intervention be fore an outbreak strikes. The National Center for Disease Control reported Monday the sys tem may forecast flu epidemics two or more weeks before they occur, with the aim oi blunting such out- breaks and possibly saving lives. The system, described in detail to a group of flu experts at the CDC, is based on statistical analysis of pneumonia-influenza during the past 17 years. The CDC said the sys tem was tested alongside the old sys tem during this winter’s flu season and officials think it may replace the one that has been in use for the past 20 years. 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