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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
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managers.
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White House staffin the darkest dan
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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.’
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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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bureau of epidemiology said the sys
tem “would be able to detect out
breaks two weeks before pneumonia
and influenza deaths reach the
epidemic level. He said it
hoped future statistical resell
would improve on the two-wi
warning period.
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the epidemiology bureau, said)
weeks advance warning of an:
pending influenza outbreak
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