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Monday, January 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5 Murder trial opens today leriil latcj ipatt hoi; am ' J. United Press International j ie , $225,000 bond was revoked, was an egotist who injected chil dren with life-threatening drugs to prove her nursing skills by heroically reviving the babies. GEORGETOWN — Jury Selection begins today in die 01 nurder trial of Genene Ann tJones, a pediatric nurse accused "f killing one baby and injuring jght others with injections of leadly drugs. Eighty witnesses are expected testify over three weeks in the jghly publicized trial, which J -asmoved to the quiet Central J 'exas city of Georgetown from e ,|heequally small and quiet Hill Jlountry town of Kerrville, Ellhere 15-month-old Chelsea uliin McClellan died in August Jones, 33, was a licensed voc a- onal nurse in a pediatric clinic i Kerrville when Chelsea died. Anew and controversial athological test developed in weden found traces of the pow- rful muscle relaxant, succiny- Jholine chloride, in Chelsea’s xhumed body. The reliability ol the lest isex- ected to be a key part of Jones’ dense of murder charges in klsea’sdeath. The nurse f aces maximum sentence of life in rison if convicted. re, Dr ditor ol ovation J shoui at Kuk ■easelk! rewari ire iiin le,oftet rstood. and rt est firm ■ease in- for cor :eractio: areas n : divers! ns. :h, sessions itation, echnolo niversiij Prosecutors say Jones, who lasbeen held in tne Williamson iounty jail since Oc tober when I he nurse, however, blames incompetent doctors for Chelsea s death and the sudden and mysterious illnesses of other children in her care in both Kerrville and Medical Center Hospital in San Antonio, where she worked previously. Seven charges of injury to a child have been filed against her in Kerrville and she was indicted on an additional injury to a child charge in San Antonio. A grand jury investigation into infant illnesses at the San Antonio hos pital is continuing. District Judge John Carter lias promised to rule when the trial begins on a def ense motion to sequester the jury to shield them from heavy news coverage expected in the case. Carter’s normally quiet cour troom has been hurled into the limelight in recent weeks with the Jones case and pretrial hear ings for confessed mass murder er Henry Lee Lucas, who has claimed to have killed more than 150 women. The judge met with reporters Sunday to lay down strict rules for coverage of Jones’ trial. ' (Heart association projects deaths lw lew Eli' •mer« y Harn 1 sociatf United Press International ALLAS — The American lean Association Sunday plo tted up to 1.5 million Amer- ans would suffer heart attacks I is year and an estimated 1,000 of them would die. In its annual study, “Heart acts 1984,’’ the AHA said de- ite advances in research and eatment, cardio-vascular dis- ise'was still the No. 1 killer in ieUnited States, and 42.7 mil- on Americans have it in some )rm. The report, released Sunday, aid high blood pressure was still rampant,” afflicting 37.3 mil- on Americans, or nearly one utof every four adults. The cost to the nation f rom eart disease, in straight cash, 'ould reach an estimated $64.4 Mon in 1984, including $12.4 in lost output clue to disa- The AHA said that in 1981 — M latest complete sampling — e art disease and related ail- lents killed 989,610 people, far Tore than the 422,720 who died ■cancer and the 102,130 who died of killer. accidents, the No. 3 “In 1981, nearly 1 million American deaths were attri buted to cardiovascular dis eases,” the association said. “That’s almost as many deaths as were caused by cancer, acci dents, pneumonia, influenza and all other causes combined.” However, the association said about 4.6 million Americans had survived either heart attacks or suffered related chest pains. In addition to heart attacks, high blood pressure was blamed for many deaths and much ol the disability resulting from stroke, which strikes about 500,000 people a year, killing 164,300 in 1981. 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