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A Community Newsweekly
Vol. 6 Number 55, June 18, 1981
Second Class Postage Paid In Boiling Springs, N. C. 29017
$6.00 Per Year
People In The News
GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE,,Platte Dean White, son
of Mr, and Mrs, Edwin White of Boiling Springs, re
ceived the Fred L, andSallieN,AbransEndowed Memorial
Scholarship from Gardner-Webb College,
The Fred L, and Sallie N. Abrams Endowed Memorial
Scholarship was established in 1978 as a memorial to
their parents by Robert W, Abrams of Bolling Springs,
W, Glenn Abrams, Mrs, Jessie A. Roddy, and Mrs.’
Flow A. Bryant, of the Gray’s Creek Baptist Church
Community of Rutherford County. The earnings from
the fund are awarded annually “to a needy and worthy
student studymg for the ministry.”
White is a graduate of Crest High School.
Research Shows
CHAPEL HILL.. .Chlamydia—it’s the most widespread
and most mysterious of all venereal diseases.
There are more than 3 million cases of Chlamydia
in the United States each year, making it more common
than gonorrhea or sympilis, said Dr. Priscilla Wyrick
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who
has studied Chlamydia lor seven years. But one of the
worst things is that most people may not even know they
have it.
“It’s a serious problem and a lot of people out there,
including physicians, don’t know about it,” she said,
“it’s particularly a problem in young people 20 to 35,
and usually among the higher socio-economic status
groups.”
Although Chlamydia is not life-threatening for adults,
it can result in sterility in both males and females, and
complications for newborns can be quite severe, Wyrick
said. Research suggests that there is increased risk
of fetal or newborn deaths for Chlamydia-infected pre
gnant women.
Mthough Chlamydia has been around, for thousands of
years, it wasn’t isolated until World War 11, said Wyrick,
associate professor of bacteriology. It was thought to
be a virus instead of a bacterium until the mid-1960’s
and w s not widely publicized in the medical literature
until the 1970s. Wyrick’s is one of only a half dozen
biology labs in the country studying Chlamydia at pre
sent.
One of the greatest problems with Chlamydia, she
said, is that there may be no visible symptoms, and
even when symptoms are evident, the disease is difficult
for a doctor to diagnose. For that reason, many people
do not know thev have the disease.
is difficult to diagnose. It can only be isolated on a
tissue culture, a procedure using mammalian cells. Not
many tabor tories can perform the test, and when it is
available, it may cost as much as $65 at some labs,
Wyrick said. N.C, Memorial, Duke Medical Cener and
the state laboratory in Raleigh are three places the
test is available in North Carolina.
“Right now,’' she added, “for the most part, Chlamydia
is diagnosed by exclusion. THe doctor rules out every
thing else, so he may not have to resort to a culture to
diagnose it,”
Once Chlamydia is diagnosed, it is easy to treat, she
said. ' minimum of 10 days to two weeks on tetracy
cline will, in most cases, kill the Chlamydia bacteria,
as well as gonorrhea or symphlis. “Compliance is the
biggest problem. Some people stop taking the anticiotic
after four or five days when they begin to feel better.
But Chlamydia bacteria are slow-growing and it takes
“Studies of some 2,000 patients in obstetrics ciinics
have found that, on the average, 13 to 20 percent of the
pregnant women who came for prenatal checkups had
Chlamydia and didn’t know it,” Wyrick said,
“People know about gonorrhea and syphilis, and that’s
what people alw .ys think of as sexually transmuted
disease. But there’s a host of organisms that can cause
VD, including Chlamydia and Herpes.”
ae pointed out that there’s a 55 percent chance that
a woman who has Chlamydia will give ti to a male partner
and approximately a 65 percent chance that a man will
give it to a female partner.
When symptoms are visible, they often resemble a mild
form of gonorrhea. Symptoms often include pain, a
w '.tery discharge and burning on urination. But unlike'
syphilis and gonorrhea which can be confirmed by a
blood test or a stained smear of the disch rge. Chlamydia
longer to kill them all.”
If left untreated, Chla:nydia may lead to pelvic inflam
matory disease or infection of the cervic or fallopian
tubes in women and disease of the prostate gland or
epididymis in men. “These are very serious diseases
and can lead to sterility,” she said. “But one of the
more serious problems about the disease is the risk
to the newborn because the mother may not realize she
has Chlamydia,
There is some research that suggests that Chlamydia
may lead to miscarriage, low birthweight and premature
birth, as well as increased risk of fetal and newborn
deaths.
There is a 67 percent chance that a child who passes
through the birth canal infected with Chlamydia will
develop an eye disease or a type of pnevmonia, she
s id. Either of these conditions can be serious and may
not show up until a few weeks after birth.
“State law requires newborns receive siler nitrate eye
drops for gonorrhea and syphilis,’ Wyrick said, “But
these are now effective on Chlamydia. Usually the child
and mother mu.st be treated with erythromycin since
tetracycline cannot be given to pregnant women or young
children.”
“More research is needed but many potential scientists
reject this field because of the poor funding situation,”
The only hope for fighting the spread of Chlamydi-,
is through providing more information to the public and
developing a les.s expensive diagnostic test for the disease,
she said.
Wyrick’s research is funded through the National In
stitutes of llergy and Infections Diseases of the National
Institutes of Health,
Chlamydia Widespread Andj
Mysterious Of Diseases
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B.E, LATTIMORE
Lattimore Appointed
Rutledge College of Greensboro last week announced
the appointment of B.E. “Buck’’ Lattimore of Shelby
as Chief Executive Officer effective May 18,1981.
Lattimore, 33, comes to Rutledge with top m,inagement
experience in both state government and education ad
ministration. He served as North Carolina Deputy In
surance Commissioner from 1975 to 1979, being the
youngest deputy insurance commissioner in the state’s
history at the time of his appointment. For the past
two years, Lattimore has been employed as Assistant
a cost containment program fro health care administered
through the North Carolina Department of Human Re
sources.
Before coming to Rutledge, Lattimore was Director
of the evening division of King’s College of Raleigh.
His educational experience also includes three years
as an Instructor at Kings.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wofford
College, Spartanburg, S.C. where he graduated with honors
in Government. He served legislative internship in the
United States and in the North Carolina General Assembly.
He has pursued graduate wor : in Management at North
Carolina State University.
Lattimore has been named tour times to Outstanding
Young Men of America, has received the Danforth Founda
tion’s Leadership Award, and holds the Wofford College
Department of Governme.it Award for academic achieve
ment and leadership in his field.
“I am excited by both the challenge and the opportunity
Rutledge College affords me,” said Lattimore. “I am
particularly proud to be associated with the largest
chain of private business colleges in the country.” Rut
ledge College of Greensboro is one of fifteen Rutledge
Colleges located throughout the United States.
Lattimore will continue to reside on his farm on Highway
150 West of Shelby. He is the son of Mrs. Eugene Lattimore
and the late Mr. Lattimore.
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GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE.. Dr. Donald Heckerman,
above, was one of the nine speakers, during a two-day
Small Business Seminar on the Gardner-Webb College
campus. Approximately 105 persons attended the seminar ■
created to- stimulate a better understanding of small
bus iness probIem.s and opportunities and to present practical
approaches to improving small business management.
Dr. Heckerman, with the firm of Ernst and Wliinney of
Charlotte, spoke on Financing the Small Business with
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an associate David Hatter. Other speakers and topics
included Bill Starnes, Capital Formation and Retention;
Murdock Morrison, Date Processing for Small Businesses;
Valdaree Shull, Ph. D., Employee Motivation; James N.
Smoak, The Economic Outlook; Bobby McIntyre, Marketing
for Slnall Business; Ronald Martin, .a.ud Michael .libernathy,
Accounting and Taxes for Small Business, The Broyhill
Academy of Gardner-Webb College sponsored the event
in cooperation with the Greater Shelby CRamb^r of Com-
merce and the Small Business Administration.
QUICK QU£
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Nearly 500,000 Americans are legally blind. Every
11 minutes another person is added to these ranks.
Fortunately, many causes of blindness can be prevented.
How good is your eye-Q concerning eye problems? The
following quiz is presented by the American Association
of Ophthalmology, which represents over 5,300 medi
cal doctors specializing in the care and treatment of the
eyes.
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1, The leading causes
of blindness are (a) im
properly prescribed,
glasses (b) poor lighting
(c) disease?
2. Common causes of
early vision problems are
(a) television (b) heredi
tary and prenatal ccm-
ditions (c) vitamin defi-
ciencies?
3. Eye injuries are
caused mostly by (a) ac
cidents in the home (b)
unsupervised play by
children (c) sports equip
ment and activities?
4. Ophthalmologists
(a) prescribe glasses (b)
diagnose vision problems
(c) prescribe treatment
and surgical procedures?
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