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-wire Study exam CHARLESTON (AP) ? A doctor who treated fellow Americans while held captive at a Japanese prisoner of war canin will he workinp with war time comrades here in a study aimed at finding out why Japanese POWs age faster than others. "What we hope to do . . .is perhaps help particularly the Vietman POWs and the Korean POWs to prevent some of these occurrences that we can almost predict will hurt them," said Rep. Thomas Hartnett, R-S.C. "Things have manifested themselves years later that seem to be common to prisoners of war." Dr. Thomas Hewlett will serve as a consultant 011 the Veterans Administration study to identify the unique medical problems facing former POWs. HEWLETT, A retired physician from Hemmet, Calif., said Monday the idea is to provide researchers with cnougn miormauon 10 uraw some conclusions about common medical problems. } Town's residents BOLTON, Mass. (AP) ? The battl around the pig pens, and residents were t a special town meetine on whether fan keep more than eight pigs on one farm. The farmers say they have lived in this part-residential community, about 20 n Boston, all their lives, which gives thei decide the town's business. Non-farming homeowners say the 2,' munity is losing its agricultural roots. "IT'S NOT a farm town any more," F and 18-year neighbor of Graig Ettinger's and a leader of the anti-piggery group. "Everyone likes to see a farm, but ferent, entirely different," she said. " raise a field of corn, that would be one concerned with what a piggery next doo values." Residents were to vote last night whet! issue any more permits for piggeries wit ^ pigs. Banning the piggeries will reqi ' majority. "Couples from the city drive out hen beautiful. We'\c got to buy a house he I : A " ' A > < - ~ h The (.AMI ^ <XXT-, " f ' r u taper of the I r - What s <?: XXTil: A ino lhi? full r'Interesting? ^ liter sessions, sersio holida v Challenging? >' cST,. A . A v those of the I r RGwarding?v equaioPPo? "7 r ^ ~ The Board A 4 Reporting-, > SSS ^ A ^ partment is II . f 1.1^^ ' GAMECOCl ' LOT thC Change of requests and v'Gamecock! i. I I University ol r > S.C. 29208. - Room 321 1 ik M Si.00 for b - Russell Housed- c" | {- V . \ organization ? j V ^ Carolina am t** U 1 ^ > -1 dent activity -1 . - ?- -I 1 1 " Ii/hy no! brirg Eg j under your m LThe summer blew Is a rare bird. K& IRSIilBI/iSfBaRBVISanSfl ines POWs' He said U.S. POWs in Japanese camps fared worse than Americans in other theaters of World War II. "From all the studies in the medical literature, there is no question those poeple were in the worst condition of any place in the war," he said. "What has this particular group of people been subjected to?" Hewlett asked. "Why have we aged faster than the normal population? "We're looking at a big picture, which for Japanese prisoners of war is a sort of 'death watch' sequence outlining what is going to come next," he said. THE STUDY will involve 30 former Japanese POWs from South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, according to Don Rutter, the national exprisoners of war coordinator for the /\mcrican prisoners 01 war in r^outn Carolina. The Veterans Administration has called on POWs from all wars who haven't been receiving VB services to come forward as part of a nationwide ; commence fight ( e lines are drawn said. "Then they live o vote last night at first town meeting to mers could legally lived here all my life. go to his neighbor ar ; part-agricultural, niles northwest of THE ANTI-PIG< n strong claim to demanded the town E permits until a 1947 700-member com- When the to*vft re the pig foes sought a An appeal is pendinf lose McGanty, 55, Almost 300 resider 120-acrc pig farm town meeting. An meeting will ask for f piggeries are dif- health violations hav If they wanted to Also in contention : thing. People are garbage-fed pigs snu r does to property than their grain-fed < hfr fnwn rnnlH I ABMIBC CAV h more than eight restaurants to make \ uire a two-thirds slop, they say, gra business. e and say, 'This is "We were alkfped re,'" Ettinger, 29, make a dime," said "COCK is the student news- I diversity ol South Carolina I heel three times a week on I ^ i-dnesdays anil Fridays dur- I and spring semesters and I i-dnesduys during hoth sum- I ? V?j rrr with the exception ?>f nni- I f ys and examination periods. B ^ expressed in the (iAMK- M ? lose of Ihe editors and not j| PHDICo" .'niversils of South Carolina. I L? UI ILo rsits of South Carolina is an g C OI IIV/I C O unity institution. I nCoUMto of Student Publications and El DDIMTIMP Ions is the publisher of the II I n!l\j I llMu K,. The Student Media l)e- I RIIRRPR C he parent organization of the I nUDDCn t K. | l/ryc nilP address forms, subscription I l\C I O UUl other correspondence should I O le GAMKCOCK. Drawer A, g ? f South Carolina. Columbia. B 1 fl-flfl LI u.uu 1 ni I ui (Fo % I { . i i 1,airiend ! ins?" , r*\ )f 11: Mi donor e one. aging rate study of POW medical problems. The Charleston studv is the first in which a former POW doctor will help in the investigation of his comrades. Ten of those in the study group, including Rutter, were interned with Hewlett at Prison Camp 17, Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan. In a paper published three years ago based upon contacts with some of those who were in the camp, Hewlett estimated that 90 percent of the 250 American survivors suffer from some pattern of degenerative disease. "DENIAL OF relationship between our present medical problems and the nutritional, physical diseases and emotional problems that were the major components of our prison existence is without justification," the report said. The report said some problems facing the POWs could result from the long-term effects of poor sanitary conditions and nutritional diseases such as beriberi and pellagra. )ver piggeries : here for about a week and go to the complain about the way we live. I've If a gentleman had a complaint, he'd id talk face to face like a man." GERY forces three months ago Joard of Health delay issuing pig farm law covering pig pens be revised, fused and issued four more permits, i court injunction, which was denied. f > its signed a petition calling the special article under consideration at the >rohibition of yearly permit renewal if e been committed. is what the pigs eat. Anti-piggcrs say "11 worse and are more disease-prone counterparts. they depend on free garbarge from >ig raising profitable. Without the free in costs would drive them out of ing.grain for a while but you couldn't Peter Paquete, who raises 46 pigs. E" Copy *1 If* Express ! StationTM j Drive-Thru j service i ITAMPS 1 1ICATED :30 AM - 6:00 PM AM 1:00 SATURDAY FIVE POINTS I D3 HARDEN STREET ipdtown Parking Lot) j 256-1958 1 TO[ 00 a.m. lussell Hoi The Ai t 1,1 1200 N. Eden Dr., Cayce i STUDENT SPECIAL ; 1, 2, & 3 BEDROOM APTS. 10 MINUTES FROM CAMPUS POOL GOLF i L Call 796-8765 (SOUTHERN WOMEN'S " 1 SERVICES J ...to talk to someone who cares ,4a y hr r*kicvi wm Problem pregnancy counseling + | j "Abortion counseling and services Pregnancy tests I *Birth control services j Trained counselors Speakers for school & civic groups I Abortion counseling & services "Confidential Contact With Someone Who Cares" \ 254-4368 24-Hour j 1614 Two Notch Rd. Answering Service I I ? 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