European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tog 6 the stars and stripes tuesday May 8, they offer life or death to kidney palenti of a housewife a Man liter a labor Leader a banker. These and others serve on a committee which decides whether people with chronic kidney failure will die or have a Chance Tolive. The dramatic plan was described by  h. Scribner director of the nation s Only Community artificial kidney Center. The Center established under a $50,000grant from the John a. Hartford foundation of new York has a capacity of 13 bedsit Seattle s swedish and University of Washington hospitals. Chronic kidney failure 1 usually considered inevitably fatal a year ago a University of Washington team headed by Seribner an associate professor announced a method of treating the ailment with the artificial kidney. Patients from All Over the nation have inquired about it. But the ground rules Laid Down by the screening committee re strict the Center to state residents As of last August a committee of doctors screens the patients first As to their physical condition and possibility of survival. Then uie committee of laymen takeover. They go into the candidate s Complete background social cultural and educational How Many children he has and his potential contribution to society scrib Ner said. They Don t know the candidate. The never have personal Contact and the Candi Date is not supposed to know them although it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep anonymity Between groups. The committee knows it is condemning to death those it does t  the treatment costs $10,000 to $15,000 per patient. Four persons now Are receiving it. They go about their Normal lives with tubes stuck in their arms. Once or twice a week de pending upon need they come to the Spital and the tube is connected to artificial kidney. The machine Fiteni  in the blood a function performed by the  of the patients John Myers 3t, ii Bremerton Waifu a father of three a Hidren. Puts in a full week As an Oil comp alg manager except for his Day at the  suffered temporary kidney for about 10 years and became critical ill last december. What would have happened if shebeen accepted for the Center. Says Myers i would have died last dec. 28." 4 children die in Fla. Blaze Mother saves 3 Jacksonv tub Fla. A four children perished As flames flashed through the second Story of their House Here. A fire depart ment official said it was the worst loss of life in a residential fire in Jacksonville s history dead Are Jimmy Durham 7gwendolyn Durham 6, Kenneth Durham 4, and Cheryl Durham 3 their Mother mrs. James Durham,29, threw two other children from the Balcony of the flaming House and then leaped to the ground with an infant in her arms. Firemen found the bodies sprawled on the floor of one of the three bedrooms. They said the children had suffocated. The Hus band a smok hotel fire took the lives of three elderly residents Here. Nine oth ers. Including three firemen suffered from smoke inhalation. Smoke and intense heat fillet cabbie to return change via mail Chicago i med. Tho Youns Ter was not fan Waits Walts and Waits Low Dlo it Muon sx1z, fam in the null Jor Book tifti0n Howad Tea pro the which tin latter was the entire five Story downtown a Condo hotel while rescuers saved some 4�i elderly guests. City officials said Many of the residents were pensioners in their 70s and 80s who had retired to the85-room hotel in this Northwestern Illinois Community of 22,000. The dead were Charles e. Doerr Frad Ulrich and Martha Schroeter firemen and. Hospital attendants said All appeared to be in their 70s. Smoke and flames witnesses said dense smoke an flames billowed from the second floor of the Brick Structure shortly after 1 am. Firemen said the fire was under control in a half hour. At least 25 of the elderly residents were carried Down two fire Escapee and a ladder by fire men policemen and passersby. Fire chief Albin Franz said the cause and damage were not deter mined. He said the Blaze apparently broke out in an unlocked second floor storeroom which contained old furniture and mattresses. Channel Dardanelles bosporus. Pretty blonde Hopes to swim pm by George Harrison new York a pretty,5-foot- blonde who thinks most americana Aren t physically fit leaves for Europe in a few weeks on a swimming expedition to to them All. Mary Margaret Revell a 24-year-old native of California who now lives in Detroit Hopes that by the end of the summer her name will have made swimming history. Between the 15th and 20th of this month miss Revell will leave for Spain where she will attempt to swim the 12-m he wide Strait of Gibraltar. She then will go to Turkey where she will try to swim the bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles. Later in the year she plans to swim the English Channel round trip. But before that she has scheduled a 75-mile swim that May take up to 36 hours from port Huron mich., to Detroit Mary Margaret who weighs int 135 pounds and measures 36 24-36, has been swimming since she was three years old. But her mry Margaret be veil Russ  Farl . Fishing boat Portland Maine up Lecaptain of fishing boat reported Here that a russian Drift net caused a temporary Lull in the cold War. Captain Robert Carlyle said his Small scalloped snoopy ran into the russian net during the firs week of april As it fished off George s Banks. The snoopy s propeller became fouled and the vessel drifted in a Tot s tears Lead to Happy ending Taylor to. Up Motorist Delbert Cory saw a Little girl weeping alongside a Highway Weston Here and stopped his car to Comfort her t then Cory saw an overturned car in which the girl s Mother mrs. Geraldine Hudson 21, and he year old son were trapped. The Auto had overturned out of sigh of the Highway and Elizabeth Hud son. 5, ran to the Road. Mrs. Hudson and her son were taken to a doctor for treatment of injuries. . Spanish paper purchased by rival new York up the transportation company of America inc owner of the Spanish language daily Al Diario has purchased la Prensa for an undisclosed sum. The company said the two Spanish language newspapers would continue to be published separately in new York history professor Dies Princeton . A Walter Phelps Hau 77, Dodge professor of american history emeritus at Rene ten University died after a Mart attack. He was a member of toe Princeton faculty since 1913, totally disabled condition unable Socall for Aid because its radio was inoperable Carlyle said. A Short time later a Large rus Sian trawler pulled alongside and offered to bring immediate assist Ance. A russian Ocean going Salvage boat appeared on the scene next and lowered a Bont containing equipment and 14 russian seamen including deep sea  russians bonded the snoopy and for More than five hour worked with the american seamen to free the snarled propeller. Nazi victims die in Canada crash Toronto a Cpd three person including a married couple who survived a nazi concentration Campiere killed in a Grade crossing train Accident Here. The victims were Joseph Wein Baum 46, his wife Guda 31, and their passenger Rachel ,30, a visitor from Israel. Police said Weinbaum failed to notice warning signals at the Cross ing and the car went into the path of the train. The went booms came to Canad Aat the end of the War from Ger Many. During the War they herein Auschwitz Carlyle said his Crew agreed the russians we re among the finest men they had Ever met and the Cook served them a meal As a gesture of  snoopy is owned by officials of the Willard Draggett fish  Portland and is based Here. Town has 1st car death in 61 years sevierv1lle, Tenn. A this East Tennessee town of 2,890 has recorded its first traffic fatal Ity since incorporating More than 61 years ago. The victim was i j. Jobie Parrott 65, who died in a Hospital after being struck by a  far As townsfolk know there s never been a Fata Street Accident even before incorporation in 1901, including the horse and buggy Era. Mayor s jump opens City s sesquicentennial Norristown. A up mayor Merritt Bosier parachuted and landed in nearby Valley forge Park to kick off Norris town s 150tb anniversary Celebration. The 43-year-old mayor who had never jumped before called it the thrill of a  Long distance swims have Only in the past four years Revell has made two Long swims already this year but were not too successful. In january she attempted  swim in Lake Mead but had to give up when temperatures and Snow her face and neck Muscles. Three weeks a of she completed of the 28 Miles around Beach Fla. When she was to quit because of an . A despite those recent Mary Margaret is confident will be successful this summer i just know i m going t o to lit 1 she said in an interview lit a Niyork. Fuith is what really glues me my  a Follower of st. Jude mid Revelt said i know i be schedule a lot and it really frightens maj sometimes but i have so  but Mary Margaret also i some Strong for stings on . She does t think leans Are taking care of and plans to fio All so cab to convince them to change the Titi had habits. A i feel very strongly about Inch she said. With All this to it glib Jon about physical fitness in to i country there is still not Noog being done.". A nonsmoker who fats mostly fish and keeps to n Rigi i diet mls Revell spends most it her ten Rejust keeping in share. She Safet she tries to nver nge tour hours 1ftthe water a Day or about 25 Houn a week. So does t go  a crash pro Gram to prepare for each Lon distance swim instead tries Tatj keep prepared All the  said that before a we Irwim she tries to put on a few  because she will lose a tween 5 and .10 pounds in to water. While in the water during Long distance swim she eats Only ten and Honey. When she returns to the unit be is Tea next october after her afro tempt to Cros the Channel mail Margaret ski she will devote her time to. Trying to americans that they must physically fat actor s Kin on probation r Santa Monica Calif up a actor Robert Taylor s site Padus Ter Manuel Thriesa 18, was Putti on one year probation on a  of appearing on a pub tit Street while under the influx in of drugs. Calif. Servicemen s wives fight eviction Oceanside Calls up group of servicemen s wives Are looking for Federal and state Aid i their fight against eviction from a subdivision. The women fired off telegrams to president Kennedy and gov. Edmund g. Brown protesting Evic Tion notices served on them by representatives of c1 a r e n q e e. Morris inc., owners of Lynwood knolls subdivision. Company officials said 26 families were served with notices and All of the 125 families in the Are would be asked to Purchase their Homes or move. About 95 per cent of the houses Are occupied by service personnel from Camp Pendleton Marine base. Tract manager Fred Stone said the tenants had been renting Ona month to month basis and the Homes were built to be a Jehu mrs q. L. Rasmussen a Man for the tenants said moved into the subdivision a verbal agreement they not be forced to move As they paid their rent on  said the tenants made capital improvement landscaped the property. We have no place to go Telegram to president read in part