European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 6 the stars and stripes monday october 2, 1967 where there s smoke there s an old flame by Dick West Washington up i am standing Here in Awe of or. Donald Frederickson. Director of the new York health department s smoking control program. For it was or. Frederickso who finally recognized that some of the deepest love affairs Are Between smokers and their he said that when a person who has stopped smoking is offered a cigarette it s like meeting an old Lover. One of two things can happen. Either there is no feeling left or there is a spark that gets fanned audit May burst into a so now it appears medical science is at least catching up with the poets who have Lon been aware that a woman is Only a woman but a Good cigars a heretofore health authorities have based antismoking pro Grams on the supposition that cigarettes were Only a habit. No wonder the programs did Twork. It was Back in the 1930s that first became attracted to cigarettes. Those were the depression years and most of the smokers in my Home Tow were courting 5-cent sacks of cigarette tobacco. That was Allie could afford. With me in the beginning twas merely an innocent Flirta Tion. I was t even going one Day someone introduced me to a of bul Durham. It was love at first sight. My parents naturally tried to break us up. You re just a kid my Mother said. You Don t know what love is All but even though they tried to Tell us we were too Young i knew deep Down that the Way Felt about Bull Durham was More than Puppy year after we met i went away to College. There i fell i with an affluent and sophisticated crowd who smoked tailor made cigarettes. The other Fellows made fun of my beloved Bull Durham. I acted the cad. I la admit that now. But the harsh fact is that i became ashamed of bul Durham. We began seeing less and less of each , i started running around with a the ensuing years i had a number of affairs with cigarettes but nothing serious overdeveloped. Eventually i married a girl and i never touch the now. My wife is extremely . Frederickson has made me realize that in my secret heart of hearts i am still carrying the Torch for bul Durham. But we live in different worlds. I would be silly romantic fool to think we could Ever get Back together again. For the Sake of my family however i Hope nobody Ever dangles a Bull Durham before me. I could t Trust myself. Right Landing Marine Lance Cpl. Michael l. Harvold Fduvall wash., is greeted by his wife Crish on his arrival in Honolulu on a rest and recreational leave from Vietnam. This Happy scene could have occurred last August but a mistake sent Harvold 21, to Formosa instead of Hawaii. This second leave was ordered. Associated press photo Romney ends slum tour urges . Change course Pittsburgh a Romney ended a 19 Day tour of the nation s slums Satur Day and said he was More con Vinced than Ever that unless we reverse course and build a new America the old americ Awill be from his experience in the Detroit rioting and from listen ing to the voice of revolt . Ghettos Romney said he concluded that this summer rioters had the tacit support of the bulk of the negro destruction of old America he said in an interview might come through open rebellion with bullets Cannon and All the violent Means , he added it might come from the dry rot of the majority s indifference of the Aspi rations of the minorities. Either we shall join hands hearts and minds. Or we shall find ourselves torn asunder Romney said. The Michigan governor a undeclared candidate for the Republican presidential Nomina Tion concluded a 10,000-mile coast to coast inspection of the nation s Urban problems Satur Day in the slum trip under his Belt Romney plans to visit Europe in november and Southeast Asia late in december brain washed throw in Towel As the governor arrived atthe Alcoa building for a Brief ing on housing he found 10 pick ets who identified themselves As being Young americans for Freedom. One of the picket signs said now that your brain has been washed Why not throw in the a statement the pickets jumped on Romney s statement that his original support for the american involvement in Viet Nam was due to a brain Wash ing he received by .. Gener als and diplomats during a visit to the War zone in 1965.the statement urged that Romney withdraw from an consideration for the gop presidential nomination and let your party select some Candi Date who can understand the Dif Ference Between Good information and bad in something Les than two liver transplants save 3 Little girls Denver a three right eyed Little girls Are alive and doing Well at the University of Colorado medical Center thanks to the first enduring human liver transplants in medi Cal history. Julie 21 months underwent her transplant july 23, about 2% months ago. Paul who is 23months old received a new liver on july 3.1. Kerri the baby of the group at 13 months had her transplant sept. 5. Surgeons who performed the operations say the transplanted livers Are functioning Well an the girls enjoy relatively Good health. Signs of jaundice and undernourishment two usual results of a failing liver have vanished. The longer Range prognosis is unknown doctor said. Success a spokesman said was reached by no easy for Mula. Many investigator worked in a step by step pro liver transplant is not a perfected instrument for treat ment he said but we can be very optimistic based on these three cases. They have been successful to Date and the future appears at present a liver transplants considered Only in cases that otherwise Are of the three Little girls for example suffered from con genital absence of the external bile drainage system from the liver to the intestines. The ail ment is considered fatal. The third had a liver which was be ing destroyed by , the spokesman said persons with irreversible cirrhosis of the liver might be candidates. Assuming there we Reno other complications that would preclude the were thousands of Ani Mal liver transplants perform Din laboratories around the world including hundreds in Denver during the past four years be fore the operation was attempted on Man the spokesman said. Four dogs Are still living inthe Denver lab nearly four years after they received transplanted livers. Ten human liver transplant were performed in Denver prior to the operations involving the three Little girls. The longest survival was 34 Learned in these initial transplants in addition to Exten Sive research in parallel prob lems of kidney transplantation and the knowledge accumulated in years of study by scientist throughout the world enabled the Denver team to tackle two remaining stumbling blocks to were storage of the Don or Organ in a relatively undamaged state until it could be implanted and circumventing the body s natural tendency to reject the foreign Organ without killing the patient with excessive doses of immunosuppressive drugs. A considerable degree of Cess was attained in both cases. The Denver scientists devel oped a method of Short term liver preservation which pre vents irreversible damage prior to re implantation and an anti Lymphocyte globulin serum for use with smaller safer doses of drugs to Dampen the body s immune response to the new or Gan. All three living liver recipient received the serum alg Al though it had its first and mos extensive clinical trial in kidney transplant patients. Although Romney is reported ready to announce his candidacy next month possibly in a television report to the people on his trip the governor will Only say he will announce his intentions before the end of the year. So far Romney said his sup porters have been unable to buy a half an hour of prime television time in order to make his planned report to the people. Romney s tour took him to 13urban states and covered More than 10,000 Miles. It include visits to Washington Rochester n.y., new York City Indianapolis St. Louis Milwaukee min Neapolis san Francisco Losangeles Atlanta Florence s.c., Philadelphia Boston and Pitts Burgh. The Michigan governor insists the trip was As nonpolitical As you can make but although the tour took him to the big City trouble spots it also put him in the limelight in the states that will Send big delegations to the Republican nominating Conven Tion in Miami next August. Romney said he could t conceive of any More unbearable situation than trying to Cope with the problems of the cities unless you be made Clear the problems generally his aides and other Felt the. Trip has helped rather than Hurt Romney politically. He Shook scores of hands held babies Cut ribbons at negro stores gave san Francisco hip pies a lecture on Temperance and ate Watermelon with former Black Panther militants. Senate orders probe of War on poverty Washington up the Senate voted Friday to order an investigation by congressional auditors to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the Johnson administration s War on poverty. To g o
