European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes it a America helped him live Johannes Panse left with his family. Since his return from Mayo clinic he cart More than compete with his twin now he runs faster than grandpa by James Gunter is Munich Bureau chief like the legendary Amalia 6-year-old Johannes Panse found the crippling faults of his thin body Sud Denly healed. Now he can dance jump and run for the first time. Since american doctors closed the holes in his heart the Days of Johannes Are filled with joyous movement. Replays Long and hard with his twin brother Martin and is beginning to find his Muscles. Master sgt. Horst Panse who is As signed to a German ground air missile unit took the boy Johannes and his wife Ute to the . Last March from their Home in Freising Germany. On Johannes name Day the anniversary of his christening on March 12, a staff of seven doctors and 15 nurses at the Mayo clinic in Rochester minn., painstakingly corrected the defects which had wasted is now entirely Well again said the father who saved Money from the time the twins were born in order to have the operation lifted his shirt to show the Long scar which bisects his Chest. He laughed his Brown eyes sparkling with Good humor. Before his heart was fix edit had been too painful to laugh. He can run up the stairs faster than his grandpa said the Rev. Ernst Winderlich a lutheran minister at Church in of Teu Soos near Nuernberg. Winderlich the boy s grand father said he has prayed constantly that Johannes would set Well. The lutheran Community in Otte Soos raised $4,000 to help pay for the operation and the trip to America. Readers of the stars and stripes also helped. After a Story appeared Tell ing the plans for the heart operation Anonymous donors sent Money and words of encouragement to american schoolteacher in the Netherlands wrote to her parents i Rochester minn., and told them about Johannes. The parents Visi Iod him twice while he was in the Hospital. Winderlich passes out Bookmarks to those who contributed to the Success Story. Each bears a photo of the boy talking into a Telephone receiver. Under Neath Are the words i am entirely Well and thank All who have helped me. Thanks be to god for he is Friendly and his mercy lasts the child was Given no Chanceford survival by a German doctor after he was born Jan. 22, 1962. German specialists continued to say that Johan nes was too Young for the operation. The boy meantime was so weak that he could Only play by lying on the floor with his head propped in on hand. Wunderl Icli Learned of a lutheran minister named Fritz Anke in Weslau near Coburg who had sent several Ger Man children to the Mayo clinic in America for difficult operations. Rewrote to Anke and soon arrangements had been made for Johannes to get his operation. Johannes was the ninth child tha Tanke has sent to Mayo Wunderlich said. He is known in Germany As the Mayo the parents of Johannes lived at the Miller House across the Street from the clinic while their boy was a patient they spent As much time with him As was allowed. During the five Andone half hour operation two lutheran ministers stood by them and comforted them the Rev. E. A. Hanff of waver by Iowa and the Rev. Norbert Augustof our Savior Church in Rochester. On March 18, Johannes was release from the intensive care Ward of the Hospital and practice walking normally for the first time. Six Days later he was Able to leave the Hospital Andon March 30 he flew Home. He eats three times As much a before and he Doos not have to rest his father said. We made a lot of friends in Rochester and we cannot find enough Praise for the physician Sand nurses who gave our son a healthy the parents kept a diary of the trip and typed a copy which they sent to Anke with thanks for his thanks to the United states said Wunderlich. Is photos by Wayne Dixon twins share a Trike and a laugh. Before operation Johannes was c
