European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes May key records reported missing in probe of Navy heart surgeon by the Cox news service Washington Navy investigators looking into the Case of the services former chief heart surgeon at both Coda naval Hospital Here have discovered that Sev eral key records Are missing from the files of some patients who died or shortly heart surgery at the prestigious in some the missing records detailed the Surgi Cal procedures used by Donal former chief of the cardio thoracic unit at Billig was removed from the Bethesda staff in March for an insufficient level of surgical the Board of entering its third week of a closed door investigation of the Billig is attempting to reconstruct the records through testimony by other attending physicians and according to several sources familiar with the it has not been determined whether the surgical reports were deliberately tampered with or were misplaced As a result of poor record according to the the composed of three Flag rank is looking into Why the Navy commissioned Billig in 1983 and made him the chief heart surgeon at Bethesda de spite knowledge that his competency had been questioned in civilian Billigs privileges had been sharply curtailed at a new Jersey Hospital and he voluntarily surrendered his medical License to state authorities there in 1981 prior to official disciplinary proceed records the Navy has declined to comment on the i Vestiga Billig has not been available for comment since the investigation into his practice Billigs 17month tenure As chief heart surgeon at Bethesda was marred by numerous surgical Complick he was temporarily suspended once in october 1983 and again in november following Sev eral surgical according to in december two months after the Navy had reinstated his privileges following the first Billig was the chief surgeon attending Alan Cranston underwent Chest surgery to determine the cause of a spot on his lung that had shown up during a ant Hunting activists fined England a a court fined 10 anti Hunt ing activists each for taking part in a protest in front of Queen Elizabeth ii at a horse show last the ranging in age from 17 to pleaded guilty to breach of peace when they appeared before Avon North magistrates court in the Northern eng land town of near routine according to Murray a spokes Man for the i resent having had the Cranston told the associated i doubly resent it if he was a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination at the said he did not feel the surgery had been warranted but that physicians at Bethesda pressed for the surgery indicated the spot was there were doctors at Bethesda involved in discussing the including said no one argued against there was this spot and it needed an finally there was nothing left to do but the Cranston certainly want aware at the time that Billig had already been suspended once by the Navy for questions surrounding his Flander this is the first weve heard of known As the Hospital of the Bethesda is the navys flagship medical Center and a chief source of care for Many members of Congress and government including president and reports in the form of notes on surgical procedure and treatment administered were found to be missing from an undetermined number of files on patients treated by according to several persons familiar with the Navy some of the missing paper work was noted when the Navy conducted an investigation in March that led to Billigs permanent since the March invest additional discrepancies in patient paper work have been noted by naval investigative service according to the still on duty but assigned to a position outside the has appealed his the Case is being reviewed by rear William commander of the naval medical who will also review the Board of investigations findings on Billigs Entrance into the in addition to written and verbal warnings to the Navy by physicians and Hospital administrators at Mon Mouth general Hospital in Long where Billig practice from 1976 to Navy medical authorities also received repeated warnings from staff physicians at according to medical in the service received at least four critical evaluations of Billigs performance by physicians familiar with his surgical the sources the service finally suspended Billig for the second time in november 1984 following a four week stretch during which his surgical death rate exceeded 25 per according to the our chief heart surgeon would get in Over his and once he got he didst have the skill or the Good Luck to get that was the said one Bethesda distributed by the times Reagan pushes sub minimum wage to give teens jobs Washington up president blaming rampant teenage unemployment on Well intentioned policies gone urged Congress on monday to pass his proposal for a sub minimum wage to encourage the hiring of Young looking to private Industry to extend the fruits of economic expansion to especially the Reagan told a gathering of business leaders that the recovery of the last two years has yet to reach Many disadvantaged Reagan the very Young peo ple who will find it hardest to get work will be the ones who need jobs the to a summer Job Means a Chance to escape poverty and disadvantage a Chance to get the work experience that will enable them to climb the economic turning his attention to a segment of the Popula Tion that has been overlooked in an economic up swing which he has termed the great american Reagan promoted summer jobs for Young people during a Rose Garden contending that his administration has offered tools to curb High teenage including million this year for Job Reagan re called the first Job he obtained at the age of 14 in House construction and said such jobs might have been impossible for me to get if certain Laws in place today had been in effect Back maybe in our Effort to do maybe we Haven been As successful As we thought we were when we passed some of those the 74year old president under the current minimum wage for Many Young people have been priced out of the labor in the last two Congress has rejected Rea Gans appeals to improve the employment Outlook in the nations Urban areas by creating Enterprise zones to Spur economic and by establishing a sub minimum wage for at the same the president has been criticized for opposing Federal jobs programs in his most recent attack on billion plus budget advocating abolition of the Job in As the nations unemployment rate remained steady at joblessness among Whites Between the Ages of 16 and 19 was at percent and at a whopping 39 percent for Blacks in the same age in Reagan renewed his Appeal for con Gress to encourage summer hiring of teenagers by passing legislation to permit employers to pay them an instead of the minimum wage of an soup company responds of complaints a the pupils in Nancy Hin Richs fourth Grade class at Huntington school were angry when they saw a Calendar that showed the Campbell soup kids making a derogatory reference to american As a writing the 26 pupils in the class wrote letters to the company objecting to the use of the term honest injun in the Campbell kids 1985 Salute to America Cal to their each received a personal apology from the company Public relations the which Hinrichs had ordered for use in the features a different Section of the country each month and a poem about Campbells Hinrichs said the class had been discussing the importance of Equality in the treatment of All groups of people when she turned to the Page for february and what do you think about this verse the picture showed the re cheeked Campbell kids standing in front of mount with this poem honest injun soup is in lots of famous its even sure to bring a smile to mount Rushmore Stony the pupils replied that the verse didst sound Hinrichs they talked about How the word injun is and just like a swear word against a total she every Pupil received a personal reply from James Public relations manager for the company in Cam Moran wrote something different to each for to Danny Williams he wrote you Are absolutely we have used the words Hon est and youre right also in saying that we dont deserve to sell that much soup if we use terms like to Sean Moran responded what can i say we were very wrong to use that phrase about the person who wrote it just thought he was being he didst realize that he might be insulting a proud segment of our in one Moran noted that indians Are employed in Campbells offices and including three plants in he assured the Holmes pupils that it happen Hinrichs said writing letters to real people is a frequent assignment in her but she said that pupils have never before received such an overwhelming we talked about Why a big business would be More Likely to respond to complaints Tike she adding that it led to a discussion of consumer economics As Well As boy killed As human Wall collapses Dallas a a 13yearold boy was killed and seven other boys were injured when a human Wall about 30 boy scouts collapsed at a officials said Kenneth Krawczyk of piano died sat urday night at Camp located South of scout leaders said they have baited fur ther performance of the stunt pending an the scouts were attempting to recreate a 1934 National boy scout Jamboree stunt in which scouts stood Between pairs of lad holding on to rungs of each ladder with their three one atop the other but not were Between each pair of 20foot in there were nine groups of three scouts arranged on 10 with other scouts on the ground holding the ladders the ladders were also anchored by officials said the scouts had performed the stunt several times and there was no reason to think it would be but they said that As the boys began climbing the Wall leaned sideways and fell to the crushing Krawczyk Between two pressure on the boys Chest resulted in a lacerated main artery to the Accord ing to the Dallas county medical examiner s investigations will be conducted by both the health and safety division of the boy scouts of America and by an investigative team appointed by the scouts Board of i
