European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday september 29, 1985 humor Healing Tunny Bones at California Hospital from press dispatches there s nothing funny about being in the Hospital but  patients at foothill pc shaterian Hospital in i Landoni calif., Are Lauphine an a. Thanks to i 5 Mit Iule Ilmis of tape recorded cheer. The medic Salaff program   the Praise of . Doctors and nurses As Well As patients. The tapes arc the easiest a to provide laughter to  said Lynn Thompson Hospital director of Volunteer services who oversees the program. I think we should do anything we can to have a patient laugh because it Breaks up the anxiety and  patient Carlyle regale said the joke tape was new and different. I was surprised but found it was a Nice moment when i could relax and get a few chuckles he said. Then 1 thought things were not that bad after All. U gave me a refreshing lift and it was kind of  the program started in april has Cost less than Sion. Said Thompson. She said she got the idea when she heard writer Norman cousins make a presentation at a Hospital convention. Cousins believes thai laughter not Only helps but also heals. Cousins theory was recently challenged by or. Barrie Cassileth of the University of Pennsylvania cancer Center in the new England journal of medi Cine his study concluded there was no difference in survival rates or recurrence Rales Between Happy can cer patients and sad ones. We arc not saying laughter cures Thompson counters but we feel the Quality of life is  seven volunteers offer patients three 15-minute tapes including a Medley of old favourites featuring Ste Allen s More Tunny Konc Calls George burns1 the baby song and other cd cerps. The two other tapes were provided by personalities from  Angeles radio station of i and by humorist Turma Bombick. The jokes arc clean and wholesome avoiding controversial subjects. Tapes Aren t thrust upon unwilling patients because some patients arc Loo sick to respond Thompson said. She said the volunteers must determine which of the patients Are Likely to be willing participants. "1 look at the patient and his Altitude when t visit said Volunteer Honey Schrowder. Then i decide if that patient might want to listen to a tape. Some say they Don t want to be  the program has been so Well received tin i she Hopes to keep adding other tapes to Appeal to various comical tastes Thompson said. From riches Back of rags a Date port Iowa woman who went from rags to riches Afler winning $25,000 in inc Iowa lottery May find herself without a Good chunk of the Money after being ordered to repay $17,000 in fraudulent welfare claims. Scott county District court judge Linda Newman has attached the lottery winnings of Barbara Diane Whitfied. Of Davenport who pleaded guilty in May i9s3 to first degree fraudulent practice. Since november i9k3. She has repaid about 51.000 of si6.2i2 in fraudulent Aid and s733 in damages officials say. The department of human services lawsuit filed last week seeks some of while iced s lottery Jackpot claiming she failed to report some income and received overpayment of $16,212 in Aid to dependent children food Stamps and medical assistance from february 1980 to june i9h2. The suit says Whitfield refused a request from a Dos employee for repayment of the s16.000 still outstanding. That s All in the past that s All behind me she said. I Don t want that stuff dug up. 1 would rather leave it in the  a Friend in need. Oil magnate j. Paul Getty or. Lent Claus ton Bulow $1 million that he used for bail and to pay Legal costs of his retrial on charges of attempting to murder his wife according to a published report. The fact is that a Friend needed help and i was Able to give it. It s no heroic  Getty. 53 is quoted is saving in inc october Issue of vanity fair mag a inc.  disclosed his role in the in he publicised von Hurlow trials in an interview the Host he is known to have Given in years at a in Indin clinic where the mag a inc said he is recovering from several ailments blamed in Large part to years of heroin  one sign of Getty s recovery the map inc said is his recent philanthropy including a donation of $63 million to London s National gallery. Inc largest Char Itable gift on record. Getty s generosity to von Hurlow stems from a 25 year Friendship vanity fair said. Von Bulow was accused of giving his wife Martha sunny von Bulow insulin injections causing seizures and rendered her comatose in 1979 and 1980. She has remained in a coma since i9so and doctors say she is not expected to recover. Von Bulow was convicted in 19x2. 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