European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday june 28,1986 eleven year old Hue Csc in to May 11  in Honolulu after her essay on what he statue of Liberty my is to me won a statewide contest in Hawaii. Hue has been selected to read her essay on Liberty girls of National television during statue of Liberty Medica Tion ceremonies july 3 in new York. Hue and her family led Vietnam in 1979 to lire in a land where Here is Liberty and  Contact Lens wearers facing growing threat from infection Atlanta a government scientists say they Don t yes know Why but a potentially serious Eye infection is becoming a burgeoning problem for the nation s 23 million Contact tens wearers. The National centers for disease control said thursday 24 cases of an infection known As Amantha amoeba keratitis an amoeba caused inflammation of the Cornea the transparent outer covering of the Eye have been reported in the last nine months. Twenty of the cases occurred in Contact Lens wearers. In its weekly report the cd said More study is needed to determine the real risk of the infection and what part various types of Contact lenses and cleaning solutions might play. The cases reported thursday occurred among Wear ers of hard contacts daily Wear soft contacts and extended Wear contacts and among users of commercial Lens cleaning solutions commercial Saline solutions homemade Saline solutions and Plain Lap water. It needs to be studied or. Govinda vis Vevera of the cd said. This report is not to put fear in the minds of the Public. It s to increase the awareness of the medical  but researchers with the Atlanta based cd believe with some Confidence that wearing Contact lenses or using contaminated Lens cleaners May somehow in crease the risk of the infection. Out of the 24. 20 were wearing contacts. That s a very Strong association right there vis Vevera said. The organism is one of the most common amoebas found in water or soil and is presumably often inhaled infection which commonly causes severe Eye pain is resistant to most anti bacterial treatments 12 of the 24 patients had to have comeal transplants and two had the infected Eye removed. Since thursday s report was prepared several weeks ago another 18 cases have been reported several in Contact Lens wearers vis Vevera said. In 1986, we be seen a dramatic increase vises Vera said it s a burgeoning  Alanl amoeba Ker Alilis Ean be a difficult infection to diagnose. In All 24 cases reported thursday the patients we first diagnosed with a different problem most often Eye infections from herpes Simples virus since it is a fairly new entity it1 possible that it might be missed vis Vevera said. Probably there Are Many other cases out  stateside teen Ager survives jump where Grandfather died san Francisco a the Grandfather of a teen Ager who survived a 246-foot leap off the Golden Gale Bridge this week had committed suicide by jump ing from the Bridge in 1953, records show. Charles Hamilton Raven a prominent Auto dealer and Foreman of the 1952 san Francisco grand jury jumped to his death 3j years ago without apparent reason according to newspaper accounts at the l