European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 12,19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 lacked neck leads to crack Drill team Kyle. Green Ulen bar Iii crack a sound thais feels fear. Crack. A word that signets the precision of an award winning marching unit. Spec. 4 Johnny let kindle. Mcshal Supply specialist at Lan Stuhl army regional Mcmurl Center overcame a broken neck and formed a Crit Drill learn at the Hospital. I heard everything when it snapped kind said. What kindle heard was "200 and something pounds come crushing Down on i m during a game of rag football and the sound of a c-4 and c-5 Frac Ture. In English a broken neck he said craning his head slightly Forward. What he feared was never being Able to walk again or worse. When it happened t was so scared i just started feet ing around to Sec if everything was still working kindle said. It was like everything flashed before me. Or. Maj Erik m. Gregory a neurosurgeon at Lati Stuht who treated kindle said any broken neck is serious. Any broken neck is potentially  broken necks Are like snakebites Gregory said. Sometimes a person can get bit and die As a  a person can gel bit and just have a Little pain the doctor said. But Tell Hal to the person who get bit. Doctors Al lands Uhl saw no evidence of a break inthe initial a rays. Kindle was still sure of his own diag no Sis but pleaded with the doctor to Lei him go Home. I said Well if you can t find anything am telling you it s broken Well let me go Home j the doctors Al lands Uhl did just Hal. I walked around for the whole cd pad. I came Back that monday and he doctoral recall looked Althe a rays they had done Over be weekend so he made me have full cat Scarol Ord when they did the full cat scans that so fir they found  the fact that kindled ass still Able to walk is no indication of the serum Wessof the break. The  broken neck is kind of relative Gregory said. Ufos walk along a ledge blindfolded an Don t fall  to danger have you come the do Andrs put kindle in a neck Brace and allowed him town did to work on strictly limited duty. We tit would heal itself but it did to Gregory said thai s Why we decided logo ahead with the  almost two months after the Accident. Kindle underwent More than four hours of surgery Al the uni varsity of Homburg Hospital. What they did was take out one of my discs put a Bone graft in and then they had to put a plate Over  plate thai he will carry the rest of his life. Bis photo by Daryl Ori spec. 4 Johnny Lee kindle while kindle was under going a Ili lation at lands Uhl his recovery Roji jew a thrown curve. His convalescent Leal As terminated and he was discharged  to allow him Togo on emergency in Jammer his Mother s death. This left kind Trio carry out his rehabilitation pretty much oar own with the help of his wife Deborah Awn Friend sgt. Jacqueline Mcnair an assistant hic at services account  at lands Tyjer if Roladn l been for them i probably would have jul edit he said. There were limes when i Justn led to say Well hey forget it. I Don t care John is stubborn Mcnair said. Even Hough the doctor says John you re supposed 10 do this and you re supposed to do that John is from the old school where a Man is supposed to be a Man Al All times. Negating the fact that they re Hurt or not  but the two women were aware Hal this show of false bravado was just an act. I knew he was scared and Deb knew he was scared but he did t want the world to know he was scared Mcnair said. What the world and the lands Uhl Hospital Community in particular came to know is that kindle is not a Man to be kept  i was t working and i was t playing softball i had nothing to do kindle said. So he got the idea to Start a unit Drill  were just sitting on the Steps one Day and in was something that had been in the Back of my min for a while. And in just came up that Day and a lot of Ople said Well hey you know that s something Gil want to do h will keep us out of trouble and Teit will nut us on the  Der kindle s direction and encouragement 12 Mem Tofte Lan Stuhl military Community practice  a Day to prepare for heir first meet. Their first corp Chilion just four weeks after the team was former was july 4. And they took firs place in both even twill and cadence. Lands Uhl was online map and kindle had changed the sound Folte crack in Hia neck to the distinction of the  his Drill team. The night before Thetta petition everything went through my mind  the time thai i broke Myck i thought thai was the worst thing thai could Happenie Juman being. And then to Sec where i m Al now it we darn goo improvement. I just had to say a  soviets far behind in Medicine . Doctor says Beloit wis a the soviet Union has spent so much Money on space and nuclear technology that it re Mains in the i9lh Century in medical developments a doctor who toured the country says. A country Wilh 21st-Century technology is in the 19th Century medically or. Rafael Saladar said after cur neg from a two week Lour of the soviet Union. But it s not because of the  s because of their priorities he said. They put More emphasis on defens and  Saladar a family practitioner was one of 3d . Physicians invited to tour the country visit health clinics and speak to soviet physicians under an Exchange program established As part of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s glasnost policy or openness on selected topics. Saladar said the . Doctors saw what the soviets wanted to have seen on the Exchange. He Gorbachev opened the door for Trade and tourists but it is not totally open he said adding that soviet Crit ical care centers were off limits to the tour group the soviet medical practices include curious conglomeration of antiquated Western medical techniques and Acu puncture he said. They Are still behind in the practice of Medicine. They Don t have disposable Needles or gloves. They arc sterilized and used again. Their a Ray machines a every old Saladar said. However the soviet Union also i considered to be at the forefront in some Fields including ocular microsurgery done on an Assembly line basis under Moscow or. Alexander cd crop. Some americans arc being sent to him for care. In addition soviets twice have won the Nobel prize for Medicine. Saladar said a nurse travelling with the group got to see a critical care facility when she came Down Wilh a severe Cas of the flu. She said the facility was Over crowded and the equipment was out dated. Saladar said the primary advantage of the soviet health care system is that Al medical services Are free. However com plex medical procedures such As Organ transplants and vascular surgery arc not offered and the level of care often is quite uneven. The soviet health Tare system is run by a Mammoth bureaucracy and horror stories Are legion. Some medicines arc rare hospitals Are often squalid official callousness is ritually denounced in the soviet press and some physicians accept bribes to operate on or care for patients who have special problems. Museum of be built honouring jews of Rural South Jackson miss. A ground was broken sat urday for a museum honouring Judaism s pioneers in the Rural South and supporters Hope it will serve As a unifying Monument for the scattered jewish congregations vanishing from the Region. Among the items being collected for the museum of the Southern jewish experience is a 20-foot-High Ark of the covenant used by jews who helped rebuild Vicksburg after the civil War officials said. The main Story the permanent exhibit will really Tell it the Story of jewish Settle men in the South said museum consultant Vickie relies Fox of los Angeles a Hattiesburg native helping to get the project off the ground. It will highlight some individuals. In will give the economic reasons Why they came Here. It will talk about immigration and it will talk Aboul How the jews not Only kept to themselves bul How they really Inte grated into the Community and were instrumental in the Rise of the South she said. There Are some prominent jews whose history is relatively Well known like Judah p. Benjamin Secre tary of the Treasury for the Confederate Stales Adjudah Touro a 19th-Century new Orleans philanthropist. But museum supporters say much historical re search has yet to be done to ferret out stories of jewish religious and secular leaders in the Rural South. Fox said Many descendants of the jews who wan dered into the deep South years ago Are now leaving their Rural communities for Urban areas and Many old synagogues have closed in the past few decades. Macy b. Hart director of the Henry s. Jacobs Camp a four state association of Reform jews said 28 of the 42 jewish congregations in the Region have less than 100 families and 23 have no permanent rabbi. Some jews intermarried and their families lost their jewish identification Han said. For example one family handed Down a menorah from generation to generation although they d never burned candles at hanukkah. This is Southern history Fox said. Some of the stories arc in the minds and in the hearts of non jews who arc grandchildren and great grandchildren of prominent  museum officials say they intend to keep Itie Rural Southern jewish heritage from vanishing with the exo dus to Urban areas. Ironically some of the artefacts that will go into the museum have come from defunct synagogues like an bios Reed Organ officials said. The Shell of the 8,000-Square-foot museum building in nearby Ulica is scheduled to be completed in june 1988, and is being funded by a recent $500,000 Gram from the plough foundation established by a wealthy Memphis tenn., jewish family