European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 7 Hope overwhelmed by Hope Complex fort Walton Beach Fla. A Bob Hope alternately cracked jokes and expressed his gratitude As an apartment com plex named after him was dedicated As a Home for air Force widows. I kept saying to myself no Man could be this great Hope said of tributes delivered by air Force brass at the ceremonies which included a flyover by air Force jets. But they finally convinced on the serious Side Hope told some 400 invitation Only guests. I can t Tell you what it s meant to me personally to receive this kind of tribute. Its Well it s too much for California Newborn gets new heart in transplant wine coolers first Choice among teen age drinkers new York a wine coolers appear to be the most popular alcoholic beverage among american teen agers which is not Good news to researchers who study alcohol and drug abuse according to a report issued Friday. Eighty percent of Sevmh-to-l2ih-Gradcrs surveyed by the weekly Reader reported thai their friends drink wine coolers diluted often carbonated wines and nearly half of the six Lii graders surveyed said there was peer pressure to try them according to the metropolitan life insurance co s fall statistical bulletin. Even More troubling for the Public s Long term health is that the pro portion of elementary school children who believe that the daily use of alcohol or wine cooler by heir contemporaries could cause great harm decreased with Earth succeeding Grade the report said. Loma Linda Calif. A an infant boy with a fatal heart defect underwent a heart transplant Friday just hours after his delivery by cacti Iran Section the first Lime such a procedure was performed on a Newborn. Tiny Paul Hole who a doctor said would probably not have lived even one Day without the transplant was listed in critical but stable condition after the 4w-hour operation said Cherie Mathis heart transplant coordinator at Loma Linda University medical Center. The surgery on the infant was conducted by the medical team led by or. Leonard Bailey whose pioneering infant transplants include the transplant of a Baboon heart into a 12-Day-old girl in 1984. Mother and father were Able to Sec baby Paul immediately following the transplant said Mathis referring to Alice and Gordon Hole of Surrey British Columbia a suburb of Vancouver. We Are very encouraged by baby Paul s cur rent status but we Are watching him very closely she said. Bailey appearing relaxed and confident after the operation loft reporters we have i think both Mother and baby in Good he said it was unlikely that the child would have survived a full Day without the operation. With the Aid of drugs to suppress the body s natural response 10 foreign tissue he said the boy has a Chance to Lead a full natural life. The baby will be on a Respirator fur at least two Days Malhis said. The danger of rejection of the new Walnut sized heart usually happen in the first two weeks following surgery she said. The 6-Pound, 6v-ounce red haired boy was delivered by cacs Arcan Section at 10 54 . Said Dick Schaefer. Chief spokesman for Lom i Linda University medical Center it s Ilic first Lime it s been done and it s Ait to say there was some electricity in the said or. Elmar Sakala who performed the c a Sarean on mrs. Hole 35. By Midal croon on Lima officials began playing videotapes of the surgery thai showed doctors and equipment crowded around in operating Able As Ine procedure began. There were 100 people on the operating team with 15 to 20 doctors and nurses in the operating room. Doctors chilled the Newborn during surgery slowing body functions in an artificial condition similar to hypothermia with the baby and Donna heart brought Down to 64 degrees fahrenheit. By decreasing the metabolic rate he baby usually docs belter Mathis said. Once the Hean was transplanted and incisions closed the baby was warmed and the heart began beating. As his temperature reached 66 degrees the heart began speeding up gradually until nor Mal body temperature was reached. The donor Hean came from a Canadian child who was born without a brain on oct. I1, mistaken identity Donald o. Cram 38, a carpet cleaner in allude Calif., mistakenly Roi word wednesday that tit bad won the Nobel Pri for chemistry. Cram who he a chemistry degree from the University of Southern California was no lined instead of the real Winner Urcla professor Donald . German twins recovering from unknown infection Baltimore a doctors treat ing Benjamin and Patrick Binder said Friday their fevers arc subsiding but they still Don l know what caused the separated siamese twins to suffer a Sharp increase in temperature. Lisa Hillman spokeswoman for Johns Hopkins Hospital said he twins temperatures were Down to 10 degrees which doctors consider a Low Grade fever. The fever subsided slightly. They re Back on track she said. The a month old boys appear to be suffering from an unknown infection that rapidly raised their temperatures into the Low 100s wednesday night Hill Man said the change prompted doctors to consider delaying plans to remove the infants from ventilators assisting i hair breathing. However Hillman said the procedure will go Forward although she did not know when. There s probably some kind of an infection but the doctors Arn no Overly concerned she said. The twins will continue to be treated with antibiotics she said. The twins breathed on i hair own after the 22-hour operation that ended sept. 6 but a partial lung collapse less than two Days later prompted doctors to put the infant stack on respirators parents ask burglar to return stolen videotapes of child new Milford Conn. A the parents of a 3-year-old cancer patient say the burglars who robbed their House can keep the stolen jewelry and cameras they just want the videotapes chronicling their son s life. The pc scr family resumed to i hair Home monday after a weekend trip and Susan Keyser noticed that her jewelry Box had been emptied and a handgun taken along with her husband Mark s video Cam Era Case and tapes of their son Kelly. Kelly underwent radiation treatments for five weeks after a malignant Luxor was discovered in the muscle behind his eyelid. Early signs show that the cancerous cells arc in remission mrs. Pc scr said but doctors won t know whether Kelly s eyesight wit be affected by the radiation for another two Yean. I just want the laps Back. I Don t care about the diamonds mrs. Keyser said. If something Ever happened to him we would t have anything to re member him military court says aids test admissible evidence fort Hua Chuca. Arii. A prosecutors May use a blood lest As evidence against a Soldier fac ing assault charges for allegedly haying sex with three other soldiers alter learning he carried the aids virus. A military appeals court ruled Friday. The ruling by the . Court of Iii lady review Over turned a decision by col. Raymond d. Cole an army judge who said in August that the prosecution could not use the blood test results against pfc. Adrian g. Moms or. Morris 27, of Caseyville 111., is accused of having so with one male and two female soldiers without telling them that he had tested positive for the virus thai causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Morris is changed with three counts of aggravated assault three count of bringing discredit upon the army and one count of sodomy. Cole s ruling had come on a motion filed by attorneys for moms who contended thai a february 1986 policy barred results of mandatory blood screening from Bein used in any military judicial proceeding. However the appeals court based in Falls Church va., said the army policy against using blood test re sults applied to misconduct that occurred prior to the test. In Morris Case the alleged misconduct occurred after he was informed of his condition the court ruled. Attorneys for Bath sides had said that whatever Cole ruled an Appeal was Likely. Results of the blood test on Morris arc expected to be the prosecution s principal evidence against him. Cole had recessed the court martial proceedings Pend ing the appellate court s ruling. Officials at fort Huanchu Ca said Friday that no Date Hod been set for inc proceed Ings to be reconvened
