European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 1, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 to principal activity of Only 12% in . Boston a the Couch Para to in t flourishing on . Soil. While Abdul 70 percent of american adults say they watch some television during the evening Only 12 percent said in is i hair principal activity according to a new Survey. We found thai most people Are not Lull simply Couch potatoes but do a num Ber of tuner things in Itier free time said Carol Hess a Warch consultant for Lexington based decision research corp., which conducted the poll. Mast adults reported Itic v Combine Sci vision with other activities such As cooking cleaning and crafts said Hess. The Survey a follow up to a previous Leisure Lime poll released last year asked 1.000 adults during october no vember and december to describe he they spent the previous evening from 5 . To i . After television Reading was the Sec Ond most popular activity particularly among older respondents with 22 per cent reporting Reading boots or magazines As pan of their evening. Men comprised the majority of the in percent who said they worked during the evening while the 9 percent reporting they shopped were mostly women. Twelve percent said . Spons or exercising going to a meet ing or having sex each were noted by 1 percent of the respondents. One per cent said hey vent to a movie. We had a lot of other responses from Kiliti Iii to spending the night in jail to skinning a Raccoon said licks. Only is percent rated their evening As great with satisfaction higher among older or married respondents or people with annual incomes above 550,000. The Survey was launched after Drc researchers last year found that Many respondents Felt their Leisure time was we thought this was curious considering All the labor saving equipment and that most people have a five Day work  said Hess. Drc research however indicate that people Ner Erive they have less Lei sure Lime because of the trend toward highly structured activities outside of work he said. When i ask you what your favorite Leisure activities Are you might say wiling or something like Hal she said. Vou arc not Likely la say to love going swimming at Lite health club five mornings a week although that is something you choose to do. It s not that people have less Leisure time in j hat people arc losing their discretionary time Lime thai is Tor themselves  computer program helps diagnose heart attacks Boston api a computer program thai helps doctors figure out which patients have suffered heart attacks could prevent about 175,000 intensive care admissions each year saving an estimated 185 million its developed say the program produced by doctors at Brigham and women s Hospital in Boston is intended to help Emer gency room physicians determine whether patients with Chest pain actually had heart attacks. In testing 4.770 patients at sin hospitals they found that the program could have reduced needless admissions to the coronary care units by nearly 12 percent. They cautioned however that the program should help doctors not take their place and should never override common  a report on the project directed by or. Lee Gold Man was published in the new England journal of Medicine. The program is the latest of a variety of efforts in tended to let doctors Lake advantage of computers when making complicated decisions about patient care. The researchers entered about 50 variables involving patient history physical examination results and Electrocardiogram findings into the computer. The computer program then used these variables to deter mine if patients actually had suffered a bean attack. The computer and the doctors were equally adept at spotting True heart attacks. Both missed 12 percent of them. However the computer was better at ruling out Hean attacks among people who had nol suffered them. The researchers noted however that sometimes doctors were belter than the computer at evaluating patients. Woman s fear put off surgery on giant tumor foot South Texas a a woman who feared to seek medical help Asa tumor swell a in her Abdomen eventually doubled her weigh i before having the no Pound malignant growth re moved her doctor said. Arlura Lound junes 55. Is almost completely recovered from the Decem Ber operation to remove the ovarian tumor said fort Worth surgeon or. . Way. "1 went to the doctor monday and my blood pressure is up a Little hut other Ihan that i m doing Fine said Jones who is 5-foot-1 i. In the three years proceeding her operation Jones said she at first though she was gaining weight then realized some thing was seriously wrong. Hut Jones said she delayed Slang a doctor because she feared she would suf Fer the mine Type of painful death 3$ her in Oiher who died of ovarian cancer in l�71. Her Malc mul Grandfather und an Uncle also died of cancer. She was forced to retire Early from her Job As a school District purchasing a genl Psi March. By july she was unable to drive a car or move about without tiring. In november she finally decided to seek medical attention and was referred to Way. Within two weeks the tumor was removed. Way said he had to Cut a 4 a fool Inci Sion in Jones Abdomen to remove the malignant tumor. He said most ovarian tutors Are detected when hey arc i i Ivi inches. There s nothing typical about this Way said. You can find a lot of tutors thai weigh 5 to 30 pounds and those Are humongous  the 1988 guinness Book of world records lists a 1905 Case of a 328-Pound ovarian cyst As the largest tumor in history. Oddly enough the woman in dial Case also was from Texas the reference Book says she recovered fully Way said the tumor was fixed to the Walls of Jones Abdomen and stretched her Stin almost paper thin. He said who made the surgery difficult was keeping the laut skin from breaking and the tumor from rupturing. If the surgery had not been done. Way said More tutors could have developed the Moor could have income so Large i would have caused respiratory problems. In could have ruptured and spread cancer Nihro Ghoul her body or it could have blocked her ability to digest food. Lie said Hal All of the cancerous growth was removed and although Jones must have regular checkups for a recur rence she is now in Good health. Jones said she would recommend that others who suspect they have cancer to Sec their physicians  real i a now How dangerous it can be and could have been for me she said. Going up in smoke the final 600- out Section Al the Ohio Riv Bridge linking mar Tiu Ohio and  a a i Tungat cd in smog and Teutu u in flatten a off exp Knolic charge. Coqui auction on t new Bridge to it put inc is Jar old spa ii scat Dulard to gel under win in the Mil. Food poisoning hospitalized 75 from a. School Leujay a. Apr food poisoning possibly from fresh Turkey fixed for lunch wednesday sent at least 75 Ellijay elementary school pupils to an Over flowing Hospital wednesday night. North Georgia medical censer administrator John Downs said 24 pupils mostly Kindergan Nurs through second graders and one teacher were admitted for treatment of stomach cramps and dehydration brought on by vomiting. Other pupils were being treated and sent  s not a serious thing ii just requires Monitor  he said. Most Are on intravenous feeding to replace the fluid they Losi. We re listing Ilai gastritis due to food  Downs said the 50-bcd Hospital already had about 40 patients when the schoolchildren started coming in wednesday afternoon. We be got them in the Chapel and various treat ment  he said. We Haven t had to use the hails Yel. But we have Beds available for Hal if we need  f More Pupil come in and arc admit cd he added Well probably hive to Send some to other  Gilmer county school superintendent j. Homer Hefner said the food poisoning apparently Hil two classes the hardest and also struck some children from a few other classes 3mhc c 19-Pupil school. Lunch wednesday Wai fresh Turkey and dressing Green beam and potatoes