European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. March 12, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 2 los Angeles couples take Home wrong babies by he los Angeles times los Angeles two mothers were handed the wrong Newborn babies when they left he Mal Emily Ward of a West Las Angeles Hospital last month a spokeswoman for the medical facility said. We really Don t know How the mix up happened said Michelle sorry spokeswoman for the Kaiser permanent a Hospital. That s the question we arc All  sorry said blood tests confirmed that Roou i Kirks to and her husband. Tommy Milligan. 47, had been Given a baby born o another couple and inc second family took Home the baby Kirks had delivered. The Hospital refused to release the name of the second Connie. Each couple was reunited Friday with is biological baby. Snorey said the second couple was identified through a process of elimination using information on medical charts the Hospital s announcement ended Days of in certainly for Kirks who for three weeks had Nur tured he Newborn she thought was hers Only to find that he is not her son alter All. I thought it was my baby Kirks told the los Angeles times before learning of the results of the blood tests i was crazy about him i m just con  and Milligan began 1o suspect something was wrong when the baby they called Nicholas seemed smaller than the one Kirks had delivered. And Nicholas did not seem to resemble the photo graphs that had been taken in the delivery room. Kirks then re examined the identification Bracelet that the baby had worn in the Hospital and was shocked to Sec a strange name said Shelly Shellmire a spokeswoman for the family s attorney. The baby it turned out weighed less and was 3 inches Shorter than measurements and weights re corded on the birth certificate Shellmire Saint while it is not unusual Tor a baby to lose weight after birth it is very unlikely that it would shrink. The baby just looked smaller and smaller to her Shellmire said. A the photo the baby was plump no the Skinny thing she had there with her. She got hysterical. They were really upset and did t know what was going  Kirks and Milligan both of to Gatewood nine Miles Southwest of downtown los Angeles wrestled with their suspicions and fears for Days before returning the infant to the Hospital wednesday Kaiser permanence Hospital agreed to conduct blood tests to positively identify the parents of the baby and contacted the second couple who returned to the Hospital with their infant. The Hospital also used chromosome studies and Dan fingerprinting to con i Raith babies parentage. Kaiser said an internal investigation wits under  the Hospital was offering psychological counselling to both couples. It s a very traumatic  Sorey said. Three weeks someone has a Bahy and then to have to relinquish that baby and Start to car for one Tinl you Haven t seen before. That s very traumatic " Nagasaki Bombardier Dies at 70, wanted to be last to use a bomb Houston Kermit Mcahan who dropped the atomic bomb on naga Saki and said he wanted the distinction of being the last Man Ever to use the device on humans died after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 70. Mcahan died thursday a Day after he underwent pro Lale surgery in a Hospital in Nassau buy Texas near his Home in suburban Clear Lake. Mcahan was the Bombardier on the plane  an atomic bomb on Nagasaki j Apan on aug. 9, 1945, k Illing an estimated 70,000 people. A 1985, on the -10th anniversary of the bombing he said he would never apologize for the bombing adding that 25 japanese sought him out a few years Deo and told him the bombing was the Best Way out of a hell of a  out lie said he honed to be the last Man Ever to drop such a bomb on people. Mcahan recalled the Nagasaki bomb ing in a interview with the Houston chronicle. I saw a mushroom Cloud bubbling and flashing Orange red and  Bra Lian said it looked like a picture of hell. The ground itself was covered by a Roll Hermit Benchun ing Black smoke i was told the area would be destroyed but 1 did t know the meaning of an atomic  Mcahan retired from the air Force As a lieutenant colonel in 1963 and worked for Brown & Root inc. As a technical writer until he retired in 1985. A native of Joplin mo., Mcahan at tended Houston s Rice Institute now Rice University on a football scholarship and had hoped to be a professional football player until world War 11 came along. He joined the army air corps and became a Bombardier after washing out As a Pilot candidate. He took part in 40 missions Over Europe including the first b-17 raids. His b 17 unit was commanded by col Paul w. Tibbits who later assembled the team that dropped the to atom bombs on Japan. In addition to dropping the second atomic bomb Mcahan flew in a plane that escorted inc Enola Gay Tibbits plane which dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima on aug. 6, 1945. Beahan leaves his wife Teresa a daughter and two sons. Funeral arrangements were pending. Apple inc usury buys ads to give healthy advice yak1ma, Wash a the Apple Industry struck Back against critics of farm chemicals by buying full Page advertisements in Friday s editions of four of the nation s largest newspapers. The ads run  headline Why an Apple a Days still healthy advice appeared in the new York times the Washington Post the los Angeles times and us today Purl Durrof the inter National Apple Institute said. They also appeared Friday in the Yakima Herald Republic and the we Natchke world two news Pancis in the. Central Washington Apple Bell which produces half the nation s supermarket apples. The Apple Institute is hoping to Blunt Public fears raised by a natural re sources defense Council report thai said eating apples treated with the chemical alar increased the cancer risk in Chil Dren. Actress meryl slice a has been a Leader in publicizing the report the Institute s and contends that alar is used sparingly on a very Small portion of the nation s Apple crop and that to approach the exposure Levels needed to produce ill effects a person would have to eat 28,000 pounds of alar Trca cd Apps every Day for 70 years Fri nabs fugitive after soviets refuse Asylum san Francisco apr a fugitive Indian wanted on 14 kidnapping charges in North Carolina has been arrested by the Fri after failing to persuade officials at the soviet consulate to Grant him political Asylum. The fugitive Eddie Hatcher was inside the Consul ate about Lorce hours Friday before the soviets asked him to leave said a Friend who had accompanied him there. At one Point Hatcher sent but a Handwritten statement claiming that Federal and North Carolina officials were trying to destroy him. Talc her. 31, and Timothy Jacobs 20, held As Many As 20 people hostage in the office of the Rob Simian newspaper in Lumb non n.c., in february 1