European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. March 28, 19b9 the stars and stripes Page 7 kidney patient wins dramatic Raee transplant completed in time for Calif Man by the i Jos Angeles times Santa Ana Calif. In a dramatic rate against Lime a helicopter snatched an Anaheim Calif., kidney patient from a Remote desert campsite near the Arizona state line just before Dawn sunday and flow Jim Back w Santa Ana. Calif., 1o gel an Organ that matched his uncommon blood Type. /. Diaries ride Mcway a 47-year-old accounting manager for Rockwell International was recovering at West Ern medical censer in Santa Ana sunday evening Fol lowing 3 10-Minini transplant operation a Hospital spokesman said. ". Everything went just great said or. Garo Tartza Ician. Ridgway s surgeon after he emerged from the operating room. Ridgway s wife. Body Robin 25, and son Matt 23, clasped hands As Tertia Kian delivered the Good news his kidney is already showing Early signs of drama began saturday evening when the Hospi Tal s transp ant coordinator called Matt Ridgway to Ell him thai a suitable donor Organ for his father had been found Charles Ridgeway has Type a positive blood found in about 15 percent of Trie population and the Organ s donor Hod to have the same blood Type for the transplant to take place. Bui Ridgeway was 200 Miles away on a weekend camping trip near the town of Glamis be. Tween the Salton sea and the Colorado River. radio whose powerful signal reaches through out Southern California broadcast messages every 10minutes, hoping Ridgeway or someone party would hear. They got no Ranger from the Bureau of land management which oversees the federally owned Sand dunes searched the washes where Ridgeway was thought to be but was unable to find him among the thousands of campers who fled to the desert for easter weekend. The search was ended just before Midnight. By then Matt Ridgway had already climbed into his truck and was driving to the desert to find father himself. "1 knew they were Down in Clamis and knew they liked to go to a certain spot. The rangers stopped just Short of where he was.". Before he left Anaheim the younger Ridgway had talked to Knox reporter Pilot Bob tur who decided to Fly Down in his own helicopter to cover the Story. Tur and co Pilot Jim King a los Angeles police. Officer took off from Santa Monica Airport about l ., and flew through thunderstorms to the desert. We got out to the area and 1 thought i might Sec a few campsite or Zitur said. There arc 300 people in tvs All terrain vehicle. Racing around the desert at 1 in the morning and we re talking to them on the p.a., saying Charles Ridgway of Anaheim please gel our attention we have a kidney for you these people Don t believe whal is about 35 Miles cast of Bra Lethe search party was flagged Down by a Man waving at us said tur. To turned he Matt Ridgway. Whose truck was stuck in the Sand. Hopping aboard the helicopter. Malt kids Way directed it to the family s tramping spot a few Miles away. It was almost 4 The campers asleep in their Mobile Home were surprised to say the least. "1 thought the marines had landed said Betty Ridgway. Matt Ridgeway and the Rescue team member1 rushed to the door and hustled the elder the helicopter giving him barely enough Lime 10 put on some clothes. They dragged him out of there in Lew than a minute said Betty Ridgeway Ridgeway arrived at Western medical Center by 6 And was in surgery by ii. Tar Zakian said the Organ whose donor was identified Only As a California teen Ager might have lasted another few hours at the most. Time is of inc essence in Organ transplantation. We would go to any extremes to find a said. We Haie to lose an Organ and this one was difficult to place surrounded by worlds my Luul Dulnuan hard Mcnall tick preside no for cartographic services h surrounded in mjnil.1 of the 35 models of the educational publishing dial Tim of the world s largest Independent map maker products the Skokie Iii company makes about 300 educational items for use in inc nation s schools. Friends family Grieve f o r thin line officer Dallas a while attention was focused on the release from prison of the thin Blue line defendant ran Dall Dale Adams family and friends grieved for the. Police officer whose Mur Der was the Center of the Case i noticed that Adams has got a lot of publicity mid Randy Spiller Robert Wood s Best Friend when the two were growing up in Dodd City a Small town Northeast of Dallas. There s not been much written about Wood. 27, was killed in november 1976 when he and his partner stopped a car whose headlights were off. The Motorist responded with gunfire shooting Wood five times with a ,22-Calibcr Pis Tol then fleeing. At his 1977 trial Adams was sentenced to do huh for the shooting a sen tence later commuted to life in prison. His Case received wide attention when the acclaimed 1988 documentary movie the thin Blue. Line questioned Evi Dence and testimony used in the trial and the prosecutors key witness death Rhiw inmate David Harris recanted his testimony. The Texas court of criminal appeals earlier this month new trial and he was freed on bail tuesday on thursday officials announced he would not be retried and filed a motion to Dis miss the charge against him. Wood s family has had Little to say ahem Adams release one sister said through police that the decision not to retry Adams shows the no longer cares about Wood so death. List Wood s Mother Lin i a said it s not going to do much Good. It s not going to bring him John Vanco the Dallas District attorney said thursday it would be difficult to retry a Case that was 11 years old be cause of problems in finding credible witnesses. Wood was born in Oklahoma one of Sis children to a Choctaw Indian couple Spiller said. The family moved to Dodd City when Wood was a boy and for a Lime Wood dreamed of playing professional baseball. After gradual ing from High school in 1969, Wood served two hours in Viet Nam. He then returned to Texas and Hegan working As a policeman in the vet Erans Hospital in Urnham Jum West of Dodd City. One of Wood s Bosses at the Hospital. Eldon Frairie called him a born police the Kevvn Lonnie Murphy the Baptist preacher who married and buried Wood agreed. Everything he did was to qualify himself m a policeman he said he would in a smaller town have ended up being chief of police. He had a personal to you just could t help but like tie. Joined the Force in 197 to working Nigil patrol in West dal las.-, a dangerous shift in erne of the toughest neighbourhoods sgt . Carey who was Wood s last Boss in Dallas believes the Job filled his personality. Fie really thought the profession he had chosen would not Only fulfil his ambitions but also Chance to help people Carey said end Ron mensa Isis loggers have Friendly standoff Portland Ore. A an unusually Friendly standoff k Iwen .cnvironmeritalitis.,and loggers in a National Forest resulted in 13 arrests sunday including that of who buried himself neck deep in a Rock barricade the demonstrator at the Willamette National for est were charged with disorderly conduct for blocking a Road into the controversial North roaring Devil Tim Ber Sale site according to a Marion county sheriffs dispatcher. About 30 protesters had camped on a Bridge Over the Breitenbush River and were there to Greet Bugaboo Timber co. Workers when they arrived for a third Day flogging in inc disputed area. The u s Forest service has sold Timber rights in the North roaring Devil sue for si.6 million. Logging began Friday Al the 33-Acrc area located on i Remote Ridge about 60 mics Southeast of Portland about 20 loggers gathered around the protesters Bonfire when they were unable to Prou co into the cutting area and the two sides spent several hours peacefully discussing their opposing views on old growth logging the protesters argued that the Limber site is forested with old growth Trees Ihal arc hundreds of years old and is a nesting ground for spotted owls which they say a re Crid inc Eccl i feel real sympathetic towards the loggers said Leslie him Street a protester from Portland "1 know they has to make a living and they have to feed their kids but we need to come up with an alternative for them instead of cutting these Trees the Timber cutters stressed thai their livelihoods arc at stake and argued that the stand of Limber at Issue is composed of second growth Trees not the ancient old growth Trees. " people need to set Down Ami talk things oui said Bugaboo Timber contractor Dennis Nielsen. Some thing needs to be
