European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 6,1990 the stars and stripes Page cries fill air As doctor dashes to to show with year s 1 St Tot Anaheim. Calif. A state regulators Are investigating a doctor who seeded up delivery of a baby plopped the infant into a Christmas stocking and dashed to a to studio next door to display her As the first baby born in Orange county in the 90s. Myra Kristine Palmer was officially delivered 15 seconds after Midnight by or. Charles Wesley Turnerjr. And presented on a nationally televised religious service led by the Rev. Ralph Wilkerson. Turner 64, insisted neither the Mother Brigitte Palmer nor her 6 Pound. 12-ounce baby girl was harmed by his hastening of the delivery at Turner s covenant birthing Center i Orange county. The doctor said the Mother went into labor naturally. There is an investigation Vern a caper chief investigator for the Board of medical Quality Assurance said from Sacramento thursday. I not sure there is a violation there but we have a concern Over the Turner said Wilkerson pastor of the next door Melody land Christian Cen Ter had asked months ago if he could provide a Newborn for the new year s eve service. We had the Mother push at 11 59," Turner said. I put the forceps on and pulled the infant out. We has her at 15 seconds after Midnight. I used the forceps because i wanted to have the first baby in the new year. "1 was highly jubilant he said. The congregation yelled and screamed and applauded. And every body wanted to Sec the Palmer 25, said she Felt a Little funny because he took her and ran off with her. But he wanted to have her onto. It was a special feeling for every one to Sec the the infant was returned to Palmer about 10 minutes later. She and the or. Charles Wesley Turnerjr. Holds Myra Kristine Palmer As the infant parents Gary and Brigid Palmer look on in Anaheim Calif. Baby Are at Home. Or. Roger Schlesinger president of the Orange county obstetrics and gynaecological society said he believes Turner look a risk in taking the new born outside. "1 Don t think i d take my Newborn out of a Hospital Schlesinger said. Any Newborn baby requires some de Gree of Turner said he has delivered More than 18.000 babies in his 40-year career. I Don t think there s anything wrong with having the first baby of the new year he said. And the baby was delivered safely. And 1 Sec nothing wrong with taking the baby and showing it to the4,000" people at Melody land. Fired hotel workers sue . Official Phoenix a Twenty one for Mer employees of Charles if. Keatingjr s Phoenix hotels filed a j42 million lawsuit thursday against a Federal offi Cial who fired them in november. The suit filed in Maricopa county Superior court claims the workers were fired improperly treated like common criminals and refused Severance pay or references in Many instances. Named As defendants were Herbert Chin a senior investigations specialist with the Federal Resolution Trust corp s regional office in Denver and three for Mer Keating companies that arc now controlled by the Etc. Chin said he had not seen the lawsuit but believed his actions were proper. The lawsuit does not name the Federal government but could be amended to include the government said Kraig mar ton the lawyer who filed it. The hotels the phoenician and the Crescent Are 55 percent owned by financially troubled Lincoln savings and loan association and 45 percent by saudi arabian investors. Keating controlled Lincoln until Federal banking regulators seized control last year. Keating remained in control of the two hotels As Long As the saudis sided with him however and it was not until nov. 16 that regulators won agreement from the saudi Sand seized control of the hotels. They moved in at 2 a.m., posting termination notices at the Homes of the employees and allowing them to collect their belongings from the hotels under guard and while being videotaped by guards and news organizations. Chin said the firing time was set to mini Mize disruption and that extra Security and videotapes were meant to ensure that no one later claimed to be missing property. Marlon Cai cd the incident an Early morning Gestapo like raid and that the presence of guards made the workers appear to be dishonest. Ama journal warns of super diet dangers Chicago a people fighting the Battle of the bulge can diet themselves to death in improperly super Vised extremely Low caloric programs now used by More than a million americans doctors warned thursday. Such liquid diets require management by specially trained physicians behavioural psychologists and dieticians the doctors wrote in the journal of the american medical association. Although the diets Are unquestionably safer than similar liquid protein predecessors blamed for at least58 deaths during the 1970s, they still have dangers said the ankle s authors. The recent and zealous marketing of various for Mula products to physicians As Well As the Public appetite for such diets could Lead to yet another round of complications and wrote the doctors who Are from the University of Pennsylvania Colum Bia University and Harvard medical school. Very Low caloric diets provide 400 to 800 caloric daily through High protein powders. Such diets like the opt fast program used by talk show Host Oprah Winfrey in her celebrated 67-Poundweight loss should be avoided by people who need to lose less than 40 pounds or 30 percent of their body weight said the authors. Short term health problems from the diets can in clude dehydration an imbalance of electrolytes the chemicals that carry electrical impulses sparking the heart to pump inadequate blood pressure after stand ing or sitting up rapidly which can cause fainting an increased uric acid concentrations which promote gout the authors said. Long term complications could include severe abnormalities in heartbeat the culprit in the liquid protein diet deaths especially by dieters who lose control and go on eating sprees during rare Fossil find bolsters Dinosaur theory University of Colorado Pale oncologist Robert Bakker examines Bones. Denver a the discovery of the fossilized Bones of a giant meat eating Dinosaur predating the fearsome tyrannosaurus Rex strengthens the theory that Dino Saurs evolved rapidly before becoming extinct a scientist said thursday. The Bones of an Epa lerias were found at the top of the Morrison forma Tion Deposit an ancient Saline Lake be near fort Collins by a palaeontology team from the University of Colorado museum in Boulder. The discovery 18 months ago was Only the third of an a Panteris according to Robert Bakker a research associate at the museum who announced the Fin wednesday. Bakker identified the giant member of the allo Saur family from a Jawbone an parts of the neck and Tail vertebrate. Bakker said the discovery strengthens the theory that dinosaurs entombed in the Morrison formation which dates to 130 million years ago and elsewhere i North America evolved rapidly. The a Panteris which weighed about 4 tons and was 50 feet Long could have eaten about 40 tons of meat annually and its ability to expand its enormous Jans much like modern Day snakes would have allowed a Panteris to gulp huge bites of prey easily. The Morrison formation about 50miles North of Denver contains up to six distinct Dinosaur Fauna from successive Lime periods Bakker said. The formation is Only about 300 feel deep he said but every 50 feet or so you have a different species. This one was Only in the last 20 feet and the ear Lier ones also were Short Jivco. Thing were really moving Al that the other two discoveries of Epa Teri As fossils were in 1877 near Canon City 80 Miles South of Denver and in 1934 in the Oklahoma Panhandle. A Panteris apparently was the last and largest species in the evolutionary line of All Saurs carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on their Hind legs. Bakker said. A Panteris great size confused Early Pale oncologists he said. The Bones of the Canon City specimen were so Large they were initially As Bronto Saur Bones. Bakker speculated the size increase of Many Dinosaur species Over time May have been due to sexual selection Prada Tion Success or disease resistance. He subscribes to the theory that Dino Saurs were warm blooded like Modem Birds and that Dinosaur mass extinctions about 66 million years ago May have been brought on by extensive migrations and outbreaks of disease. Bakker said he and other researchers will study All three a Panteris specimens and they Hope to assemble a Complete Model pieced together from portions of each Dinosaur
