European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes sunday november 25,1990 secondhand crack smoke May be affecting children Detroit apr a study has found that 6 percent of Young children treated at a Detroit Hospital had cocaine in their systems fueling concern that secondhand drug smoke harms infants officials say. Or. Norman Rosenberg chief of emergency medical services at children a Hospital of Michigan said his findings May be the first Effort to determine the rate of children a exposure to smoke from crack the highly addictive Smo Kable form of cocaine. A nothing official has Ever been published a he said. A everyone i have talked to says it evidence of exposure is extraordinarily high.�?�. Since october 1989, evidence of cocaine exposure has been found in the urine of about 6 percent of 360 children treated in the hospitals emergency room. An additional 120 samples have yet to be Analysed. The study includes children from 1 month to 5 years old who were taken to the Hospital with non life threatening ailments. None had been breast fed and any cocaine from exposure in the womb would have dissipated from their blood by the time they were 1 month old. Rosenberg said youngsters who tested positive had to have been exposed to crack smoke within three Days be Vintage Santa Kate Stinchcomb an 8-year-old from Cincinnati gets a Good look at a merry old face Friday thanks to a lift from her grandpa Tom Stinchcomb of Chicago. The painting of Santa was one of a 1930s series of Holiday ads commissioned by the coca cola co and painted by the late Haddon Sund Blom. It is part of a display at Chicago a museum of science and Industry. Cause cocaine passes through the body within 72 hours. Children were excluded from the study if they had symptoms such As seizures hypertension and rapid pulse which suggest they May have eaten the drug Rosenberg said. A a it a a very sad commentary for the Quality of life for children in this state a said c. Patrick Babcock director of the Michigan department of social services. Every Day there is a new phenomenon because crack is so widespread and such a cheap  Elizabeth Rahdert a research psychologist at the National Institute on drug abuse said Rosenberg a results seem clinically significant. She called the finding May Only reflect the tip of the iceberg since crack addicts May be less Likely to seek medical care for their children. Doctors in several . Cities have reported that babies exposed to crack smoke had seizures were abnormally drowsy or  stand up. A 1989 study published in the american journal of diseases of children examined the cases of four children from 3 months to 4 years old in new York City a Harlem Section who were heavily exposed to crack smoke. Each had symptoms of drowsiness and unsteady gait or  shot in Hunt spits out Bullet Singer wis. A a 14-year-old boy who authorities say spat out a Bullet after being accidentally shot in the neck by a Deer Hunting companion amazed doctors Friday with his grit and Good Fortune. Kevin d. Panten was listed in Good condition at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis and was expected to fully recover from a shattered Jawbone and pierced oesophagus suffered thursday. A a he a doing super a said his Mother Janet Panten. A doctors say the damage was minimal and the four surgeries they thought they would need to repair his jaw Arentt even being  the Accident occurred thanksgiving morning near Spooner in Northwestern Wisconsin while Kevin and a companion were Hunting for Deer in a densely wooded area said Bart Halverson a state department of natural resources safety specialist in Spooner. According to Halverson the companion whose name was not released fired a shot at a passing Deer with a ,270-caliber Rifle but missed the animal and struck pan ten in the neck. A it probably hit something before it hit him a Halverson said. A a .270 is a High powered Rifle and normally it would have caused a lot of  Panten who never lost consciousness spat out the Bullet and ran to his Friend for Aid. He was taken to Spooner Community memorial Hospital and later flown to Minneapolis for further treatment Halverson said. Halverson said the boy handled the incident Well and at one Point even asked that the Bullet not be thrown out because he wanted to keep it As a souvenir. The youths Mother said the Accident  keep her son away from Hunting for Long. A the likes to go Hunting every weekend a she said. A i can to keep him out of the  archbishop says he won t Bow to pressure on abortion study Milwaukee apr a roman Catholic archbishop denied an honorary doctorate degree because he surveyed women on their reasons for seeking abortions says Vatican pressure wont keep him from speaking out. Quot i can to imagine being stopped unless you take out my Tongue a archbishop Rembert Weakland said Friday. A i must admit i May be too upbeat about it. Maybe that a not  Weakland said he respects the churches opposition to abortion but thinks Church leaders should examine the reasons Why Catholic women Are willing to seek abortions anyway. Switzerland a University of Fribourg had planned to 4 award Weakland an honorary doctorate last week but cancelled the ceremony after pressure from the Vatican a congregation of education. In theater to Fribourg Vatican officials accused Weakland of a causing confusion among the faithful concerning abortion. Weakland held six hearings this year for women in the Milwaukee archdiocese then issued a letter criticizing tactics of some anti abortion protesters As demeaning and lacking compassion. The letter also said people who Call themselves a apr Choice should not necessarily be considered pro Abor stateside Stormie s doctor quitting surgery to do research Pittsburgh apr. Thomas Starzl who led the worlds first successful liver transplant in 1967 and trained most of the nations doctors who can perform the operation said Friday he plans to quit surgery and concentrate on research. Starzl said the death earlier this month of one of his patients 13-year-old Stormie Jones left him emotionally drained. The Texas girl was the worlds first recipient of a heart liver transplant in 1984. Starzl 64, has not performed surgery since undergoing an operation in August to Clear a blocked artery. Liver transplants Are a so standardized there really Isnit any Point in my handling cases a he told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. A we have eight to 10 Lead  Starzl said enough surgeons Are qualified to transplant livers to allow him to study the effects of fk-506, an anti rejection drug approved by the department of agriculture for use Only at presbyterian University and children a hospitals in  worker trapped in running dryer Dies Boston apr a commercial laundry worker was killed when he was apparently knocked into a huge dryer by 100 pounds of wet clothing. Alfredo Castro 31, was preparing to clean the dryer when a pile of wet laundry came Down a shuttle Belt and somehow knocked him inside the machine police said. Castro was trapped inside the dryer at the h and l association for its six minute Cycle and was ejected when it was completed police said. Co workers heard a loud thumping noise coming from the machine then spotted bloodstained clothing and eventually Castro a body being ejected. He was pronounced dead at Boston City  announces recall for 520,000 89-90 cars Detroit apr general motors corp. Is recalling about 520,000 1989-90 cars because of a faulty switch that can keep the Brake lights from going on and the cruise control from turning off. The no. 1 automaker said that it is recalling certain 1989-90 Pontiac grand prix Oldsmobile Cutlass supreme Buick regals and 1990 Chevrolet Lumina cars. Pm dealers will inspect the cars and replace the switch for free spokesman David Sloan said. Since 1989, pm has Learned of 10 accidents including four minor injuries in which the defect allegedly was present Sloan said. None of the accidents involved fatalities. The cars May have a faulty switch that can result in the Brake lights not going on when the brakes Are applied or staying on All the time. The cruise control which normally shuts off when the brakes Are applied May resume when the brakes Are released pm said. Old gravestones generate More than conversation Toledo Ohio up a Northside resident figured the old gravestones he had found in a swamp would make a great conversation piece As part of a new foundation for his Home. He was right. Police and cemetery workers were talking about them trying to determine How nearly one dozen old headstones made their Way from a cemetery to the Buckeye Basin where Terry Weaver said he found them. Some of the stones Date to the turn of the Century. Weaver told police he collected them and took them Home for use on a renovation project on his House. He said he just wanted them As a conversation piece. A Foreman at the City owned cemetery says the stones Are discards but he noted that old headstones Are not supposed to be taken from the cemetery. The Foreman of Forest cemetery said when headstones Are changed the old ones Are defaced or tossed into a pile. A Quot pipe were St Len it there a no doubt in my mid he said. A but nobody asked for them lets put it that Way. We  give them away if there Are names still on them a