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PAGE 18- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY, JULY 28, 1980 TO YOUR HEALTH Note Treatment Results On Hodgkin's Disease Firing Up Optimism direction of flight, type of car, license plate numbers are generally unavailable. Last Monday a note passer zipped away from a branch of the Midwest National Bank, 2850 North Meridian Street, on a bicycle. Agents could not find a witness who might have seen if he pedaled north or south on Meridian Street. SOMETIMES ALL that investigators have to work with are the victims' recollection and pictures from security cameras, if they are working or even installed. The relative ease the note passers encounters, appears to be encouraging second and third attempts.

A man who robbed the American Fletcher National Bank Branch at 2506 East Washington Street last October may be the same bandit who robbed the Terre Haute First National Bank in September 1979 and April 16 this year. Last Tuesday's robbery at the AFNB branch, 2841 South Madison Avenue, may have been held up by the same robber who hit the Merchants National Bank Branch at 3904 South East Street May 14. Another note passer, who hit the same Merchants branch July 18 is possibly the same robber who struck the Merchants branch at 2220 East South County Line Road May 12. THE INCREASE in robberies has Continued From Page 17 1979 there were seven bank robberies in Marion County. This year it has more than doubled during the same period.

Brandt and the supervisor of the bank robbery squad, James L. Cloar, decline to blame the increase on the the economy. They have not seen firm indications that persons who recently lost their jobs or face other financial difficulties have suddenly turned to robbing banks. Both agents speculate that unlike the armed robbers, the note passers might have very little serious criminal involvement in their backgrounds. The note passer is almost phantom-tike.

He waits quietly in line for his turn at the teller's window. You probably would not notice one. They dress casually, often in blue jeans. The only thing masking their faces might be sunglasses or a cap. THEY PICK branches near shopping centers or heavily traveled streets, because they disappear easily in crowds.

The entire robbery averages two or three minutes, according to Brandt. When his turn comes, the robber hands the teller the note. If the teller hesitates, the passer will speak a few words to prod her along. The teller hands over the cash and the note passer quickly steps for the door. "Usually, only the teller knows there has been a robbery.

There's no commotion," Brandt said. Because many of the bank's employees and customers did not know there was a robbery taking place, the note passer's escape is not tracked. The few details that can lead to an arrest of a family history of cancer of the lower bowel, I see my doctor at least every two years for sigmoidoscope examination of my rectum and colon. So far everything has been all right. Now my doctor tells me the examination is going to be slightly different.

Instead of using the rigid, unbending sigmoidoscope, he now prefers what he calls a "flexible scope" for examination. Will you explain the difference? Mr. K. DEAR MR. More and more physicians are using the flexible sigmoidscope called the fiberoptic colonscope to check on the lower bowel.

Discomfort isn't any greater and the examination takes only a few minutes longer. The new colonscope is considered superior because it reaches farther up into the intestine. According to one report, by its use a sixfold increase in the number of adenomatous polyps were detected, and a twofold increase of the cancers diagnosed: because at least two and half times the length of the colon was more adequately examined. DEAR DR. STEINCROHN: Unfortunately, I've developed rectal gonorrhea.

I've been treated with tetracycline, but it hasn't helped too much. My doctor says he will try something else, because my infection is so stubborn. What's something Mr. XX Dear Mr. Hectal gonorrhea can be stubborn.

Perhaps he's considering use of procaine penicillin and probenicid. This is often effective. If your condition still persists, ask for consultation. Some stomach symptoms may be caused by trouble outside the stomach, says Dr. Steincrohn in his booklet, "What You Can Do For Stomach Trouble." For a copy write to him at The Indianapolis Star, P.O.

Drawer Catonsville, Md. 21228, enclosing SO cents and a stamped, self- addressed envelope. McNAUOHT (YNOICATfl. INC. robbery) has some investigators wondering why robbers bother with banks.

Supermarkets, liquor stores and other businesses might be more profitable, and would not generate an FBI investigation. But then the clerk in the liquor Store might have a pistol behind the counter, while most banks do not post guards in their branches anymore, one investigator said. By DR. PETER J. STEINCROHN, M.D.

DEAR DR. STEINCROHN: I had a boyhood friend who died of Hodgkin's disease about 15 years ago. I recall he had X-ray treatments. The doctors also tried chemotherapy at the time. But my friend lasted only about two years.

I was downhearted to hear recently that a cousin of mine has Hodgkin's. But the doctors are quite optimistic about the outcome. They tell him, in spite of all the bad things that they have heard about the disease, Steincrohn that he has an excellent chance of recovering. Are they just saying that to make him feel good? Or is there really anything new in treatment that justifies their optimism? Mr. A.

DEArt MR. There's new evidence that thf have good reason to be optimistic at least more so than only a few years ago. In the middle '60s, advanced Hodg kin's was considered invariably fatal. Complete remissions were uncommon with single-drug treatment. But recently, the results of treatment of 198 patients with Hodgkin's disease with the MOPP program (mech-lorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone) were analyzed.

Eighty percent of these patients attained complete remission and 68 percent of patients achieving a complete remission have remained disease-free beyond 10 years from the end of treatment. Many in the medical field conclude that advanced Hodgkin's disease is curable by chemotherapy. DEAR DR. STEINCROHN: Because Mrs. Bowen Remains 'Serious But Stable' Indiana's first lady, Beth Bowen, remained in serious but stable condition Sunday in Indiana University Hospital.

Mrs. Bowen, 62, wife of Gov. Otis R. Bowen, is undergoing tests and observation for a chronic bone marrow disease she has suffered since September 1977, a hospital spokesman said. Mrs.

Bowen is suffering from a number of complications resulting from the bone marrow disease, said William J. Watt, a Bowen aide. An ambulance was summoned to the governor's mansion, 4750 North Meridian Street, on Friday after Mrs. Bowen complained of abdominal pains. passers usually only get between several hundred and a thousand dollars, said one investigator.

"They aren't getting enough to go to Venezuela," Brandt quipped. Because of the low take and high penalties (a maximum federal sentence of 25 year in prison for armed bank robbery and 20 years for strong arm loses players for more prosaic reasons. They and their wives tire of the travel and the aches and pains, or they just move away. The Caps recently lost a backup quarterback when his company transferred him to Louisville. More commonly, those who make the team, stick.

Some travel from Terre Haute every weekend to take their lumps. A half-dozen others come all the way from St. Louis, where they played together at Lincoln University. DON HILL, a member of that Lincoln team, is on a three-month sabbatical from his job as a therapist at St. Louis University Hospital.

When he's not slapping helmets and terrorizing quarterbacks for the Caps, he's employed as perhaps Indianapolis' largest lifeguard. "It's frustrating, but it's fun," Hill laughs as he wrings sweat and rainwater from his adidas undershirt. "It's a way to work off aggressions, and it's a legitimate vacation from the hospital." 82 Fans Arrested At Rock Concert Los Angeles (UPI) Three hundred policemen and security guards patrolling a crowd of 75,000 at an all-day rock concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum Saturday arrested 82 persons on narcotics, car burglary and battery charges. Caps Continued From Page 17 shirted athletes churning and grunting on the soaked grass. It's a disappointing crowd, even by minor league football standards, but playing in obscurity does not dampen the jubilation of the widely diverse group of 40-odd men, most of whom played high school or college ball, who make up the Caps.

A FEW OF THEM like linebacker Otto McGee, flashy wide receiver Tony Bowden and hulking tackle Don Hill entertain a distant hope of a shot at the big time. But for most of this collection of schoolteachers, insurance salesmen and other working stiffs, the joy of playing organized football especially when you win is enough. "It's something in your blood," says Percy Griffin, the chunky general manager of the team who retired last year as a player when his 33-year-old knee let him down. "Most of the guys are just out of college, 23 or so, staying in shape, but you've got some old jocks 35 or 40 who just can't quit." Griffin and Ron Barlow, an assistant coach, revived the Caps in 1976 after the original franchise had folded two years earlier. After a year of independent play and a year in the Class AA Midwest Football League, the Caps were ad-milted into the AAA Northern States loop two years ago.

Hill is among the handful of Caps whom Griffin says may get that coveted invitation to a pro tryout camp. He's been to them before, and has no stars in his eyes. "Sure, I think about the pros," he says. "It would be a nice piece of pie, but I'm definitely not shooting everything for that." At 27, Hill has reason to be realistic. Dave Gandolph, who's three years older and has a wife and three young sons on the sidelines, has even more justification.

A TEACHER and coach at Center Grove High School and punter for the Caps, Gandolph had a tryout with the Chicago Bears seven years ago after starring at St. Joseph College. He was cut, then injured his shoulder, and has played all his football since then with the Caps, both the original and reborn versions. "As far as the pros are concerned, that would be nice," the affable, powerfully built kicker muses. "But they'd need to come up with something really fantastic.

When you're single like Don, it's one thing, but I've got my family to think about." He grins when asked the monotonous question why throw your body into the all-American game of guts, glory and gold when two of those three elements are missing? "Because it's fun. My wife understands. She knows I wouldn't be happy otherwise." refreshing summer liquor caused some banks to keep a bare minimum of cash in the tellers' cash drawers. Therefore, a note passer, who speedily steals from one teller is not going to get rich. Banks and the FBI routinely refuse to make public the exact amounts taken in a bank robbery.

Note BEING AT THE top of the minor leagues at least puts pro scouts in the Stands, and Griffin says seven Caps last year capitalized on that incentive by earning pro tryouts. The glamor pretty much stops there, and Griffin is occupied with such mundane concerns as scraping up enough money at the gate and in various benefits to pay the players' expenses on the road to places like Grand Rapids, Gary and Delaven, Wis. "Ron and I make up out of our own pockets what we don't get from the fund-raisers and tickets," he says. "Eventually, we hope to make it pay for transportation and food and so forth by itself. Now, it's usually a loss." Griffin says attendance averaged between 600 and 700 for the five home games last year, but jumped over 1,000 for the final two games.

Even that figure may not be sufficient to support the team when helmets alone cost $79 apiece. "I WOULD estimate it would cost $34,000 to $35,000 a year just to get by, and that's second rate," Griffin submits. "With costs being so high, to have a first-rate operation it would take $70,000 to $80,000, and you're still a minor league a bus league." While general managers in the National Football League have night-, mares about renegotiated six-figure contracts and free agentry, Griffin 7ist and Rt. 37 6S35 Lake Plaza 317-842-1564 HEALTH CAPSULES by Mieht-I A. Petti, M.D.

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