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cm mmwm The Pittsburgh Press Section Monday, October 15, 1990 Dispute deepens over inquiry into '87 IUP death tions are suspended," Martin said in a prepared statement today. He said the investigation "has been compromised at this time," by Davis family members who leaked information about it meeting with Martin last week to the Greensburg Tribune-Review. "We've lived with a lot of embarrassment and pain for the last three years, with people under the impression that Jack died the way it was explained," said Davis' father, Jack makes it unclear whether he'll investigate. He did say he will talk with the family's attorney, Dr. Cyril Wecht.

District Attorney William J. Martin "told us on Wednesday he will reopen the investigation" if new information is presented, said John Lynch, stepbrother of Davis, a 20-year-old Indiana University of Pennsylvania student who officials said died in a drunken stupor. "At this time, I feel all investiga A. Davis Sr. Streams said today, however, "My office and the police involved still consider Mr.

Davis' death an accident. In the past three years there has been no new information brought forth." In a news conference today, Streams said "innuendo of a coverup" in the case is "completely unfounded." He also revealed for the first time that Davis had not only alcohol in his system but also traces of cocaine and marijuana. Davis' body was found on the night of Oct. 21, 1987, at the bottom of a seldom-used exterior stairwell of a college classroom building. The county coroner determined that Davis had died Oct.

17, apparently after a night of heavy drinking at an Indiana tavern. His death was ruled accidental. At that time, Streams said Davis, of Penn Hills, apparently fell down the By Rich Gigler The Pittsburgh Press The family of Jack A. Davis Jr. wants the Indiana County district attorney to reopen an investigation into Davis' death three years ago.

But Indiana County Coroner Thomas Streams said today there is no new information to warrant reopening the case. And the district attorney today released a written statement that Project is open to world trade site By Tim Vercellotti The Pittsburgh Press The managing director of a proposed retail, hotel and office complex Downtown said developers of the project may seek to include the county's proposed world trade center there. Jack Lightbody, managing director of the Pittsburgh City Center, said one of the project's three office towers could house the trade center. The Pittsburgh City Center will be bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and Grant Street, between the USX Tower and One Mellon Bank Center. Plans call for construction of the $500 million project in three phases, including two 28-story office buildings and one 53-story office building.

County officials say they are far from selecting a developer or a site for the project. "I think there will be an awful lot of interest from developers for various locations Downtown," said County Development Director Joseph Hohman. "We, at this point, are not focusing on a developer or a location." The World Trade Centers Association, which licenses the centers, requires them to have at least 100,000 square feet of office and exhibition space if located in areas with more than a million residents, such as Allegheny County. The City Center's three office towers will have 2.5 million square feet. "We could designate one of our towers (as a center).

I have all the space in the world," Lightbody said. Another 'developer, Thomas Jay-son, already has expressed interest in building the center on a 13-acre tract between the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and the Veterans Memorial Bridge. The trade center would be located next to another of Jayson's projects a $50 million shopping and entertainment complex called "The Strip, Down by the Riverside." Jayson also applied for a license to develop a world trade center. He withdrew the application when it appeared that competing against the county for a franchise would delay the awarding of a franchise in the Pittsburgh area.

The World Trade Centers Association in New York approved Allegheny County's membership application this month with the proviso that the county develop the center Downtown. The county was among 14 metropolitan areas, ranging from Calcutta, India, to Nottingham, En-Please see Trade, B4 Melissa FarlowThe Pittsburgh Press in Stowe man, 81 Rescue workers carry stretcher bearing lost 81-year-old man from woods Searchers find missing Stowe By Jim Wilhelm stairwell and died of "asphyxiation" due to choking on his own vomit. Streams said Davis "became unconscious because of the high consumption of alcohol." According to police reports and testimony at two subsequent legal Eroceedings, Davis was drinking eer and liquor at Patti's Restaurant in Indiana. Because his death was ruled acci-Please see Death, B5 Local boy-awaits transplant in Paris By Bob Batz Jr. The Pittsburgh Press A 4-year-old Highland Park boy, diagnosed this summer with a rare and usually fatal form of anemia, has two hopes, for survival: the French doctor who will perform an extra-delicate bone marrow transplant, and his 8-year-old brother who will donate the bone marrow.

"He says, 'I'm sad. I'm sad about going to said Diana Fitch of her son, Zachary Blecher, who suffers from Fanconi's anemia. Her husband, Darryl Blecher, said the disease affects only about 200 people in the United States and about 1,000 worldwide most of them children. "Eighty percent die before adulthood," Ms. Fitch said.

Like most Fanconi's sufferers, Zachary has developed aplastic anemia anemia caused by a bone marrow disorder. The couple noticed one of the symptoms Zachary bruised easily before doctors discovered another sign: the boy's blood platelet count was low. A doctor at Children's Hospital made a preliminary diagnosis of Fanconi's in June. "Because there are so few people with Fanconi's, the lab hadn't done many," Ms. Fitch said.

The diagnosis was confirmed by a doctor at New York's Rockefeller Hospital in July. When the couple learned Zachary needed a bone marrow transplant, they thought that could be done in Pittsburgh. "But pediatric bone marrow transplants really aren't done here yet," she said. "That's something planned for the future." By talking with other families and researchers, they decided to go to Paris, where a Fanconi's specialist Dr. Eliane Gluckman uses a special technique she pioneered to make the transplants more successful.

The technique fine-tunes the preconditioning process, killing the old Please see Zachary, B5 Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, to design a 12-story triangular tower on the edge of Mount Washington that would have one apartment on each level. Each apartment would have large windows, terraces or balconies facing in all three directions to provide spectacular city views. The apartments would be typical of Frank Lloyd Wright's style with Please see Wright, B4 'Presbyterian' in it," she said. Confronted with this small mountain of evidence, Romoff reacted predictably. "I guess we're breaking new ground here," he said between booming laughs.

What won't be broken, he said, is the hospital budget to accommodate the de-hyphenation. "We have not put together a hyphen-removal group." In other words, the old stationery gets used up before new, phen-less bond is ordered. i Direction signs won't be changed. And the hospital's hyphenated cornerstone will remain so, at least until recent Oakland tradition catches up with it and the building gets razed for something taller and uglier. "As things change, we will eventually remove them," Romoff said.

"I don't think I could justify the expense of bringing the stone mason out." While willing to sacrifice a hyphen on occasion, this is a hospital that remains ever mindful of its decimal points. He was lowered from the abandoned road, known as Old Fleming Road, to Route 51, where he was to be flown by Life Flight helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital for treatment. Mrs. Hayden was in tears when authorities told her they found her husband. "Oh, that's wonderful.

I'm going to thank them all," she said, adding she would send a letter to all of the volunteers. Authorities had a difficult time landing the Life Flight helicopter near the scene and Please see Stowe, B5 More than 150 police, fire and rescue workers from Stowe and nearby communities began searching for Hayden about 6:30 a.m. Mrs. Hayden discovered her husband missing at 3:15 a.m. and called police, who searched the area around the abandoned road with flashlights but were unable to locate the missing man.

Volunteers, which included a search dog, continued looking for Hayden after daybreak. He was found about 11:30 a.m. An ambulance crew member said Hayden was found "sitting in the creek, smiling." The Pittsburgh Press Searchers in Stowe this morning found an 81-year-old township resident with Alzheimer's disease who wandered away from home more than eight hours earlier. Nick Hayden Sr. was found conscious but disoriented in a creek off the side of an abandoned road near his Sarah Street home, authorities said.

Hayden used to walk down the road to work on Neville Island and to get spring water, said his wife, Josephine. luxury apartments school for yet, but we're in the hopes that that realization will come about." Before the agreement is completed, city council must approve a zoning change, and buyers must be found for the apartments, which will sell for $1 million to $1.2 million. The church has been trying to sell the closed St. Mary of the Mount High School on Grandview Avenue at Bigham Street since 1982 but has found no one willing to pay $2 Subtracting Presby's hyphen adds dash of confusion Diocese to By Megan O'Matz The Pittsburgh Press The Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese already has reached a tentative agreement to sell a former high school on Mount Washington to a local firm interested in building a luxury apartment tower on the site, using blueprints drafted 38 years ago by the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Division, who made the final judgment.

Romoff's dilemma was this: After Presbyterian's acquisition of Montefiore Hospital earlier this year, Montefiore's board decided its name should reflect its strengthened association with the university. Over the summer, Romoff spotted a reference to "Monte-fiore-University Hospital" in a newspaper story and called in his staff, demanding to know who had dared to dash Montefiore. "It just looked odd to me." Then someone pointed out that it merely paralleled Presbyterian-University's name. "I'd never noticed it," Romoff admitted. At that point, "we had two choices, either to keep the dash in Montefiore or to eradicate it from Presbyterian-University Hospital," he continued.

The dash got dashed because "each word has a long and prominent history" and deserved to stand on its own, Romoff said. "It was not considered to be a sell closed At a morning mass yesterday, the Rev. Hugh McCromley told his parishioners at St. Mary of the Mount Church on Grandview Avenue: "We have an agreement signed. The bishop's office has signed the agreement, and the agreement ends in February of 1992.

"So, within that period of time if everything is clear for the project to go on, then the deal will be closed. We really have not sold the property matter of great consequence. I never thought it was going to be a story," he said. Albert C. Labriola, for one, makes it a story.

Labriola, a professor of English at Duquesne University, was called upon for his objective, third-party status on hospital name changes and his presumed bias toward proper English usage. First, he pointed out in a brief phone interview last week, that's no dash that's missing, it's a hy-iphen. A hyphen divides words, a Idash separates thoughts in the 'middle of a sentence. Second, an unhyphenated Presbyterian University Hospital conveys the wrong information, he THE BEAT: Medicinescience million for the 1.3-acre site until now. During masses Saturday evening and yesterday, architect Louis As-torino, of L.D.

Astorino Associates, told parishioners that his company wants to buy the property, raze the school and erect what he deemed to be not a mere apartment building, but a work of art. Astorino's firm would work with a subsidiary of the Frank Lloyd cal Center in New York City. As anybody can see, they're hyphenated to the hilt. One other maverick is out there, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco. But its checkered past, fraught with a series of identity crises, undermines any credibility it might have on the subject.

Pacific Presbyterian started as the Stanford University Medical School, became Presbyterian Hospital and Medical Center of San Francisco in 1960, then Pacific Medical Center in 1967. A new Presbyterian Hospital was completed in 1973, and in 1985 the two merged to become Pacific Presbyterian. Through all this "there was never a hyphen anywhere," reports Rachel Stepner of the hospital's public relations department. But that could change, too. In January, Pacific Presbyterian will consolidate with Children's Hospital of San Francisco, a move which has prompted yet another search for a whole new name that "may not even have 'Pacific' or FOR THOSE who missed it, Presbyterian University Hospital lost some of its dash over the summer.

Er, make that all of its dash. Where once a short horizontal line separated the first two words in the hospital's name, only a blank space resides today. Presbyterian-University Hospital is now Presbyterian University Hospital. Perhaps only a discerning few spotted the difference. In an age where hospitals devote hundreds of thousands of dollars to marketing and public relations, one assumes great thought and careful debate goes into even the most minuscule change in an institution's name.

Particularly at a university that has turned protection of its copyrighted name into a mini-crusade. The assumption is wrong. The decision to drop the dash "happened in the space of three minutes," said Jeffrey Romoff, vice president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Health Care By Steve Twedt said. "Seeing 'Presbyterian University Hospital' unhyphenated leads one to believe that there is an academic institution called Presbyterian University and the hospital is part of it," said Labriola. "But there is no Presbyterian University at that location in Oakland.

"What they have opted for belies their philosophy or their intent." Precedent makes this a story, too. The elite corps of major American transplant centers includes a handful that carry the Presbyterian name. Two of the largest are Rush-Presbyterian-St. Medical Center in Chicago and Columbia-Presbyterian Medi.