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B-8 Town Talk, AlexandriaPinoville. La Saturday, March 25, 1978 30.24 Over Parents' Objection, Child Gets Chemotherapy MINNEAPOLIS lJQi. SAN FRANCISCO DENVER 1 lOXMKw'' 'V LOS ANGELES N. I 'A, 3000 Vl DALLAS )SSp, A HIGHEST TfMPfBATURES VS. I VTTfev NEW ORLEANS MIAMI 3000 VtvH- 70 RAIN 773 SNOW Nurse Genevieve Foley said the boy's leukemia has gone into remission.

"That's good news," she said, "that the two drugs we've been giving him (vincristine and prednisone) have helped. No leukemia shows up in his bone marrow. When we started, there was about 95 percent. "However this does not mean there's no leukemia in his body. We know there is.

All it means is that there isn't enough to show up on the tests," Ms. Foley said. Mrs. Green, holding her son in her arms, steadfastly maintained chemotherapy is harmful to her son. "What they gave him today could be lethal in itself.

So, we have to be very careful. I think it's harmful to him, but they are doing what they think is right," she said. Mrs. Green said she and her husband continue to believe it is better for Chad to live a "short wonderful life, than to have a life extended by poisonous drugs and needles." Earlier this week Dr. John Truman of MGH described the couple's organic diet treatment as "absolutely worthless." Mrs.

Green said Chad had to be restrained by doctors and nurses while the treatment was resumed. "That's pretty much normal in every child," Ms. Foley said. "No child likes needles." BOSTON (UPI) A blond, blue-eyed boy who is too young to understand the legal issues involved, Friday underwent court-ordered chemotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital despite the objections of his parents. Two-year-old Chad Green is suffering from leukemia.

His parents, Gerald and Diane Green of Scitu-ate, stopped bringing their son to the hospital last January for the outpatient treatments when they decided they could belter treat him with an organic food diet. But a Ilingham District Court judge ordered chemotherapy resumed Friday pending a full hearing next week to determine whether the couple should remain Chad's guardians. The hospital Thursday filed a "care and protection petition" seeking to take guardianship of the child away from the couple. Judge Martha Ware scheduled a full hearing on the MGH petition for Monday, but in the interim ordered treatments resumed. If, following Monday's hearing, the parents are found to be unfit, Judge Ware can order custody of the child turned over to the state Department of Public Welfare.

Friday's treatment included a spinal injection of the drug Methatrexate. A bone marrow sample was also taken to determine the severity of the disease. 70 I AID I UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST Mitchell's Prison Leave Extended The weather map indicates rain in the Pacific North- Valley and the mid and south Atlantic states. Clear to west, while snow is expected over the Great Lakes, partly cloudy skies are forecast for the remainder of changing to rain and showers In the Ohio-Tennessee the nation. (I PI Weather Map) Outlook for Easter: Fair and Cool the mid 40s to the lower 70s.

Little or no precipitation is expected. The high temperature recorded at Esler Regional Airport Friday was 66. The low was 58. Slightly over half an inch of rain was recorded. Average temperature extremes here on this date are a maximum of 73 and a minimum of 48.

Record March 25 readings are a high of 85 in 1955 and a low of 30 in 1966. The sun will set at 6: 25 p.m. today and rise at 6: 07 a.m. on Sunday. Winter-like weather is back temporarily.

Freezing temperatures have been forecast for north Louisiana tonight but Central Louisiana residents can expect a low in the mid 30s. The high today and Sunday will be in the low 60s. Skies are to be partly cloudy early today, becoming fair as the day progresses and fair again Sunday. Winds will be out northwesterly at 10 to 15 miles per hour. The extended outlook for the state calls for cool nights and mild days with temperatures ranging from WASHINGTON (UPI) The Justice Department announced Friday it has extended former Attorney General John Mitchell's prison furlough so that he may undergo hip surgery in New York City.

An announcement said Attorney General Griffin Bell granted Mitchell's request for a 30-day extension of his medical prison furlough in order to accommodate hip surgery scheduled for next month. It said Mitchell will enter New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital April 7 to receive an artificial hip in surgery planned for April 10. Mitchell, serving one to four years for his part in the Watergate coverup, was furloughed for the surgery Dec. 28, but instead underwent emergency repair of a ballooned abdominal artery discovered during preparatory physical examinations. That operation was performed Jan.

24 in a Washington, D.C., hospital and Mitchell has had several furlough extensions since during his recuperation period. He also testified for about an hour last Tuesday before a House international relations subcommittee investigating alleged South Korean efforts to buy influence in Congress during his period as attorney general. Mitchell, 64, appeared gaunt but spoke firmly during that appearance. His current furlough extension would have ended Monday. Mitchell, assigned to the minimum-security federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base, is suffering from a painful hip-bone discntegration condition.

His physicians intend to replace the ailing joint, with an artifical bone. Normally, a federal prison inmate is transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, 111., in such circumstances. But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said that would not be advisable for Mitchell because of "security considerations." Bell agreed to the additional furlough extension at the request of Dr. Charles A.

Hufnagel, head of the Washington's Georgetown University Hospital surgery department, who said Mitchell needs an "optimum opportunity for rest and recovery." Storms Hit Midwest, Plains Joan Little's Extradition Delayed fire touched off by lightning. A Muskogee man was swept from his stalled auto by a flooding creek and disappeared in the swift current. The Oklahoma storm subsided Friday but forecasters warned of possible flooding. A flash flood warning also was posted for portions of Missouri and scattered lowland flooding was reported. The Mississippi River rose to 49.1 feet 9.1 feet above flood stage at Cairo, 111., the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers.

Floodwaters sloshed over some lowlands of Kentucky but posted no threat to inhabited areas. Damiani, acting on a motion filed in the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court by Miss Little's attorney, William Kuntsler, postponed extradition pending the outcome of Monday's proceedings. The order was signed just one day after Supreme Court Justice Leon Scholnick ruled Miss Little, the black woman cleared in 1975 of killing a white jailer, must be returned to North Carolina. NEW YOKK (UPI) An appeals judge Friday postponed Joan Little's extradition from New York pending the outcome of a hearing on an order sending her back to North Carolina to face prison escape charges. Associate Justice Vincent Damiani signed an order requiring prosecutors to appear in court Monday to show why the lower court ruling should be allowed to stand.

River Stages By United Press International A Good Friday ice storm bowled across central Illinois, leaving major cities without power. Flood-waters of the Maumee River chased another 1,000 persons from their homes in flood-swept Fort Wayne, Ind. Thunderstorms, snow, freezing rain, sleet and ice swept the Plains and the Midwest, leaving at least four persons dead. President Carter declared a flood disaster in portions of eastern Nebraska where 4,000 residents returned to their homes for cleanup operations along the Platte and Elk-horn rivers. A thick glaze of ice turned roadways to bobsled runs across central Illinois, prompting a flurry of minor auto accidents as the Easter holiday began.

Ice coupled with high winds toppled trees and power lines, knocking out power to thousands of homes. One person was slightly injured. A power outage in Springfield plunged the entire Illinois capitol complex into darkness. A police sergeant in Decatur, 111., said power outages affected "half the town, including the police department." Several smaller Illinois cities were completely without power. A total of 2,000 persons were forced from their homes since the Maumee and its tributaries went on rampage this week.

The floodwatcrs gushed through sandbag dikes on the north side of Fort Wayne. The Maumee and its tributaries, St. Marys and St. Joseph rivers, crested Friday the Maumee at 24 feet, 9 feet above flood stage signaling an end to the worst flooding the northeastern Indiana city has seen since 1913. Mayor Robert Armstrong estimated property damage from flooding at as much as $20 million but there were no deaths or injuries.

Friday's evacuations brought the number of persons displaced by the Fort Wayne flooding to 2,000. Sandbag dikes made with more than 100,000 sandbags filled by emergency crews lined the rivers and bore scars where floodwaters had broken through to assail Indiana's second largest city. Across the state, in Northwest Indiana, floodwaters from the Kankakee River broke through a dike and sloshed over the streets in Shelby. There were no evacuations and no reports of major damage. Sleet, freezing rain and snow spread over other portions of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.

A winter storm system dumped heavy rain, sleet and more than three inches of snow on parts of Kansas and Missouri. Ice was blamed for a two-truck collsion near Columbia, which left two persons dead. A lethal combination of snow, drenching rains, lightning, damaging winds and flash floods hit Oklahoma where a 12-year-old Pawhuska boy was killed Thursday in a home By The Associated Press MONEy SAVING SPECIALS Flood Stage 24-hour Stage Today Change MISSISSIPPI St. Louis 30 25.8 Rise Memphis 34 29.8 0.7 Rise Helena 44 36.6 0.7 Rise Ark City 44 29.7 0.8 Rise Vicksbg 43 32.4 1.1 Rise Natchez 48 36.6 I.I Rise Bin Rouge 35 25.1 1.0 Rise New Orlns 17 9.7 0.7 Rise mm Missing OUACHITA Camden 26 14.3 0.3 Rise Monroe 40 23.9 0.0 BLACK Jonesville 50 30.9 0.7 Rise ATCHAFALAYA Simmesnot 41 25.5 0.6 Rise Melville 41 20.3 0.6 Rise Bt LaRose 28 13.5 0.4 Rise Morgan City 04 2.5 0.5 Rise PEARL Jackson 18 17.2 4.8 Fall Pearl River 12 12.1 0.1 Fall OHIO Pittsburgh 25 18.1 1.3 Fall Cincinnati 52 39.8 0.2 Fall Cairo 40 48.9 0.3 Rise RED Shrcveport 30 9.8 0.0 Valuable Swords, Knives Stolen at HST Museum SCOTCH TAPE M05 Va" 810 Reg. $1.66 Roll.

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$1.65 Box "wBox SALE ENDS MARCH 31, 1978 half pearls. The daggers were about 9 inches in length, he said. Sgt. Al Hainen said two men, possibly three, were involved. He said the thieves may have stolen the weapons for sale to a private collector.

Authorities said the break-in was believed to be the first major heist from the library since about I960 when a large coin collection was removed. Authorities were unable to estimate the value of that collection but said none of the coins were ever recovered. FOR SALE! Sand Clay Gravel Topsoil Fill Dirt INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UPI) -Polite are seeking at least two men who broke into the Truman Library and Museum early Friday, smashed a glass showcase and fled with a collection of foreign swords and daggers valued at $100,000. Police said thieves took five items from a seven-piece weapons collection that included a sword given to the late President Harry S.

Truman in 1950 by Saudi Arabian King Saud. Also stolen were two daggers and a sword from Saudia Arabia and an Iranian sword. Police said the thieves entered the main entrance of the building on the first floor through a glass window about 6:30 a.m., and within 30 seconds, crossed the museum's lobby and broke a glass display case built into the wall containing the collection. The break-in triggered two alarms, but the thieves had fled by the time police arrived. Thomas Williams, a library guard, who was in another part of the building at the time of the robbery, heard, but did not see the thieves, police said.

"Evidently the thieves went for the most valuable items in the case," said Dr. George Curtis, assistant director of the library. Curtis said part of the collection was appraised at $100,000 twenty years ago and that experts have advised library officials that it may now be worth two or three times that amount. Curtis described one of the swords as 38 inches long with a gold grip decorated with eight small diamonds, and a 34-inch gold scabbard trimmed with 1,000 small and 14 large pearls, 84 small rubies and 24 THE GOSPEL ROAD Featuring JOHNNY CASH will be shown Easter Sunday Night 7:30 p.m. at FIRST ASSEMBLY of GOD 2820 Military Highway Pineviile, La.

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