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1 Thurtday July 13, 1972 Hattiesburg American Page 23 Auto-mochanic extern invents a life saver Biffhs Jimmie Beasley, a 33 -year MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) A young auto-mechanic-turned-medical student has turned inventor with a machine that offers hope for premature babies suffering from a lung ailment. 'It will settle down' hopes Bobby Fischer they are being closely followed to see if any problems develop. None have thus far. "This thing I've invented is not a magic cure," said Beasley, who plans to become a pediatrician.

"The babies have to be closely monitored and we haven't tried it on enough babies to definitely say it works. We're still very much in the research stage." Hospital officials said, however, that in each of the five cases, the symptoms of the disease disappeared in 24 to 48 hours. The report caused raised eyebrows in some pediatric circles because it normally takes three to five days for symptoms to disappear with conventional breathing aids for premature babies. Hospital officials praised Beasley's initiative. "We just hope that future use will prove conclusive evidence of the equipment's effectiveness," a hospital spokesman said.

Beasley said that if the machine does prove worthwhile, he may market the idea. "But I really haven't thought that far ahead. I've got a long way to go yet just to become physician," he said. 1fk). You'll love the wonderful at Rt.

1, of a at and a GREAT SHADES OF IRONSIDES -Frances Bounds, a paraplegic, gets a ride up on the hydraulic lift of her van to make a trip to the coast. With the use of a panel of switches on the side of the van Frances opens the door, a ramp folds straight out in back, and the lift comes to the ground. Once she's on the lift another flip of a switch sends her up and inside van. Another control system inside allows the young woman to close the van before (taking off. (Staff photo by Carolyn Haines) ease.

The ailment killed the last child of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy. An auto mechanic for five years before deciding to study medicine, Beasley is an extern at the Baptist Hospital newborn intensive care unit. He said the idea for the device came to him after he was assigned to a research project on hyaline membrane disease, which is caused by the lack of a normal lung secretation called sufactant.

The lungs normally begin secreting the material in about the 37th week of life, but in premature babies the secretion does not occur. The disease occurs in about 20 per cent of all premature babies, and some studies have shown the mortality rate to be as high as 57 per cent. Beasley said he first didn't know how to put the machine together. Then, he said one night last May, while he was lying half-asleep in his room at the hospital, the solution came to him how to put together a machine that would keep a baby's lungs partly inflated and be flexible enough to use on different babies. "I jumped up and ran down to the nursery while the idea was fresh and started putting it togehter.

We had a baby in bad trouble, and after trying it out on myself, we tried it on him. He seemed to get better immediately," said Beasley, who works at the hospital between quarters at UT. Since then, the device, which has been dubbed "Beasley's Breather" by nurses in the newborn unit, has been used on five high-risk babies. In each case, according to hospital officials, the babies were helped. An extensive series of blood gas tests showed the machine to be working properly.

The five babies have now gone home, but Beasley said She hs 1 Ironside By STEPHENS KKOENING Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) "It will settle down," Bobby Fischer said Wednesday night after he lost the first game of the world chess championship to defending champion Boris Spassky. The. second game is this afternoon, starting at 1 p.m. EDT, With a maximum of 23 more games to be played, Robert Byrne, the second-ranking U.S. grandmaster, said Fischer's loss "isn't necessarily all that significant.

Either of these players can come back and win." A victory yields one point, a draw half a point, and after Wednesday's match Spassky needed 11 more points in the 24-game series to retain his title. Fischer needs 12'i points to end the 24-year Soviet monopoly of the title. Today he plays the white pieces, which gives him the first move and a slight advantage. The first game in the match began Tuesday, and Spassky adjourned it after 40 moves with Fischer in bad straits. Five minutes after the game resumed late Wednesday afternoon, Fischer stood up, spoke animatedly to chief referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany and strode to a backstage dressing room.

Schmid followed him, and Fischer said he wouldn't continue play unless a movie camera 150 feet from the board was shut off. Schmid said he couldn't order the camera removed. Fischer lb. like on iv rides. I also wanted to be able to drive in my wheelchair.

I feel so independent now that I can get in my van and go when and where I want to. "I frequently visit other paraplegics and handicapped peope. We share ideas and fears, and I find that it helps me to hear someone else's view on how they adapted to the situation." The outgoing paraplegic has always had an interest in the children at Ellisville State School. She often drives up for a visit with the boys and girls. If a federal grant is approved for the school, Frances hopes to have a job in office worn and do some work with the children.

nutty-crunch taste of America's favorite specialty bread. old junior at the University of Tennessee Medical Units, has invented a machine that prevents the collapse of the lungs of premature babies afflicted with hyaline membrane dis- stayed away for 30 minutes, then came back and resumed play. After Spassky's 56th move Fischer resigned. He reached over and stopped the clock after 63 minutes had elapsed, offered Spassky his hand, folded his scorecard and walked out. He paused once to wave to the audience, which was applauding Spassky.

When the play resumed Wednesday, Spassky had his king, a bishop that controlled the black diagonals and three pawns. Fischer was down to his king and five pawns, two of them loose on the king's side. One of Spassky's pawns threatened a Fischer pawn. in his first move, Spassky captured that pawn. Fischer recaptured with his king an the game turned into an effort by Fischer to push his pawns a square at a time to the last rank under the escort of his king.

After his walkout, he made an ineffectual sidestep with his king. In ensuing play all the pawns on the king's side were lost. Fischer shifted his king in a hopeless struggle to the other side of the board, where two of his pawns and two of Spassky's blocked each other's passage. Fischer couldn't unblock because Spassky's bishop could protect his position from long range. Finally, after Spassky's 56th move his king approached the jam on' the queen's side Fischer gave up.

ib.19 ib 10' ib.l 9 Baked by: SMITH'S Homo Grown Family Pack Firyir! Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Young of lit 9. Huttiesburg. announce the birth of a daughter, Kendall, on July 1, Forrest General Hospital.

The baby weighed 5 pounds. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Prine, of Runnelstown and Mr.

and Mrs. Earl W. Young, of 9, Hattiesburg. Great-grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

Dave C. Williams of Rt. Lumberton. Mr. and Mrs.

Billy Jennings Biloxi announce the birth of 3-pound 12-ounce boy June 27 Gulfport Memorial Hospital. He has been named Christopher Allen. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brock of Hattiesburg Mr.

and Mrs. F. W. i Jennings of Kosciusko. Mrs.

Theresa Wenzel of Sumrall is great-grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. Benny'. Sullivan, 1409 Arledge announce the birth of their first child, a 7-pound, 12-ounce girl, Vanessa Kaye, July 9 at Methodist Hospital.

Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Sullivan of 915 East Laurel and Mr.

and Mrs. J. P. Chase of Rt. 3, Lumberton.

New Sandwich Loaf BAKERY Saturday Fcrd 1 49 I SI 39 79' Boof Round Homo Grown Homo Grown Cra Fryor BREASTS THIGHS By BONNIE BOM BOY The 32 year-old daughter of lr. and Mrs. L.F. Bounds nds that helping people and eing helped by God has made le last six years of her life ay off in big dividends. Frances Bounds is aralyzed from the waist own.

"Six years ago this August, I as involved in a three-car icident on Highway 49. The octor thought I had only uffered a concussion, lowever. on further xuminution it was found I ouldn't move my legs, and I Golden rule key peace In life, speaker says 'fiio statement of Jesus ii in Matthew 7, 'What- iH'Vcr you wish that men mild do to you, do so to them' the key to peace in life," lid J. Dudley Watson, nmputiT systems consultant I nt orpine Business vstems. in a talk to the li list i an Business Men's oi'Miultee at Colonial staurant at noon Wed- i-hday.

introduction of the peaker was by K. IcMahan, chairman. "The pattern of conduct gins with the first verse of ic seventh chapter of Mat-lew which admonishes udge not that you be not dged'," Watson said. "When misunderstanding L'velops, consult your friends advice and then go to God prayer. The more I do for ad, the more He does for County Line alans revival services County Line Baptist Church 11 hold revival services July 21.

Services Sunday will be 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday rvices will include morning 3rship at 10. prayer service id choir practice at 7 p.m. id evening worship services 7:30.

Rev. Billy Murphy, pastor of rst Baptist Church, New jgusta. will be the angelist. A graduate of illiani Carey College, Mr. urphy has served churches Perry County and the Gulf ast while attending New- leans Baptist Theological minary.

Wayne Meeks, minister ot usic at Wildwood Baptist lurch of Laurel, will be the usic evangelist. An invitation is extended to eryone to participate in the vival. The church is located uth of Ellisville on Highway een and heard Relatives and friends of the te Mary Catherine and a van uses was sent to a neurosurgeon in Laurel. He said that nerves in my spinal cord had been severed, and told me if it had been inch higher I would have been totally paralyzed," Frances recalled. "Being in a state of shock I didn't realize at first that I wouldn't walk again.

I finally came to the conclusion that if the Lord wanted me in this condition I would learn to live with the situation." The young woman spent the first year following the accident in bed. Her parents used a lift to get her out of bed and in a wheelchair. Members of the Citizens Band Radio installed a radio in Frances' room and in her car. She feels that this contact with other people via radio helped her to come to grips with herself. Frances and her mother spent two weeks at the Texas Institute of Rehabilitation in Houston.

While there other handicapped people taught her to dress herself, transfer in and out of bed and a car, and got her on the road to being independent. "I would have liked to have stayed at the center, but we couldn't afford the expense of $65 a day," she continued. "I was determined to drive again so I had hand controls put on my car. I went out on country roads and learned to adjust in using my hands to apply the gas and brakes. What a mess at first.

I took a lot of bumps and wrong turns before I mastered the controls," she laughingly said. Frances and Jean Goff, a laboratory technician at Ellisville State School, are roommates at 110 Adeline St. "Jean is a wonderful friend and is a great deal of help to me. We take vacations together, fish a lot and make ceramics in our spare time," Frances added. Frances spends her days working the switchboard and taking reservations at Blue Gables Motel which her parents manage.

During the day she puts on a life belt and her brothers help her into the motel pool. She delights in being in an upright position for awhile each day. "I have had different cars through the years, but they were difficult for me because I had to be lifted in and out of them. I got the idea of a van and a hydraulic lift from the Perry Mason show, Ironside. On my vacation last summer, I would call numbers in different cities listed under hydraulic lifts to ask if they could make one for a van.

I hit jackpot in Dallas when a man told me that Fred Scott and Sons in Chicago, 111., had made a lift for his van. "In May of this year I bought a Chevrolet Beauville Sports van. Arthur Albert, a member of my church, Central Baptist, installed the nand control on the van. I then called tne Scott company in -n 1 -j lii IfM wa oays. sne reiaiea.

"My main reason for wanting a van was to pick up other wheelchair patients for church and take them for. lb. TJJ Doz. oarsrvy 4 3 lbs. 3 lbs.

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