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2A The Marion Star Sunday June 12, 1983 Paraplegic Steps Forward Celeste, Democrats Plan Tax Strategy To Get College Diploma ADM 23C2 ry COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP) will meet with leaders early in DAYTON, Ohio (AP) Five years after a car accident on the night of her high school graduation left her paralyzed, praplegic Nan Davis stepped from her wheelchair Saturday and walked 10. feet to receive her college diploma. At her side was a camera-sized computer that took the place of her severed nerves, sending messages from her brain to the rest' of her body. "The last time she walked in public was in high school, and she wanted to walk in her college graduation," said Dr.

Jerrold Petrofsky. Petrofsky is executive director of Wright State University's National Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and developer of the computer system that enabled Miss Davis to walk. With about 1,300 fellow Wright State graduates and thousands of onlookers Miss Davis was helped from her wheelchair by Petrofsky and Dr. Chandler Phillips, who has worked with Petrofsky on the research project. The men held her arms as Miss Davis' lower body moved to the computer's commands.

"This is a special day for all of us," she said when she reached the podium at the University of Dayton Arena to receive her bachelor's degree in Senate Finance Committee. The business taxes also include a 0.5 percent increase in the corporate franchise Income tax and a reduction in the tangibles tax on inventories and equipment, among other things. Together with revenue from an earlier increase in the individual income and some other taxes, the budget package is designed to fund state programs in the 1983-1985 biennium of about $27 billion. 1 Meanwhile, the House Commerce and Labor Committee hopes to complete work Tuesday or perhaps later in the week on the collective-bargaining bill. One big question still unanswered is whether the House will retain in the bill Senate provisions giving non-safety workers a limited right tostrike and requiring safety forces who couldn't strike to have their Impasses decided by binding arbitration.

A commerce and labor subcommittee amended the bill all around those issues last week, deleting several other provisions described by local government officials and others as anti-management. the week to discuss the budget and more specifically the tax package worked out last week with Ohio business leaders. Celeste apparently made some progress along that line when he said the agreement ill be put in language guaranteeing that individual taxpayers won't be affected by a plan to broaden the base of the sales tax. Senate President Harry Meshel, D-Youngstown, had said-earlier he couldn't go along with any proposal thai would increase the sales tax on; individuals. "The bill will be designed so that it Is not aimed at individuals.

It is a business sales tax," the governor said. -The agreement worked out with retailers, manufacturers, and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce calls for extending the sales tax to professional lawn care, indoor and outside building cleaning, and computer services. Meshel and members of his majority caucus discussed the tax package and some other budget matters at length prior to the weekend recess. But he said no commitments were made. Formal discussions are to resume Tuesday in the Gov.

Richard Celeste and ma jority Democrats will huddle again this week to try to push his controversial tax Increase-budget bill the rest of the way through the Ohio General Assembly. At the same time, the House will seek to reach an agreement on a controversial biU, already approved by the Senate, establishing collective- bargaining rights for public employees. Those two big issses are described by leaders of both houses as the main stumbling blocks to summer adjournment around the end of the month. Celeste and the lawmakers face a July 1 fiscal deadline on the House-approved budget, and unless it or a temporary appropriations bill is passed by then the state won't be able to pay salaries, welfare benefits or various other obligations on Celeste and members of his Cabinet were at an undisclosed retreat this weekend for policy planning and probably a dicussion of strategy in dealing with the Democrat-controlled Legislature. I Paul Costello, Celeste's press secretary, said the governor it 'Xi" i.

elementary education. She then delivered a 60-second speech that ended, "Thank you all, and congratulations." Miss Davis, of St. Marys, Ohio, was a sprinter in high school and planned to run track in college until the graduation-night accident paralyzed, her "from the waist down. Her mother, Louise, said Miss Davis was passenger in a car being driven Dy a friend, who wasn't injured, at the time of the one-car mishap. Last November, Miss Davis became the first paraplegic in Petrofsky's research project at Wright State to walk with the aid of computer-controlled electrical, stimulation.

To take those first steps, she wore a safety harness and held on to two steel parallel bars. Petrofsky said Miss Davis now can walk 50 to 60 feet using only canes for support. "It's a fraction of what she's capable of doing," he added. In Petrofsky's system, eight sensors on Miss Davis' body monitor the position and movement of various body parts. The sensors tell the computer the position of the legs, so the computer knows which muscles to electrically stimulate next to achieve coordinated movement.

Up to 36 electrodes are placed on Miss Davis' paralyzed muscles to force them to move. Last fall, the computer used to help Miss Davis walk was stationary, about the size of a room wall, Petrofsky said. The computer she used to walk for her diploma was about 4 inches by 6 inches and less than an inch thick. Petrofsky credits private funding from such companies as NCR Corp. of Dayton and Armco Inc.

of Middletown for speeding his research, "which has so far enabled one other paraplegic and two quadriplegics to stand and participate in walking experiments. Ultimately, he hopes to surgically implant electrodes in paraplegics and quadriplegics to enable them to, walk with the aid of a portable computer. Petrofsky's subjects in the walking experiments first undergo six-month to one-year programs of active physical therapy, designed to improve their muscular strength. The physical exercises are necessary, he said, because the bones within paralyzed muscles atrophy, increasing the danger of fractures even with mild exertion. During her speech Saturday, Miss Davis gasped as she spoke and appeared tired as she sat down.

Petrofsky later said she became tired because one foot became tangled as she tried to turn to face the commencement audience. "The laboratory itself has a lot of narrow corridors," he said. "All we had her do was straight walking." At commencement, she was supposed to turn for the first time. "Instead, she got nervous and grabbed the podium and pulled herself around," Petrofsky said. As a result, Miss Davis became winded because the computer, sensing that she was standing on only one leg, forced more muscles to work than necessary.

WlllllMIWIiMIIII NAN DAVIS GRADUATES Nanette Davis, 23. who became the first paraplegic to walk with the aid of computer-controlled electrical stimulation in 1982, stands during her graduation ceremonies from Wright State University in Dayton Saturday. Helping her stand is Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, right, who headed the research project. (AP) Glenn Gets Help From Ohio Delegation Glenn failed to call to Democrat who can win tne (congressmen) don't see anyone prospecting for support WASHINGTON AP) John "-Glenn has an influential group of fans on Capitol Hill.

They're members of Ohio's congressional delegation who have been pitching in to help boost Gltnn's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, D-- Ohio, a Glenn booster, says Congress is rich soil for various congressmen. "He (Glenn) is very impressive in these sessions," she said in a recent Interview. "The (House) members know him as an astronaut.

They don't know of his work in the Senate." Ms. Oakar noted for example that Glenn "led the fight in the Senate against the MX missile for three years. "Most of them at tne isttw Democratic National Convention. "One-third of the delegates will be members of Congress," Ms. Oakar said.

Ms. Oakar, of Cleveland, has helped arrange breakfast meetings for Glenn with congressional delegations from other states and is trying to set up "one-on-one" sessions with Another Clevelander, Rep. Louis Stokes, dean of the Ohio Democratic delegation in the House, has been involved in organizing the delegation breakfasts, along with former Toledo Congressman Thomas L. "Lud" Ashley. Ashley, now a Washington lobbyist, came out with his endorsement for Glenn last fall.

Another early Glenn supporter. Rep. Dennis Eckart, has been making speaking appearances around the country for Glenn. The Lake County Democrat was in Wisconsin this weekend campaigning for the former astronaut. "I've been in sue states already," Eckart said.

Rep. Edward Feighan of Cleveland said he has endorsed Glenn and described as "blown out of proportion" a report in a nationally syndicated column that he was miffed because congratulate him on his victory last fall. "I'm enthusiastic about his candidacy," Feighan said, adding that he intends to help in the Glenn campaign. "John Glenn has been helpful to me politically," Feighan said. "He endorsed me when I ran for mayor of Cleveland." Glenn also got a strong endorsement from Democrat Tom Luken, representing a Cincinnati district at the opposite end of the state.

Steubenville Democrat Rep. Douglas Applegate said he will work for Glenn but doesn't expect to do much until the heavy campaigning gets under way in advance of next year's early state caucuses. Rep. John Seiberling of Akron announced his endorsement three weeks ago with a statement saying he believes Glenn "will prove to be the presidency. A notable exception among Ohioans on Capitol Hill is Sen.

Howard M. Metzenbaum. Relations between Metzenbaum and Glenn have been chilly since their primary battles of the 1970s. Metzenbaum defeated Glenn in the 1970 senatorial primary in Ohio but went on to lose the general election to Robert Taft Jr. In 1974, Glenn defeated Metzenbaum in the primary and easily won the general election.

Metzenbaum, who finally won a Senate seat in 1976 and was reelected last year, has said it is too early to commit himself to a 1984 presidential hopeful. Only two U.S. senators have come out with endorsements so far. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md, endorsed former Vice President Walter Mondale, and Sen.

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Delaware, O. Ph. 369-6812 COLUMBUS, Ohio iAP) -J Vice President George Bush, trying to paint the brightest picture possible of Republican prospects at a fund-raiser for the beleaguered Ohio GOP, recalled a years-old encounter I with former Gov. James I Rhodes. "I started telling him all my serious feelings having just come out as director of Central Intelligence about the nuclear balance and the threat from the Soviet Union," Bush said.

"He said wait a minute. He -reached in his pocket, pulled out his wallet and said, 'Let me tell you something son. This is what counts. Who puts money in this and who takes it Bush recalled. "It took me about three years, and now I know just how right he is." he said.

Bush tried to cash in on GOP at a lower point going into the 1984 campaign. There is only one statewide Republican officeholder in all of state government Supreme Court Justice Robert Holmes. Bat Bush, despite the recession and its unemployment, seemed eager to join battle with Walter Mondale, John Glenn or other Democrats. "We're not going to relax, we're not going to rest until this country is back at work again," he said. "And I can't wait for this campaign.

Because we're going to have to answer the question that Ronald Reagan so devastatingly asked Jimmy Carter in Cleveland in the fall of 1980: Are you better off? "And I am absolutely convinced that we are going to be able to say you're an awful lot better off," Bush said. Rhodes' advice during a quick swing through Ohio to help Republicans raise money, deliver a commencement address at Ohio State University and fire some opening salvos in the distant 1984 re-election campaign. President Reagan hasn't formally announced whether he will seek a second term, of course. But Bush said he is "absolutely convinced" Reagan will run and be re-elected. "Not only was Jim's advice right, not only will the financial issue dominate the 1984 election," Bush said, slapping a wallet on the podium, "but I believe that this administration under this president is going to be able to say we put something in there when the other people have been taking it out year afteryear, yearafteryear." It is hard to imagine the Ohio Buckeye Briefs Monster In Reservoir? Pentax Minolta Tf tf; 5 -V.

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Press says states receiving bad report cards will have trouble graduating into high-tech economic development. The rankings are an unusual tactic for the prestigious academy, but Press says the times call for unusual tactics. "We want to use the credibility of our organization to shame the states that don't do on Friday to receive an nonorary oegree at Ohio State University's commencement. Although criteria for the rankings aren't yet set, Press, a former Carter administration science adviser, makes it clear the academy wantsto encourage more pay for teachers and more work for students. And both teachers and students should take competency tests, he adds.

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"I'm not convinced there's that much shock" about two suits that have received widespread publicity, Sauter said at a news conference after his Ohio University commencement speech. "Obviously, though, it helps to be vindicated by a Sauter said. But he added that there are few barometers with which to guage public reaction to the suit. Earlier this week, a Los Angeles jury decided against a $30 million lawsuit filed by a physician who contended he was falsely accused of insurance fraud by the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Sauter said an upcoming suit in which Gen.

William Westmoreland contends 60 Minutes libeled him will "be more troublesome and potentially more important. "It's going to be a media circus and a very painful revisiting of the Vietnam War," he said. It will be watched closely by people "who want to use it as a means of narrowing the libel laws." Although the suits have gotten a lot of attention, it isn't unusual for the network to have suits pending against it, he said. CBS currently has 17 suits pending, which is about the same number as in past years, he added. "By the very nature of our business and visibility since we do a fairly aggressive job," the network has been the target of many suiU, Sauter said.

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