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the Journal Timet, Thuredey, December 16, 1982, Reclne, Wit. 11 A BBS? JUST ARRIVED in time for Christmas CASHMERE SWEATERS Choice of lush colors in S-M-L sizes: turquoise, blond, blush, grape, terra cotta and black. NOW J88 Orig.MIO- 120 mm Idt fin 3 REMEMBER, WE'LL GIFT BOX ANYTHING YOU SELECT AT EITEL'SI Inmates raise $3,850 for kids' toys ANGOLA, La. (AP) Inmates at Louisiana's maximum-security prison, working in the fields at 2'a cents an hour or donating blood, have raised 13,850 so needy children could have toys this Christmas. "I had one word when I heard what they wanted to do and what they were giving flabbergasted," Maj.

Benny Lewis of the Baton Rouge Salvation Army said Wednesday. He said a year ago inmates at the Angola prison gave him "a couple of hundred dollars" at Christmas to help the less fortunate, but this year's donation came as a surprise. "It's a tremendous thing because they don't have much themselves. It's a real sacrifice for them. I understand they're raising money yet today, and it could be more than $4,000 by the time we get the check," Lewis said.

When he got word of the prisoners' plans, he went out and bought about 1,500 toys. The gifts will go to 1,000 to 1,200 needy children in the Baton Rouge area. Parents will pick out three toys per child at the Salvation Army's toy store today. In addition to the toys bought with the inmates' money, there will be other donated items and some used toys. "The donation means each youngster will get a couple of new toys," Lewis said.

"There is a little bad in us all, but a lot of good too and Christmas really brings this out," he said. "What they've done is going to make a lot of people very happy and thankful on Christmas." Peggi Gresham, assistant warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, said a high percentage of the 4,600 inmates donated to the fund. About a fourth of the inmates at Angola are serving life terms, most for violent crimes. "This was totally the idea of inmates. A couple saw on the national news that because of the recession and tough times there was a shortage of donations for toys, and they wanted to do something," Ms.

Gresham said. She said all the money came from the pockets of prisoners. Inmates at the sprawling prison on the banks of the Mississippi are paid 2Va cents an hour for their prison labor. Many work in the prison's cane fields. i'v, Another source of income is donating blood.

They are paid $9.50 for each trip to the blood bank but are allowed only one donation a month, When parents pick up the toys Thursday, there probably won't be a represenative of the prisoners on hand, "Some told me they didn't want to be there they preferred not to be," said Ms. Gresham. "They just want to let people know they care too, but don't want to be identified." CHRISTMAS HOURS: MONDAY-SATURDAY SUNDAYS 11-6 (Y)(j shes 1 ElMWOOD PIAZA A RACINE, Wtt.V I I vim mm mi mn "ft ft pumors What's going on in Ihe sehooH? How much wilt gov cost? Is that convenience store going to be built on the comer? Don I fely on handed down inlormatiO'l Get the fact firsthand your journal Times if km.i rrni I oo Paralyzed mod student earns Is. I 1 1 GHZ) I I Trnninn iir ir .11.11 fSW' I "ST! i i a atari 1 Star Voyager or Trick Shot lor use OQ with your Uv9 Atari VCS IMAGIC Awesome demons attack a scienlilic colony on the Moon Maneuver your. laser cannon across the VTSfc frfT I aglMW MAM NHPiHiMM I Now in stock from Atari Video Computer Syster and destroying an army errions Seek out their home, base and end their treachery lorever1 Play all your favorite games at home! Atari makes more games than anyone! Great fun for the family.

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Vergith, 27, who was once determined td become a surgeon, now is unable to move from the armpits down and has lot the use of his fingers, although he can move his arms. He wants to use his work to develop a standardized method of treating spinal injuries that could prevent, or at least lessen, the catastrophic results of injuries like his own. Virgith gained national attention two years ago when he asked a county judge to let him be his own guardian so he could refuse medical treatment if he wished. Some of his friends thought he wanted to died. A Phi Beta Kappa undergraduate at the University of Nebraska and one-time marathon runner, he was ,25 and ready to start his senior year in medical: school at Creighton University when he went to the Dominican Republic for experience in family practice.

Creighton sponsors the program each summer to help educate its students and provide health care to the Caribbean country. On July 5, 1980, Vergith and two other medical students; were body surfing when a wave flipped him on bis head, fracturing a ertebra JiL his neck. i Vergith's physical condition worsened with roller-coaster temperatures and serious infections that doctors said easily could have killed him without treatment. He began to refuse treatment until his condition became so grave that Pat director of the nursing home, was forced to ask that the courts appoint a guardian for his patient. Vergith decided to fight.

"I was not in control and I felt almost like I was being stripped of my dignity." Vergith said. "Just because you can't walk anymore doesn't mean that you can't think and make decisions for yourself." Vergith said that while everyone else believed he wanted guardianship of himself so he could die, he only wanted control of his life. He won. "All of a sudden, I was in control." he says now. "My outlook had changed.

It was good medicine, probably the second-best medicine I ve had except for this research project and this graduation." Father Ernesto Travieso. a medical school chaplain who knew Vergith from his first year at Creighton. was in the Dominican Republic at the time of the accident and flew back to the United States with him in a medical helicopter. "I'm amazed to hear the things he's saying today, that he didn't want to die," Travieso said. "I think be expressed to all of us that he was willing to die.

He knew that not taking special treatment or antibioticswould mean death in a matter of two days." Vergith said his medical training both helped and hindered his recovery. He knew, for example, that six months after a spinal injury like his own. reversal of the paralysis is nearly always out of the question. But that led to his decision to get his medical degree, a degree be had once thought would be "a farce." He now believes be has something to contrib tny UI AMIUIIIIS IUVJ IIIUI1 the two missile posts, tir-ina through your cross hair siahts As the battle rages, night tails In a tury you scramble into your Sentinel Saucer and lly into enemy skies llliifllf ir-TSf VlV -Alarme -ffraSSKA 'lt-C--f I I TA' cartridges now nP jI jg- LSSSgJj COSMIC SWARM For your Atari or Intelli-vision" game system. IMAGIC D2AUTY D2AG7! The big bully's al the top of Now in stock! CBS Video Games Fits your Lr-J WIZARD of WOR' for use with Atari'' O'C the building witn your gin Climb the building door by lloor Jump over rolling boulders Avoid viaou rats and duck under deadly birds The higher you go.

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