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3 it'' save injure ocKev The Boston Globe Wednesday, December 3, It to Nothing could 'I tried to find the artery to see if I could stop the bleeding. I couldn't find COACH FLANAGAN if ty tf -I'll if -1 1L A' 3w. By Nils J. Bruzelius Globe Staff Despite the quick reaction of his coach and all-out lifesaving efforts by a medical team, James Dragone probably never had a chance. From the moment an opponent's skate blade slashed him last Friday, the young hockey player's life was in extreme danger, the surgeons who tried to save him said yesterday.

The skate blade had severed 18-year-old Dragone's right carotid artery, one of the two major. vessels in the neck that supply blood to the brain. From a wound as serious as that, it's a matter of minutes before enough blood is lost to plunge the body into profound, life-threatening shock. In fact, his heart had stopped and been restarted by external heart massage at least once while he lay on the ice waiting for an ambulance to take him to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the coach who tried to staunch the bleeding said.

It was 8 hows after the acci- The medical team worked first to bring him out of shock, largely by trying to replace the blood he had lost. They succeeded to the point where his pulse and heartbeat resumed. Dragone was taken to an operating room where staff surgeons Frank A. Pomer and Edward F. Splaine joined Mullane in trying to repair the wound itself.

The damage done by the skate was repaired by about 6 p.m., but the doctors still faced a battle against the aftereffects of shock. Dragone's lungs weren't supplying enough oxygen to the blood; his blood pressure was fluctuating, and the massive transfusions he had received were preventing his Wood from clotting properly at the wound. The medical team battled these and other complications through the evening, but eventually the counter-measures themselves began to produce complications. At 10:04 p.m., the heart stopped for keeps. "He was bleeding heavily, and we applied pressure to try to stop -it," Flanagan said.

"As soon as I saw him I was worried. He expired at one point, but I gave him cardiac massage and he came right back." If there is any lesson to be drawn from the accident, he said, it is that more coaches should have training in first aid and handling' emergencies, even though in this case his efforts were futile. When he realized that Dragone was seriously hurt, Flanagan said head coach David McCarthy called St. Elizabeth's to aletrt them and asked a rink employee to call an ambulance on another phone. Hospital records show that Drag-one arrived at 2:05 p.m.

It was 30 minutes after the accident, when even 10 minutes might have been too long to avoid the shock from which he never really recovered, according to the surgeons who treated him. Chief surgical resident David E. Mullane said that when Dragone arrived he wasn't breathing and had no detectable pulse. first year as an assistant coach at New Prep, described what happened when Dragone, a defenseman, got hurt. It was 1:35 p.m., and the Melrose team was ahead 2-1 about halfway through the hour-long scrimmage.

"A player on the opposing team tried to split the defense," Flanagan said. 'Our other defenseman checked him as Jimmy was clearing the puck. The three of them collided, and the other player's skate came up and caught him in the neck. "Then the goalie called me. He said I went over and put him (Dragone) down on the ice.

He was trying to tell me something. I tried to find the artery to see if I could stop the bleeding with pressure, but I couldn't find it. I thought the lower part of the artery had gone below the clavicle (the collarbone)." It had, doctors confirmed later. PROFILE IN THE NEWS mn ii ui. i i srar-.

I jj f) lap mil ft I iff A dent, at 10:04 p.m., when James Albert Dragone died in the intensive-care unit of the hospital. He was buried yesterday after a funeral Mass in Sacred Heart Church in Waltham. He was the only son of James Dragone Sr. and his wife, Rosemary, of 65 Crawford Watertown. Dragone had graduated this spring from Watertown High School, wher he was known by the nickname "Cheese." To play hockey and boost his chances of getting accepted for college, he enrolled for a year at the New Preparatory School on Brattle street in Cambridge.

Last Friday the New Prep team scrimmaged against the Melrose Junior A team a youth team not connected with Melrose High varsity hockey at the Skating Club of Boston on Soldier's Field Road. Daniel J. Flanagan, 35, in his shack in Essex River at Essex while i Mayor White's superwoman: Bicentennial theme trims fishing Policeman legislator secures his iob JAMES DRAGONE a matter of minutes i Kane KATHERINE KANE persistent and powerful and Chinatown. "It can be very use-'rt ful to have had to go from door to door asking for votes. It can be humbling and hopefully it you to be responsive." In 1968 she left the State for City Hall, where the past, years have reflected the same mix1''' of private and public concerns, first" as the director of Summerthing and the Office of Cultural Affairs and more recently with the Bicentennials Office or Boston 200.

As an adminis trator she has been credited with extraordinary record of finding pri i vate funds to support these newii i agencies, yet it may be difficult to repeat the same success when dealing with the more obstinate, mundane problems of line departments, responsible for neighborhood sernf vices. l(l "She has good instincts, by that I-) mean the right instincts, not sarily clever," said one of the may-' or's aides. "I'm happy she's coming; she's always had sexy projects" OCA, B-200, where it's easy to get' the mayor's ear for a go-ahead to'' kick somebody into action. Now she'll be coming over where it's going to be harder." In a world dominated by meri her administrative style is less orgaV nized than some would like, yet the same critics would admit that her persistence and femininity which she says herself is an advantage -'h succeeds more often than not in hef '(h being able to get her way. Her approach now to the City Hall transition has been marked by the same care.

She has been talking with individual staff members at various lunches or meetings, trying j' to clarify what role she will have in the often ambivalent hierarchy thafi characterizes Kevin White's own ad- ministrative style. i Kiley, according to many observ- ers, was not delegated power so much as he grew into it, assuming i authority in a variety of areas where problems developed. Now it is Kathy Kane's turn. "It will be interesting to watch," said one City Hall staff smiling. "She is more articulate, she 1 has a strong public image, she more access.

She's been elected be- i fore, she could even be mayor." i I -inini 'jr it another comes complete with flower box. who both told him he was not entitled to a leave. He then took his problem to the House leadership, which legislation to cover his situation. A bill was sponsored by Rep. William Q.

MacLean, who was the majority whip. "I knew of his difficulty and I approached him," said MacLean. "As far as I'm concerned, Jackie is an honorable, good kid and I would do it again," said MacLean, who is now the Majority Leader. Kelleher said he maneuvered the legislation through the House because he did not want to be in a position where he would have to ask for a political job when he left. In order to assure his position in the Police Department, Kelleher had to serve his probationary period before the law expired.

He applied for re-instatement last January and entered the academy with the present class the next month. The Police Department made accommodations to allow him to serve in the House. He qualified on the pistol range at night and was assigned to the night shift. Kelleher's nine-month trial peri That the semen is only used between consenting spouses. "They were very attentive and cooperative.

There were no problems," said Huggins, whose formal title is director of the blood transfusion service. "There are really three basic reasons for the existence of our sperm bank and resulting artificial insemination," Huggins added. "First, if a husband is about to undergo radiation treatment for cancer, there is the possibility he could become sterile. So if he and his wife want children, they take the precaution of advance preparation through the sperm bank. "Second," he explained, husband can take similar action before surgery for removal of a pituitary tumor.

Also, husbands with a low 1 A (Globe photo by Ulrike Welsch) od was over on Nov. 5. During that time, he worked in District 11 in Dorchester on the Housing and Traffic units and did not make an arrest. "I wrote plenty of reports," he said. He received $198 a week from the police department, in addition to his House salary of $12,688 a year.

On Nov. 18, 13 days after his probationary period had ended, Kelleher applied for another leave of absence. He received written notification last weekend. He has achieved his objective: his position on the Boston Police Dept. is now secure.

Kelleher sees nothing wrong with his actions. He points out that he passed a competitive exam for the job and feels he did not deprive another person of a position, although police spokesmen claim they must run a man short to hold a slot for him. "The job market is so scarce," he said. "I realize that when I leave the legislature I'll need a job to exist. Being realistic, I looked around the economy.

There's no jobs available. How many took the last police exam, I had to do something." sperm count can also participate in the sperm bank." When the explanatory tour was over, the Mianos and several other MS people donated blood. "They were terribly kind to do that," said Huggins. "Especially, because there is a traditional shortage of blood during the Christmas season." Miano said later, however, that he is primarily against commercial sperm banks, adding, "If a man is sterile, the couple should adopt." The demonstrators, who handed out leaflets to drivers, held signs reading "Be Proud You Were Born a Man" and. "Reunite the Family." They also carried pictures of the white-maned stallion which signifies the MS movement.

Miano said there are other MS chapters in New York City, Philadelphia and Wisconsin. Katherine By David Rogers Globe Staff Boston City Hall can be something of a drawing room drama these days, as young 'and old men pace earnestly about and seem to wait with their audience for one of Shaw's heroines to come on stage and deliver the final lines. Caught between the end of the mayoral campaign and the beginning of a new administration, there is -a vague anxiousness about the place, where shakeups are rumored and the only certainty is that Kevin still rules and Ka thy will.be coming over. Kathy is Katherine D. Kane, a slight, soft-spoken woman whose outward refinement encloses a tough persistent streak that has brought her up through Mayor Kevin White's past administrations to where she is today one of the most powerful figures in Boston city government.

The timing of the announcement last July of her appointment as deputy mayor was seen, then as a bid for liberal votes, but the transition now symbolized yesterday when she moved into Robert Kiley's old office carries with it more than the promise of a fleeting political impact. In title and personality, Kathy Kane is for many the natural successor to Kiley, now the MBTA chairman, whose departure last spring from the mayor's office left a critical gap particularly for the younger staff members in city departments responsible for planning and neighborhood services. She now holds the same promise of access and power that Kiley once had, and if he once fitted the role of a Shavian Superman, then Kathy Kane in her fashion may be Superwoman. "Kathy is superb," said Barney Frank, the Back Bay legislator who was part of White's first administration, when Kathy Kane was directing Summerthing. Frank now represents some of the same neighborhoods she once represented on Beacon Hill.

"She is bright, she is tough, she is the best hope for the new administration," he said. The daughter of an Indianapolis lawyer, Kathy Kane never knew her mother, who died in childbirth. She grew up independent but comfortable with a father who gave her an early exposure to politics Republican. School brought her East, first to a private academy in Connecticut, then to Smith College, where she. was a classmate of Gloria Steinem's and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and then into a sophisticated life style that has never led back to Indiana.

Since 1958, Boston has been her home. The house on Beacon Hill where she lives with her lawyer husband and three children is both part of this adopted Easternness and a reflection of plain enthusiasm for the city's architecture and neighborhoods. Hers is a world of private schools for the children and a summer home in Maine, but also one tempered by a public involvement that has exposed her, more than anyone else among the mayor's deputes, to the anxieties of politics. "I did campaign and get elected and I think it makes a difference in how the mayor sees me," she said of her two terms in the state Legislature, representing a district that spanned the North End By Bob Sales Globe Staff Less than two years ago, Rep. John Kel.leher of Jamaica Plain grappled with a dilemma: should he remain in the Legislature or should he accept an appointment to the Boston Police Dept.

With a little help from his friends in the State House of Representatives, he managed to do both and provide security for himself if he ever leaves the legislature. At first, Kelleher planned to postpone his police appointment by taking an immediate leave of absence to serve in the House. But existing legislation provided for leaves only for civil service workers who had finished their probationary period. Working through the system," Kelleher persuaded his colleagues to pass a law that allowed him to take a leave, even though he had not finished his nine-month trial period. "I didn't vote for it myself," said Kelleher, who has been the only person to take advantage of the law, which expires at the end of 1976.

Kelleher, a 30-year-old former House page, took the police exam in" MGH sperm bank protest ends amicably REP. JOHN KELLEHER being realistic 1970, several years before he was elected to the legislature. He passed, but all appointments were held up at that time while anti -discrimination litigation worked its way through the court system. Meanwhile, Kelleher was elected to the House in 1972. When he received notification of his police appointment, Kelleher sought the advice of the House counsel and the Attorney General, Mianos, who have five children.

"We think women's libbers would like to eliminate man, and if they ever got control of the sperm banks, men have had it. So we want to eliminate sperm banks." That statement, however, was made prior to an invitation by the hospital's public relations director Martin Bander, and Huggins, for the protesters to tour the sperm bank, is actually part of the much larger blood bank. half of the two dozen MS nie-nbers took the tour. Huggins said: That the sperm bank actually consists of only seven frozen deposits from males with low sperm counts and from males who fear that a scheduled operation may render them infertile. By Marvin Pave Globe Staff It began as a demonstration against Massachusetts General Hospital's sperm bank by a group called MS, which is short for Male Supremacy.

It ended yesterday afternoon with a personal tour of the sperm bank conducted by its director, Dr. Charles E. Huggins, and a 'thank you' from about a dozen of the demonstrators, who donated blood before they left. The demonstrators, led by Richard and Sandra Miano of Brockton who formed their MS chapter a month ago started picketing the hospital about 3 p.m. "The group was formed to reunite the family," explained the.

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