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i Ww vV 4''t'i ty vf ir-Ms V'i V'vv aK4, -fVV- vi -v ylf f-i -5 A K0 J. niiyy ,4 Sun. April 27, 1959 Compiled From AP and UPI HOUSTON Under charges replacement from the medical profession that the world's first total eye transplant in a human performed by Dr. Conrad I). Moore was "doomed to fail common Moore that he first total in a at Houstons NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD LAOMIA McCOY IS MISS OAKLAND 1969 She'll represent her city in the Miss California Pageant in Santa Cruz.

New Miss Oakland Shows Talent as Well as Beauty1 A which has become surgery. announced last Tuesday performed. the human eye transplant one-hour operation Methodist Hospital. The recipient, John Madden, a 55 year old Conroe, photo shop owner, was reported to have received the eye of a Houston man who died a day before of a brain tumor. Some world eye specialists said from the start the operation would not be successful.

The heaviest criticism of the transplant came from the executive council of the Houston Opthalmological Society, which accused Moore of giving thousands of blind persons a false sense of hope with the total eye transplant. The procedure was not based on sufficient experience or knowledge, the medical group said. The total eye transplant is doomed to failure. Saturday, Moore told news conference at Methodist Hospital he did not transplant a total new eye into Madden. Instead, he said he transplanted only part of it.

Moore read afour-page statement to reporters Saturday and, when a medical writer sought clarification, abruptly ended the news conference. Exactly what happened at the transplant operation was that the optic nave, with a remnant of its retinal lining, was left in place and the new anterior segment attached anteriorly in position to this with hope, though with guarded that some vision might be restored, Moore said in his statement. After reading the statement, Moore was asked to explain what a questioner said were differences between what he said Tuesday and Saturday. Moore replied that he had not had an opportunity Tuesday to prepare a formal statement. The questioner continued probing and Moore said, Its in the statement, and walked out.

Moore said Madden bad corneal dystrophy inboth eyes. A routine corneal transplant April 14 failed when bleeding that developed during surgery destroyed Maddens right eye but left the optic nerve and muscles intact. SEAGOING FAMILY The family of ters, were permitted to take their Chief Warrant Officer Dan Gillies, of families with them aboard the Ala-Los Angeles, views the action from meda-based ship when she departed the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Saturday for two-months layup in a Coral Sea. Crewmen, just back from Puget Sound shipyard. -seven months in Southeast Asian wa- mia was named in honor of an aunt.

Mother had another named picked out, Miss Oakland explains, but when my aunt died it was decided I would be named in her memory.9 Laomia, graduated from Skyline High School last June, is studying business at Merritt, but shes also giving serious consideration to a musical career. Singing comes before everything, she says in a smooth lilting voice that attests to the singing lessons the young soprano takes each week. ure, the Houston surgeon reversed himself Saturday and said the operation involved only part of an eye. However, his official statement indicated that the transplant went beyond the corneal Battalion In Vietnam Deactivated CAN THO, South Vietnam (UPI)-The United States deactivated an artillery battalion Saturday and turned its guns over to the South Vietnamese Army. It was a first step in a long process which will eventually reduce the American expeditionary force in Vietnam.

This is what we all came" to Vietnam for to work our way out of a job, Maj. Gen. George S. Eckhardt of the U.S. Army said at the ceremony deactivating -the 500-man 6th Battalion of the 77th Artillery.

Im glad to be here on this first occasion that this has happened. The objective is to upgrade the South Vietnamese Army to the point where the American force in Vietnam may be reduced and ultimately withdrawn. The program initially involves the deactivation of a second U.S. artillery battalion as well as transportation, engineer and maintenance units and transferring their equipment to South Vietnamese outfits. About half of the mot in the battalion deactivated Saturday have rotated back to the United States.

The other 250 have been assigned to other American units or as advisers to South Vietnamese units. Spokesmen said the artillery battalion will not be replaced by another U.S. unit In the ceremony Saturday, the U.S. troops completed transferring their 18 105-mm Howitzers to the 213th Artillery Battalion of the South Vietnamese Army. dia, field commanders are given the right to fire back if the enemy opens up from Cambodian soil.

The dug-in Americans were amazed'that they had escaped so completely from the enemy barrage. fT She tall. She weighs 121 pounds. She has dark hair and dark eyes. Her measurements are 36-24-37.

And shes Miss Oakland of 1969. She is 19-year-old Laomia McCoy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. P.

McCoy, 11048 Aca-lanes Dr. A student at Merritt College, she also works as a sales clerk at the J. C. Penney store in San Leandro. Named at the annual Miss Oakland Pageant Friday night at the Kaiser Center Auditorium, Laomia was crowned by Tanya Dennis, last years Miss Oakland.

A native of Oakland, Lao award at the Miss Oakland Pageant. How did I feel when they announced I had won? Oh, I felt wonderful. Im still flying today. Its all so excit- ing, she said Saturday. Laomia takes great pride in the fact that both her parents were at the pageant to watch her compete.

And win. Mother was every bit as--excited as I wps. And Daddy Daddy was just so proud! The young beauty queen has -two brothers who share her fathers pride: Larry, 16, is a student at Castlemont High School; Damian, 5, attends Sobrante Park School. Laomia, who attends the Church of Christ in Richmond, remarks that while she has never entered a beauty pageant of any kind, she has seen many on television and at- tended several in person. She said, I think the really great thing about pageants is the way a girls talent and poise, her manner of handling others, becomes every bit as important as her looks.

It helps make a girl realize how important things are besides looks when she has to stand in front of an audience and project-herself. Laomia will compete with some 34 other beauties from throughout the state in Santa Cruz this June during the Miss California Pageant, forerunner to the annual Miss America Pageant in September. What is she looking forward to most during her reign as Miss Oakland? Most of all I want to meet a lot of people. And I want to have them want me to become their friend." Lost Plane Found; Report None Alive after it was taken aboard the aircraft carrier Coral Sea for a two-day trip to Bremerton, Wash. Harnes is a crewman aboard the veteran carrier.

BREMERTON-BOUND Youngsters of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Harnes of Alameda, Sandy, Daryl, Sheryl, and Duane, 6, lean from their family car 213 Casualties for Viet Cong, During frontier City' Battle FRESNO (AP) An Air Force rescue team confirmed Saturday that wreckage sighted northeast of Fresno was that of a light plane missing with four persons aboard. The two para-rescue men were dropped into the wilderness area 70 miles from Fresno from a four-engine plane from a i 1 1 Air Force Base. They found no survivors, a base spokesman said.

Plans were made to fly a coroner to the scene today. A base spokesman said no other information had been They hit all around us but none hit right on us, said Staff Sgt. Ronald G. Weers, 25, of Louisburg, one of the artillerymen who had remained exposed during the action. NOW AT SHERMAN CLAY Her performance of My Mans Gone Now from Gershwins Porgy and Bess won her the talent phase received from the crash site.

Dr. E. B. Wyman, his wife and Mr. and Mrs.

Tony Azeve-do, all of Los Banos, have been missing since Wednesday on a flight from Los Banos to Eagle, Colo. The CAP said Wyman had not filed a flight plan but had told friends he planned to fly via Tonopah, and Cedar City, Utah. Meanwhile, CAP volunteers continued to search for a DC3 gamblers special carrying 35 persons which has been missing since Feb. 18 on a flight from Hawthorne, to Southern California. mm it (a or FM stereo broadcasts, hear a Mania "om fyowuefy Continued from Page 1 sailed toward the small outpost.

More than 300 rounds of 82 mm and 60 mm mortar whistled in. Three 50-caliber machine guns raked the bunkers along with rocket-propelled grenades. Then the enemy ground troops, about 500, moved forward in fishes. The enemy movements had been watched for -at least an hour before the attack by the battalion operations officer, Maj. Herbert L.

Ray of Dillon, and his artillery observer, who were on the top of the tower. They called in helicopter gunships, a C47 Dragon ship with rapid-firing miniguns, and artillery from Tay Ninh and nearby fire support bases. An hour after the fight had they came, he said. The artillerymen fired 30 illumination rounds and 355 shells with timed fuses set to burst in the air. Enemy gunners firing from Cambodia were plastered by U.S.

warplanes and artillery. Although, U.S. troops are forbidden to cross into Cambo- With AM and FM-Stereo Radio FAMILY CRUISE First Class Petty Officer and Mrs. Lewis Gray and their daughter, Valerie, '22; of Alameda, stroll between decks on the aircraft carrier Coral Sea. They were waiting for the ship to sail Saturday, with crew and families, for a period of repairs at Bremerton, Wash.

Reds Deny Half Million Troops Lost in Fighting (UPI) Communist' troops out' pi Vietnam, Hi diplomats said Saturday there sal-' Giap was quoted in an Ital-' ian magazine recently as saying the fighting in South Viet was no truth to an allied statement that North commander started it was a slaughter. The enemy fled but they had to cross more than a mile of flat paddies interspersed only with occasional tree lines before getting back into Cambodia, and they were pursued all the way by gunships and artillery. Eight enemy soldiers made it into the permieter but they were shot down. Four crawled back out, the others were dead. -Lt.

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