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Tyler ltfralag Telegraph SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1982 Fat Cop Sheds Weight, Dot Not Quite Enough ospital Lawsuit Settled For Q8 Million Mecdih ivfl Lawrence E. Lamb. M.O. Spectrum Of Depression agreement to settle a lawsuit.

The money is intended to give the child lifetime support and medical care plus damages of $1.2 million. If invested, it could have a potential value of $122 million over the course of the child's life, estimated her attorney, James Bostwick. The suit was filed by the child's -parents Jocelyn Cunningham, 34, and Charles Younger, 37, of Cupertino. The suit alleged that the hospital, Dr. Joseph R.

Hop- Sec. 3 kins and Mid-Peninsula Health Services a health service organization for which Hopkins practices, were oegl igent-intheirst -hour after the April 7, 1980, birth of Anna Younger. The child was determined to be in satisfactory condition after delivery, court documents said, but began breathing irregularly several minutes later. Younger, who was holding the baby, asked the doctor and nurse present several times to check the baby, but they refused, the suit said. Fifty-five minutes after delivery, the doctor and nurse checked the baby and found that her heart and breathing had stopped.

The infant was revived but suffered severe brain damage. According to Bostwick, the child appears to be educable and may have normal intelligence. She cannot control her arms or legs, so she will always need special care. According to the agreement, the little girl will begin receiving support payments of $81,960 on Oct. 1.

By the time she is 22, she will be re-. ceiving $275,000 per A University of Santa Clara economist estimated the present cash value of the settlement at $8.1 million. The money will be placed in trust for Anna, who lives in Morgan Hill with a foster parent experienced in caring for disabled children. 6701 S. Broadway South of Red Barn Square 561 day to look forward to." With the expiration of his leave, his benefits run out, and he is uncertain how he will support his wife and two sons.

During his leave, he said he could only find odd jobs. But he is determined to drop 57 more pounds and apply for his old job. Lynch plans to continue his physician-supervised diet, exercise and behavior-modification program. "I've gone this far, I've lost 157 pounds," he said. "I'm not about to throw it all away." Dooze Making Dig Business In Small Town SUWANEE, Ga.

(UPI) -The tiny town of Suwanee has bankrolled so much money since liquor sales were approved in 1980 that residents will not have to pay' property taxes this year." Suwanee, located about 20 miles north of Atlanta, is where the Atlanta Falcons football team train. It presently has one package liquor store and two cocktail lounges. It is also the only oasis for miles around, since the county in which it is located, Gwinnett, is dry. David Holliday, owner of the package store, admits to doing a booming business. "I'm not sure how much we pay in taxes, because it is deducted by the wholesaler, but it is a lot," Holliday said.

"Being the only store in the area definitely helps." The Suwanee City Council, meeting in a special session Thursday night, voted unanimously to abolish the property tax in the town of 1,034. "I think the city has adequate funds and I think we can just forget about the taxes for this year," Mayor Herman Terry told the council members just before the vote was taken. "A couple of years ago, we voted in liquor and then voted in mixed drinks," Terry said. "That's what brought the money in. One councilman said he opposed the liquor referendum two years ago, but he's glad to reap the benefits.

"I was against it to begin with, but since it's here reap it," he said. State Migh Test Area along with Helen Niason of Washington, Utah, as she described the leukemia death of her 13-year-old son Sheldon in 1959. "He was so cute with those long black eyelashes, she said. "I couldn't stand to see him sick. He got so thin and so pale." She said the government encouraged people living in Washington about 200 miles east of the test site to go outside and watch the early morning blasts.

She said the people trusted the government. "The government was the most marvelous thing. They wouldn't do anything wrong," she said. "They wouldn't lie to us." (Just more severe and longer disorder of the manic-depressive. There is another danger.

It is not always easy to recognize depression. A man may be impotent because he is depressed, not because he hates women. Another pet-son may have chronic constipation as a symptom but it may be caused from depression. You will appreciate reading The Health Letter 10-10, Depression: The Ups and Downs of Life, which I am sending you. Others can send 75 cents with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for it to me, in care of this newspaper, P.O.

Box 1551, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019. DEAR DR. LAMB am a female. A couple of years ago I had a tubal ligation done for health purposes. I would like to know if there is any chance of getting pregnant.

Is this a sure method of birth control? I have never-been sexually active but I would -like to know what to expect should I decide to do so. Can I do it without worry? I read that a sterile womb is a seat for cancer later in life. Is that true? 4 DEAR READER If you have had BOTH tubes ligat-ed there should be, no way that an ovum can enter the tubes and be fertilized. Tubal ligation done for the purposes of birth control is one of the most effective and sure methods available. Rarely the tubes reunite or overcome the injury of ligation.

You should check with your doctor to be sure what kind of operation you had and that it involved both tubes. If the tubes are ligated and the ovaries are healthy and left alone your uterus should function normally. In that case you should not have any more problems than other woman who never becomes pregnant. I know of no evidence that lack of having children predisposes a woman to cancer of the uterus. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) DEAR DR.

LAMB I am a manic-depressive. I know plenty of others in the same boat, some better some worse. One of the biggest injustices to us is the overemphasis given to will power. Will power is fine. It is important in patients with heart problems, diabetes or any other chronic physical problem.

My psychiatrist and internist agree that chronic depression is a physical disease caused by a chemical imbalance. Many news stories and even medical columns seem to say our problem is mostly weakness, that we "don't strive to help ourselves." What a put-down. No one should be told that will power will heal. We don't need a guilt trip added to our other problems. By taking medicine faithfully and trying to diversify my activities I function normally.

Twelve years and a long fight back from a complete mental breakdown have given me insight into this disease. Please urge anyone in a depression that lasts beyond a few days to seek help. If I had found help I would not have had such a long fight back. DEAR READER -Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You are mostly right in your remarks.

You can add to "will the frequent comment that a friend you can talk to will solve the problem. It won't, and that is dangerous meddling. Depressions are dangerous disorders and can be life threatening. The only proper course is to get professional help, and the sooner the better. Part of the confusion stems from the broad spectrum of depression.

Everyone has mood swings. The degree and duration is the important point. In fact, those disappointments in life and mild depression or mood swings are part of developing a mature personality growing up. But these are vastly different from the Committee on Aging chaired by Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa.

Echoing Reagan's philosophy that private industry should become more involved in putting Americans to work, Ms. Tolliver called for the corporate sector to take more of a role in programs for the elderly. "There should be a greater PITTSBURGH (AP) Ordered to trim down or lose his job, Logan Township police officer Joseph Lynch lost 157 pounds in one year, but he missed his goal by 57 pounds, and now he's out of a job. Lynch weighed 514 pounds Sept. 16, 1981 when the supervisors in the Blair County community granted him a year's leave to reach 300 pounds.

"I think I gave it a maximum effort, and it just wasn't good enough," Lynch said in a telephone interview Thursday night. "It was really not an easy thing to do. But it was there and it had to be done," Supervisor Clpyd Forsht said. Police tenure laws in Penn- avania limit leaves to a ir, so the supervisors could not extend his leave, Forsht said. But the board will not fill his job, and "the implication is there that if he can meet the qualifications, I believe he would get his job back," the supervisor said.

Lynch had been disciplined and suspended twice before the leave because of his weight, Forsht said, and last year the board asked him to take a year off to lose 214 pounds or be dimissed. Lynch agreed to submit his resignation, effective Thursday if he still weighed more than .300 pounds. Forsht said community safety prompted the decision, lie described 300 pounds as an arbitrary figure the board considered reasonable "even though it's still overweight." "It got to the point where he couldn't get out of the cars anymore," he said. "The question was whether an officer of that size can perform his duties, and quite frankly, the answer had to be Lynch said he did not expect his resignation to be accepted, however. But he declined comment on the supervisors' action.

"I can't say anything that would jeopardize my job," he said. "He made a good effort. We took that into consideration when we left the door open," Forsht said. If Lynch reaches 300 pounds, the board will count his 11 years on the force when it reviews his application. For year, Lynch said, "I was aiming for today.

What a Official On PITTSBURGH (UPI) -The federal commissioner on aging Thursday defended President Reagan's policies on the elderly, rejecting as a "misperception" the, view that the administration is insensitive to senior citizens' needs. Lennie Marie Tolliver, addressing a national conference of programs that provide meals to the elderly, said the administration is being characterized unfairly as cutting funding for programs serving the aged. 1 "I think that has been a misperception," Ms. Tolliver said. "In 1981, the federal support for older persons was around 26 percent.

In 1982, it's running over 28 percent." In fact, she said, because the number of older Americans is growing and becoming more vocal, the president and particularly Congress have become more responsive to their needs. She cited the president's Charlss F. Stringer, M.D. tMMril Practice Announces The opening hit office 938 S. Baxter Suite 1104 Tyler, Teias 595-6844 Special In a prepared statement, her parents called it a "hoi-' low victory for no amount of money can correct the damage However, they said the settlement will allow their daughter to "always receive the best of loving care and hopefully make a lasting contribution to, the world." Lightning Kills 4-Year-Old Coy HEARNE, Texas (AP) A 4-year-old boy was killed Thursday afternoon when he was struck by a bolt of lightning in this Central Texas town, officials said.

John Horton was standing outside his home under a tree when it was shattered by a lightning bolt about 3:30 p.m., according to Robinson County Peace Justice Jack Mathews. The boy was killed instant--ly and brought by his parents to Robinson Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Mathews said, Funeral arrangements were pending. 1435 Troup 593-4161 1 Block Gibsons S0UTHSIDE FURNITURE "Quaky lurnilure at affordable prices Kim Pal Melius Owners 9-6 Youi Celling Fan Open Mon. -Sat. 10-6 3607 TM Lifetime Warranty Reverse blades Limited Quantities Ceiling Fan! 1 Aging Defends Eeagan Policy WE ARE UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP! We have received several new and exciting fans from Calcutta Fan Company.

If you have been waiting for a ceiling fan with that extra touch of quality and elegance, WAIT NO MORE! They are on display HERE at Olde Tyme Ceiling Fans, for you to see and select the fan that's just right for you! STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -An $8 million settlement was agreed to Thursday to support a 2-year-old whose parents- argued she became a quadriplegic because doctors and nurses ignored her breathing problems. The out-of-court settlement was agreed to. by Stanford University Hospital, a doctor, a health organization and the parents of Anna Younger. Santa Clara County County Superior Court Judge ward Panelli ratified the Leukemia In A-HJonib SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Following the Cold War-era atom bomb tests in Nevada the leukemia death rate in rural communities downwind from the blast sites was much higher than the national average, a federal health official testified Monday.

But Dr. Clark Heath of the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta would not directly link the deaths to the open-air nuclear blasts. He said the relatively small number of deaths could be a matter of chance. Heath testified in a multi-million dollar damage suit brought by people who say radioactive fallout from A-bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s caused and death. The suit could ultimately affect nearly 1,200 claims for damages filed against the government.

Heath began studying cancer rates downwind from the Nevada test site in 1961 "because of an apparent cluster of leukemia in that area." He found four cases of leukemia from 1960-64 in tiny Fredonia, an incidence 20 times greater than what would normally people. He said there were 11 deaths in several southern Utah communities in 1959 and 1960, a number many times higher than the predictable, average for an area with such a sparse population. At the time of the study, Heath concluded the deaths seemed due to chance. But under questioning by attorney Dale Haroldson, he agreed the latency period for leukemia was generally six to eight years. "And of course these deaths came six to eight years after a very heavy fallout period in 1953," Haroldson said.

"Yes, but you have to remember that the diagnoses of leukemia did not all come in 1959 and 1969. Many came several years earlier," Heath replied. The expert testimony testimony came on the concluding day of first week of the nonjury trial. Earlier, relatives of the dead leukemia victims described the hurt and trauma they experienced when their loved ones became sick and died. They also recalled how they watched the sky light up from the tests and saw clouds of radioactive dust drift across their town.

And they recalled how the government told them the clouds did not pose a health hazard. Ten friends and relatives of cancer victims testifed Thursday. Courtroom spectators wept State Continues Plan To Widen Kilgore Road KILGORE The State Department of Highways and Public Transportation is continuing with plans for the reconstruction and widening of Farm to Market Road 1249 in Kilgore from U.S. Highway 259, east to nearby Higginbot-ham Road. The proposed project will provide four driving lanes, a flush median for left turns, curb and gutter, and storm sewers.

The right-of-way width required varies from 80 to 200 feet, depending on the vertical alignment of the roadway and roadside conditions, a spokesman for the department said in Tyler. Work will now begin, on the next phase of engineering in the overall development of this project. Maps and other drawings showing the location and design, environmental studies and other information about the project area are on file and are available for inspection at the office of Robert Ward, supervising resident engineer, on U.S. Highway 259 south of Long-view. JO Fabrics, Wallpaper, cts Why buy a copy when you can buy an Steward Doubles For Dallas Child Millers support for an end to mandatory retirement and the recent congressional override of Reagan's veto of a supplemental appropriations bill.

The appropriations bill contained a provision for $211 million in additional funding for Title 5 of the 1965 Older Americans Act, providing for employment and community services programs for the elderly. "I think there was a difference in philosophy (between Congress and the administration)," Ms. Tolliver said. "I think that the members of Congress knew that this was a very popular program and the members of the older population made their wishes known to them," Ms. Tolliver said.

But a congressional committee staffer warned that because fiscal matters are "overshadowing" Congress, legislation concerning the elderly including a bill to end mandatory retirement might become less of a priority- "I think that progress on specific kinds of legislation for the elderly are going to have an increasingly difficult time," said Mike Rogers, a staffer on the Senate Special LEASE AS LOW AS 69 95 Mm 00 effort to put public work in the private sector," she said, adding today's elderly are healthier than their counter parts of years past and are eager to work. The nation's elderly population is a "resource that has not been tapped as it should be," she said. syth said. The child was shot on his birthday, he said. "We are making an appeal to this female to come forward and identify this man," said Forsyth.

"We know she did not participate in the murder itself and may not know what actually happen to the mother and child." He said her information would be kept confidential and that she could qualify for the reward, sponsored by Schepps Dairy, which Forsyth said was a business concerned with "staunch law enforcement." The male was described as about 5-feet-10-inches tall, strongly built, about 180 pounds and 30-35 years old. He had short black hair and a stubby beard at the time of the abduction, he said. Texas Tar Plant To Open UVALDE, Texas (UPI) Synthetic Fuels Corp. has tentatively approved plans for a crude tar extraction plant in south Texas that will eventually create 700 per; manent new jobs, it was announced Friday. The announcement was made in Austin by Gov.

William Clements' office. The proposed new plant, which would create about 2,000 jobs during the con-, struction phase, would operate in Zavala and Maverick counties southwest of Uvalde. The proposal, called EN-PEX-Sentaro is a joint venture of Texas Tar Sands, Superior Oil, Getty Oil, Whitier Interests and Enpex Corp. Final approval for the plant is expected within four to six months. Construction would begin in 1983 with completion expected in late 1984.

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