The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 25

Business Farm Markets KBeacon it Sunday February 11 1979 lk Rare Infection Costs Newton Boy His Legs and Hands feet and hands Without blood flow the tissue dies and must be amputated the physician said Bobby also has lost his upper lip and is undergoing extensive grafting to areas of skin that were affected The infection was subdued with huge doses of penicillin but the damage was irreversible He was given only a one in 10 chance of living during the first 48 hours The physician said meningococcal infections are not rare but an infection as severe as Bobby's is extremely rare FRIENDS IN NEWTON where Bobby is a third-grader at Washington Elementary School have set up a fund drive at two Newton banks the Kansas State Bank and Mid land National Bank and more than $1500 already has been raised to help defray the cost of medical bills and the rehabilitation to come been very heartening the support we have gotten from friends in Newton and friends and relatives in said his father Robert Lujano credit manager for Magnavox Co in Dallas Lujano has been at his son's bedside since he became ill Bobby's doctor said there is no reason to expect a recurrence was just so unfortunate at that particular time to be susceptible" he said is no reason to suspect get it again In fact he probably his legs and his little hands been fighting ever since He was such a playful boy He loved sports so much Now he gets so low and cries asking why the lord is punishing him like (his A NICE BOY so lovable He would go to school and come back and hug you and kiss you I don't know hard to take" Why this thing happened to Bobby no one knows His doctor said most people have meningococcus bacteria in their nose and throat Only occasionally does it turn into the overwhelming infection that gripped Bobby "The result was massive off" of small blood vessels particularly those that supply the skin and muscles in the lower legs By JANE FLOERCHINGER Staff Writer Nine-year-old Bobby Lujano has lost his legs and his hands He is lucky to have his life Bobby lives with his grandmother Mrs Hope Lujano in Newton Sunday morning of January 7 1 started feeding my other grandchildren" Mrs Lujano said an i altar boy and he hadn't gotten up so I went to his room He had a temperature of 102 but what really got me he had three or four spots on his forehead and a couple on his chest" The spots were too large for measles she said so die had a son who lives at home take Bobby to the emergency room at Bethel Deaconess Hospital in Newton Penicillin treatment was begun but the meningococcus bacteria that had invaded his blood stream were moving like wildfire BY LATE AFTERNOON the spots had turned into purple blotches and he was bleeding internally A priest was called to give the blessing Mrs Lujano said and arrangements were made for an immediate transfer to St Francis Hospital in Wichita was perfectly well at one point and within 24 hours it was apparent his life was in grave danger and it was also apparent he was going to lose parts of his extremities" said one of his doctors at St Francis who asked that his name not be used sickness just right away took over Ids little said his grandmother lost City Plans $18 Million CIP Budget Staff Photo by Ranac Bodina Passengers board East 13th Street bus on first Saturday of route change Bus Route Change Inconvenient But Noisy Kids 9 Not Deterred By ELIZABETH BROWN Staff Writer just helped an elderly lady across Rock the kids who are coming just to come will be dis- (See BLACK 2B Col 1) courage them from coming to Towne East IS REALLY inconvenient" said an East 13th bus driver who had The shopping center management reasons that many of the teenagers who are causing the problems leave the shopping center on the two bus lines so changing the lines will dis- By FRANK GAROFALO Staff Writer More than $18 million would be spent by Wichita taxpayers this year for street construction and other projects proposed in the 1979-84 city Capital Improvement Program (CIP) The tax dollars would be fed directly into the projects through issuance of general obligation bonds which must be paid off with local tax dollars over a period of years The CIP based on annua! requests by city departments and agencies -m -r will be considered by the Gty Com- Wnn rvfk I pan mission next month The Citizen Par- kJUUUulO i 1 ULU ticipation Organization's Central Council will review it Feb 27 and make recommendations Even if the package of proposed projects is approved it does not mean that each project will be done this year or ever The City Commission later must approve each project as it comes up for consideration for planning and construction funds Many years the commissioners have killed delayed or shuffled projects sheduled various reasons The commissioners also have moved projects up for earlier construction In his CIP cover letter to the commission City Manager Gene Denton also noted "The majority of projects listed are scheduled for budget planning and (that) does not necessarily mean the projects will be completed in the years According to the proposal $455 million would be spent to complete all the projects scheduled for this year THE CITY WOULD raise $18648000 through general obligation bonds with the rest of the costs $26860000 paid with federal funds revenue bonds cash state funds and special assessments on property owners who are in the areas improved During the six-year period 1979-1984 covered by the proposed CIP the city would spend an estimated $169836000 an increase of $3174 million over the 1978-83 CIP The total does not include projects for the city utilities which are supported by their own revenues Denton said a "significant" increase is in the drainage projects proposed through 1984 and for inflation projected over the six-year period Local taxpayers would directly pay Budget Limit Doyen Says TOPEKA AP) The Kansas Legislature needs to address the problem of increasing school budgets in the face of declining enrollments the president of the Senate has said Limiting school district budget increases to 4 percent is one thing that might be considered said Sen Ross Doyen R-Concordia Doyen was speaking during a joint press conference Friday with House Speaker Wendell Lady R-Overland Park LADY SAID SCHOOL budget limits have not been discussed by die House leadership However on Thursday during debate over a bill to impose state spending lid the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep Mike Hayden R-Atwood said could support a 4 percent limit school budget increases "Hayden was speaking for himself" said Lady In the last six years the Legislature has once allowmi school district budgets to go up as much as 10 percent as much as 7 percent in two different years 6 percent once and 5 percent twice School districts with budgets below the statewide median in their enrollment category could increase their budgets as much as 15 percent each of the six years As a result of the budget increases that have been allowed in the last years Doyen said the base for school spending and state aid keeps getting bigger and bigger are getting an excessively large base" he added is time address increases in school finance the face of declining enrollments" Lady reaffirmed his position that recommendation by Democratic Gov John Carlin to increase state aid schools from the state general fund Black Leaders: Bus Rerouting Unfair Rice Firing Slap in Face By MARK COWING Staff Writer a he on in six to in a to by $30 million certainly in the "It's enough to make a preacher want to cuss" cried a stranded 78-year-old shopper She stood waiting at the Towne East Square bus stop holding some packages looking at the Metropolitan Transit Authority notice another shopper had handed her The notice said the East 17th East 13th-East Harry bus lines no longer would stop at the doors of Towne East Square on Saturdays The new bus stop is across the center's east parking lot on Rock Road "I can't walk out there not supposed to carry around more than five pounds" she said looking at her packages DANGEROUS" said Dorothy Harmer as she climbed aboard the East 13th bus crossing this street the light isn't green long enough to get across I don't see how the older people are going to make it" don't even know where the bus is supposed to come" said a middle-aged shopper venturing several feet off the curb into Rock Road looking for the East Harry bus A car whizzed by splashing melted snow on her pants legs The MTA was not trying to inconvenience passengers It was complying with a request from Towne East management which hopes that the changed routes will discourage youths who loitering causing vandalism harassing the customers and just causing problems in general" according to Town East manager Karl Walker "We understand that in any group you're going to have some rotten BOTH MEN said their organizations would work with Towne East managers store owners and customers to try to find a solution The third man to speak at the morning press conference was Jihad Muqtasid a spokesman for Concerned Citizens of Northeast Wichita Muqtasid proposed to invite all area police officers their families and various city officials to a series of Unity Ginics" at McAdams Park The clinics' purpose would be enhance community and police relations through informal associations" he said The first one would be about the first of March THIS IS A direct attempt to end the lingering verbal battle between the department and residents which broke out last December over an alleged brutality incident Muqtasid said Three leaders of Wichita's black community assembled Saturday to complain about the Metropolitan Transit Authority's decision to reroute two buses serving the city's predominantly black northeast sector The men also took the opportunity to denounce Friday afternoon's firing of Jesse Rice former director of the Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and to unveil a plan to improve relations between the Wichita Police Department and black residents in the northeast part of the city The Rev Miller local NAACP president and Kenneth Miller a spokesman for the Northeast Task Force said the MTA is blaming blacks for a problem to which everyone contributes The authority announced last week that on Saturdays the East 17th and East 13th-East Harry Street buses no longer would drive to the doors of DD Miller Kenneth Miller Towne East Square but would drop passengers at the center's eastern edge on Rock Road THE REASON: Towne East officials complained that youths who ride those lines loiter vandalize the area and harass customers Rev Miller said he knew the problem existed but to react to it by inconveniencing only one neighborhood is he added Said Kenneth Miller know it's not the black youth causing all the problems We like to think of it as PEOPLE causing the problems (See CITY 2B Col II I ant Some Facts? Or Some Grapefruit Maybe? That 'must be why they make better cheerleaders The more people appear in your dreams the happier those dreams are I also read a couple of months ago in Psychology Today that the more characters in a dream the better the dreamer's mood upon waking "Good night kids Crowded dreams" And a few more facts for the road: There are at least 178 different emotions that make ns cry you're at the peak of health when the temperature is 64 degrees and the humidity 88 percent and psychologists say that it takes 28 minutes to forget something you just heard Every time you laugh you're burning up i calories Worry eats up eight Two more good reasons to eat a healthy breakfast People who complain the most about their aches and pains are the people with the greatest record of longevity I detect a contradiction here Scientists at Harvard University claim that the more friends you have the longer you live Ten percent of the people in the world never catch a cold in their entire lifetimes And not one of those persons has ever lived in Kansas or anywhere else with weather like this The AMA estimates that one out of eight men snore and that they outnumber women snorers 12-1 Surpriiiise readers! Surprise! Today's column is stocked chock-full of facts Just don't misunderstand It's not that I've gotten so hard up for things to write about that I have to resort to filling my space with facts I just thought it would be a nice change-of-pace particularly considering that the facts are amusing depressing and of course a little weird I've borrowed these facts from an article by Jack Hood in the Feb 20 issue of Family Grcle taking only the choice bits From here on the bold face gems are the facts and the light-faced foolish comments are mine: Scientists at Harvard Uaiversitv I wonder how many calories snoring burns up If you're happy going to work in the morning you've got the best possible protection against heart attack Either that or you've got a real drinking problem Your body has enough sugar for two cups of coffee enough carbon to make 9808 pencils and enough water to bathe in And I had heard that the human body is supposed to be a holy temple or something Sounds more like a convenience store to me Or a motel room According to studies women have better memories for names than men do claim that the mere friends you have the longer yen live Or maybe it only seems that way Psychologists claim that the person who loves olives and celery has an IQ that is higher than normal If yon like grapefruit I also) yon may be a genius Would all the seniors due to take their IQ tests this period please report to the Gives celery and grapefruit?.