The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 13

MEMPHIS MONDAY JULY 3 1995 A13 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL I From Page A12 Hands Tenn stretch of future 1-26 now open to traffic 1965 The first contract was let in 1990 Luanne Grandinetti a spokesman for Department of Transportation said the total cost of the Tennessee side is S170 million Once Tennessee moved ahead on its development North Carolina did too Julia Heggle a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Transportation says the interstate is scheduled to be completed in 2001 but that could be moved up a big priority for Gov (Jim) Hunt" she said North Carolina officials expect the highway will cost $195 million The highway was also a big for McV cWherter who inont tWEEKDFXJUnL3 tissues said Beverly Malone the certified hand therapist and an occupational therapist For certification hand therapists must have at least five experience as a therapist have 2000 hours of working with hands and pass an exam Malone said Patients with hand injuries often have difficulty moving muscles and tissues after surgery Malone said Hand therapy also helps prevent scarring Pirtle was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome about two months ago and sought therapy as a way to avoid sur- never realized the' you should do 1 i said i things how you should do she said learn how to pick things up the proper had therapy twice a week for six weeks and has one more visit she said During the therapy she has gradually reduced the amount of time she has to wear braces on her wrist and said the muscles in her hands have improved greatly Whatever the therapy patients also have to learn alternative ways of doing things Malone said A repetitive motion like the way a person holds something may cause or aggravate an injury and the patient must learn to hold the object another way one can really understand why the nerves react so severely to a said Peggy Adams director of occupational therapy at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital and a certified hand therapist hand is a very delicate instrument If not cared for properly you can cause irreparable damage" In its first two months the hand therapy clinic at The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Mid-South saw 28 patients King the 85-year-old Crosstown resident who broke her wrist hopes to get enough movement back in her hand so she can resume piano-playing may not get 100 percent use of the hand The bone structure is she said the past six years for her job in the travel business Her hands felt like she had been sitting on them and they had fallen asleep One night she woke with heat in her fingers she said fire on the end of my In response to the increased number of hand and wrist in juries the number of certified hand therapists has almost doubled from 1142 in 1991 to 2011 now according to the Hand Therapy Certification Commission in San Francisco The certification process started in 1991 The increase in hand therapists also marks a trend in the health care industry to move patients out of hospitals and get them back to won as quickly as possible said Joe House director of outpatient services at The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Mid-South The hospital added a hand-therapy clinic to its facility two months ago and has been handling eight to 10 patients a day since then open doors or turn said Elizabeth McCaul a 74-year-old Memphis City Schools teacher who fell in April while carrying a book The back of her hand scraped against a sidewalk tearing the skin tissues and muscles McCaul is in her fourth week of therapy at the hand-therapy clinic and visits the hospital several times a week seems a little slow but maybe just she said of her recovery Therapy for patients includes eight minutes under hot packs working a piece of into a 1 re of putty douennut sd finger i ball and then a i wearing customized nnger splints stretching and rolling a towel with fingers only and undergoing ultrasound therapy Patients also are evaluated by specialized computer equipment and are given home exercises The ultrasound increases blood flow and softens the As the workweek begins commuters may want to plan ahead Street work wi block portions of these areas this week: 1 Kirby Road from ML Moriah to Quince 2 Jackson and M0 3 Summer Avenue at Wo River dosed down to two lanes 4 Buntyn from Southern to Felix 5 Hickory HilFtoad from Winchester to Raines 6 Poplar Pike west of Kirby Parkway to Germantown City Limits 7 Stage Road at Scenic Highway 8 Felix from Buntyn to Hollywood 9 Quince and Messfck 10 UB 51 and Noncomah 44 rUnrwinln iiiaat nf Iftdiu Dliiaf JUIktHan (mv kail a miU 11 tnnoaie wbsi or wroy ncwyiVYniuCii tot nan a mna 12 Stewart Road just south of Pleasant Ridge in Arlngton 13 Springbrook Avenue 14 Beale at Orleans 15 Poplar Ave and 1-240 16 Mississippi River Bridge on 1-40 going eastbound 17 Shefey Drive west of Lamar curb lane is dosed 18 MO to Appfing Road one eastbound and one westbound lane dosed 19 Shelby Drive from Germantown Road to Harvest Knol Lane partial blockage 20 From M0 and 240 interchange By Leslie Lloyd The Associated Prats FLAG POND Tenn The day is coming when Worley Sil- vers be able to git in front of General Merchandise and watch all the comings and in this East Tennessee EX1 He and other Flag Pond residents will have to cfimh the hill to a new highway that will become Interstate 26 by 2001 when North Carolina completes itspart The Tennessee portion of the new road is ready for drivers and will be dedicated Wednes- day by Gov Don Sundquist and former governor Ned McWherter The 30 miles of new highway in Tennessee and North Carolina will relieve a curvy hilly two-lane US 23 that has brought the traffic past store for decades That highway has been the main route through the Appalachian Mountains from Unicoi County in northeast Tennessee to western North Carolina: This week the interstate will open from Erwin to Sams Gap where Tennessee meets North Carolina The road has been talked about for decades and eventually will link Asheville NC to Erwin When all construction is done Interstate 26 will run from Charleston SC to Kingsport The North Carolina portion about 15 miles be completed until 2001 Until then the road is still officially US 23 Switchbacks and slow-moving trucks on the old highway are legendary I think a grand thing for said Hubert Metcalf whose house on a sharp curve is bounded on nearly three sides by US 23 "We needed a Metcalf said of (the peo-le) pretty tickled to ive The new highway means that few travelers will pass the clothesline display of quilts that Metcalfs family sells He said the business will move six miles away to a building in North Carolina on US 23 Back in Flag Pond Beverly Rice sits in the general store she runs and talks about the highway with Worley Silvers and his brother Harold On a refrigerator are taped yellowed copies of newspaper articles about 1-26 Rice is not worried about the effect on her business of my business is she says know a lot of the older people are glad to get all the trucks off be so quiet be Such a highway was first proposed by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 4 killed in plane crash during father-son trip mmmMonday never tasted so gooi HUNTSVILLE Ark (AP) Two fathers and sons from Arlington Texas who Were on an annual fishing trip were killed when a single-engine private plane crashed Sunday in Madison County Ark State police identified the victims as William Anderson 46 his son Scott Anderson 18 and Douglas Sloan 48 The fourth victim was 18-year-old son Craig said Cloyd Knight who worked with the elder Sloan at the administrative office of Meridian Oil in Fort Worth Texas William Anderson was the pilot state police said A state police dispatcher said all four died on impact The crash occurred shortly after 10 am near a county Monday Wight is Steak Wight! 14 20 2J 24 2 8 20 i mont Siam C21flQC TWo can grill and iharc one weak for 1950 per vuyv person Accompaniments for both persons Staff map road about 11 miles southeast of Huntsville James Bolinger said his wife Kathy and 19-year-old son James Jr were outside and saw the plane said the wings were dipping right and left and then went into a spin and just nosed straight into the Bolinger said must have pulled up a little because it looked like it hit with the belly down" He said that even inside the house it sounded like the motor was cutting on and off The fathers and sons were close friends who had traveled to Arkansas to fish for the past three or four years Knight said t'-crChoSono As office in January after eight years The prpject went ahead despite concerns about the effect on the environment water quality and the black bear population Two habitat boxes are built under the roadway for bears to use in their migration Two scenic overlooks are to be completed next year 1-26 is expected to provide an economic boost for both states with industrial prospects and tourists drawn to the scenic drive Rice said she will still drive to Johnson City about 30 miles away to spend her money even though just as dose to Asheville NC Yuvonda Jenkins who runs a plant nursery just across the state line in North Carolina said she and her husband took weeks a wreck very fast You can be in Erwin in no she said probably do more shopping in Johnson City Worley Silvers says the new highway will mean less time for him to get to Johnson nightspots want to he jokes He says the interstate is the best thing to happen to Unicoi County Silvers said got the Blue Ridge Parkway beat" Rice said she drove on the highway last fall while the leaves were changing colors it was she said Apparently quite a few of the people living near the highway have driven on it while it was being constructed Grandinetti said she and some other state officials were riding on the highway last year while on state business Their car passed another with an elderly couple driving on the wrong side of the road driven it ever since they Silvers said eft urmrlr closed again The previous owner of The Bam shut down earlier this year after the district attorney began considering legal action realignments that attempt to make public salaries competitive with private salaries Some officials say teachers will see a raise averaging $1158 Teachers though say about half of that raise is due to increases teachers would have received anyway by gaining years of service The Mississippi Association of Educators states the raises are more fairly characterised as on the order of $515-5670 a year Faculty and staff at public universities will get a 3 percent salary increase Faculty and staff at community colleges who have long complained their salaries are not competitive will receive raises of almost 8 percent The state will establish a new Rural Fire Truck Fund over the next two years to provide up to $100000 grants to counties and cities that can provide local matching money Lawmakers Bet aside $25 million for repair of rural bridges the second of a five-year bridge repair program and they up $10 million in mar' grants focal livestock facilities for the construction tion of Businesses that pollute the environment will be encouraged to report their mistakes under a new law that seeks to encourage voluntary compliance with environmental laws The report will be regarded as privileged information and unusable some legal situations A new fishing law establishes July 4 as free flatting day and creates a new $3-for-three-days fishing Cops push for close of beer store GREENVILLE Miss (AP) ing efforts to have the business CMiDlSi oz Filet oz Ribeyc oz Strip oz Sirloin oz T-Bone oz Kaboto $0)50 Jf perpenon Royal Oak Complete Pool Package 24' Reg 2399 Sale Priced at Only TO99 Jut in Tim 1b Beat Hie Sunnier Had 14 ON DISPLAY OPEN SUNDAY Cent Antique Cherry 1 Top Seats Hol Dipped Galvanized SM VIM GMer Style Uprights 10 YsarUnsr 15 Year Warranty $1 49999 ON DISPLAY A drive-through beer store where police say minors purchased alcohol has reopened under new ownership but Greenville police are continu- From Page A12 Laws they are cracking down over the long weekend do beef up the number of officers on Fourth of July (weekend) they will be looking for people drinking and driving a boat" said Vince Caruso spokesman for the Mis- spokesman: ii Department of Wildlife" Fisheries and Parks going to be on the water and have something to drink have a designated driver" Officials though say the wording of the definition of public waters in the new law makes it only apply to lakes and reservoirs not rivers and streams Meanwhile drivers on the road who are under 21 face a less rigorous standard to be charged with driving under the influence of alcohol Mississippi law makes 1 percent blood-alcohol level the legal limit But for drivers under 21 lawmakers lowered that to 08 percent Other new crime laws create the offense of carrying a mandatory 30-year sentence make it easier for narcotics agents to use wiretaps and allow cops to seize vehicles used in dnve-by shootings Police also will be required to make an arrest 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