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Patient eels He Had Hand in New Paqe Oncology Unit at Doctors Hospital 1 I THE LULUI ILUj BM I 1 i ti? fil i E3 I 1 Wt BBH I I WSZTWI linlest xH fmM Lm 1 fcfeffero ffin KiHliXciH IMCMffl '1 tllM I I I i iK? fJi St ff Hlfe tfiJL ja I $4000 77I See Charlie Criss fW CaSnWOrd Criss Stands Tall Puzzle At the oul Line I Burks Stay Alive Page 6 Storm Causes Damage Tfcxjlsiy On the Schedule Muscogee schools concert in the park features the Muscogee All City Elementary Band at 7 the Marshall unior High Band at 7 30 and the Columbus All City Elementary Band at 8 free at the band shell at Weracoba Park on Cherokee Avenue On the Tube The Peanuts caddies face hazards on the links in Adventure Charlie a special at 8 tonight on Channel 3 Peter Ustinov Bette Davis and David Niven star in on the a movie at 8 tonight on Channel 9 Inspector Poirot seeks the killer of an heiress who had many enemies 25: Yesterday Today borever a special ton Channel 38 features at 9 tonight Channel 38 Diana Ross top artists from the Motown record label They include Michael Jackson Lionel Richie Diana Ross Richard Pry or Smokey Robinson Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye Linda Ronstadt Jackson ive The Miracles and The Supremes I On Sports was such a big word here Sunday have sworn it was spelled with 1000 letters instead of two we win the first Johnson baseball coach at Chattahoochee Valley Community College said win the Winning the first one is what his Pirates could not do They even come close Wallace Dothan pounded CVCC 14 2 to make a second game unnecessary as the Governors won the Alabama Junior College Conference baseball tournament See Larry report on Page A 9 Coming Tuesday Columns by Edwin Yoder a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist begin on the Tuesday editorial page Sunny Warmer airand cool tonight with the low in the upper 50s Sunny and warmer Tuesday with the high in the upper 80s (See Page A 2 for more about the weather) Inside Story Action Line 5 Alabama News A 6 Business 6 Cashword 6 Classified 8 12 Comics A 8 Dear Abby 3 Deaths 7 Editorials A 4 ocus 3 Georgia News A 5 House Call 3 Jack Swift Military News 2 Modem Living 1 3 People 5 Sports A 9 12 TV Movies 5 Voice of the People A 4 i Almost half the married women who responds! to a new survey say cheating on their husbands or did in the past but a majority vsaid they felt guilty about it See Page 4 I Staff Photo bv Allen Horne a 4 Wfearfr ftr i A AjUi A '4 iBBPb 4 a LA X' 'k7l 'v 'I it i a 3Srr I hJgL ii fllS tfcfe sTiI IsLiJfcl Covering Over Gasoline Pumps Was Uprooted and lipped Over by High Wind at Sing Station on St Marys Road at Bypass Possibility Of Small Tornado Not Ruled Out By Kathy Trimarco and John Staff Writers A savage spring storm today sent area residents running for cover damaged trailers picked up roofs felled trees and cut power to about 5000 homes and busi nesses all within 15 minutes National Weather Service spokesman Ron Stevens said the service rule out the possibility that a small tor nado touched down in the south parts of Muscogee and Russell counties about 5:30 am today is no official indication that this was a Stevens said possible that a small tornado could have been hidden in the heavy Stevens said the storm system which dumped almost an inch of rain on the area within an hour moved from Mont gomery Ala to Columbus in just over an hour The swift moving storm wrought its havoc between 5 am and 6 am but skies were clearing by 8 am Winds at the Columbus Metropolitan Airport were clocked at 32 miles an hour high enough to cause any dam Stevens said but he guessed winds in the south part of town must have whipped up to at least 50 miles an hour to cause the damage reported there did put out a statement about 5 am that we could be having some high Stevenssaid we had noth ing to indicate anything like this It was a freak Operations Returning Her Smile PITTSBURGH (AP) After two operations and months of therapy Maureen McVicker is gradually recov ering something she lost 7y2 years ago hersmile Mrs McVicker was physically unable to smile after the left side of her face was paralyzed during the removal of a brain tumor But doctors re animated her face by grafting a muscle that controls chewing to an area under her left cheekbone won't ever be perfect I know But getting said Mrs McVicker 34 who underwent a 42 hour operation eb 10 as a followup to surgery last August have to practice You have to get the strength back into muscles that you used in 72 years like lifting weights to build the muscles back up a little out of she added in a recent interview The left side of Mrs McVicker's face drooped uncontrollably after her facial nerve was severed during the removal of the tumor But with the muscle graft she can simulate a smile by clenching her teeth She strengthens the muscle by chewing on a cork and practicing in front of a mirror "Not everyone gets an opportunity to recreate a face" said Mrs McVicker a former bank clerk with five children almost like a sculptor taking clay and making a whole new face recreating an image like a totally different Her husband William said the trans formation has been more than physi cal a miracle what the doctor has done You can see the difference going to help her go out and be with McVicker said The two operations were performed by Dr Mark May an ear nose and throat specialist at Eye and Ear Hospital who has done 45 similar operations since 1976 the concept is to substi tute a muscle system that has its own Maureen McVicker Before iBt jgy SMB Mrf I IkOW tS if terms' And After Operation blood supply and nerve supply for one that's said May The surgery helps people psychologically as well as physically the doctor said "Making their face move restores their personality and literally restores their he added Mrs McVicker like going out in public or having her picture taken State Spending Its Road unds Early Georgians can travel 1200 miles of interstate highway 18300 miles of state highway and 72606 miles of county roads See Page A 5 ATLANTA (AP) The state of Georgia is out of the gate fast this year in spending federal dollars on state highways Georgia spent $2106 million in federal highway funds during the first four months of the year up 401 percent over the same period last year according to federal figures almost 10 times more than the national av erageincrease Some of the increase is due to allocations under the new federal gasoline tax which went into effect April 1 but just as important is the money federal officials can dole out for specific projects said Harry Murphy a spokesman for the Georgia De partment of ransportation always ranked in the top 10 states in getting discretionary funds We have projects on the shelf so we can move when money becomes At the Sing ood Store 3809 St Road the two ton canopy covering the gas pumps was lifted from its supports and thrown against the store coming to rest partly on the roof Two gas pumps were tom from the concrete and all the windows were smashed Parlay Thorne manager of the store said he and two other employees heard the storm approaching about 5:30 am see it coming but we heard i it and it was three of us trying to hold the doors Thome said the doors started to pulsate we ran to the back of the At Victory Auto Sales 3363 Victory Drive one car in the lot was damaged when the car sign was blown across it Trees were uprooted and flung across Steam Mill Road closing portions of the road this morning until city crews could clear them away No serious injuries were reported Georgia power crews worked to re store power outages caused by downed lines in the Steam Mill area that left See STORM Page A 2 Lebanese Parliament Approves Agreement on Troop Withdrawal By The Associated Press The Lebanese Parliament unanimously en dorsed the US mediated troop withdrawal agreement with Israel today despite Syrian objections that will delay its implementation The Israeli Knesset convened in Jerusalem to consider formal approval of the accord state radio said all 80 members present out of the 91 members of Parliament voted in favor of the Lebanese government signing the agreement Authorities had ordered extra security for the session and police sealed off approaches to the mid city Parliament build ing Lebanese President Amin Gemayel did not' need the approval to sign the pact because of special powers the body granted him last year and renewed last week But he wanted the vote as a sign of broad support for the agreement for which Gemayel is trying to rally Arab backing Parliament conducted what was ex pected to be a long debate in Jerusalem in preparation for a vote to approve a signing which could take place Tuesday Criticism of the agreement cut across party lines but Prime Minister Menachem government was expected to win approval for the accord "It is not absolutely good but it can always be said that an agreement could be better" legisla tor Michael Kleiner of dominant Likud Party said defending the pact Opposition Labor lawmaker Victor Shemtov criticized the agreement saying the clause formally ending the state of war between Israel and Lebanon not worth the blood of one Israeli The parliamentary sessions came one day after Israeli and Lebanese negotiators agreed on the final text of the pact which calls for Israel to withdraw its 25000 troops from Lebanon when Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization pull out their forces Syrian oreign Minister Abdul Halim Khad 7 dam objected anew to the pact in an interview published today in As Safir newspaper saying: agreement will not pass and will not be implemented because we will not allow it to be passed irrespective of how matters in the I region PLO chairman Yasser Arafat told leaders of his atah guerrilla faction Sunday in Damascus that "the way out of this present deadlock is ji taking a decision to wage war to change the balance of ft i.