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1 2 A DETROIT FREE PRESSMONDAY, MARCH 2, 1987 7 out of 10 state ward babies are born addicted to drugs Although DSS must protect children, he said, the department must give parents at risk of losing their children a chance to prove themselves. "We try to keep the families together if we can. Even with foster care, we still try to work with the parent 'lf they participate in drug rehabilitation, there's always some hope you can get the baby and the parent together. But it's tough." People wanting to apply to be foster parents should call the Wayne County Department of Social Services at 876-6016. 8:30 a.m.'5p.m.

weekdaysor Children's Aid Society. 875-0020. 8:30 a.m.5 p.m. weekdays. effects the drug might have on their lives.

DR. MILTON LEE, former chief perinatologist at Hutzel, said his studies of hundreds of babies born to cocaine-addicted mothers, especially mothers who abused the drug heavily during the second trimester of pregnancy, showed lower than normal birth weights, premature births and Infants with more respiratory distress symptoms that require oxygen or drug therapy. "These (cocaine, addicted) babies get quite Irritable and I have observed some cardiac irregularities in terms of Irregular heartbeats," said Lee, now chief of obstetrics at Martin Luther BABIES, from Page 1A WITH ONE EYE on Gino, Ann talks of the child she's raised for the past two years: "We got him when he was two weeks old. He cried, he shook. I mean, it was pathetic.

I carried that baby around with me 24 hours a day. My neighbor would come over to relieve me. I cried because there was nothing they can do for this baby. Nothing. "Usually at four months old they're pretty much through it." Kathy Shuler-Shaw is a clinical nurse specialist in the progressive care nursery at Detroit's Hutzel Hospital, where one to five percent of the nearly 7,000 annual births are babies who have illegal drugs in their bodies.

investigation by a DSS Protective Services worker, but the use of drugs by a parent is not enough grounds to remove a child from a home. THE NUMBERS of children in Wayne County removed from a home for the primary reason of drug addiction has risen from 42 in fiscal year 1983-84 to 69 in fiscal year 1985-86. In the last three months of 1986, 28 drug-addicted children were removed from their homes. Keith Larson, head of the Wayne County DSS Protective Services, said drug use by a parent is often suspected in other cases, such as children removed for neglect. Among drug-addicted babies, "the kinds of things that we see in mild to severe conditions are irritability, tremors, diarrhea, sneezing, yawning and a lot of fist sucking.

"Generally, the basic nursing care measures are supportive, comfort-type things," Shuler-Shaw said. "We let them have good hand-mouth proximity so they can suck on their thumb, or offer them a pacifier. Bundling in blankets sometimes helps comfort them; swinging in an Infant swing." Shuler-Shaw and other health professionals said not many studies have been completed on cocaine-addicted children to determine what long-term King Hospital in Los Angeles. Based on data obtained in Detroit, Lee said, "We think that anywhere from 15 to 30 percent of all pregnant women in the Detroit area abuse some substance, such as alcohol, cocaine, opiates or stimulants." He estimates that as many 15 percent of all pregnant women in the Detroit area use cocaine during their pregnancy. Lee said most users of cocaine are users of multiple drugs, which complicates studies of addicted babies because doctors are not sure which drug may be causing which symptom.

Under Michigan law, drug addiction in a newborn is enough to open an False teeth hint at killing's solution Unsolved slaying confounds authorities re! mi SLAYING, from Page 1A Harriette Kern, Merle's wife, called him "a guy who don't have no beginning and don't have no ending." The killing of Eleanor Farver and the mystery of John Burns, who has never been found, will put South Lyon, a community of about 3,000, in the national spotlight this spring when NBC-TV examines the case in a segment of its occasional "Unsolved Mysteries" program. A crew filmed at the Kern barn and in South Lyon last month. The program has a tentative air date of May 25 at 1 0 p.m., said John Cosgrove, spokesman for Cosgrove-Meurer BrNwtJfc. At Productions and Dave Bell Associates, co-producers of the program. Cosgrove said he learned of the case from a 1985 Church shelters 28 Salvadorans going to Canada CITY LIFE, from Page 3A Some border crossings in New York State have reported many more Salvadorans entering Canada.

The reason, said Joe Timmers, the coalition's director, is because the immigration law signed by President Reagan on Nov. 6 places penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. Many Salvadorans, facing an uncertain future, have opted to move to Canada. The Canadians, concerned their borders would be crowded with Salvadorans, began the new procedure. And Salvadorans are beginning to back up here.

They have legal status in the United States only in that they're waiting for another country to decide their fate. The Immigration and Naturalization Service would eventually deport the Salvadorans. Thus, they have been living since last Monday at the parish house and other places around Detroit. The coalition needs help. Here's what they could use: Cash; make checks to the Detroit-Windsor Refugee Coalition, 1000 Ste.

Ann, Detroit, 48216. Bunk beds and twin-size mattresses. The parish house could hold more than 50 refugees making best use of the space. Pillows and towels. Food.

Call anytime to find out what food is needed. Transportation; volunteers willing to drive folks. A washer and dryer, new or fairly new. A doctor to volunteer health-care services. Volunteers, especially Spanish-speaking.

you want to help, call Jonathan Kirken- Free Press report. The biography of John Burns begins when he arrived, already middle age, in South Lyon in 1948. He married a local woman, Anna McMurray, and told her surrounded the barn and searched It but found no one. But they found a space hollowed out among the bales of straw, and peepholes for a view of the house across the road. More Intriguing was the writing on the rough-hewn planks: 1970 a.m.

The little RED school across the way or road I shot and killed the woman 1 loved. Eleanor Farver I was being made a fool. 1 rathe see her dead. Then for another have her. was here 10 days and nights.

1 could have killed the son meny times from here. He was a (skunk) The son hiped put his mother where she liea, today 1 my--self will be dead when this is discovered. Eskridge said Farver and Burns were lovers, and that Farver's son had enraged Burns by telling his mother that Burns was married. Harriette Kern's theory is that Burns lived in the barn for 10 days, sauntered out on the 1 1th with his shotgun, killed Farver and left the area. But the confession refers to the killing in the past tense, suggesting that Burns came back to the barn at least once after the murder.

Eskridge has his own theory. "SIX INDIVIDUALS told me the same story," he said. "They had been personally told by an individual close to Eleanor Farver that (the individual) had tracked down John Burns, had caught up to him, had found him in the he told the other people was that he tracked (Burns) down like a deer by following his footprints in the frost. He killed Burns with a bow and arrow put an arrow through his heart and killed him and buried him." Eskridge said he's not so sure that Burns was killed with an arrow, but does think Burns was killed and is buried somewhere near the barn. One piece of evidence reinforces Eskridge's belief.

The false teeth. Eskridge was a student at South Lyon High School when he was from Altoona, Pa. On their marriage license, Burns wrote his place of birth as Cheyenne, Wyo. Burns People who knew him recalled that he shunned cameras, said Detective William Eskridge of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, who is in charge of the still-open case. ESKRIDGE DOUBTS Burns left the area immediately after the shooting, mainly because of the unusual findings around Merle Kern's barn.

After the slaying, Kern found tracks and trash on his barn floor, and Burns' hunting license. Then he found the teeth and finally a rope that was used for climbing to the upper parts of the barn. "Merle was really scared," Harriette Kern said. "He didn't know if somebody was hiding out." Kern called Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies, who DAYMON HARTLEYDelroll Free Press Detective William Eskridge points to where an actor portraying murder suspect John Burns in a television program re-enacted writing a confession on the barn wall. The actual writing is about 10 feet above that point and too faded to read.

Burns was a janitor there. He knew Burns wore false teeth. There's only one way Burns would be caught without those teeth, Eskridge said: dead. dall. 496-0938.

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