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Researchers develop
better burn treatment
By The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A
researcher says a treatment using
a combination of synthetic skin
and a new anti-bacterial sulfa
:.0
solution has proved a major step
forward in dealing with severe
burns.
University of New Mexico Hos
pital is the first center in the
nation to try the new approach,
said the director of the hospital's
burn unit, Dr. John Kucan.
The combination seems to do a
reasonably good job of keeping
bacteria out and moisture and
heat in, two skin functions which
become critical when a large
...amount of the body covering is
lost, he said.
At least 12,000 of the 80,000
Americans hospitalized for severe
burns each year die.
But the university's analyses
suggest patients with burns over
40 percent or more of their bodies
who are treated with the synthetic
skin and the sulfa solution have a
survival, rate 50 percent above
national averages, Kucan said.
Kucan says he began using the
synthetic skin-sulfa combination
in the fall of 1982, and "our results
have been absolutely superb."
He said the 50 patients who haye
received the treatment so far
range from a 9-month-old baby to
` r people in their 80s. They suffered
burns ranging from 2 percent of
the body to as much as 90 percent,
he said.
The artificial skin, made of pro
teins derived from pig hide and
cartilage bonded to a nylon and
silicone fabric, is used to tempo-
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Jailed grandmas freed without telling secret
By The Associated Press
SHERMAN,. Texas Two grandmothers,
standing firm about keeping their secret, were
freed from jail yesterday after serving five days
for contempt of court because they refused to
divulge where a friend had hidden an estimated
$45,000.
Evelyn Hertzog and Doiothy Pauline Lindsay,
both 65, were ordered jailed Wednesday because
they refused to tell a county judge where Mary
Ellen Bader, 55, had hidden the money.
Bader's children are seeking control of their
mother's estate, contending she is mentally in
competent.
`I feel my sister has not been
justly treated. I'm sorry but
they got up against someone
that does. what is right. I am
not stubborn. I stand for the
law of God.'
Hertzog, who is a sister of Bader, and Lindsay,
a friend, were advised of the consequences of
contempt of court, but they still chose to side with
the widow and to refuse to tell where the money
was stashed.
Harold Hertzog said yesterday that his wife
and Lindsay "are standing firm in their belief"
that they should not tell the location of the Money.
rarily close wounds and has been
available commercially under the
name Biobrane since 1979. , •
The solution was developed in
the early 1970 s by Winthrop Labo
ratories but never submitted to the
Food and Drug Administration for
approval. However, officials at the
University of New Mexico burn
center have conducted indepen
dent, FDA-sanctioned research
with it for more than eight years.
"It became a habit to have this
stuff here," Kucan said.
The synthetic skin can remain in
place up to three weeks while the
doctor evaluates the progress of
healing and what kind of skin graft
might be necessary.
Covering the wound with a con
ventional antibiotic cream causes
a dry scab which must be removed
before grafting and blocks the
wound from view, Kucan said.
In addition, the cream causes
tremendous pain upon application.
"It was almost like burning
them again," Kucan said.
Using the sulfa solution with the
artificial skin causes no pain and
the doctor can see through the skin
substitute and watch the wound as
it heals, he said.
Winthrop spokesman Terry Kel
ly said the company is examining
the university's results, but noted
the nature of burns makes it diffi
cult to conduct controlled, scientif
ic studies of burn prepatations and
to measure their effects consis
tently.
Kucan said about 5 percent of
the patients suffer side effects,
primarily a rash, but "in no way
has this treatment harmed the
patient."
—Evelyn Hertzog
"I feel my sister has not been justly treated,"
Evelyn Hertzog said when she was released from
jail. " If it was just and right, I would do it again.
I'm sorry but they got up against someone that
does what is right. I am not stubborn. I stand for
the law of God."
Lindsay said, "I feel great. It's good to get
out."
U.S. District Judge William Steger in Tyler
ordered the release of the women yesterday
morning. A lawyer for Bader had challenged the
jurisdiction of the county judge who jailed them.
The women were released on $5OO personal
recognizance bond. An April 27 hearing was set to
consider their lawyer's arguments.
Until their release, a jail spokesman said, the
women, both of nearby Denison, were being held
in a standard cell with a couple of beds, a toilet, a
shower and a table.
County Judge Lloyd Perkins said he had to
order the jailing. "I begged them to reconsider
what they were doing," he said. "I let them
consult with their attorney before I cited them for
contempt. I didn't feel I had any other choice."
But Stephen Hefner, an attorney for the wom
en, disagreed.
"That is not the way you handle a court hearing
maybe you did in the Spanish Inquiiition but
not in the 20th century," said Hefner.
Bader's son, Walter, was appointed a tempo
rary guardian of his mother's estate in January
after he convinced Perkins she was mentally
incompetent to manage her own affairs. Bader
has been attempting to gather his mother's
assets for safekeeping.
Bader, of Sherman, says she is not mentally
incompetent and is resisting her son in court. She
Jackson plans trip to Nicaragua
Democratic candidates make final bid for today's primary
By EVANS WITT
AP Political Writer
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that he
would lead a peace delegation to Nicaragua, as
Vice President George Bush accused him and the
other Democratic presidential hopefuls of failing
to take a strong stand against the "disgusting
disease" of anti-Semitism.
Jackson, Walter F. Mondale and Gary Hart
crisscrossed Pennsylvania making last-minute
pleas for votes in today's primary, in which 172
delegates will be at stake.
Polls indicated a close race between Hart and
Mondale, although the former vice president was
expected to come out ahead in the delegate count.
Bush gave the Democratic hopefuls a preview
of the upcoming general election campaign yes
terday by condemning them for not speaking out
more fordefully against comments made by one
of Jackson's key supporters Louis Farrakhan,
a Black Muslim leader. ,
Mondale responded that the Republican vice
president ought to pick up the morning paper
because the former vice president said he had
strongly condemned Farrakhan's statements.
And Hart said he spoke out on the issue last
week, and called Bush's speech a continuation of
the politics of distraction.
Amid that furor, Jackson announced he is
going to lead a peace delegation to Nicaragua
late this month or early in May, because he said
Americans must support the government there
against the CIA-financed efforts to overthrow it.
"The situation in Central America is deterio
rating," Jackson said in Pittsburgh. "We must
support the government in Nicaragua. We have
no right to mine the harbors there."
Guerillas have been mining Nicaragua's har
bors. Recent news reports have said the CIA has
been supervising the operation.
"Mining the harbor'is close to an act of war.
It's 'provocative and dangerous," Jackson said.
In February, Jackson turned down an invita-
has refused to turn over $45,000 in cash she
received when her husband died four years ago.
"I'm not hiding it. I just say that it belongs to
me and he has no right to have guardianship over
me," she said Sunday. "I don't honor that."
During the Wednesday hearing, Bader refused
to tell the judge where the money was. Since she
had been declared incompetent, she could not be
held in contempt of court.
Bader's lawyer, Scott Pelley, said he then
decided to put Hertzog and Lindsay on the wit
ness stand, a move he called "a stab in the dark."
"They indicated they knew where the assets
were and refused to tell us," Pelley said.
`I begged them to reconsider
what they were doing. I let
them consult with their
attorney before I cited them
for contempt. I didn't feel I
had any other choice.'
—Judge Lloyd Perkins
Pelley said Perkins was very patient with the
ladies.
Bader said she is troubled that her sister and
friend were jailed on her behalf. But she said she
had no intention of revealing where the money is.
"We're standing for what is right," Bader said:
"They are trying to take over ownership of my
property. We're standing for truth and justice."
tion to visit the country, saying the time was not
right for such a trip, but promising to go later this
year.
Also yesterday, the Department of Education
told a group Jackson once headed PUSH for
Excellence that it must return $700,000 in
federal funds. The government said the Chicago
based group either misspent the money or failed
to adequately document the spending.
`The situation in Central
America is deteriorating
we must support the
government in Nicaragua. We
have .no right to mine the
harbors there. Mining the
harbor is close to an act of
war. It's provocative and
dangerous.'
—Presidential hopeful Jesse
Jackson
In Washington, Bush told a Jewish lobbying
group the American Israel Public 'Affairs
Committee that all of the Democrats have
fallen short in opposing anti-Semitism.
Bush said Farrakhan has threatened all Jews
and injected a specter of violence into the cam
paign when he threateried a reporter.
"Anti-Semitism, wherever it appears,_
. is a
disgusting disease but particularly when it
appears in our country, where its presence de
files our most sacred traditions and institutions,"
Bush said.
In late February, Farrakhan said, in an appar
ent reference to Jews "If you harm this brother, I
warn you in the name of Allah, this will be the last
AP Laserpholo
Educators cry for
higher-quality texts
By LEE MITGANG
AP Education Writer
NEW YORK In 1914, Ginn &
Co. published a fourth grade prim
er, "The Young and Field Literary
Reader." The print was small, the
pictures few and selections includ
ed classics by Emerson and Victor
Hugo.
By the 19505, the use of coloi in
children's texts was big, the print
was bigger and classic readings
had virtually disappeared. Young
sters got their first exposure to
literature through the stilted, in
ane language contained in what
educators call "basal readers."
Look, look! Run, run!
Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot and Puff
had arrived.
Now, after a year of reports
decrying the rising tide of medioc
rity in U.S. education, the secre
tary of education and other
leaders say "dumbed-down" chil
dren's textbooks are another piece
in the puzzle of what went wrong in
the American classroom.
Textbooks, these critics charge,
have become easier and duller.
"The nationwide effort to attain
reform and renewal of our schools
will fall flat and fail if we do not
improve Our textbooks," Educa
tion Secretary T.H. Bell told a
gathering of school administrators
in Las Vegas recently.
"Basal readers are not part of
the solution. They're part of the
problem," said professor Tom
Cloer, director• of reading at Fur
man University's department of
education.
The calls for education reform
this past year led• some state offi
cials, most notably in California
and Florida, to campaign for
tougher texts.
Last month, education officials
from 22 states met in Florida to try
to demand tougher children's
texts from publishers. But a mul
tistate coalition proposal faltered,
an indication of how formidable
the task is.
William Honig, head of Califor
nia's Department of Public In
struction and a critic of "dumbed
down texts," said reading texts up
•to third grade level were effective
in teaching basic skills. But from
fourth grade on, he said, texts do a
poor job of developing reading and
thinking skills, mainly because the
stories neither plumb the real
world nor teach comprehension.
"I made this pitch to publishers
last November," Honig said, "and
they said, 'our editors would love
to write that kind of text. But will
they sell?'
"Well, I told them they're• the
only kind of kooks they'll sell in
California from now on if we have
our way."
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Tuesday, April 10, 1984
one you do harm."
More recently, he threatened Washington Post
reporter Milton Coleman for reporting that Jack
son referred to Jews as "Hymies." In a radio
broadcast, Farrakhan said of Coleman, "one day
soon we will punish you with death."
Jackson said Sunday that he could not "muzzle
a surrogate who wants to make a contribution."
"As shocking as I find Rev. Jackson's behav
ior, I also Cannot understand why Walter Mon
dale and Gary Hart have not continued to speak
out loudly and clearly against this," Bush said.
But Mondale said he had already condemned
Farrakhan's statements; and Hart added that
any presidential candidate should "disassociate
himself in every way possible from anyone
threatening physical harm to anyone else."
In Pennsylvania, the Democratic candidates
emphasized jobs.
On a five-city tour of the state, Mondale em
phasized his record of fighting for jobs from
his support for federal aid to Chrysler to his
backing - of a plan to keep the Wheeling-Pitts
burgh steel plant open.
Hart told longshoremen at .the docks in Phila
delphia that protectionist legislation would hurt
ports like theirs.
"We can't get into a position where we put up
barriers against products from other countries,"
said the 'Colorado senator.
And he disputed Mondale's claim that the
Chrysler bailout saved thousands of autowork
ers' jobs.
"The same number of people work at Chrysler
today as would have worked at Chrysler if the
government hadn't bailed it out," Hart told the
dockworkers. "The argument that he (Mondale)
makes that he saved people's jobs, in my
judgment, is just wrong."
In Pittsburgh, Jackson hoisted a sign saying
"Reopen the plant. Rebuilt the cities. Labor for
Jackson" and walked a picket line with several
hundred striking shipbuilders. Earlier, he said
his "rainbow coalition" is the key to saving jobs.
"Seventy-five to 85 percent of
what happens in the classroom is
driven by a textbook," said Flor
ida state Sen. Jack Gordon, who
organized the aborted multistate
coalition effort. "So here we are
being held up by textbooks."
But publishing spokesmen like
Don Eklund, vice president of the
school division of the Association
of American Publishers, rejected
the criticism.
Eklund said publishers dropped
most of the dreariest Dick-and-
Jane-type stories in the 19705. The
good books are there, he added, if
schools really want them.
Some publishers have already
turned to higher-quality children's
literature and more demanding
vocabulary.
The current best-selling Hough
ton Mifflin Reading Series con
tains poetry and selections from
such children's classics as "Char
lotte's Web" by E.B. White.
"We have a heavier vocabulary
load in our current series than we
did in 1970 and 1966," said Richard
Gladstone, Houghton Mifflin exec
utive vice president and publisher.
But critics insist most early
readers offer only bland writing
and truncated selections that may
show children the mechanics of
reading, but not the pleasures.
President Reagan's National
Commission on Excellence in Edu
cation charged last year that "a
large number of texts have been
`written down' by their publishers
to ever-lower reading levels in
response to perceived market de
mands."
Said Jean Padilla, New Mexi
co's director of instructional
material and past president of the
National Association of State Text-.
book Administrators, "There are
some areas where textbooks have
improved, like more balanced
treatment of women and minori
ties. But reading levels have been
constantly pushed downward ..
Another repeated criticism of
publishers is that they are slow to
change.
"Publishers won't take any
chances. They don't want to rock
the boat. If enough people want
something, give it to them," said
P. Kenneth Komoski, executive
director of the Educational Prod
ucts Information Exchange, a non
profit consumer group that eval
uates educational materials.
"What we say to the schools is,
tell us what you want," countered
Eklund.
It's not always that simple, crit
ics say. For one
. thing, individual
schools and teachers are often
remote from textbook selection,
especially in the 24 states where
state committees choose text:
books.
state news briefs
Waste dumps may be tainting water
HARRISBURG (AP) Five more hazardous waste dumps have
been discovered at the. Harrisburg International Airport, state and
federal officials announced yesterday.
The discovery is in addition to one landfill found last year
underneath an airport runway.
The U.S. Air Force dumped the material at the former.Olmstead
Air Force Base before the base was turned over to the state in 1967,
said Nicholas Deßenedietis, secretary of the state Department of
Environmental Resources.
According to DER, the deposited material ranged from solvents,
oils, paint, sludges and degreasers to airplane parts, lumber and
Paper.
The dumps may be responsible for the contamination of seven
water wells that' have been shut down since last year, said DER
spokesman Bruce Dallas.
Police charge passenger with rape
PITTSBURGH (AP) A Pittsburgh man got more than he
bargained for when two policemen agreed to give a man a ride,
then arrested him based on a rape report they heard on their police
radio during the trip.
Ernest Howard, 28, of Pittsburgh's Homewood section was jailed
in lieu of $20,000 bond after being charged with . rape, indecent
assault and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, police said.
A woman reported around 4 a.m. Saturday that she had been
raped in bed While staying overnight at a friend's Southside
residence.
A short time later, Howard entered a downtown police station
and asked if anyone could give him a ride to Hazelwood, police said.
Officers Thomas Pobicki and John Mykytiuk agreed to help and
put Howard in the back of their patrol van. Along the way, the
police radio broadcast the rape report and described the suspect,
including his T-shirt bearing the word "Hollywood."
The officers, remembering Howard's identical T-shirt, deliv
ered their passenger to- the city lockup.
nation news. briefs
Jackson charity asked to return aid
WASHINGTON (AP) A social service group once headed by
Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson should
return more than $700,000 to the government for federal aid
improperly spent by the organization, the Department of Educa
tion said yesterday.
The funds were used by PUSH for Excellence Inc., a program
aimed at encouraging young blacks to stay in school and prepare
for job training, The group's parent organization is the Chicago
based Operation PUSH founded by Jackson.
Jackson once served as chairman of PUSH-Excel and made
speeches to promote it but he did not run the organization on a day
to-day basis.
Charles Hansen, director of the management support division of
the Education Department, said most of the $708,431 it wants
returned was spent without proper documentation or justification
for its use.
Four more escape from Tenn. prison
FORT PILLOW, Term. (AP) Four inmates dropped into a
culvert and escaped from a Fort Pillow State Prison work detail
yesterday, less than two months after five prisoners broke out and
led police on a chase that left three people dead, authorities said.
One of the four was recaptured shortly after the escape at 2:30
p.m., authorities said. The inmates remaining at large were
serving sentences for murder or rape.
The recaptured inmate was identified as Gregory Smith, sen
tenced to 210 years for murder and robbery with a deadly weapon,
said John Parish, Gov. Lamar Alexander's press secretary.
Parish, who said the four dropped into a culvert to freedom, said
authorities did not know if the remaining escapees were armed.
Five inmates escaped from a Fort Pillow work detail Feb. 18.
world news briefs
Lebanese' heads approve agreement
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Representatives of Lebanon's war
ring factions agreed on a military disengagement plan yesterday
that a government spokesman called a first step toward ending the
nine-year civil conflict:
Sporadic sniper fire continued along Beirut's mid-city "Green
Line" last night. Artillery crews had traded fire earlier in the day.
President Amin Gemayel was chairman of the higher security
political committee that took up the pullback proposals developed
over the weekend by a military subcommittee.
After the 2 1 / 2 -hour meeting, committee spokesman Mounif Owei
dat told reporters the combatants' representatives had agreed on
the plan for separating the contending factions, and other commit
tees were working to implement it.
Oweidat said the comprehensive plan covered the entire Moslem-
Christian confrontation line from Beirut's closed harbor to the foot
of the Lebanese mountains, and the government's embattled
stronghold at Souk el-Gharb in the mountains.
He gave no timetable for implementation.
Soviet ships depart Gulf of Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) Three Soviet warships conducted exer
cises in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend, about 130 miles south of
New Orleans, before steaming south toward Mexico, Defense
Department officials said yesterday.
The three ships included the 17,000-ton helicopter carrier Lenin
grad, the largest Soviet warship ever to operate in the Caribbean
Sea. The other two were the 8,000-ton destroyer Udaloy and an
oiler, said defense officials.
The carrier was accompanied by a Cuban Koni-class frigate, the
officials said, adding that it was the first time a Cuban warship had
conducted joint exercises with the Soviet fleet.
A U.S. frigate, the Flatley, shadowed the Soviet ships during the
exercises Saturday, the officials said.
The Leningrad exercises apparently were unrelated to the large
scale Soviet naval exercises last week in the northern Atlantic
Ocean.
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