Page 4 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1977
Court ashed
to alter name
to No. 1069
United Press International
MINNEAPOLIS — Micheal Den-
gler wants to be called 1069. Pro
nounce it one-zero-six-nine, not
ten-sixty-nine.
Dengler, 31, appeared Monday
before Hennepin County District
Judge Donald Barbeau to ask that
his name legally be changed to
the number 1069.
The judge took the case under
advisement and said he did not
know when he would make a deci
sion.
“Lve got to research the laws,”
Barbeau said. “This is the first time
I’ve had anyone want his name
changed to a number,” He added,
“I don’t know why it can’t be done. ”
Dengler lost a teaching job and
was turned down by a judge in
North Dakota in his quest for the
name change. Now he’s working as a
short-order cook.
Dengler represented himself in
the previous court action. This time
he brought along two lawyers.
“Maybe I didn’t represent myself
too well,” he told Judge Barbeau.
Dengler, or 1069, brought along a
computer specialist who said num
bers lend themselves to identifica
tion just as well as names.
The telephone company won’t do
business with 1069 until a court
grants official approval. Neither will
a gas company or the state driver’s
license office.
The phone company gave Den
gler a telephone number under the
name 1069 but won’t list it in the
directory. And if it does, the com
pany isn’t sure where you put a
number for a number.
Northern States Power Co. broke
ranks. The electric utility is billing
Dengler by the name he prefers —
1069.
“Nobody appeared in opposition
to changing his name,’ Barbeau
said. “We checked to see if he
wanted to change his name to get
out of paying bills or escape a crimi
nal record. He doesn’t have a crimi
nal record and doesn’t own any
property. I ve ruled out game play
ing.”
Dengler is divorced and has two
children in the custody of his previ
ous wife. He did not ask that their
names be changed.
He is firm in the pronunciation of
his name — one-zero-six-nine —
but he allows those close to him to
use the nickname, “One-zero.”
With surgery,
vision, hope,
new to Maria
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — With a
broad smile, Maria de Jesus Rod
riguez Hernandez hopped up from
the stairs where she had been sitting
and walked briskly across the living
room of the small rowhouse to
where her sister stood.
Just one month ago, Hernandez
would have needed a guide, or she
would have had to walk slowly,
groping her way as she went.
When she was 9 years old, Her
nandez, now 19, contracted uveitis
— a disease that causes cataracts
and clouding of the jelly-like fluid in
the eye. She went totally blind.
An operation at Wills Eye Hospi
tal in Philadelphia last October,
using a revolutionary instrument to
withdraw the clouded fluid and re
place it simultaneously with a simi
lar substance, restored partial sight
to Hernandez’s left eye. Her right
eye is beyond repair.
The instrument, known as a suc
tion infusion tissue extractor (SITE)
was developed about four years ago
at Wills by Dr. Jay Federman.
Hernandez’s physician, Dr. John
Calhoun, said, “She’s seeing light
very well, but her retina was dam
aged by the uveitis. She’s not seeing
movement in front of her eyes. ”
Calhoun said Hernandez now can
see shadows and colors, and some
movement when it interrupts light.
This makes it possible for her to
move around without bumping into
things, but there is no chance she
will get any better, despite earlier
optimism, he said.
The retina, Calhoun said, was se
verely damaged and because it is
nerve tissue it can not be regener
ated.
“I wish there was more we can
do, but we’ve done all we can surgi
cally,” he said.
Dr. Michael Cortez, an intern at
Hahnemann Hospital who first
learned of Hernandez’s problem
and arranged for her operation at
Wills, said he is seeking Spanish-
language rehabilitation training for
her.
Knowledge is your best
protection.
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