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State / National THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1981 Page 9 r Surrogate mother base contract a first __ 1 I United Press International LJk T IT PASADENA, Calif. — A woman who contracted with a New York Cl vll couple to be artificially inseminated and bear a child for them as a surrogate mother is now seeking to keep the infant she nurtured for . , . , nine months. mce o e erm ™ e ^Superior Court Judge Robert Olson has been given the case to ii(. e saic era an( ] } ie admits that the question of who has legal rights to the n Anglo area near has , eft him -< in a quanda 4 ry .” m i rna ion airpo ■ B^ttorneys for the surrogate mother, Denise Lucy Thrane of Arca- 1 INl imiul! ' dia, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. James Noyes met in court Friday to argue ir P or ' over custody of the baby. charter captain at Ik j uc jg e Olson deferred a decision on the case, which he said may be Marina said the gro^ first 6f its kind in the nation . km three consecutive^|Q| son sa j c ] tR e contract between the couple and the surrogate them to Key Allegro, i |»}j er itself cannot be ignored, but asked, “Does the process of idge s home was locK^l r j in g a outweigh this little contract situation?” t was really strange J rjiy.jj ss xhrane, a divorced mother of three in her 20s, was artificially wanting to go ? ve ^~^Kminated last June using frozen sperm flown in from New York. She Ulegro) every day, t was not p a j ( ] f or th e service but her expenses were covered, attorneys old the News, recaUiil^ icr conditions at tlie6#^'pj ie was reportedly born Saturday, but the mother’s attorney ic law enforcementot ffOU | ( j no j- confirm it. >ort identified one ottkj 'Attorney Noel Keane of Dearborn, Mich., who arranged the trans resort as Harrelson, for the Noyes, said the couple cannot force the woman to give up ators said the; e (j, e baby f or adoption but were asking for custody, to determine condisffy ier Harrelson, a com n, was there, the Newi arrelson remains ji on on various ms, gambling, dm umping charges. Hem; harged in Wood’s desk United Press International jpeatedly denied a- , Texas is one of the 1 t(, P s , tates in lent in the case. ■ nation in size and , wealdl ' But ffien it comes to outlays tor art, the Lone Star state is in the cellar, X / X jMiCordmg to a study by the Amer- tell fCii cari Council for the Arts. ■The ACA study ranks Texas I 10th of the 50 states in per capita Vlf funding. Even worse, four of 1 S' terr i tor i es shell out more _ __ v Biey for the arts than Texas, the IrillmV Nysaid Karan Greene, Texas Commis sion on the Arts treasurer, said the nited Press Intenuikd Commission is at the bottom of the PUS CHRISTI —Tk®propriations list, even though a psychiatric examiiiifiie amount of money it requests is :ermine what chareetiny compared to other state agen- ;ainst a man accussCies. g his paraplegic m The Dolph Briscoe appointee the window of an eikfrom Gilmer, Texas, says TCA’s ispital room, police fppropriations troubles are com- '. fiicated because more than a few 38-year-old suspect, texas lawmakers — most of them id clad only in undei#®i rural areas — are quite con- mother’s hospital .dent for Texas’ arts funds to trail I “religious stuff,’|ie rest of the states. Monday in the Nb “We still have a lot of bias to Jail. lyercome,” she said, e said Fausta Lopez, TCA spokesmen Michelle who recently hadk'^ith said the commission’s by a stroke, was kf“ding is also threatened by the r hospital room « Rea gan Administration’s pro- )osed budget cuts for the Nation- r(Mrs. Lopez fell), k* 1 Endowment for the Arts, went and took a sb® 'The Reagan Administration er said. "He was yePS proposed a 50 percent cut in ah’and‘Godblessy^tal funding for the NEA. That 3 said the suspect, ul| ts not released, wouli o psychiatric examine larges are filed, uspect’s wife was loor of the hospital! ly watched her mol II to her death, Ski waiting for her hush from his mother's fj heard glass brei: Lopez fall, igators said Lopez c obably prevented ng out for help. Interferon cancer tests on humans show promise United Press International DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Drug companies are producing a much purer form of the prom ising anti-viral drug interferon and initial tests indicate it works in humans. Dr. Frank Rauscher, vice president of the American Can cer Society, which has pioneered in the interferon stu dies, reported Sunday the first batches of the protein made by bacteria “factories” were given to three cancer patients in January. Initial and very preliminary results indicate the new inter feron has a strong anti-viral ac tion. Rauscher said it is too soon to know whether the interferon from bacteria will have anti cancer activity. Up to now, scientists have had to use interferon obtained painstakingly from human blood cells. Although the hu man material was diluted, stu dies indicated it had some anti cancer activity as well as being an effective anti-viral agent. This prompted drug com panies to start making interfer on using the new gene-splicing technology on bacteria. The new form of interferon is 1,000 times more pure, Raus cher said. He said the earlier studies showed that interferon pro duced an anti-cancer response in 25 to 40 percent of people with breast cancer and two more rare forms of malignan cies. Only 10 to 15 percent of deadly malignant moles had a response. By response, Rauscher said he meant a stabilization of the disease or a temporary remis sion. No cures have been re ported. Although 60 percent of can cer patients tested have not re sponded to interferon, Raus cher said the initial findings are promising. Rauscher said the interferon produced by bacteria produces the same kind of side effects seen in the kind made from blood — nausea, lethargy, hair loss and suppression of the body’s immune defenses. xN e % Another one of the professionals found at jrniEAR CILAjfjf 209 E. University 846-4771 ranks last in state art fundings would affect Texas directly,” Weith said. She says the NEA has been funding the TCA to the tune of about $500,000 a year, and that money would be sorely missed if it is withdrawn. Because the state appropriated a total of $2.4 million for the arts in the 1980-81 bien nium, NEA’s contribution made up a sizeable chunk of the TCA’s total funding. “If the dollars are cut back at the national level, we ll have less to give the arts in Texas,” she said. The geographic girth of Texas complicates the problem of low funding, she said. “We re a very small agency and we re trying to do a very big job,” she said. “We’re trying to provide arts programs and activities for more than 13 million people with a staff of 19. ” The ACA report did have some good news to report. Texas in creased its arts appropriations 234 percent in 1980 to $1,215,198, the report said. However, that in crease only hiked the per capita expenditure from 1979’s 2.9 cents to 9.3 cents. In comparison, Alas ka ranked first in ACA’s study with 1980 funding of $2.52 per person, followed by New York with $1.87. The commission disburses the funds to various arts organizations across the state through a grants application program. One of MSC Arts Sc Basement PRESENT PAT METHENY GROUP arch 28,1981 8 PM UDDER TH EATER TICKETS MSC: BOX OEFICE TCA’s programs provides match ing grants to community groups sponsoring traveling art perform ances and exhibits. In an effort to shove the Lone Star state up in the rankings for arts appropriations, Weith said the TCA is asking the Legislative Budget Board for $9.66 million for 1982-83. Both Weith and Greene say legislators have frequently been unaware of the economic boon which the arts give a town. “Arts are just good for busi ness,” Greene said. 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