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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1981
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Surrogate mother
base contract a first
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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.
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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
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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.
For instance, the Pompeii ex
hibit brought millions of dollars
into Dallas coffers as people flock
ed to the metroplex to see the dis
play.
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