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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elvis
Presley was a drug addict and re-
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11 lying Nichopoulos on 14 counts of
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ou knowi Miller said Presley actually had
a candil Tew health problems. "His real
eitsapeo] problem ... was drug abuse and
tells me addiction, ” he said.
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ins the In treatment, Miller said, Nicho
las elect poulos continued to prescribe
open, k “vast amounts” of stimulants, de
pressants and painkillers for Pre
sley.
“You are going to hear and you
are going to learn that staggering
amounts (of drugs) were pre
scribed in 1975,” Miller said.
“They were even greater in 1976
and in the last seven and one-half
months of this man’s life, the
drugs were being prescribed in
even greater quantities.”
He told the jurors that medical
experts would testify the prescrib
ing habits and practices of Nicho-
poulos were not in line with
accepted medical practice.
He is accused of overprescrib
ing drugs for Presley, Jerry Lee
Lewis, himself and eight other pa
tients “not in good faith to relieve
pain and suffering and not to cure
physical infirmity or disease.”
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BIG SKY, Mont. — A Texas oil
company has purchased controll
ing interest in Big Sky, the south
western Montana ski resort found
ed by the late network newscaster
Chet Huntley.
Boyne-USA Resorts of Michi
gan wall relinquish control of the
resort Thursday to a five-member
limited partnership dominated by
Mid-Texas Oil and Gas Inc. of
Eastland, spokesman Mike
Davitch said Monday. Boyne will
remain in the partnership but will
not have control, Davitch said.
The other three partners are
retired oilman-geologist John A.
Barnett of Big Sky, William R.
Dickson of Denver and Dick
Mobius of Snowmass, Colo.
Davjtch said Barnett will man
age the 8,000-acre resort. It boasts
35 miles of downhill ski trails, an
18-hole golf course, four chairlifts,
a gondola and the 214-unit Hunt-
ley Lodge.
Bamett moved to Big Sky in
1980, Davitch said, after retiring
as a geologist and industrialist who
has had various ownership in
terests in oil companies, most re
cently a co-ownership of Seaboard
Oil of Abilene. Barnett at one time
also owned a geological mapping
firm and the Los Alamos (N.M.)
Chronicle, Davitch said.
No information would be dis
closed about Dickson or Mobius,
Davitch said.
Boyne-USA Resorts purchased
Big Sky in 1977. Huntley, a native
Montanan who retired from an
NBC News anchor position to re
turn to Montana, had built the re
sort in alliance with the Chrysler
Corporation.
Big Sky sits in the Gallatin Na
tional Forest west of Yellowstone
National Park, and Huntley en
countered unexpected opposition
from outdoors groups and delay
from the U.S. Forest Service
when he proposed the resort. He
died before the project was
finished.
. . . FOR THE LETTER KILLETH,
BUT THE SPIRIT GIVITH LIFE ,,
(II Cor. 3:6)
The Holy Scriptures are the divinely inspired Word of
God, and therefore to be fully believed, highly rever
enced, and strictly obeyed. Since faith comes from hear
ing the Word of God, and “the just live by faith,” we
must ever remember that the basis of the Christian life is
a constant meditation upon and simple acceptance of all
that the Bible would say to us. But as Christ’s work of
redemption in the flesh was only preparatory to His
future indwelling us by the Spirit, so the written doc
trines of Scripture are only a means to all that inward
teaching and powerful working of Christ’s Spirit within
us. As we must beware of neglecting the Word of God,
so also we must beware of resting in the mere letter
without expecting through the indwelling Holy Spirit a
real and living experience of all that Scripture holds out
to our faith. Nothing of divine love, life, or goodness
can have birth or place in us but by inspiration and power
of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. So they who imagine
these virtues can be acquired by studying the letter of the
gospels and epistles are under the same deception as the
Jews that Christ said would not come to Him because
they thought eternal life was in and by the Old Testament
Scriptures alone . . .
In this fallen state of the Church today, Bible scholars
are everywhere given over to the self-assuming work
ings of their own natural intellectual powers. Preachers
and teachers come forth to play the orator with gospel
mysteries as though the kingdom of God were a king
dom of words; and not as it is in reality the inward work
of the Triune God in the soul and spirit of man. . .
Christ said to those who sought after the letter, “In
them (the Scriptures) ye think ye have eternal life; but
these are they which testify of me: and ye will not come
to me that ye might have life.” To come to the Scrip
tures and to know all the letter of them is of no avail
unless through them we are led to the crucified Saviour
to receive life from Him. Christ Himself, brought to life
in us through the new birth, is our whole redemption,
justification, and hope of glory. This is the one thing
said and meant by Christ. “Except a man be bom again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “lam come that
they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly.”
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Presley died at his Memphis
mansion in 1977 at the age of 43,
the day after officials charge he
received a large batch of drugs
from Nichopoulos. The results of
an autopsy performed on Presley
have never been released, but
Shelby County Medical Examiner
Dr. Jerry Francisco has insisted
Presley died of heart problems.
If convicted, Nichopoulos faces
a minimum of two years and a
maximum of 10 years in prison on
each count. He could also be fined
up to $20,000 on each count.
In remarks to prospective
jurors Monday, James F. Neal,
Nichopolous’ attorney, offered a
glimpse of his defense.
The Army gave stimulants to
soldiers in the 1950s and 1960s “to
keep them awake” on duty, Neal
said to jury alternate Donald
L.Gerad.
Although Neal did not touch
directly on the subject in the cour
troom, Presley served in the Army
in Germany from 1958 to 1960.
“Suppose I was to have to tell
you Elvis had a horrible drug
problem — is that going to cause
you to fail to be fair?” Neal asked.
“I suppose we would all say
Elvis was a fine young man and
entertainer, but the proof in this
case will show he had terrible
problems,” Neal said. “He was a
terribly sick person — physically .
and emotionally.
Miller and James Wilson, both
assistant district attorney gener
als, have not discussed with repor
ters the evidence they intend to
present against the physician.
Surgeons staple, stitch
fat American stomachs
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — A life
time of overeating will force
nearly 50,000 radically fat
Americans to get their stomachs
stapled or stitched down to the
size of shot glasses, a panel of
surgical specialists say.
Such drastic measures, they
said, should be used only on
people who doctors regard as
suffering from a specific dis
ease, morbid obesity — mean
ing they are so fat they are se
riously ill and suffer increased
risk of heart disease, circulatory
problems and diabetes.
Such people weigh from 100
to 300 pounds too much and
have failed repeatedly to slim
down through dieting, the doc
tors said during panel discus
sions Monday at the 67th annual
Clinical Congress of the Amer
ican College of Surgeons.
Various methods of reducing
the stomach’s volume from a
normal 1.5 quarts to 1 fluid
ounce — including a proposal to
implant a balloon inside the
abdomen to squeeze against the
stomach — are lumped under
the term gastric bypass.
A person with a gastric bypass
must leam a new method of eat
ing. Only a bite or two can be
taken at a time, and it must be
chewed to near liquid consis
tency.
The operation reduces the
outlet of the much shrunken
stomach into the lower intestine
to about the diameter of a ball
point pen, so that about 90
seconds must pass before there
is room for more food.
Doctors have high hopes for
gastric bypass, claiming about
85 percent of patients lose at
least half their excess weight
and appear to keep it off without
serious complications.
However, the surgeons also
say a method of isolating the
small intestine from the diges
tive process is being abandoned
because of a high failure rate
and sometimes fatal complica
tions including kidney and liver
disease. That method, known as
intestinal bypass, was popular
five to 10 years ago.
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