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! national Battalion/Page 121 April Company’s defense hurt in Rely trial Warped United Press International CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A doctor denies accusations by Procter & Gamble that he altered a death certificate so the family of a young woman could blame her death on Rely tampons and claim millions in damages from P&G. Dr. John Jacobs, who treated Patricia Kehm for toxic shock syndrome linked to the use of Rely tampons, told a federal jury Tuesday a P&G attorney falsely accused him of altering Kehm’s death certificate to list TSS as the cause of death. Jacobs’ testimony in the civil wrongful-death trial brought by Kehm’s husband appeared to damage P&G’s defense that either Kehm never had the dis ease or it was caused by some thing other than Rely. Her fami ly’s suit seeks more than $30 mil lion in damages. Kehm, 25, mother of two young daughters, used Rely tam pons for the first time Sept. 2, 1980. She died during emergen cy treatment at Mercy Hospital four days later. Dr. Bruce Dan, who headed the TSS task force at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, emphatically stated in earlier tes timony that Kehm was infected with TSS from her tampon. P&G said she could have been infected by an intrauterine device. By Scott McCuk V V * ^ v t>V 6 <-9 TEAM DISCOUNTS UP TO 20% Off List Price Let Us Outfit Your Softball Team! • Equipment • Uniforms • Balls • Bats • Etc. TRI-STATE A&M SPORTING GOODS « 3600 Old College Road 846-4743 P&G attorney Tim White also said doctors initially were uncer tain what caused Kehm’s death. He said Jacobs did not list TSS on her charts until after he was con tacted by an attorney for the Kehm family. ■S/iec/5 dangerous, study shows Farmers’ lungs menaced Kehm attorney Tom Riley asked Jacobs whether the doctor had been coerced into changing the records. “No,” Jacobs said. “It is abso lutely false. I did not change the diagnosis on the death certifi- United Press International IOWA CITY, Iowa — Far mers who work in animal con finement buildings run the risk of getting respiratory ailments similar to the lung diseases of coal miners and textile workers, research shows. A six-year study at the Uni versity of Iowa showed more than 70 percent of the people who work in confinement sheds have symptoms of respiratory ailments. Kelley Donham, who heads the school’s Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health program, said the lung dis orders pose a widespread prob lem because about 70 percent of hogs raised in the Midwest are in confinement. “About 30,000 different hog operations in Iowa use these aJi More of A Great Thing! zzmmzm Now In A Second Location! nmumimn The Smash Hit Returns! 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Donham said a study discovered about id| cent of confinement workers had respirator}! toms. However, most ails Si Van Barr 1 Aggie tern during a were not serious. Those initial findings supported by an in-dei funded by the National tional Safety and Health nistration during Donham discovered a frig! ing trend. “We also saw occasional! fatal problems develop,prat l\ as the result of hydrogen fide gas, which is liberated( lic|tiicl manure stored inti buildings,” he said. “As manure is agitated, it libet large amounts of this toxicf v_^ X The study found ninepe who died from such poises in Iowa and southern Wis Umted Pre sin. Another 14 peoplewert AN I ( covered near death from . n 8 our 8 amt SA’ gas. spurs worst st - the coach o “About 50 percent ol dsion’s No. 1 buildings have the capabifc vas time for ; producing acute toxic situl rerhaps takin if the manure is agitatedtc rressure off tl appropriate amount," Dob Scorer, said. “With this type of risb George Ger wonder there haven’tbeew joints, but M deaths.” sisdiEup the slack \ Donham said the concep confinement operations isS: lively new, so it would bed cult to determine whether! mers face permanent 1 age from working in the I) in gs- . . . _ He said it will probablyd 10 to 15 years — as it did ini case of cotton textile andytf more people tc mill workers — before iw “The team (lake it all com San Antonio S victory over Xings Tuesday “Tonight w< plays,” Coach : thought ^Mitchell and (J blayed import; nore contribu chers can detect p lung damage. However, his study out 55 people who veloped chronic brom which is a lingering disease Pulmonary tests, which sured how well the svoi lungs functioned, were ducted on volunteers they entered confinement and again after they had svoi inside for four hours. “We found a significant in their test, which meansai crease in the ability forairtol in and out of their lungs* result of that exposn Donham said. "What this mu as far as permanent lungd* age is unclear.” ence and we fi ess from arc Hopefully the a ’ifted.” San Antonio Iberding said ted a new look le of new pi ome things di: The Spurs u ime lead beinc c* present^ A NIGH' AN 1G Gal.Starting J 27 “ FrM INCLUDES Keg/Tub, Punp.Ctf 100 IBs TIC1