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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, June 23, 1983 Doctor repairs faces, lives War United Press International PHOENIX — Judy Noe was three years old when she lost her left eye and part of the bone structure around it to cancer. She grew accustomed to the stares and nasty remarks from people who saw a sunken fake eye in its place. But the hurt went deep, eating away at her self confidence. Today, thanks to Eyesthetics, she leads a fairly normal life, in terviewing people in the family support division of the county attorney’s office. It takes a mi nute to realize that Noe’s left eye, which matches her right eye perfectly, doesn’t move. That’s the kind of perfection Dan Eaton strives for in his Eyes thetics laboratory in downtown Phoenix. Eaton specializes in alloplastic reconstruction, parti cularly oculofacial prosthetolo- gy. That means Eaton makes fa cial parts to replace those lost through disease or accidents. Eaton, 43, does not have a medical degree but studied medical illustration and ana tomy at the University of Cincin nati Medical School. He also stu died with Elston Frisch, inventor of a pliable material called Silas tic, which resembles skin. Silastic is used to make up most of the prosthesis and is pigmented to blend with the color of the pa tient’s skin. Using molds of the patient’s face, Eaton sculpts the missing piece. He takes clippings of pa tients’ hair and weaves them into the Silastic to make eyebrows and eyelashes. Even pores and natural skin lines are included in the prosthesis. The whites of eyeballs are colored with inert pigments that can’t be contamin ated by biological matter and match the color of the patient’s other eye. Thin red French cot ton thread is used to create blood vessels in the eyeball. After the eyes are baked, they are polished to a high gloss. Eaton finishes the prosthesis on the patient’s face, using external pigment to add the finishing touches that will make it blend. Some patients, especially those extensively disfigured, use medical adhesive to attach the prosthesis each day. Others can simply “pop” their prosthesis in place. His patients come from around the world — Saudi Ara bia, India, Austria, Canada, New Mexico — as well as 47 states in America. They range in age from six weeks old to over 90. There are three other places around the country that do simi lar work to Eyesthetics, includ ing laboratories in Houston, Birmingham, and UCLA at Los Angeles, Eaton said. 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Dolby 2:35 4:55 7:20 9:45 THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER CLASS OF 1990 BRONX WARRIOS 2:45 5:05 7:30 9:50 United Press International EL PASO — A bottle of booze from Mexico is one of the most popular purchases on the bor der, but the collection of taxes on that liquor has gone down in the past two years, an official of the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Control Department said Wednesday. Andy Yarbrough, personnel and budget director for the TABC, said more money has been paid to collect the tax than the tax itself has generated. With the recent devaluations of the peso, however, tax revenues are increasing and this year that situation could be reversed, he said. Residents of border states buy liquor in Mexico at bargain prices. Texas charges a 50-cent- per-bottle tax on liquor as visi tors cross back into the United States. In Juarez, as well as other border cities, tequila, vodka, bourbon, Kahlua, rum, gin, vod ka and other Mexican-made li quors are several dollars per bot tle cheaper than in the United In 1981, however, the TABC budgeted $19.3 million to run its border collection stations but took in only $19 million in taxes. The next year the loss was approximately the same. State Rep. Bobby Valles of El Paso said one of the reasons for the loss of revenue is that whole sale dealers are smuggling 30,000 cases a month without paying the tax, costing Texans $200,000 a month. TABC officials said the losses began 1970 when liquor prices in Mexico were more compatible with prices in the United States. The amount of liquor being purchased in Mexico remained stable but costs of collection sta tions rose considerably during those years. There is once again a tremen dous difference in the price of liquor in Mexico, he said, and visitors will be buying more of it again. Attempts to pass legisla tion to limit the amount of booze a person can bring in from Mex ico have been foiled by border legislators who argue the restric tions would hurt the tourist in dustry and make losses in tax collection even greater. Yarbrough said losses might turn into profits this year be cause collections are way up. m UPDATE 'AS THE i AS IT BEi tor mon f WITHOUT 0 Agatha Christie novels produced for television Uniti MEM! South co satisfactii Ford dea authority Consumt “If the problem, | over to tl said Lou relations Parts ant The b used car Texas, Mississip feel they Witness counters officer SKYWAY TWIN 822-3300 2000 E. 29th EAST WEST Taste of Sin Swinging Teacner Something Wicked This Way Comes Watcher in the Woods United Press International DALLAS — The girlfriend of a man shot and killed by Dallas police officers — the seventh such killing in the past 10 weeks — said the man was not given enough time to drop his gun be fore police opened fire. Gregory Smith, 32, of Plano, was shot once in the chest Mon day night when police say he re fused to drop his .25 caliber pis tol following an argument out side a bar. Bartender Susan Renee Mos ley said Smith may not have understood police warnings to drop his gun. “It all happened so fast I don’t think he had time to drop it,” Mosley said. “I realize he shouldn’t have had it in the first place, but I thought they were a little hasty about shooting him. I think maybe he had too much to drink, and maybe he didn’t com prehend what they were saying.” The incident brought the number of people involved in police shootings this year to 16. Three of those shot have been officers, police spokesman Ed Spencer said. Officer Steven DeLoach, who shot Smith, told investigators he fired when Smith began to raise the pistol after refusing to drop it. Police investigators said the pistol had a bullet in the cham ber, and the safety latch was off. United Press International HOLLYWOOD — Two of the late Agatha Christie’s mystery stories will be brought to televi sion next season with a promise of more to come from producer Stan Margulies. The movies long since have found big audiences with the au thor’s works, including “Death On The Nile,” “The Mirror Crack’d” and “Murder On The Orient Express.” Mystery Theater,” beginning with “Murder Is Easy,” with Bill Bixby and Leslie Ann Down. But difficulties arose when no one, including Warner Brothers which had optioned eight of the prolific Christie’s novels, was willing to underwrite the project until the results of “Murder Is Easy” were assessed. Margulies, who produced “Roots,” “Roots: The Next Generation,” “Movieola” and “The Thorn Birds” for David Wolper, is convinced his inde pendent two-hour movie ver sions of Christie’s novels will roll up high ratings. “The film was well received critically and the ratings were excellent,” Margulies said. “So this season we’re going ahead with ‘A Caribbean Mystery,’ starring Helen Hays and Maurice Evans, and ‘Sparkling Cyanide’ starring Deborah Raf- fin, Anthony Andrews and Har ry Morgan. puzzle maker and one of the best plotters of all time. We had diffi culty bringing her stories to ihe screen because of the restricted time element. Her mysteries are so intricate that you can’t easily leave out one clue because it is interwoven with all the rest.” Marguiles said the fdm ver sion of “Murder Is Easy" pleased Christie’s estate, run by her daughter Rolind and grandson Matthew Prichard, sufficiently to encourage the availability other titles. HI Two years ago, Warner Bros. 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United Press International WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A jury took just five hours to con vict George Banks of murdering 13 people, including five of his children and their four mothers, and faced a decision as to whether he will forfeit his life. Banks, 41, was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder for 12 of the killings and third- degree murder in the death of the 13th victim. All were slain in a pre-dawn rampage last Sept. 25. The five-woman, four-man jury was to hear additional evi dence Wednesday in Luzerne County Court before consider ing whether to recommend to the judge if Banks should be sentenced to death or life in prison. The 12 days of testimony were punctuated by emotional outburst by Banks, who asked twice asked to leave the cour troom as pathologists described how his children were killed. Banks also alleged authorities conspired against him and claimed in his testimony police killed as many as nine of the vic tims and mutilated their bodies to make the crimes appear more Banks also threatened grisly. suicide. He was convicted of third- degree murder for the slayin[ Raymond Hall Jr., 24, abystait der shot outside the defendant home after Banks had eight members of his family The jury also found Banks guil ty of attempted murder in th wounding of Hall’s companioi James Olson, 24. Hall’s family declined to disj cuss the jury’s decision. Banks’ defense claimed dui ing the trial Banks was innocen by reason of insanity. Psychial rists testifying for the defend said Banks, tlie son of a blad father and white mother, wa obsessed with racism and his children, who like himselfaj had white mothers, to spai them the discrimination he ex perienced. 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