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Judge orders girl to receive
chemotherapy against wishes
United Press International
KNOXVILLE, Term. — An appeals
court Wednesday ordered the dying 12-
year-old daughter of a fundamentalist
preacher to undergo cancer treatment
despite the family’s religious beliefs, but
the decision was immediately appealed to
the state Supreme Court.
The three-judge Tennessee Court of
Appeals handed down the decision after
hearing 1‘/2-hours of arguments in the
case of Pamela Hamilton, who doctors
say will die in six to nine months without
chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
’s pa
dai
heal their daughter of a rare form of
bone cancer known as Ewing’s sarcoma.
They contend it is her First Amendment
right of freedom of religion to refuse
treatment on religious grounds.
The parents sat impassively in court as
Judge James W. Parrott read from the
unanimous opinion. Their daughter re
mained hospitalized under court order,
and has been readied to receive cancer
treatments if the courts clear the way.
Doctors say she has only a 50-50
chance of survival even with the treat
ments.
“The right to freedom of religion does
not include the right to endanger the
child’s life,” Parrott said.
“If they can take my kid, then they can
come into your house and get your kid
too,” said Pamela’s father, Larry Hamil
ton, as he left the courthouse.
The attorney for Pamela’s parents,
James A.H. Bell, immediately asked the
Tennessee Supreme Court to issue an
emergency stay of the appeals court rul
ing to prevent doctors from starting
treatment.
Four of the five state Supreme Court
justices were on their way back from a
two-week tour in the Soviet Union. The
remaining justice, Frank Drowota, said
he would fly from Nashville to Knoxville
to hear arguments for and against the
stay later Wednesday.
Bell said if the state Supreme Court
refuses to issue a stay, he would ask the
U.S. Supreme Court for the emergency
order.
State attorneys said they would ask
Drowota to let chemotherapy injections
begin while the case is on appeal.
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Jane, 34, and their son, Ben, 11.
A daughter, Caroline, 2,
roamed the house alone in a
bloody nightgown for more
than two days after the killings
last weekend. She was in satisfac
tory condition after surgery to
repair injuries from a sexual
assault, doctors said.
Among the mounds of evi
dence police were analyzing
were two items that may have
been used in the killings — a
blood-smeared radio found
near Mrs. Osborne and a bloody
baseball bat found upstairs in
her daughter’s room.
Police checked reports a white
or light-colored van had been
seen in the neighborhood sever
al times this month and asked
anyone with information to call
a 24-hour hotline established
Tuesday.
He said Mrs. Osborne’s jaw
was broken as she tried to fight
off her attacker in a den down
stairs. She also died of head
blows but it could not be conclu
sively determined if she had
been sexually assaulted.
Jewel finder
fears for life
United Press International
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. —
Eric DeWild, an orphan who
became a millionaire when he
found a sack of jewels by a
railroad track, didn’t show up
for a police news conference
to announce the deal had
been sealed because he fears
for his life, his lawyer said.
But now that the jewels are
formally his and are safe in a
bank, the 16-year-old boy is
expected to return to school
and resume a normal life,
attorney Charles Morgan
said.
DeWild found the bag full
of $1.3 million in jewels 184
days ago, and under Florida
law he had to wait 180 days to
give people who believed it
was their stolen property a
chance to claim it. No one pre
sented a verified claim.
DeWild and his guardian
aunt did not show up at a news
conference Tuesday called by
Hollywood Police Chief Sam
Martin to announce the for
mal handover of the jewels.
Martin said they were fright
ened of publicity. The youth
had not attended classes at
South Broward High School
since Friday.
But DeWild’s laywer,
Charles Morgan, said the boy
had better reasons to be
afraid.
“He was was involved in a
hit-and-run accident a few
days after he found the
jewels,” Morgan said.
“There’s been some strange
cars by the house and some
people have come up and said
‘Give me a diamond tomor
row or I’ll kill you.”’
But on Tuesday, the jewels
were transferred to a Miami
bank that will act as DeWild’s
financial guardian, and that
should end his seclusion, the
lawyer said.
“They’re not going to be
talking to the press. There’s
nothing to be gained by ant
interviewing. But they’re not
in hiding. T hey were at the
police station this morning
and the bank this afternoon,’
he said Tuesday. “Now that
the jewels have been transfer
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JACKSON, Miss
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were “genuinely concerned
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Morgan said Northeri
Trust Bank of Miami was
appointed guardian of De
Wild’s property. The bo/s
aunt, Modena Trost, and
bank officials will now haven
decide how to handle the find,
he said.
“There will be an allowanct
agreement so as to protects!#
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Exxon chooses
for natural gas
Wyoming
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KEMMERER, Wyo. — Exxon
Corp. Wednesday announced it
has selected a site 33 miles east of
Kemmerer as the probable site
for a natural gas processing
plant.
Exxon spokesman Steve Ket-
tlecamp said Exxon will begin in
November the lengthy process
of acquiring the necessary con
struction and environmental
permits for the plant. Exxon,
however, has not yet made a
firm decision to build the plant,
Kettlecamp said.
“It’s important for the people
in Kemmerer and people in
areas that would be affected by
this to understand we have not
made a decision to go ahead with
the project,” Kettlecamp said.
“We don’t have the markets for
the natural gas yet. We hope to,
but we don’t have them now.”
If those markets develop,
Kettlecamp said Exxon could
make a decision to build the
plant during the first quarter of
1984, construction could begin
in the spring of 1984.
Exxon has an eight-year con
struction timetable to develop
an oil and gas field west of Big
Piney, build a 43-mile sour gas
pipeline and construct the
three-module processing plant.
If the market for the gas de
velops quickly, Kettlecamp said
the projected peak construction
workforce could be larger than
the expected 700-900 em
ployees.
The plant would have a per
manent workforce of 200, Ket-
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which would produce ’
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day, is not yet certain becaot I.
the plant is still beingdesignt® 1
but Kettlecamp said it would
in the hundreds of millions
dollars
“Our selection of the Chi
Creek site is contingent upom
obtaining the necessary rig
way and permits for that
tion,” Kettlecamp said.
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BOSTON — Children who
grow up around smoking
mothers may suffer stunted
lung development in yet
another indication that inhaling
others’ smoke may be hazardous
to the health, doctors reported
Wednesday.
A study in the New England
Journal of Medicine of more
than 1,100 Boston children
found those with smoking
mothers had impaired lung de
velopment — and by the time
they stop growing, lung func
tions would average about 4 to 5
percent less than what they
otherwise would have been.
“This doesn’t mean the chil
dren are sick — it’s just their
lung development on average
was impaired from what the
maximum potential would have
been,” said Dr. Ira Tager of the
Channing Laboratory of
Brigham and Women’s Hos
pital.
“From this study there is
reason to tell mothers of youn
ger children, at the least, to
minimize smoking around
them,” he said.
Tager said the researchers
have yet to analyze their data to
determine if the children of
smoking mothers go on to have
poorer health as a result. But he
warned smoking by the mother
“may be important” in deter
mining if children develop brea
thing problems later in life.
Previous studies have found
such children suffer
numbers of respiratory infs
tions early in life and doetd
think that up to 20 perceiP
infant respiratory infection
may be associated with parent
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found indirect exposure
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place or at home slightl
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93 percent of what would ha'
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“Over the course of th«
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on average they would navf
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