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by Paul Dirmeyer
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BS airs Evans’ story
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ATMORE, Ala. — A televi-
ion adaptation of the anti-crirne
message John Louis Evans III
ideotaped four days prior to his
xecution convinces Evans’
lother his death was not a total
oss, she said.
“I think it accomplishes what
ohn was trying to do. He did a
ilsfors at of bad things in his life, but
•22<l> his is a good thing and I don’t
weap# rant it overlooked,” said Evans’
nother, Betty Dickson.
The hour-long program,
VDead Wrong — The John
Evans Story,” was aired nation
wide Tuesday on CBS. The dra
matization followed Evans’ life
rom age 13 in Beaumont, to age
$3 and his execution at Holman
rison for the slaying of a Mobile
awnbroker.
aid lit
jecial opened with a
segment from the tape Evans
wanted used as an anti-crime
message to youths. The Rev.
Martin Weber, head of the
Atmore-based “We Care” minis
try, made the videotape four
days before Evans was electro
cuted April 22.
“I just hope that as many kids
as possible see this or the ‘We
Care’ film, and (then) I won’t
feel like I lost my son for no
thing,” Mrs. Dickson said in a
telephone interview from her
Beaumont home.
She was among those who saw
advance screenings of the net
work’s “Schoolbreak Special.”
“I’m very pleased with it. It
shows that every kid in the world
who has choices can make the
wrong ones and end up like he
did — past the point of no re
turn.”
Evans said he made the spon
taneous, 60-minute tape in an
attempt to dissuade children
from following his criminal
path.
Alabama Attorney General
Charles Graddick objected to
the production, saying it made
“a cold-blooded killer look like a
martyr” and could lead children
to crime rather than divert them
from it.
Graddick, the former Mobile
County district attorney who
prosecuted Evans, said the
movie misrepresented several
things, including showing
Evans’ victim, Eddie Nassar,
wearing a gun and holster, and
giving the impression Evans
fired in self defense.
“As the sentencing judge at
Evans’ trial found, Nassar, ‘Was
shot through the back while he
was unarmed and crawling
along the aisle behind the coun
ter.’ There was no evidence that
he was ordered to halt or given
any warning before being shot,”
said Graddick, who also saw an
advance screening.
Father Kevin Duignan, Evans
spiratual advisor during his stay
on death row, said he remained
convinced Evans would have
opposed any adaptation of the
videotape. The priest said Evans
intended only for the unedited
version to be shown in clas
srooms and Sunday schools.
“I have no way of knowing
what he would have thought of
it, because that (the television
special) was not his intention,”
she said.
HOUSTON — The final
radio transmission from an
American oil drilling ship which
sank last year east of Vietnam
was clear, calm but cut short,
according to testimony given
Tuesday before the board inves
tigating the incident, which
claimed more than 81 lives.
The ship, the Glomar Java
Sea sank Oct. 25 in 300 feet of
water south of Hainan Island
following reports that Typhoon
Lex was headed in its direction.
The ship, owned by the Hous
ton-based Global Marine Inc.,
and hired by ARGO China Ltd.,
was drilling a well approved by
the Ghinese National Oil Co.
when it sank.
A federal panel made up the
Coast Guard and the National
Transportation Safety Board is
investigating the incident. The
panel reconvened Monday for
the first of several days of testi
mony. Members of the board
said they were still holding out
hope that some of the crew may
still be alive and in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese government
said none of the seamen was in
Vietnam.The last radio trans
mission with the ship was hand
led by Global Marine employee
Bill Riddle, who testified Tues
day “it was the calmest conversa
tion I’ve had.”
He said he talked to the ship’s
radio operator and the ship’s
assistant manager John Lawr-
thf
on deck, but wearing lifejackets.
Riddle said Lawrence re
ported the ship was experienc
ing winds of 70 knots and there
was a 15 degree unexplained list
to the starboard. The crew was
also dumping drilling mud into
the ocean to help even out the
ship.
The radio conversation was
transmitted by a satellite relay
system from China. But Jay
McGeough, who listened to Rid
dle talk with the Glomar Java Sea
said the conversation abruptly
stopped.
“At that time, the transmis
sion was cut off. Mr. Riddle
stayed on the line a long time,
but was never able to retain con
tact,” said McGeough.
Former Glomar captain John
Ledbetter said the ship rarely
was without a supply boat near
by. But on the day the ship sank,
the supply boats were several
miles away.
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octor says teens are best
for fixing eating disorders
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NASHVILLE - It’s a mistake
to tell children to eat everything
bn their plates or to use food as a
reward or punishment, says a
specialist in adolescent eating
isorders.
Ordering children to clean
heir plates, sending them to bed
ithout dinner when they mis-
have or suggesting that they
jU eat something sweet after a bad
()wn ! ; (lay in school “to make them feel
better,” can lead to trouble, says
Dr. John W. Greene, director of
adolescent medicine at Vander-
:v werfi‘hilt University Medical School in
t he jNashville, Tenn.
ia nervosa and a similar number
from bulimia.”
Anorexia nervosa is a person
ality disorder, chiefly in young
women, characterized by an
aversion to food and obsession
with weight loss. Bulimia is a
constant and insatiable craving
for food.
Jbyoi* Greene, director of adoles-
ultrjjj Icent medicine at Vanderbilt
ullpl
0, wasi
id slut
Jmversity Medical School in
(ashville, Tenn., said eating
flheni attitudes and habits are formec
Anorexia nervosa is a
personality disorder,
chiefly in young
women, characterized
by an aversion to food
and obsession with
weight loss. Bulimia is
a constant and insati
able craving for food.
thin,” he said. “We wanted to see
if we could determine which
kids are at risk before a problem
develops.”
He said preliminary results
indicate researchers can success
fully predict which children
might develop eating disorders,
especially anorexia. The next
step, according to Greene, is ac
tive intervention to treat inci-
when children are very young.
As early as infancy, feelings
and patterns are established
which later may lead to eating
isorders, particularly obesity,
e says. About 20 percent of
merican teenagers have eating
isorders.
“The greatest number, prob-
blv 10 to 15 oercent. are over-
to 2 percent suff er f rom anorex-
Although eating disorders
currently are treated after they
develop, Greene is working on
the theory that they can be pre
dicted. He recently completed a
study of high school students’
eating habits aimed at spotting
potential problems before they
pient problems, beginning with
changing attitudes about food
and eating.
Greene said parents often
think a fat baby is a healthy baby
and that they often overfeed an
infant. But worse than that, he
said, is giving infants or toddlers
a bottle whenever they cry.
i“It teaches you that if you’re
unhappy, put something in your
mouth. The same pattern is re
peated when you’re older, only
instead of a bottle, it’s candy or
cake.”
Children, he said, form more
bad habits and attitudes as they
learn food is not just nourish
ment. It’s a reward, a punish
ment, a token of love and re
spect, a way to cope with stress.
Gradually food and emotional
association, both good and bad,
are welded together.
If eating disorders have
already developed, the teenage
years are the best time for treat
ment, Greene said, because
teenagers are extremely con
scious of their bodies and
appearance and they want to be
attractive to their peers.
There also are medical con-
siderations, according to
Greene.
“Eighty percent of obese
adolescents carry their excess
weight into adulthood. This can
lead to heart disease, stroke, di
abetes, high blood pressure and
orthopedic problems. Many of 1
these problems can be avoided if
the weight is lost before becom
ing an adult.”
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