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'Cancer victim gets birthday wish
United Press International
FORT WORTH — A sur
prise party has been planned
for Lisa Newton’s fourth
birthday next week, but the
biggest surprise already has
been sprung. Lisa and hef
family will spend the day at
her grandparents home in
Ohio.
Lisa, who has been under
treatment for cancer for
almost two years, had only one
wish for her next birthday: to
spend it with her grandpa
rents in Brunswick, Ohio.
Someone at the Moncrief
Radiation Center in Fort
Wofth, where Lisa received
her chemotherapy, relayed
the dream to A Wish With
Wings Inc., a non-profit orga
nization in suburban Arling
ton which in six months has
fulfilled the wishes of five
other seriously ill children.
Pat Skaggs, a co-founder of
the organization, said she
matched Lisa’s desires with a
Dallas pre-school PTA’s in
terest to help someone.
“It seemed a natural since
Lisa’s a pre-schooler, loo,”
Skaggs said.
With tickets purchased by
the PTA, Lisa and her pa
rents, Ann and Sam Grief of
Fort Worth, leave Saturday
for a week’s visit with Mrs.
Griefs parents, Jim and Joan
Brantner.
“She is estatic,” said Mrs.
Grief, director of a hospital
emergency department.
“The last time we were
there was December 1982.
But she remembers it. She had
a nephew to play with and she
remembers opening presents
for Christmas. She’s wanted to
go back ever since.”
Lisa ended 18 months of
chemotherapy treatments re
cently. She will undergo X-
rays in another month to de
termine the success of the
treatment.
“Her hair is starting to
grow back and she’s excited
about that. Her chances (of
being cured) are about 50-50
now, which we feel is very
good. It’s going to be a happy
homecoming,” Mrs. Grief
said.
Aid proposed
for small fish
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WASHINGTON —The gov
ernment, fearing pollution and
collectors are destroying the
Ozark cavefish, is proposing
federal protection for the liny
fish found only in portions of
Missouri, Arkansas and Okla
homa.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service wants to officially make
the 2-inch fish a threatened spe
cies and has given opponents
until March 16 to request a pub
lic hearing and until April 2 to
comment on the proposal.
“This cavefish is presently
known from only 13 caves in six
counties of the Springfield
Plateau of southwest Missouri,
northwest Arkansas and north
east Oklahoma,” said a Federal
Register notice written by
biologist James Stewart.
“This cavefish has apprenttly
disappeared from over 40 per
cent of its historic locations. The
causes of the decline app>ear to
be habitat alteration and collec
tors,” he said.
Nearly devoid of pigment, the
fish has an elongated, flattened
head and a projecting lower jaw.
The dorsal and anal fins are lo
cated far back on the body, the
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caudal fin is rounded;
pelvic fins are absent.
“It is found only in aval
Stewart told UPI. “Ifilwajj
daylight, it would probablvj
because of sunburn. Inuj
caves, we’ve found them
knee-deep or less water."
The fish historically haste i :
found in at least nine conn
with unconfirmed reporis; 1
five more — all in a range
highly soluble limestomesk!T;
eycombed by subsurface dre
age in the Boone and Buriijp!
ton formations. However,:
cent surveys turned up onli
few cavefish in 13 caves in;
counties. Most of the caver?
on private propety.
Biologists say the fish ue
dangered because developme
of the Greene County, Mo,m
has resulted in highly hazani:.
water contamination fronm
things as landfills, dumpi
charges, toxic chemicals.
"The low reproductive alt
ties, confined habitat andinaS
ity to elude captors makeii |
Ozark cavefish very vulneiai y
to overutilization,” Stewaita
“Offers to purchase cavetn ■
have appeared in various
cations.”
Stewart said another
may be the decline of the
dangered gray bat as the 1
cavefish populations on
where the most bats are sii
their bat guano is theprimr
energy source for the caves
“It could have a treme
impact,” Stewart said,
could lose the bats andlosti :
entire population.”
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Under threatened speciess
tus, it would be againstthete:
export, sell or move thecaveis
without permission and
eminent would monitottl
growth or declines of [
lions of the liny vertebrate.
Police
roundup
suspects
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GLARKSBURG, W.Vt
Federal authorities Thursi S L anc i
continued their roundup of! I |“ e ^
people indicted on drug-relt- v
charges and moved to seis
coal mine and other proper “r
allegedly bought with ptofi I C
from the alleged illegal ope | ^
lion. If
Those indicted includedo T
former West Virginia Univeif I v,
football stars, a WVU pro®',
who is the father of a basket G
player, a 10-year veteranoffe
Clarksburg police depart™ ^
and a former Harrison Cotf y ea r-
assistant prosecutor. ‘ rom
At least 23 of those charff ment
were arrested Wednesday c P^nt
Thursday, U.S. Attorney'!*; Bonf
Ham Kolibash said. A shot« Ni
fired by an officer during^ ^ey
apprehension of one man 15 J- e hr
no one was injured.
Those named in the net' er d:
500-page indictment handoi' madt
by a federal grand jury in fib
were mostly West Virginiani- !
included residents of
Pennsylvania, Florida, Cali
nia, Hawaii, Ohio and'f
land.
The indictment charged
group with being involvedir ;
distribution of cocais 1
methamphetamine, quaal
LSD and marijuana begi
in 1979 and continuing W
1982, primarily in northed
West Virginia.
“We’re talking aboutapd
subslanial operation," Koi
said. “It (the arrests) sltf'-
tighen up the supply (of
drugs), make it morediffit^
get these types of things
Seventeen of those cha|
face maximum penalties i' : ‘j
least 100 years in jail and aC'
imum fine of at least
The suspected “kingpn 1
the operation, Carl L. Caw I
of Reynoldsville near 04
sburg, was jailed in lieu0"
million bond on a varie 1 ,
charges, including racket# 1
and extortion.
If found guilty on all 4
counts, Gallo could be sent# 1 1
to life in prison plus 1,
and fined nearly $3.2
Kolibash said he filed c*
documents Thursday it
attempt to seize Gallo's 1*
and a 92-acre strip mineo*
by the defendant. He said
properly was bought wiih]
fits from the drug operatic;
Federal authorities also^
ned to seize apartments, a :
and a taxi company owned
Gallo and several other snid*
pieces of personal proper!^
vehicles owned by otherdf^
dants, Kolibash said.