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I INDIANAPOLIS — A Ken
tucky man Monday became one
of the first patients in the coun
try to be treated for painful kid
ney stones with acoustic shock
waves, eliminating the need for
surgery, Methodist Hospital
doctors said.
I Tony Battaglia, 28, an Er-
langer, Ky., freight company
ftanager who has suffered
from kidney stones since last
October, underwent the treat
ment Monday morning at
Methodist.
K Hospital spokesman David
Richards said Battaglia, who
was unconscious during the op
eration, was in good condition
Monday afternoon and “feeling
chipper. He said he was feeling
free of pain, and that he had
been in a considerable amount
of pain before the treatment."
Methodist Hospital doctors
have been conducting a clinical
evaluation of the kidney stone
crusher, called the extracorpo
real shock wave lithotripter.
“Today marks the beginning
of a new era in treating one of
mankind's most painful medical
problems,” said urologist James
Lingeman, one of the physi
cians conducting the Food and
Drug Ad minis! rat ion-super-
vised investigation of the equip
ment at Methodist.
“We are proud to be the first
hospital in the country to test
and offer this new and com
pletely different type of the
rapy,” he said. “It is an enor
mous breakthrough.”
Lingeman said the device de-
creases dramatically the “dis-
comfort and cost” usually asso
ciated with kidney stone
treatment.
“The shock waves pass
through the patient’s body with
no damage to the body itself be
cause we humans are mostly wa
ter anyway, and the density of
our body tissue is almost identi
cal to that of water,” Lingeman
said.
“Extensive testing done has
shown no adverse affect on bi
ologic tissues. But when it
reaches a very hard substance
such as kidney stones ... it will
fragment the stone,” he said.
Battaglia Monday was given a
general anesthetic, then low
ered into a bath of water. The
lithotripter then used X-rays to
locate the stone and generated
acoustic shock waves that fo
cused on the stone, doctors said.
The shock waves pulverized
the kidney stones into small
particles without damaging the
surrounding tissue, doctors
said.
Doctors said the particles, the
size of sand or gravel, will be ex
creted in the urine.
The $2 million kidney stone
pulverizer arrived at Methodist
Hospital in December, and has
been tested on 17 patients since
then.
Hospital officials said pa
tients using the treatment re
quire a four-day hospital stay, as
compared to surgical patients
who must be hospitalized from
five to 15 days. The difference
in cost currently is about
$2,000, Richards said.
Pilots’
trial set
to begin
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A non
jury trial was scheduled to begin
in federal court Tuesday for
two striking Continental Airline
pilots charged with possessing
pipe bombs.
The trial for Calvin Early, 43,
and Charles Weldon Hall, 47,
was scheduled to begin at 10
a.m. before senior U.S. District
Judge D.W. Suttle, who will
hear a motion to waive a trial by
jury, attorneys said.
Last week, Suttle denied a de
fense motion to suppress evi
dence provided by Texas De
partment of Public Safety
trooper Hector Herrera, who
arrested the two pilots on Nov.
22, 1983.
Hall and Early were arrested
after they allegedly tried to
avoid a routine drivers license
check by making a U-turn at the
checkpoint on Bulverde Road
in north San Antonio.
As Herrera checked the li
cense, a woman drove up to the
roadblock and told the officer
she had seen a paper sack
thrown from the car. The sack
was found with two unexploded
pipe bombs inside, police said.
A search of the pilots’ car
turned up a canvas suitcase con
taining a wig, a hat, pliars, a
screwdriver and pictures of at
least three nearby homes of
non-striking Continental pilots.
Defense attorneys argued the
initial license check stop was im
proper and searches of the au
tomobile and its contents were
illegal and should be sup*
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.TEXAS AQQIE MOTORCYCLE CLUB
The Texas Aggie Motorcycle Club
would like to extent our deepest
thanks and appreciation to Joe
Fisher at University Cycles, College
Station, and Meril Moen and Cen
tral Cycle & Supply, Bryan, for their
tremendous support given to us
during the Outdoor Horizons Con
ference. These motorcycle dealer
ships graciously loaned Yamahas,
Kawasakis, and BMW's to the Club
for display. Thanks to you, our dis
play was an outstanding success.
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United Press International
I PALM SPRINGS, Calif. —
Actor William Powell, the
breezy sophisticate of more
than 100 motion pictures who
was best known for his por
trayal of Nick Charles in the
“Thin Man” detective film se
ries, died Monday. He was 91.
Powell died at Desert Hospi
tal early Monday morning, a
hospital spokeswoman said.
The actor entered the facility
Sunday with pneumonia,
i "He passed away of natural
causes about 5:45 this morn
ing,” Powell’s wife of 44 years,
Diana, said in a telephone inter
view from their Palm Springs
home. “He was in no pain. I was
jwith him all night long and at
his side when he died.”
neglfi | Powell, one of the few actors
) hon |o survive the transition from si-
Ifori lent films to talkies, was nomi-
,nvfi nated for an Academy Award
jranThree times but never won. He
.St®) |was nominated in 1934 for the
original “Thin Man,” in 193b
jndj for “My Man Godfrey,” and in
1947 for playing Clarence Day
in the movie version of the
Broadway hit “Life With Fa
ther.”
Powell attributed his sophisti
cated style to his training on the
stage, where he began his ca
reer before moving to Holly
wood in 1921 to make a silent
version of “Sherlock Holmes”
with John Barrymore.
His last movie was “Mr. Rob
erts” with Henry Fonda, Jack
Lemmon and James Cagney in
1954. Powell played the role of
Doc.
He was teamed so many
times with actress Myrna Loy in
the Thin Man film series that
fans thought they were actually
married. But they never were
more than friends and co-stars.
Among his other memorable
pictures were “The Great Zieg-
feld,” “The Senator Was Indis
creet,” “Dancing in the Dark”
and “How To Marry a Million
aire.”
Powell was born in Pittsburgh
on July 29, 1892, and grew up
in Allegheny, Pa., and Kansas
City, Mo., where he got a taste
of acting at Central Union High
School.
He had planned on a career
in law, but following his youth
ful stage debut changed his
mind and decided to become an
actor. He worked as an usher at
the Grand Opera House and
the Home Telephone Co. in
Kansas City to earn money to
attend the American Academy
of Dramatic Arts in New York.
At the end of his term at the
Academy, Powell was given a bit
part at $40 per week in “The
Ne’er Do Well.” In 1920 he
scored an outstanding success
in “Spanish Love” on Broad
way, leading to the Sherlock
Holmes film with Barrymore
and a long-term contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Powell married three times
and was reported to have been
in love with the sex symbol of
the 1930s, Jean Harlow.
When Harlow died in 1937,
Powell became despondent. He
collapsed during her funeral
and took a long respite in Eu
rope before returning to Holly
wood and his work.
He later purchased a $25,000
crypt for her and visited it twice
weekly, bringing two dozen red
roses each time.
His first wife was actress Ei
leen Wilson with whom he had
a son, William Jr. They were di
vorced and he later married
Carole Lombard in 1931. That
marriage also ended in divorce,
in 1933 •
Lombard was his co-star in
“My Man Godfrey,” playing a
giddy but good-hearted debu
tante.
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