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Page 16/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 9, 1987 COMPLETE MEDICAL CARE MINOR EMERGENCIES Special Services and Facilities Yearly Check & Pap Smear $45°° Your Allergy Injection $3°° Aids, Herpes and Special Testing Jazz radio station puts up renl for bandleader to stay at hom LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jazz ra dio station rescued ailing bandleader Woody Herman from eviction Tues day, putting up $4,600 for back rent owed a man who bought Herman’s home of 41 years at a tax auction. The back rent will be paid by Los Angeles radio station KKGO within 48 hours, Herman’s lawyer, Kirk Pa- sich, said about the agreement. children, April and Edward, were in Clooney, and bandleader Stan Getz, the courtroom. s he saia. “I’m here to offer support for In- Pasich, who is representing Hei grid,” Ellington said. “I can’t under- man f ree 0 f charge and sits on the stand why a gentleman of this dis- B oa rd of Directors of the National “It sounds very good to me,” In- ? rid Herman Reese, daughter of the 4-year-old bandleader, said. “I’m very happy.” Owner William Little said, “I’m just glad that it all got worked out for everyone.” Herman, bedridden and requir ing oxygen and 24-hour nursing care, still owes at least $10,000 in medical bills, she said. He was not in court Tuesday. However, Alicia Ellington, widow of jazz great Duke Ellington, and her “I’m here to offer support for Ingrid. I can’t under stand why a gentleman of this distinction is being treated in this manner. ” Alicia Ellington, widow of Duke Ellington tinction is being treated in this Academy of Jazz, said earlier that day deadline to pay upor: .. . Q o ^ Pasich said, "It could,i: VOl. oJ I him to evict him." 1 lei man fell ill in Ma mg from a heart ailmcd; took medication for sickness during a tourth , rado and Utah, said hii; l orn Cassidy. His medical bills havet man unable to pay rentonj wood Hills home he Humphiey Bogart in daughter said. manner. Herman’s daughter said many of music’s biggest names had offered months. the bandleader had suffered a series of heart attacks in the past six money since word of her father’s plight became public over the week end. Among those calling were rep resentatives of singers Frank Sina tra, Tony Bennett and Rosemary The settlement was reached lx‘- fore a scheduled afternoon court hearing in which Pasich said he would argue the eviction should l>c blocked because of Herman's poor health. Little had given Herman a Tucs- T he IRS auctioned the toom home in 1985 torn of the $ 1.6 million in taxes and penalties from 20 years ago. Reese, 46, said a manager gambled away rs was intended to lie usedbj taxes for three yean it| 1960s. Firefighters make progress in controlling blazes in West Firefighters made slow but steady progress Tuesday against huge for est fires still burning out of control in the West, but a “gray murk” of smoke sickened some of them, kept trucks from hauling their gear and grounded aircraft. About 1,000 people were still un able to return to their homes in Cali fornia because of fire danger. Army infantrymen traded rifles for hoes and shovels to mop up fires in Ore gon. More than 1,000 square miles of brush and timber have burned in eight Western states since lightning began setting hundreds of fires on Aug. 28. “We’ve always been thankful we don’t have hurricanes, tornadoes or stuff like that,” Jim Baxter, a timber sales administrator for national for ests at Weaverville, Calif., said. “But now we got our own homegrown natural disaster.” More than 1,000 fires had burned over 519,000 acres in northern Cali fornia, and nearly 111,000 acres were blackened in southern Oregon. Combined with 30,000 acres charred in Idaho, and smaller fires in Arizona, Montana, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming, fires had blazed across 670,700 acres, or 1,048 square miles. In addition to the Western fires, 10,000 acres of grass and trees had burned on the island of Hawaii in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Some firefighters from California were sent to help halt that fire. “What we are doing here is protect ing the American people and the American homeland without M-16s and bayonets. This time we are doing it with hoes and shovels.” All but 186 of about 1,250 light- ning-sparked fires in California had been contained but huge groups of fires were still out of control in the Klamath, Shasta, Trinity, Stanislaus and Mendocino national forests. Fourteen major fires were still out of control in Oregon, said Barbara Kennedy, a spokesman for firefight ing agencies. Despite fires that nearly sur rounded the northern California town of Hayfork and were as close as a mile away, children went to school as usual Tuesday and played outside in the smoky air while crews finished constructing fire lines to protect the town. T he Army effort allowed some of the 9,300 professional firefighters on the job in Oregon to shift their at tention to two oilier fires in the Sis kiyou National Forest, said Ron De Hart, a spokesman for the Oregon Unified Coordinating Croup in Sa lem, which oversees the state’s fire fighting effort. The two fires have blackened 32,600 acres. A battalion of 650 soldiers from Fort Ord, Calif., took over mop-up work on a 10,000-acre fire near Ta- kilma, Ore. Capt. Andy Buchanan said, Kennedy said, "We’re making some big headway, finally." Some of the 13,000 firefighters at work in California, many of them from other states across the nation, had been allowed to go home but others were forced to the sidelines by fatigue and smoke. “People are starting to show the effects in health-related ways, with dizziness and disorientation,” John Garland of the Forest Service said. Few air tankers or other firefight ing aircraf t joined the fire battle be cause of the dense smoke, said Mike Milosch of the U.S. Forest Service. Forecasted expect stor to lose forci MIAMI (AP) —Trap, Cindv was expected of much steam as it headec the Atlantic Ocean that weaken below storm sc “ tional Hurncane Center:: ors said fuesdav Cindy, the third nanr| of the year, was about T southwest of the Azores; CS I , forecasters said.Tb!! with top sustained was centered at z lorth and longtis? noving north at mph, 33.2 west, mph Sometime today, Cine jh*( ted to f all below trope' strength, which is maxc. tamed winds of at least Cindy swirled to lift 1 and then started weaken! colder not thorn waters.»f; : . ers said. A tropical depressions integrated into a troptu;^; ovei the western Canbt^T Monday was being cause of the [Kissibiliti reform over the war® forec aster Hal Gerrishs. Doctors soy little advancement mack toward reduction of premature births Ad An altet on the NEW YORK (AP) — With recent advances in treatment, more than half of the babies born weighing less than 2 pounds will survive and lead normal lives, pediatricians say, but little progress has been made at re ducing the incidence of premature births. In 1984, 6.7 percent of all babies born in the United States were low birthweight babies, weighing less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces, according to the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington. Twelve out of 1,000 were very low birthweight babies, born at less than 3 pounds. While survival rates for such in fants have climbed dramatically dur ing the last few decades, the inci dence of prematurity has scarcely changed. In 1950, 7.5 percent of all babies were low birthweight. And the inci dence of low and very low birth weight children among blacks is more than double the rate among whites in the United States. “Being born early is a relatively common problem in the United States,” says Dr. George Little, a neo- natologist, a specialist in the care of newborn infants, at Dartmouth Uni versity. Blindness is one of the serious consequences of prematurity. Other long-term complications of extreme prematurity include cerebral palsy, mental retardation and chronic lung disease. The likelihood of serious prob lems climbs sharply the more prema- fections and the inability to regulate their own temperatures. They must be administered oxygen to compen sate for the immaturity of the lungs. It is the oxygen that, for unknown reasons, can cause the retrolental fi- “ . . if you’re born a month early, you’re premature. But when you get to two or three months early, you’re not only premature, you’re immature. ” Dr. George Little, neonatologist ture an infant is. “If you’re born a month early, your problems are usually not too great,” Little says. “If you’re born two months early, your problems are greater. If you’re born three months early, you’re getting to the area where survival is not that great. “The way I like to explain this to parents and medical students is if you’re born a month early, you’re premature. But when you get to two or three months early, you’re not only premature, you’re immature.” At that age, many of the body’s systems are not suitably developed for life outside the womb. Such children face a variety of short-term problems, including in- broplasia that results in blindness in some children. With careful control of the oxygen supply, the incidence of blindness has dropped, says Dr. Ronald Poland, chairman of the Committee on Fetus and Newborn of the American Academy of Pediat rics. “In the mid-1950s, retrolental fi broplasia was the cause of most of the blindness in schools for the blind,” Poland says. “Now it’s a rela tively rare event. Still, not rare enough.” Children with chronic lung dis ease may need oxygen for as long as a year. In rare cases, the lung disease can last for a lifetime or can be fatal. Cerebral palsy is a mou order that can range fro® coordination to severe si inability to walk. Mental is less common, Poland sap Premature babies ofttr weeks or months of inti As a rule of thumb, doctor; a baby born three montfe lure will require about thrtf in the hospital, a baby in premature will be in the hi months. The cost of such carecar mous. A study estimated that® average cost for hospital baby weighing less than 2 ounces was $40,000 in 0 Dr. Ernest K ray bill of th* sity of North Carolina in estimates the average cost closer to $100,000 now. Ht bills of $100,000 or even are not unusual. But Kraybill says neon* sive care is cost-effective many years of useful life when it is successful. “You’ve got a whole life® you,” Little says. “Let’s o | that most kids who coined" natal intensive care do' They’re highly productive 1 ing members of society.” WASHI ethical iss dealing wit entific and C. Everett sion Wedn One of tt ing session commission Win a trip to * ^ c _!k Win A Trip Tor Two Look for detaUft at theoe ACiA diwplayw. Kroger Winn Dixie iVo Purchase Necessary. Sponsored By PiTAH 92 & The Real Juice Soda! WORDSTAR FOR THE BEGI BYTE BACK! One - week classes for those who want to learn this popular word processing prof Texa correct I to look for a re! 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