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Wednesday, September 9, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 it Children use papal visit as tool to learn more about their faith /earing a red, pld d shirt peek le in a women's!* WEAPONS FI DALLAS (AP) — If he had a jp/^Bce to meet Pope John Paul 11, er found a sh<%iB-erader Eric Anderly said he’d i view on the floo: av ite him over for tacos and steak, olet. ^Bnother young Texan says he’d iMEN'I: sit the pope to pray for the loss- s received rep ,i a g lie d Dallas Cowboys, ople in Heaton r. i n anticipation of the pope’s visit bjected to anno'; un day to San Antonio, youngsters ig phone calls v. WHILE INTI related story, Page 15 icer saw stucej Catholic schools have been in- noped in ancrr^nsely studying the pope and their c officer rep aid) lent appeared , Many are well-attuned to the is- ues facing the church. STIC THREA, Fifth-grader Jovania Johnson, 10, n in the \eter,r:aid she would ask the pope to i Building rep hange his rules and let Catholic rived a call tr iriests get married. J he would bums'; ie ground. I T l> ROBBERY rported that hen j by a man who« money bag. Met he man in theu with no furthers Jason McBride, a seventh-grader, said he would tell John Paul to take all the money collected for his visit to the United States and give it to the poor. Fifth-grader Lisa Harrington wrote, “I would ask him why women can’t be priests, because in the Bible it says all men are judged equally the same.” But Terri Bryant, a third-grader at Holy Trinity who joined other stu dents in writing to Pope John Paul II this week, perhaps summed up how most of her classmates feel about the pontiffs visit. “I welcome you into our kingdom of Texas,” Terri wrote in her letter to the pope. Crayon drawings on bulletin boards in some area Catholic schools depict the pontiff wearing a cowboy hat, flying over the Alamo, picking bluebonnets and even riding a horse. One student said he has a poster of the pope tacked on his bearoom wall next to Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry. “They look alike — just switch their hats, and you can’t tell them apart,” said Ian Meyers, a seventh- grader. “If I could talk to the pope, I would ask him to pray for the Cow boys,” he said. At Immaculate Conception Cath olic School in Grand Prairie, the stu dents are collecting canned goods for the poor in honor of the papal visit. At St. Philip’s Episcopal School in Dallas, the children in Jaan Roegge’s second-grade class are studying a map of Italy and designing a model of the Vatican. “We’re using the pope’s visit to Texas as a focal point of learning,” Roegge said.“His visit is a once-in-a- lifetime thing. “And this is a wonderful opportu nity to expose children to different religions and make them think about morals and philosophy and respon sibilities.” Second-grader Matt Boutte, 7, asked the pope in his letter, “What language do you pray to God in?” And Jessica Allan, a student at St. Mark’s in Plano, wrote in her letter to the pope, “Did you ever have a girlfriend when you were in fifth grade? “Sometime I’ll visit Rome when I’m older, but right now I think I should finish fifth grade.” Use of leeches in modem medicine gains approval of doctors, patients ' , :'p,:;;; 1 h '/ |ihysicians use tiny animals to improve blood circulation by her husband WACO (AP) — When cabinet- i"d^Bver Gloria Allen ran her right ^Bd afoul of a power saw, Waco surgeon Dr. Bill Berryhill treated BaB her with some of the newest — and aldest — medical practices. Ba microsurgeon, Berryhill used 1^ a ^ vancec l techniques to reattach Al- ■B len’s severed index tingei and repair j0r | I I I the other three fingers on her right Bnd. He routinely reattaches fin- itly about thci ® ers an< ^ hands severed in accidents. • A complication arose in Allen’s in- n e of armed f-^ ex h n g er » however, when blood be- ention floor. & an accumulating turning the fin- ■ system began, S ei black and threatening nrtu C nt.alpann an fc tat,on - , , , k - / _ 1 he problem was that she had tiocratic Currer . , mot Candida'- t ) ‘0 <,< ' going in, but no blood going • I 1 r out.” Berryhill says, r in his state of ^ j o in. j . u i i• r JTor a remedy, Berryhill turned to he believes futuni olfJ t reatr ; nenl 7 making ne w ue polices he rounds: leeches vtai-oe econona R err yhju j iac j used leeches during to p ,n a f|U ows hip in California, and he re membered seeing an advertisement en unabletoffij by a North Carolina laboratory that ty caused mr r ju S( . s them. He called the lab and k-barre! sysier or( j erec j t be leeches, which were put >rs mansions tc on a pi ane f or Waco. Eight hours later at Hillcrest Bap- aonal Action Pa t j s t Medical Center, Berryhill placed in relativelv a. t b e f irs t leech on Allen’s finger. It “ strength else didn’t attach itself, so Berryhill U of vote-nggit‘ Sw i lc hed to a reserve, which immedi- adway even in a t e i v did its duty with good results, i during the pasi: “The finger was dark blue, but within 10 minutes it was pink again,” Berryhill says. The leech took care of the accu mulated blood and also secreted an enzyme that kept new blood from clotting. The first leech stayed on doctors. They do everything we want them to do.” The leeches come into play in cases such as Allen’s, when blood flows into an area that has no veins to carry it back out. Surgeons often “What these little small animals can do is far beyond our medical capabilities as doctors. They do everything we want them to do. ” -Dr. Bill Berryhill, Waco surgeon the finger two hours, but Berryhill replaced it with a fresh one, keeping a leech on the finger for 24 hours, the minimum time required to grow new capillaries across such a wound. “By that time, the blood circula tion had restored itself,” he says. Leeches were a staple of medical practice a few centuries ago, but roost modern doctors disdain them. Like bleedings and incantations, they conjure images of medieval medicine that most doctors avoid. When the alternative is amputa tion, however, leeches can look good. “It’s taken us a step backward into the future,” Berryhill says. “What these little small animals can do is far beyond our medical capabilities as can reattach arteries, but not veins or capillaries. The leeches dispose of the excess blood until the severed veins have had time to heal. Allen said she had misgivings about the leeches but is glad Berry hill opted for them. “He told me he wouldn’t be able to save it unless he tried that,” she says. “I said to go ahead, but at first I thought they’d bite me and I didn’t know if I could have stood any more pain. “If they can help someone else, it’ll be good. One guy I talked to said, ‘I wish they’d put them on me.’ I was lucky.” Leeches are gaining nationwide popularity in several medical disci plines. Waco plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Wright used them success fully recently following a mastec tomy and breast reconstruction when blood accumulation became a problem in the reconstructed area. “They’re just another weapon in our arsenal,” Wright said. “It’s like stepping back 200 years.” The leeches Berryhill and Wright used are called medical leeches. They’re grown in laboratories and kept in clean environments to lessen the chance of bacterial infection. Modern use of leeches was first reported a decade ago by a French doctor. Since then, leeches have been used widely to treat postopera tive problems in microsurgery. One firm said its leech farm in 1986 sold 10,000 leeches to doctors in the United States and Europe. De mand grows 300 percent a year. Wright says when he suggests us ing leeches, the first question usually is, “Are these leeches from the creek?” However, he’s had patients come to accept the leeches, he says. Berryhill says nurses at first were squeamish about using leeches. But Wright says nurses he worked with were interested in how the leeches would work. “They were all excited about it at Providence,” he says. “They thought it was wonder ful. They wanted to watch and learn how to put it on.” Committee chairman struggles with budget marked for papal visit SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Rev. Larry Stuebben has a bill a mile long, but he is confident Texas Catholics will raise the ad ditional $600,000 they need be fore Pope John Paul II sets foot on Texas soil Sunday. Stuebben, chairman of the Texas Papal Visit Committee, said church officials are closely approaching the $2.5 million mark in expenditures for the pa pal visit, but have yet to raise all the funds. “We are within the budget,” Steubben said. “It is now getting close enough to the $2.5 million and I’m signing big orders for checks every day.” “I made a commitment to the bishops that no matter what, I was going to hold it to the $2.5 million. I still think I can say that.” Expenditures are high, but would be higher if the church had not received help from cor porations and volunteers. The cost to the church for the 144-acre Mass site will be more than $1.1 million, but another $1 million in land and services was donated, Stuebben said. ’ Bus transportation for Mass worshippers will cost about $750,000; liability insurance, $100,000; media facilities, $200,000, and medical stations and supplies, $60,000. Security costs, including fences and other supplies, are higher than expected. One million sou venir programs, printed at church and private sector ex pense, will be distributed free at the Mass site. Stuebben said the Mass would not have been possible without the donation of the land from two developers. Others have volun teered their time and skills. Also, city, county, state and federal officials, mostly law en forcement agencies, will provide manpower and facilities at their own expense, which could total another $1 million, city and church officials have said. As for Catholics, Stuebben said church officials will be glad to count pennies from congregation members. “It’s getting close enough to the time that we really need the $2.5 million to pay the bills,” Stuebben said. New insurance law angers Texas-Mexico border cities EL PASO (AP) — Juarez City Mayor Jaime Bermudez says he’s against spending Mexican money to improve international bridges as long as Texas requires Mexicans to carry auto liability insurance. “Why should we build bridges at the city’s expense when (Texans) keep limiting our ability to use them?” Bermudez, mayor of the city across the border from El Paso, said. The mayor and others are angry over a new law that requires anyone driving in Texas to have liability in surance. Mexican critics have said many car owners from south of the border can’t afford insurance. Traffic over the international bridges between Juarez and El Paso decreased last week ahd El Paso merchants said business was down. The law also might endanger Mexico’s contribution to the long- sought widening of the Zaragosa Bridge in east El Paso, an official said Monday. Jose Licea Carrillo, head of the municipal press office, said the mayor is serious about not letting tolls collected at the Mexican end of the downtown Paso del Norte Bridge be used to widen the Zara gosa Bridge. Licea said Bermudez has beerij working with state and federal offb cials to allow the 65-cent tolls go into a municipal bridge improvement fund. Juarenses are particularly an noyed, Licea said, that some Mexi can drivers have been stopped at driver’s license checkpoints in El Paso County and asked to show proof of insurance. Sheriffs dep uties ticketed eight Mexicans for not having insurance at a checkpoint last Thursday. Meanwhile, fShlice'th’Ji^uth Texas have said they are not enforcing the mandatory insurance law unless a driver is involved in an accident or is stopped for a moving violation. 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