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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
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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
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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
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rived a call tr iriests get married.
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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
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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.
Licea criticized El Paso political
and business leaders for not distrib
uting insurance information sooner.
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