The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 102, Ed. 1 Monday, February 5, 1979 Page: 14 of 18
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The doctor, who asked not to
be identified, said David's eye
disease, uveitus,. is jtA as
serious as the boy's family and
friends first thought.
"There are many things that
could be done to maintain jf lov
sion,” said the doctor. “There be
are many new surgical proce-
dures.
This is not a disease where
someone is doomed to blind-
ness, by any means," he added
David's best friend, thinking
David was going blind, wrote a
heart-rending letter last week
to the San Antonio News, ask-
ing that David be a ballboy for
Globetrotters during the ract-clouded left eye because o:
1000 WINNERS
rwMiwif j/ i7/7
Antonio Youth Not ‘Doomed To Blindness’ Now
!ioSSE
vear^JlJ Wil-
“nie boys on the
make fun of him a lot
times he crys,” 9-year
liam Linthicum Jr„ scrawled in
pencil on notebook paper. "He
loves basketball. Please let him
be a ballboy for the Globetrot-
ters because he may never see
them again."
David’s mother, Grace
her child eventually would go
blind from the disease, which
causes inflamation of the iris.
She said she was told last
Thursday that doctors could
never operate on David’s cata- David’s father, _ AjexBiojas,
ract-clouded left eye because of contended Sunday. 'Tree way
’s the
"I
get better,
horrifying
day my
said Friday,
"She was mistaken,",said the
doctor, who had earlier helped
perform surgery on David's
now "normal” right eye. “It’s
not the hopeless situation she
has painted it to be.'
The doctor said there is only
Riojas, had said she understood 3 slight chance that someone
stricken by uveitus would go
completely blind. The disease,
he added, is puzzling and can
recur without warning.
To me, he’s still the same,
we feel, he can’t see out of the David as saying Thursday after
. .. .. iii. _____ i.U ikn notoM/lt
eye and they say there’s al-
s a diance it will flare up
again in the other eye. We’re
still very, concerned."
David, who sported a biggin
Saturday after he sat on.the
Globetrotter bench during the
games, plays basketball twice a
week for a YMCA team De-
spite not being able to see from
his left eye, his coach says he
is one of the team’s better play-
He said he wants to be a pro
player and idolizes the Globet-
rotters, the world famous barn-
storming team.
"I guess I know that one day
I will go completely blind. It
scares meT' "**
he was told the cataract
couldn't immediately be re-
moved from his left eye,
David has had surgery on his
right eye to clear vision blurred
by the effects of the disease
and medication. The doctor
said David’s vision is "normal”
in that eye following the sur-
gery paid for by the State Com-
mission for the Blind
The doctor indicated the cata-
racts could eventually be
moved from David’s left eye.
SIGNER BORN
On Aug. 5, 1749, Thomas
Lynch, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence,
was born in Prince George
the News quoted County; S.C.
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100 WINNERS
‘David B. Barker
‘Jodi Foster
‘Michael J. Kubelka
‘Dennis Hodges
‘Cary Clark
*J. E. Fowler
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‘Mrs. Shirley Kay
‘Link Thompson
‘Thomas French
‘Karen Bochicchio
‘Ginger K. Schindler
‘Mary Starcher
‘Geneva Early
‘Lavergne E. Davenport
-tarry R. Briggs
‘Mary Lynn McKnight
‘Betty Riley .„
‘Leslie Williams
‘Moses Smith
‘Mrs. Ronald H. Hill
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begins Odds will be revised weekly thereafter to
indicate prizes still available and will be posted in
i Stores in Southeastern Texas. .
aft 78 Safeway Stores in Southeastern Texas
•ODDS CHART-CASH PRIZES! ’
ODDS EFFECTIVE JANUARY 29,1979
PRIZE
NUMBER
OF
WINNERS
ODDS
VISIT
ODDS
13
VISITS
ODDS
26
VISITS
$1000
71
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20.964 to 1
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899
21,524 to 1„
1,656101
828 to 1
125
1,874
10,476101
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403 to 1
$10
3,694
5,238 to 1
404 to 1
201 to 1
$5
5,642
3,430101
264101
132101
$1
87,765
103 tot
7.9 to 1
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Scotch Buy Crackers
Salted,SPECIAll jR| gf
Purchase er Mart,
e Lass Saar, Wine and Tobeccti.
SAFEWAY NON-FOOD VALUES!
Color Copy Prints
From Kodak Instant Print
Town House Soup] (Chili with Beans
l_ _ v.TownHoiim,SPECIAll
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10.5 Ox. Chickin Noodl* or
10.5 Ox. Cream of Mushroom
'\or Hot.
Suggested retai
on our complete
assortment of ”
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Size. 'CorV.............,Pkg. ‘
Beef Stew
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Vitamin V
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FROZEN FOODS!
Cream Chef se
Fried Chicken^
, Manor Home
(5 lb. Boz. *4.95)
Canned Biscuits
8-
Lucerne Yogurt&" 4'£ *1
Party Dips
sr?1..r™*A£*2,Q9
Multi-Vitamins ... Vitamin T
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*2.99
*1.99
AT&T
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Macaroni & Beef a 04
Bel-air Dinner--------...I20i,j*g,“tl
Fish Sticks m
Trophy Frozen.Phg.
Waffles
Bel-alr Frozen, t Count
/T FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES!
tf:*
Apples Mushrooms
Washington
Extra Fancy
Fresh
Ceuntry Stand
Boneless
ound Steak
■r Breasts
,.*1.09
Seftwuy Xegeler, Hot,
leaf nr llelbeta.
Iryer Parts— Premium Franks
Smoked Sausage
$1.88
Meat or leaf... ......Phg.
Com Beef Brisket
Dill Pickles
99*
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Tomato Sauced, r v..
AppleSauce^ ^^*! tteftuce
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Golden Corn^ ^31*
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Tomatoes ^ jy Rwset Potatoes iigy
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Dew Indus. Avp.......• • ■ ■ ®5.97
MARKET
White Cloud
Woolite Soap
for Cold Water Wash
1.36
ANGELA CHRISTINE Mer-
rill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gebfge W. "feavin's 'df 'Wy- ’- ' '
town, celebrates her sixth
birthday Monday. Grandpar-
ents are Mr, and Mrs. Ivy R.
Leavins, Mr. and Mrs. LR.
Brown and Mr. and Mrs. D.M.
Merritt, ail of Baytown. Great-
grandparents are Vallatta
Flanagan, Lena Wolff and Jes-
sie Leavins, ail of Baytown,
and Mr. and Mrs. 0,T. Palmer -
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£71*
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AUSTIN (AP) - Nellie Con
itally, wife of Republican presi
ly, has been released from an.
Austin hospital
Saturday night collapse
Mrs. Connally, 59, was dis-
charged from Brackenridge
Happy
Birthday
LOUIS WILSON, left, a millwright to the roll assembly shop tjt
U.S. Steel’s Texas Works, paid attention whenhewas toMupop
joining the Texas Works a year ago, the the USS Employee
Suggestion Plan could pay off. Wilson received a check g
$546 60 from Herb Thomas, right, superintendent for
maintenance and utUitfes, for his proposal of the fabrication of a
tool, for repairing caster assemblies and saving time on dri-
assembly and reassembling such units. _
OUR
WORLD
+ WASHINGTON -
Thousands of farmers
plowed a field of politi-
cal dissent today as they
jammed commuter art- former Prime Minister
eries and blocked bridges
in a motorized protest of
prices they received for
their crops.
+ TEHRAN, Iran
Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho-
meini today named 70-
ye^r-old oil engineer and
veteran opposition po-
litician Mehdi Bazargan
as prime minister of a
"transitional govern'
ment” to pave the way
for creation of an
lamic republic in Iran,
.+ SEATTLE - „
Hsiao-ping concludes his
visit to the United States
today, leaving behind an
invitation for U.S. lead-
ers to forsake detente
with the Soviet Union
and join China in ai
formal alliance against
the Russians.
Noon Stocks
(Courtesy of Paine, ffebbir,
Jackson and Curtis)
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Ethyl Corp ...............HV,
Exxon .......... #W
Ford ...... 4SW
Gen Elec ......... «7W
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+ RAWALPINDI,
Pakistan - The Pakis-
tani Supreme Court may
rule this week whether
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto must
die on the gallows, bring-
ing another turning-point
in the Moslem nation’s
turbulent history..
+ MCKINNEY - Au-
thorities said charges
would be filet!'today in
connection with the
deaths of two persons
whose skeletal-remains
were hauled from an
abandoned water.well.,
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MIGHAEL CROCKER, son 6!
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Crocker of
Baytown, celebrates his first
birthday Monday. He has a
sister, Marsha. Grandparents
are Genevieve Harrington,
Raleigh Harrington, Mav&
Crocker and A,T. Crocker, aji
of Baytown. Great-grand-
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mothers are Ednay Harring-
ton of Baytown and Nola
Send $1.50 for <
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Danny Patterson is sent Mon-
wishes from her family.
Belated Meetings go to Irene
Hospital Sunday morning after I Cartwright, a 57-year Baytown
an overnight stay for observa-j resident, who celebrated her
75th birthday Sunday.
A spokesman at the
' Free-falling float
'top with elastic
wrists—fashiont
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 102, Ed. 1 Monday, February 5, 1979, newspaper, February 5, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074729/m1/14/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.