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Sunday, December 9, 1984
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Schroeder now in satisfactory condition
During his short trip,
Schroeder was connected to the
11-pound Heimes Portable Heart
Driver to provide the pulses of
compressed air that make the
heart beat. The cumbersome
323-pound Utahdrive pumping
unit was rolled along as a
precaution.
Humana officials on Friday
released a handwritten letter
from Schroeder to “Hospital
Employees of Audubon
Hospital.”
It said, in part, “There are not
enough words available to say
thanks (to) the entire staff.”
the church. The wedding will fall
on Schroeder’s 112th day on the
artificial heart. Barney Clark,
the first recipient of a
mechanical heart, died 112 days
after receiving the device in
Utah.
Schroeder’s condition on Day
13 was in sharp contrast to that
of Clark, whose heart broke a
valve on that day. Clark had
been in generally poor health
when he was given the heart.
Another indication of
Schroeder’s progress was that
he consented to an interview
with a group of reporters, ten-
tatively scheduled for Sunday
night.
Schroeder’s new room is one of
two “transitional-care units” for
heart surgery patients who are
being eased' away from the
round-the-clock observation of
die coronary-care unit.
He got his first wheelchair ride
since surgery when he was taken
to the hospital’s X-ray depart-
ment, where doctors used a com-
puterized axial tomography
machine, or CAT scan, to watch
the Jarvik heart at work and
double-check its position in
Schroeder’s chest. They also
measured its pumping capacity.
Schroeder had shown “a
“Evidently he’s been making
phone calls all afternoon, calling marked improvement in all
his friends and family.” functions in the past 24 hours,”
His condition was upgraded said Dr. AllanM, Lansing, chalr-
from serious to satisfactory on man of Humana Heart Institute
Friday, the hospital said.
Irvine said doctors found in is he looks very well.
the morning tests that the The patient was so cheerful he
Jarvik-7 mechanical heart is wag .<talking about going home,
pumping ... even talking about attending
°f Schroeders i^tural hJg ^.g wedding in M&ch,”
heart, which was crippled and r fln<lin0
scarred by heart attacks and Lansln8saia-
artery disease. Terry Schroeder is to be mar-
Schroeder continued exercis- ried March 16 at St. Joseph
ing Friday afternoon, was eating Church in the family’s
well and his mood was upbeat, hometown of Jasper, Ind., said
Michelle Forler, a secretary at
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -
William J. Schroeder, moved to
a private room and his condition
upgraded to satisfactory, now
has his sights on another
milestone — attending his son’s
wedding on his 112th day of life
with an artificial heart.
Schroeder, 52, was moved out
of Humana Hospital Audubon’s
coronary care unit Friday into a
private room after a morning of
medical tests. It was his first
trip outside the special unit since
the Nov. 25 implant.
“He’s excited about his sur-
roundings,” said Humana Inc.
Spokesman Robert Irvine.
Reform bill interpretation
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International. “The main thing
Irvine said.
Panel: 10,000 have
fake medical degrees
State school board to mull proposals
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— The Committee on Students Strong, former state senator
Strong said it was obvious the
Board of Education was set to has recommended rules on stu- from Longview, agreed to sub- proposed limit of five unexcused
act Saturday on a long series of dent absences for extracur- mit its previous decisions on ex- absences for extracurricular ac-
recommendations from its com- ricular activities, social promo- tracurricular activities to the tivities also applied to elemen-
mittees on how the new public tions and unexcused students * state board with one addition — tary grade students,
school reform bilbshould be in- absences. Students can have on- performances of elementary art “I don’t think we need to wory
terpreted and administered. ly five unexcused absences each students will be excused about it because as a practical
The board’s decisions will pro- semester and athletes and absences. matter these absences will in-
vide guidelines to the 1,100 others in extracurricular ac- Efforts by committee volve Little League, Peewee
school districts throughout the tivities can spend only eight members Mary Helen Belanga - football or church related ac-
state. hours a week for travel and of Corpus Christi to get similar tivities where we have no control
Highlights of the proposals in- practice outside the school exclusions for drama students anyway,’’Strongsaid.
for school plays and Katherine Strong’s committee took no
— The Committee on Person- Raines, Clebnme, for Latin club direct action on a petition that
doctor and dental appointment
We will never be able to draw be reasons for automatic excus-
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House subcomittee estimates. *
that 10,000 of the nation’s H
practicing physicians have Ti
phony degrees from foreign
medical Schools obtained
from brokers involved in a
multi-million-dollar diploma
racket.
One broker told the House
Select Committee on Aging’s
health subcommittee Friday
that he earned $1.5 million
over three years by selling the
fraudulent medical degrees.
Pedro DeMesones, now ser-
ving a three-year prison
sentence for mail fraud and
conspiracy, testified that dur-
ing three years of “ex-
pediting” medical degrees, he
provided about 100 clients
with false transcripts showing
they had fulfilled medical re-
quirements of schools they
didn’t attend.
“Clients paid me. from
$5,225 to $27,000 for my ser-
vices,” DeMesones said. “In
all I earned about $1.5 million
in those three years. I only got
to keep about $500,000 of this
total. The rest went for bribes
and expenses.”
Rep. Claude Pepper, D-
Fla., chairman of the subcom-
mittee, said the panel “found
that upwards of 10,000 so-
called ‘doctors’ now in
hospitals and private practice
have obtained fraudulent
foreign medical degrees.”
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cent memory.”
Pepper said “it is ironic
that the federal government
is spending more than $40
million in loans to students at-
tending foreign medical
schools — particularly when
much of that total — as much
as $20 million, the committee
estimates — is being wasted.”
Among those at the witness
table was Loretta Branda,
whose husband was said to be
in “a persistent vegetative
state” since his heart stopped
for several minutes during an
operation in August 1983.
“Today Joseph Branda is in
a coma at Walson Army
Hospital in Fort Dix (N.J.),
the victim of one Abraham
Asante, who was posing as an
anesthesiologist at Walson,”
said Gary Lesneski, an at-
torney representing the Bran-
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duties.
elude:
— The Committee on Finance
has recommended a formula for nel has recommended rules on members were unsuccessful,
distributing the $1.2 billion pro- testing Texas school teachers as
vided by the summer special required by the new school law up rules that will apply to every ed absenses, but instructed the
situation,” said Strong.
“I am very sympathetic but to that effect,
we are not able to cover
On Friday, the Committee on everything,” said Charles Dun- cuses and should be in the law,
said Ms. Raines.
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staff to prepare an amendment
session in a way that will help and a teacher “career ladder”
tax-lean small school districts, that provides authomatic pro-
The cost'of educational goods motions,
and services to each school will
figure in the formula.
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“Those are reasonable ex-
Students, headed by Jack can, Houston.
Mitterrand starts week- long African tour
Monday in Bujumbura, capital
of formerly Belgian-ruled
Burundi. Representatives of 40
states are expected to attend.
French officials, who spoke on
condition they not be identified,
said Africa’s tremendous
economic problems — par-
ticularly the famine in Ethopia
and the constantly growing in-
debtedness of many African
countries — would dominate the
summit talks.
But many African officials
said the threat of Libyan expan-
sionism was uppermost in the
minds of the African leaders, the
officials said.
The conservative Paris daily
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KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) — than a year to block the advance
French President Francois Mit- of rebel forces backed by an
terrand begins a week-long tour estimated 5,000 Libyan soldiers,
of four African nations Saturday
hoping to calm the concern month, but U.S. intelligence
among moderate African reports and the French-backed
leaders over France’s policy government of Chad’s president,
toward Libya’s Moammar Hissene Habre, have said the Li-
Khadafy.
Khadafy publicly embarassed Chad.
Mitterrand last month by per-
suading him to Withdraw French influenced leaders in Africa
troops from the central African have expressed grave concern
nation of Chad with the promise over what they said was Mit-
of a simultaneous Libyan terand’s lack of determination in
withdrawal — and then reneging confronting Khadafy.
on the deal after the French had
departed.
France kept 3,500 their concern at the 11th annual
paratroopers in the landlocked summit meeting of France and
former French colony for more her African friends due to open
Le Figaro, noting what it called
African disappointment in Mit-
terrand’s dealing with Libya
over Chad, said:
“The Africans will raise their
usual matters. Plus one, which
will remain unasked for
politeness: has Francois Mit-
terrand lost the game in
Africa?”
African leaders have objected 1 &
to Mitterrand’s negotiating
directly with Khadafy without
consulting them, as has been the
tradition in French-African rela-
tions. Some say the lack of con-
sultation reflects an arrogant at-
titude toward Africa by France’s
Socialist government. |_
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A Canadian pharmacist
identified only as Mr. L. said
that after paying DeMesones
$10,000, he was admitted to a
Dominican Republic medical
school called CETEC without
taking tests, ‘‘without
legitimate recommendations,
without an average grade
point average and without
any knowledge of Spanish."'
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JOIN US FOR CHRISTMAS CAROLING
33 golfers participate in
senior citizen tournament
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We are pleased to present Christmas Garoling by choirs from
neighborhood schools. Join us for your favorite Christmas
songs and enjoy some Gingerbread and Wassail too. Our gift
to you, this Holiday season.
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The first Baytown Parks and
Recreation Golf Tournament for
Baytown Area Senior Citizens Evans, second and Pat Evers,
was held Thursday at the Chan- third,
nelview Golf Course.
Despite inclement weather, 33
golfers participated.
Winners' are as follows:
60-64 YEARS
H.B. Epperson, first; Gene
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65-69 YEARS
John Hampton, first; Jay
Wilson, second; Paul Patterson,
Bill Kovar and T.D. Robinson,
had a three way tie for third.
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Pumphrey Elementary School Choir
Sharon Napp, Choir Director
Lee High School Choir
Ivy Clayson, Choir Director
Lee High School Choir
Ivy Clayson, Choir Director
Dick Moravek, first; Travis
Bob Evans, first; Walter
Davenport, second and Arddie Biesel, second and Barney
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1984, newspaper, December 9, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153277/m1/24/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.