Page 2, The Herald, Friday, June 22, 1979

Brief oulines social problems

ALERT BAY, B.C, (CP) —,
A brief submitted fo ani

inquiry into health services of 1,000 is plagued with unsatisfactory sanitary federal

"In this remote village says
the native Indian community

RARE OPER ATION
Skull removed and reshaped _

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Sure.
geons removed the skull of.a
six-year-old New Brunswick
gir) whose head had swollen
to the size of a 35-pound
watermelon and rebuilt itin
@ rare operation mat
reduced it to near normall, |

Laurie Montgomery of
Flatlands, N,B., was listed in
critical condition at Tampa
General Hospital on Thur-
sday. But doctors aaid she ‘is

responding well,

“We tok the skull cono-
pletely off and reconstructed

it smaller,” said plastic
surgeon Mutaz Habal, ane of
two doctors guiding the
University of South Florida
medical team in the delicate
14-hour operation, -It was.
performed last Friday but

, details were not made known

until Wednesday.
Laurie suffers
hydrocephalus,
known as water on the brain,
In normal babies, fluld is
Produced to cushion and
nourish the brain and tiny
pathways form to drain the

from
commonly

severe alechol problems,
children’s diseases and

fluid off, In Laurie, the path-
ways did not develop. .

Her head grew to 93 centi-
metres in circumference. It
waa too heavy for her to hold
up and left the child pinned
ta a bed: most of. the time.
Doctors. held out little hope.

’ The girl's father, Thomas

Montgomery, said he sald he
and his wife Arlene first
sought treatment in Canada
but were told it was futile. -
They refused to give up, he

sald, “although that was the

conditions, - ;
Dy.° Mary —Hapgood,: .a_.

*Tndian affairs

advice to give and for et
about her. ” ae

Neurosirgeon Jack

Maniscalco, who worked

with Habal In the surg

said: “Sho wont be cut at the :

woods until abdut two weeks

after the operation. But she.

is better.”

The operation was -the

” department health director, o

said the Nimpkish band

“versely” affects’ about

; it 90 per
a tent of Indian families in:
eatimated that ‘alcobo! el at “willy 0 mi

ge dn Comorant -Jéland: -

- “off the northeast ‘dp’ of Van-

University ‘Of Florida’ in
Galnesville, |

“yearold - boy. who. now,
reported ‘tobe Seveloving

naturally. & A Canadian doctor. :
heard of that case -
refered the Montgonorg: to”

the Tampa team.
‘In Laurie's case, Habal re-

‘ moved “he? skull ‘in pieces
- Becond of Its kind that Haba -
and Maniscaleo have per:
formed. They did their first .

and Maniscalco says he
“Hterally deflated. her
brain’ by. removing the

one two years ago at Shands - fluid,

Teaching Hospital at the

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Then Habal built | a acaf-

The back of” er head ts

* still larger than:aormal and—
|) Manisealco ‘said .a ‘second. .
operation -will be necessary ~ a
| in ‘about six months ta. °

correct that. -

-. Once the shaping waa ,

, dane, Maniscaleo reattached
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Strike 7
costly’ |

SYDNEY, Australia

> (Reuter). — ‘A. 24-hour
general strike by Australia’s:
. labor unions and a gasoline

shorlage In ‘the country's

‘most populous state, New
’ -. South Wales, has -cost the
-. esonomy

hundreds of
millions.of dollars. :

About .200- unions staged

. |. rrieetings across the country
fo protest the-. court’ ap-

pearance of two union of-

“| ficiala charged with ad.’

dressing a meeting of strik-'

_ ere. without; police per.

“1. Peter Nolan, secretary ot
. the’ Australian Counell of :

Trade Unions, aaid-it is not

* possible to estimate how
‘f.. many, ‘workers ‘are striking
. over the civil liberties issue.

~- Nolan said West Australla

‘ig ‘probably hardest hit with
. 40-ships unable to enter or

Jeave ports and all air links
dlarupted. .
Federal. Employment

Secretary Ian. Viner’ said
there Is heavy - support ‘for
thé strike in Manufacturing, °
public: tran-

that about $0 pe
‘patients 1iPe or ito fatter
“from ‘ alcohol’ problems, :.

-. While’: - one Hf + Mying

‘Jack Pickup,
: physician, -
“dispensing his services, and
"folding from pleces of skull’. -
-On-that bony framework, he -
‘refitted other pieces, moving
-. same around’ afd reducing
. thesize of others unt] he had
reshaped her bead giving her,
. -@ normal appearance from i.
‘| the front and

for the
: maria tea

. Local’ Indian. hands ‘have

‘bands ha
_aleficulties

eee ine ‘and’ that two

_Souyer Island, -
‘Documents’ at St. George’ 5:

hospital -herg, sho said, show

doctor - has
estimated the figure ja closer

! t.
“That patent ‘was. a ty ‘to 90 Ber cent.

hie Inquiry, headed by De,

‘George Ballam, followed the -

-recent death of. Renee Smith, ° .
‘an'11-year-old native Indian
girl, who died. of ‘a ruptured

appendix’ and severe

peritonitis after being
treated. with painkillers in

hospital for five days,

A coroner's found Dr.
suey attending
negligent in

in hospital procedures.
Local ‘officials had asked
prlor to the

poytotted: the inguiry, held
"close , doors,

_Bhaltg ‘it a farce and a

whitewash. They want a full
public hearing with ¢ a judge

Hapoonts written aub-
mise on to the. seven-
member inquiry sald local
experienced

getting

provincial oiticlats 8 fund
programs:

. to
alcoholism.
She sald the Nimplish
band tried to set up a

"program ‘with an alcohol -
: Perera wi an ‘drop-

in centre in 1978, but were.

Unable to get assistance

*., ‘from elther the human re-
- Sources: ministry or. the

attorney-general’e depart-

‘+ iment,

After several delays, she

said, the band wag able to get

funding. from the National
Native Alcohol
program. - - | °

Ms. Hapgood said Indian
‘children ‘the ‘area
generally ae well-served,
with - regular. health.
examinations at school, but
still suffer from - ear
diseases, visual defects,
dental : diseage - -and -difti-
culties in growlng mentally,
emotionally. and. physically.

-Tnisslon,. . Poor nutrition, alcohol and
- The ‘hearing’. “wae ‘ade -tmating all contribute t to the
Journed for ‘oie ‘month for a|~ -Proble: .
review of the” rit for She said garbage disposal
which the cabe had ‘been im the area also is- un-
brought. satisfactory.

“An open dump on the re-

serve is too hear the howes
said. is attracting rats," she

‘Roy Cramner, Nimpkish
band chief, sald the Inquiry

and. Ma, Hapgood’s
' “were not exactly what we
bad In mind” and doubted

the inquiry would result in a
changes at the hospital. The
band will continue to press
for a full inquiry, he said,

- Groups also have
demanded: that Pickup’s
privilages be terminated
the outcome of such

doctors be sent to the area

- lamediately,

ir cent of all:

. revolutionary court,

combat

Abuse

' announcement

NEWS IN BRIEF

..” SHANNON, Ireland LAP)

- + A Serblan nationalist who
‘hijacked a’ New -York-

Chicago. flight with 127
passengers boar d
surrendered to Irish

police
‘Thireday after switching to

& larger jet in New York arid
across the Atlantic
with | his lawyer, authorities

. The passengers were freed

— A
judge
said Thursday that the killer
of Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi will receive a
reward equal to $143,000,

In an interview with the
newspaper Bamdad,

‘TEHRAN (AP)

‘ Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali

said even Empress Farah
Diba, the shah’s wife, would

-QUESNEL, B.U, (UP) —
An RCMP spokesman said
Thursday that a 18-year-old

youth will be charged with

arson after a fire Tuesday
caused $2.5 million damage
to Cariboo Junior Secondary
In this interior British
Columbla community. -

“RCMP took the juvenile
inte custody Wednesday, but
would not say when he would
face the charge in juvenile
court.

Meanwhile school, police
and fire officials, were still

puzzling over a time delay in

reporting the fire. Each said
the fre started at a different

AO tcanel Fire Chief Chuck
Beath said he has a report
that a B.C, Hydro lineman
aaw smoke coming, out of the

-journey.

in Chicago, after the firat leg.
of the hijacker’s ‘Bhour

Authoritles ‘said the saga
began when Nikola Kavaja, .
carrying what he sald was.
dynamite, commandeered. .
an American Airlines Boeing
727-en route to Chicago in.an
abortive bid to free a dalle!
compatriot, . :

Shah on death list

be eligible for the money it:
she killed her husband: and
would be pardoned: ‘and
allowed to return to Iran.-

Khalkhali said - Crown.
Prince Reza .and other
children of the couple will
not be harmed by people he
sald have been sent to kill the
shah in Mexico. He did not:
say who would pay the
reward,

Arson charge laid

building at 8:30 a.m. Firehall -
records show the call wasn't

received until 6:42 a.m. and

firemen were out of the hall
by 8:45 a.m., he sald, - .

School officials said. the
school alarm was triggered
at 8:40. a.m, and ROMP said
they received theit call at
8:48 am. The RCMP call
was simultaneously reared
to the firehall.

The fire started In the
school gym and raged
through the entire building
for three hours before It was -
brought inder control by 60
firemen and B.C. Forest
Service waterbombers,

About 500 ‘students at-
tending the 22-year-old
school were safely °

. evacuated,

Soldier denies shooting

F MANAGUA (AP) mat nas
ional gu corporal ac-
cused in the shooting death
of a U.S. television reporter
said Thursday that another
soldier was responsible and
that the soldier was killed in
combat later in the day.
Cpl. Lorenzo Hrenes
testified before a tribunal
ordered . convened by
President Anastasio Somoca

- (9-investigate the death of

ABC-TV correspondent Bill
Stewart. The reporter was
killed with his Nicaraguan

interpreter Wednesday ‘at a
Batlonal guard roadblock ‘in
Managua.
Meanwhile, U.S. State
secretary Cyrus Vanca
asked that Somoza resign. In. .
a prepared statement from
Washington, Vance said the
people of Nicaragua no
onger trust their gov-
ith. with ts Aten La ea:
Ww e oblems: ,.-in,.
Ls ae ucceed

~ Nicaragud’ w

only if’ a transitional
fovernment vee estab-
lished, he

Coal mine criticized |

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
(CP) — A sprawling open-pit
coal mining development
Planned In northeastern B.C.
could be an environmental
nightmare, says the govera-
ment biologist for the area.

Fred “Harper, biologist
with the provincial fish and
wildlife epurtineat in Fort.
St. John, sald in a telephone
interview Thuraday that
of the

development caught him by

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| Chemicals |
= found |

REGINA (CP) —A British |
Columbia environmentalist .
said Thursday the level of
polychlorinated biphenyls
found in a teat of Regina’s
drinking water je.

recommended the use of .

a activated charcoal’ filters. |.

Merriam Doucet, a Port -
Moody, B.C.,. n-.
vironmentalist involved in.
getting the federal ag
ment to ban PCBs earlier

this year, sald the PCB lev« |:

els in the Regina teats are -
above those in an accident in ©
Japan 15 years ago.

PCBs, used in Insulation of
electricat transformers,
have been Iinked te cancer,

She sald water sa
taken after the Japense

‘accident indicated PCB

levels of three
biliion.
Minister Ted Bowerman sald
Wednesdaytests done on Re-
gina’s water supply ‘earlier
oe month mane ed levels

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Ms. Doucet said studies
following the Japanese
showed some
Pregnant women in the area
gave birth to babies with
defects such aa disturbances
of the central nervous
ejutem and growth retat'-

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