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University Daily Kansan Thursday, October 12, 1961
Still No Hope for Rayburn Despite Gain
DALLAS, Tex. — (UPI) — House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, dying of cancer, was making a "miraculous" recovery today from pneumonia which put him in a coma only 24 hours ago.
John Holton, Rayburn's administrative assistant, jubilantly described Rayburn's improvement as miraculous. A bulletin issued by Rayburn's doctors before noon, said:
"Mr. Rayburn is out of coma. He is definitely improved and the major change occurred this morning. He looks and appears stronger this morning and recognizes his family and associates. His temperature is normal. His pulse, blood pressure and respiration have remained unchanged since the change for the better."
Jack Paar to Leave Nightly TV Show
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Jack Paar will leave the nightly Jack Paar show next March but will return with a weekly show in color the following fall, National Broadcasting Corporation announced today.
TV Executive Vice President Walter D. Scott said the Monday-to-Friday late night show will continue without Paar. Another master of ceremonies will be announced later.
"NBC is delighted that television's most talked-about personality . . . will be back for the 1962-63 season, and for seasons to come." Scott said.
He said the new weekly program will have comparable format to the nightly show, will be live and in color, and will continue big-name guest attractions.
RAYBURN'S BASIC AILMENT—the cancer which has spread through at least half his body—remains the same. There is no hope.
Doctors hoped that by giving Rayburn an experimental cancer-remission drug they might slow the progress of the malignancy enough to allow him to return to his Bonham, Tex., home to spend his last days.
They had given him three doses of the special drug when the pneumonia struck yesterday. They had to stop the drug and fight the pneumonia.
HIS TEMPERATURE went up to
103 degrees. He was in coma. But with the help of a breathing machine, oxygen and antibiotic drugs,
"Mr. Sam" began to recover.
Dr. Robert F. Short, Jr., a personal friend of Rayburn, is in charge of his case. Rayburn is in Baylor University Medical Center.
"He is wide awake," Holton said today after Dr. Short issued the 11 am. bulletin.
Rayburn had taken three one-day doses of the experimental drug "5 Fluoro-Uracil" when the pneumonia developed and the drug had to be discontinued. With it, doctors hoped to arrest the cancer enough in
U.S. Has No Crime Network
"There is a syndicate in operation, or call it whatever you want, but every city has its own criminal operation." Kennedy said. "On occasion they meet and discuss overall problems."
He said the crime problem in Kansas City is acute, but not any more dangerous than in other cities throughout the nation. He refused to comment on a question whether Kansas City is a "criminal playground." The Attorney General replied, "that would be a matter I wouldn't want to discuss."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Attorney General Robert Kennedy said here yesterday there is no nationwide crime network in the United States, but that various local criminal efforts get together occasionally for summit conferences.
Kennedy said the Department of Justice is continuing its crime investigation here, including the bombing last spring of Battalion Fire Chief Stanton Gladden.
He said Rayburn began responding to questions last night and that his temperature began dropping—approaching normal. It was the pneumonia, he said, that caused "Mr. Sam's" condition to be changed from serious to critical.
10 to 14 treatments and build up the Speaker's strength sufficiently to let him leave the hospital and spend his remaining days at home.
SHORT SAID Rayburn has not been told he has cancer.
He said the Department of Justice is attempting to coordinate crime-fighting efforts and that his meetings with department officials from Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, were to discuss recently-passed federal legislation.
Short said the pneumonia was considered a "major" setback.
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He and other physicians had hoped that the "5 Fluoro-Uracil" would prolong his life weeks or perhaps months. Rayburn had been anxious to leave the hospital. His family would like to take him back to Bonham to spend his last days in his white colonial home and watch the white-faced cattle on his ranch that he loves.
episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
SHORT SAID the pneumonia had no relation to the "chemotherapy"—the treatment with the cancer remission drug. He said he had called four or five experts across the country and "they all agreed this was the drug of choice (to use)."
President Kennedy made a 3,100-mile round trip Monday to visit Rayburn. Short said former President Truman had called and said he wanted to come to see Rayburn.
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