University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 13, 1963
Young Ballplayer Awaits Result of Nerve Surgery
BOSTON — (UPI) — A 13-year-old Little Leaguer today waited patiently—hoping to learn whether he will ever be able to move the hands and fingers of his right arm.
Everett (Red) Knowles' right arm was severed by a train and sewed back on in a history making operation last May.
The plucky Somerville youth underwent a six-and-a-half hour operation Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital to rejoin the arm's nerves and restore feeling and motion.
Surgeons said it may be 18 months before they know whether the operation was a success. But they were optimistic about Red's recuperative powers.
"He always does so much better than we expect," said Dr. James C. White, consulting neurosurgeon for the operation. "He has amazing regenerative powers."
Dr. White and Dr. Arnold A, Malt, head of the team of 11 surgeons and two nurses that performed the operation, agreed Red was going to need plenty of luck.
Until the new nerves have grown through the arm, it remains lifeless for all practical purposes, with no sense of feeling and no ability to move.
Dr. White said the two most vital nerve bundles were connected directly—without grafts. Two remaining nerve bunches were rejoined with the aid of transplanted nerve tissue from Everett's thigh and his upper shoulder.
Language Exams Set for Saturday
Language proficiency examinations will be given at 8 a.m. Saturday in the following rooms:
French, 213 Fraser; German, 206 Fraser; Latin, 210 Fraser; and Spanish, 205 Fraser.
Those passing the written examination will be given oral interviews the following week.
Students wishing to take the examinations should enroll with Austin Lashbrook, assistant professor of classics, for Latin; Maude Elliott, assistant professor of Romance languages, for Spanish; David Dinneen, instructor of Romance languages, for French; Franklin Watts, instructor of German for German.
The college of Liberal Arts and Sciences requires 16 hours of a foreign language or proficiency in one language for graduation for students who began their college studies after September, 1959.
KU Med Center To Receive Grant
The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City has been allocated $254,719 by the Kansas Advisory Hospital Council.
The allocation is subject to approval of the Kansas State Board of Health later this month.
Dr. C. Arden Miller, dean of the KU Medical Center, said the money will be used as a matching fund for construction of an additional outpatient building.
The amount is part of more than $2.8 million in federal Hill-Burton funds to local and county hospitals and related medical facilities for the 1963 fiscal year.
Reamon Is Named KU Swim Coach
Dick Reamon, Topeka senior, was named yesterday as the new KU swimming and golf coach.
Reamon, who will graduate at the end of the semester in biological science, replaces Jay Markley, who went to the University of Oklahoma as head swimming coach.
As a KU swimmer, Reamon has won six Big Eight meet second places in three events. The three events are the 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley.
Reamon has coached the Topeka Swim Team, sponsored by the Topeka Recreation Commission, the past two summers.
Dr. White said grafted nerves don't regenerate as well as those connected directly.
Even with the grafts, the nerves were so taut that doctors put the arm in a new cast to pull it back tight against the shoulder to ease the strain on the rejoined nerves.
All that remains now is to wait and watch Red's clinical progress, doctors said. They said additional surgery may have to be performed, but that decisions will be made later.
"We'll follow him along and see how satisfactorily regeneration occurs," said Dr. Malt. "It all depends on that."
KU Traffic-
- Public vehicles such as buses, taxis, fire trucks, police vehicles and ambulances.
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- Vehicles of persons attending officially scheduled campus associated meetings, previously approved for station entry by the Traffic and Security office. Persons in charge of such meetings must obtain approval at least one day in advance.
Visitor and short-term campus pass stickers will be issued at the control station by the officer on duty.
The Traffic and Security Office will issue permanent, temporary (more than one day) and departmental passes. Permits will be issued all deans and department heads and other universal parking permit holders and to those assigned parking in zones H, T, J, and Q which lie within the control area.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The House has expressed its view to the world that bourbon whiskey can happen only in America.
Lawmakers Claim Bourbon
With only brief discussion, the House approved and sent to the Senate Tuesday a resolution urging government agencies to bar the import of foreign-made whiskies labeled "bourbon" unless the country of origin is carried on the label as part of the name.
The resolution noted that Britann has staked a claim to "scotch whisky," Canada has taken steps to protect the name "Canadian whisky," and French authorities insist that brandy labeled "cognac" come from the section of the same name in France.
In addition, the House Ways & Means Committee said, "The Federation Internationalale Des Vins and Spiriteux," a body of recognized authorities on wines and spirits has endorsed the restriction of the name
It said some foreign bottlers have tried to use the bourbon name on their whiskies, and American officials ought to cut them off.
"bourbon" to whiskey produced in the United States.
The committee gave one other distinction to bourbon. It said the American-made product was "a whisky" while Scotch and Canadian were called "whisky."
Rep. John Watts, D-Ky., who represents Bourbon county, Kentucky, sponsored the resolution.
Jury Talks Too Much
BEAUMONT, Tex. — (UPI) — During a crackdown on vice and gambling, one Jefferson County grand jury indicted 11 members of another county grand jury for disclosing grand jury testimony.
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