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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 7, 1991
KU Med addition will treat patients with disfigurements
Contributors donate $2.6 million for Sutherland Institute
Anartist's conception of the Sutherland Institute for Facial Rehabilitation
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Children and adults who may be deformed for life will soon have a chance to heal physically and emotionally at an institute being built at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Sutherland Institute for Facial Rehabilitation will be the first of its kind at a university medical center, said Peggy Graham, University Relations staff member.
Scheduled to open next year, it will offer a variety of clinical services for children and adults who are afflicted with facial and body disfigurements as a result of severe injury, birth defects or disease.
Patient care will be provided through teams of specialists, based on the type of treatment a patient requires, said John Hiebert, chief of plastic surgery.
"The institute will house and streamline services under one roof so that it will handle our patients specifically," said Chelsea Hale, who also is director of the institute.
Specialists will include psychiatrists, psychologists, surgeons, dentists, orthopedists, speech therapists, pediatricians and geneticists, he said.
"At weekly staff meetings we attempt to develop an approach that is reassuring to the patient and the patient's family." Hiebert said.
The institute, a $3 million project, has received $2.6 million in private funds, said John Scarffe, director of communications for the KU Endowment Association.
Dwight and Norma Sutherland, and Robert Sutherland, donated $1.5 million to the institute, Scarfe said.
He said that other contributors included Maurice and Virginia Brown, who donated $250,000, and Clarke and Jane Henry, who donated $50,000.
In 1891, Dwight and Norma Sutherland founded the Todd L. Sutherland Microsurgical Center at the Med Center, in honor of their son, Todd, who was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip.
A cleft palate is a birth defect in which the plates of the mouth's roof do not fuse.
Dwight Sutherland is a member of the Endowment Association Board of Trustees and an executive for Campaign Kansas, Scarfe said.
The new institute will be an expansion of the microsurgical center.
Sutherland described the institute as a dream come true.
"The Sutherlandes have been very active and very supportive of the University for years," he said.
Kuwaiti emir caps oil well as firefighters extinguish last blaze
BURGAN OI FIELD, Kuwait — Kuwait's emir yesterday ceremonially capped an oil well that had been regifted for a celebration marking the doubling of the raging oil fires ignited in the Persian Gulf war.
The Associated Press
As the celebration went on, Canadian teams put out the last fire, in the northern field of Sabrivy.
To the sound of bagpipes, tambourines and shrill hooting, the emir; Shrik Jaber al-Alhamed al-Sabah, pushed a stool of brass pipes; the emir, the princess.
"Our national resources are safe now ... and this waste is stopped forever," Oil Minister Hammoud-al-Rquba said. However, the full environmental and economic impact of the inferno is still being assessed.
The Kuwaiti press, apparently not wanting to put a damper on the national holiday declared for the celebration, announced Tuesday that all fires were out.
Fires at the northern Sabriyay and Rawdatein fields were out, but the wells were still spewing oil yesterday.
Most of the 723 wells that burned were sabotaged by retreating Iraqi troops, but others were set afire during the invasion.
Scientists are now turning their attention to repairing oil wells and refineries, removing vast lakes of oil and
keeping carcinogenic soot out of the water system
keeping oil chlorine soaked on the water system.
Oil production, which was halted by the war, has reached almost 500,000 barrels per day. That is less than one-quarter of the prewar 1.5 billion barrels a day.
Al-Rquba said Kuwait had an "aggressive" plan to reach its pre-invasion quota by late December 1962. He added that Kuwait's ambition was
Oil ministers of Syria, Egypt and the the Gulf Cooperation Council that comprised Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman attended the ceremony.
U. S. Ambassador Edward Gnehm Jr. described the occasion as "extremely historic and one that makes us realize our responsibility."
The firefighting effort ended four months before Kuwaiti projections. Teams from the United States, Canada, Iran, France, Britain, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union and China joined the effort.
Despite dangers from mines, unexploded ornament, blazing oil wells, oil lakes and blinding smoke, no firefighters were killed. Only a few injuries were reported.
Al-Rquba told reporters after the ceremony that the firefighting effort had so far cost $1.5 billion. However, he said that the firefighters' salary had reduced the initial projection of $42 million in oil losses by $12 billion.
Fourteen automobile hood ornaments were turned in to police Monday. Lawrence police reported. Two juveniles had been stealing hood ornaments off of cars since about Sept. 18. When the juveniles' two fathers learned that their sons had stolen the
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hood ornaments, they took their sons and the hood ornaments to the Lawrence police station, police said
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A car window was broken into and a radar detector valued at $150 was taken between midnight and 9 a.m. Tuesday from a car in the 1300 block of
24th Street, Lawrence police reported.
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A wallet was taken between 10:30
and 11:59 p.m. Monday from the pocket of a coat outside of raccquetball court number three at Robinson Center, KU police reported.
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