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SECTION 2 - PAGE 2 - PlfAINDEALER-HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 1,1985 Nation/World Celebration of Twain's 150th to begin soon Lucky baby lives to tell story By Philip United Pr > Newman United Press International NEW YORK - The mayor of Hannibal, Mo., extended an in­ vitation Wednesday to "the nation and world" to the 150th birthday celebration of Mark Twain in a ceremony dominated by a white- haired personality who said, "•reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."" John Lyng, a lawyer serving his second term as mayor of the fam­ ed author's hometown of 18,911 people, said "Hannibal possesses to this day the neighborly, Itometown flavor which is so clearly portrayed by Mark Twain in his tales of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn." " Lyng introduced a white-suited, £igar-smoking individual who turned out to be Roger Durrett, 35, who travels the nation in the title pole of a one-man show titled "An Evening With Mark Twain." £ Lyng and Durrett appeared at the Lotos Club of which Twain was $ member. His portrait hangs on a Wall of the famed gentlemen's elub. Durrett, who represents both the Cigar Association of America and the Mark Twain Ses- quicentennial commission, joined Lyng in a champagne toast. Then for 30 minutes, he har- rangued a news conference with Twainisms beginning with perhaps tne most famous, "Reports of my death have been greatly exxagerated." Twain was bom in Hannibal, 115 miles north of St. Louis, on Nov. 30, 1835, and died April 21, 1910. His books reflect life in a small town on the Mississippi River in mid-America in the mid-19th cen­ tury. "Here you will find, much as they were in Twain's youth in the 1840s, his boyhood home, the house where his young sweetheart lived, the drug store, the grocery store, the cave, the green hills, the 'pirate' islands, and most of all, the mighty river that was a part of the very personality of the great writer," Lyng said. The May to November celebra­ tion will include fence painting contests, Becky Thatcher look- alike competition, exhibits, films, c o n c e r t s , t h e a t r i c a l p e r ­ formances, pageantry and the largest flotilla of great river stern- wheeler steamboats assembled in modern times. Lyng noted that "Halley's com­ et blazed into the sky when Mark Twain came into the world and true to his wish that he depart when it reappeared, he did. The comet reappeared the year of his death. "Halley's comet will again reappear in 1985," Lyng said. • "And with it the memory of the man and the characters he created." By Patricia McCormack United Press International NEW YORK - "If I didn't have luck I would have died," said Frank Alioto Jr., a medical pioneer who will be 9 years old this month. Dapper in a new navy suit, on a visit from his home in San Diego, Calif., he gazed pensively at his shoes when asked what he meant. "Well," he said, "my Mom tells me I was too weak and little to be operated on, that's what I mean. "And something had to be done. 1 couldn't liye the way I was." The way he was nine years ago: 2 pounds, 7 ounces. Born at 30 weeks gestation. A sick, premature baby with a serious birth defect in the arteries near his heart. Patent 4uctus arteriosus, as it's called, threaten­ ed his circulatory system. Frank's was a congenital anomaly that shows up in about 70,000 newborns annually. In the medical era of his infancy, doctors tried to fix babies with PDA by giving them oxygen and drugs to improve the function of their hearts. When that didn't work, surgery was next. Without surgery, which was "next" for preemie Prank, he couldn't have lived. But doctors said he was too little and weak for an operation. » The luck that the lad talked; about was a chance to be one of the first PDA premies to be given a then-experimental drug shown to correct similar problems in animals. Indocin, the Merck Sharp & Dohme arthritis drug, did the job without surgery, the animal work showed. Mrs. Alioto said Dr. William F. Friedman, the doctor trying to save Frank, told her about the drug -- that its use would be ex­ perimental and the parents would have to sign permission forms before it could be tried. He also said there was no time to lose. The emotional hurricane raging inside the parents at ttuit moment was quelled, Mrs. Alioto said, "when we thought of the alter­ native for our baby." They turned to Friedman, then professor of pediatrics and director of pediatric cardiology at* the Univesity of California at San Diego, and said "yes." "We signed the paper right away, then," Frank's Mom said. Parents of preemies and other children in trouble hundreds of times a year are faced with similar difficult decisions when asked to sign-permission for non- traditional treatment that might save a very young life. Mrs. Alioto, her son and Dr. Friedman were in New York on the day it was announced that the Food and Durg Administration had approved the use of Indocin for treating the heart defect in preemies, taking it out of the ex­ perimental class. She was asked what advice she would offer parents faced with decisions about experimental treatments. "I would say two things you need to do," she answered. "One, you need to have faith in the doc­ tor, faith that he has the ability to advise you right. "And, two, I would say, stick to your conviction and believe in the doctor." Indocin is no longer is ex­ perimental, thanks to evidence ; from doctors who used it on tiny patients, Frank being among the < first. "But when you get to think about itw you're really lucky to be alive. And then when you think some more it isn't fun anymore. If I was unlucky I would have died." He has talked about his early problems with other kids. "I told them in the third grade at Show and Tell," he said. "I told them when I was a little baby I had a lot of trouble and my heart and kidneys weren't working right. And that my feet were black and blue and that this doctor sav­ ed my life by using an experimen­ tal drug -- and I was one of the first to use it for this trouble. "I told them I am lucky to be alive. And that's the truth.' . Where there's smoke... S Patricia McCormack nited Press International NEW YORK - The chair­ woman of the National Women's Health Network says the American Cancer Society should take the lead in an anti-smoking campaign aimed at women, in­ stead of suggesting feminist groups aren't doing enough. The Network, composed of 400 units nationwide, has been trying to get women to snuff out cigaret­ tes for nine years but lack of funds has hobblea the effort, said Sybil Shainwald, a lawyer. "We never have, not once in nine years, allowed smoking at our meetings," she said, noting the Network has not been silent or idle on other aspects of the issue of women and smoking. "My question is -- where was the Cancer Society over those nine years we were trying to alert women to the health dangers from smoking. The Cancer Society had the money for a big, continuous campaign directed at women smokers of all ages. "For them to criticize women's organizations who have limited funds is unjustified." As proof of the Network's fury about smoking, Shainwald waved a copy of a 1983 newsletter repor­ ting such things as girls starting to smoke at younger ages and studies that showed smoking hurts fetuses. "Smoking Stinks," read the newsletter headline. 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