Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 92, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 December 1984 — Page 3

With Pan Am selection 'official/ Indy leaders' job just beginning

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) With Indianapolis “officially” chosen to host the 10th Pan American Games in 1987, city leaders realize their job of preparing for the international sporting event is only beginning. “There’s a lot of sorting out to be done,” said Mayor William H. Hudnut Wednesday as he held a telex from Mario Vazquez Rana, President of the Pan American Sports Organization. “Just because we got this blessed piece of paper doesn’t mean we’ve got all the arrangements finished,” he said. Vazquez Rana informed the city of its selection by PACO late Tuesday, Hudnut added. The mayor, Gov. Robert D. Orr and Sen. Richard G. Lugar discussed the event with reporters at a news conference Wednesday. Also present was Ted Boehm, president of the Indiana Sports Corporation, who said his group was assembling a local organizing committee of volunteers to manage the games. He said the committee would be composed of 18 divisions to “provide the managerial expertise” necessary to stage the games. As many as 6,500 athletes and coaches from 38 nations in North, Central and South America are expected to participate in the event, officials said. Tentative dates for the 1987 competition, which will be held in the United States for the first time since 1959 at Chicago, are July 17-Aug. 2. The games are expected to bring $35

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Orr names trio of department heads as six resign posts

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Preparing for his second term, Gov. Robert D. Orr has appointed three new department heads and accepted the resignations of several others. Orr announced Wednesday that M.F. “Bud” Renner, chief examiner for the State Board of Accounts, will become state revenue commissioner Jan. 11. He will succeed William Haan, who resigned. Replacing Renner at the Board of Accounts, watchdog agency which audits ' governmental spending, will be James Gutting, a deputy. By tradition, the state examiner is chosen from the ranks of the Board of Accounts, Orr noted. Robert McCreary will succeed Howard Williams as state labor commissioner. McCreary, a former official of United Auto Workers Local 1111, has been the governor’s special assistant for labor and job training. Williams resigned effective Jan. 11. Also resigning as of Jan. 11 are Edward Lutz, director of the State Student Assistance Commission; Linda Jester, director of the Office of Occupational Development; and Philip Martin, director of the Emergency Medical Services Com- •. mission.

Caller says father may have left 18-month-old baby girl on Indy curb

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An 18-month-old girl found in an apartment parking lot may be an Anderson child left in Indianapolis by her father, according to a call police were investigating. They said an unidentified family telephoned police when it saw a segment on television concerning the baby. Police said the child’s grandparents called about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday and described the girl. They said her father was to take her to Chicago for the holidays. “It looks good, but it’s just not confirmed,” said Sgt. Charles Ezell of the police juvenile branch. An unidentified man brought the baby to the Marion County Welfare Department but left no information except he found her Tuesday night

million to the economy of Indianapolis and the surrounding area, the mayor said.

The announcement came five weeks after the president of Ecuador, which had been awarded the the games, said his country was dropping out for financial reasons. Saturday was the deadline set by PASO for the selection of another host city, and Hudnut said Indianapolis faced “a lot of competition from Havana, Cuba,” the only remaining contender for the event after Ecuador dropped out. “Cuba’s point of view was, anybody but us,” said U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a former Indianapolis mayor. He said the Cubans, rather than seeking the games for themselves, “were encouraging the Ecuadorans to keep trying.” “It wasn’t anything personal against Indianapolis,” Lugar said. “They just didn’t want the U.S. to get the games.” The event features competition in 26 sports and is held every four years in the year prior to the Olympics. Boehm said plans for funding the games would be modeled after those used by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for this year’s Summer Games. “We’ll release a budget when we get it de-bugged,” Boehm said, adding that funds will be generated through the sale of tickets, broadcast rights and sponsorship fees. The sports corporation staged the 1982 National Sports Festival in Indianapolis the first time the event recorded a profit. As a result of the festival, officials said, the city had the necessary athletic facilties

Gene Hallock, director of the Department of Highways, is stepping down after 31 years of state government service. He is expected to leave at the end of January. Orr praised Hallock for “a record of accomplishment that includes overseeing the early completion of our interstate system as well as completion of a multi-million dollar improvement of our toll road and collection system.” In addition, Parvin Price, the state’s utility consumer counselor, has indicated he will leave Feb. 1, and Insurance Commissioner Donald Miller plans to resign March 1. Orr said he was glad they agreed to stay on through the beginning of his second term. Renner, 50, of Martinsville, has been state examiner since 1981. He was the Board of Accounts’ senior field examiner nine years and before that was head of the Department of Administration. Gutting, 32, of Indianapolis, has been deputy state examiner since 1981 and served nearly six years as a field examiner for the agency before that. McCreary, 43, of Oldenburg, is a former Franklin County commissioner and special labor assistant to Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind.

wearing a lime-green snowsuit and seated on a curb at the parking garage of Vantage Point Apartments on the northeast side. A physician who examined the girl said she was in good health and had been well cared for. “I’m sure whoever is related to this child would like to have her home for Christmas,” said Greg Snider, a welfare supervisor in child protective services. “She doesn’t seem to be in a communicative mood,” said William A.J. Peddle, assistant superintendent of the county guardian’s home. “She’ll probably make utterances but nothing understandable.” Until she is claimed, she will be kept in the home’s nursery, tended by nurses and foster grandparents.

in place for the games. Boehm announced the appointment of Sandy Knapp to the position of vice chairman of the local organizing committee. Ms. Knapp is executive director of the Indiana Sports Corporation. Mark Miles, formerly senior vice president of Compucom Development, Inc. of Indianapolis, was named president and chief operating officer for the games. Another news conference would be scheduled for Jan. 10 to announce the members of the local organizing committee, Boehm said. Still missing from the equation is housing for the athletes. “That’s a project that will have to stand on its own (financially) apart from the games,” Boehm said. The city is expected to ask for federal assistance in providing secuity for the games, according to Boehm, an Indianapolis attorney. “That’s something we’re not going to leave to boy scouts and lawyers,” he said. Orr proposed a “hemispheric trade show” to coincide with the games but offered no details of how the trade show could be organized. He said the second event would serve to showcase the city and state, and “attract other people who would not attend the games.” Lugar, who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next month, emphasized Indiana’s chance to score diplomatic points with the other countries. “We want these people to be engulfed by our Hoosier hospitality,” he said. Methodist heralding FDA okay INDIANAPOLIS (AP) To the strains of “I’ll be home for Christmas,” Wayne Good was lowered into the shallow water tank where his kidney stone would be pulverized bv high-impact sound waves Good, 58, a retired carpenter from Pittsboro, waited two weeks for the treatment at Methodist Hospital, which conducted clinical trials on the procedure for almost a year. “Shucks, it’s going to be simple.” Good said Wednesday before the anesthesia took hold. “Anytime you don’t have to cut, it’s going to be simple.” Doctors say Good will be home for Christmas, thanks to the “lithotripter.” approved Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration for general use. Previously, it had been tried on an experimental basis in six U.S. medical centers. Use of the lithotripter a name taken from the Greek words for “stone crusher” will trim a patient’s hospital stay to three days, at a cost of about $4,600. Methodist officials said. More conventional surgery requires an average eight-day hospital stay at a cost of $6,200. The procedure works this way: a patient is strapped into a chair-like device and lowered into a tub of water. In the water is an oval-shaped bowl with a spark plug in it. Using X-rays, the stone can be pinpointed. A doctor operating the control panel initiates intense sonic shock waves that are timed to the beat of the patient’s heart. The sound is much like a hammer pounding a nail. Normally it takes between 1,000 and 2,000 “hits” to break up a stone, according to Dr. John Mertz, who performed Good’s stone-crushing procedure Wednesday. Methodist’s lithotripter is in the children’s pavilion. As a tribute to the hospital’s president, Dr. Frank Lloyd, who worked to get the first machine for Methodist, there is a life preserver with the inscription “S.S. Frank Lloyd” above the water tank in which the patient is placed for the treatment. There’s also the tongue-in-cheek warning “swim at your own risk” on a placard nearby. “We are delighted the FDA has given approval to this ingenious technique,” said Dr. Daniel M. Newman, who with Dr. James Lingeman has supervised the experimental surgeries at Methodist since February. Methodist has treated more than 1,100 patients with the lithotripter, Newman said, and the kidney stone was destroyed in one treatment in about 90 percent of the cases. Another 9 percent required two or more treatments, while 1 percent required surgical removal of the stone, Newman added. The advantage of having the treatment taken off of experimental status is that it will become more available, Newman said. Currently, there is about a threemonth wait at Methodist to perform the procedure, he said. Some insurance companies have refused to pay for the procedure because it was experimental, Newman added. But with FDA approval, insurance reimbursement for the lithotripter treatment should be more available, he said.

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