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THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 23,1989
GOP’s Hiler worth $1.2 million; Myers near millionaire club, House statements show
WASHINGTON (AP) Financial reports filed by Indiana’s representatives showed the sense of humor of Rep. Andy Jacobs and the athletic interests of Rep. Dan Burton. Jacobs listed among his holdings a Great Dane named “Friend,” who is housebroken and listed as priceless, and a cocker spaniel named, “Annie,” who is not completely housebroken and a current liability. UNDER GIFTS, he listed “zero things and zero money.” Burton attended six golf tournaments during 1988 as a celebrity guest, according to personal financial reports filed with the House and released Monday. The 6th District Republican received golf clothing and accessories valued at sl,llß for his appearances at five tournaments and payment for his travel, lodging and meals for appearances at four tournaments. Rep. Lee Hamilton reported earning $37,000 in paid speaking engagements, more than any other member of the delegation. JOHN HILER, A Republican who represents the 3rd District, is the only member of the delegation worth more than $1 million. Hiler listed assets in the range of sl.l million to $1.2 million and up. He listed no liabilities. Hiler's largest source of outside income was from his trust, which produced more than SIOO,OOO. The trust itself is valued at more than $1 million. The only other member of the delegation who came close to the millionaire’s club is another Republican, John T. Myers. He listed assets in the? range of $765,000
Woman emerges from cave after 130-day experiment
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to $1.45 million. His liabilities total SIOO,OOO to $250,000. His single largest source of income was from farm crops. He received $5,436 from an Army pension. BESIDES HAMILTON, the only other Indiana representatives earning double-digit honoraria were Myers, who made $14,250, and Hiler, who received $11,500. Both men kept all of the money from their speeches. Democrat Frank McCloskey earned $8,300 and gave none of it to charity; Republican Dan Burton made $6,933 and gave $133 to charity; Democrat Phil Sharp earned $4,500 and donated all of it to charity; Democrat Peter J. Visclosky received $1,750 and kept all of it; and Democrat Jim Jontz made SI,OOO and donated it all to charity.
today to end an isolation experiment conducted by scientists to leam how people may experience the long solitude of interplanetary travel. RESEARCHERS spoke with Miss Follini, an Italian interior decorator, on Monday to announce the end of the experiment. “Are you really serious?” she replied through the computer linking her to a house trailer above the cave. The temperature in Carlsbad was 100 degrees Monday, compared with the cave’s constant climate of 74 degrees and 99-percent humidity. Miss Follini, 27, will be poked
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REP LEE H. HAMILTON The most honoraria
Jacobs listed his assets at $336,309 and no other liabilities. The Democrat accepted no honoraria for speaking appearances. SHARP, WHO SAID he has a longstanding policy of not accepting honoraria from lobbying organizations, listed $4,500 in refused honoraria which were paid directly by speech sponsors to charities in his 2nd District House members are allowed to collect as much speech-making money as they can, but they are limited on how much they can keep. The cap is 30 percent of their base $89,500 salary, or $26,850. Hamilton donated $10,550 to charity, which kept him at the allowable limit. Information on Jill Long, the newest member of Indiana’s
with needles and tagged with electrodes in coming weeks while scientists try to figure out what happened to her body and mind during the four months, 10 days she spent 30 feet underground. IN THE ABSENCE of night, day or timepieces, Miss Follini’s menstrual cycle stopped and her sleep-wake cycle changed radically. She tended to stay up 20 to 25 hours at a time, sleeping about 10 hours. Researchers believe her muscle tone and the level of calcium in her bones decreased, that her immune system is depressed and that she is able to concentrate more deeply. Miss Follini kept up strength and
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delegation, was not available. VISCLOSKY RECEIVED the congressional salary of $89,500, but he did not take it all for personal use, press aide Rudy Murrieta said. He declined to accept the previous congressional raise from $77,000 until the month of December, putting all the excess money into the Peter J. Visclosky Foundation, Murrieta said. Visclosky accepted about $78,040 for personal use, with the rest, about $11,460, going into the foundation. About half of those funds have been distributed to charities in northwest Indiana, and the rest will be distributed this year, Murrieta said. BURTON DID THE most traveling of the delegation. He spent a week in Taiwan as a guest of the Chinese National Association of Industry & Commerce. He and his wife also traveled to Puerto Rico for a speaking engagement and other unspecified activities at the expense of the Puerto Rica USA Foundation and the Puerto Rican Government Burton reported income of $99,935 to $106,933 and assets of $240,007 to $600,000. He had no liabilities. McCloskey’s reimbursements were air fare to Dallas to speak to the LTV Corp., to Chicago to speak to the American Postal Workers Union and to Portland, Ore., to speak to the National Association of Letter Carriers. Hamilton and his wife were reimbursed for trips for his speeches in Hollywood, Jamaica and Jacksonville, Ha.
flexibility during her mole-like existence by doing calisthenics and judo, and maintained her mental poise by reading and dec crating her 10-square-foot plastic-enclosed living area. WITHOUT THE sun and other people, time passed quickly for Miss Follini. She believed that two months had passed instead of four, and was shocked when experiment coordinator Maurizio Montalbini notified her by computer that the experiment was almost over. Montalbini assured her he was serious, then wrote: “We will not ask you for any more data.” She had been asked to perform physical and mental tests periodically.
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First patient injected with genetically-altered gene
WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists searching for new ways to battle cancer have for the first time injected genetically altered Cells into a human. The lead researcher in the federally approved experiment launched early Monday at National Institutes of Health, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg, said a milky-colored fluid containing cells that were genetically manipulated using a mouse virus was intravenously administered to a cancer patient. NIH OFFICIALS would identify the patient who underwent the 30-minute procedure only as a male suffering from malignant melanoma, the extremely virulent disease also known as black mole cancer. “Today was the first ever,” said Rosenberg. “It is the first time that a new gene has been introduced into a human.” A federal court suit settled last Tuesday cleared the way for the experiment The Foundation on Economic Trends and its president, Jeremy Rifkin, had sued earlier this year to block the research, claiming the experiments had been approved by the NIH without proper public hearings. A FEDERAL JUDGE dismissed the suit after the NIH, located in suburban Bethesda, Md., agreed that a committee that evaluates human gene research will hold all its deliberations and votes in open public hearings. Rosenberg, a National Cancer Institute researcher, and his collaborators Dr. R. Michael Blaese, also of NCI, and Dr. W. French Anderson of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, are using a mouse virus to study a cancer-treat-ing technique that uses white blood cells called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, or TILs. THE RESEARCHERS earlier had removed TIL cells from a
Want to win in Kentucky? Ya gotta have a nickname
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) “Lardy” and “Jughead” know one of the first rules of rural politics in Kentucky: Don’t get too uppity with the folks that put you in office. They are among more than 200 candidates in primary elections today who have chosen to put their
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patient’s tumor and spurred them to multiply by bathing them in the growth factor interleukin-2, or IL2. The cells and the IL-2 were then injected back into the patient, where scientists believe they attack the cancer directly and exclusively. Earlier research showed the technique suppressed tumor growth in 12 of 20 patients tested, Rosenberg reported. The researchers want to determine why the therapy worked in some patients but not in others. To do this, they mark the TIL cells with a bacterial gene that can be easily identified, enabling the researchers to track their distribution and effectiveness. THE SCIENTISTS mark the TIL cells by using a mouse leukemia retrovirus that could change the genetic pattern of the TIL cells. A bacterial gene that is resistant to neomycin, an antibiotic, is introduced into the mouse virus. The virus, in turn, is exposed to the TIL cells and transfers into those cells the bacterial gene. The resulting “soup,” a milkywhite fluid, is then injected into the patient By tracking the distribution of the neomycin-resistant gene, the researchers can determine wherfe the TIL cells go in the body and how long they live. Rosenberg said the mouse virus has been crippled so it cannot reproduce, and the virus dies aftdr completing the gene transfer. *; ‘THREE OR FOUR” tests were to be run within 24 hours and many more over the course of several weeks on the patient who received the first gene-altered cells, Rosenberg said. A second patient will receive the cells later this week and “in the incubator right now, we have cells for another half dozen patients,” Rosenberg said. Under the approved research plan, up to 10 patients will receive genetically-altered cells.
nicknames on the ballot. A name with quotation marks in it is the great equalizer, said Flatwoods Mayor T.L. “Lardy” Groves, 71, who is running for Greenup County judge-executive. “Anytime you got (a nickname), it brings you down on the saipe level with the ol’ country boys opt in the county,” Groves said. “They say, ‘He’s not one o’ them big shots.’” ; Besides, almost nobody knows him by his real name. Since Groves’ playmates named him “Lardy” at a swimming hole mote than 60 years ago -“I was a little, round boy,” he said the label has stuck. Earl “Jughead” Mastin, 61, was bom in Sardis, “a little ol’ rough town” in Mason County, he said. ; Mastin said his nickname comes from when he weighed less than three pounds when he was bom, but his head grew quickly. And die townspeople dubbed him Jughead^ “That’s an awful name, isn’t it?” he said. But he put it on the ballot. “That’s the way I’m known,” be said. ;
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