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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MONDAY. JANUARY 16, 1967 Section 1A -17. Voice hion Box Fa from Skin If You Dropped Out of high sanoot GUS, NO MORE A PUPPY, STILL Easter Seal Girl and Friend1 i it. Doctors Enable Wounded Taut to Speak Again mn 17 or scad for FREE heklt tolls hew yea cae finish HIGH SCHOOL AT HOME IN SPARE TIME Biaiiiiiiimiiiiii AMERICAN SCHOOL. 7 S.

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never possible with esophageal speech, experts The operation is done in two steps. First "an opening is made inside the top of the throat and valves are formed from the patient's tissue. In the second stage a tube is made of tissue connecting the opening at the site where the larynx was re moved to the top of the throat where the valves were built -A critical factor in success is the valves at the top of the throat It is essential that they close perfectly, otherwise fluid and food could run down into the lungs. The new procedure allows the patient to talk immediately. i ACTS LIKE ONE Dachshund Short, but Boston, Jan.

15 GB Doctors at Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary have used-an' arti ficial tube and valve fashioned from the patient's skin to replace a shattered larynx and restore the voice of a marine -7s I I II i -i fill IIVCVII I wounded in Viet Nam. Lance Corn. Walter Lopata Long on Spirit BY DONNA GILL Gus is a party dog. His human "counterpart would be a college student who organizes parties, loves practical 'jokes, tells funny stories, and plays cards instead of studying." Gus is 2V4 years old, which is beyond the puppy stage, but it 25. of Three Rivers! greeted reporters yesterday with How are you?" Tliey were his first spoken words since he was wounded by Viet Cong shrapnel Oct 11.

The sleek good looks of a teen-age Frankenstein. Taken from Thigh In two operations, doctors Jimmy Durante chatting with Eutir Seal girl. substituted the tube and valve, i made from skin from Lopata's White House in visit to the thigh, for the broken larynx. The second operation, was February. Leigh Anne's public appear performed Friday by Dr.

Wil ances will be according to her doctor's instructions during the liam, W. Montgomery of the infirmary and Lt Comdr. Rob campaign, Feb. 20 to March 28 is doubtful if be ever win grow old. He has a zest for life combined with a little of the dignity that conies when dogs are no longer puppies.

The Dachshund is a happy dog that races on short legs across a room in a motion resembling that of a hurtling torpedo. He is smaller than most Dachshunds, but he is not toy-size. 21 laches Long He measures 21 inches long, not counting a 7-inch tail, and stands inches tall at the shoulder. The coloring of the fur varies from mahogany to chestnut When he is' happy, he perks up ert Toohill, chief of the ear, Because of family moves from The fatal allure of a She-God of Shark Reef. A 5-year-old Decatur, girl, who formerly lived in Addison, EL, has been named 1967 National Easter Seal Child, it was announced.

Pretty, blonde Leigh Anne Huff, who co-starred with Jimmy Durante daring 1966 Easter Seal Campaign advertisements, will appear again in advertisements with the comedian. She hopes to launch the campaign with him' on a one city to another, Leigh Anne nose and tnroat service at Chelsea Naval hospital has had cross-country Easter Calls It Simple Dr. Montgomery said the operation was the first of its Seal treatment to overcome toe effects of a spinal birth defect that paralyzed both legs. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

V. A. Huff. Her father is a sales executive. kind.

He said Jie thought the procedure was simple but it will take a year or two to get the kinks out" He said the operation on Lopata was "a complete suc Girl Is Slain, 5 Shot cess." The cuddly embrace of a giant spider. Dr. Montgomery saif the sur 0000, gical technique could be used to restore the voice of most of in Neighbor Dispute the estimated 6,000 persons in the United States who have their larynxes removed each year because of cancer. Hamilton, 0., Jan. 15 (fl A dispute between children led to the fatal shooting of a 2-year- Dr.

Montgomery said tnat un til now the only hope for a patient without a voice box has The razor-edged claws of a vampire named Dracula. been to learn esophageal speech. This requires learning to swal low air into the stomach and forming words as air is Shooting with a .25 caliber automatic commenced. Jackie Fields, 2, was shot in the chest, fatally; her father was shot in the chest and abdomen; Mrs. Fields was shot in the right thigh; Stanley Fields, 13, was shot in the left leg; Imo-gene Fields, 8, was shot in a hand and foot; and Sharon Fields, 4, was shot in the left leg.

AH the wounded -were hospitalized, with Fields in serious condition and the others listed as fair. Police said Godby fled a car, abandoned it on a side street, and was last seen walking south. 'burped" into the throat. He said many patients never learn. old girl and the wounding of five other members of her family late today, allegedly by an irate parent Police said Chester Fields, 35, of Hamilton and his four children were visiting the children's grandmother when a neighbor boy, Daniel Godby, 14, was stabbed.

One of the Fields children was blamed. Shortly after the stabbing, the grandmother, Mrs. Judy Fields, 67, answered her front door, confronting Vernon M. Godby, the injured boy's father. Permits Normal Breathing The sew surgical procedure The hairy feet of a teen-age caveman.

allows the patient to breathe into the lungs and back up the throat in the normal way. The voice will have good volume and a degree of pitch control it '9 (TRIBUNE Stoff Photo "hi- his long ears, forcing his face into a mass of brownish crinkles. His former owners gave him op, said, because they no longer could keep him in their home. They said Gus is housebroken 'and was raised with children. Likes Other Dogs Other dogs fascinate Gus.

When be visited the clinic for a health checkup, Gus spent most of the time leaping, straight into the air to-view Fire Destroys Civic small dogs in kennels he could We put one together to show you what land of monsters are in this week's movies on Channel 7's BIG SHOW. Watch them all, starting Monday on THE BIG SHOW Weekdays at 4:00 PIVI nnf frnm the floflT Center in Morton, III. Morton. HL. Jan.

15 (A Fire destroyed the two-story Morton Civic center earlv this morning. Tokyo Jarred by Quake TOKYO, Jan. 15 IB-A light earthquake shook Tokyo and other central Japan districts tonight The meteorological agency reported no damage or Gus is available to the first qualiTied adopter for an $3 donation when the kennels open at 9 a. m. today at the Anti-Cruelty society, 157 W.

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