Surgical Team Of 70 Trying To Part Twins (UPI) surgical team at Johns BALTIMORE The Salt Lake Tribune 6 1967 A13 For Robbers Who Killed 5 - Hopkins Hospital Saturday began their attempt to separate conjoined twin boys who are joined at the head an operation expected to last up to 24 hours hospital officials said Hospital officials said the surgical team began the operation at 7 15 am Saturday and would complete the procedure 12 to 24 hours later Susan Hopper a hospital spokeswoman said “It’s likely to take 24 hours” But hospital officials said details of the complicated operation will not be released until Sunday afternoon “We will release a condition on the children as soon as the surgery is over" said Lisa Hillman director of public affairs for the Johns Hopkins Children Center “It’s an extremely complicated and sensitive proce- dure” “Because of the duration of the operation a larger team is needed There are basically two shifts of doctors for every situation that may occur The supporting team of nurses is also twice as large as normal and will work in two teams taking rests every three hours “This will be the longest operation ever attempted at this hospital” Hillman said September St Louis Police Comb City A The boys from Ulm Germany are joined at the back of the head and share the major venous blood supply but are neurologically intact and doing well” hospital officials said before the operation The surgical team assembled is the largest in the hospital’s history “It’s a medical team which includes neurosurgeons cardiac surgeons plastic surgeons anesthesiologists nurses and technicians” Hillman said Sunday — Associated Press Laserphoto On Saturday police search lot at National Supermarket in St Louis where 2 armed robbers shot 7 of 9 workers late Friday night Two workers lived and 2 escaped i I ST LOUIS (AP) Police interviewed survivors and combed the city Saturday for two armed robbers who may have posed as cleaners to get into a closed grocery store where they killed five employees and wounded two others Two employees of the National Supermarket store working in a back room escaped injury by climbing onto the roof police said After the gunmen fled in a car the two called down to a woman on the street to telephone police The robbers entered the store shortly after 11 pm Friday about an hour after it had closed said Capt Charles McCrary who is heading a investigating squad “Possibly the security guard may have let them in thinking they were cleaners” McCrary said He said the men held the seven employees at gunpoint near the service desk at the front of the store and took an undetermined amount of cash “Then they were all directed to lie down on the floor and they were shot” McCrary said Four of the victims died at the scene and a fifth died a short time later at a nearby hospital McCrary said They were identified as Rose Brown 49 head cashier Kenneth Bass 27 a cleaning man Michael Beam 34 a stock manager Michael Marr 16 a bag boy and David Spahn 27 a security guard The assistant store manager Harold Meyer 30 and Richard Fortson 32 a service manager also were shot Meyer was in critical but stable condition and Fortson in serious but stable condition police said but they would not disclose the name of the hospital The store a large modern supermarket is in a tough predominantly black neighborhood north of downtown Hundreds of people gathered Friday night outside police lines to watch through the windows secured fence as investigators by chain-lin- k videotaped the crime scene A spokesman for the National Supermarket chain said the company was offering a $10000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shootings Humphrey the Whale Comes Back to Visit - HumBODEGA BAY Calif (AP) phrey the Whale the humpback who made a big splash two years ago when by some fluke he wandered inland up the San Francisco Bay delta was reported Saturday to have been spotted off the coast The sighting was confirmed by researchers who identified the distinctively marked mammal around the Farallon Islands 25 miles west o' the Golden Gate Bridge Ken Balcomb director for Whale Research in Washington state said n Humphrey was among some 45-to- humpbacks spending the summer and fall off the coast Balcomb is the lead researcher in an annual effort to count the humpback and blue whales in the Farallones federal marine sanctuary 150 Humphrey was collectively clutched to the hearts of Northern Californians and won headlines around the country when he or she blundered into the tributary waters northeast of San Francisco Bay in the fall of 1985 For 25 days Humphrey wandered up and down the Sacramento River THE ADVENTURE Gunman-Preach- er is just Beginning Barred From Going Near Ckurch - Layaways Welc0®e attfiedSaleaelP A TUPELO Miss (UPI) preacher who fired several shots outside his church last Sunday when dissident church members tried to keep him from the pulpit has been barred by court pistol-p- acking Lowest Prics order from returning to the 2477 church Lee County Judge Michael Malski issued an Injunction Friday ordering the Rev George Pritchard to stay away from the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Tupelo pending a hearing Wednesday on a lawsuit filed by two church deacons Malski also ordered Pritchard 44 to turn over his keys to the church to his lawyer and ruled that someone other than Pritchard must remove any of his belongings from the church Last Sunday Pritchard was charged with firing a deadly weapon after he shot off a few rounds from his handgun outside the church when several members tried to block his way to the pulpit About half the congregation has been seeking Pritchard's removal as preacher since this spring Pritchard who apologized for the shooting said he was overpowered by “humanistic emotions” Gets Self-Immola- tor 6900 So HIGHLAND DR (20th E) HIGHLAND PLACE o PH 9424700 mm FIRST ANNUAL A If ft wanting Thurel's body buried in Haiti where he is being hailed as a mar- mm All 12 HOW to s pn BOSTON (AP) — An immigrant cab driver from Haiti who died after setting himself on fire to protest persecution in his country was hailed ceived threats from someone 0 0 U High Praise in Haiti Saturday as a national hero Antoine Thurel 56 died Monday morning on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse when he doused himself with a flammable liquid and ignited it with a lighted cigarette Thurel who left Haiti in exile 17 years ago left behind a placard saying he had killed himself to protest the massacre of peasants in the Haitian town of Jean Rabel and because of government repression of priests and political opponents On Saturday a crowd of 2000 people filled the pews and the aisles of the Church of God in Christ to mourn his death Thurel's six sons and daughters who are in their 20s attended Four of them flew in from Haiti Their stepmother Thurel’s second wife Clementine told the crowd she had re- ’Sift 10 aw 109 M3® kffljisMf otav - 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