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Show Paul Harve Death Remains By PAUL HARVEY Every time doctors and lawyers think they have found a certain criterion for deter mining when the dead are a dead, "dead" one sits up on the slab and we have to start all over. A few ; i years aco very sim- tests were pie Ilarvey considered respiration, pulse. But too many of those "dead" ones did not stay dead. The electrocariograph was not foolproof. The electroencephalograph has recently been accepted as the last word. When the reading shows "no brain activity," the patient was presumed clinically and legally dead. Then along comes an Israeli boy, age 14, "killed" in y war. He was the three weeks in a coma, including a period when there were no brain waves. He is now alive and normal, physically and mentally. So the brain wave test is inadequate. Indeed, a recent symposium of brain surgeons in Israel examined five cases of injured individuals in one medical Mr. six-da- CACHE ned center who had been inert for weeks. During much of the time their brain waves were undetectable. All five ered. One of them, a boy who had fallen into a pit, had no spontaneous breathing and no evidence of brain activity for two weeks. Using previous definitions of death, all of these would have been pronounced dead and subse quently buried. This consideration has haunted medical men for gen erations. The fear of being buried alive was repeatedly expressed in the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. A recent survey by the American Medical Assn., showed that 69 percent of all of us think about it sometimes. Neither embalming nor the transplanting of human organs requires a death certi ficate. Often embalming pro ceeds on the assumption that a death certificate will be forthcoming. Further, how meaningful is a death certificate? Mrs. Goldie Marie Rheams was pronounced dead last year at Denver General Hospital. Doctors prepared to remove an organ for transplant In the operating room, her respiration and heartbeat resumed. She did not finally die until three weeks later. Mary Sotnick of Toronto got to read her own death certificate signed by the coroner. Her son had noticed the sheet moving, touched her, felt a heartbeat three And Mrs. Sotnick, weeks later, walked home from the hospital. The highest medical and legal authority is presently without a concensus on this question. Moving toward cnnsideratinn bv the U. S. Supreme Court is a related case. Opt 22. 1968. Robert Bue- low was injured in a street Carpel SEE Carlson's Grandson, Fiance Get Degrees; Married Recently In India VALU Ill-Defi- fight wan. UKiMMJUWMg , I When his brain ceased functioning, his heart was transNO. 43 VOL. VI ferred to the chest of Mrs. February 20, 1969 Lewiston, Utah Elizabeth Anick. The man who fought with Buelow, a Lloyd Johnson, is charged with manslaughter. He says he did not kill Bue Students from the Preston est tests a debator can have ' far as the quarter finals Sat-- i low; that the doctors did. This will be a protracted high school speech and de- during the speech season. The urday at WSC. court fight. Probably there bate classes have just com- debate team of Debbie Long A new division this year at and Kent Woodward went as will be others. Unless a defi Mr. and Mrs. Molvin Smith; married. After a honeymoon, of Weston have just received' they will return to teach at word of the marriage of their the University of Maryland. j grandson. Dr. Sherman O. Smith, to Sigmi Mewsah of Bombay, India. They met, as students, at the Berkeley College of California where they have both the Weber meet was radio received their doctor's de grees. speaking and radio dama. The speech department was They flew to India to be awarded a third place in the radio drama with their taped radio program, Out of Sight, Out of Sound, a program using the works of Edgar Allen Poe. at PHSi Speech students are preparing now for the Fifth District Declamation Festival to be held at Malad on March 1. Debators are subsequently preparing for the District Debate Tournament at Highland the middle Grace, of March. Speakers and debators were accompanied on the last three trips by speech coach Delmar S. Derricott, and debate coach, Kent B. Christensen. Speech Students Enter Meets nition for death can be agreed upon, the immensely promising procedure of organ transplants may be tragically Ward Holds Daddy Daughter Party The Preston Seventh ward had a Daughter and Daddy party last Friday evening at 7:30 in the cultural hall. From one long decorated table that resembled a large box tied with a wide pink ribbon and bow that centered the table, the fathers and their daughters enjoyed box lunches that each girl had decorated and filled. Places were set for Dennis Wilks and Susan, Veloy Auger and Bridgett, Lynn Porter and Shawna, Ross Smith and Kathy, Clair Bosen and Carmen, Murray Nichols and Sharon, Dell Stanger and Cheryl, Kimber Christensen and Kathy, George Eames and Linda, Bill Hollingsworth and Cindy, Alden Swann and Mary Ellen, Clair Hollingsworth and Trade, and Bishop Wayne Bell and Marianne Smith. Also present were priestJack Allred hood advisor, and wife, Mrs. Linda Nelson, and Mr. Gaynote teacher, Nelson; Mae Swainston, Firelight teacher: Phvllis Parcell, Merrihand teacher, and Viola Bosen, Primary partner. Ross Smith gave a special tribute to all the daughters, Mar-and in turn his daughter . Al ianne gave a triDute to au we fathers. pleted three weekends at three different colleges in Utah and Idaho participating in forensic meets. The first competition was the Blacksnake Speech Festival at Idaho State University in Pocatello. Students spent two days on the ISU campus in various speech and debate activities. The Ricks College Invitational Debate Meet was the next event the students participated in. This was a particularly difficult one insofar as the length of the trip and the fact that the regular two day meet was crowded into just one day. Lynn Lewis was awarded a second place trophy for her participation in the original oration event Lynn went undefeated until the finals Saturday night. She was also awarded an Excellent Certificate for the same speech given the week previously at ISU. The last meet was held at Weber State College, Ogden. CTose to 1,000 speech and debate students from three states came to the 33rd annual Lelan H. Monson Cham pionship High School Forensic last weekend. Tournament Considered the oldest and largest debate meet of its kind in the nation, the anis renual of the some as tough garded word-exchan- Preston Man Attends Officer School Air Force Captain Larry It. Dursteler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Dursteler, Preston, is attending the Air University's Squadron Offic er School at Maxwell AFB, U. S. Ala. Captain Dursteler will re ceive 14 weeks of instruction in communicative skills, lead re1a crship, international tions, and responsibilities that prepare junior officers for command-staf- f duties. Captain Dursteler and his wife, the former Tamra Fol- lett, have two children, Eric and Tracy. Mrs. Dursteler is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Niles Follett, Hyde Park, Ut. The captain, who completed a tour of duty in Vietnam, was commissioned in 1964 through Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex. A 1955 graduate of Preston high school, the captain received his B.S. degree in 1963 from Utah State University and his M.B.A. degree in 1967 from Michigan State University. He is a member of Sigma Nu and Beta Alpha Psi. CLEVELAND BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Winter-bottospent Tuesday in Pocatello where she had an appointment with her doctor. They visited their son Richard and did some shopping. m First National Bank Idaho i CLUBS Mrs. Zelda Larsen entertained the Nifty Needles with a party for the outgoing officers. A two course luncheon was enjoyed by club members and special guest, Ruby Davis. The evening was spent playing Hearts with prizes going to Thella Ware, Ella Jones, Lora Larsen, Dorothy Crockett and Zelda Larsen. The retiring officers, Thella Ware, Mildred Smart, Casey Bergquist and Evelyn Checketts, were each presented with a gift. ON CERTIFICATES OF $1,000.00 MORE OR DEPOSIT OF ISSUED FOR SIX MONTHS. 4 INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS PASSBOOK COMPOUNDED AND PAID SEMI-ANNUAL- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Protection Been Increased From $10,000.00 to $15,000.00. nai A SENTIME NTAL SALE .m .'JlaMWJ.1.url,gTtTwgaJiEB TO CELEBRATE RCA'8 50th ANNIVERSARY Annual February Sale Home enterainment. We've been at it yv. sHSP W5'.' 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