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Show Elderly Man Gives Left Eye to Youth As Special Gift for Friend's Birthday Inter the operating room " jrester- day, where doctors skilfully removed re-moved the perfectly good cornea, of Amos' eye and put It In Cha-bina's Cha-bina's left eye. The operation has been performed per-formed successfully several times before elsewhere, doctors said. NEVT ORLEA.VS, Bee. t ( The gratitude of an old man brought a present today to young Frank Chabina an eye to supplant sup-plant his own ruined by lime duit. "Isn't that the swellest thing that ever happened to anybody?" asked the Albany, La., youth who will be 20 years old tomorrow, following the operation In Charity Char-ity hospital, John Amos, the (7-year-old donor, seemed happy about it, too. Chabina's leff eye was sightless. Amos' eye. Infected since removal of cataract was useless to him, but the cornea was unimpaired. Out of two Impaired eyes the doctors thought they could restore re-store the sight in Chabina's eye. They broached the subject to the old man, suffering from heart disease. He approved. "Frank's been good to me," he told the doctors. "My left eye ian't any good and I haycn'tsq very long to go. If you figure one of my eyes can help Frank to see, I want you to take It and give it to him as a: present' So they wheeled the two men |