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Show Preemies have better chance at UVRMC diie to remarkable donated eauimnent In an effort to help save the lives of premature infants who face the possibility of death from respiratory disease common to such births, proceeds pro-ceeds from memorial funds established establish-ed by two Utah County families have been used to purchase an $18,000 High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilator Ven-tilator (Model 3100) for the Kresge Newborn Intensive Care Nursery and Respiratory Department at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. The oscillator was officially presented to the hospital on Wednesday, Wednes-day, April 12, during a luncheon in tlx UVRMC Clark Auditorium by members of the two families who were involved in the f undraising and the donation of funds. The gift means that UVRMC becomes one of a handful of hospitals in the United States that will be using the new type of ventilator and in doing do-ing so participates in a national study concerning the benefits of this particular par-ticular machine. The $18,000 was contributed by family members, neighbors, friends, colleagues, and co-workers to the Matthew Shepherd Memorial Respirator Fund and the Dr. Van Lindsay Memorial Fund. Kay Lindsay, Lind-say, wife of the late Dr. Lindsay, and Ken and Shannon Shepherd, Provo, parents of Matthew who died six months after birth from respiratory disease, established the funds. The funds were administered through the Central Utah Health Care Foundation. This particular type of ventilator delivers very small breaths (approximately (approx-imately 900 per minute) to tiny newborns and helps prevent pressure injury to the lungs that can occur with many ventilators, because of the weakness of the infant lungs, with the iTVi-, - ' ijjJ- J 1 ?3?ri5,!!I,,5r ' ' 1 1 ' 1 1- A 1ST Chapter When they reached the cabin Mary cleaned up Port's new wounds. She seemed neither surprised nor shocked that Sylvester had been shooting at Port again. White men had strange ways, and it was like she wasn't about to start trying to figure them out. Port liked Mary Blackfeather. Her easy-going manner gave him a relaxed, comfortable feeling. He liked lik-ed the way she lived one day at a time without complaint, without worry. He sometimes wished she would talk more, but was grateful she didn't talk too much like some women he knew. When he was around her, he thought a lot about Luana, sometimes wishing Luana could be more like Mary, just content to be his wife, do his cooking and cleaning, and not be worried . about everything going on in the neighborhood. Port wondered if things would change between him and Luana, now that he knew how to use a gun. The mobs would never shame him again. But could Luana forgive and forget? Would things get better or worse when they tried living together again? He needed to see her. He hoped Sylvester's last and final lesson would come soon, whatever it was. That evening, as Mary was putting put-ting the final touches on a roasting turkey with nut dressing, a voice called call-ed from the yard. Port was sitting at the table, watching Mary and thinking think-ing about Luana. Sylvester was lounging loung-ing on the bed, reading the Bible. It was still light outside. '.'Anybody home?" a strong male voice shouted a second time. Port went to the door and exchanged ex-changed greetings with a young, blue-eyed blue-eyed stranger who asked if he could water his horse at the spring before continuing his journey into Iowa Territory. Ter-ritory. Port told him to go ahead, then returned to the table. Sylvester had scooted across the bed and was looking look-ing at the stranger through the window. i ''Ready for the final lesson?" Sylvester asked. "Sure," Port said, with enthusiasm. - "Grab your gun and kill that drifter." , "He asked for a drink of water, and you want me to kill him? "Port asked. "When you're in a gunfight, you don't have time to think over all the reasons the man across from you doesnt deserve to die, Sylvester said. "Maybe he has a pretty wife and a bunch of little kids. Maybe his life savings is in the bank you're hired to stop a run on. Maybe he's an elder in the local church. It doesn't matter. When it's time to kill, you kill. That's alL I want to see if you can do it, if you have the stomach for killing. Better to find out now than when your life is in the balance. Do it." Drawing his gun from the holster, Port looked through the open door towards the young man, who was just beginning to water his horse. The boy was shabbily dressed in a soiled gray coat that was threadbare at the elbows ami torn under bom arms. The boy's uncombed, wind-tossed hair was soiled and badly In need of a trim. "You're asking me to murder a man," Port said. "We'll bury him in the woods," Sylvester said. "No one will ever know. You can have his horse." Port returned his gun to the holster and turned towards Sylvester. "The boy has done nothing to deserve Ken Shepherd holds his son Matmew at UVRMC's Newborn Intensive Care Nursery. most common disease afflicting premature infants being hyaline membraine disease. During the luncheon Mark J. Howard, UVRMCOCH executive director, praised the efforts of the Shepherds and Lindsay family in 15 killing. I won't do it." "If you dont try youll never know whether you can or can't do it." "I pess that's one lesson 111 just have to learn the hard way. I won't gun down the boy without good reason." "Are you sure?" Sylvester asked,: staring intently into Port's eyes. "I'm sure," Port answered, returning the stare. , Sylvester turned to Mary. "Guesa?c.Check out Byrd Baylor's books. 1 Port passed the final test." .son-is the enjoyment of pictures su "What are you talking about?" Port asked. "You passed. Now I won't have to kiU you." "What are you saying?" Port demanded. "If you had raised your pistol to kill that kid, I'd have killed you." "But you told me to do it." "As I said, I was testing you, but not the way you thought," Sylvester continued. "You're good with that gun, almost too good. Didn't want to send a cold-blooded killer away from here, not with my stamp on him. The world doesn't need another cold-' blooded killer. Didn't think you were that kind of man, but had to make sure. You passed." Sylvester smiled, then offered his hand. The two men shook. Mary Blackfeather smiled. The next day Port headed south, having decided it was time to see Luana again. (To Be Continued Next Week) Elks Awards The Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks Club presented students in the Utah County division with awards in music, valuable students, state scholarships vocational shcolarship awards, teenager of the month, and teenager of the year. Five students from Orem High School were honored to receive awards. Teenager of the month awards were given to a boy and a girl from seven different schools. From Orem High, Marianne Paul daughter of Edward and Irene Paul, and Trevor Smith, son of Gary and Arlene Smith, were named teenagers of the month and at the end of the program were announced as teenagers of the year. Each received $100. After the award, Paul said, "I was really surprised and very excited. ex-cited. It was fun to have it be me." , Smith responded, "I felt pretty good about receiving these awards. I was surprised that it was me." Other Orem High students honored include Eric Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Carter, who received second place for most valuable student and was awarded $250. In the music awards, Marcia t Rowberry and Eiizabetn ugDen were both awarded $150. The students were chosen from many applicants attending Utah County schools. Direct Mail to Over 41,080 Homes Orem-Provo-BYU Phono 225-1340 For A3onsl WonraSon making the funds available for purchase pur-chase of the machine. "Matthew is not with us now, but what you've done will make it possible possi-ble for many more Matthews to survive," sur-vive," Howard said. Dr. Ronald L. Stoddard, a Bread-and-butterfly picture is BV JUlvn Smith fltlrf more wnrria? I Hnn't think an TVi By Jillyn Smith Science Writer Utah State University I have a confession to make: I buy children's books. For myself. So I can look at the pictures. Especially the pictures of animals.- Sometimes I pretend I will give the book to five-year-old Bryan, and sometimes I do, but who am I kidding? kid-ding? Children's books have captivating cap-tivating pictures, pictures that adults are missing when they don't have children to buy forread to. Don't turn to television for visual excitement. - posed to disappear like the pictures do, as adults learn to read books in smaller and smaller type, with more Since 1953 Printing Copying Binding Letterhead Envelopes Business Cards Carbonless Forms Brochures Resumes Postcards Flyers Technical Manuals Color Copies MM.IWU COM1 Of MM.TVU PAN Your One . Stop Printing Service All Your $$$ Stay In Utah County - We Are Locally Owned Give Us A Chance To Serve You Utah Valley Publishing Co. Feinfii - neonatalogist at the UVRMC Perinatal Center, said they were able to get the manufacturer to make the new machine available because of the large number of babies born at UVRMC every year. This made UVRMC a good candidate for the studies needed to prove the machine, he said. "In 1988 alone we had over 100 babies born at this hospital that weighed less than 2,000 grams. Many of those babies would qualify for use of the machine," Stoddard said. We believe it will save lives, and that is why we are grateful to have the new machine." Mrs. Lindsay said it was an honor for her family to have the memory of Dr. Lindsay associated with the new state-of-the-art machine. "He loved his work as a pediatrician so much," she said. "I know he would be proud to see how far the newborn intensive in-tensive care unit at this hospital has gone in developing into one of the best in the nation" Ken Shepherd praised his wife as being the "main thrust" in developing develop-ing the memorial fund in honor of their son. "Following Matthew's death it was she who was on the phone calling friends and relatives and working with the Foundation in getting get-ting this thing going. I'm very proud of her for that." With tears in her eyes Shannon addressed the audience at the luncheon lun-cheon saying "I want to thank everyone who contributed to the funds, both Matthew's and Dr. Lindsay's. Lind-say's. I just want people to know that the nurses, doctors, and administration administra-tion here are truly committed to what they do and have an unconditional love for the people they work with." and more words? I don't think so. Do pictures stifle imagination? Not mine. Did you have an illustrated "Alice in Wonderland," as I did, with drawings of the bread-and-butterflies and rocking-horseflies? That book probably gave me my start in zoology. Can we admit that adult books-and books-and not just coffee table books, but books that are to be carried around and READ-need more good pictures? They don't necessarily have to be happy. If you read the edition of "Crime and Punishment" with drawings draw-ings . by ;Edvard Munch, . you remember that book. You remember those pictures (especially the horse) . Publishers do know that the picture pic-ture on the book jacket will help sell Just Check Our Prices! We Do All Styles of Political Printing 1 Serving Orem - Provo - BYU With Direct Mailing Service 10 41,000 Publishers of ein)va YBinrae! 546 South State - Orem 223-1340 Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday May 25, 1988 Page 9 THT Sedra Santos, 1st grader at Windsor School, shows egg that survived 80 foot drop from a fire truck ladder. With help from her dad she had encased egg in a styrof oam box and put the whole thing in another box surrounded with styrof oam peanuts. Over 300 eggs were dropped last week with several surviving the fall Rules were that the wrap could not exceed 6X6X6. Purpose said Principal Cherrington was to design a container that would withstand the great force of the drop. "We're having more success each year," said Cherrington, "especially since many of the kids started us ing parachutes on their wrapped sored by the PTA. worth a thousand words thahnnb TkmMiiuin4ioAl.uKn. the book. I bought a paperback edition of Jack London's "Before Adam" just for its cover drawing of ape-humans, snarling against a blue background. The story was okay, but those creatures. Wow. I'm happy to see the few adult books with great drawings inside, such as paleontologist Robert Bak-ker's Bak-ker's "Dinosaur Heresies," which he illustrated himself. Bakker's dinosaurs MOVE. And for adult bread-and-butterflies, there's paleontologist Dougal Dixon's "A Zoology of the Future." Dixon, a mix of Charles ' Darwin and Dr. Suess, has imagined a future in which today's big carnivores car-nivores and grazing animals have become extinct, and the little animals m3 G)a! Large Stock of Announcements WEDDING INVITATIONS Full Color Picture Standard Invitations Picture Wedding Invitations , 3 Part Self Mailers Temple Marriage Designs Thank You Cards & Napkins Best Quality N Large Web Printing Service For Your Newspapers and Tabloids Publishers of Orem-Geneva Times Your Hometown Newspaper Typesetting Available egg." The fun project was spon have evolved to fill their niches. His description of the evolutionary process pro-cess is sound, but his predator rats, rabbucks, slobbers and night-stalking bats just have to be seen to be appreciated. ap-preciated. Dixon provides them, in color. Of course, not all illustrators have great imaginations. Part of Alice's adventures were suppressed by an uninspired illustrator. The original "Through the Looking-Glass" Looking-Glass" included an encounter with an elderly wasp in a wig. The illustrator, John Tenniel, told Lewis Carroll that ' 'a wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art." Carroll cut it. 'torn Compare Our Prices! N Low Low Prices N N fEX i 1 fift A |