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73rd Year No. 147 Good Morning! It's Saturday, March 7, 1981 16 Pages 25 Cents
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After clearing his bookcase, Cronkite places a few calls daring his last day as anchorman.
Fond farewell to ' Old Jronpants'
NEW YORK ( UPI) - Walter Le-, w- -,
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carrier boy whogot Msflrar Vjiiimtx
at age IS, bowed out Friday as
reigning chief of broadcast news, an
American legend at age 64
Rival networks saluted the man
affectionately known as " Uncle
Walter " Newspaper editorials said
fond goodbyes.
New York, his hometown for the
three decades that be has graced
the national airwaves, made him
the first recipient of its La Guardia
Award for outstanding New York-ers,
presented Friday by Mayor Ed-wardI
Koch.
" Tonight's final That's the way it
is' on the CBS Evening News is a
media event," the New York Times
said editorially.
Indeed it was. The interest was in
ternational The man who bears the
title " the most trusted man in
America," fwrtbree years was the
only journalist voted among the top
10 most influential decision makers
in the country, picked Friday to say
so- lo- ng after 19 years as
anchorman
" The sun will rise in the east on
Monday morning and will set in the
west on Monday evening," editoria-lized
the Charlotte ( NC) News
" The stars will shine and the plan-ets
will creep through the skies But
somehow the universe will be just
slightly out of kilter without Walter
Cronkite on the evening news "
Cronfate's longtime associate,
Eric Severeid, speaking on the rival
ABC network Friday, said Cron-fate's
retirement had gotten more
press attention than that of Presi
dent Carter It has drawn more than
any president, except one who re-signed.
" Introducing our newest corre-spondent,"
read the headline of an
advertisement in newspapers coun-trywide
by CBS News With a pic-ture
of Cronkite, it pointed out that
Uncle Walter was ending 19 years
as evening anchorman, but that he
is leaving now for Moscow to report
for a new series on US defenses
and would anchor ' Walter Cron-fate's
Universe," a new science se-ries
He will continue on CBS with spe-cial
reports and documentaries
Comment generally agreed that
an era was ending with the retire-ment
from daily TV newscasting of
" CM Ironpants," the recognized
reigning monarch of American
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Cronkite and former President Eisenhower survey Normandy Beach for a
program on the 25th anniversary of D- Da- y.
broadcasting He was one of the last
who came from the hard- new- s
' world ofpnct journalism.
" Walter Cronfate's calm, even- spac- ed
delivery inspired confidence
and trust," said the Tampa Tunes
Houston, Texas, where Cronkite
grew up, where he got his first by-lines
on the Houston Post while still
delivering the same paper, where
he became a full- tim- e reporter on
the old Houston Press, proclaimed
Friday as Walter Cronkite Day
The New York Daily News said
" Few people have done so much to
confer credit on the craft of journal-ism
as Cronkite has And fewer still
in any line of work have ever won
the confidence of the American peo-ple
to such an extraordinary de-gree"
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Cronkite, who once served as United Press bureau
manager in Moscow, talks with a Russian officer.
Reagan to slash
federal payroll
by 37,000 jobs
O New York Times
WASHINGTON President Reagan
announced Friday the replacement of
his temporary hiring freeze with " new
permanent ceilings" that will reduce
federal employment by 37,000 jobs by
Sept 30, 1982, at a saving of $ 1 3 billion
Administration sources later said the
reduction means an undisclosed num-ber
of workers now on the federal pay-roll
will lose their jobs, although attri-tion
will account for most of the
employment cutbacks
But, in his second press conference
since taking office, Reagan cautioned
that t could be several months and
perhaps over a year before the nation
sees " more than beginning signs" of
improvement from his economic re-covery
program.
Reagan also hinted that he might use
the veto power to protect from con-gressional
alteration the three- yea- r, 10
percent annual tax cut that is a key el-ement
of the recovery program an-nounced
on Feb 18
The president defended his decision
to decontrol the price of oil ahead of
schedule, saying his administration
could be blamed for only three or four
cents of the recent 10-- to 14 cent- per- gall- on
( 3 8 liters) increase in retail
gasoline prices That increase would
have reached consumers m October
anyway, Reagan said.--
Ib a jovial half- hou- r session in which
he took 19 questions from reporters
who bad drawn lots for the right to ad-dress
nun, Reagan also
Appeared to back away from his
previous endorsement of a constitu-tional
amendment banning abortion by
saying that clarification of laws defi-ning
human life could make such an
amendment redundant
- Called for a national drug- abu- se
program that puts its mam effort into
warning young people about the dan-gers
of drug use, rather than into at-tacks
on narcotics smuggling
Defended his $ 44 5 billion in bud
get reductions against the charge that
toe cuts take essential services from
the poor
Asserted that his proposal of 10
percent annual tax cuts for three sue
cessive years would stimulate savings
and investment instead of feeding in-flationary
spending
k Assailed the embargo on gram
sales to the Soviet Union as unfair to
farmers, but added that it could not be
lifted because of foreign policy consid-erations
Reagan appeared relaxed and in a
good mood when he met reporters at 2
pan. in the old Executive Office Build-ing,
and he reverted to a habit of his
campaign days of diverting hostile
questions with humor
For example, Sarah McClendon, the
veteran correspondent who represents
a string of Texas newspapers, asked
Reagan if his rule for dissident Repub-licans
was ' off will go their heads "
Reagan smiled, cocked his head,
paused for effect and said, ' How can
you say that about a sweet fellow like
me''
In response to another question, crit-ics'
allegations that he is warlike, the
president, feigning amazement,
cracked, " I've been here more than six
weeks now and haven't fired a shot. '
He also drew a big laugh by refer-ring
to the lottery system, in which he
drew the names of his questioners
from a jellybean jar, as Reagan rou-lette."
The White House press office re-vealed
after the press conference that
the president was incorrect in stating
that the new employment ceilings
mandate a cut of almost 100,000 jobs
below the employment levels projected
by toe Carter administration for fiscal
1981 and 1S82. The actual number of the
reductions in such authorizations
should have been 63,100, said Kama
Small, the deputy press secretary
Board may cut some
summer school classes
By Tregenza Roach
ftfissourian staff writer
The Columbia Board of Education
will consider Monday a proposal to
cancel this summer's special reading
and mathematics programs for be-tween
250 and 300 elementary school
students
Hank Steere, assistant superinten-dent
for instruction, said toe proposal
would allow the district to apply the re-sulting
savings to next year's budget
and help the district offer a regular
slate of educational programs during
1981- 8- 2.
Steere said the district recently re-ceived
$ 80,000 from the state Depart-ment
of Elementary and Secondary
Education to help fund the summer
program but has determined that the
money would be better spent during
toe regular school year because of pos-sible
reductions in federal funding for
1961- 8- 2.
Other elementary summer programs
would not be affected by the proposal
since they are tuition- supporte- d.
Steere also said toe cancellations
would not affect secondary education
programs
At its regular meeting Monday, the
board also will turn its attention to the
proposed calendar for the upcoming
school year Jim Rjtter, director of
school- communi- ty relations, said the
calendar will include no major devia-tions
from the present one The cal-endar,
which sets toe number of school
days and holidays, was proposed by a
committee of teachers, principals,
Parent- Teach- er Association Council
members and one board member
The board wdf review some esti-mated
expenditures for toe 1981- 8- 2
budget and plans for a community edu-cation
program which, if approved,
would provide expanded after- scho- ol
educational and recreational activities
for elementary school children
Ritter said toe programs would be
strictly voluntary and would probably
require some type of fee for students
participating
The board will consider new rules
and regulations pertaining to fiscal ac-counting
and reporting, purchasing, fa-cilities
planning and the payroU.
In addition, Jay Willows, director of
vocational education, will present a re-port
on the district's adult education
program. Willows is expected to pay
particular attention to space limita-tions
that may affect the growth of toe
program.
Monday's board meeting begins at
7 30 pan. in the conference room of toe
Board of Education Office Building,
1002 Rangelme Road.
' Glue9: A unique way to seal blood vessels
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In the delicately wired network of the bram,
things sometimes go haywire.
A traumatic accident or congenital defect, for
example, can cause the brain's vascular system
to erupt, which may result in seoures, strokes,
cerebi hemorrhage, blindness or even death.
ButDr Michael Ddmore, 36, came to the Uni-versity
Hospital last July versed in a new drug
treatment that may help correct blood vessel
" blowouts" in the brain glue.
The " brain glue" is injected into malfimction- in- g
blood vessels to seal on abnormal Dow and re-direct
the blood into areas of the brain where it's
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pfanpre is one of a handful of neurosurgeons
around the country using the special glue ( Isobu--
tyl 2- Cyanoac-rylate)
to seal off blood vessel ab-normalities.
He and a colleague pioneered the
technique at the University of Texas Health Sci-ences
Center in Dallas.
After several years of experimenting on ani-mals,
the two neurosurgeons received approval
by the Food and Drug Administration two years
ago to apply the technique tohuman problems.
Ditmore stresses the technique is used only for
high- ris- k patients, when the sue or location of a
blood vessel malformation prohibits the use of
other methods oftreatment.
" Normal surgery may not be absolutely safe,
but if that malformation stays in the patient's
says.
" This technique is an alternative to other tech-niques.
When it is weighed against the risk of
doing nothing versus surgical intervention, then I
believe, in many cases, our technique should be
used for the betterment of the patient "
Because the treatment is still investigational,
the University Hospital's Institutional Review
Board had to prepare a protocol form stating un-der
what condmons the treatment could be ap-plied.
The drug's sponsor, or manufacturer, also
receives a copy of that protocol form, and the
FDA continues to monitor the drug
Ditmore says the glue is similar to Crazyglue
and other kinds of ' superghjes" that have been
commercially available m the last few years.
Those glues were refined and made less tone by
chemical changes. In its earliest applications, the
The drug's new application involves injecting it
into abnormal blood vessels through a needle or
small catheter
Fust, neurosurgeons open the skull to expose
the malformation and more accurately pinpoint
its location. Then they inject the glue extremely
close to the abnormality This helps to prevent the
glue from escaping into adjacent arteries that
normally supply the brain.
Neurosurgeons rely on nnscroscopic surgical
precision to perform the technique They use an-giograms
a type of X- ra- y that shows the flow of
blood m the head to locate the abnormality and
guide the injection of glue
Ditmore has used the " brain glue" five times at
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