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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC August 1983 Daily Egyptian 1983 8-26-1983 The aiD ly Egyptian, August 26, 1983 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_August1983 Volume 69, Issue 5 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, August 26, 1983." (Aug 1983). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1983 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in August 1983 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. s C£gyptian Southern Illinois University Friday. AllgUS! 211. 1983-Vol. 89, N/'. 5 McFarlin walking, has 'good t~&hold' after hem1 surgery By John Schrag "Fri~nds, people ID the com. Staff WritH mUnlty, concerned strangers. everyone, seemingly gave their H~rold McFarlin is walking. heart and emptied their talkmg and determined to stay alive. pocketbooks for Harold." McFarlin said he COUldn't "Dying is easy," said the SIlT· have made it through the C history professor who had a operdtion without the support of heart transplant earlier this ~ community. And he 0b ~~.~~. "Life you have to fight Viously couldn't m've done it without the doctors dt the Stalf Photo by Scott Shalf McFarlin, who is medical center. McFa .. lin Hellri", Cily Mauger Carrol) Fry relues a UUIe Bight See F C du!'illg his last City reuaciJ meeting Mooday 011 p;;ge 5. DelIS OD arboodale's city manager recuperating at the Stanford said he is "astounded" by· th.: Medical Center in Palo Alto level of medical experti3e of the Calif., said he wants "~people doctors at Stanford, which is of CMbondale to know that they considered to b.tve one of the are part of a tremendous fight. .. world's best facilities treating Fry called 'every name in the . "Most people with heart heart-related illnesses. diile8SeS die,' he said in a "Hundreds of thousands of telephone interview Thursday. people with heart diseases die .. !'ook'during 11 years at helm "The ones who live are the ones he said. "This place is the m~t who fight ani who have people successful in the world, and I them and fighting with By ')oIm ~hrag emotional scars of the student ~~ rmaDy figured out why." Staff Writer worked hard to improve The "secret," McFarlin said riots which ravaged the city relations between the city McFarlin, whose battle to live is the ) now ledge and attitud4! of during the height of the Viet· government, the University and inspired thousands of Southern HE HAS BEEN compared lo nam Wa~ protests .. the business community, the meilical staff. Harry Truma ~ Mayor Daley IllinOis residents to donate In addItion, Fry Inherited a While ma~ civic leaders "It's their damn deter and Ebenezer ~rooge. By his about ~,ooo !or his .life-saving city government that was in the minati~," he said. "They are cv.~';:' admission, he has been red and opera ting on a set of operation, said be IS making determined to keep you aliv,t - called "about every name in the ~~dh}: ~ =,.~ ~~ "good progress" in his ordinances which he said had the praise must be shal""~ with that's !lrhat makes it work. '(hey book a'~d then some." A saving not been updated since the mid- the rest of the cily ad.. recovery. grace to some, the devil in 196IIB.. mlt'tlstraUOIL "I've got a ¥,ood toe-hoId 011 ~:eIl~~don'tlPve. ~tetootberi, Carroll Fry ill "No one maD iloe8 \t," he oV~81Y'JIeW hart..~ said McFarliD. don't let YIN die,"· Tbe7"'" DOthint if 1IG eoatrovenial, m~~~~'1,~~ who BUffered a massive beart in town mew it" ~~*in'::t~J: ~':v:: Heart tra~t patientS at __:;:. bappened iD t:he put 11 attack more than three yean Stanfoni Medical ctent--- . bi~L~c~~~~a~~~ Manager, • poIIt be baa IJeId fer FRY IMMEDIATELY Rt up y_..... ~~~~ &be _ . ago. "Or rather, it bas a good an 82 percent suhival rate a centralized p!rchastng (',lfice toe-hold on me." more than 11 years. during the rU'St year following When he reported for duty in to rei~ in the nmaway budget ~68-year-old Missouri The 46-year-old McFarlin their operations, a h'lSpital June 1972, Cai'bondale was still and hired several new depart OIrriVed in Palo Alto in May and spokeswoman said. The se.::ol'ld .. suffering from the physical and ment heads. He said he also See FRY, Page 5 then anxiously waited for about ye.'l1' survival rate is 80 percent, three m<nJths until a ~·titable she !>aid. donor heart was finally found Of t.'le 276 patients who have and implanted on Aug. 13. received new hearts since the He said his days are filled center began performing heart New cable channels delayed, with medical and physical transplants in 1968, 114 are therapy, and although he is living today, the spokeswoman suffering from some "very said, including one patient who may be linked to rate lllcrease standard" minor com received a new heart in 1970. plications, he said things are McFarlin's biggest danger is looking good. that his body will reject the new By Paula J. Finlay June to work out an agreement require extensive rewiring and "There's every reason for a heart. The spokeswoman said Starr Writer with Cablevision's parent installation of converters m tt-:.t because this event could company, Tele subscribers' homes that do not ~.n:re~:~~'to ~in:~~t ~1r at any time, McFarlin Subscribers to cable Communications Inc, The team have "cable-ready" television I'm going to keel over and die wiD continue to be closely television in Carbondale will submitted its recom· sets - new sets that are tomorrow." mooitored for several weeks, have to wait more than a year mendations, which were manufactured with the Robert Gold, who hel~ ;"':Jd before 2Q-channel service is unanimously approved" to the capability to receive more the fundraising effort for the McFarlin said that if aD goes implemented and it could come commission Wednesday stations, Completion would take operation, said the episode is weD he will move back into an linked to a rate increase, a The recommendations wiD be a year. Perka said. like "a fairy tale ~ome true." apartment neJ\r t.he center in a report submitted to the Car submitted to the negotiating Twenty-fi"e 00u7'S per week of "It was a tremendous com few weeks, bl.. will stay in Palo bondale Cable Television team Monday and then to the locally ori~:inating program· munity effort," said Gold, who Alto for several months before Commission Wednesday said. city council. Klasek said. ming will start by January 1. is also a history ~~ofessor. returning to Carbondale. The commission recom· However, it could be some 1984, 50 percent that to be mended to the City COI· •.cil in time before the recom· original programming. By July late June that Caroond .. 'e mendations go to the council, 1, 1984, two .. thirds of tha t Record crowd exp,~cted Cablevision, the city's cable because the committee wants to twenty-five hours are to be television franchise shoqld be examine TCl's financial reports l,'iginal programming, the required to implement a basic before forwarding the recommendations state. at n,l Quoin State Fair 21l-channel service in ac recommendations to the cO' ..mcil Several a\'!'lEnd.:nents to the cordance with the original and that could "take a mor.th or franchise. i"c1uding one DU QUOIN - The 61st Du Quoin franchise. two," Klasek said. requiring TCI to provide an State F air opens Friday with =oc~nJU::~f~'ts c~~e:: Cablevision says that it wiD "We'll get the whole job done annual audl ted financial fair offlcials predicting that always been a staple of the fair, need a $2.50 monthly sub and put it in their iaps, .. he said. statement and the City Council attendance wilf top last year's this yellr's program includes a scription rate increase to do Dec. I, 1963, was the deadline to hold a public hearing prior to 167,000. story-t.!lIi[l~ 1 Id costume set by the commission for Tel to approval of cable televiSIon rate "I think we're going to top the performance for children and a ~il~.1i:"=i;f ~~~;f! ~de the requested financi.ll changes, are called for in the 200,000 mark or more," Marilyn prl'Uy leg contest for senior mformation, and a publi·' rcommendations. Phillips, publicibt for the fair, citizens. :n~rif!~~t:rvi~. $11 a hearing should be held after '5aid. But "no rate increase wiD be that information is received, the She said this year's activities, The World Trotting Derby, cons:dered until the company commission said. with more things for children the fair's successful documents expenditures that The recommendations also and a heavy f'mpbasis on more replacement for the Ham demonstrate a need for an in state that the utilization of 20 varied night-time musical bletooian which was its cen crease," recommendatiooa by a channels wiD be completely entertainment. should appeal to terpiece for yean, is scheduled special negotiating team said. functional within 12 months a wider audience. Sept. 3. c"PI>i~ five days of The negotiating team 01 City from the date of dEtermination A cow chip throwing contest Grand Circuit harness racing on Manager Carroll Fry, Mayor 01 the monthly rate by the City - bi.lh!d as "national" - opens the fair's "Magic Mile" track.