September IS, 1999
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Hurricane
Floyd,
Continued from Front Page
At Orlando, Disney World and
Universal Studios were closing to
day and SeaWorld already was shut
down. Airlines canceled virtually all
flights into and out of southern
Florida, and the military sent aircraft
inland and ships out of port to ride
out the storm at sea. Crews of big
civilian ships were told to get ready
to leave port at Charleston, S.C.
The Marine Corps was moving
7,000 recruits out o f its Recruit
Depot at Parris Island, S.C.
Only a skeleton crew was left
behind at NASA’s Kennedy Space
Center, and they could leave if wind
becomes as fierce as predicted.
Three space shuttles were in the
shuttle hangar, which is designed
to withstand wind of only up to 105
mph, and the fourth was in the Ve
hicle Assembly Building, built to
withstand 125 mph wind. Four mul-
timillion-dollar rockets stood ex
posed on launch pads.
Floyd was much larger than Hur
ricane Andrew - another Category
4 storm - which smashed into South
Florida in 1992, causing $25 bil
lion in damage, killing 26 people
and leaving 160,000 homeless.
A hurricane warning was in ef
fect today from Florida City, south
of Miami, to Brunswick, Ga., a dis
tance of about 400 miles. A hurri
cane warning means hurricane con
ditions could be felt within 24 hours.
A hurricane watch stretched
northward all the way to the North
Carolina line, and a tropical storm
warning was in effect for most of
the Florida Keys. High surf adviso
ries were in effect as far north as
New York’s Long Island.
Upwards of 1.8 million people
were told to seek shelter along the
coasts of Florida. Georgia and South
Carolina, including all of Savannah,
Ga. Nursing homes in coastal South
Carolina had started moving resi
Court Document Shows
Officials Tried to Help B
dents inland on Monday.
"T here’s no reason for anyone
to stay,” said Charleston, S.C.,
Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. " W e ’re
going to have flooding and you
need to get o u t,” said North
Charleston Mayor Keith Summey
Farther north, residents o f North
Carolina’s Ocracoke Island, still
drying out from Hurricane Dennis
a week earlier, also were urged to
evacuate. W aves had already
started washing across the island’s
only highway.
Many of Ocracoke’s 700 resi
dents had stayed to ride out Dennis.
However, said Hyde County Man
ager Jeff Credle, " I think most
people are going to leave this time. ’ ’
National Guard forces were be
ing activated in Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina.
"W e are making fervent and fe
verish preparations here,’ ’ said Bill
Bartlett, a Red Cross official in
South Carolina.
South Carolina residents with
memories of Hurricane Hugo -
which battered the coast with 135
mph wind 10 years ago - packed up
as best they could.
" How do you prepare for a storm
that’s going to wipe you out?"
asked
B uster
B row ne,
a
McClennanville, S.C., resident who
rode out Hugo, a Category 4 storm.
"Category 1 or 2, you run out
and buy plywood and do what you
can," he said. " I f a Category 5’s
going to hit you, what the hell are
you going to do? Get the stuff you
want to save and leave town.”
Only two Category 5 hurricanes
have hit the United States since
records have been kept: the 1935
Labor Day storm that slammed the
Florida Keys, killing 423 people,
and Hurricane Cam ille, which
roared ashore in Mississippi in
1969, killing 256.
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - T eachers.
police and mental health workers tried
in vain to get help for Patrick Lee
Hamed before he allegedly strangled
a 7-year-old Astoria girl, a new court
document shows.
Filed by Hamed’s defense attor
neys, the document paints a startling
picture of a boy long troubled by
psychological and developmental
problems who was becoming increas
ingly violent.
Hamed, who turned 17 in May, is
accused of murdering Ashley Ann
Carlson on Feb. 11.
Harned was in and out of mental
institutions and treatment centers
since he was 9 years old. Authori
ties tried repeatedly, right up to a
few days before the slaying, to get
the boy into residential treatment,
but they said they couldn’t get his
parents to cooperate.
Hamed’ s troubled childhood and
chaotic family life will be the focus
of a three-day hearing beginning
Oct. 19 to determine his mental com
petency to stand trial. Hamed is
charged with two counts of aggra
vated murder in Carlson’ s death. He
is to be tried in adult court.
Attorneys Griff Healy and Laura
Graser, who filed the document,
plan to use mental defect or disease
as a defense.
Harned is one o f two boys po
lice say was molested by William
Carl Welsh, a registered sex of
fender with whom Harned was
living with just before the mur
der. W elsh, 45, is in C latsop
County Jail waiting trial on sex-
crime charges.
Hamed’s lawyers say Hamed is
mentally incapable of assisting in
his defense and want his trial post
poned until he can participate. They
say he cannot separate fantasy from
reality or comprehend the nature of
the legal proceedings.
His lawyer also notified the court
Bone Marrow
Transplants For Juvenile
Rheumatoid Arthritis Is
Approved For Oregon Girl
lone Marrow Transplant will be
he first In the Pacific Northwest
o be approved for Juvenile
heumatoid arthritis
(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Bone
Marrow transplants have proven
:o be effective in the treatment of
many cancers. Now Oregon health
Sciences university’s Doembecher
Children’s Hospital and Kaiser
Permanente have given approval
for an autologous bone marrow
transplant to be performed on a
nine-year-old girl in hopes of cur
ing an autoimmune disease that
has made her life unbearable.
Mollie Hauck o f Canby, Or
egon doesn’t know what it’s like
to play with other kids, because
sometimes playing can make her
joints ache so badly she can’t move
or stop crying in pain. When
Mollie was three she was diag
nosed by her Kaiser Permanente
pediatrician with juvenile rheuma
toid arthritis, an utomimmune dis
ease where her own white blood
cells attack the healthy cells in her
joints causing excruciating pain,
swelling and eventually possible
immobilization or death.
"We jus, wan, her to be able to
enjoy life like any other child with
out the constan, emotional and
physical pain, ’ says Mollie e par
ents Kathy and Sam Hauck. “We
hope M ollie’s experience with this
;atment will open the doors for
other children who suffer from JRA
and other autoimmune disease.
Mollie suffers from an extreme
case of systemic onset juvenile rheu
matoid arthritis. Most children with
this condition respond to some form
o f treatm ent within a year o f
dagnosos. Nothing has worked well
for Mollie. She has weekly injec
tions and each day must take 12 to
15 different pills. In addition, she
has had repeated multiple joint in
jections, up to 29 injections at a
time, and already has had to have
the lining of one of her hip joints
removed due to the arthritis.
“Mollie’s condition has required
increasingly aggressive therapy. In
spite of these treatments Mollie con-
tinues to suffer,” says David
Til ford, M. D., a Kaiser Permanente
pediatrician who was among a
group of the HMO’s physicians who
reviewed M ollie's case and ap
proved her for an autologous bone
marrow transplant. “Having ex
hausted the conventional treat
ments, we had to consider thera
pies which are still under investi
gation but look promising, like au
tologous bone marrow transplant,
says Dr. Tilford. “It’s a serious
procedure but one we hope im
proves Mollie s condition.
“Mollie is a true pioneer for
other children with autommune
diseases. If this proves to be suc
cessful in treating her disease, it
will open up the door for many
more children to also obtain re
lief,” said Theodore Moore, M.d.,
assistant professor of pediatric
hematology/oncology and direc
tor of Pediatric Stem Cell Trans
plant Program at Doembecher.
The treatment protocol that will be
used on Mollie was developed in Hol
land and has shown great promise.
“O f the thousand of children I
have seen with arthritis, M ollie's
arthritis is definitely in the worst 1
percent. If anything is going to
keep her from having totally de
stroyed joints, it will be the trans
plant,” said David Sherry, M.D ,
M o llie ’s rh u e m a to lo g ist at
Children’s Hospital & Regional
Medical Center in Seattle.
The treatment is expected to be
gin around the end of September.
Mollie will first have some stem
cells then she will undergo exten
sive chemotherapy to kill her detec-
tive immune system. Approximately
10 days later her stem cells will be
re-infused into her system with the
hope that they will produce a new
healthy, strong immune system.
If the bone marrow transplant
is successful, Mollie will be able
to play free of pain with her brother
and two sisters and finally go back
to school. At 3-foot-2-inches,
M ollie’s dream follow ing the
transplant is to grow to the height
of other kids her age and be tall
enough to go on roller coasters
and other rides.
Health Officials Worry E.coli
May Show Secondary Spread
(Portland-AP) — Two more
ihildren have become ill with
i.eoli, and officials are worried
hat they may see more cases linked
o Battle Ground Lake.
A seven-year-old boy from
Battle Ground has been hospital
ized in fair condition, and will go
on kidney dialysis.
a
three-v ear-old boy from
Vancouver has been hospitalized
in fair condition with anemia.
But the seven-year-old did not
swim in B attle Ground Lake.
That is causing fears among health
care professionals that they may
be seeing a secondary infection
spreading from people who don’t
know they’ve been infected to
healthy people.
The infection may have come
from a third child who swam at the
lake but has not developed an
E.coli infection.
A health officer from the South
west Washington Health District
said that the greatest risk is getting
the illness from an infected person.
interviewed by police twice.
After being taken to a Portland
foster home, he allegedly confessed
to authorities to killing the girl, tell
ing the investigators that he had be
come angry when she touched his
"private parts” and strangledher with
a belt to put her “to sleep .”
He denied sexually abusing the girl
before or after her death.
He told police they could find her
body buned in the basement of his
family’s home
Don Hamed picked up his son "but
did not seem concerned," police
reported Hamed was not welcome
at home, and was reportedly stay
ing with a friend, who turned out
to be Welsh. A few days later,
Patrick Harned admitted to police
to being sexually abused by Welsh.
Police searched W elsh’s home
on Feb. 11, the same evening
A sh ley C arlso n d isap p eared .
Harned participated in the exten
sive search for the girl and was
that they plan to use an insanity
defense during his trial, which could
spare him from imprisonment. The
argument could reduce the crime to
manslaughter, meaning Harned
would face a minimum prison sen
tence of 10 instead of 30 years.
Dr. Orin Bolstad, a psychiatrist who
will testify, is quoted in the docu
ments as saying Hamed suffers from
a psychotic disorder, post-traumatic
stress and major depressive disor
ders, Asperger’s disorder, which is
similar to autism, is hyperactive
and has an IQ of 81.
Bolstad also thinks the boy may
suffer from schizophrenia and bipo
lar disorder.
Bolstad is also a defense wit
ness for Kip Kinkel, the teen-ager
accused of killings his parents, then
going on a shooting spree at
S p rin g fie ld ’s T h u rsto n High
School, killing two others and
wounding 22.
In 1994, Hamed allegedly threat
ened to shoot police with their own
guns after his father took him to the
police station for a "dressing
down ” Two years later, a 12-year-
old Harned was sent to a Portland
hospital for emergency psychiatric
treatment for “serious suicidal and
homicidal behavior.” That May, he
assaulted one of his sisters and hurt
her neck.
Hamed was admitted to a Port
land hospital again in 1998 after he
allegedly threatened to kill the vice
principal at Astoria High School,
where he was a student.
In February, just days before
A shley’s death, H arned’s mother
claimed he tried to run her over at
an Astoria gas station. She de
manded police take her son and
said she didn’t want any more
contact with him. Police took him
to the family home and left him
outside.
On Feb. 5, Astoria police found
Harned and another teen-age boy
at W elsh’s home. Concerned be
cause of W elsh's criminal past,
police called the boy’s parents.
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