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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1956)
Lad to Get College Degree Today, Earned in Iron Lung ill the students across the na tion who will toon wi)k down the iile (or coUege degrees, none will be more proud than Charles Hopkins Parry, who will have to be pushed. Parry will ride in wheelchair Monday to accept his B.A. at the 131st annual commencement at Centenary College. Beneath the 28-year-old Tex an's black academic gown will be a portable chest respirator, without which he would probably soon die. He won't be able to take his diploma from the hands o( the college president. Dr. Joe J. Mickle, for his fingers have been useless since October, 1B49. But to compensate at least in some measure (or these handi caps, Parry's acceptance of the degree will mark an achievement apparently unique in America! hither education. Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, says that so far as he ran determine Parry is the first youth in the nation to earn degi fun to an iron lung. Victim ( Poll Tarry is a polio victim. He was stricken as a freshman at Louisiana State University nearly seven years ago and has since been paralyred from his neck to his heels. His personal campus in four years at Centenary has been a bed in a polio ward. The young native of Waco, Tex , had set out to be an archi tectural engineer before the dis ease struck. ' Then, for three years he lay in an iron lung at Charity Hospital in New Or leans. "1 didn't do much planning for the future during those first few years after I became sick," Parry said in an interview. "I did more praying than any thing else. Then, when I had to face the fact that I wasn't going to be able to walk again, I de rided the time had come for me to decide what to do with my We" By 1952, when he was transfer red to Shreveport hospital, Parry had made up his mind. Legs and arms might not be absolutely essential for a teacher, and with this profession as a goal, Parry enrolled as a history student at Centenary. A two-wav telephone commu nication system enabled him to participate in classroom discus-: sions while remaining in his bed I in the polio ward at Confeder ate Memorial Medical Center. He used a tape recorder to record the lectures, and friends and fellow students transcribed the recordings on typewriters so that he could consult his notes later. Electric Page Turner An electric page turner flip ped the leaves of textbooks as he studied, and a specially built Solons Suggest Arms Diverted From Europe By MAKGA1ET P. MrDONALD' broke ia Shreveport. bo one was to live with ny handicap" SHREVEPORT. ' La. (Pi Of I mor pleased thaa Parry, whom' "A lot of people tried to dis- 11 CHMd DOl aeip. i courage me wnrn i saia i was I dont think much any more going to get my college degree. about cettint well " he tavs. ! he added with a frln. "1 knew Forum Affairs Committee sa I'm more concerned with liv-il could do it, though, and I guess i Saturday large amounts of V. b ing day as fully as I caa md ' I've proved it. Sure leaving the rest to God. It really of the fact that I Br LEWIS CI LICK WASHINGTON - The House rjM t?i r. r. - Di Circus Star liiree-riuur urup uuring maze Saves Mate Trailer, Bank Opfni In New York Town LOtlST GROVE. NY., Long Island! Ueadowbrook na tional bank hat opened what at PITTSBCRGH L A young Blacked by Flames Ihim to clamber down. I mAttwr ArtnntA kr u.mnffitlwftlt TKV truwt In out i4,ftun eliir.l All fillip a r. Ikn Ia A110KftWiV I ... -..n.. ft 1 babv from a third stonr windowwav. but fbmes blocked them. General Hotoitat. tufferin f ram . . .... .. " vtatr of their burning home Saturday. Thev then rushed to the window. : burns and other injuries. Mr. and T , countr'- " . , and a pulxeman on the ground "Get my baby-set my baby out Mrs. Connley were treated and re- ""V "1Rhl- P'UBil 11 .brB ''! below caucht the child. ioThere." streamed Mrs. ConnKv. leased. The babv and Mrs. Mvcrt elist Elisabeth Nocks. IL toward tew uwer. nt-(remaf Latest 10, . ' n ... .1 l- a . i i I., t ..A ..J .i. . ,. . . ... . i i. n : i he young woman, ner mower jukwiiiivu ricu iiuu, i, bin utn iu tmuij W muuiuun. tanoari leci www in mr iving' doesn't make a great deal of difference to me anymore wheth er or not I get well. I've learned can't get too proud, though. I owe to many so doggoned much. Crave needed a bank but didnt wait until one could be ana 1 guess , oaiuruay iare ainuum w . o. - - Fdsv.rd Jnn.. M . niioM V.r.m..n taut IK. M?i. .rftrtl. ,. n.,jkr. R.,, k Rw:m J.Z .iiXLyE? Jbewher? untTtt house-the In women by leaping aearby and spotted the flames. ,started in a second floor apartment. Circus. f.tl i'hniiX.rerhatfcfense dVUcv man by a firemant lad-j They ran to a spot beneath the occupied by another couple who Her husband. Joseph. M. twal-, hUlh t,J5?u? " r. wndow. and Brow, caught Susa. walked to safety. tag the of another swajrU,,, Lynn. Mrs. Connley then leaped. Honeymooners, for Real Eurooe intends to Mow 1IW .HIIIIHIirv who ' fm v J "i ""I" ,.,.,, . . . . . t . called a defense, letdown by someutes of my life." said B-year-okt 1 " m,u "u . EMBAsst i-ukmed prosperous'1 Western European i Ronald Connley. who lived ia the "' NEW DELHI P -India nations, and it said the cmted uiira-tioor apartment witn his wile, ; ireppea i urMM announced estabUshment of ;! ii .'k',: mm i. r NEW YORK-TelevlsJoa star Aidrey Meadewi and her aew hatband, Randolph Rouse, Washlagtoa real estate mat, smile euttlde Man hattan's Church of the Heavenly Rest Saturday following their mar riage. Ceremony was performed by bride's father, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotlrr, an Episcopal minister tf Sharon, Cona. She Is widely known to television audiences as comedian Jackie Gleason's wife In "The Honeymooners" skits. (AP H'irrphoto) Jackie Gleason's Video 'Wife' Wed in Real Life swaying ""to ? ln trailer. pole snatched at her arms. He caught her. I P n .l. .i.j f Vm iKtr mti Hl ,to the round. ' Slates "cannot hope to orcome Rita. ; their b.by, Sun Lynn;! Mr?. Myer hung from the lic reUlion8 wlth SDailJ at ' JTlyiTTZ . Aiwf lire nmuiv mijh.r MM iW' Uw1u mnmMI irwn UH Pf1 i m. . ... w i built Se, while the permanent one la under const met ioa, business It , m they preaeatal I L. f I .. Ik. n.ri lt .nvll nation by supplying it with equip- Irene Myers, ii. J She struck an abutment on the way j cmoassy irvei ment. when we woke, smoke was down then dropped to ine ground. The house group set forth its ' everywhere. Connley said. "e Connley then started out the win- York earlier this season when his1 views in a report to accompany the Foreign Aid Bill, from which it cut more than a billion dollars out of the M. 900, 000,000 total re quested by President Eisenhower. No specific European country was mentioned in the report. Chair man Richards D-SC) had previ ously named Britain. France and West Germany as slackening in their defense efforts. Still I'adellTered The committee said "a substan tial amount" of tome 14 billion dollars of arms earmarked for Europe under past aid programs but still undelivered is suitable for delivery to non-European cold war front nations such as Korea, For mosa, Thailand, Pakistan, and Tur key. "The present situation in Europe Involves sufficient elements of un certainty to justify diverting some of the pipeline to other areas until the defense policy which Europe intends to follow is clearer," the Congressmen said. The commitee report also: 1. Called on the President to "carefully consider" putting over teas arms aid within the- regular U.S. defense budget next year, in stead of in the Foreign Aid Bill. It noted the Administration has stressed that (he military assist a nee program it part of America's own defense effort. Revise Treaties 2. Disclosed the committee voted down a proposal to bar U.S. aid to any country placing American service men abroad under its own system of courts and law enforce ment. This move to force revision of "status of forces" treaties the United States has with many coun tries was led by Rep. Bow (R- Ohio. Duck With Eye Patch Causes Stir W0BURN. Mast. W-The mys tery of a duck with a plaster band age above itt left eye waddling down Main Street's butiness lec tion has been cleared up by an 11-year-old boy. The boy, Domenlc de Lorenxo, went fishing Wednesday at a near by pond. The duck twam up with a gash over its eye. Domenic ran home and came back with a plaster bandage to patch the wound. Gratefully, the duck followed Domenic home. Next day the duck , I ft I J -. ) , 1 1 .. . i i ' r I i . as to Gleason's absence, f , ""auu l0af " i ew ine coop jot a Dnei 1001 ai diui. ner jceiru uara ieu irorrrme City t Slgnts. w nen amazea her head into the aisle. It was pedestrians tried to capture him, retrieved later. i the duck took wing. Amnntf nthprc nrActint unr, ta ' rH... 11 ihal'a Inft tiv !,! r... D.Uk. -or-., kt Im'. " "ft... "ft; i.K- .. UWftP .ftr.ft . ... .... Parrv graduallv increased his K,J7i.7L m.rrv rriat'room 5 Par,,nls' Mr- and feathered friends to figure out how ,;-V, ,.n.,i k. i,t .becoming a bigamist today .marry- M p k Sheohord Rouse of'rnme . durk with a Blaster natch ; o -ri.. D m i. a I . A i " I . . ... . . . . -- i - r ,uK i,..v., .vi.u. ft,. . . ....v. , j,ewpori jvewSi Va and tne Drlde., i over ltJ eye Miss Meadows and Gleason in mother. 1SJ I their "honeymooners'' skelehes on. Following the ceremony there RETIRED JUDGE DIES TV use the names Alice and Haipn was a wedding luncheon for mem-1 WASHINGTON on Finis J. Meadows, also an actress and the wife of TV star Steve Allen. Best man was the bridegroom's brother, Parke Rouse Jr., of Wil liamsburg, Va. Allen and another brother of the By FRANCIS STILLEY NEW YORK ( - Audrey Meadows, the red - haired beauty who is comedian Jackie Glea son's much - tormented "wife" In television skits, cot married in real life Satiirriav tn a wealthv Wash-! bridegroom, William D. Rouse, table kept his reading material ; ington real estate man, Randolph 'Falls Church, Va., were ushers. at proper level. Parry operated i Rouse. Gleason wasn t invited. : 'nr mnnp the tape recorder, telephone Miss Meadows and close rela-1 The ceremony went off smoothly hookup system and pace turner .milindv declined to answer cept for one minor mishap. As ny means m levers, wnicn ne queries pressea wnn nis cnin. nis , However, a Gleason aide said the movements are limited to turning j COmed.an received a telegram at his head from side to side on the 7 a m morning saying: pmnw. were chocking and everything? was dow, but by that time firemen had on fire." arrived and put up a ladder for 1: aeadrmic load until he was tak ing 14 hours per semester. In the past semester, he studied American literature, American foreign relations, logic, religion and English history. "I'm doing all my work the name at anyone else in college," he said. "I have to turn in term papers, examinations and re ports, too. I can't type them, Kramden. They will continue to ap pear together in shows this fall. First Marrlaie About 50 persons saw Miss ; tnei'' honeymoon plans Meadows, who is 27. w ed to Rouse, 38, in the chapet of the Church of bers of the immediate families at Garrett, 80, who retired last year tne canton House. as chief judge of the U. S. court i ne newiyweos declined to give , of customs and patent appeals, died at his home Friday. but I dictate them for someone , 'he Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue else to type, and it's all my thoughts that go into them." The handicaps under which he studied did not show up in Par- i at 90th Street. It was the first marriage lor both. The groom went through the nup tials with his left arm in a cast. ryt grades. He was admitted ' H(' fracture recently in as a "C student hut will be graduated with better than a ' B" average. I ..amv. ,,a bm1 1,.4 ka.M nn. Although hi. suidie, occupied,-" d-m-;h,- a tan irom a norse. Plans for the affair were a care fully kept serret until a day helore the wedding. The couple had met most of his day, Tarry managed to find time and heart to pur sue several hobbies He took up painting, holding the brush be tween his teeth. One of his oil paintings won a special award at the sixth annual centenary artists' conference as the "most promising of any young painter" entered in the competition. He also watches television on an elevated set installed in hit room hy well-wishers. For several rars, he has kept a scraphook entitled, "The Lung and 1," In which lie pastes clippings about himself as well as inspirational articles and poems from newspa pers and magazines. On several occasions. Parry appeared before his fellow stu dents at special assemblies. He has spoken on behalf of the March of Dimes campaigns and appeared on radio and television programs. A battery attachment is used for the portable lpir alnr when he leaves the hospital. Although he still spends each night in a large iron lung. Parry has learned to "frog breathe" for a maximum of 20 minutes. 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