HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath i fiB fr
MoncUy. .'o. 1, 1960
PAGE 1 9
Story Behind A New Pair Of Hands
Is One Of Courage, Will To Live
By EILEEN LARDNKR
New Bedford Standard-Timei
Staff Writer
NEW BEDFORD. Mass. (APl-l
Lita Levine of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
bought a new pair of hands last
week.
The story of Lita and her new
hands began on the night of Aug.
15, 1958. Northeast Airlines Flight
258 two hours late out of New
York because of bad weather1
was coming in for a landing on
tiny Nantucket Island, off the
Massachusetts coast.
Lita, 23, a $73-a-week cashier in
a New York brokerage firm,
starting a 10-day vacation,
fastened her seat belt and
smoothed her brown hair with
slim, graceful fingers. She de
ferred reaching for her gloves. It
didn't really matter. Soon Lita
would not need gloves.
The big twirrtngine Convair
came down through heavy fog
and struck the ground 300 yards
short of the runway. It plowed a
800-foot swath through a field of
scrub growth and pine trees, then
burst into flames.
Twenty-four persons died in the
crash. Of 10 survivors, two later
died. Lita was one who lived.
"It happened so suddenly," she
recalls. "It was as though it were
in a dream, as though it were
happening to someone else. One
minute everything was fine. The
next minute I was pinned under
something I didn't know what.
That something was an 800-
pound engine.
"I knew I was badly hurt," ex
plains Lita. My arms were
crossed in front of me and I
could see my fingers burning and
raw. Your mind sort of turns off
at a time like that."
Lita lay on her back, her hair
and head burned, her face and
body black with oil and burns.
She cried, "I can't see."
A man took a handkerchief and
wiped her eyes and face.
"Please don't let me die," she
cried and then, as pain swept her,
"Kill me."
Thirty men lifting with ropes
and hands at last lifted the engine
and freed Lita. "We were given
superhuman strength," one said
afterward.
Lita lost consciousness. She
awoke in the Massachusetts Gen
ral Hospital, Boston.
"When I came to, I couldn't see
anything. I thought I was blind.
I remember screaming." A phy
Sician, understanding her panic,
removed bandages momentarily
Eiving Lita a brief blurred
glimpse that reassured her.
Hospital records show Lita had
second-and third-degree burns
over 40 or 50 per cent of her
body. Her arms and legs were
charred, her fingers black. Her
right eyelid was deeply burned
and there was some impairment
of vision. There was almost com
plete external destruction of both
ears and extensive external skull
injuries. Her left kneecap was
fractured. She had numerous deep
scoop-like cuts.
There were days and weeks un
der sedation. Her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Nathan Levine, were
constantly at her bedside. There
followed during the next two
years 37 operations. Surgeons
tried to save her fingers and
failed.
There came a victory when
Lita stood on her good left leg
And. a month later, the worst
hlow when on Nov. 10, she
learned her fingers were gone
"At first I made myself be
lieve it was a bad dream, that the
fingers would grow back on
acain," she says.
The despairing girl, asking for
death, said. I won t accept it;
1 won't live without hands."
Eighteen hours a day her mother
foucht a battle of the spirit. In
between Lita's father took over,
softly speaking hour after hour,
that she would be all right. j
The parents' love won and Lita
at last accepted the thought, "I
did have a chance; I had to get
better."
Doctors cut V-clefts between
the stumps of her thumbs and
middle fingers. With her maimed
hands she could hold a cigarette,
or a cup of coffee.
"At last. I could do some
things for myself." she says.
On June 20 this year, alter 101
weeks, she was discharged. But
ahead lay more surgery. She had
to have a new right eyelid and
lashes. Her brown hair had been
I replaced with a wig
and legs were scarred. External while at school
portions of her skull, including she hopes to tour Europe for
nr. luicncau, neeuea more sur-,six months or so.
Her invested trust fund should
Egg Purchasing
Now Suspended
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Is Orbited By Millions Of Species
gery. Her nose had been re-made
One leg is permanently stiff.
A few weeks ago she was
lor her injuries,
Now she has plans
She will shop for drapes for the
WASHINGTON (API - The Ag
riculture Department suspended
Friday a program authorizing the
nin-rh.i;i nf pens tn hnlct,,- nm.
Her armsiwill paint. She was good in art ducer Drices PASADENA, Calif. il'PP The ing out several thousand miles., ellite changes altitude," Hibbs
It said this action is being taken P er ' sa,clll,e has discovered; The particles come in from out-said. "This effect could he caused
because of recent improvement in that the earth literally has mil- er space, are trapped by the al- only by a cloud of micromcteor
prices. ;l'ons of tiny satellites in the foi m mosphere into elongated orbits itcs in closed orbits around the
of cosmic dust particles, the .let and circle the earth for perhaps earth."
Propulsion Laboratory of the C'al- thousands of times. Hibbs said.l T,e djscoverv was hailed by
ifnt-ni ln.-tilln nl Tnl,,,..!..,., .... Tl .1 f.ll .1.- . J
"- ' "M- iniii im-y i.m imu -nc .mnus- n,W)s ils M0 SCVOnd maior ac-
phere and burn up. but are re-Urn,,,,,,, 0f Explorer I.
Dr. Albeit Hibbs, chief of JPL'sll'laced by other incoming micro- alllK-hed .Inn. 31. 1!.8 after its
division of space sciences, said meteorites. detection of the Van Allen radia
!he pin-head size micrometcoritcs' "A close examination of Ex-ltion belts,
appear to form a belt around thejplorer I data shows a strong
100,000 tons of earth starting about 100 miles change in the micronieteoriticj The mule is a cross between
STEEL AND SUPPLY, INC.
The agency had purchased 19.-
care for her needs for life. But. 048.000 pounds of dried eggs this
she nopes to work again in a year at a cost of $20,702,000.
awarcec a settlement ot 35,000jbrokerage house. I The eggs are being donated to nounced today,
And now she has bought some the school lunch program, needy
new hands. She will wear ringslpersons and eligible public insti-
on them. And gloves. She always tulions,
Boston apartment where she and i liked gloves. She almost reached!
her parents live while awaiting for her gloves just before
her turther surgery. Maybe she crash.
the Nigeria exports
Ichocolate beans each year.
above the atmosphere and extend-lcountiiig rate recorded as the sat- two types of animals.
POLIO FIGURES
WASHINGTON (L'PI' The
waning I960 polio season pro
duced 75 new cases last week. I.'t
less than in the previous week
and" 112 less than in the same
week of 1959 At this time last
year, a total of 7.853 cases had
been reported compared to this
year's total of 2.974 cases, the
L'.S. Public Health Service said
Friday.
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i- IS HERE
TODAY tti
PHI FJfrft TO Vil 1ft?
FENCING & POSTS
1 or 1000
AT LESS THAN
REGULAR CARLOAD PRICES
ft
STEEL POSTS
5'0"
5'6"
60"
6'6" ,
7 0" ,
5'0"
5'6"
60"
6'6"
70"
5 0" ,
5'6"
6 0" ,
6'6" ,
"T" POSTS
.94 eo;
1.02 eo;
1. 10 ca;
1.18 to;
I 25 eo;
req,
rcg.
reg.
reg.
reg.
CHANNEL POSTS
reg.
rpg.
reg.
reg.
rcg.
.83 eo;
.90 ea;
.97 ea;
1.03 eo;
1. 10 eo;
ANGLE POSTS
reg. .73 ea;
, reg. .80 eo;
req. .85 ea;
reg. .9 1 ea;
now .65
now .7 1
now ,76
now .81
WIRE FENCING
U. S. BARBED WIRE
2 pt. 12Vj ga. reg. 1 1.86 ro.; now 10.2S
4 pt. 12Vj ga. reg. 12.88 ro.; now 11.10
FOREIGN BARBED WIRE
2 pt. I2V2 go. rcg. 8.50 ro.; now 8.20L
4 pt. 12'2 ga. reg. 9.40 ro.; now .us
DOUBLE LOOP LAWN FENCE
36" rca. 29.36 ro:; now 21.60
42" rcg. 33.48 ro.; now 24.75.
48" reg. 37.38 ro.; now 27.50.
SINGLE LOOP LAWN FENCE
36" reg. 21.34 ro.; now 15.60
42" reg. 24.15 ro.; now 17.85
48" rcg. 27.31 ro.; now 20.00
FLOWER BORDER FENCING
16" reg. 9.75 ro.; now 8.40
22" reg. 12.34 ro.; now 10.70""
FIELD FENCING
726- 6-12'j reg. 19.78 ro.; now 17.20-832-
6-U'2 reg. 16.08 ro.; now 14.45
726-l2-12'2 reg. 15.40 ro.; now 13.55
832-l2-l2!2 reg. 17.70 ro.; now 15.40
832- 6-1 2 Vj rcg. 22.84 ro.; now 19.90
939 6-l2'2 rcg. 25.99 ro.; now 22.60 I
939-12-12 '2 reg. 20.00 ro.; now 17.40
1047- 6-11 reg. 42.40 ro.; now 36.90 i
POULTRY NETTING
l2"-2-20,
l2"-l-20.
24"-l-20,
36"-l-20,
60"-l-20,
...reg.
...rcg.
....reg.
....rcg.
..reg,
2.03;
4.41;
8.25;
1 1.98;
19.68;
now
now
now
now
now
1.80
3.35
6.30
9.20
15.05
18.00 i
17.00
27.85
33.15
21.70
34.85
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NON-CLIMBABLE FENCING
1 036-2-1 2 i reg. 20.67; now
l660-2-l2'2 reg. 33.90; now
l972-2-!2'2, ...rcg. 40.32; now
WELDED WIRE FABRIC
1936-1-14, ....... rcg. 25.66; now
3160-1-14 reg. 41.15; now
STEEL TANKS
STOCK TANKS
6' r'd No. 62, reg. 51.80; now 43.98
6' r'd No. 62B, reg. 46.66; now 39.58
7' r'd No. 72B, reg. 59.29; now 50.25
8' r'd No. 82B, reg. 70.58; now 59.82
ROUND END TANKS
6'x2'x2' No. 226B,
reg. 29.82; now 25.30
SHEEP TROUGHS
10 x2' tapered, rcg. 40.65; now 32.52
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