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Mrs. James Henry Thornwell
.'Hie former Miss Teresa Thompson
Miss Teresa Thompson
Weds James Thornwell
Before family and friends, Teresa
Diane Thompson and James Henry
ThornweU were united in holy ma
trimony recently.
The wedding, officiated by Rev.
James Henson, took place at Be
thany Baptist Church.
Given in marriage by her grand
father and mother, the bride se
lected Sonya Smith as her maid of
honor.
The bridesmaids were: Mary
Johnson, Mary Fee, and Rbodeann
Johnson.
. The groom selected as his best
man Emery ThomweU. Ushers for
the wedding included Dean Thomp
son, David Fee, Michael Alderman,
Larry Johnson, and Vernon Wallace.
Little Miss Nivia Johnson was the
flower girl and master Curtis Reid
was the ring bearer.
Music for the wedding was pro
vided by Mary Ervin.
Immediately following the wed
ding, a reception was held at the
Excelsior Club.
Directing the wedding was Gayle
Bell.
Functioning as the register at
tendant was Alican Smith.
The daughter of Minnie Brown,
the bride attends Central Piedmont
Community College and works at
Kroger Sav-on and Central Pied
mont Community College.
Abo a student at Central Pied
mont Community College, the
groom is employed at Harris
Teeter. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard ThbrnvMl. “ *«
Washington The U.S.
Department of Agriculture
presented the Superior Service
Award to three black employees for
outstanding performance.
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block presented the awards - the
agency’s second highest honor -
during USDA’s 39th Annual Hooor
Awards Ceremony. Honored were
Patricia N. Daniels, of USDA’t Food
and Nutrition Service, Alexandria,
Va.; Joseph P. Gomer, Forest
Service, Duluth, Minn., and Ira L.
Hobbs, of the Animal and Plant ,
Health Inspection Service,
Washington, D C.
Daniels Was cited "for exceptional
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creativity and leadership in
implementing a nationwide nutrition
and consumer education program
for low-income households
participating in the Food Stamp
Program.
Gomer was honored “for
outstanding accomplishment in
furthering Equal Employment
Opportunity in the Superior Naional
Forest” in Minnesota.
'Hobbs was 'cited ^‘for
demonstrating outstanding and
innovative managerial skills and
achieving significant improvements
in information management
activities in the agency.”
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Dr. Cobo: Surgery To Shaipen
Eyesight Should Not Be Taken lightly
By Charles Blackburn
Duke Medical Center
Special To The Poet
. Durham - As more Americans
consider two new surgical proce
dures to sharpen (heir eyesight,
doctors at the Duke Eye Center are
urging them to weigh carefully the
pros and cons of the operations.
The procedures, radial keratoto
my and lamellar transplants, are
designed to improve nearsighted
ness and farsightedness.
"It’s important that patients un
derstand what these opeations can
achieve for them, so that their ex
pectations will be realistic,’’ said
Dr. Michael Cobo.
He said both operations alter the
shape of the cornea, the clear win
dow over the front of the eye. Radial
keratotomy seeks to reduce near
sightedness with a series of inci
sions that flatten the cornea.
A lamellar transplant involves
stitching a thin slice of cornea onto
the eye to improve farsightedness or
severe nearsightedness. Dr. Gary
Foulks said he’s had good results
with the procedure since he began
using it at Duke about four years
ago.
“We’re very selective about can
didates for lamellar transplants, but
everyone’s vision has improved to
varying degrees,” he said.
He said the best results have been
in children, but “age is not an
important factor in screening pa
tients for the procedure.
“A transplant of corneal tissue is a
novel approach to the problem and
appears to hold promise for certain
cases,” Foulks said.
The slice of cornea that’s im
planted comes from a donor. It’s
freeze-dried for storage, rehydrated
when needed and must be shaped
precisely on a lathe to meet the
individual needs of a patient.
The surgery itself must be per
formed in an operating room. All of
which contributes to the expense of
the procedure.
“It takes three to six months for
one’s eyesight to recover from the
operation, which limits its useful
ness,” Foulks said. “So if you can
see well with glasses or contact
lenses, a lamellar transplant pro
bably isn’t for you.”
He said the operation carries a
risk, however slight, of scarring the
otherwise healthy cornea, which
could ultimately decrease the leveL
ofvision.
Cobo said the early results of a
five-year National Institutes of
ffe!SJth.r»tudy on radial keratotomy
indicate the procedure reduces near
sightedness in patients undergoing
the operation but cannot be gua
ranteed to eliminate the need for
glasses.
The operation involves altering
the shape of the cornea by a series of
four to 16 radial incisions of vary
ing depth. As a result, the center of
the cornea becomes flatter, causing
light to focus better on the retina.
“The one-year report on 420 pa
w * r
tients indicates the surgery is rela
tively well-tolerated, achieves the
goal of reducing myopia in all
patients and allows up to 80 per
cent of them to see well without
glasses,” he said.
Radial keratotomy usually takes
less than 30 minutes and is per
formed on an outpatient basis, Cobo
said. “Most patients can go back to
work the next day," he noted.
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