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Nov. 11, 2008 Zanesville Times Recorder: Cass W. Christy, 18 Elmer L. Carpenter, 85 NAPPERVILLE, Ill. Cass W.

Christy, 18, of Aurora, died Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Jan. 18, 1990, in Southfield, Cass was a 2008 graduate of Waubonsie Valley High School, Aurora, Ill. He loved the outdoors, especially camping being with his friends.

He is survived by his parents, Bill and Renee Christy; and sister, Danielle Christy all of Aurora; maternal grandmother, Norma Jardine of Zanesville; and maternal grandfather, James Robert Jardine of Columbus; paternal grandparents, Richard and Doris Christy of Medina; two aunts, Denise (Jody) Baker and Amy (James) Wilson, all of Zanesville; and five cousins. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, at the Grace Community Christian Church, 2770 Montgomery Road, Aurora, Ill. Interment private.

Calling hours will be 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Home, 24021 W. Royal Worlington Drive, (Route 59), Naperville, Ill. Memorials in Cass' name may be made to the church.

Info 630- 922-9630. www.beidelmankunschfh.com. James E. 74 WHITE COTTAGE Funeral services for James E. Powell will be held at 11 a.m.

today, Nov. 11, 2008. at the William Thompson Son Funeral Home, 5765 Gladstone Drive, White Cottage. William Thompson Son Funeral Home Eleanor Titko ZANESVILLE Calling hours for Eleanor Titko will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today, Nov.

11, 2008, at the Bolin-Dierkes Funeral Home, 1271 Blue Ave. www.bolin-dierkesfuneralhome.com. SOLI Horse DIERKES NEW CONCORD Elmer L. Carpenter, 85, of Yoker Road, Cumberland, formerly of Urban Hill Road, Zanesville, died at 7 a.m. Monday, Nov.

10, 2008, at Beckett House, New Concord. Born Oct. 1, 1923, in Guernsey County, he was a son of the late, Otis and Viola Catlett Carpenter. He was a retired employee of Ohio Ferro Alloy, Philo and an avid farmer. An Army veteran of World War II, he was also a member of the VFW of Buffalo and a former 4-H adviser for the Ridge Runners 4-H Club.

He is survived by a daughter, Sandra (Arthur) Herron of Cumberland; a daughter-in-law, Cheryl Carpenter of Zanesville; and a son, Bob (Diane) Carpenter of Adamsville; 10 grandchildren; and eight He was preceded in death by his wife, Ada Reva Lautzenheiser Carpenter, who passed away Jan. 20, 1995; a son, James "Bill" Carpenter, who died Nov. 13, 2003; and his siblings, William Carpenter, May McCone, Nellie Calihan, James Carpenter and Flora "Boots" Lisak. Calling hours will be 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.

12, at the Mock-Miller Funeral Home, 63 W. Main New Concord. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, at the funeral home with Pastor Jim Gibson officiating.

Burial will be in St. Paul Cemetery, Perry Township. Mary L. Mayle, 51 CHESTERHILL Mary L. Mayle, 51, of Chesterhill, passed away at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital. Stone-Matheney Funeral Home, Chesterhill, is handling arrangements. Rocco Dibari, 84 NEW LEXINGTON Rocco Dibari, 84, of Lancaster, formerly of New Lexington, passed away at Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster. Chute-Wiley Funeral Home, New Lexington, is handling arrangements.

Local forecast Today Wednesday Thursday Friday High: 45 High: 52 High: 55 High: 60 Low: 32 Low: 42 Low: 45 Low: 42 Details Veterans in the lower 40s. Southeast sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance South winds around 5 mph.

of rain 70 percent. Tuesday likely. cloudy. Lows in the lower Highs in the mid 50s. 30s.

Southeast winds around Chance of rain 70 percent. 5 mph. Thursday A with a 50 percent chance of chance of rain showers in showers. Lows in the mid the afternoon. Highs in the 40s.

lower 50s. Southeast winds Friday and Friday 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain likely. Highs 50 percent. around 60.

Lows in the lower Wednesday 40s. Chance of rain 70 likely. Lows cent. Local almanac Source: Precipitation Temperatures Yesterday High yesterday 34 Month to date 0.73 Low yesterday 32 Normal 0.38 Normal high 46 Temperature extremes Normal low 34 Yesterday's highs and lows Sunrise: 7:12 a.m. 85 at Pembroke Pines, Fla.

2 at Sunset: 5:11 p.m. Bismarck, N.D. Dr. George T. Practice has moved to Muskingum Valley Health Centers 716 Adair Ave, Zanesville In addition to serving existing patients, MVHC primary care patients will also be accepted Accepting All Insurances 0000352837 740-891-9006 Harold D.

Saffell, 89 NEW LEXINGTON Harold D. Saffell, 89, New Lexington, passed away Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, at Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster. Born Aug. 24, 1919, in Rehoboth, he was the son of Ray B.

and Mary Kochensparger Saffell. For many years, Harold and his wife, Margaret Saffell, owned and operated Lambs Dry Cleaners Carwash in New Lexington. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and BPOE 509, New Lexington and an Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are his sister, Rosalie (Dick) Whittington of Montgomery, his son, Larry Saffell; and wife, Susan of Thornville; daughter, Susan Chrislip and husband Mark of Brandon, four grandsons, Travis wife Sonya and three children, Blake, Zachary and Margaret of Somerset; Jeremy Chrislip, wife Clancy and two daughters, Sydney and Meredith of Columbia, S.C.; Bryan Chrislip, wife Laura and two daughters, Macy and Allie of West Monroe, and Troy Saffell, wife Jennifer and two children, Adam and Nora of New Lexington. He was preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Marjorie; his wife of 40 years, Margaret Teal Saffell; and second wife, Verneda Blosser Saffell.

Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Roberts Funeral Home, 304 Mill New Lexington, where BPOE 509 services will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. and a wake service at 8 p.m. by Father James Csaszar.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Joel Harbarger officiating. Burial will follow in New Lexington Cemetery in New Lexington.

Donations may be made to St. Rose School, 119 W. Water New Lexington, in memory of Harold Saffell. Nettie Juanita Hayes, 77 ZANESVILLE Nettie Juanita Hayes, 77, of Zanesville, died at 3:38 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

9, 2008, at the Autumn Healthcare of Zanesville. She was born March 18, 1931, in Zanesville, the daughter of Pearl and Cora Lowry Hawkins. Nettie was a homemaker and is survived by one sister, Mrs. Pat (Edward) Oiler of Mansfield; many nieces and nephews, including Suzann Batross and Cheryl Wentworth. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Denzil E.

Hayes, who died June 8, 1987; two sisters, Gladys Brown and Ethel Hanifan; and two brothers, Harold E. Leonard Hawkins. At Nettie's request, no calling hours or funeral services will be held. Burial will follow in Duncan Falls Cemetery at a later date. Arrangements are being handled by Hillis Hardwick Funeral Home, 935 Forest Ave.

Hillis 44) FUNERAL Hardwick HOME Mildred E. Lucas ROSEVILLE Calling hours for Mildred E. Lucas will begin at 1:30 p.m. with a memorial service at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

16, 2008, at the St. Pauls United Methodist Church. www.snoufferfuneralhome.com. 0 Baseral Snouffer Betty R. Luman ZANESVILLE Calling hours for Betty R.

Luman will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today, Nov. 11, and Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, at The Snouffer Funeral Home. www.snoufferfuneralhome.com.

N. Funeral Snouffer CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE November 15th 16th (740) 0293 TIMBER RUN GARDENS 0000354100 Rerouting urinary nerves to help spina bifida By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON -It's a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure and early results suggest the surgery indeed may help, in at least some patients. With the technique, pioneered in China, the kids are supposed to scratch or pinch their thigh to signal the bladder to empty every few hours. But surprisingly, some youngsters instead are starting to feel those need-to-go sensations that their birth defect had always prevented.

"It feels like this little chill kind of thing in me," marvels 9-year-old Billy Kraser of Scranton, Pa. "When he goes in there and he's dry and he's clean, it's such a triumph," adds his mother, Janice Kraser. "I'll hear him going, 'Yesss!" The U.S. pilot study consists of just nine spina bifida patients and still is tracking how they fare no one is finished healing yet. But already desperate families are lining up for a chance at this nerve rerouting, even as William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, is trying to raise money to expand the study and provide better evidence.

"If it works, it'll be a huge improvement in the management of patients with spina bifida," says Dr. Kenneth Peters, Beaumont's urology chairman, who has a waiting list of nearly 100 would-be patients. But, "it's imperative that we prove whether this works or not" before accepting all-comers, he stresses. "I have many patients who would pay cash and have it done. I I I I I I I I I refuse to do that." Spina bifida occurs when the spinal column fails to close properly.

It's a birth defect that affects about 1,300 babies a year, with varying degrees of 1 leg paralysis and other problems. Because bladder and bowel function depend on nerve messages zipping to and from the brain via the spinal cord, most spina bifida patients have trouble. Some are totally incontinent, some partially. Others have the opposite problem and must empty the bladder with catheters every few hours, leaving them vulnerable to urinary tract infections and lifethreatening kidney damage. James Earl Allen NEW LEXINGTON Graveside funeral services for James Earl Allen will be held at 11 a.m.

today, Nov. 11, 2008, in New Lexington Cemetery. Roberts Funeral Home, New Lexington is in charge of arrangements. Naomi C. Butcher, 76 CALDWELL Naomi C.

Butcher, 76, of Caldwell, passed away Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, at her home. Chandler Funeral Home Chapel, Caldwell, is handling arrangements. www.ChandlerFuneralHome.net. Charles A.

Lorentz, 45 ZANESVILLE Charles A. Lorentz, 45, of Zanesville, passed away at 11:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7, 2008, at his home. Born Nov.

6, 1963, in Zanesville, he retired from the U.S. Army. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Collins Lorentz of Zanesville; his mother, Linda Lorentz of Zanesville; a son, Charles Jr. of Roseville; two stepsons, Danny Samson of Columbus and Jeffrey Griffin of Zanesville; a stepdaughter, Sara Atwood of Chillicothe; two sisters, Melissa Lorentz of Newark and Elizabeth Glosser of South Zanesville; and a stepgrandson, Jordan Atwood. He was preceded in death by his father, Harry Lorentz.

No calling hours will be observed. Services will be announced at a later date. DeLong-Baker Lanning Funeral Home is in charge of GIO Newton American Legion Post 726 6540 Old Town Rd. East 849-0232 Fultonham, OH 000035394 Janice Kraser sits next to her Scranton, home at his computer Kraser has spina bifida and has reroutes his nerves in attempt to attain There are few good treatments. Enter Dr.

Chuan-Gao Xiao of China's Hauzhong University of Science and Technology. The U.S.trained surgeon developed a way to bypass the brain: Cut open a spot on the lower spine and sew two normally unrelated nerves together -a lumbar nerve that acts in the thigh to a sacral nerve that would normally squeeze the bladder. If they fuse well, then scratching the thigh can send a signal directly to the bladder side of the new nerve bridge, Xiao's early research found. More than 1,000 patients in China are thought to have undergone the procedure; Xiao has reported results on only a fraction in respected urology journals. Beaumont's Peters traveled to China to learn Xiao's technique and began the pilot study thanks to a private donor who financed the surgery.

His nine spina bifida patients- plus an additional three adults with spinal cord injuries emerged from surgery to anxiety: It can take months for the nerves to heal, even longer in the adults who are still waiting. But a year later, seven spina bifida patients had their bladders contract as they scratched a leg. All those who'd needed medication for overactive bladders have quit the drugs. Some who had always needed catheters, like Billy Kraser, are starting to urinate on their own. Fecal continence is improving, too.

One patient so far is what Peters calls a home run, a 14-year-old girl who no longer suffers embarrassing leaks or needs catheters. AP Photo nine-year-old son Billy Kraser at their where his does his school work. I Billy undergone an experimental surgery which normal bladder and bowel function. The main side effect: Some leg weakness after surgery, enough to put Billy in a wheelchair for a month until he could navigate his usual lower-leg braces again. Another patient developed what appears to be a permanent dragging foot.

A standing-room-only crowd packed a recent meeting of the American Urological Association to hear Beaumont's early results. "The promise is great," says Dr. Kenneth Glassberg, a pediatric urologist at New York's Columbia University Medical Center who has long known Xiao and operated with him in China. Glassberg, too, is getting surgery requests from U.S. families but stresses that it's not yet clear how many patients would even be candidates, depending at the very least on where the spinal column is damaged.

The Spina Bifida Association is bringing Xiao to Florida in March to address an international meeting of about 500 doctors involved in spina bifida care but also cautions families to await the research, particularly on the procedure's safety. Back in Pennsylvania, Janice Kraser laments the lack of research funding, saying finding a good treatment would more than pay for itself if patients avoid expensive kidney damage. She's a nurse who home-schools Billy he can't be catheterized at schools his siblings attend while working nights and weekends in part to raise the thousands of dollars the family has spent traveling to Beaumont for follow-up testing. RECORD Muskingum County Court Perry County Court Judge Jay Vinsel Judge Dean Wilson Oct. 31 Oct.

31 Oma Lee, 41, 11155 Thurman Talbert, 48, Claysville Road, Corning, domestic violence, Chandlersville, operating a $150 and costs, 60 days jail, vehicle under the influence, 57 days suspended. marked lanes, speeding $150 and costs, six days jail, Nov. 4 three-day program in lieu of Sean Helber, 23, Junction three jail days, 180-day license City, hit skip, fail to control, suspension, no criminal con- $350 and costs, 60 days jail, victions or first-degree misde- 57 days suspended, six-month meanor traffic offenses for five license suspension from Nov. years. 4.

Keith Evans, 43, 5050 Amanda Love, 26, Darlington Road, obstructing Crooksville, driving under susofficial business, $250 and pension, $250 and costs, 30 costs, 10 days i jail, no criminal days jail, 29 days suspended, convictions or first-degree mis- license suspended until Jan. 1. demeanor traffic offenses for James Shonk, 47, five years. Crooksville, speeding 55, possession of marijuana, $175 Nov. 3 and costs, six-month license Robert Schultz I1, 26, 1021 suspension from Nov.

5. E. Main theft, $250 and costs, fine and costs paid by Nov. 6 Jan. 15, no criminal convic- Joshua Boyd, 26, tions or first-degree misde- Columbus, no safety class, meanor traffic offenses for five $250 and costs, 30 days jail years.

suspended. John Wyatt, 45, 10500 Township Road 258, Crooksville, operating a vehicle under the influence, U-turn, $425 and costs, fine and costs paid by Feb. 12, 10 days jail, 180-day license suspension, no criminal convictions or firstdegree misdemeanor traffic offenses for five years. Daniel Six 26, 4525 Brandeberry Road, Malta, operating a vehicle under the influence, speeding 55, $550 and costs, 20 days jail, one-year license suspension, no criminal convictions or firstdegree misdemeanor traffic offenses for five years. Gregory Wheeler, 50, Vine Coshocton, operating a vehicle under the influence, fail to control, $575 and costs, 120 days jail, one-year license suspension, counseling, 'no criminal convictions or firstdegree misdemeanor traffic offenses for five years.

Troy Tatman, 33, 895 E. Mulberry Lancaster, passing bad checks, $100 and costs, no criminal convictions or first misdemeanor traffic offenses for five years. Nov. 5 Nov. 6 Jason Williams, 32, 4199 Mainsville Road South, Junction City, theft, $400 and costs, no criminal convictions for five years.

Flisha Carroll, 25, Columbus, theft, $150 and costs, 30 days jail, 27 days suspended. Adam Henderson, 20, Columbus, operating a vehicle under the influence, $375 and costs, 30 days jail, 27 days suspended. Shane Hizey, 34, Thornville, operating a vehicle under the influence, driving under drunk driving suspension, open container, $1,650 and costs, 180 days jail with 140 days suspended on the drunk driving and driving under suspension charges, three-year license suspension from Oct. 27. Michael Kennedy, 24, Crooksville, driving under suspension, speeding 55, and costs, 30 days jail suspended.

Randy Kress, 30, Thornville, driving under suspension, $250 and costs, 180 days jail, 165 days suspended. Robert Meachem 18, Zanesville, no license, fail to control, $800 and costs, 90 days jail, $500 and jail suspended. Elizabeth Musser, 38, New Lexington, two counts each no insurance and fail to display, $500 and costs, 60 days jail, 58 days suspended. Lloyd Thompson Ill, 31, Hebron, disregarding safety, $250 and costs, 30 days jail, 27 days suspended..