The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 107, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1956 Page: 3 of 20
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THE LITTLE WOMAN
THURSDAY. MAY 3. 1956
Foster Parents Make Desperate
Appeal To Retain 4-Year-Old Son
PROVIDENCE, R. I. (AP) -
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sklaboff
have made a desperate appeal to
Justice Felix Frankfurter of the
U.S. Supreme Court,
They want him to stay a court
order that would require them to
return a 4-ytar.old boy they’ve
raised from infancy to his natural
pareqts by Saturday.
The Rhode Island Supreme
Court ordered the transfer. Imme-
diately afterward, the Sklaroffs
attorney filed the appeal to Frank-
furter in Washington. It’s the
latest move in a 30-month custody
battle.
The younfster has been living
with the Sklaroffs since he was
3 days old. His natural parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Skeadas, are
Catholic and the Sklaroffs Jewish,
but the religious differenee is not
an issue in the case.
Yesterday, for the first time,
little Freddie saw his natural par-
ents, as he sat with his foster
parents in the courtroom. For the
Skeadases the sight of the boy
undoubtedly brought back memo-
ries of the night when Freddie
was exchanged between automo-
biles parked on a Lynn street—
the last time they saw him until
yesterday.'
Two years after that transfer,
the Sklaroffs sought in Juvenile
Court to adopt him. But Mrs.
Skeadas, who was unmarried at
the time of the birth but later
married Skeadas, who claims to
■TARTS LONG RIVER TRIP
ARTHUR CITY, Tex. (AP)—
Cowboy Roy Rodgers and his Red
River flotilla of four boats moored
here last night on their 930-mile
trip to New Orleans. Rodgers and
R. A. McDerby, Denison boat
builder, are heading the party
which left Denison yesterday.
They traveled 93 miles the first
day.
be the father, fought the adoption.
The court ruled that she b«d not
given her consent. <•—
Back in the courts again, Su-
perior Court granted the adoption
petition, only to have the State
Supreme Court overturn the deci-
sion and deny the adoption.
When the Sklaroffs failed to
give up the child, the Skeadases
brought the latest court action two
weeks ago.
Bill Holdtn't Movie Mustocha
To la Auctioned for Charity
HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Actor
William Holden has donated his
mustache—his first—to charity.
The^adomment, grown for a
movie role and saved by a studio
barber, has been reassembled on
a rubber lip by a makeup man.
The Atlanta Journal and Atlahta
Constitution, in conjunction with
the Atlanta Variety Club, will auc-
tion it May 1J at a cerebral palsy
benefit HpJden'a studio an-
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By GARTH JONES
The Associated Press
Remember the family doctor
.who sat at the kitchen table years
ago mixing his own prescription
powders and adding a pinch of
horse sense here and there just
to be sure Sister got over scarlet
fever?
That’s the story Dr. William
Crosthwait tells in “The Last
Stitch,” just published about his
life as a Texas country doctor.
At 83, Dr. Crosthwait is still a
practicing physician and surgeon
m Waco—not quite ready to take
that “last stitch.
"It is said ‘Youth must be
sarved.’ Why’ Isn’t there enough
to go around’’”
That’s Doc Crosthwaifs attitude
toward six decades of doctoring
that took him from kitchen-table
surgery in remote Central Texas
communities to Jiigh-powered in-
ternational medical conferences.
"When I hear people talk about
the ‘good old days’ I wonder just
what they mean. I’ll take today,”
says Doc, who at 68 tried to volun-
teer for war combat service. “In
my own case, I consider my most
fruitful years from age 68 to 78.”
Helping Dr. Crosthwait tell this
story of a remarkable medical
career is a skilled handler of words
himself — Ernest Fischer, Asso-
ciated Press man in New Orleans
and former European correspond-
ent.
“The Last Stitch” is the result
of a lifelong collaboration—liter-
ally. Dr. Crosthwait was the
obstetrician when Fisher arrived
“‘a-screamin’ and a-kickin’.”
Of his entire career, Dr. Crosth-
wait says he remembers most
vividly a tumor operation he per-
formed at a Texas ranch house
soon after beginning practice at
Holland, Tex. in 1898. Outside
most of the community gathered
under a big cottonwood tree.
“One of the toughies, I noticed,
had a lariat and was twirling it
around rather playfully. I heard
him say ‘if anything happens to
Aunt Bess, Doc done took his last
stitch’.”
The operation was a success and
as payment for the surgery Dr.
Crosthwait took a buggy horse and
the lariat the cowboy had been
twirling.
Dr. Crosthwait was placed in
charge of a relief train to Galves-
ton after the 1900 hurricane. Viv-
idly the physician describes the
wreckage, the looting, the burial
crews, and most of all the lack
of organization. Later he com-
pares the Galveston hurricane in
1000 with the Waco tornado in
1953.
“In the Galveston hurricane I
am sure that many persons trap-
ped under debris died many hours
later without hope of rescue. Res-
cue was rare, and relief was slow
in reaching the island, the facili-
ties for taking care of the injured
were limited. In Waco the hospi-
tals very easily absorbed all those
who needed hospital care. Mod-
ern drugs and technique saved
many lives.”
Throughout the book Dr. Crosth-
wait recounts a full life. His son,
Robert, completed medical school
and joined him in medical prac-
tice in Waco. A grandson, also
Robert, is now a freshman medi-
cal student at Baylor.
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 107, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1956, newspaper, May 3, 1956; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561667/m1/3/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.