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Burn jd Biloxi Youngster Reported Getting Better
GALVESTON—The Robert Stein famUy felt thankful as they looked around them at the destruction left by Hurricane Camille. Their home was intact, one of only three houses untouched in their neighborhood in storm-ravaged Biloxi.
Then, as Mr. Stein, a sales executive with WLOX television station, and his 12-year-old son, Jeff, attempted to load lanterns to lighten‘a house darkened by power failure throughout the area, tragedy struck. Fire suddenly engulfed the area and the father and son were forced into; a small enclosure which housed the laundry appliances.
After the flash of fire receded, Mr. Stein called for his wifei to get Jeff to a hospital. She' put him in the car and left im-, .mediately, unaware that her i husband was also badly burned. This was the beginning of long days and nights of anxiety for the mother of ten youngsters.
After rushing Jeff to a hospital in Biloxi, she learned that the power there had failed also, j and because of the seriousness: of his burns and his need to be isolated, he was transferred to Ocean Springs Hospital.
His physician, Dr. L. E. Cowsert, recommended that he be transferred to the Shriners Burns Institute in Galveston. At bums hospital, one of only three such specialized falilities in the United States, Jeff could receive the therapy and rehabilitation procedures necessary.
Charles H. Mitchell, of Biloxi, an area Shriner, sponsored young Stein, and he was flown to Galveston, along with his mother. Physicians at the institute assured Mrs. Stein that Jeff’s prognosis was good, but for days she anxiously awaited word of her husband’s condition.
This week there was a happy reunion when Mr. Stein left the Mississippi hospital and flew to Galveston to be re-united with his wife and son.
Jeff, an outdoorsman who made his first deer hunt last
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year, is planning a hunt with his father when the season opens in December. He is enthusiastic about rejoining his twin sister, Jayne, and his eight other brothers and sisters.
His doctors are optimistic about his recovery, hoping that he’ll be able to leave the hospital in several weeks.
Mrs. Stein’s gratefulness was evidenced this week in her sparkling brown eyes as she praised the staff at the institute for their help during her stay in Galveston. “Everyone has just been wonderful,” she said. “My husband and I can’t say enough nice things about the personnel and facilities at this great hospital.”
As for hurricanes, the Steins, long-time Biloxi residents, have definite opinions about future storms. “This one came too close for comfort,” Mr. Stein commented. “I don’t think we’ll sit out anymore.”
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Jeff Stein, 12, who was burned in a gasoline latern fire in Biloxi after the hurricane, is shown in his bed at Shriners Burns Institute, Galveston, Tex. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stein, are shown with him. Doctors are optimistic about Jeff’s recovery.