The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 29, 1984 - Page 3 25th annual art fair draws to a By ERIC MATTSON Artists, merchants, patrons, and in- terest groups all wrapped up their four- day binge at the art fair yesterday, and most people said the annual event was quite a success. Cold, rainy weather on Thursday slowed business down a bit, but some merchants and artists said they ac- tually did better during the rain. By yesteday, the skies had cleared up enough to allow many of the nearly half a million visitors to shop and people watch to their hearts content. "OVERALL, IT'S been very good," said Jack Elford of Crown Books on State Street. "I think there's more (pedestrian) traffic (than last year)," he said. Elford said the art fair makes or breaks a lot of merchants' summers because most students head home in April. "If it weren't for the kids, this place would be dead," he said. Bill Kenney, owner of The Shoe Palace and an organizer of the State Street art fair, said some storeowners have discussed extending the fair to five days but "most merchants have been working 15 hours a day and they're running out of gas." MANY OF the interest groups represented on the corner of East University and South University were also successful at the fair. Al, a mem- ber of the Revolutionary Communist Party, said this was the "best year we've ever had" at the fair because of "more stuff happening in the world." Lori Brown, a member of NOW, said "it seems things are going great. She said that people who disagree with NOW's platform would often discuss their differences with her, but "no one's been really hostile." NOW member Shannon Gillespie close agreed, saying "at the art fair, people aren't overtly hostile." Gillespie also said she thinks the booth was suc- cessful, noting that "just about all our literature is gone." see 25TH, Page 4 Street fool knows how to draw an audience By DOV COHEN Within minutes after comedian- juggler-"street fool" Scotty Houghton had started his show, his small 12- person audience burgeoned into a laughing, cheering, tightly-packed crowd of 100. "It's getting those first dozen people that's the key. It's likd people passing by say 'no one's watching him, he's no good.' But if there's a crowd watching you, people think 'wow - he's good,' Houghton said. AND FRIDAY'S performances on the Diag proved that theory. Just two hours earlier, he had tired to get attention by offering to set himself on fire or sacrifice a virgin. His attempt was un- successful - in his own words, he "couldn't draw a crowd with a pencil." But 120 minutes later Houghton was packing them in. It started slowly. He drew about five people with a nose See PERFORMER, Page 4 Top brass t"'V'. Joe DeMarsh keeps the bass line on his tuba on the corner of State and North University Streets yesterday. DeMarsh is part of "Today's Brass Quintet." a group composed of University music school graduates. U hospital releases girl with new heart By GEORGEA KOVANIS Doctors at the University's C.S. Mott Childrens' Hospital sent two-year-old Jonita Greer - the nation's youngest heart transplant recipient - home Friday, five weeks after her historic operation. Dressed in a pink jogging suit, with a surgical mask over her face to prevent infection, Greer was carried out of the hospital at about 1 p.m. by her parents, Diane and John Greer. The girl waved to photographers as she left. THE HOSPITAL had withheld the Detroit family's identity until the release. Greer suffered from cardiomyopathy - a progressive disease that deprives the heart of its ability to beat. She un- derwent surgery on June 20. According to doctors, Greer probably would not have lived more than six months if she had not undergone the surgery. "We did not anticipate her living very long," Dr. Dennis Crowley, Greer's cardiologist, said Friday at a press con- ference which followed her release. Before the operation, Greer had grown so weak that by May she was unable to walk. She began walking again this month. "JONITA HAS been in one hospital or another most of the time since last Thanksgiving, and when she came to the University Hospitals in June, I didn't think she'd live more than five or so days if she couldn't receive a new heart," said Diane Greer ina statement released Friday by the hospital. Doctors said they were pleased with the operation's results. "It's very successful as far as we're concerned," Crowly said. He added, however, that the risk of rejection and infection is something which will always concern doctors. "There's not going to be an age when we can just turn her loose," he said. "I don't think we'll ever feel she's quite out of the woods." ACCORDING TO chief transplant surgeon Dr. Douglas Behrendt, the operation will probably cost a total of $80,000 to $100,000. Throughout Jonita's stay at the hospital, doctors and nurses said they were surprised at Greer's recovergy. SHE MAINTAINED a strong appetite and gained weight following the surgery. In fact, according to hospital spokesman, John Woodford, doctors had to reduce the amount of ice cream Greer was eating for fear she would gain too much weight too soon before she could exercise. "She really didn't require any dif- ferent post operative care," said Stacey Galgola, Greer's primary nurse. "She CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA /Doily Two-year-old Jonita Greer peers out of her parents' car after her release from the University's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Friday. She underwent a heart transplant operation June 20. wa a delight to take care of," she said. best of her. "That girl has always had a "Sh alayswavd a pepleasthy lot of will power," he said in the "Se awstt wavdatwsy statement released by the hospital. went past the windows." "Even when her heart was failing and According to John Greer, Jonita was she could hardly walk, you couldn't too stubborn to let her disease get the keep her from trying," he said.