Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 16, 1990 TAG: 9003162545
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Davis, 64, was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
"The initial chemotherapy has been completed. His spirits are up and he continues to fight," said his spokeswoman Susan Reynolds.
Davis was diagnosed as having throat cancer in September and was forced to drop out of a concert tour with Liza Minnelli and Frank Sinatra so he could undergo radiation treatment.
Reynolds said no further treatments were planned. "Right now the doctors want him to concentrate on building his strength," she said.
\ Ronald Reagan wants Americans to give blood.
"I wanted to do whatever I could for the American Red Cross," the former president said after doing a public service announcement seeking donors.
In the announcement, he said: "When you give blood, you give another birthday party. Another wedding anniversary. Another day at the beach. Another walk across a field. Another night under the stars. When you give blood, you give another holiday with the family. Another drive after supper. Another talk with a friend. Another laugh. Another cry. Another hug. Another chance."
\ Debbye Turner, the current Miss America, has agreed not to sing Christian rap songs to public school children, a pageant official says.
The decision follows a complaint Feb. 12 by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in New York, said pageant director Leonard Horn.
Jeffrey Sinensky, civil rights director for the league, said that pageant officials satisfied questions his organization raised after seeing a newspaper article in Detroit about Turner's appearance at a public school.
"She delivered an overt Christian message in terms of Jesus Christ being the truth, light and way," Sinensky said.
\ C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general, has joined the advisory board of Trevor's Campaign for the Homeless in Ardmore, Pa.
The campaign is the brainchild of 11-year-old Trevor Ferrell, who in 1983 began handing out blankets to people sleeping on the streets. The program has expanded with volunteers delivering food and clothing to the homeless in 16 cities nationwide.
Koop served as surgeon in chief of Children's Hospital in Philadelphia from 1948 until 1981, when he was sworn in as surgeon general.
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