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Schenck v. Knight
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under the care of the Arkansas Crippled Children Clinic. She just had an eye operation, and it was very successful at the the Children's Hospital. She doesn't have to wear glasses any more. And she's seen at the University of Arkansas Medical Center besides the Arkansas Crippled Children's Clinic.

Q. And Eddie, was it yesterday that you took Eddie to the neurologist?

A. No, that was the day before. We called yesterday morning since the man who gives the EEG was unable to administer it. The Neurology Clinic said they'd have to wait till they get the result of this before they could actually give, you know, any definite answer on Eddie. That they needed the EEG, and I was promised that as soon as the man came back that they would get it as soon as possible."

On cross-examination Mrs. Brown testified that she was pregnant with Donna Marie when she was divorced from Pressley and married Schenck. She said she had been married to Presley for a period of two years when he got in jail and she obtained a divorce. She said she had been receiving food stamps from the Welfare Department when she and her children were living in a trailer furnished by her parents, but that she only started receiving cash payments from the Welfare Department in 1971. She said that her husband, Joe Brown, was hospitalized for serious injuries he sustained in a fight; that she is now separated from Brown and will obtain a divorce as soon as she can afford one. She said that since receiving cash money together with food stamps she has rented a nicer trailer in a better environment than the one furnished by her parents. She said it is her understanding that the money she receives from the Welfare Department is based on the number of dependents and that her cash payments now amount to $116 per month. She said she was paying $100 a month for rent on the trailer; that her child with cerebral palsy is in a special school and is required to take phenabarbital and tridione daily. She said her son Eddie has been placed on phenabarbital therapy and was given a three month supply of the medicine until it is thoroughly determined that it is what he needs for