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Saturday, June 06, 1998     Page: 5A

WILKES-BARRE- A judge’s order Friday kept Dr. Arnold Feder out of prison
and directed him to undergo mental health treatment at a local hospital.
   
Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Thomas F. Burke modified the
10-day prison sentence he imposed Thursday after finding Feder violated a
protection from abuse order taken out against him.
    Feder, 52, a podiatrist from Dallas, was to report to the Luzerne County
Correctional Facility on Friday. Instead he will report to First Hospital
Wyoming Valley in Wilkes-Barre.
   
According to testimony at the violation hearing before Burke on Thursday, a
former girlfriend of Feder’s said he made a threatening phone call to her last
month.
   
Gwendolyn Wilkins took out the PFA against Feder earlier this year.
   
She had dated Feder from January to March of this year and broke o