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12 The News-Review, Rotebui?, Ore. Tue..f Oct. 21, 1952 Mechanical Heart Takes Over Job For Human Organ, Easing Surgical Operation By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter DETROIT WA successful mechanical heart, to give human hearts a holiday, was announced here. For 50 minutes, the amazing little machine pumped a man's blood through his body. Rumbling like a quiet washing machine, it by-passed the left side of his heart. It detoured the blood coming from his lungs, and pulsed it back into his arteries. Empty of blood, with no work to do, the still-beating heart was opened to repair a faulty valve. The man, 41, and not identified, is alive and well today, three months after the historic opera tion July 3. Only this one human success was announced but with a bint it has worked on other persons since. In dogs, this same pump has been rigged to by-pass both sides of the heart, putting the whole heart on temporary vacation. In dogs, also, it's been combined with an artificial lung to by-pass the entire heart plus the lungs. The heart-lung machine someday may do the same for humans. Surgery Task Eased This human success marks a milestone in medicine. With me chanical hearts, the heart can be laid open for new surgery, under direct view. With part or all the heart emp tied, surgeons can better remove valves or dangerously bulging bullets or other objects, repair weak spots in heart walls, take out tumors, plug holes in the heart's dividing walls. The spare hearts might someday help save people whose own hearts stop. The human success was an nounced in the Journal of the American Medical Associatoa by Dr. F. D. Dodrill, Dr. Edward Hill and Dr. Robert A. Gcrisch of Harper Hospital here. General Mo tors engineers helped develop the mechanical heart, and are working nn thM artiririnl hint? for humans. The Research was supported by! the Michigan Heart Association. The surgeons said their patient, w . j T- U.n;iil Is definitely improved, but it i, - helped him: The sureeons opened his chest. A tube was pushed into the pul monary arter, which brings blood from the lungs. Part of the left auricle was clamped off. The machine sucked the blood from his auricle, then pumped it back through another tube insert ed into the man's aorta the great main artery coming from the ventricle. For nearly an hour no blood was going through the left side of his heart. For 14 minutes of this time, the surgeons had his heart open, op erating on the valve to make it close normally. They sewed up the heart, later disconnected ine ma chine. In full operation, the spare heart pumps 44 quarts of blood a min ute, as the adult heart does. It maintains even-pressure. It is small, only W inches long, 12 inches wide. IT high. It is a metal-encased electric motor, with rubber tubing, glass chambers, stainless steel valves, all working on the principles of the human heart. It is really two pumps, one on each side of the motor. One pump can substitute for the left side of the heart, the other pump at the same time for the right side. Tha Dumo Is primed with a half- pint of donated blood. The drug heparin is added to prevent the blood from clotting. Later another rims is eiven to offset the Heparin, The tubing valves and glass can all be easily sterilized by steam bathing. Troublesome Convict not yet fully known how much he benefited from his operation. Rheumatic fever had left him with an enlarged heart valve. It failed to close completely when the lower left chamber, the left ventricle, of his heart pumped to send blood into his arteries. Some blood coursed back up through the bad valve into the left auricle, the upper chamber which first collects blood coming from the lungs. Any exercise made him short of breath. He was seriously ill. Probst Described This is how the mechanical heart SALEM Wl Byron Neal Dyson, the state prison convict who was involved in two beat-up affairs last week, has been transferred to the Oregon State Hospital for observa tion, Deputy Warden Lawrence O'Brien said Monday Dyson, a tuberculosis patient in the prison hospital, beat up an em ploye. Then some convicts beat up Dyson, cutting a gash in his head that required 14 stitches. The transfer was ordered by the prison doctor, who said the Injuries worsened Dyson's illness. ' ROSEBURG, OREGON PHONE 3-5553 OPEN FRIDAY TILL 8 P.M. MM . 1 . . --'-''SSSSSSSSjW V fMB""- MOTOR SALE PRICES CUT LIKE-NEW MOTORS GUARANTEED LIKE NEW CAR (3 Motor completely dis mantled. Parts replaced. fj) New pistons, new piston rings and pins Installed. (5) Crankshaft tested for alignment, then reground. 0 Newmainbearings.New connecting-rod bearings, (?) Cylinders rebored, then honed to glass-like finish. (JJ Both cylinder head and block surfac.sare reground. 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' Man Begins 2nd Month In Trap On Ferry Boat HONG KONG un Michael Patrick O'Brien, the Irisb?-Amer ican?-Hungarian? who went for a ferry boat ride and can't get off, starts his second month Saturday on the Hong Kong - Macau sea borne interurban which seems des tined to become his permanent residence. Fortunately O'Brien is not af flicted with seasickness but oh, is he ever sick of the sea! He was somewhere there Fri day night in the 40 mile stretch between British Hong Kong and Portuguese Macau. And the whole diplomatic hier archy of this Asiatic corner of the world was at sea too, over what to do about O'Brien. The man called O'Brien slipped aboard the ferry Lee Hong Sept. 18 at Macau, without a ticket. Likewise without passport. The British turned up their noses at an International Red Cross card identifying O'Brien as a stateless Irishman, aged 57. They didn't question his age. Back at Macau, the Portuguese matched noses with the British and O'Brien stayed aboard the Lee Hong. He's been there ever since Macau to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Macau ... O'Brien says he's a U. S. citi zen. The U. S. consulate says he's Hungarian. . . The U. N. high commissioner for refugees in Hong Kong says there isn't a thing the United Na tions can do. While O'Brien can't prove he belongs to any country, neither can he prove that he is stateless. That lift him out of the province of the United Nations. But it doesn't lift him off the ferry boat. Kiiser-Fuz'er Loset Damage Award Appeal WASHINGTON The Kaiser- Fraier Corp. Monday was denied a Supreme Court hearing on an ap peal which sought reinstatement of a 53,120,743 damage awaiu kii Otis & Co., investment bankers. Kaiser-Fraier won the award, on a breach of contract charge, in U. S. district court in New York City. But the U.S. Circuit Court there later ordered the district court to dismiss the case. The automobile manufacturer then appealed to the highest tri bunal. Nonpareil Community Club Meeting Reported By MRS. BRITTAIN SLACK Nonpariel Community Club met Wednesday evening at the Non pareil Schoolhouse for a regular meeting with the president, Mrs. Doily Noris presiding. A general discussion was had on having a box supper and it was decided to have one on Nov. 21, to be held at the Fair Oaks Commu nity Hall. Everybody is invited to participate, Mrs. Norrls said William Riddlebarger, superin tendent of Sutherlin schools, ex plained that things needed at the school would be done as soon as possible. Entertainment for the evening was put on by the first graders and Jack Jones. At the close of the evening re freshments were served to about fifty persons by Mrs. Zelma Kings ford, foods chairman. The next regular meeting of the Nonpareil Community Club will be held at the schoolhouse on Wednesday, Nov.: 19. Wounded Fruit Grower Blames Deer Hunter HOOD RIVER I Martin Sczuba, 43, a fruit grower, was wounded near his home five miles south of here Monday and he blamed a deer hunter. Sczuba said two shots were fired as he sat on a log about 150 yards from the house. The first missed, but the second struck him in the side. . . Not seriously wounded, he ran into the woods in pursuit of the person who fired the shots, but could not find him. He then drove to the hospital here for treatment. Meteorie Iron usually contains nickel. Collegiates Find Money In Rodeo NEW YORK Wl That lonesome cowboy out on the lone prairie rid ing into the setting sun on his faithful bronco is a pretty picture but a thing of the past. Nowadays the kids out West grow up, go to college, and join the rodeo. Some of them, like liar- lev May. a gangling cowpoke from Deming, N.M., make a bundle of cash out of the trade. May, a 26-year-old graduate of Sul Ross State College, Alpine, Tex., won the steer wrestling con test in the Madison Square Garden rodeo that ended Sunday night, and along with his triumph packed up about $18,000. Which is not bad for a month's work. "This is a tough racket," he said pocketing the check. "No amount of training or practicing will make a fellow a really good rodeo man. I think it has to come naturally." Mar has participated in about 55 rodeos this year and hopes to get in a couple of more before calling it a season. During most of the Garden event, he and a couple of other top hands com muted from New York to Omaha where another rodeo was in prog ress. "That can get a fellow mighty tired," he said. "But you have to go where the big money is because you can't go on forever." Competition is tough with about 3,000 cowboys members of the Ro deo Cowboys Association, sort of a union. Last year there were 563 rodeos all over the country and the boys fought it out for $1,500,000 in prize money. Broken down, the top hands made somewhere in the neighbor hood of about $15,000 a year, while Casey Tibbs, who emerged the champion of '51, hauled down about $45,000. This year's Garden event had a prize list of $108,000. 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The mem bership drive starts on Nov. 15, with a visit from Bill Haggelstein, national director, set for Nov. 24. On Dec. 8 nominations will be heard in preparation for the Dec. 22 election of officers. On Dec. 8 nominations will be heard in preparation for the Dec. 22 election of officers. , On Dec. 23 prizes will be given for the best Christmas tree light ing display on houses and yards. The complete program follows: Oct. 25 Halloween Party 27 Umpqua Plywood vis it 31 Newollah Parade Nov. Voice of'Democracy talks Nov. 4 Election returns 8 Safety campaign 10 i Bosses Night 15 Membership drive , 24 Haggelstein visit Dec. 8 Nominations 22 Election of officers 23 Hello. Santa 23 Christman tree lighting Sentence On Cattle Theft Conviction Due BAKER im Wilbert Steele, con victed of stock theft, will be sen tenced Tuesday by Circuit Judge Forrest Hubbard. 1 Steele was accused of shooting a two-year-old heifer belonging to William Widman, butchering it on the spot and selling the hind quar ters to a restaurant. He was convicted Friday by a circuit court jury. Fred Phillips, past president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association and now a member of its policy making executive board, said that the association will prosecute ail stock theft cases to the limit. He said that Blaine Hallock, Baker attorney, has been retained by the association to prosecute cattle theft cases anywhere in the state. French Declare Pact Is Not Constitutional BORDEAUX, France OB French government hopes of securing early parliamentary ratification of the European Defesne ' Community (EDC) treaty suffered a blow Fri day night when veteran statesman Edouard Herriot emphatically de nounced the pact as conflicting with the French constitution. Herriot, president of the National Assembly and aformer premier, of the Third Republic, spoke in opposition to the treaty at a con gress of the Radical-Socialist Party. Delegates, who warmly ap plauded his speech, reelected him national president of the party. The Radical-Socialists, despite their name, are a moderate" middle road group included in Premier Antoine Pinay's coalition . govern- LARCK TROUT LANDID SAN FRANCISCO OB Thj. largest trout yet taken from San Francisco's municiapl fishing hole Lake Merced was landed . re cently after a 25-minute struggle and a broken rod by Claude H. Dickens of San Francisco. 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