Plastic Buttons
Plug Holes in j
Young Hearts
Br ALTON L. BLAXESLEE
DENVER iJD PlaxtiC buttons
re plugging up dangerqus holes
inside children's hearts, surgeon
announced Tuesday. -i
Four children are well and ap
parently improved with their but-toned-up
hearts. Dr. Henry Swan,
University of Colorado Medical
school, told the American Medical
Association.
All were born with a hole in the
septum, the inner wall separating
the two upper chambers of the
heart. Blood could gush back and
forth making the heart work hard
er. All faced danger of death from
heart failure.
The plastic button is sewed up
against the hole. In a few weeks,
smooth tissue grows over the but
ton. In some youngsters, the button
didn't close the ho' - completely but
blocked it enough to bring improve
ment, Dr. Swan said. A fifth child,
whose heart already was failing,
died a few days after the new
operation.
Neat sewing puts the button in
place.
Both sides of the chest are open
ed. The surgeon thrusts his finger
inside the heart through an incision
on the right side.
The eye end of the needle is
pushed in from the left side of the
heart, through the septum and out
the right side
The two ends of silk thread at
tached to the button then are
pulled through the heart, with the
surgeon guiding the needle with
his finger. The threads are pulled
right from, the left side of the
heart.
The button slips through the in
cision on the right side and plugs
the hole in the septum. The heart
keeps pumping all the time.
A second new operation, quick
and delicate, has removed shell
fragments lodged in the hearts of
two Korean war veterans, Dr.
Swan reported.
The blood flow through the heart
is shut off by clamps, while the
surgeon opens the heart to see and
remove the metal. The surgeon has
only one and one-half minutes for
this work for the blood flow can't
be shut off safely any longer than
that.
It might be shut off longer by
chilling the patient's body to slow
blood flow as in animal hiberna
tion, Dr. Swan said.
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In Air Raids
WASHINGTON Uf The White
House announced Tuesday a way
has been found to keep standard
radio stations operating in any fu
ture air raids without providing di
rectional signals for the enemy.
The plan will not only insure
mass communication with the pub
lic in an emergency, the White
House said, but it will also serve
to fill the air with a checkerboard
of beams to confuse enemy bomb
ers. In World War II Ae policy called
for radio silence in event of an
air raid or the threat of such an
attack.
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The new system will go into ef
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2,500 standard radio stations in
the country participating.
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worked out by the Air Force, Civil
Defense, the Federal Communica
tions Commission and the broad
casting industry r
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Baker Files
Suit Against
School District
BAKER IB The city of Baker
Tuesday filed suit against the
Baker School District, asking $5,000
for. two sewer connections and
$1,050 in attorney fees.
The dispute has been going on
ftr three years, with the school
board claiming it does not have
to help pay for the sewer system,
Besides the suit against the
school district, the City Attorney
said about $20,000 worth of suits
are to be . filed, against private
property "owners who have failed
to pay sewer assessments. He said
the firm that extended the sewer
system can't be paid until collec
tions are made.
The school district was sued two
weeks ago by Contractor James
Lundgren of Vancouver, Wash, He
asked payment of 1387,610 in con
nection with building a school. The
board said it held up payments
until the building is properly
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