European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 26, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 immunity built up Over years deadly Snake bites him and he s just sore Miami a he had a sore Throat and that ache All Over feeling but Bill Haast did t bother to go to a Hospital. He just stayed Home to shake off the effects of being bitten for the second time by one of the world s deadliest  67-year-old Ophi Logist student of snakes was struck by a banded asian Krait As he was milking venom from the Snake late wednesday at his Miami Serpent rim. An Ordinary per son bitten by a Krait must receive anti Venin within 30 minutes. Otherwise Haast says it would be 100 percent  but Haast has developed immunity from being bitten More than 130 times Over the years and from giving himself monthly injections of venom. Transfusions of his blood have been used to save 20 Snake bite victims. I had to live up to my conviction that i m immune Haast said saturday of his most recent Brush with death. If somebody else Calls for my blood i be got to stand by  Haast says traits Are the fourth deadliest Snake in the world behind the sea Snake Tiger Snake and the Tai pan Snake. Twenty four years ago the bite of a Blue Indian Krait nearly killed Haast. His respiration faltered and he spent four Days in an Iron lung but pulled through. He believes that was the first time anyone had Ever survived the bite of a Krait without receiving a Tivenin. In 1969 a Tiger Snake struck. Again Haast nearly died. When the Krait nipped him on the thumb wednesday he spurned his  Tor s Appeal to go to a Hospital choosing to wait at Home. At first he suffered Little. Then the symptoms grew More pronounced. Fri Day morning 36 hours after the bite they peaked a sore Throat and a Dull ache in the stomach like the after effect of a belly punch. His skin became super sensitive As though he d been burned All Over. He could t walk said his wife Clarita. His feet were too  but Haast discovered that this Krait bite apparently gave him Only severe pain. Though Krait venom usually kills by inducing respiratory failure Haast breathed with no trouble. I was completely immune to the lethal parts of the venom he said. It did t affect my respiration at  he was up and around saturday though still sore. He was milking the Krait venom for use by a Boca Raton physician in treat ment of Amy trophic lateral sclerosis Lou Gehrig s disease. Councilman appears . Winner Washington up eleven Days after the District of Columbia s primary exhausted election workers saturday tallied virtually All the ballots apparently giving councilman Marion Barry the democratic mayoral nomination. An unofficial count gave Barry who has been the front runner since the sept. 12 Pri Mary a 1,500-vote Lead Over his closest rival City Council chairman Sterling Tucker. Mayor Walter Washington trailed Barry by about 2,900 votes. Several dozen additional votes not enough to change the outcome of the elec Tion May be added to the total this week according to elections officials. Winning the democratic nomination is tantamount to Victory since democrats registered in the District outnumber re publicans 9-1. Of time heavy water Nadja age 4, tries but she can t lift the bottles of water older folks have bought at a supermarket in Manhattan. All residents of a densely populated 45-Square Block area surrounding Murray Hill were advised to boil their drinking and cooking water after new York City health officials found a High bacteria count in samples. Up photo sept. 26, 1948 the air Force has revealed for the first time that the Al rocket plane had flown hundreds of Miles fas Ter than the Speed of sound. Sept. 26, 1958 the lebanese army forced comparative Calm on turbulent Bei rut while the Cabinet of the new prime minister Rashid Karami met to draft its policies. Sept. 26, 1968 Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford said the government has no intention of lowering the . Troop level in Vietnam either by next june or any time in the foreseeable  Post octane ratings on pumps Etc urges Washington up the Federal Trade commission sunday proposed a Rule under which gasoline distributors and retailers to comply with a new Law would have to Post octane ratings on gasoline pumps. The Law signed by president Carter in june requires refiners to test gasoline for octane ratings. Octane is a measure of How Well gasoline will resist engine Knock. High octane gasoline Burns evenly in the combustion chamber. If gasoline has a poor octane rating it Burns unevenly Caus ing knocking that wastes Energy Lowers the effectiveness of the engine and can eventually damage the engine. The Law the Petroleum marketing practices act requires distributors to certify their octane rating to retailers who must in turn display them in a Clear and conspicuous manner otherwise unspecified at the Point of Sale. The posting requirements go into effect next april 1. The Law also requires the Etc to Issue a Rule under which automobile manufacturers Domestic and foreign alike will have to let Consumers know what the octane requirements of new cars Are. The Agency said it would do that at a later Date. Barry appeared to have the nomination clinched thursday but shortly after he claimed Victory the . Board of elections and ethics announced that 7,000 additional ballots that a computer had failed to count because voters filled them out with the wrong Type of pen or Pencil had been discovered. An unofficial count showed Barry 32,708 Tucker 31,208 and Washington 29,807. Still in question Are a Small number of ballots that were sealed in a vault for counting monday and 59 ballots where there May be a possibility of voter fraud according to Shari Kharasch chairman of the elections Board. Although elections officials have said the results of the election will be certified wednesday Kharasch said we will certify Only when we Are convinced we have a Complete and accurate  Barry who will face Republican Arthur Fletcher in the november election has said he will not reappoint Kharasch if he is elected. Although the counting is nearly Over problems stemming from the primary May linger. Tucker has said he will go to court to try to Force a new election. I believe the people of this City deserve an honest election run by somebody whom count he said. Ship takes a Bow a 97-ton upper Bow Section is fitted onto the Container ship Argonaut at Bath Maine. The 26,500-ton vessel being built by the Bath Iron works corp. Is the first of two ships under construction for far Rell lines of new York City. Up