European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 1981 doctors approve mechanical heart Anthracite demand expected to quadruple of Coal stoves and Affer 3 bulletins return to times Square Lime in Federal restrictions planned on police radar a wac by the associated press Federal officials Are moving to impose Stilt restrictions on the radar equipment used widely to clock and ticket speeding Drivers on the nations highways they Hope that those along with better officer will head off More court challenges to radars reliability according to Ronald Engle of the National Highway traffic safety adminis some tickets should not have been issued because of faulty radar readings More than radar units clock speeders on the nations but the use of radar has come under fire in some including Dade where a judge in 1979 said police radar was Unrein new an appeals court last summer ruled the k55 radar gun completely reliable As a Speed measuring de vice if properly operated by an individual trained in its confiscated pot eyed As source of Power japanese firm will recall snowmobiles a Washington a Kawasaki motors of Japan will spend an Esti mated million to million to recall about snowmobiles and will pay a penalty to Settle a Case brought by the consumer product safey the 1978 and 1979 Model snowmobiles involved in the recall have been implicated n about 20 the commission said Kawasaki penalty is for failing to report a hazardous in a second the safety Agency said the Marriott agreed to pay to Settle a similar charge in connection with rides at amusement Parks in Santa and at least a dozen collisions of roller coaster cars at those Parks have caused a sub Stantial number of injuries and the death of a 14yearold the commission barring of women by Jaycees ruled illegal in Stem Salt Lake City up a doctors review committee at the University of Utah tuesday approved the implantation of a mechanical heart in a human the device has already been successfully tested in animals and human Ernst chairman of the University review Board for research with human told a news conference the 13member committee had agreed to allow human testing of a polyurethane heart which has kept a calf alive for a re Cor setting 254 the committee has been reviewing the request for seven months and developing guidelines for the surgical team which will implant the cardiac surgeon William who will head the said he has already placed the plastic pumps in cadavers and found that they maintained acceptable blood pressure and Devries has also implanted the heart in dozens of test he said the animals calves and sheep survived an average of three but we Hope to do better in he the food and drug administration must now review the proposal and give its approval before doctors can select their first artificial hearts have been tested in human beings at least twice a patient survived nearly three Days on an artificial pump implanted by Texas surgeon Denton Cooley 10 years another patient sur Vived eight hours in an Experiment in Argentina last Eichwald said the doctors agree that the first patient would be someone undergoing cardiac surgery whose natural heart has stopped and cannot be restarted by and j there would be no danger to the patient s life with the implant because he would die without said the there is no risk because this is the Only possibility this patient would Devries said the first recipient would be a High risk person facing cardiac surgery who is otherwise in Good he said the subject must be Between the Ages of 17 and the patient will also have to be willing to live tethered to an external air pump which will drive the tubes from the electrically driven pump will enter the recipients he Devries said if the patient survives and begins to he May be Able to live away from the Hospital in a closely monitored As Long As he lives near the Hospital for routine Devries said he could not predict when the first acceptable patient would be found based on my Devries said i would say i have three patients who meet this criteria each the doctor said several people have Al ready volunteered to be the first in grip of significant flu epidemic Atlanta up the nation is in the midst of a significant influenza Eide a top Federal health official said William director of the National Center for disease made the comment at a meeting which brought to Gether some of the nations leading flu experts to formulate guidelines to combat the the cd director said that for six consecutive weeks the number of deaths from influenza and pneumonia were in excess of the level normally expected at this time of this is Foege be cause we know that much of this is pre we have an effective vaccine i e cd reported More than l deaths from flu and pneumonia for the second straight thirty seven states listed outbreaks of the caused by a new virus against which most people have Little Resis Timothy a cd influenza said the epidemic was causing significant mortality among the several medical researchers attending the meeting said flu cases in their states appeared to be greater than for any period in the past five to six they said the epidemic this Winter was hitting All age in contrast to outbreaks in recent years that affected mostly people in the under25 age Boston up the Massachusetts commission against discrimination has ruled that it is unlawful for the Jaycees to refuse to admit women As in his 44page commissioner Samuel Stonefield found that the Jaycees policy of excluding women As full and equal members violated Massachusetts Laws against sex he thus suggested the state and local chapters admit women on the same basis As it was not Clear How the National organization would react Jaycees chapters in Massachusetts be Gan to admit women As members under a special program in 1975 and Many serve As officers of local in the National Jaycees Organiza Tion voted to reaffirm its policy of excluding women from regular membership and to expel any local chapters that did admit 2 to newsmen get order to produce Bank records Survey finds 40 safes eyeing Gas tax hikes declining revenues and soaring costs of Highway maintenance and according to a nationwide Survey by the Washington based Highway users Feder the Only states not considering increases Are Ken South Dako Texas and department of transport Maiai gators there would not consider an increase this the report said at least 24 Legislatures would consider per gallon tax with 16 others reviewing variable such As the sales its the most serious funding crisis we be Ever said Jerry information officer for the Georgia department of a two television newsmen must produce their personal Bank records for the manufacturer of an electric car who contends major automakers conspired to put him out of fed eral judge has judge Howard Mun son ruled monday that West mtg reporter Herbert Weisbaum and cameraman Dean waiters must appear at a deposition hear ing and produce their Bank records in response to a request from Steven of tit solar Gen electric motor car Romer contends in a lawsuit against general motors and american motors that the newsmen were bribed by pm to pro Duce a critical report of solar gets efforts to produce an electric car in the newsmen have denied the accuse i j and  lawsuit filed by Romer was thrown out of the state supreme court last Mun sons decision came after attorneys for the newsmen opposed subpoenas from Komer demanding personal Bank As Wen As written materials the newsmen in producing the in ruling did not uphold the demand for in materials on the and the judge said the demand for the newsmen personal Bank records did not violate their first amendment the solar Gen lawsuit against the Auto makers seeks billion in compensatory and punitive the defendants in Lions me have denied the after setting up a distribution network in