European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Carnegie commission to Honor 13 As heroes Pittsburgh up two men who died trying to save a Man trapped inside a Gas tank in Ohio Are among 13 people in six states and two Canadian prov inces who will be honoured by the Carnegie hero fund Rve of the 13 people cited for risking death to save the lives of others were the commission the recipients include four people from two each from Texas and North Dakota and one each from Pennsylvania and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Nova the award includes the Carnegie medal and a Grant to the rescuers or their the commission has honoured 43 people this the late Christopher the late Robert Wayne Wood and Chester Lee All of were honoured for trying to save Kevin Bates of from suffocation was overcome by natural Gas fumes inside an aboveground tank that contained 40 inches of a service Rig saw that Bates was in trouble and alerted coworkers Binegar and then entered the tank to save Lowe supported Bates but he too was overcome by Binegar and Wood entered the tank to pull the two men but they also were Lowe and Wood drowned before other workers arrived and pulled the four men from the Bates and Binegar were hospitalized and other recipients Frank foresters Ontario the late Selden Clark Nova Scotia Henry Ted i Texas Paul los Angeles John Cleveland Clayton new the late Sylvester new John and the late James the Pittsburg based commission has honoured people from the United states and Canada and awarded More than million in Grants since it was established in 1904 by industrialist philanthropist Andrew ads May be More widespread than reported up Stanford University scientists offer a dismal Outlook for the effects of saying there May actually be 10 times the documented number of victims in the United states and reported cases Are expected to double this writing in the current Issue of Stanford Edgar Engleman and Jeff Lifson of the University medical Center said Friday blood Banks and society fail to realize How big the problem is and How big an Impact it will have on the health care delivery acquired immune deficiency syndrome cripples the body immune system and leaves its victims vulnerable to deadly infections and the majority of victims Are nearly cases of aids have been documented in the United the Doc tors reported cases doubled in All risk groups in 1984 and Are expected to double again in the True number is probably at least three times and possibly As Many As 10 times in san two to four people Are expected to die from aids every Day next this is in spite of improved screening methods of donor blood and increased awareness of Engleman is an associate professor of pathology and director of Stanford blood Lifson is a postdoctoral fellow in the pathology the first cases of aids already have consumed million Hospital Days and generated More than billion in healthcare and patients still had a median survival of Only 12 they transmission of the disease via blood transfusions accounts for Only a Small num Ber of aids they the actual risk to transfusion recipients is at most one in they with improved screening methods of donor that number should become vanishingly Small in the the researchers said the Stanford blood Bank tried to halt transmission of the Dis ease through blood donations by screening patients who were at High risk soon after the disease they said because of their they faced negative and hostile reactions from other blood banking chief among the objections was the Contention that screening was unnecessary because there was no proof that aids was transmissible by blood the re searchers to no cases of aids have been reported in Stanford blood Center recipients who received screened nearly 150 cases of transfusion associated aids have been documented Many in the san Francisco Bay area within the last Engleman and Lifson said they understood Why other blood Banks tried to deny that aids could be transmitted via blood Transf but called it a head inthe Sand approach to the aids surfaced As a disease in afflict ing mostly homosexual intravenous drug Haemophiliacs and researchers since have found a virus called htlv3 that appears to be the cause of the a screening test for this virus recently has been developed and now is being used by Many blood 12yearold girls death shocks transplant doctors Pittsburgh a doctors were quite shocked Friday when a 12yearold who had become the nations youngest hear lung died after the heart she had for two Days stopped a Hospital official transplant who have per formed 25 such double called the death of Mary Grantz the most dra Matic failure in the transplanted hear lung program that Treyve Ever said childrens Hospital spokesman Dick Rie the Bartley Griffith and Robert had been very pleased with her and then there was this dramatic he the surgeons involved were quite they thought things were sailing along at a great rate until hours he the from Farrell in Mercer died at 10 in the hospitals intensive care Riebling he said further details were being withheld at the family Mary underwent about eight hours of transplant surgery Early she was Given organs from an unidentified 9 year old boy from Dallas who died after falling off the rear of a Mary had suffered from primary pulmonary a disease that causes High pressure in the lungs and progressive damage to the heart and the Mary was the 25th patient to undergo a hear lung transplant in Pittsburgh and the first at childrens according to Hospital similar transplants Are being performed at presbyterian University Hospital in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Stanford University medical Center in Palo arresting Job up photo steel toothed Brake rings Are inspected have to bring an aircraft to a smooth at Goodyear aerospace in the rings Are being used Success for the uniformity they must fully on a japanese commuter celebrated murderer freed on Bond pending 3rd trial Little a twice convicted of killing a former death Row inmate and celebrated fugitive James Dean Walker was freed on Bond pending his third trial for the 22yearold whose tale is to be the subject of a Madero television was sentenced in 1964 to die in Arkansas elec tric chair for the april 1963 shooting Mur Der of North Little Rock patrolman Jerrell in 1965 he won a new trial from the state supreme was convicted a second time after a five Day trial and was sentenced to life in professing to have become a born again Christian in Walker ran away from a five Day furlough in March 1975 and lived As a fugitive until his capture in Cali fornia in september on May the 8th circuit court of appeals overturned walkers second con citing new evidence that could help his and evidence of Bias by his trial Pulaski county judge Floyd Lofton on Friday ordered Walker to stand trial on and scheduled a preliminary hear ing for Walker can travel anywhere in the Continental United Lofton but must report to the sheriffs office in Stateline once a week until the