European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday. September 17, 1985 electrical pain blocking device May replace drugs in dentistry Minneapolis a by twisting a Knob on a Little Black Box. Richard Kindy was Able to Block the pain As his dentist cleaned out a Large cavity and filled his tooth. Kindy had not been Given pain killing drugs before or. Dennis Hogan began working on his tooth. He was trying a new system that blocked Kindy s perception of pain by electrically stimulating his nerves. The makers of the patient controlled device expect it to re Price injection of drugs to Block pain in Many denial patients once it gains Federal approval. All Kindy Felt As the dentist worked was pressure and a tingling sensation underneath his right Eye where an electrode was attached to his facial skin. I would t have known whether he was working in and around a nerve or not. I did t feel a thing said Kindy 58. Of St. Louis Park Minn. I was not aware of  the system combines the technology of medical de vices inc. Of St. Paul which produces the electrical stimulator and acc acc corp. Of suburban Minnetonka maker of a synthetic tape that adheres to the skin and transmits electrical impulses stimulate nerves. Brace Macfarlane a scientist and director of Clini Cal services for medical devices said the use of electrical stimulation in dentistry is an adaptation of the tens system widely used to Block chronic pain and to make patients More comfortable following surgery. It s stimulating nerves. How that interferes with the perception of pain simply is not known Macfar Lanc said. What we do know is that in chronic pain especially in acute pain it is clinically  he said components of the system have been approved separately by the . Food and drug administration. Approval of the Complete unit for marketing is expected to be routine he said. The association for advancement of medical instrumentation sets standards for recommended Maxi mum output of electrical stimulation devices he said. Ours is Only 20 percent of their recommended Maxi mum and that maximum has a safety Factor built  controlled scientific testing of the system is scheduled to begin oct. 1 at the University of Minnesota dental school. Macfarlane predicted that National marketing would begin March 1. Hogan has used trans cutaneous electrical nerve stimulation or tens on about 200 patients Over the past two years As part of preliminary tests. At this time we re using it mainly for fillings some Crown preparations and in the treatment of period Oneal disease he said. Most of these situations usually require to injection of  Hogan said about 130 million dental procedures each year in the United states include injection of a pain killing drug. This would not replace All of those he said. At this Point we re not recommending that it be used for  Hogan said there was no lingering effect such As numbness and patients who use tens can go right from the dentist s chair to a speaker s platform or drink a cup of Coffee without having it dribble from numbed lips. Fish killed 300 people evacuated when derailment spills sul Turic acid san Antonio Texas a Twenty six Railroad Tanker cars carrying sul uric acid derailed and fell onto a Riverbank causing a fish kill and the evacuation of about 300 people within a mile of the Accident police said. Several people complained of skin irritations following the derailment on a Bridge Over the Medina River about six Miles Southwest of san Antonio according to sheriffs sergeant Ray Gerlach. Spill containment Crews called to the scene of the Southern Pacific derailment said All of the Lank cars rup tured prompting officials to dam the River to prevent further damage downstream. The evacuations were ordered because of acid fumes officials said. A vapor Cloud formed when the acid mixed with water and vaporized Hung Over the River. Hurbie Bart in charge of Southern Pacific s hazardous materials team said each tank car contained Between 13,000 and 20,000 Gallons of sul uric acid. But he said the maximum amount that could have entered the River was about 300,000 Gallons. Besides damming the River with dirt authorities used Lime to neutralize the acid and the spill was being contained said Carl Mixon the Bexar county fire marshal. He said the cause of the derailment has not yet been determined. Skip Francis District manager of the Texas water commission in san Antonio said fish were killed for More than a mile downstream. Mixon said damages were estimated at about j2 Mil lion including the Cost of the cleanup. A photo workmen walk away from the tangled wreckage of the Southern Pacific freight train. Guardian Angels founder jailed los Angeles a Curtis Sliwa founder of the guardian Angels who was arrested for blocking traffic in a drug troubled Hollywood neighbourhood said from a jail cell that residents were led up with police inability to curb crime. The guardian Angels were called in to patrol the area last week by residents who were dissatisfied with police response to a Rise in drug trafficking Sliwa said sunday. Sliwa 31, and fellow guardian Angels Wayne Villa Franco and Scott Mckeown were booked for investigation of charges of disobeying a police officer sgt. Jim Lowry said. Sliwa and Mckeown were released late sunday on $500 bail each Lowry said. They were blocking traffic and throwing brochures at passing cars on a Busy thoroughfare Lowry said. Offi cers Asl cd them to get out of the Street but or. Sliwa said he needed the publicity and wanted to be arrested. We effected an  calling the neighbourhood truly a mutants nest of drug dealing Sliwa said the presence of 30 guardian Angels was designed to warn the drug traffickers. They have saturated the neighbourhood he said. We re talking heavy drugs heroin cocaine and pc. They Are using the Young kids in that Block to be the runners. The residents have had  about 30 guardian Angels were in the neighbourhood passing out flyers Reading warning All dealers. Out of this neighbourhood. Off the Block or  we were asked by the neighbors to be Here and we will be Here until 3 a.m., and we will have spot patrols throughout the week in this area said Danny Lewis of the Angels West Side los Angeles chapter. The cops in this area Aren t doing anything about the drug  stateside lab makes submarine models to test sophisticated sensors Oak Ridge Tenn a government scientists arc turning out 80-foot submarine models to test sophisticated sensors that could let the Navy track nuclear subs by listening to their reactors a researcher says. The models arc being built in a machine shop at the department of Energy s k-25 gaseous diffusion Plant by researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory said Joe Linhard chief of research and development in Oak Ridge. The Navy Hopes to expand on technology the Laboratory uses to listen to commercial reactors for trouble shooting.  said. It could let the United slates track enemy submarines while allowing . Vessels to go undetected. Trumpet great Cootie Williams Dies in new York Hospital at 77 new York not Cootie Williams the Duke Ellington orchestra trumpet player whose internationally recognized signature was the growling muted Horn died of a kidney ailment in Long Island jewish Hospital. Williams was 77 years old and lived in Queens. Williams was the last surviving member of Elling ton s orchestra of the 1920s. He joined it in 1928, when the band was playing at the Cotton club. Two years ago he retired because of illness. For him Duke Ellington wrote concerto for Coo  when lyrics were added the tune became do nothing till you hear from  Williams also was featured in other major Ellington compositions echoes of Harlem and the religious piece the Shepherd who watches Over the night flock which was dedicated to the Rev. John gun Sci. Weight loss Experiment s list of possible subjects balloons Tucson Ariz. A obese people arc Hocking to University medical Center in Hopes of joining a weight loss Experiment in which a balloon would be blown up in their stomachs doctors say. The use of the balloon is intended to make the subjects stomachs feel full thus reducing their appetites said Doc tors at the University of Arizona. Doctors have room Only for 20 morbidly obese subjects in the federally funded study said or. Robert Protell a gastroenterologist in the University s College of medi Cine. But when officials put out the word for candidates about 300 people showed up. Another 600 people called the University in Hopes of participating including one person who offered to move to Arizona from new York if he could be included in the study. Student finds copy of rare Book which Stalin tried to destroy Champaign Illinois a a graduate student has discovered a rare Book commissioned by Joseph statin to help conceal the True nature of soviet concentration Camps where hundreds of thousands died during the Dic Tator s reign. The Book Stalin s canals was found recently in the University of Illinois engineering Library by Marshall Newman a student working with Maurice Fried Borg a professor of russian literature. Because it describes the building of canals by Camp prisoners the Book apparently had been misidentified and stacked with engineering books. The Book published in 1934, is rare because Only three years after its release Stalin ordered the destruction of All copies As Well As the deaths of Many people involved in compiling it said Friedberg. Car careens onto sidewalk in n.y., injures 8 pedestrians new York up two cars collided at a Busy Brooklyn intersection and one careened onto a crowded sidewalk injuring eight pedestrians including five Chil Dren police said. Most of the people were not seriously injured but one Man s leg was partially severed. He and his two children who were slightly Hurt in the crash were taken by helicopter to Bill clue Hospital. The two motorists who collided also suffered minor injuries police said