European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday november 30, 1985 stateside a photo arrows Point to artificial red blood cells. Researchers Are optimistic about heir use in human blood rans Ausloos. Artificial red blood cells successful in animal transfusions scientists say Washington up artificial blood cells made of haemoglobin encased in fat successfully substituted for the real thing in animal tests and May be used one Day in human transfusions researchers reported thursday. Researchers at the University of California san fran Cisco said inc substitute cells can be stored longer than whole blood could be Given to patients of any blood Type and could also be used in veterinary surgery. However inc new product would not be a Tola substitute for red blood cells since it duplicates Only red cells oxygen carrying capability. Real red cells also remove Carbon dioxide from the body. C. Anthony Hunt professor of pharmaceutical Chemis try and pharmacy said human trials of the substance could begin in a couple of years. The cells consist of haemoglobin the oxygen carrying part of red blood cells encased in microscopic fat bubbles called Lipo Somes. The haemoglobin is recycled from whole blood that has exceeded its shelf life and normally would be discarded. In a study reported in the journal science Hunt co researchers Ron Burn tic and Anne so Ruby transfused rats with a mixture of the artificial blood cells mixed with sail water. The rats suffered no More damage to organs than they would have had they undergone transfusion of whole blood and survived longer than others that have received free haemoglobin another blood substitute under study. Hunt said both haemoglobin approaches have received More attention by Many researchers since the food and drug administration refused to approve fluorocarbons As blood subs flutes. Ship signals coming of Christmas Honolulu a in this land of endless Sun Shine where there is never a White Christmas you know the season is on the Way when the ship comes in bring ing More than 170,000 Christmas Trees from the main land. And if you re not Quick when they re unloaded your chances of having a Christmas tree arc about As Good As a snowball s chances in Honolulu. The i rfcs that were to be unloaded Friday from the Malson navigation co. Vessel Mau Nalani arc 98 per cent of Hawaii s Supply. They la sell out within the week. The Trees arc squeezed into 285 containers aboard the Mau Nalani which sailed sunday from Seattle. Each of the containers holds 600-800 Trees. Many sales will take place in parking lots Wilh Trees sold straight from the containers. We let the people know the arrival Date and when they go on Sale and Tell them to hurry Down Stan Inman spokesman for Safeway stores in Hawaii a major Christmas tree retailer said wednesday. There s Only one  Inman said Recs will be sold from the shipping containers in parking lots of Safeway stores on Oahu. Hawaii s most populous Island. There Are usually hundreds of customers lined up we usually run Oul in about three Days he said. We Don t take Advance  before the Trees can be released to retailer i state agriculture officials inspect each Container for unwanted pests. Agriculture is the slate s third largest Indus try after tourism and government spending. Then it is simply a question of How fast they the Trees can be driven to retail Sites where they will be fold said John Kelley spokesman for Alexander & Baldwin Malson s Parent company. This is a once a year major Cuenl for the stale and for Matson said Barry l. Prince spokesman for the shipping line. The smallest Safeway Trees will go for $5.98, with 7 8 foot Trees going for 156, he said. Habil iut a non profit drug rehab lotion Organiza Tion is another major Hawaii retailer of Christmas i rfcs. Its Trees sold in Advance of their arrival Range from $ 16 to $48, depending on size said Jay Dodson haul iut s director of marketing and development. We re nol necessarily Subj cd to inc same fears As some of the other retailers i.e., meeting that first week end to sell Trees he Laid. That All important first weekend is nol that important to  a Biltat plans to keep its Container loads of Trees plugged in to Matson refrigeration units until next week and plans to distribute the Trees on dec. 7, Dod son said. This year s sailing for Balmy Hawaii was held up several hours because of a snowstorm in Seattle Prince said. Despite the Small delay this year s shipment is arriving a Little earlier than hoped said Inman. Nonetheless Trees sold during the first weekend in december arc still expected to remain Green during the Holiday season he said. The arrival Lime of the Trees is wholly dependent on Matson s shipping schedules said Inman. Our ship schedule did i mesh with the Calendar this year said Prince. Generally ii works Oul every other  this year it is coming in on inc first he said. Next year ii might come in on the  underwater pipe Organ to carry sounds of san Francisco Bay san Francisco up the world s first undo raw Ler pipe Organ will carry the whooshing sounds of inc Waves of san Francisco Bay to Shore Ata Cosloff $63,000. 11 will be like listening to several sea shells at once wave Organ designer Peter Richards said. In inc name of publican he and a Small Crew began building the unusual Organ in september. They Sank 25 open ended pipes of varying lengths through a Terrace Al the end of a Jelly near the Golden Gale yacht club so that listeners can hear inc sound of water washing in and our of the other end of the pipes. You la be Able to Sil there and hear these pipes Gur gling away talking to each  Richards said. Boston suburb declares itself to be Sanctuary for refugees Brookline mass. A this Boston suburb has joined at least four other . Communities in declaring itself a Sanctuary for refugees from Haiti Guatemala and Al Salvador. The Resolution was approved during a town meeting by a vote of 105-53. Robert Kahn a Brookline housing com Mission member said he and other opponents of the Ruso Lution would consider an Effort to repeal it. Similar declarations have been passed in Berkeley Calif. Chicago St. Paul Minn. And Cambridge across the Charles River from Brookline. 2 Massachusetts girls save great grandmother from fire Suffield Conn. A a 7-year-old girl and her 5-year-old sister saved their partially Blind 86-year-old great grandmother when they led her out of their burning House fire officials said. Kimberly Brookens and her younger sister Kelly of Springfield mess., were alone with the elderly woman when the fire started said fire chief Thomas l. Bell More. The two girls heard what sounded like an explosion in the living room Bellmore said. They found the living room carpet on fire and rushed to the second floor to Lead Frances Turner out of the burning House he said. Turner has Only partial sight. The kids saved her life. If they had l gotten out of the House by the time we got there she would have been gone Bellmore said. Kimberly said she and her sister were frightened by the fire but knew they could t leave their great grandmother behind. Driver sentenced to 1 year in deaths of 5 teen agers Watertown . A a judge has sentenced Man to one year in jail for criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of five teen agers. David Simpson 23, was accused of driving his station Wagon into a group of nine teen agers standing beside a Highway near Cape Vincent killing five on july 25, 1 1984. Jefferson county judge John Aylward accepted Simpson s guilty plea and imposed the sentence which included Revo cation for life of Simpson s new York stale Driver s License. Because the prison terms must be served concurrently the maximum penalty was four years District attorney Lee Clary said. Relatives of the victims wept when the sentence was imposed and Neil Yalcs sr., who lost an 18-year-old son said the Short term wiped out his Faith in the criminal Justice system sex City official draws 4 years for embezzling $1.1 million Baltimore a a former High ranking Cit administrator who pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.1 Mil lion has been sentenced to four years in prison. John d. Callan Commil cd a series of serious devious calculated  circuit judge Joseph . Kap Lan said in ignoring defense Picas that Callan be sentence to Community service. Callan 66. Was for 1 0 years in charge of running Community service programs with control Over cily contracts for building leases insurance housing and similar expenditures. Between 1979 and i9s4, Callan embezzled $1,117.977by Side racking insurance refunds forging inflated in voices and overcharging the City for rent of a warehouse he bought with Money stolen from the City according to a statement of facts presented by prosecutors and Callan