European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 11, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Arizona woman gets second artificial heart Tucson Ariz. A doctors have implanted a second artificial heart into a woman whose transplanted human heart railed hours earlier apparently making her the first person to receive two artificial hearts Hospital officials said. The mini Jarvik implanted sunday in Bernadette Chay Rcd 40, during emergency surgery was not the same one that kept her alive for four Days until it was replaced with a human heart on Friday said Nina Trasoff spokeswoman for University medical Center. The surgery began at 10 35 . And the  was implanted nearly four hours later but the operation was not completed until 7 15 . Because of uncontrolled internal bleeding Trasoff said. Chayrez was listed in Crit ical condition with her vital signs stable. Or. Jack Copeland the chief surgeon on the operating team said doctors were studying the human heart to de Small Price decrease reported Termine Why it failed. Chayrez had been improving from surgery saturday for bleeding problems when serious problems developed Sud Denly Trasoff said. Copeland and the family made the decision to go ahead with the second implant after it had become apparent her transplanted heart would not support her she said. It was extremely sudden Trasoff said. She said she did not know if the food and drug administration had approved sunday s implant. Fra spokesman Dave Duarte said he did not know if the Hospital had sought Fra approval but said it would be permissible for him to inform the Agency after the fact under emergency guidelines. To our knowledge this is the first time a person has been implanted with a second Jarvik Trasoff said. Chayrez received her first artificial heart on feb. 2 Mon Day to replace her own failing heart. The human heart trans Plant four Days later was done ahead of schedule because of problems with internal bleeding doctors said. The Phoenix woman who had been healthy until her own heart was damaged by a viral infection lost month was the second woman to be kept alive with a mini Jarvik artificial heart. Earlier sunday Trasoff had said doctors believed they had been successful in controlling internal bleeding during saturday s three hour operation. Nurses have told me that there is no sign of bleeding that things Are going very Well Trasoff he said then. Chayrez had been awake and communicating through notes with the nurses and her family Trasoff said. Chayrez is an Assembly worker at a Mesa Plant and a three children Ages 9, Loand 13. Don t expect Gas War analyst says los Angeles a motorists who expected a gasoline Price War because of a $3-a-Barrcl drop in crude Oil prices last year will be disappointed an leading Indus try analyst says. There is no Price War and there in t going to be one Dan Lundburg said Sun Day. There has been Only a Small decline in pump prices since december As dealers try to recoup staggering Cost increases in other areas Lundberg said. The expectation of crashing prices at the nation s pumps is based on a generally accepted fallacy that. Every Dollar a barrel drop in the Price of crude should translate to a Cut of 2w cents at the pump Lundberg said. According to the fallacy by that Token a is ,1 of Sio a barrel should have brought the prices Down 25 cents a gallon to an average of about 95 cents i gallon with regular gasoline Down into the 70s." the self serve Choice in to front of new Tatels preen no Soh Solce Oas line has fallen since december by just Over a Nickel a gallon to a National average of is. 1564, Down 3.47 cents since Jan. 24, according to Lundberg s 50-Statc Survey of 10,385 stations. Crude has crashed to As Low As $16 a a nov Titan in pc Sara amen of co. Barrel and a year ago it was $29, yet the Overall Price for All grades of gasoline at the pump is higher by 1.8 cents a gallon since last february he said. Station rentals insurance and other inflationary expenses have increased Deal ers operating costs he said. For example dealers have had an average $10,000 in crease in annual insurance premiums since 1984, and average rents have quintuple during the past three years Lundburg said. While dealers seem to have taken quite a Windfall in profits the Money is being used to  the difference in the operating costs he said. Gasoline sales volume increasingly does t give a big enough return to justify the real estate costs Lundberg s two week Survey found the Price of regular leaded Gas averaged $1.0275, Down 3.9 cents a gallon regular unleaded $1.0973, Down 3.96 cents and Premium unleaded $1.2421 cents Down 3.37 cents. Dealers respond despite increased expenses he said dealers Are responding to Public disappointment by lowering prices at self serve pumps for regular leaded to an average $1.02 a  there were 3,051 stations nationwide at or below a Dollar a gallon Lundberg said with some prices in the 80-cent Range including Denver at 82.9 cents a gallon Atlanta 89.9 cents Houston 87.9 cents St. Louis 84.9 cents pcs Moines 85 cents and los Angeles 89.9 cents. The nation s lowest Price for self serve regular leaded gasoline was at Louisville ky., at 81,9 cents a gallon he said. Drug agents find hidden Gold Fortune Denver up a suspected drug smuggler s vague cryptic map was used by Federal agents to find a Cache of is million in Gold coins buried in plastic food containers on a Nebraska farm. The map was found in the Hawaii Home of William Compton Musson. Musson was charged along with two other men with smuggling 850 pounds of cocaine Between 1976 and 1982, drug enforcement administration agents said. A diary kept by Musson contained a drawing of a Large White Cliff cracked Down the Middle and flanked by Trees with the cryptic message from Trees near Center 20 paces  it was so vague so cryptic a Dea agent told the Rocky Mountain news sunday. It was a Long  agents knew Musson owned prop erty in Hawaii Colorado new mex Ico and Nebraska and they decided to Start searching for the coins on 640 acres of land Musson owned in Nebraska. The buried coins were found feb. 5,1985. You can f beat pm buy pm Texas firm decides Monticello Texas a Texas utilities has settled a Long running dispute with the people of this Northeast Texas Community of 50 residents by buying the entire town lock Stock and liquor store. The Utility took the action to end Yean of hostilities with mayor Harold Smith and his family and neighbors Over air pollution and blocked roads resulting from a Lig Nite mining operation used to fuel an electric generating Plant. They got the whole town. Everything in the town is gone the liquor store the shops the Concrete Plant the garage said Smith. He owned most of the businesses in the town which covers about 600 acres. Texas utilities also is getting several houses and a Church of Christ. The Purchase was made by Texas utilities mining co., which produces Lignite for the electric company s 1,900 megawatt generating Plant just across Lake Monticello from the town. Company officials and Smith said they believe it s the first time a corporation has bought an entire town. We researched it and we can t find one time in the United Stales where a company bought a Complete operating town said Smith. His 660 acres included the corporate limits of Monticello. While the residents have until september to move the businesses Are closed including the liquor store often frequented by workers from the Power Plant. It has not been disclosed How much Texas utilities paid to Smith and the town s other landowners. We did it in a Way that even our lawyers Don t know what we got Smith said. Nobody knows but me and the  one Utility executive who asked not to be identified told the fort Worth Star Telegram the Price was $8 million nearly All of it to Smith. Another source told the newspaper the figure was closer to $3 million. Although Smith had worked to bring the Power Plant to Monticello he filed numerous complaints against it with the Texas air control Board claiming he and his neigh Bors suffered chronic respiratory problems from Lignite Ash from the Plant s smokestacks. He also hired a lawyer to Lodge protests with the Titus county commissioners court when Texas utilities blocked some roads in the  utilities officials say they Don t plan to do much with the land because there is Little Lignite within 200 feet of the surface the company s limit on strip mining. Halley s Comet steams to nearest approach to Sun Mountain View Calif. Up Hal Ley s Comet has made its closest App Roach to the Sun in 78 years spouting huge volumes of steam and dust scientists at the National n re Orbi ung Venus for seven years has been focusing its ultraviolet Telescope at the Comet since late december sending Back data about the gaseous Cloud that makes up the Comet s Tail. We were receiving excellent data today Pete Waller spokesman for the Nasa Ames Laboratory said sunday. Pioneer s readings in Early january indicated the Comet was As expected bursting and popping As its ice turned to steam during its approach to the heat of the Sun Waller said. Lost week the spacecraft s scanning image of the Comet s 13 million mile wide Tail was interrupted by the biggest solar flare in a year. But Waller said data received during the previous four Days had been excellent. By measuring the gases and the rate of increase in melting As the Comet passes near the Sun scientists Hope to Leam More about what comets Are made of. This could Lead to greater knowledge about the formation of the universe because comets Are believed to be younger remnants of primordial matter. Europe Japan and the soviet Union have spacecraft aloft that will encounter Halley s Comet during its pass through the inner solar system. But the Pioneer Venus study is the Only space based is. Project. Two Comet projects were lost with the shuttle challenger and several More scheduled to Fly on later shuttles have been scrubbed