European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday february 18,1986 ban urged on Over the counter capsules new York a a ban on sales or Over the coun Ter drugs in capsule form was suggested sunday by unofficial of Westchester county. Diane Elsroth 23, died in the new York suburban area county last week after swallowing extra strength tylenol capsules tainted with deadly cyanide. Federal officials called the capsule ban suggestion by Andrew p. O Rourke elected executive of the county  also turned up a second bottle containing tainted tylenol in the same town where the bottle con Taining the fatal dose was purchased. O Rourke suggested that the Federal government control production and sate of a Al drugs in capsules but Feder Al Rood and drug administration spokesman William Grigg said the government is not advocating such a  think it s premature until we know what the prob Lem was and have discussed it thoroughly to propose solutions he said. You be had this happen twice now o Rourke said referring to poisoning in Westchester county and deaths in Chicago in 1982. I think it s time that the government came up with some Type of a plan to prevent it from happening in the future. Grigg said he expects representatives of the Over the counter drug Industry to discuss the Issue during a meet ing of the proprietary association in Washington this  a. Burke chairman of Johnson & Johnson which manufactures tylenol also disagreed with o Rourke s  monday investigators from the Westchester county District attorney s office Yonkers police and Fri went to Pennsylvania to tour the Plant where the fatal capsule was manufactured and the distribution Point that is the Only known link Between the two tylenol , 14 states and at least one foreign country have banned the Sale of tylenol capsules. Italian newspapers reported sunday that health officials had barred sales of tylenol there because of concern about the Westchester findings. Burke said the company lost $250 million after the Chicago scare but has since bounced Back. Now we re going to have to Start All Over again he said. The Public knowledge of this incident is almost univer Sal. Ninety seven percent of the Public in the research that we be just completed knows that something has happened to tylenol he said. That s More people than know the name of the president of the United  o Rourke interviewed with Burke and Fra Bead Frank e Young on Abc s this week with David Brinkley said a bottle of tainted tylenol capsules found in a Woolworth store in the Westchester Community of Bronxville came from a Batch different from Othon around it that would appear to be reverse shoplifting somebody came in and actually put it on the shelf o Rourke said. Capsules from a bottle bought at an a a store two blocks from the Woolworth store killed Elsroth. On sunday night Fri spokesman Jack French bad no comment on o Rourke s information about the Woolworth bottle and Grigg would neither confirm nor deny whether it was True. But Bronxville police confirmed that the bottle was the Only one of its lot on the shelf. Johnson & Johnson spokesman Robert Kniffen said the significance of that fact is just not  he said that a Woolworth distribution Center had received a shipment of tylenol in lot number aha 090. The same As that of the poisoned bottle and that All the other bottles from the same lot could have been sold previously. Be a fiend you turkeys they la arrive Middleboro mass. A state wildlife officials now know Why they re having no Luck raising wild tur keys in Plymouth county not far fro where the pilgrims supposedly dined on the Bird at the first thanksgiving. All the Birds they be imported were males. But female companionship for the male turkeys will soon be on the Way. The state imported wild turkeys from new York in 1972 to Western Massachusetts where about 3,000 now thrive. The state division of fisheries and wildlife settled six wild mates from the berkshires to Middleboro Woods last week follow ing the delivery of six males earlier this month. We really did t plan it this Way but we have to take what we can get an official said. If we can get some females out there by March there May be Young turkeys this  Jarvik heart patient celebrates year with implant doctor lauds Progress Louisville. By. Up Murra Haydon celebrated he first anniversary of his permanent artificial heart implant monday and his surgeon claimed Success in finding the right anti clotting therapy to avoid strokes. In comments relayed by Donna Hazle a spokeswoman for Humana Hospital Audubon or. William c. Devries said he was most reassured at this Point by Haydon s neurological condition. Murray is neurologically Normal Devries said. Based on what we be Learned throughout our artificial heart research an anti coagulation therapy has been developed which has succeeded in preventing major strokes or neurological damage in the past year for  Devries first two bionic heart patients Barney Clark in Salt Lake City Utah and William Schroeder i Louisville suffered major neurological problems blamed on the need to thin the blood enough to prevent clots in the plastic and Metal heart without causing Overly thinned blood to ooze from ves Sels. Clark lived 112 Days with a Jarvik-7 heart in 1982-83 and Schroeder who Murray Haydon. Neurologically Normal received is Jarvik-7 on nov. 25, 1984, is still hospitalized at Audubon who complications from three strokes. Haydon suffered a mild stroke last summer but showed no tasting effects. The former Auto Assembly line worker and Barber marked the anniversary monday with a Small party arranged for relatives and Hospital staff members. Devries said the knowledge gained from Haydon s first year with the Jar Vik-7 was quite important scientifically. We have Learned a great Deal from him about the interaction of the artificial heart with the rest of the human  the 59-year-old Haydon Bas been nagged by lung infections that have forced him to make Dally use of Respi Rator to Aid his breathing since last March. Hazle noted that Devries still Hopes to discharge Haydon to his Louisville Home but we Haven t set a  Devries has permission to perform three More implants at Audubon Boj has not done one since last april when Jack Burcham 63, of Leroy iii., died 10 Days after his implant. Reagan spends Holiday preparing for Grenada visit Washington up president Reagan observed George Washington s birthday quietly at the White House Mon Day reviewing briefing papers for his one Day trip to Grenada thursday. Reagan will Fly to the Caribbean Island to dedicate the Airport completed by americans and to place a Wreath on a memorial to the 19 americans who were killed when the United states invaded Grenada oct. 25, 1983. The Airport started by cubans was completed by american workers after the United states in concert with Jamaica and other Caribbean nations invaded the Island and deposed a hard line marxist govern ment that had seized Power from another marxist Leader in a coup. Reagan is scheduled to arrive at Points lines International Airport thursday morning. Before taking off for Washington four hours later he is also scheduled to deliver a speech at Queen s Park and pay Courtesy Calls on governor general sir Paul Scoon and prime minister Herbert Blaize. The president also will hold a min sum Mit with Leaden of other Caribbean Island nations. Reagan was to meet tuesday with re publican congressional leaders to discuss the legislative Agenda for the next few months. Among the tasks be faces this week persuading lawmakers to provide the military assistance he is seeking for rebel sin Nicaragua Angola and Afghanistan. Deciding what stance to take regard ing Aid to the Philippines where the Manila government s opposition is charging that the election was rigged by president Ferdi nand Marcos supported by the unite states. Replying probably by late this week to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s de Cember arms proposal to mutually scrip intermediate Range missiles in Europe and to gradually reduce to Zero All nuclear armsby the end of the Century. Preparation of a nationally televised address feb. 26 to rally Public support Forbis military budget the Only fiscal 1987 spending item that he is seeking to increase. 8 families bring pollution suit against 2 corporations Boston a eight families face off in is. District court this week against two major corporations charged with polluting Well water and causing the deaths of five Chil Dren in the Boston suburb of Woburn. "1 Hope what will come out of this Case is that Industry will understand that citizens won t stand to be banned and see children sickened that they can no longer undertake their business without a conscience said Anne Anderson whose son Jimmy died of leukaemia five years ago. The Case scheduled to begin tuesday pits the families against . Grace &  Beatrice foods co. The suit filed in 1982. Accuses Grace and Beatrice of the wrongful death of five youngsters and the illness of two others. It seeks damages for health care costs and for pain and suffering. The families also want Protection against future harm from exposure to chemicals in the water. The corporations conceded that the land was contaminated by chemicals but said they did not knowingly put them there and medical evidence does not support the idea that the chemicals May cause leukaemia. The Case centers on two Community Wells that were closed after a 1979 probe turned up a variety of hazardous chemicals including trichloroethylene a solvent that causes cancer in lab animals. The evidence will demonstrate that these families were poisoned by solvents in their drinking water and it permanently affected them said the families attorney Jan Richard Sechli Culmann of Boston. The accusations Are false said Mark Stoler attorney for the defendants. Based on credible scientific knowledge there is no reason to believe the illnesses were based on these particular substances and these particular exposures he said