European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes sunday March 9, 1986 sex army officer gets transplant after 31 Days on Jarvik heart Houston a a retired army officer received a human donor heart after being kept alive 31 Days by an artificial heart doctors at St. Luke s Hospital said. Harris Kent 41, of Elpaso was listed in stable Condi Tion after the two hour operation said or. Denton Cooley. We Are not expecting further complications Cooley said. We Are administering cyclosporine the anti rejection drug and All indications Are that the patient will continue to  the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was implanted in Kent on feb. 3 As a Stopgap measure to allow the condition of other organs to improve doctors said. 1949 test in Washington state caused Large radioactive release Rich land Wash. A a planned Experiment at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 1949 resulted in a Large release of radioactive iodine into the air of Eastern Washington and Oregon according to newly declassified documents. The contamination spread from Davenport about 30 Miles West of Spokane to the Dalles ore., and measurements were made from Spokane to mount Hood. The purpose of the Experiment conducted for a defense pro Gram remains a secret. People living in the path of the contamination weren t warned and calculations to assess potential health effects of the release of 5,500 curies of iodine 131 were not made according to the documents. The three mile Island reactor Accident in 1979 released 15 to 30 curies of radioactive iodine in Pennsylvania. Pilot crash lands Small plane in cemetery near Detroit Airport Detroit a a single engine air plane lost Power and crash landed in a cemetery near Detroit City Airport but an Airport official says there were no injuries and the aircraft received Little damage. The plane was travelling North making its final approach when it crash landed in Gethsemane cemetery said lil Lian Snyder Airport director. No fire occurred she said. The Pilot James Greer of Chicago was travelling alone aboard the Cessna 210 from Chicago to Detroit and Trento Guelph Ontario Snyder said. He lost Power on final approach. He does t know Why. He hit no obstructions in the cemetery. He s an excellent Pilot or he would t have been Able to land the plane in that area she said. The Federal aviation administration will investigate the Accident she said. Museum s name to Honor hawaiian challenger astronaut Honolulu a an astronomy museum and information Center Complex Halfway up the Volcano Mauna Kea will be named in Honor of Ellison Onizuka one of the seven astronauts killed when the space shuttle challenger exploded Jan. 28. Onizuka the nation s first astronaut of american Japa Nese descent was born and reared on Hawaii Island where Mauna Kea is located. The decision to name the Center the Ellison s. Onizuka astronomy Complex was made at a meeting of the University of Hawaii Board of regents. The Complex located at the 9,200-foot level of Mauna Kea serves As a support base for Telescope operations at the Summit. It also includes a Small museum and a Visi tors information Center. The site should be a living source of inspiration for youngsters said Regent Walter Seiger. Down and out in Massachusetts up photo Lisa Gagnon of Brookline mass., in t sure what to think about the poor soul next to her who toppled into a pothole while jogging. Truth is though it s not a Jogger at All just the Bottom half of a department store Dummy someone dressed up in runner s cloth Sand put in the Hole for a gag. Massack usefus forbids actions against aids infected workers Boston a Massachusetts 50,000 state employees must serve people with aids and workers handling food May continue on the Job even though they have the disease according to a new policy distributed to 70state agencies. Since the aids virus is not a food borne or airborne virus said the four Page policy statement taking effect immediately infection with the virus is not enough to keep a food handler from his or her  the Boston Globe reported saturday that the policy also requires managers to protect the confidentiality of workers with the disease acquired immune deficiency syndrome. No special consideration should be Given beyond nor Mal Transfer request for employees who feel threatened by a co worker s having a tiv Iii infection the policy states referring to the virus that causes aids. The statement said aids is transmitted by sexual Contact or blood to blood  to Date there is no record of transmission of the aids associated virus to co workers clients or Consumers in offices schools factories construction Sites or other work places it said. The policy tries to eliminate some of the panic and the goblins that hide in people s minds regarding diseases such As this said Joseph Delorey National treasurer of the Boston based National association of government employees which represents 16,000 state workers. It s not a bad policy said Frank Gay Massachusetts Field director for the american federation of state county and municipal employees. In substance it s some thing we could probably live with after another meeting to clarify some of the  Daniel Sullivan director of the state office of employee relations which developed the policy said no state worker has refused to serve an aids patient. Despite All the fear and concerns he said there have been no instances Here where vital state services were no delivered because of those  about 400 cases of aids have been reported in Massachusetts. No state workers reportedly were among them. The Globe said the Massachusetts policy parallels a new York state policy adopted three years ago and others in Pennsylvania and California. All the statements Are consistent with Federal guidelines on aids in the work place issued last november by the . Public health service the newspaper said. Pesticide tainted Arkansas milk spurs warning  of. Rock Art a pm or Ninon or nor no 14a in at 1aaa _ ii. A i _. _. Little Rock Ark. A warnings about drink ing milk have been issued to pregnant women and nursing mothers As state and Federal officials determine the extent of pesticide contaminated milk in a three state area. Six Dairy farms in Northwest Arkansas also have been quarantined because herds Are contaminated with the banned pesticide. Jerry Hill director of the state s Bureau of Environ mental health services said Friday that officials have determined that Hep Bachlor a pesticide suspected of Caus ing cancer was in cattle feed produced at Valley feeds Ivan Buren. He said Grain seed was treated with the chemical before it was used by . Inc. Of Van Buren the owner of Valley feeds in the production of gasohol. The resulting he said that up to 300 Dairy farms in Northwest Arkan Sas could have bought the contaminated feed. Or. Stuart Fitzhugh a paediatrician who is a Deputy director of the Arkansas health department said Friday that infants Are particularly susceptible to toxins and that pregnant women and nursing mothers should use pow dered milk until it can be determined if any of the tainted milk has reached store shelves. But or. Ben Saltzman director of the health depart ment said at a news conference that he was not suggesting that people Stop drinking milk. He said he based his Deci Sion on a similar Case in Hawaii where officials said Resi dents May have drunk Hep Bachlor contaminated milk from 1956 to 1982 without ill health effects. Investigators Are sampling milk in trucks stores and production plants Saltzman said. The samples Are to be Analysed by the Federal food and drug administration at offices in new Orleans Kansas City and Dallas. Saltzman said that he would not Issue a recall and he added that Dairy Industry officials had pledged to Cooper ate in removing any contaminated milk from stores. Although the Dairy farm contamination appears to be confined to Northwest Arkansas and parts of Oklahoma and Missouri he said contaminated milk could be i stores throughout Arkansas. Tom Mcchesney state epidemiologist said cattle herds May have to be quarantined for As Long As six months before the chemical is out of the system and the milk is fit for  he said meat inspectors would be notified because any contaminated cattle brought in for Slaughter would have to be destroyed. Fitzhugh said the National centers for disease control in Atlanta consider Hep Bachlor a potential Carcinogen. Thesda considers it a Carcinogen