European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. October 19, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 mating dogs shot As threat to president s life Topeka Kan. A two dogs mating near an Airport runway were killed last month by Security officers who were told to secure the area prior to a visit by president Reagan. We did whal we had to do said Marvin Han cock Deputy director of the metropolitan Topeka Airport authority. We were told anything that moves has to be a secret service spokesman said officials ordered Security officers at Forbes Field to take care of the problem but he said he did not know shooting the dogs was going to be the solution. We were not involved in the dog incident at All said Douglas a Buchholz special agent in charge of the secret service in the Kansas City office. Hancock said Airport Security officers were inspecting the grounds sept. 6just before Cagan was scheduled to arrive in air Force one. Reagan was participating in the Celebration of the 100th birthday of former gov. Alf Landon who died last week. Acting on orders from the secret service to secure the area the officers first beat the dogs with heavy welding gloves to separate them and when that failed shot them Hancock said. Hancock described the dogs As a threat to the president s life and said they might have run onto the pavement and interfered with the Jet. He said there was not enough time to move the dogs or Spray water on them before the plane landed. A person working in the Forbes Tower who saw the incident said about an hour passed Between the beating and the shooting according to Audrey Mccaig executive director of helping hands humane society in Topeka. Elaine Maack who lives on 80 acres adjacent to Forbes Field said her two australian shepherds. Lady and speck have been missing since labor Day weekend. Hancock said there had been Anonymous death threats to him. His family and his dog a siberian husky since the Story Wai reported locally and in the nation Magazine. Had he not ordered his men to shoot the dogs Hancock said air Force one probably would have gone on to Washington instead of slopping in Topeka and then How would have pcopii1 Felt Ronald Oldham a Federal aviation administration representative in Kansas City said it was highly improbable that an air plane As Large As the president s would suffer much damage from Hilling a dog but he said it certainly would t do the dog any research team developing new artificial heart Salt Lake City a members of the University of Utah research program that pioneered development and use of the artificial heart now Hope to product a Tola by impost Lable heart within five years. Or. Greg bums associate director of the University s artificial heart research Laboratory said a totally implantable de vice would eliminate the need for com pressed air lines outside the Chest to Power the heart. Bums featured speaker at the health sciences Center s expo 87 health forum Friday said the heart would not be a new version of the Well known Jaryik-7, which is the most commonly used artificial heart. Its proposed Utah 100 heart would be the latest modification of a series of pneumatically driven artificial hearts developed at the University since the Arri Val of artificial organs Pioneer or. Wil Lem. Kolffinl967. The University of Utah is one of six finalists for a 15 million five year Grant from the National institutes of health to develop a totally implantable system. Bums indicated the University would seek other funding to continue the Utah 100 project if it is not awarded the Federal Grant. The school s institutional review Board has approved experimental implants of the Utah 100 in humans but the procedure has yet to receive approval from the Federal heart disease coronary bypasses death rate 190in thousands per year in Tow . 100 50 1975 77 79 81 83 85 source Nett vat Ceni in Haj Tai Small ally 130 120 per 100,000 persons in Oisin . T975 77 79 a -83 84 food and drug administration. The Utah 100 is the creation of or. Donald b. Olsen director of the univer sity s Institute for biomedical Engi Neering and the division of artificial or Gans and his colleagues. Researchers have been experimenting with the device in animals for three years. One sheep survived 331 Days on the Utah 100. The device now contains a Small Turbine pump driven by an electric motor which pumps Silicon Oil Back and Forth Between the two ventricles to Force blood through. Recipients of the Utah 100 would usually Wear a Battery pack on a Vest or Belt. The pack would run the heart for 10 hours without having to be recharged. Burns said Federal guidelines specify that the heart must meet physiological responses be Able to function when the body is in any position and be biologically compatible. All of the heart s components must last for five years. Because of the reliability required bums said the heart development has been a cooperative Effort Between Center researchers and or. Dave Hoeppner a mechanical Engineer specializing in fail ure analysis. By the Lime we meet All of those Cri Teria it s going to be a tremendous Engi Neering product bums said. It s a sys tem that could Benefit hundreds of thousands of Justice Marshall Freak accident1 vows to stay on run Woy horse damages two cars c of i we i i �4" supreme court new York a Thurgood mar shall the Only Black Justice on the . Supreme court said saturday that he would not resign and would outlive critics who have called for him to step Down according to a published report. Don t worry i m going to outlive those bastards the 79-year-old Justice said in a speech to the annual conference of the second circuit. Marshall speaking at the harsh eve pa., meeting said his wife will probably kill me for using such Strong language according to a report in sunday s editions of the new York times. Marshall said he had received a num Ber of requests to step Down but he did not say from whom the requests came the times said. He has been in frail health in recent years and was hospitalized for several Days last summer for a blood clot in his foot the times also said that Marshall has reportedly told acquaintances that he will do every Hiil possible to remain on the court until the Reagan administration is Over. He told the conference of the second circuit which encompasses new York Connecticut and Vermont that he is celebrating his 20lh year on the Bench. I just Hope each of you a fortunate enough to be with me on my next 20th year he said. Savannah a. Up a horse pulling a Carriage broke Loose from its Driver plunged through an Iron Fence and fell 15 feet onto two cars one of them apparently stolen. Police put a citation on the car for having an expired tag but do not expect the Driver to show up because the car was stolen i guess in d be son of discouraging to come Back to your car and find thai a horse had fallen on it said Randy Brandt whose wife Diana owns Carriage Tours of Savannah which provides hours of the historic City. Police said the horse named Bruno was standing behind another Carriage and rubbed its nose against the Carriage causing its bridle to slip and the Driver lost control of him. Bruno bolted through a Fence and fell 15 feet onto a ramp leading to another Street Landing on a Honda civic and an Oldsmobile station Wagon. Batyi vehicles were denied and the Oldsmobile s wind shield was smashed. The Carriage did not fall with the horse but the Driver Janie Polson was hospitalized Wilh a possible broken leg suffered when she fell out of the Carriage. Two passengers in the Carriage were not Hurt. Diane Brandt said her company would the damages on the two autos. Bruno received scrapes and bruises and was taken Back to his stable. Police found the owner of the Honda but not the Oldsmobile. They left a note on the car asking the Driver to Contact them to be cited for having an expired License plate. I Don t think the person driving the car is going to show said Brandt. It was towed away. They think the car was a stolen vehicle. The lag had been Cov ered up with mud and was out of Date. They really Don t think the people Are going to tall about the illegal aliens eligible for earthquake Aid los Angeles illegal aliens seeking amnesty who suffered losses in the oct. 1 earthquake or its aftershocks can apply for Federal disaster Aid the immigration and naturalisation service said saturday. The state office of emergency serv ices was notified by the ins that applicants for amnesty under the immigration Reform Law Are eligible for financial Aid for quake damage to their Homes or for other expenses said mar Gie Tirilli a spokeswoman for the slate Agency. We think these people Are slaying away because they Cion t believe they can gel help Tirilli told the los an Geles times. She said state officials have a old archbishop Roger Mahony to announce the Aid program in Catholic churches on sunday. It was not known How Many aliens who suffered quake losses have chosen not to seek Aid. Whittier Alhambra and other san Gabriel Valley communities Wilh Large hispanic populations were hardest hit by the 6.1 Richter scale temblor on Del 1 and subsequent aftershocks. Aliens and other quake victims in los Angeles an j Orange counties who qualify can receive housing assistance and up to 55,000 per family under a family Grant program mate officials said. Seven assistance centers had processed nearly 7,000 Aid applications by sat urday and the first checks have already been sent out
