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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday May 20, 1991 Hud drama of life net transplant services displays a bottle of freeze dried tissue in a storage room at the company a Headquarters in Virginia Bench a. 2 More transplant recipients test positive for aids virus Virginia Beach a. Apr two More patients who received transplants from a donor Likely infected with aids have tested positive for the virus in preliminary examinations an a official said saturday. Three Pepple who received the 22-year-old donor s organs have died from the disease and another also tested positive for the virus. Doug Wilson a spokesman for a Fenel transplant services of Virginia Beach said two More possible aids cases were identified Friday in preliminary examinations he would not say where the patients Are of the exact nature of tissue they received. Another patient will he tested soon and Yesutis will he available this week Wilson said. V these three patients As Well As a Colorado woman who received a hip joint and w to has tested positive Lor the virus stood the greatest Chance of  infection Wilson said. Their transplant tissues were among eight not treated by one of three methods used to kill bacteria or viruses Wilson said. 3 arrested in Phoenix apr California authorities arrested a three people saturday in the fatal shooting of a preg a Nan i woman on a Phoenix freeway one of three recent Highway shootings in the City police said. The suspects were arrested on interstate 10 Twar Miles West of the Arizona California line said Phoenix pit lice spokesman Leo Speliopoulos. He said the three were not suspected in two other freeway shootings in the past two weeks that killed a Man and left another Motorist critically wounded two of the suspects Nghia Hugh to 21, and Richard Paradez 10, were arrested on Arizona first degree murder warrants Speliopoulos said Thomas Valdez who turns 18 sunday was wanted for hindering prosecution by helping the other two flee lie said. A of greatest concern were four tissue Gratis that were fresh Frozen and not processed using ethanol freeze drying or irradiation Quot Wilson said m a statement saturday. Life net arranged for 52 patients to receive organs or tissues six years ago from a donor officials Only recently Learned May have been infected with the aids virus. The donors body was tested twice for aids before any transplants were performed Wilson said. Doctors said the Man May have contracted the fatal disease so soon before his death that tests did not reveal the virus Wilson said 44 of the 52 tissue grafts were sterilized. The others were either top Large for sterilization to he effective or could he damaged by such processes. The donor was identified by his Mother As William Norwood of Dinwiddie a he was a service station attendant in Dinwiddie and was shot and killed during an oct. 21, 1985, robbery. The Case Hasni to been solved. A a a they re not very interested in catching the person who killed my sort. Now everyone is interested because of the aids thing Quot Bessie Rathbone said. The suspects face extradition to Arizona. Valdez was being held on .$100,000 Bond the other two had no Bond set. A a a. The men were wanted in the death of Jennifer Montgomery 19. She was shot and killed while Riding with her husband Ricky 22, on interstate 17, police said to was a suspect because of fingerprints and other evidence found in a stolen car police said was used in the slaying and later abandoned said police it Sherry Kayler. Meanwhile Patrick Diaz 23, remained in critical condition saturday after being shot in the neck May 4 on 1-17. Three people were arrested in that shooting. Michael t. Bingham 28, was killed on interstate 10 on May 11 no arrests have been made in that Case. Tree at Hoover Home to be duplicated West Branch Iowa apr horticulturists Are  grow a new tree from the cuttings of a Majestic Black Maple that shades the Birthplace of former president louver. The Maple which is 86 to lit years old. Split Down the Middle in the 1980s. It is held together by Holts and Cable and is scheduled to he Cut Down when the Hoover cottage is remodeler in october. The National Park service Hopes for a genetic duplicate of the tree which stands More than 90 feet and is More than 8 feet around so a link to the past can be preserved. Twenty five to 50 cuttings from new growth on the tree will be placed in a hormone solution in an attempt to get roots.  crashes into car on Calif Highway from wire reports Richmond Calif. A Small plane on a training flight crashed into a car on interstate 80 on saturday. The cards Driver was slightly Hurt but the student Pilot and instructor were Unin Jurod. Police said. / the two seat Cessna 152j which was travelling eastward came Down in the eastbound lanes. It was not known Why the Pilot was attempting the emergency Landing said California Highway patrol spokeswoman sgt. Pat Tracy. The planets origin was the Oakland Airport and the student and instructor arc members of a flying club at the University of California at Ber Cley Tracy said. The cards Driver was treated for minor injuries at a Hospital Tracy said. She said the two people aboard the plane declined  crushes boy Irvine Calif. A a 4-year-old boy was killed when a three tiered Cement Birdbath he was clambering Over in his backyard broke and fell on him authorities said. John Cuiriz was pronounced dead of head in Luries at the University of California Irvine medical Center shortly after fridays Accident said police spokesman it Mike White. A it just appears to be one of those tragic things that  White said. A. A the boy was climbing onto a Birdbath when it a fell Over and broke in Tavvo Quot said Rick Mcanaly a spokesman for the Orange county coroners office. A. .1 a a a the boy landed on a Concrete surface around the Birdbath and part of the Lawn ornament land cd on him Mcanally said. A a a a lung transplant patient Dies Minneapolis a a 9-Ycar-old girl who was the fourth known recipient of a lung transplant from a living related donor died on saturday doctors said. A. Alyssa Plum of Coon rapids died at the uni varsity of Minnesota Hospital shortly after the lower lobe of her mothers left lung was transplanted into her body. The Mother Cynthia 32, was reported in Good condition after surgery. Last month the child received her first transplant a a lung Section from her father Roger 36 that transplant did not give the girl enough lung capacity to let her breathe on her own said or. R. Morton Bolman Iii head of the transplant team. A a a a a a a. A disease that doctors have not identified destroyed both of the child a  Landing for Jet Las vegas a a Delta airlines Jet with 146 people on Board returned to Mccarran internal Lional Airport shortly after Takeoff saturday w Hen the Pilot noticed an engine problem. Delta flight 846, originally bound for Cleveland and Cincinnati landed safely at about 1 30 p. M. No injuries were  Boeing 727 dumped fuel As it made a wide Circle Over the City before Landing said Airport spokesman Sam Ingalls. Ingalls said the Pilot had noticed a temporary compressor stall in an end Gme. ,. A. A. A. Town votes against dump. Hinsdale mass 7 town residents on saturday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to put a Landfill along the appalachian trial for trash irom metropolitan new York and. New Jersey. On the advisory referendum 830 residents voted against the Landfill and 59 voted in favor. The $37 million Landfill proposed by Andrew Delillo or. Of Pompano Beach fla., would handle 3,500 tons of trash daily brought by rail and truck. Delillo a son runs a trash business in Brooklyn. Richard Powers a leading opponent of the project called the vote a a show of Unity Quot by residents against the   
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