Wednesday, January 10, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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History in rash of transplants
By United Press International
Five heart ransplants have been achieved by South African and American surgeons in a little over five weeks.
- Louis Washkansky, 53, Lithuania-born wholesale grocer, received history's first transplanted heart last Dec. 3 at the Groote Schuur hospital, Cape Town,
South Africa. He died of pneumonia, said to be unrelated to the transplant, 18 days later. The donor was a woman who had died in a traffic accident.
● A $2\frac{1}{2}$ - week - old Brooklyn boy received a transplanted heart Dec. 6 at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical center but died less than seven hours later of undisclosed
effects. The donor was a two-day-old Philadelphia baby who died of mental defects.
Dr. Phillip Blaiberg, 58, a retired dentist, received a transplant Jan. 2 at Groote Schuur hospital and is progressing favorably. The donor was a young man who died of a stroke.
Mike Kasperak, 54, a steel worker, received a transplant last
Boeing executive maintains super transport jet needed
The world is ready for a supersonic transport jet because the airline industry has far exceeded the growth of other industries since 1960, according to Richard B. Holloway, chief of the aerodynamics and propulsion staff at the Wichita branch of Boeing Aircraft Co.
Holloway addressed a meeting of the KU American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Tuesday night. He showed slides and diagrams to show the progress and potential of the Boeing 2707 supersonic transport jet.
He explained that because of the extremely high cost—$30
million—of building one of the transports, the government is willing to support the manufacture of the jets until individual companies are able to pay for them.
Some of the significant features of the gigantic Boeing 2707 were: weight of 675,000 pounds; length 318 feet; seating capacity of 313 with seven seats across, including two aisles; normal flying altitude of 60,000 feet; and speed capability of 2,000 m.p.h.
Where a non-stop trip from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. takes five hours in the 707, that same trip will take two hours and five
minutes in the 2707, Holloway said. Also, he said that a trip from New York to Paris in a 707 presently takes seven hours and five minutes, while the 2707 will cut this to two hours and 55 minutes.
The supersonic boom is a problem that most people are concerned with, he said. With the speed of the 2707 there is no way to avoid it, except that laws may be made to keep them down to subsonic speeds, Holloway said. Even if the planes had to fly at subsonic speeds, they would still be a good investment because of the number of people using them, he said.
KU camera bugs can enter pictures in a photography contest Feb. 16. The contest, sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA) and the professional photojournalism fraternity Kappa Alpha Mu, will be judged Feb. 18.
Photo competition entry begins Feb. 16
The winning photographs will be exhibited Feb. 19 to March 1, in the Kansas Union, said William Seymour, faculty advisor of Kappa Alpha Mu.
Participants in the contest must be students enrolled at KU and cannot be full or part-time professional photograhpers. Entries must be submitted to the SUA Director's office in the Kansas Union no later than 5 p.m. Feb. 16.
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Another problem Holloway pointed to was that of the noise produced by the four pure jet engines capable of 56,000 pounds of thrust apiece. This especially causes problems for people on the ground, he said.
A final problem is being worked on in Wichita, Holloway said. This problem is one of developing a stability augmentation system to keep these jets safe during extreme turbulence, which they may encounter periodically. He said there has been a stability augmentation system made which works in minor turbulences but the one needed is for those turbulences with 100 mile per square inch velocity.
Each participant may have no more than eight entries. Entry fee is two dollars for up to eight entries.
The photography must have been done since Feb. 1, 1967.
Photos must be eight by ten inches or larger and mounted on 16 by 20-inch mat boards. The entrant's name, address and phone number should be on the back of each entry.
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Saturday at the Palo-Alto-Stanford, Calif., hospital and is reported in critical condition though showing some improvement. The donor was a housewife who died of a massive brain hemorrhage.
- Louis Block, 57, a retired New York fireman, received a transplant Jan. 9 at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn in the longest such operation in history-eight hours. He died this morning. The donor was a 29-year-old New Jersey woman who died from a brain tumor.
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Sen.
Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., said
Tuesday successful transplant operations could lead to a future "black market" in human hearts
Mondale said transplant operations performed so far "seemed perfectly proper" but called for a national study of moral and ethical implications of this and other medical advances.
When the heart transplant becomes foolproof, he said in an interview, "it is not too hard to anticipate the possibility of a black market in hearts" caused by an insatiable demand for donors.
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