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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950
Heart-Lung Now Awaiting Patients
Philadelphia—(U.P.)—A mechanical heart-lung is standing by in a doctor's office just outside a hospital operating room here, ready for its first hook-up to a human patient.
This first trial will be on a person whose heart has stopped and might not otherwise be revived. Doctors don't dare experiment on a live human patient, because medical tradition forbids endangering human life with experimentation.
The big test may come today, tomorrow, or next week. When the day does arrive it will be an important date in world medical history—because it will be the first time that such an engineering device has taken over the duties of the human heart and lungs.
The mechanical heart-lung machine, a compact, semi-portable device, already has been tried on dogs. It has been hooked up to live animals and has taken over the task of cleansing the blood of carbon
Engineers Plan Banquet
Plans for the engineering banquet to be held in the Kansas room of the Union 6:30 p.m. today have been completed, Dean Barrett, chairman of the banquet committee, announced.
The dinner will be followed by group singing led by F. L. Brown, professor of applied mechanics, and musical selections by the vocal quartet from the Delta Delta Delta sorority. Members of the quartet are: Marilyn Barr, fine arts junior; Marilyn Lind, education junior; Clara James, fine arts senior; and Lynette Oberg, fine arts senior.
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen will give a twenty minute talk entitled "They build," and Dean T. DeWitt Carr will present the engineering council honor key to a member of the faculty.
5 Students To Give Recital Thursday
Five fine arts students will give a recital at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Martha Heck, pianist, will play "Three Bagatelles, Op. 33" by Beethoven, Carol Martin, flutist, will play "Concerto in C major" by Goetry, Marilyn Lilyn, pianist, will play eaux d'eau" by Ravel. Rich-Manon tenor" by Gaiwen. conzett's "Una Tenor la Laguage" "L'Fisir d'amore" and Betty Thies, pianist, will play "Excursions No. 1 and 4" by Barber.
Delores Wunsch, junior, and Ellen Becker, graduate student, will be accompaniists.
dioxide, giving it a new supply of oxygen and then pumping the refreshed blood back to the animal's arterial system. It was operated for as long as an hour and 10 minutes on a dog, and the animal made a complete recovery.
Development of the machine and news that it was ready for human trial were disclosed officially by Hahnemann hospital doctors at a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Cleveland, Ohio.
The report was made by Dr. Charles P. Bailey, chief thoracic surgeon at Hahnemann hospital, and "Captain" of a team of surgeons who specialize in delicate heart operations. His associates are Drs. Thomas J. E. O'Neill, Robert G, Gloyer, William L. Jamison, and Hector P, Redondo Ramirez, none of whom are vet 40 years of age.
The surgeons are specialists in repairing faulty valves within the heart and actually have been "working around corners," inasmuch as a surgeon cannot cut open a heart to make renails.
Engineering Senior Chosen On Council
With the new heart device, Dr. Bailey and his associates believe the
Robert Houvener, engineering senior, was elected representative to the engineering council at a meeting of the American Institute of Architects Nov. 30. Houvener will represent the department of architecture on the council.
Charles Striebey, instructor of architecture, gave an informal talk on the school of architecture in Fontainebleau, France, where he studied architecture during the summer. Slides illustrating the set up of the school were shown.
SAM To Hear Talk On Sales Problems
"Problems in Sales Management" will be the topic of C. L. Baker of the U. S. Rubber company who will speak Wednesday, Dec. 13 to the Society for the Advancement of Management.
Mr. Baker is the sales manager for the Kansas City district of the clothing and footwear divisions of the company.
time is "not too far distant" when a heart and lungs can be put out of function while heart and lung repairs are made.
At the time when a heart patient has cardiac stoppage or "dies" while undergoing the delicate operation the doctors plan to wheel the heart-lung device into the operating room, and quickly apply it to the human being. Such will not be done, they point out, until all accepted methods of resuscitation have been tried and failed. So far, the "right" patient for the machine has not come along.
Tau Omega Initiates 12
Twelve members were initiated Nov. 29 into Tau Omega, national honorary aeronautical engineering fraternity, in the Pine room of the union.
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, spoke on "The Qualifications of a Successful Engineer," at a banquet in the English room of the Union.
The new members are: Diane Carpenter, graduate student; Robert Slosson, Richard Sutton, Robert Vetter, seniors; Richard Etherington, Robert Holman, Robert E. Miller, William Stinson, Walter Teegarden and Marvin White, juniors.
Harry W. Johnson, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering, was initiated as an associate member, and Norman W. Hoecker, Civil Aeronautics Authority aircraft inspector, as an honorary initiate.
Hawaiian Club To Show 'Islands' Film
A film about the Hawaiian islands made by the United Airlines will be shown to students by the Hawaiian club in the West ball room in the Union building at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12.
It will be part of the program of the club which aims to promote interest in Hawaii, to promote Hawaiian as the 49th state, and to make the people of Kansas conscious of Hawaii.
Therefore, the club adopted the name Hui O Hawaiiiana, which means club of Hawaiiana, because the membership consists of both Hawaiians and persons interested in the islands.
The club's members met Saturday night for a Hekka dinner in the home of one of the students. Hekka is a Japanese meal.
Floundering Midwest Storm Takes 34 Lives In 3 Days
A big winter storm floundered amicably around the midwest, driving rains brought new flood threats to the Pacific coast and a cold wave gripped most of Dixie today. The wintry blasts took a rising toll of lives. A United Press survey showed at least 34 deaths attributed to the weather since the onslaught of the storms Monday.
O'Lakes, Wisc., and 28 inches at Duluth, Minn. Today, while still piling snow on the Lake Superior region, it was shoving back westward into the Dakotas.
An accompanying cold wave drove almost due south across the plains to the Rio Grande river and the Gulf of Mexico, then pushed slowly back northward across the corn belt toward the Great Lakes.
By UNITED PRESS
Only the Pacific southwest and the northeastern quarter of the nation escaped. Los Angeles residents went to the beaches in 81-degree temperatures—the hottest in the nation yesterday.
Wide variations in temperature were recorded as the storm thrashed about. While residents of Quincy, Ill. shivered in zero weather early today, Chicago reported a 55-degree reading. The coldest spots were Dickinson, N.D., and Lemmon, S.D., with nine below zero.
People along the North Atlantic seaboard, remembering the big storm of two weeks ago, apprehensively waited for the midwestern storm to make up its mind where it was going.
The storm, which originally swept southeasterly across the great plains, piled snow to depths of 36 inches at Calumet, Mich., 30 inches at Land
Forecasters at Chicago said the storm didn't appear to be going anyplace. "It's just circling around, dumping snow in some areas and pouring rain on others," a forecaster said. "It's the dardest thing!"
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