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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 3, 1968
Anti-smoking resolutions to be adopted by doctors
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)—New resolutions condemning cigarette smoking were under consideration Monday at the 22nd clinical convention of the American Medical Association.
Any one of three resolutions being studied by work committees would, in effect, make the AMA and its 200,000 member physicians leaders in a crusade against cigaret smoking.
Up to now the AMA, which opened a four-day meeting here Sunday with some 4,500 doctors attending, has been reluctant to take a flat stand against smoking.
A policy statement issued in 1964 by its House of Delegates said, "The AMA recognizes a significant relationship between cigaret smoking and the incidence of lung cancer and certain other diseases."
But it would not go beyond that pending the outcome of research "into the exact relationship between smoking and cancer."
One new resolution put forth here commits AMA members "to play a major role against cigarette smoking by personal example" and also by "public pronouncements."
Another would have the AMA itself "condemn all cigaret advertising on television." It made no mention of other forms of advertising, however.
The manner in which a doctor should set an anti-smoking example is spelled out in a third resolution as follows: "By not smoking himself or at least by not smoking in hospital corridors, patients' rooms or in his own office."
Heart exchange mark nears 100
Heart transplants pass their first anniversary Tuesday with nearly 100 operations performed since Dr. Christiaan Barnard's first last Dec. 3 and with 43 persons around the world living on borrowed hearts.
Among them was Dr. Philip Blaiberg, Barnard's second patient, the third in the world, and the longest surviving recipient, who completed his 11th month with his new heart Monday.
Blaiberg shared a drink at his Cape Town, South Africa, apartment Monday with South Africa's third transplant patient, Petrus Smith.
"I feel better now than before I had my first coronary attack 13 years ago." Blaibar said.
As of Monday, 97 transplants had been performed upon 95 patients. Two patients had two transplants each. Of the 95, 52 were dead.
The world's first transplant patient, Louis Washkansky, 53, a Lithuanian-born grocer, died of double pneumonia 18 days after receiving the heart of Denis Darvall, 25, a traffic accident victim.
Blaiberg the heart of Clive Haupt, 24, who died of a stroke at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Barnard on Jan. 2, 1968, gave
The second longest surviving patient is the Rev, Jean-Marie Boulogne, Catholic priest from Marseilles, who received the heart of a 39-year-old man in Paris May 12.
The longest survivor in the United States is Fred C. Everman, 58, of Arlington, Va., who underwent the surgery July 20 at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston, performed by Dr. Denton Cooley.
The University of Kansas Theatre will present "A Little Princess," today through Thursday at Wyandotte High School. The opera was first performed at KU last month.
'Princess' to move to KC
Kay Bethea, Baton Rouge graduate student and director of the opera, adapted it from the book, "A Little Princess," by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Miss Bethea also wrote the musical score.
The children's opera will also be performed at the Kansas City Music Hall, Dec. 11-14. Since the show is about children
The bulk of this problem was handled by B. J. Myers, Overland Park senior and head costume designer for the opera.
will be viewed by many youngsters during the Kansas City tour, making it believable to children is a problem.
Death toll reaches high
"Turning 21-year-olds into children," she said, "was no easy task."
(UPI)-Traffic accidents on the nation's highways over the Thanksgiving weekend claimed a record high death toll for any holiday. A final count yesterday showed 762 persons died.
The toll surpassed the previous high of 748 traffic fatalities set during the 1966 Thanksgiving weekend and the previous summer holiday record toll of 730 during the July 4 holiday of 1967.
United Press International counted a total of 883 accidental deaths from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday. They included 762 traffic deaths, 7 deaths in plane crashes and 114 miscellaneous deaths.
Miss Myers was aided by the notes of cast members. After many read the original book, each gave her his interpretation of his character.
California had the most traffice fatalities-66. Texas counted 54, Ohio 45, New York 36, Florida 35, Michigan 33 and North Carolina 30.
Miss Myers substituted cottons for the materials worn during the period. For most little girl characters the waistlines were either raised or lowered to disguise the rounded figures.
Linda Fenter, head seamstress, said some of the servant girls looked like mothers-to-be instead of children. In those instances Miss Fenter said they merely "re-distributed the gathers."
After disguising the folds of fabric, ribbons and lace, the final job is left to the actors. They must portray their characters to a most critical and merciless audience—children.
ANTE PEARL'S CHUCK WAGON
During the late nineteenth century, taffetas and satins were the fashion even for children. Their clothing was often an imitation of their elders. But in this case the "little girls" had rounder figures than the original characters.
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