KU
76th Year, No.129
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
RELAYS EDITION
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, April 22, 1966
Ryun jets mile-again!
THE BEGINNING AND END OF A FAST FINISH, RESULTING IN A NEW FRESHMAN NATIONAL RECORD A mile's distance and 3:59 were all that lay between Dick Bornkessel's handoff and Jim Ryun's flashy finale.
—Staff photo by Bill Stephens
MEDICAL HISTORY
Artificial heart beats
HOUSTON — (UPI)—The first artificial heart ever successfully implanted in a human being kept a 65-year-old Illinois coal miner alive today but he remained unconscious and physicians feared he may have suffered brain damage.
In a 6 a.m. medical bulletin, physicians emphasized the fact that Marcel L. de Rudder was still
unconscious and that because of this fact, "physicians fear there may be some brain damage."
Famous Dr. Michael DeBakey, the cardiovascular surgeon who operated on De Rudder for five hours Thursday, and his staff remained all night in De Rudder's room.
DE RUDDER's heart failed on the operating table Thursday and
DeBakey had to massage it back to life with his hand. Physicians generally consider that if a brain is without a fresh supply of blood three minutes in a heart failure, the brain begins to suffer damage.
The bulletin said it was too early to tell what effect the possible brain damage would have on his post-operative course.
City organizes studies for 15th & Iowa corner
ORIGINALLY IT WAS stated there would be no control installed for 12 or 16 months at this corner, a single major outlet for the Daisy Hill complex and a main University artery.
Traffic studies are currently being made at the corner of 15th and Iowa Streets in preparation for installation of traffic signals this fall.
"We hope now to have signals of some type at that intersection by this fall when students return to classes," James Schubert, Lawrence mayor and city commissioner, said.
When the studies are completed recommendations on the type of control will be made by the city and final approval will be made by the State Highway Department.
DeBakey said the artificial heart, implanted about midway in the chest of De Rudder in a five-hour operation Thursday, had taken over 60 per cent of the work of the heart's left ventricle. The left ventricle does 90 per cent of the work of bearing lifegiving blood to the body.
THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, beating 85 times a minute with a "thump-thump" somewhat louder than a real heart, took over most of the workload of De Rudder's faltering heart.
WEATHER
Scattered thundershowers through tonight are forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Low tonight will be in the upper 40's, high tomorrow in the 60's.
Frosh break national mark
By Steve Russell
It was another sub-four-minute mile anchor leg for freshman Jim Ryun and another national freshman relays record for the Kansas frosh in yesterday's opening of the 41st Annual KU Relays.
Ryun's time of 3:59 for his anchor leg of the finals of the Freshman-Junior College Distance Medley gave the junior Jayhawks a total time of 9:50.4 and a new national record and Kansas Relays record for the event, Ryun, the Wichita wonder, turned the last quarter of the mile in a blistering 53.5 seconds.
The record is the second national freshman relays mark to be broken by the KU frosh within a week's time. Last Saturday, at the Emporia Relays, another freshman foursome, which included Ryun, tore apart the old record for the four mile relay by 17.1 seconds with a time of 16:53.9.
RYUN RAN a 3:58 mile anchor leg, in that event, to help make the record possible. Yesterday's effort was his second sub-four-
minute performance within a week.
In yesterday's distance medley, Mike Sheahon, Wichita, ran his 880 yard leg in 1:56.8; Dick Bornkessel, Shawnee Mission, sprinted the 440 yard leg in 49.2; and Mike Petterson, Wichita, covered the $ _{4} $ mile leg in 3:05.4 before giving the baton to Ryun for his sizzling mile.
The old national record for the freshman distance medley run was 9:55, set by Loyola of Chicago in 1965.
The Drake University freshmen took second place in distance medley, followed by Haskell, Kansas State and Emporia State Teachers College.
THE TWO other finals run yesterday in the Freshman-Junior College track events were both won by a team from Oklahoma University.
Rip Winkle, Mike Gregory,
Wayne Long and Glenn Long
capped the 440 yard relay with a
time of 41.2 seconds and returned
See FROSH page 6.