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THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.
Interesting News Stories. From All Parts Of The World
TWO AMAZING OPERATIONS
DOG'S LUNG KEPT
HIM ALIVE
Minneapolis..?
A dog's lung kept a 13-year-old boy alive while a University of Minnesota surgeon closed three small holes in his heart.
For 15 minutes he worked in the boy's "dry heart." while the dog's lung kept his blood supplied with oxygen.
confermice,
DXT-
Heart Split Open Like A Pork Chop
Chicago.
Mrs Lorraine Mackowiak's" cheeks were red, her feet were warm, and she didn't feel like faint- ing this week for the first time in her life.
This was because of an unprecedented operation in which she was put in a "frozen sleep" and her heart was stopped twice for a total of 16 minutes.
Mrs Mackowiak, 25, was r0- teased from Wesley Memorial
from the daring, two-stage opera-
and her husband added: "Mer feet are warm for the first time
Yemen's
From Cairo: coffers to
gold
IT'S TIE
fabulous
be opened..
Two amazing heart opera-
From U.S.A.tions are undertaken.
From Genoa. A remedy for smoking
cigarettes without tobacco,
Fewer people are get- From London: ting conscience-stricken
about dodging taxes.
tion in which her heart was OPENING UP THE FABULOUS
sliced open "like a pork chop."
The dramatic new technique, A 31-year-old dector of sur-
Gilbers. Campbell. another "Arst" by university ¦ gery. doctors in this type of opera- fected the latest operation. He
at a news told newsmen that to his know-Hospital, completely recovered | I've known her."-United Press. tion, was revealed
ledge was the first time The boy, Calvin Richmond of human blood had been pumped Pine Bluff, Ark., was operated through an animal lung with on a few days ago. Now he is success. reported in "good condition."
Injured in a truck accident last August, Calvin had been A year to live by Uni- - given
Arkansas doctors versity of unless the holes could be closed,
Dry Surgery
100 Experiments
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Dr. Campbell said he began work on the technique about nine months ago and about 100 | animal_ experiments preceded
the first human operation.
He was flown to the Uni- The patient died. Dr Camp- versity of Minnesota last week bell said, because the defect in!. because of the institution's suc- his heart was "impossible to cess in "dry heart" surgery, Delose," first la "deep freeze" lechnique
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"But we were convinced the and more recently in a revolt operation would work," he said. tionary cross-circulation opera- | tion.
Calvin's mother was given the choice of the cross-circula- fion or dog lang operation. She chose the latter.
Until "dry, surgery" was per fected, surgeons literally had in the heart, to work blind"
the feeling their way. With heart free of blood," they can see what they're doing.
Dr. Campbell said the cross- circulation operation
Mrs Mackowiak had spent her life with two muscle bands which ordinarily disappear be fore birth clamped on the right ventricle of her heart
The flow of blood to her lungs was cut down, leaving her pale and feeling like fainting most of the time.
In A Cold Blanket
A team of five surgeons. ana 12 asristants started the opera, tion en Mrs Mackowiak by giving her drugs which discen- nect the brain's temperature Then she was thermostat. wrapped in a blanket through which a refrigerant fowed.
Her
was
The earlier "deep freeze" similar to the dog lung method, that a human donor's except technique kept the heart dry
heart circulates
the patient's only a few minutes.
blood as well as his
A Own. mechanical pump acts as an artificial heart in the dog lung
Blueprint Of A Dream
This Flying
body temperatur
GOLD COFFERS OF YEMEN
Cairo.
The hoarded gold and silver treasures of Yemen are opening up to set the Arabian people on the road to modern economic prosperity.
Crown Prince and Prime Minister Seif El-Islam El-Badr said the old chests of Beit El-Mal-the "House of Money," or state treasury- would be opened soon to finance new economic projects designed to increase national production and raise the standard of living among the people.
dropped from 98.6 to 80 degrees the hoarded gold and silver managed
into a state and she sank semi-hibernation.
The surgeons were then to clamp of the veins
in a dry field.
of
able estimated the amount between and 100,000,000 and 200,000,000 silver
to
was
death gold
The youthful hair-apparent, traditionalist policy at home had wealth. He was pronounced a the country's who saved his father's crown by resulted in continued shrinkage rebel against
His abortive rallying friendly
legitimate ruler. tribes against of state expenditures. his rebellious uncle, Seif El-Islam
This policy
was stated, had incurred specially coup. Abdullah, said the amount of pursued by Imam Yehya, who damage to individuals, and these
to save millions both should be given compensation. teagures was a closed secret. for the state and for, humsel. His
But Yemeni
at his here own fortune quarters
1,230,000 amounted sovereigns.
This private wealth was dis-
the tributed among
Imam's thirteen sons and four daughters. According to Moslem law, "the tairs get equal sums, except that the son receives twice as much as the daughter. Each son re- ceived: 82,000 sovereigns, and cach daughter 41,000..
Maria
Theresa
rials-the
to
method, feeding the blood into arteries at the heart and to wors j'equivalent of £25,000,0000
the dog lang.
In the dog's lung, about the size of an inflated" "football, the
to the patient's
Mrs Mackowiak's heart was split open "like a pork-chop,” a surgeon said, and in four-and-a-
My blood is supplied with oxygen half minutes the first
Saucer Was Real
rose
New York.
and returned body
as near normal as when it left," Dr Campbell said, Main Barrier
the
war
The lung is removed from the dog about an hour before operation, the doctor said. Dr Campbell, a Korean There weren't any crea- !
veteran, said other animal tures from Mars aboard as a lungs had been tried, such as miniature "flying saucer" that of a pig, but they proved
from a cow pasture unsatisfactory, into the sky..
"Our main barrier was get ting the blood through the dog's The saucer was real, too. But Jung." Dr Campbell said.
lung and mechanical The it was unpiloted.
side It soared quickly to 2.000 pump are placed side by
about six feet from the patient, feet and cruised over some dis-
he said. The lung rises and interested cattle. When
falls as oxygen is pumped into engine sputtered, the Saucer it by a member of the surgical to earth where team who must watch the lung was hastily covered from prying eges by 's inventors, Robert and Norman Day.
Aoated back
the
The fight was one of many the Day brothers have completed successfully with
at all times during lon-United Press,
£50,000,000.
Saved Millions
A spokesman of the Yemeni muscle Embassy in Cairo said the hoards The had remained untouched since
removed. hand. 123
stepped woman's heart was during this period, and doctors needed four rninutes of massage and drugs to bring it back to life.
A Second Time The heart was then sewn up
to: and beat normally
45
minutes. Then it was cut open again and the second band was eut. Once again, the heart was stopped and four minutes WITC needed to revive it.
It was believed to be the first time in medical history that two such bands had been removed in the same operation in an open, dry field,
Mrs Mackowiak showed ne signs of her ordeal when she returned to her husband and year-old son,
nuch >"I'vo"never the opera-
had this pep before in my life," she said.
scale-mode Dodgers Not Playing The Game
"saucers" at their accret testing grounds here. One day they hope to be aboard a saucer of their own design when it leaves the posture.
Strange Little Beings
Right now they are trying to achieve with balsa wood, päpet end tiny engines a replica of the huge circular craft which Robert dreamed two years ago landed in his backyard Robert awoke just as some strange little beings elambered out and ran toward him. Instead of calling a psychiatrist, the 47-year-old
saucer, he said.
CONSCIENCE MONEY
FLOOD
BECOMES A TRICKLE
London.
A Poor Man
A special court is scheduled to be formed to apply Moslem law on Abdullah's fortune. What- ever is left of his property. would be divided
among his rightful heirs,
Advice From Abroad
ploration
Crown Prince El-Badr said the Yemen would ask Egyptian and other Arab experts to visit the assassination of Iman Yehya,
the country and advise the father of present King Ahrned.
Government the best possible
nent on in 1948. They are kept in safes
projects to raise production. In contrast to his father, pre- at the Sakhra (Rock) Palace on
The Yemen's chief exports are hill
putside the old sent King Ahmed is a poor man. a store
is and salt. The country volice capital of San'a
He is generous with money gifts anxious to step up production of The hoards
tribesmen, were collected to the
and hardly these two items. With oil fow- trom through long years of the ruling anything remains Mutawakkil dynasty,
during monthly salary he receives from ing in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the Yemen recently directed its which the Yemen's Isolationist the state. This generous attitude, attention toward petroleum ex- in its own territory. policy in foreign affairs and which forms part of his friendly
policy toward the tribesmen, has. Former Premier Seit El-Islam stood him in good stead at his El-Hassan visited West Germany darkest hour, when the
the tribes-
ein 1953 and reached agreement men took up arms to defend his with German companies to PS- throne against his ambitious brother Seif Ei-Islam Abdullah.pect for o, improve salt pro- Cuction and buld a road On the other hand Abdullah, net
network in the Yemen was beheaded last month for his abortive coup, had been
large able to amass a
personal wealth. While serving as foreign minister, he carried out extensive Genoa.
transactions with commercial foreign countries. He It all seems like a Scotch Lebanese aide whe and soda without Scotch but business oftairs. Dr Angelo Chiauzzi insista Abdullah's fortune is not yet his
as it is scattered in invention of "Anti-foreign banks in France, Britain, to the desire of new enlightened tobacco" is the remedy for the United States, Lebanon, and of its fenced-in mediaeval con- smokers.
Egypt. The Yemeni government
and asked these
emerge into the banks for ditions has
broad light of modern times. accounts of Abdullah's deposits.
United Press heirs are.
his Abdullah's
and sister. mother, brother, However, the law of Islam will
CIGARETTES WITHOUT TOBACCO
At the International Medical Congress, held here recently, Dr Chlauzzi reported on this i vention of his. He said it was zuon-toxic and contained nicotine and in fact it was just ension" for it wasn't even tabacca at all.
I why
known,
had a managed his
Arab League officials believe that the Yemeni
government's new
interest in national economie development stems from the at- tempted coups of 1948 and 1955. These movements, they said, in- dicated the growth of political fermentation in the once-isolated
country.
This fermentation is attributed
classes to see their country shake
be applied first on Abdullah's Siestas On Way Out
WHY HE GREW A BEARD
Madrid.
The long Spanish lunch hour "Antliobacco" is made up of
is threatened. On all sides there aromatic leaves principally and
are reports of plans to bring spezially cured creating the
Spain into line with the other appearance and aroma of tobacco,
countries of the Western world Dr Chiauzzi said the formula
and work through the day in would remain secret until patent
shops and offices instead of rights came though. He has
closing
for two or three hours filed his invention and beneficial
between 1:30 and 4:30. Winnipeg. Peter Pinney, 32, a footloose claims of the product with the
the first organisations Australian now exploring his to drop the lunch-time siesta is Genos Medical Society.
Dr Chlauzzi worked on his in-fourth continent, finds a beard the famed Prado. Museums. It venticci after.
startling is associated today with a has announced plans
to oper
its results of the "cause-and-effect" nefarious mind.
doors throughout the day for
tourists who don't have the
the
Опо
Tax collectors reported a decline today in the number sign painter reached for a pad of consciences being stricken among British tax dodgers, end sketched all he could re-
The Board of Inland Revenue still dutifully inserts member about the imaginary thank you" notices in "The Times" whenever conscience drives a coward to pay up-anonymously--what he owes. Robert showed the sketch
relationship between cigarette "The only reason I'm wearing the convenience of thousands of The classified columns of this fingerprints to Norman, a 52-year-old car-
or postmarks," the smoking and hung cancer. He is it is to save me the monotony included penter who built model aero week's "Times"
the spokesman said. "We always convinced smoking
confirmation affects the lung and has spent said here recently on his way to
greatly of shaving every morning," he siesta habit-United Press. planes as a
insert a hobby, and they following: "The Board of In- try to have been working on "sau- land Revenue acknowledge re-notice in "The Times'."
considerable time and thorough Aklavik on the Mackenzie River. cers' ever since.
ceipt of £150 conscience money
"Canadians show Buch in- from XYZ.
research on the effect of smoking not only to the lungs but other teresting reactions (to a beard) parts of the human body as well that I've decided to keep it,
A Big Drop. | had intended to do away with it when I landed in Montreal In April
The money is carried in Her Majesty's official accounts as in the bucket "Money: remitted the old days," | Chancellor of the Exchequer by spokesman sundry persons."-United Press.
"In the "process" said Nor-
"Just a drop rrian, "we think we've dis- covered a Tew aerodynamic compared with principle. We call it Gyroco- an Inland Revenue pic flight."
Jet Power
Their latest model, the "Mar- tan," is 30 inches in diameter and looks like a flying wagon
wheel. Tearing someone will
steal
works But
they
said
explained, "We once had a man who couldn't sleep at nights and who used to mail us £1,000 notes.
Render To Caesar Another insomniac, he said,
to
the
Spain Wants More Tourists
Madrid.
doing
Furt
their ideas, the Days sent along the taxes he escaped don't give much detall how it with an anonymous letter citing
Spanish officials the the biblical reference to rend- power comes from either aering to Caesar. An money everything they can to raise the small jet engine or a
gasoline arrives at the Treasury in Bankamus tourist influx to the engine hitched to a propeller of England notes blade in the "bub" of
wheel.
without a theclps to the senter's identity.
The spokesman quoted statis- tics
turved money
1928 £14,000,
1943-£3,101.
in
3,000,000 mark.
Last year
the tourist figure
The Genoa doctor claims a big drop occurred in Italy in
tobacco consumptices immediate. Pinney, whose beard is curly black, said one man stopped by atter, the first results of the him on a Winnipeg street and survey. Cigarette smokers either when he answered that it was stopped smoking altogether OT because he failed to nd greatly reduced the number of pleasure in shaving, the MILREL cigarettes they smoked a day asked for his autograph partly from fear of the dreaded
Dangerous Character disease and Partly from *
He: sald that was Equine interest for their health.
But the lure of nicotine or the different from the reactions of stronger habit breaks all these others who jump to the conclu- “dangerous for resolutions. It was necessary. to get around this "obstacle" by offering something of
cleareste cicing-lung cancer asked him the reason for it.
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true life névant vow f
Wols Disney's PREN AND ME!
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off
sion he is a character.”
been travelling Pinney has sub- Fins making the "spokes of anonymously to support his was around 2,000,000, and this stitute: Hence, Dr Chiauzzi's since his World War II days, in ***the Australian Army, He the wheel allow the sauces to sad conclusion that there is an year there has been an unprece-Anticbacco
How keep
un spinning after the eclipse of conscience where ft dented demand for hotel rooms. Dr Chizuzzi hopes to have worked walked and rode his fuel runs out so it will float
clashes with the wallci: dow
To help cope with the new flood his invention marketed by the way through Europe and Asia
Sydney." of visitors, and to give them the State Monoply. He said that and back to his bome "near
"Antitobacco! not being tobacco Two weeks later he was 1953-1954 fiscal year £2,762. type of accommodation they are it could be made quite openly through Africa and eventually
seeking the maxicipat authors and sold in drug-stees without to Lapland. Later in
London, Sporting Chance
ties of Murcia in the south-east infringing on the State law he wrote two books. his corner of Spain are paying out against private manufacturing travels a 29,000,000 pesetas for
However Dr Chiquzzi said he He believes in travelling light. hotel which will have to would prefer the State to take it He dresses to suit the occasion courte, sykmating pool, a golf over because of the benefit it and carries only a sleeping beg would bring to the Italian nude few incidentalsnited course and bowling alley- United Press,
pation United Press.
The Days said they have an Improved model in the works which can rise vertically, hover or move off in any direc tion at high, speed";
True to British tradition the Dravinga of
full-scale tax banters give the dodger a "flying saucer have been re- sportsman's chance to
the patr gistered by
United "We never try to trace where Press,
the money comes from through
a zew
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