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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 7, 1967 CADET SLOUCH “At first I thought it was a crap game, but they meet here every night to replay a tape of the T.U. game broadcast!” Housing Squeeze Critical To B-CS The most valuable commodity in Bryan-College Station isn’t education, single young ladies, or even Old Crow. It’s housing. The predictions for increased undergraduate and grad uate enrollment is rosey, but the predictions for the avail ability of new, or even old low-cost housing is bleak. A&M President Earl Rudder cited the need for private enterprise to furnish additional housing in a speech late last month. Service officers living in the area while they attend A&M’s graduate school have compared the Bryan-College Station housing problem to that of towns located near Air Force or Army installations.—insufficient and expensive. The plush new apartments which have appeared in the area since last year have a monthly price tag expensive for staff employes and much too expensive for married students. More low-cost student housing at College View or Hensel rates is needed for undergraduate and graduate students of the near future. The biggest set-back to private investment in housing projects and personal home buying and building is a fore cast for higher interest rates ind this area and throughout the nation. The rate on loans today is between 6.75 and 7.5 per cent, and intrest on mortgages may climb to 8 per cent be fore next year. This stifles the much needed home building incentive, and puts a premium on every available home in the area. Homes where some students would have never con sidered living and for good reason are now becoming more attractive, and more expensive. Nothing could attract faculty and students more than the prospect of modern, adequate housing. A potential gold mine is waiting the builder who can finance more large housing projects. The higher interest rates, the higher cost of land, high taxes and rising cost of education are all working against home builders and buyers. We look for news of increased construction plans, an ease on “tight” money, and com munity interest in this increasingly critical housing problem. — Sound Off — Editor, The Battalion: Mr. Roger Baur is to be compli mented on the idea of a blood drive to show support of our fight ing men in Viet Nam. As a twice wounded veteran of Viet Nam, I can reemphasize the need for blood to replace that which a man wound ed in combat loses. I, personally, was not wounded seriously enough to need whole blood, but I had occasion while being Medivaced by helicopter to assist medics in giving blood plas ma to one of my men who had a very bad throat wound in which the jugular vein and a minor neck artery were severed. Due to the fact that whole blood was avail able at An Khe, the man is still alive today. I also knew of many other men who would not be alive today, but are alive and safe be cause of whole blood that was donated. Other universities in this coun try protest and riot to draw at tention to themselves. Let the Ag gies stand tall and proud as they continue to support their country and all it stands for. The life that you save by donating blood might well be a fellow Aggie. Texas A&M has a long and proud record of responding to our country’s call in time of need. Keep up the Proud Tradition of A&M and donate blood to aid our fight ing men in Viet Nam, of which there are 648 Aggies. T. W. Wiley III ’62 (See Sound Off, Page 3) Surgeon Will Try Again by Jim Earle Second Human Heart Transplant Fails By JOHN BARBOUR AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors transplanted a dead baby’s heart TU Joke Contest Interest Light Entries in the contest being sponsored by The Battalion, J. E. Loupot, and Wayne Ringer to compile the best jokes; and car toon about tu and her inhabi tants are coming slowly, but the ones that have been received will be hard to beat- The best effort will be reward ed with $25 first prize. Second and third place winners will re ceive $15 and $10, respectively Entries should be brought to The Battalion Office, located in the basement of the YMCA, and deposited in the container pro vided for this purpose. Bulletin Board THURSDAY The Eagle Pass Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the YMCA. The Bell County Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205 of the Academic Build ing. The Mechanical Engineering Seminar Program will hear a dis cussion of the Kelly AFB Story in Room 303, Fermier Hall at 10 a.m. Speaker will be Curtis J. Grossenbacher, chief of the Over head Engineering- Branch at Kel ly AFB. The Brazoria County Hometown Club will meet in Room 108 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. The Rio Grande Valley Home town Club will make plans for the Christmas Party at 7:30 p.m. in Room 207 of the YMCA Build ing. The LaGrange Hometown Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 223, Dormitory 18. The San Angelo-West Texas Hometown Club will meet in Room 108 of the Academic Building at 7:30 p.m. Christmas party tic kets will be distributed. TUESDAY The Entomology Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the home of Mrs. J. S. Mogford. 520 Helena. The Texas Student Education Association will have the club picture for the Aggieland made at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 2C-D of the Memorial Student Center. Unitarians Hear Philosophy Prof Dr. Manuel Davenport, head of the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M, will speak on “A Defense of Existentialism” at an 8 p.m. Sunday meeting of the Unitarian Fellowship at 305 Old Highway 6 South. Dr. Davenport holds A.B. and M.A. degrees in philosophy and religion from Bethany Nazarine College and Colorado College and received his Ph.D. degree in Phil osophy from the University of Illinois in 1957. The new Head of the Philosophy Dept, at Texas A&M arrived this September aft er spending the previous ten years teaching Philosophy at Col orado State University. Dr. Davenport has achieved numerous honors and awards in his field, among them are in cluded a w a r d s for faculty achievement and teaching as well as grants for Albert Sweitzer Re search studies. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. 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Advertising school to 2% st. Address: The Battalion, a student newspap S .a May, and once a week during summer school. on, blished in College Stati and Monday, and publishe Sunday, on, Te: holiday per at daily periods, September Texas A&M is except Saturd; aturday. through Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association EDITOR CHARLES ROWTON Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor John McCarroll Sports Editor Gary Sherer Staff Writers Bob Palmer, John Platzer Editorial Columnist Robert Solovey Photographer Mike Wright into the breast of a 2 -week-old boy Wednesday, but after G 1 /^ hours, the heart failed. Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the chief surgeon, his face grim, an nounced the failure. “We do not know at this time why this trans planted heart failed,” he said. IT WAS THE world’s second reported human heart transplant, and the first reported in the Uni ted States. Only four days ago, South African surgeons trans planted the heart of a young woman, who had just died, into the chest of a 55-year-old grocer. He was doing well and reportedly might go home in three weeks. But in Wednesday’s operation at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Hos pital, the baby boy who received a tiny heart died at 1 p.m. At tempts to revive the child were unsuccessful. Asked if he were planning to try again, Dr. Kantrowitz said: “We certainly are.” BOTH INFANTS, he said, were in the operating room and doc tors waited several hours for the donor baby to die. The donor baby died at 2:30 a.m., and doctors began procedures within minutes. The 22-member surgical staff operated for 214 hours beginning at 4:15 a.m. But after the opera tion, they were guarded about the outlook, and would say only that pulse and blood pressure were relatively stable. Dr. Kantrowitz, who pioneered operations in implanting “helper hearts” to assist a patient’s ail ing heart, told newsmen of the “enormous emotional drain” of the day. Members of his team, he said, were “disheartened and feel sad.” THE BABY THAT received the heart was born with a defective valve on the right side of his own heart. Kantrowitz said the defect could not be operated on. The defect, called a severe tri cuspid atresia, impairs the heart's ability to pump dark, oxygen- poor blood through the lungs where it is freshened. When the baby was born, he was cyanotic, or blue, from lack of oxygen. “We scoured the country for two weeks asking for children born with brain lesions incom patible with life—and anence- phalic children where the brain is almost totally destroyed and where the child generally dies after two days following birth,” Dr. Kantrowitz said. He said 500 hospitals were contacted by tele gram in the search for a donor. HE LEARNED OF such a child—another boy—bom Monday in Philadelphia. The parents, whom Dr. Kantrowitz described as “intelligent and understand ing 1 ,” gave permission for the operation, he said. Taking the heart from the 2- day - old boy, the doctors pet formed the operation. “What we want to do essen. tially is make one whole infant from two who cannot survive," Kantrowitz said. Asked by newsmen how diffi. cult it was to operate on infants, he said: “Certainly it is more difficult emotionally, and I think more difficult technically.” Kantrowitz said it was unfor. tunate that research experiments like this get into the press head, lines. 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