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.
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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.
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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. He had not, he said, in.
tended to make any statement,
and he added that he had fended
off inquiries from reporters dur
ing public appearances Tuesday,
But, he said, transplants are of
great world-wide interest "and so
there’s apparently no way of
avoiding this unfortunate pub
licity.”
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