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eatures THE BATTALION Page 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1981 ^ JStudents honor the stegosaurus Colorado may receive state fossil ihoot re usually talmi s a call arland officer^ have to do is on to Channels e are tuned in linutes.” le people arj[ s United Press International tot thinking i DENVER — The stegosaurus — tions ofwhal;;, n armore<; l dinosaur 20 feet long ^fith a brain the size of a walnut — tiay be in line for a bit of posthumous lonor from the state of Colorado. State Sen. Polly Baca Barragan r auctions wij introduced a bill in the Colorado 'suspecting, [J enera [ Assembly Tuesday to de- lare the stegosaurus the official state t’s walking is «tt »ssil. X) because tlieu Barragan said she thinks it’s time poundattbe® he state had an official fossil. It aid. Iready has a state flower (the col- roup of professs lnll)ine ) ; state birc ^ dark bunting); working the# tate anima l (bighorn sheep), and ig youths to i: tate tree (Colorado blue spruce). So :ables. by not a state fossil? The Democratic legislator said bunch-a-b’loons send balloons instead of flowers Let us deliver a bouquet of helium filled balloons to someone you love! A delightful idea for any occasion. Well help decorate your party, too. Call weekday 1 p.m.-5 p.m. 696-4179 the idea was first suggested to her last March in a letter written by the fourth grade class of teacher Ruth Sawdo at McElwain Grade School in Thornton after they made a study of dinosaurs. “We are not sure if we even have a state fossil and we would like your help with this as we think Colorado is richly endowed with fossils and maybe this is something our class could pursue,” the students wrote. Barragan said it was too late in 1980 to draft such legislation, but said she had a bill pre-filed for 1981 — even before her daughter, Moni ca, 9, joined the class this past fall. The children initially considered recommending a supersaurus, but dropped that idea after Dr. James A. Jensen of the Earth Sciences Prepa ration Laboratory at Brigham Young University told them scientists had not found enough of the creature to mount and did not really know what it looked like. The youngsters then decided to recommend the stegosaurus, a crea ture whose remains were first disco vered in Colorado at the Morrison Quarry near Golden in 1877. Five skeletons have since been disco vered in the state, including one dug up by Canon City High School stu dents in Garden Park near Canon City. Scientists said the stegosaurus was 20 feet or more in length, co vered with horn and had a long tail with four spikes. Despite its massive size, it had a tiny brain only the size of a walnut. Barragan admits she really doesn’ have a favorite among the dinosaurs but was willing to abide by whatever the students wanted. She said her daughter personally favored the di- plodocus, a plant-eating dinosaur. “They’re going to have to answer the questions,” Barragan said, laughing. “I don’t know anything ab out the stegosaurus. I told them if they really want this, they should get a campaign going and contact other schools to join the effort. ” Only dying will be given artificial heart United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — The Uni- 'ersity of Utah review committee ed since IMt a PP rove d an artificial heart for "My wifeissii mirmn implantation says the first re- je y_” ipient must be a patient who would to stop thepnsi without it, but researchers want t will hurt lilt k subject to have a good chance for d argued thal I ino ™ a ^bf ( ] ’. After eight months of considera- ker, hip jetion board ill ' on ’ 13-member Review Board neyfortheU or Research with Human Subjects mied the injure ! ave its a PP rov al Tuesday to a uni- the resideni ,ers ‘ty research team’s request to mplant their polyurethane heart in a hat an injunefc ' luman ' the merits oftli "cause the slit 3 and makellr Dr. Ernst Eichwald, the board rhairman, said the Food and Drug ^ministration must now approve he device, which already has been uccessfully tested in animals. The ;o-ahead was expected in about 30 lays. Eichwald said the doctors agreed he first patient would be someone rndergoing cardiac surgery whose ratural heart could not be restarted yany means. The patient would be aken off the heart-lung bypass machine and the artificial organ im planted. “There would be no danger to the patient’s life with the implant be cause he would die without it, ” said Eichwald, a university pathologist. “There is no risk because this is the only possibility this patient would have.” But cardiac surgeon William De Vries, head of the operation team, says they are not considering the surgery a last ditch means of prolong ing the recipient’s life. “My hope is that the patient can live a suitable, acceptable lifestyle,” DeVries said. “But we can’t say how long he will live. It’s hard to put a time value on it.” DeVries has already placed the heart in cadavers and found it main tained acceptable blood pressure and flow. He also has implanted the heart in dozens of calves and sheep. “They had a mean survival period of three months. But we hope to do better in humans,” said the surgeon. The first human recipient would be a “high-risk” person facing cardiac surgery who is otherwise in good health. The subject must be between 17 and 60, DeVries said. The patient also must be willing to live tethered to an external air pump which will drive the heart. Tubes from the electrically driven pump will enter the recipient’s chest. And the patient also must have some financial resources. The heart and power systems each cost about $5,000, and the 10-day hospital stay will run about $4,000. Then, modifi cations to the person’s home would be about $30,000. Artificial hearts have been tested on humans at least twice before. A patient of Texas surgeon Denton Cooley 10 years ago survived for nearly three days. Another patient lived eight hours in an experiment in Argentina last year. ternational i oil tanker»! ed in the Hon ednesday, sp ,000 barrels > no fire and irted, a Coist tid. chindewolfsiii Olympic lemical can* inbound, wi ng the Olynfii ibout 9:40 a.» Christmas trees t uy •. iv'.vjf'frn **‘3 ne an* if* W* * VO f recycled at beach Make This Weekend SOMETHING SPECIAL! Peta 707 SHOPPING VILLAGE 696-6713 $4.50 ea. United Press International SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Withered Christmas trees that brought holiday cheer a month ago are being used to rebuild sand dunes along hurricane-scarred South Padre Island. High winds and storm surges flattened the dunes and cut passes deep into the island when Hurricane Allen hit last August. Cameron County officials said the trees, staked down and tied together with twine, will anchor the blowing sand and start the dunes building again. “When the wind hits the barrier we provide, it causes the sand to drop out and build up. 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