Woman Sews Pig Heart Valves for Transplant Team
Laurette van Neikerk joins Prof. Christiaan Barnard at the University of Cape Town Medical School to sew pig heart valves into human hearts. She notes the job requires skilled sewing and patience, with about 20 valves completed in weeks. The valves are prepared by cleaning and sterilizing pig tissue and attaching it to a dacron frame to prevent rejection.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Christiaan Barnard
Laurette van Neikerk
van Neikerk
University of Cape Town
Medical School
Today in History July 24 highlights key events
On July 24 in history, 1704 British captured Gibraltar. 1783 Simon Bolivar born in Caracas. 1847 Brigham Young arrived at Great Salt Lake. 1866 Tennessee readmitted to the Union. 1929 Kellogg Briand Treaty in force. 1959 Nixon Khrushchev clash in Moscow opening exhibition. other notes include Ghana’s Nkrumah in 1950s Washington and a nuclear test ban. Pope Paul VI met Orthodox Patriarch in 1966.
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Gibraltar
Brigham Young
Great Salt Lake Valley
Utah
Tennessee
Herbert Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Washington
Dwight Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Pope Paul VI
Turkey
Atheagoras
Orthodox Church
Weather outlook for Texas regions through Thursday
Snyder area sees 94 high and 69 low with 71 at 7 am. Northwestern Texas stays warm with 90s highs and 66 to 73 lows tonight. North Central and Northeast Texas expect 92 to 102 highs with 70 to 78 lows and scattered thundershowers. Southeastern Texas remains warm with 84 to 92 highs and 72 to 80 lows. South Central and Southwestern Texas stay warm. Pecos districts show 92 to 105 highs and 62 to 80 low tonight, with isolated showers and thundershowers.
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Snyder
Texas
North Central
Lower
Pecos
Heavy gunfire in Cleveland leaves ten dead and chaos on East Side
Snipers armed with rifles and shotguns opened fire on a police tow truck in Cleveland injuring many as 10 people, including three police officers, were killed. National Guardsmen moved in to restore order amid looting, arson, and widespread unrest.
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Cleveland
Ohio
National
East Side
Beulah Avenue
123Rd Street
Allied forces uncover large weapons caches near Saigon
Allied units clashed with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops southwest and east of Saigon while uncovering sizable caches of weapons in other areas near South Vietnam’s capital. In northern provinces, Viet Cong activity remained a concern.
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Associated Press
Saigon
South Vietnam
9Th Infantry Division
U.S
Rites Set For Ex Snyderite James West 48
James Paul West 48 of Abilene and former Snyder resident died Tuesday afternoon in Hendrick Memorial Hospital after a heart attack at home. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Thursday at North’s Chapel. graveside 3 p.m. Thursday in Snyder. Survivors include Emma Dennis West, a daughter, parents Clifton and Mrs. West, and a sister. West was a World War II veteran and a Crescent Drive-In projectionist. Burial arranged by Bolger Funeral Home.
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James Paul West
Abilene
Snyder
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
North
Funeral Home Chapel
Tommy Shaver
Church of Christ
Bolger
Cameron County
Emma Dennis
San Angelo
Crescent Drive - In Theater
Roxy McDaniel
Clifton West
Coleman
Erma Nell Tomlisin
Tucson, Ariz
Setback for Johnson Foreign Aid Plan Deepens
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to restore the nearly 1 billion cut from President Johnson’s foreign aid request and trimmed an additional 22.9 million. Observers expect the total to drop to about half of the original ask, with a long path through hearings and further reductions. The program faces its lowest funding level in 21 years amid criticism and shifts in support related to the Viet Nam war and costs.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Senate
Vietnam
Defense Department
Police Reinforcements Quell Fourth Night Disorder
New York AP reports 250 members of the Tactical Patrol Force patrolled the Lower East Side for the fourth consecutive night. 13 arrests were made after a bottle-throwing attack on police sparked by protests against the riot control presence. A residents parade organized as a cooling off disrupted the unrest and by 1 a.m. the area was quiet.
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New York
Lower East Side
Harriman Presses North Vietnam on South Vietnamese Role
Ambassador W Averell Harriman told North Vietnamese negotiators in Paris that progress toward peace requires recognition of South Vietnam s government in shaping a settlement of the Vietnam war. He urged the North to acknowledge the South’s political role as part of any lasting accord.
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Paris
W. Averell Harriman
South Vietnam
Abilene Brothers Die In U S 84 Crash
Manuel V Chavana 29 and Pedro Chavana 26, both of Abilene, were injured seriously when their car overturned on U S 84 near Ezell Key Grain Co at 12 35 am. Manuel died at Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Pedro was treated for multiple fractures and taken to Hendrick Memorial Hospital.
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Manuel V. Chavana
Mesquite
Abilene
Pedro
U.S. 84
Ezell-Key
Pedro Chavana
U. S
Ezell- Key Grain Co
Manuel
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Justice of the Peace
J. P. Billingsley
Snyder Ambulance Service
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
Bell Scale Funeral Home
Riker - Warren Funeral Home
Chrysler
River Jordan Skirmish Edge of Beisan Valley
Israeli and Jordanian forces clashed briefly across the Jordan River south of the Sea of Galilee. An armored border police vehicle came under light fire near Never in the Beisan Valley, prompting a return of fire from Israeli troops.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Jordan
Sea of Galilee
Never
Beisan
Hayley v y Rites Set Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs Bernice Dorothy Hayley 62 will be held at 10 30 a m Thursday at the East Side Church of Christ where she was a member Bill Minnick minister will officiate Burial will be in Hillside Memorial Gardens under Bolger Funeral Home Pallbearers Jack Dupree Lon Faver W A McGlain Rex Fields and Nile Carruthers She was the manager of the S H Green Stamp Store and died Tuesday morning in Cogdell Memorial Hospital
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Bernice Dorothy Hayley
East Side Church of Christ
Bill Minnick
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bolger Funeral Home
Jack Dupree
Lon Faver
W. A. McGlain
Rex Fields
Nile Carruthers
Hayley
S&h
Toxic gas cloud sends thousands fleeing in West Virginia
A chlorine compound cloud from a FMC Corp plant explosion near South Charleston forced mass evacuations. More than 200 people sought treatment for inhalation and irritation as the fire burned into the early morning hours and traffic jams tied up roadways. Evacuations covered South Charleston, parts of Charleston across the Kanawha River, and Dunbar with none reported in critical condition among treated individuals.
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South Charleston
W.va
Charleston
Kanawha River
FMC Corp. Inorganic Chemicals Division
Civil Defense
Silas F. Starry
South
Dunbar
Kanawha
FMC Plant
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Simon Bolivar
Caracas
Venezuela
Lice
Brink
W. Marvin Watson
Senate Post Office Committee
Washington, D.C
Lakeview Road
125Th Street
Hough
James A. Rhodes
Cincinnati
Adjutant General
Columbus
Carl B. Stokes
Stokes
Lakeview Avenue
George Mahon
D-Tex
House Appropriations Committee
NY Police
Day
Sixth Street
TPF
Avenue C
Harriman
Sweetwater
Tony Chavana
Snyder Country Club
River Jordan
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