Ping Pong heart valve saves man at 49 in California
In Sacramento Harry Carver, a 49 year old heavy equipment operator, received a pioneering ping-pong style tricuspid valve transplant after a defective valve and hole in the heart left him disabled. The May 22 operation used a custom titanium frame with a silicon rubber ball to prevent backflow. By June 26 he walked out of Sutter Memorial Hospital pink and hopeful, with doctors predicting a return to work.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Harry Carver
Einstein
Africa
Carver
Western Hemisphere
Sutter Memorial Hospital
Robert S. Cartwright
Edward Smeloff
Placerville
South Africa advances Bantustan plan amid growth push
South Africa speeds up a five year program to spend 57 million pounds to build 35 new bantustan towns housing nearly 500,000 blacks within native borders. Border industries near white areas, farms and towns aim to form a black middle class while pushing autonomy and depopulating white urban zones.
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Johannesburg
UPI
South Africa
Tubal
Verwoerd
Pretoria
Britain
United States
United Nations
Africa
Rankuwa
Stretcher Aims To Improve Mine Patient Transport
A new type stretcher used in Grants area uranium mines carries patients vertically or horizontally. Heavy plywood with sled runners and multiple straps secures the body and head, preventing further injury. Inventors Leo Bradshaw and E V Miller of Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corp describe it as combining rigidity and mobility for underground use.
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Grants, N. M
UPI
Grants
Leo Bradshaw
E. V. Miller
Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corp
Rochester Fire Dept Dance Moves to Town Hall
The Rochester Volunteer Fire Department sponsors the first public dance of the season at Town Hall 8 30 p m Saturday. Les Pratt provides music for round and square dancing with a cake walk and refreshments. Proceeds support fire department equipment. The event was moved from Brighton School to Town Hall due to venue availability.
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Rochester
Rochester Volunteer Fire Department
Town Hall
Les Pratt
Brighton
Hercules Engine names a vice president for manufacturing
E A Millheam works manager at the Hercules Engine Division of Hupp Corp was named vice president for manufacturing for the division. He joined the company in 1957 and has led Canton plant operations for the past year where gasoline and diesel engines are produced.
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Cleveland
UPI
E. A. Milheam
Hercules Engine
Hupp Corp
Millheam
Canton
Morgan's Northward Raid Shocks Civil War Era
John Hunt Morgan led a dramatic Confederate cavalry raid from Tennessee through Kentucky Indiana and Ohio in 1863. He crossed the Cumberland River into Kentucky routed Union posts at multiple towns and pressed toward Cincinnati before being cornered and surrendering near Beaver Creek Ohio. The raid covered about 1000 miles with 4000 men at peak but yielded limited military gains yet captivated the Confederacy.
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John S. Mosby
Confederacy
Huntsville
Ala
Lexington
John Hunt
Kentucky
Fort Sumter
Morgan
Bull Run
Shiloh
Tennessee
Ohio
Bragg
William S. Rosecrans
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ohio River
Indiana
Cumberland River
Burkesville
Tebbs Bend
Green River
2Th Michigan
Orlando H. Moore
Moore
11Th
5Th
Pennsylvania
Lee
Michigan
Illinois
Kansas
Indianapolis
Salem
Ind
Harrison
Cincinnati
Bluffington Island
Portland
Basil Duke
Duke
Beaver Creek
New Lisbon
Fire rages in Griffith Park as Los Angeles fires surge
After a night of dry winds a high hazard is declared across 145 square miles of mountain brush. At Griffith Park a major fire erupts forcing 334 firefighters and 33 engines into action, burning 100 acres, with air tankers dropping borate and costs nearing $500,000. Three firefighters are injured. containment lasts into the night.
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Mountain Brush
Los Angeles Region
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Fire Department
Brush
Los Angeles County
Black and Gold Fire Department
Mountain Patrol Division
Santa Monica Mountains
San Fernando Valley
Bel Air
Brentwood
Griffith Park
Charles W. Behm
Department
Marvin E. Meador
Meador
A. J. Savage
Cty
Science test champion to attend atom conference
Top scorer in a Lorain County science test sponsored by Ohio Edison will receive an all expense trip for themselves and their teacher to the National Youth Conference on the Atom in Chicago November 7 to 9. Ten top winners from area schools will be invited, aligning with a larger participation this year.
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Ohio Edison Co
Clearview High School
Chicago
Lorain
Oho Edison Co
Elyria
Vermilion
Wellington
la Grange
Ohio Edison
Lighthouse honors Earhart aviatrix rebuilt by Coast Guard
The Amelia Earhart Light on Howland Island, damaged by WWII naval fire, has been rebuilt by the United States Coast Guard to aid mariners. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared July 2, 1937 en route to Howland. a 2 foot monument was erected by Hawaiian colonists in 1937.
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Washington
Amelia Earhart
United States Coast Guard
mid-Pacific
Howland Island
Lght
Miss Earhart
Fred J. Noonan
Howland
Lae
New Guinea
National Geographic Society
Oakland
Calif
Baker and
Jarvis Islands
United States
Great Britain
Boresa of Air Commerce of
The
Works Progress Administration
War, Navy
Interor Departments
Miss Buarhart
Pearl Harbor
Coast Guard
Blackhaw
Howland, Baker, Jarvis
Enderbury Islands
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