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VOL. 74—NO. 123 N. Y* lltOl, MnUny AL*O f XZtit (AP) - Mike Kasperak, equipped with a donor,heart \is really doing Dr. Sfnimway said blood presTlor tbt next several sure, pulse and temperature art heart mart News - in brief BlailwrgVwife , visits, via door CAPE TOWN. South Africa (AP) - Dr. Philip Riaiberg. in \very satisfactory'* condition with his transplanted heart, saw his wife Sunday for the first time since his operation and chatted five minutes with her through a glass door. •'He was looking too wonder- ful for words. 4 ' said Eileen Blai- berg. -He joked all the time and was very talkative.\ She said her husbarxi kept her -waiting a few minutes to wash and shave ! to \look his best/' Envoy reports on dollar drain WASHINGTON (AP) - Un- dersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach flew home from Eu- rope Sunday to report wide- spread support for U.S. efforts to stem the dollar drain. Katzenbach said. \Every cap- ital approved the principles but some expressed concern about specific provisions. Yet there ireft at the preseat tiffi#;~ Dr. Norman E. Shumway said Sunday afternoon. *5bumway beaded a team of surgeons at Stanford University, which removed tbe failing heart of tbe 54-year-old steel worker Saturday night* replacing it with the heart of a 43-year-oM housewife. The donor, Mrs. Virginia White, had died of a stroke about two hours earlier. ..._, Dr. Shumway, speaking at a crowded news conference in a Stanford School of Medicine classroom, stressed that despite encouraging signs, 4k there is no way at this time to term tbe epi- sode a success.\ Kasperak is fully conscious, Dr. Shumway said, and re- sponding well to instructions. He cannot talk because he has a tube in his throat to aid his breathing. But Kasperak knows he has a new heart. He is worried because nor heart is only about one-third j the size Kasperak's heart was. j The old heart had been enlarged by irreversible disease. He weighs 144 pounds. Mrs. White weighed 120 pounds. ^ --:^ Shumway, smiling confidently after the 44-boor operation, tbe fourth human heart transplant in history, said the patient was being watched every minute and would be kept in the hospital for months under observation. 4fe said the heart is perform- ing well and pumping sufficient blood for its new owner. 'The real work begins now/ 1 Sbumway said. \We have just reached first base.\ The operation began at 5 p.m. and was concluded about 9:30 p.m. Shumway, 44, who developed the transplant technique in sev- en years of experimental work with dogs, said Kasperak's con- dition will be considered critical by tbe body it serves. ^^^ Rejection arises from . the body's natural immune reaction against any foreign object—dis- ease germs or implanted or- gans. .,^ ; :,,,^,* :: ,,,^:^;-. Kasperak suffered from a chronic heart infection that forced his retirement It ago from a Job with a company in Cleveland, Ohio, where he had worked for 30 years. , ...j : ^-- '- ••*,* >••<>. His disease, chronic viral my- ocsrottts, was far advanced and irreversible. He was dying. His heart muscle was turning into Fibrous tissue that wouldn't pump blood. Kasperak told his wife, Ferne, he wanted the transplant opera- tion offered by Dr. Shumway \if a suitable donor turned up.\ \Go ahead, don't waste any time/' Mrs. Kasperak said. \I want you alive and with me.\ The donor, Mrs. White, who ! had never been seriously ifl, suf- <Sng armivemry. ^^^ _ She went into a coma nd was kept alto with vtifidri Dr White.' Martin ROUMM el tin joeaicaj IJBHC, INQ there was no hope, White recalled a mhrmL ted a tkms he and VirginU week ago with friends. JT^ \How marvelous/ Virginia ted sa»;^to Mnftfc^Ti^ someone else a chance to live.' ' •:•-••;. v» *-*-=. ^ - When tbe doctors said Virgin- ia was dying, \I asked them tf there was any type of research going on relating to what ted happened to her, somefcia where she could help.\ White, who lives is nearby ta Clara with thdr children, Judy, 18, and Rickey, 11 White is an administrator lor an electrical Brm. -A press HEART DISCUSSION-Mfte Kasperak; 54, the first adult American to receive a human heart transplant discusses whether or not to undergo tbe operation, with his wife, was universal approbation that Ferne. Mrs. Kasperak reportedly told her hus- President Johnson is such strong measures.\ taking U.S, cairt win for Viets: Percy WASHINGTON (X?) - Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill. said Sun- day he came back from Viet- nam convinced that the United States can't win the war for the I weekend but were beaten off by band \&> ahead, don't waste any time. I want you alive and with me.\ Dr. Norman • \ <UTl TCLEFBOTO) E. Shurauay, of tbe Stanford Medical Ceo- ter, Palo Alto, Calif., led the team which per- formed the operation mating the heart of 43- year-old Mrs. Virginia Mae White, wto died of a brain hemorrhage, and the body of Kasperak, a retired steel worker. Reds open fierce offensive SAIGON (AP> — Communist Vietnamese regulars have infil- enemy launched coordinated at- South Viet says Ho is dead SAIGON (AP) — A South Monitors of North Vietnamese Vietnamese newspaper said broadcasts in Tokyo reported Sunday it had learned * say from Maoists ILS. hit ship *»< \special sources\ that North: hearu « nothm 8 to indicate Ho! TOKY0 (AP) _ ^ aina A R^ p^ Vietnamese President Ho CW ^d died. They said a broadcast | charged Sunday that U.S. j monitored in Tokyo, Minh, 77, died two weeks ago. b y AI1 I nd *a Radio from New planes bombed a Chinese freigb- i crew f armed with The report could not be con- Delhi Saturday reported Ho met! ter in the North Vietnamese \ \ - . .. firmed here or in other world i n Hanoi \some days ago\ with! P° rt of Cam pha m capitals. Radio Hanoi carried no the foreign minister of Cambo- mention of it • dia. A radio spokesman said he In London, British diplomats was unable to specify the aid the s forces opened a series o£ rfiarp trated the northern zones while tacks Sunday against six allied seriously. The U.S. Embassy in northern unale to speciy the said they did not take the report date. Hanoi broadcasts Dec. 31. several crewmen and \seriously\ damaging tbe ship. It said the Chinese \retaliated in self-defense.\ in South provinces Vietnam's U.S. intelligence reports say a positions around the district Saigon and the State Depart- over the major force is poised just above j headquarters of Phu Loc, near I **** in Washington said they the demilitarized zone dividing j the South China Sea 25 miles! **<* **> information on the re- tbe two Vietnams. After U.S. infantrymen re- ported killing 128 Communists Today's News in clashes Saturday south of Da enemy were slain. Marine loss- : report to confirmt tfeL§.\„ Nang. a North Vletnamese-Viet es were 16 killed and 46 wound-' South Vietnamese people. .« | u.S. and South Vietnamese \I cannot envisage a military; fon^. The U.S. Command re- solution/ 1 he added. j ported more than 200 Commu- Percy called on President n^ tilled. Johnson to end bombing of popu- lation centers to test the sinceri-; Mixed forces of North Yiet- ty of reported North Vietnamese, namese and Viet Cong guerril- j Cong force attacked U.S. Ma-! ed, while the casualties among peace feelers But he said las have been concentrating | rines and South Vietnamese mil- j the government troops were re- bombing of \infiltration arxl heavily in the northern zone itiamen holding an important ported light. One civilian was supply routes' should be contin- since the end of the New Year's \ outpost on the main highway be-! killed and one wounded. ued. • i truce. Large numbers of Nortji tween Da Xang and Hue. The ^ L , ^ . _ z -•• - - - - -:• r- -P&i Loe, 390 miles northeast of Saigon, serves as the anchor for allied troops patrolling High- way l between Da Nang and Hue and over the Hai Van Pass. southeast of Hue, the old impe-! rial capital. j J° New Delhi, the Irjdian gov- I ernment, which has an envoy in The U.S. Command said 51 Hanoi, said: \We have had no LBJ, Eshkol talk of peace SAX ANTONIO, Tex (AP) --Ranch. President Joijison and Prime: Eshkol said that this was his Minister Levf. Eshkol of Israel central concern and his country came to the solitude of the Tex- is working to this end as had special significance for the Enemy gunners opened the day. j assault with heavy mortar bar- we ^ rK> ^ \We meet in peac«. We still rages on the district headquar-' times talk of peace. We will try to ex- ters and three nearby Combined After brief remarks, the Pres- j tend the peace that is'in our Action Platoons, composed of a in hill country Sunday voicing mutual hopes for peace in the ident escorted the prime minis- i hearts to all men willing to squad of a dozen U.S. Marines Middle East and the world. -j ter aboard his small jet and j share our partnership of good working with Vietnamese mili- Johnson and Eshkol traded beaded for the ranch. Johnson. faith and good purpose.\ words of greeting and friendship: gave his guest an aerial sight- [ As they launched talks about first at Randolph Air Force j seeing tour on the way and over Middle East problems, Johnson Eshkol! the ranch stretching along the and Eshkol were greeted by a Pedernales River. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Eshkol trailed along in a helicopter. A few hours earlier, Johnson Base in San Antonio. flew in from the East minutes after Johnson flew down from his ranch. To a crowd at the air base which gave something of a delegation of San Antonio offi- cials and leaders of tbe Jewish community at San Antonio. It? had been billed as a low-key, j went to church a couple of miles private and informal meeting, j But with the announcement j that President Johnson would almost ohc defense of his policy in Viet- come to San Antonio to meet nam where there is no peace, j Esnkols plane, things began The word \peace\ saturated building up. San Antonio Mayor the initial exchanges betw< ic for talks between the two tbe two leaders Johnson said at W W McAllister called for • men during an overnight visit of Randolph AFB that \shalom\ and the big air base was opened Eshkol and his wife to the LBJ —the Hebrew word for peace— l to the public for the occasion. warm touch to a greeting in the up the river from his ranch equivalent of S-degree weather, house and heard a Roman Cath- Johnson's every wo was of peace The quest for lasting peace in the Middle East was the tiamen in hamlet defense. Weather Mostly fair and very coW mith temperatures rising on- ly to sear or a little above tfce zero mark today. Fair and very cold torigfet with temperature* well below xero again. Fair mod not so cold Tvetday. Northwest to west winds at 21 to # adtes per daring the daj. 25. Smiet 4:8. The Vietnamese -.language newspaper Cong Chung, a rela- tive newcomer among Saigon's 30 or so news publications, quot- ed its sources as saying Ho died of 3 combination of 3 heart <Jis- , ease and tuberculosis at 4 p.m. ! Dec. 26 in a village in Ha Tay I Province, south of Hanoi. ; It added that an analysis of jHo's recent speeches ancT iffes- broadcast by Hanoi his usual — some- - style, indicating were composed by some- one else There have been scattered re- ports in tbe past that Ho had been ailing. One, filed by a Nor- wegian correspondent from Ha- noi in November, said he was too ill to go to Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshe- vik Revolution m early Novem- ber. As late as Christmas \Day. Ha- noi's official Vietnam News Agency carried a dispatch say- ing that Ho 15 \strong and healthy M and bad attended a mass meeting. It did not say yp ffiiwafi jit was believed to have taker, I place sometime within the two I weeks previous. • International, .National Despite LBJ'5 pleas, Americans secure passports In mounting numbers, Page 2 ... State gun sales are climb- - ing, partially because of racial tension. Page II , . . Sur- veyor 7 scheduled to havei two '''€Su^B^^cad^^'Yi^\\i\ . . . Cambodian leader wont act as go-between in Vietnam war, a news analysis, Page 12 ... Vice-President Humphrey gets unelaborate welcome from Kenyans, Page 2 ... For some of the thousands of Vietnamese refugees the search for freedom ends along the jungle trail. Page 2 ... Political fric- tion TOUM statl the 'stste legislature. Tags 3 ,Tv~An~Xngio- American *ar was considered by the British in 1927, Page 2 ... A Commerce Department report shows a bright in- dustrial outlook fcr 1968, Page 5 ... State police nab four in connection with an alleged burglary ring, Page 1 Community Holstem breeders\ plan regional meeting. Page 9 ... A report on Pittsburgh school system's building needs is al- most completed. Page 3 ... Both educators and parents praise the proposed lree nursery schools for three and four- year-oids, Page 1 ... Piattsburgh's Uttle Theatre Group prepares to present 'The Knack, Page 3 ... The area weather \bow it was,\ Page 1 ... Pittsburgh teen-ager ar- rested m narcotics case, P4ge 3. Opinion* Comment Rocky's budget needs sharp pruning. Page 4 . . • Old Days by\ Frank Provost, Page 4 ... Light bide by Gene Brown, Page 4 ... Sylvia Porter examines How Dow Jones Ranked lor Year, Page 4 ... Small Society, Page 4 . •. And Then Comes the Dawn, by Jim Bishop, Page 4. Sports Photo essay on Loewenberg ski area, Page 11 ... North routs South 5<H6 in Hila Bowl, Page 11 ... NCAA may quit Olympic Committee, Page 10 ... Rams come back, humble Cleveland in Playoff Bowl, Page 10. Mao Tse-tung's thought, took self-defense\ action but did not specify what it was or whether '• ' •«\•• • *•\.»* . t had any effect. Peking's official Hsttua news agency said the Chinese Foreign Ministry strongly pro- tested, calling it ''another gram incident of provocation\ against China. • ,. - ..• ••-.••v^v*. -^7 The statement as quoted by the Hsmhua dispatch monitored here, alleged the Chinese freigh- ter Hong Qi No. 158 was \fraati- Cara Pha Wednesday morning. \It Is by no means acciden- tal;' said the statement \that in less than two months US* pi- rate aircraft should have twice out bombing attacks on freighters flying the flag of the People's Republic of (Communist) China/* . The statement cited another incident in which it said the Chinese freighter Hong Qi No. 154 was attacked by U.S. air- craft at a Vietnamese port last Nov. 25. : ~. The statement charged the at- tacks on the Chinese freighters were \a vain attempt to disrupt Sino-Vietnaxnese trade links and prevent the Chinese people from giving assistance to the Viet- namese people, thereby to achieve its criminal design of blockading and isolating Viet- nam\ . . .,.-^ m The successive bombing at- tacks OQ Chinese freighters by VS. pirate aircraft not only in- dicate that U.S. imperialism is making a dfspfratf struggle ia its war of TV leg . Comics Manners 14 13 $ Landers _ Cn*sword Ooleman 13 12 13 op the ferocious features of VS. imperialism b^rt on tile to tbe Area educators, parents prmse free nursery B} FORREST CLEIAVD A proposal by the Slate Board of Regents asking for free preschool education for *\ three and jfour-pear-ok! 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