The Kingston Whig-Standard from Kingston, Ontario, Canada • 19

mmz WANT AD SERVICE Dial 5463211 A Bitter Way To Go Dial 544-1212 PAGE NINETEEN MONDAY MARCH 13 1972 Better system needed UNMARKED RCMP CRUISER (LEFT) WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED IN COLLISION -Whig-Standard Photo SATURDAY ON PRINCESS STREET Constable Designed by biochemist Instrument helps surgeons hands By DONNA BARNETT Staff Reporter This summer a new instrument may be in use in Kings ton General Hospital operat- Called a Tendon Tensome-ing rooms It was designed ter it is designed as an aid by a University for surgeons who repair bioengineer Philip Lowe hands At present he ex- 1976 event Olympic representative repair The battery-driven machine which will be made in' stainless steel so it can be sterilized for the operating room will be simple for staff to use The surgeon can simply tighten the tendon to equal foe pull of a normal tendon When foe correct reading is reached he can cut and sew in the new tendon with the accurate pulL The experiments carried on with dogs have additional sig- niflcance in foe field of ten- don injury and repair "UtQe is known of what happens to muscles after a tendon is said Dr Sorbie He explained that some surgeons wait for tissues to heal before they work on tendons following a hand injury They run foe risk of having the unused muscle contract and weaken and often in the vote for city plained surgeons rely on their experience in foHowing the "taut not tight rule in deciding how long a grafted tendon should be Tendons which connect muscles to bones are not elastic and must therefore be close to ideal length Improper sizing prevents muscles from moving joints efficiently Hand tendons run on a sort of a pulley system so fingers can bend at joints rather than simply be raised and lowered If a tendon is cut surgeons usually remove and transplant a non-essential wrist or leg tendon into the hand Injury to tendons frequently results from broken glass knives heavy machinery and attempted suicides Dr Lowe came across his idea while reading an engineering journal about the yarn industry He adapated a machine that measures yard tension to one that would measure tendons tension an application of an old idea" said the 30-yard-old former engineer who received a PhD in bioengineering in Scotland The same principle applies to both machines: Three prongs are situated so the tendon can be between them Pulling the tendon moves one knob enough to measure foe stress electrically The impulse is connected to a machine that reads out foe stress in numbers At present both Dr Lowe and Dr Charles Sorbie head at foe division of orthopedic surgery have used the brass unit successfully during ex-periments with dogs Research funds are supplied by the Medical Research Council Originally Kingston was to be named as foe official site on March 20 last year Since then been one delay after another can understand the anxiety of the people here and I have to admit I get a little impatient too in what ahoulc be' an Immediate decision" said Worrall all of foe dealings had with foe 76 games always been my understanding that sailing events would be here and they should be here" Mayor Valorie Swain also holds enthusiasm but he is attaching enough seriousness to foe delays that he has cancelled a scheduled three-week trip to' Europe next month so that he will be available for any negotiations we set the deadline at June 1" said Uayor Swain felt I just couldn't would By RON BROWN Sports Editor If it came to a vote right now between Alma Que and Kingston as foe site for the 1976 Summer Olympic sailing events Jim Worrall would vote for Kingston And his vote should carry a lot of weight After all foe Toronto lawyer just happens to be representative to the In- temational Olympic Committee Ur Worrall admitted that the final announcement concerning foe sailing site still up in the air" but he was just as emphatic in saying is the only site as far as concerned" not trying to be vague about the whole said Worrall in referring to the delay of the official announcement personally I see any other place but Kingston In fact I think foe Alma presentation Should even be considered as a serious bid" The agonizing delay In the announcement centres on mo- process the tendon is pulled with it foe other hand a result of immediate surgery on the tendon can be fusion at two tendons running along side to fuse and deprive one or both joints of some movement Some surgeons simply sew a tendon in place until damaged tissue has mended Dr Sorbie and Dr Lowe have used all sorts of treatment combinations to study foe effect of various surgical techniques on muscles Before cutting the tendons several months ago they tested the efficiency of attached muscles Starting this week after a period id healing they wiU compare efficiencies Dr Lowe is also engaged in research projects involving a study of forces on prosthetic limbs and in developing h' total knee Replacement WMg-Standard Ptwto A By Cliff Bowering Surely it ihould be abvioui I by sow if indeed it I yean ago that only extreme measures are going to afford some guarantee of flight safety in Die world Hijackings bombings I bomb threats and theft are I the dally lot of airlines and most important their pas-Isengers People have died (the recent air crash in for example was I the result of a bomb blast) aboard the plane) others have been injured and air- I lines have been losing millions of dollars through pay-1 ing extortionists through lost passenger revenue and damaged or destroyed equip-1 ImenL If for no other reason than I money lost one would expect airlines to produce some security system other I than "spot i tf pas-1 sengers and baggage Several things are going to I have to be done it strikes me if the aircraft their crews and the paying public are to receive adequate pro-1 I tection First every commercial I airliner is going to have to I be guarded every minute it I is an the ground guarded not only against outsiders but also people employed at the terminals Only author-) ized persons should be allowed to approach and most I important enter parked aircraft Secondly a thorough I search at every aircraft must be made at the time it is being prepared for flight Again only authorized persons should be allowed to) approach or enter Thirdly asystematicl I search program must be set up so that every crew member every passenger and every person who must enter I an aircraft at any time prior to its departure from an airport is searched It is especially important that every piece of luggage every hand-held object and even the smallest package must be subjected to search Individuals who object to I I being searched for whatever I reason should be refused (permission to board No aircraft should be al-l I lowed to move before some (person in authority gives it I clearance An of this no doubt wiU be time-consuming and costly But equally is there any I doubt that such measures are long overdue? In the case of hijackings spokesmen for the associations have warned that any shooting aboard at high altitudes can be extremely dangerous In any event the system of using armed marshals' they argue convincingly is no answer nor has it I been particularly effective in dissuading hijackers It seems to me that the pilots themselves hold foe answer to the dangerous problem: They could simply tell the airlines to produce a security system such as foe one I have suggested within certain period of time or have their aircraft grounded foe pilots could simple refuse to fly them There were two close calls last week in foe United States Hundreds of persons would have died but fi some expert investigation and a great deal of luck Just what air travellers think id the situation could best be summed up in the I1 following statistics: Last Thursday Flight 297 for Las Vegas from Newark NJ left with only four passengers aboard TWA Flight I 7 from New York to Los Angeles hsd only 30 of 344 1 seals filled is in in crash City police constable Allan MacFarlane remains in satisfactory condition today in Hotel Dieu Hospital with chest injuries received Saturday when an unmarked police cruiser was involved in a collision on Princess street west of Sir John A Macdonald boulevard Constable Wayne Burke of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was treated at HDH for minor injuries and later released He was a passenger in foe RCMP cruiser driven 1 by Constable MacFarlane Gary John Stoughton of Har-rowsmith driver of the second vehicle escaped injury in foe midnight collision Property damage to the police vehicle was estimated at $4000 The Stroughton vehicle received $1500 damage The mlkhap occurred when the police vehicle was waiting to make a left hand turn from foe eastbound lane of Princess street The Stoughton vehicle collided with foe rear of the cruiser Constable MacFarlane 1 one of two city police officers attached to the local RCMP detachment Youth seen in before fire City police are searching for a Juvenile today for questioning in connection with blaze Saturday night at the Frontenac Public School on Cowdy street -The blaze which started in a room used to store lost and found articles caused about $500 damage police said A number of residents apparently witnessed a juvenile breaking into the school Saturday evening The blaze broke out a short time later City police constables Christopher Barber and Barry VanCamp climbed through a window in the school and kept foe fire under control with fire extinguishers until firemen arrived to extinguish the blaze A police spokesman said today that arson hu not been ruled out Nothing' is known to from the school he added Automobile leaves road maninjured Howard George McAfee of' RR 1 Battersea remains in satisfactory condition today in Kingston General Hospital with injuries received in a single-car accident Sunday on County road 11 Mr McAfee received head injuries when the vehicle he was driving left the road and struck mailboxes Property damage was estimated at $800 1700 Witnesses meet here "The nations are on a colli sion course that spells utter disaster for foe human fami- ly" said Richard A Grant district supervisor of Witnesses He spoke Sunday to an audience id 1724 at foe Loyalist Collegiate in Kingston on the subject "Are You Marked for Survival?" Mr Grant told foe audience that world calamity Is what far-sighted statesmen learned JIM WORRALL only site" ney or the overall cost of the program Organizers must find out if foe federal government is going to support the events and if so with how much money? They also have to find out how much money the provincial government will provide and then finally the financial obligations to Kingston itself historians and informed scientists forsee He added that for over 50 years Jehovah's Wit-' nesses have been preaching about global diaaster global disaster is a result of the wicked- ness and their going contrary to purpose in making man Not all will be destroyed" Grant added "An outlook and course at action taken will determine whether or not he survives" Queen's alumni from coast to coast have been asked for a total of $l-million The Metro telethon is to wind up the Toronto contribution to the fond The contacts are being made on the bula of a breakdown by faculties law medicine commerce engineering and other graduates A further breakdown is being made into men and women graduates Overall chairman of the four-night operation is Murray Bulger of Toronto Of their -total $l-mlllion goal' alumni rosi Canada have contributed to dale $800000 Aims are high afford to go to Europe I wanted to make sure I would be available for any foat could and should take place in the meantime" Until -then the waiting game goes on He then drew a parallel between our day and the time prior to foe destruction id Jerusalem in 607 BC "Before the destruction the prophet Ezekiel was given a visionary tour of temple He saw religious and political leaders giving worship to creatures and images Sex worship was practiced The leaders said is not seeing Jehovah has left the land will be saved during this great calamity?" Grant asked He said that foe Bible prophecy of Ezekial explains that before foe destruction of Jerusalem a warning and lifesaving work was done So in our day a similar work would be done Mr Grant said that for the past 35 years Jehovah's Witnesses have been helping people to get a knowledge of God's word foe Bible and then have been showing them how to act on that knowledge By studying foe Bible with those ones they have been helping them to get the mark of survivaL The assembly was attended by Witnesses from as far away as Peterborough Closed circuit television hooked up three auditoriums in the high school Twenty different departments were Organized to handlo such things as cafeteria ushering and iThia rocket display by Edward Derrick age 7 of Grade 2 was one of many hobby displays at Poison Perk School which received a great deal of attention Saturday The occasion was the annual hobby and craft show telethon seeks commitments father dies Funeral service wUl be held Tuesday at 2 pm in the James Reid Funeral Home chapel for John A Henderson of Amherstvlew who died Sunday at Hotel Dieu Hospital He was Uw father of Mr Justice Henderson Also surviving are his wife the former Leila Davey three grandchildren and brothers Percy Oliver and Stewart He was predeceased by a sister Mrs Zclla Kerr and a brother Bruce Born in Cloyne foe son of foe late Orton Bruce Henderson and his wife Adeline he was a farmer in Frontenac County and Empress Alta unUl his retirement in 1951 He returned from Alberts in the 1920s Mr Henderson was a member id Liberal associations in Ontario and Alberta and a member of foe United Church Visitors will be received between 2 4 and 7 9 pm today The family has requested donations to the Canadian Cancer Society in lieu of flowers Pallbearers wiU be the Hon Mr Justice Hugh Gibson Wiliam Pratt John Compton ErweU Huff Noble Trousdale and Bruce Burt Interment will be in Wilton Cemetery People DR FRED COOKE id Kingston was re-elected president of the Rideau Trail Association at the annual general meeting held in Smiths Falls over the weekend Two other Kingston residents MRS ANN HUTCHISON and JAMES SMITH were elected secretary and treasurer respectively Vice-presidents are HOLLY HAMILTON Ottawa DR JOHN IIOLUNGER Smiths Falls and DR STANLEY SEGEL of Kingston a University graduates living in Toronto move Into a four-evening telephone blitz tonight to contact the final 2000 of foe roughly 5000 alumni in the Metro area The object will be dollar commitments to ihe $85-million capital campaign on behalf id foe university Of the overall goal of $6A-million a 1 os ISA-million has been pledged leaving about $l-milUon stlH to be raised Each night a different 40 persons will phone fellow alumni from the offices of Richardson Securities and foe Mercantile Bank of Canada DR (BILL) NUTT ALL (PC-Frontcmc-Addington) has been appointed to the steering committee id the Ontario Legislature The committee recommends the composition of standing committees in the house Dr Nuttall has also been named to foe resources and estimates committees IPiSlOiHlf 1i.