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Ulica Pupils See i The Back Page 7 FT 5 7 P' t- k'Aj work iciture at 'Mb 'J Quiet Heart Disease War Holds Most Promise Michigan's pine forest increased by 350 trees Friday when pupils of the Morgan Elementary School in Shelby Township received seedling pines to plant at their homes in observance of Arbor Day. In two years the seedlings will be measured and recognition will be given to students whose trees have shown the greatest growth. Morgan Elementary School, In the Utica Community Schools system, is located on a 17-acre tract at Twenty-Four Mile Rd. and Mound which includes a seven-acre nature center. FRIDAY THE youngsters visited the center's pond and roamed the paths exploring its wooded areas.

They also planted saplings on the school grounds. The nature center is used by the pupils of all of Utica's 25 elementary schools as an outdoor-living Laboratory. There the youngsters learn about the growing plants and creatures of the woods and fields. The kids found it was a beautiful day to explore and they scrambled happily along the nature trails. It was the sort of an experience that led to the Morgan Elementary School receiving a certificate of recognition in January from the Michigan Horticultural Society for its "efforts to provide opportunities for children to learn about nature." It was the sort of experience, too, that was featured last year in a film made by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture on environmental education at Morgan Elementary. Free Press Photos by BOB SCOTT 1i I r'. -yr m-" www I PROBABLY MORE than half of the people who are reading this will eventually die of heart or related artery dieease. More than half of all Americans do. So it is not surprising that the announcement of a new surgical technique to treat heart disease is greeted with wonder and excitement and innumerable hopeful calls by heart disease victims to the surgeon who have developed the technique.

Announcement of ways to prevent the buildup of the fatty scum in arteries that causes most heart and artery disease is greeted with less excitement. People are not interested in a lifelong regimen of diet control, exercise, and abstinence from rigaret smoking How much easier to let the surgeon fix everything with scalpel and needle Except that most of the dramatic surgical techniques developed in recent years the coronary artery bypasses, the transplants, the heart pumps have not yet been proven effective or applicable for the millions of Americans suffering from heart disease AND NONE OF THEM cures the disease popularly known as hardening of the arteries. An x-ray of the transplanted heart of Philip Blaiberg, the world's best known transplant recipient, showed that several months after the transplant his new heart was beginning to develop the same fatty deposits that had destroyed his own heart. This does not mean that heart surgery research will not Trees ami a meandering stream are part of the natural habitat prolong the lives or relieve the pain of many people suffering from heart disease. But it is not the answer to the disease, as I heart surgeons readily admit, and there is much disagreement I among heart specialists as to which techniques and treatments I actually are most effective.

EARLIER THIS MONTH, a number of the nation's most eminent heart surgeons and cardiologists (doctors who diagnose and treat heart disease without surgery) were in Detroit to discuss and argue about heart disease treatment. Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston, one of the nation's most innovative and skillful heart surgeons, showed dramatic films of the bypass technique, in which a segment of vein from a patient's body is used to form a new pathway for blood flowing to the heart muscle, bypassing clogged arteries that can no longer nourish the heart. An estimated 20,000 such operations are done each year In the United States. But the day after DeBakey's presentation, eminent cardiologists attending the Michigan Heart Association's annual Heart Days symposium pointed out that the technique, although promising, has not yet been proven any more effective in relieving symptoms or prolonging life than non-surgical treatment.

DeBakey, who at one time was performing more heart transplants than any other surgeon in the world, today does not do them, and says that he never looked upon transplants as a major treatment for heart disease. BUT WHILE PUBLIC excitement over heart transplants has declined, Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University Medical School is still quietly performing them at the rate of one a month. To date, he has performed 44 transplants, more than any other surgeon. His operations received no notice even in San papers.

Yet 16 of his patients are still living, one of them years after surgery. And Shumway says confidently: "The la.st ten years have been the age of open heart surgery. think the next ten to twenty years will be the age of transplantation." Detroit's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz is working to perfect his artificial heart pump, which is designed to take over half the of a damaged heart, and he hopes it may eventually help half the people who die of heart disease. But Kantrowitz emphasizes that his pump cannot cure the heart disease.

He hopes that it will give heart disease victims some extra years of life. Dr. William Connor, professor of internal medicine at the University of Iowa, did a little-publicized experiment with 48 rhesus monkeys that was completed almost two years ago. He fed some monkeys diets high in cholesterol, and others low-cholesterol diets. Eighteen months later, autopsies showed the high cholesterol monkeys had severely narrowed heart arteries.

The low cholesterol monekys did not. m- i 0fy tMm' '-Aj m-i t4r? y1 413 Mary Chateau, Sandy Apel and Gre; Alvaro plant saplings on the school grounds I names taces i Students Protest Nixon Via Footba Then he fed some other monkeys a high cholesterol diet, and x-rays showed their heart arteries were becoming dangerously narrowed. He then switched them onto a low-cholesterol diet, nd watched the obstructions in their arteries shrink. Autopsies showed only moderately narrowed arteries. Connor says the study shows conclusively that low-cholesterol diets for monkeys prevent coronary artery disease.

"Whether it would work in man is a question," he admits. "But many of us wouldn't question it too severely." wYmm ffr If" ft ff fl is I II it ii II acting ort his campaign promises to end American involve- ment in the war in Indochina." The fifth officer abstained from voting. The resolution, contended: "The only way to reach Rich-, ard Nixon is through the medium of football." The Missionaries' jerseys are blue with white numerals. The one given to the President carries the name "Nixon" above a No. 1, with the name of the school below the numeral.

Another Chess Bid James Mason, a Melbourne entrepreneur, Friday offered to put up $122,000 to stage the first leg of the world chess championship in Australia between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spas-sky of the Soviet Union. The offer was cabled to Asserting that the only way to reach President Nixon is through the game of football, four of the five student-body officers at Whitman College in Walla Walla, have asked the President to return a football jersey that the Methodist school gave him last fall. The jersey was gien to Mr. Nixon at the Walla Walla Airport when he arrived there last September en route to Hanford Atomic Works. The captain of the Missionaries football team made the presentation on behalf of the school as well as the team "in appreciation of the President's interest in the game." But Thursday when the four student officers voted to ask that the jersey be returned, they approved a resolution criticizing Mr.

Nixon "for not QUESTION I read in the Bible about the wicked women whom Jesus met and forgave: The adulteress whom the Phar- Isees wanted to stone, the Prof. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Amsterdam. If accepted the match would take place in Melbourne. Belgrade organizers backed out of their original agreement to hold the match there when Fischer demanded a larger share of the profits from the match. Iceland has offered to stage both matches in the series.

A spokesman for FIDE Friday said the offer, received two days ago, was being made on condition that "both Spassky and Fischer are firmly prepared to play the entire match in Iceland." Meanwhile in Moscow, a So-viet newspaper Friday accused the head of FIDE of unscrupulous bias in favor of Fischer. Sovietsky Sport, a daily sports newspaper, said the attitude of FIDE President Euwe had been "obviously tendentious" to the dlsadvam tage of Spassky. The paper1 chess commentator said Euwe proved his bias when FIDE took no action against Fischer for the breakdown of Mount was given to men as well as women. He demanded that "all men everywhere repent." While it is true that the Bible differentiates between the sexes, andf gives to each sex it's uniqueness and individuality, there are no scriptures which exonerate men and condemn women for the same sins. The men who participated in immorality with the women you mention probably did not come to Christ for forgiveness as the women did.

7 woman at Jacob's well, and Magdalene. But we never read anything about the men who participated in their sins seeking forgiveness. Did Jesus not condemn immorality in the male of the species? A. C. ANSWER There is no evidence tat Jesus failed to condemn immorality of men.

He condemned the Pharisees for their hypocrisy, and they were men. The Sermon on the veer, tsr tA'y The Name Game aP Pnoio Claudine's a Citizen Noiv The off-again, on-again marriage of singers Claudine Longot and Andy Williams was evidently on again Friday as Claudine, became a U.S. citizen in ceremonies in Los Angeles. Accompanying the couple to the courthouse were their children, (from left) Noelle, 8, Robert, 2, and Christian, 7. EDWARD HEATH Britain's bachelor prime minister has turned down a friendly offer to.

supply an official hostess to help him on governmental social occasions. Fellow bachelor Leslie Huckfield, a member of Parliament from the opposition Labor Party, offered any of the numbers in his address book, and a London escort agency said it would waive its usual fee to provide a hostess, but the prime minister said he wasn't having any part of the plan, FATHER DANIEL BERRIGAN The Jesuit priest who recently was paroled after serving an 18-month federal prison term for destroying Selective Service System records, has been chosen to receive the Senior Class Fellow award at the University of Notre Dame. Spokesmen there said he had received 58 percent of the votes cast by about 53 percent of the 1,400 seniors at the school. The award is given for "integrity and outstanding work for others in the tradition of American society." One Ails, One Pops The Jones boys are having their troubles these days. In London American singer Jack Jones, suffering from "complete and total exhaustion," collapsed Thursday and can- celed the remainder of his current British tour, his British manager said.

Impresario Harold Davison said the 34-year-old Jones, who shot to fame a decade ago with "Lollipops and Roses," will be flown back to the United States and has been ordered by doctors to take a minimum of two weeks' rest. Princess Anne. Buckingham Palace said Queen Elizabeth's 21 -year-old daughter did not sit for the painting and knew nothing about it. "If you want to think It's Princess Anne, you can," the artist, Ruskin Spear, told a newsman. He is one of Brit-a i 's better known portrait painters whose subjects have included Sir Laurence Olivier and Harold Wilson.

In Las Vegas, Welsh singer Tom Jones, whose tight-fitting trousers have become a trademark, split a seam Thursday night. was 15 minutes into his opening night act at Cae-sar's Palace when it happened. A thread gave way and i i minutes the inside seam "on the left leg of his trousers had split six inches. "Excuse, me," said Jones "while I change my pants." Is It Really Anne? The Royal Academy's annual summer exhibit opened in London Friday, and the portrait of a smiling girl in a wide-brimmed white a is certain to cause a fuss. The portrait, "The White Hat," looks very much like "START PALING.

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