Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 71, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 November 1986 — Page 3

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Hoosier, 38, implanted with Jarvik-7 heart

MILWAUKEE (AP) An Indiana steelworker was reported doing well after receiving a Jar-vik-7 artificial heart in an operation designed to sustain his life until a human heart is available for transplant. “It was obvious he would not be alive today if we didn’t implant the artifical heart,” said Dr. Alfred J. Tector, who performed the implantation at St. Luke’s Hospital along with Dr. Terence Schmahl. The surgery on Ronald Smith, 38, of Gary, took nearly eight hours and marked the first use of the artificial heart in Wisconsin. Tector, who heads the Midwest Heart Surgery Institute, told reporters afterwards that Smith was “doing as well as we could hope. The patient is stable.” As of late Friday night, Smith remained in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit, said Cindy Bores, nursing supervisor. Tector said the implantation procedure took longer than anticipated because of the size of Smith’s heart. “It was extremely large,” he said. “One of the largest I’ve ever seen and so very difficult from that viewpoint.”

Court upholds drunk driving roadblock

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Supreme Court has endorsed a wider use of roadblocks to reduce drunken driving. The court, in a 3-2 decision Friday, said roadblocks are an effective and acceptable alternative to the traditional law enforcement techniques of patrol and observation. A roadblock’s interference with an individual’s rights is a small price to pay for “successfully abating the social evil” of drunken driving, the court said. The opinion overrules much of a 1984 Indiana Court of Appeals decision, which dictated that roadblocks could be used only if they were shown to be more effective than traditional means of law enforcement. That decision said “patrolling the roads and observing traffic is an equally efficient way to apprehend intoxicated drivers as stopping all motorists at roadblocks and examining them, thus precluding the use of roadblocks,” Justice Alfred J. Pivarnik wrote for the court’s majority. “We disagree with this broad statement and find that roadblock procedures, conducted in a constitutional manner, can be a more effective means of detecting and deterring the important public concerns of driving while intoxicated

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Smith’s wife, Dorothy, who attended the news conference in the hospital’s auditorium, said her reaction had been “instant panic” when told of the decision to use an artificial heart. “But the family is relieved that he is doing so well,” she said. Mrs. Smith, whose husband is an employee of Inland Steel in Gary, as she is, said he had rheumatic fever as a youth but had no problems until he suddenly became ill about six months ago. Doctors said they were concerned that the degenerative disorder of his heart, called cardiomyopathy, might kill him before a human heart could be found for a transplant. Mrs. Smith said St. Luke’s, to which her husband was admitted a week earlier, was the fifth hospital he had been to this year. A heart valve was replaced in an operation before he was brought here. A total of 16 human heart transplants have been performed at St. Luke’s since 1984, and 11 of those patients are still alive. Mrs. Smith said one of the reasons they came here was that Smith has close relatives in Milwaukee.

Petty thievery of petty cash

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A State Board of Accounts report says almost $1,200 was taken this summer from the petty cash fund at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. The report issued Friday said $1,190 was discovered missing in July by a cashier at the prison. Examiners said wraps of $lO bills that were assumed to be full were

and without proper licensing,” Pivarnik wrote. The decision came in the case of Ray A. Garcia, 25, of Plainfield, who was charged with drunken driving after being stopped at a roadblock on U.S. 40 in Hendricks County in June 1984. Hendricks Superior Court Judge John C. Mowrer approved Garcia’s motion to suppress evidence obtained at the roadblock. The Supreme Court’s decision sends the case back to the trial court with instructions to admit the evidence. The Supreme Court approved the procedure for the Garcia roadblock. Police stopped five cars at a time and allowed traffic to pass during the inspections. After the inspections, another five cars were pulled aside for inspection.

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GM strike idles 10,000 more

DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp. has been forced to add 10,000 layoffs to the 37,550 assembly plant workers already idled, despite a tentative agreement with striking workers at a critical parts plant in Kokomo, Ind. The agreement with representatives of United Auto Workers union Local 292 was reached early Friday and was scheduled for a ratification vote in Kokomo today. Most details of the agreement were withheld pending ratification. The workers at the GM subsidiary Delco Electronics plant walked off their jobs Monday in a dispute over subcontracting of jobs and transfer of some radio work to Mexico. Local 292 shop chairman Mike Thayer said the agreement would guarantee continued radio production until 1991 at the plant.

found to be short several bills. About $3,600 in cash had been kept in a cashier’s drawer and a safe drawer in a vault, examiners said. The Indiana Department of Correction and state police have investigated, but neither could determine who took the money, according to examiners.

The procedure did not run afoul of U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibiting random stops, Pivarnik said. The roadblock passed another test, set out by the U.S. Supreme Court, by advancing the public’s interest in addressing a social problem, the court said. About 25,000 people are killed annually in accidents linked to drunken driving, the court said. Pivarnik wrote that drunken driving produces “such terrible carnage ... that the slaughter exceeds that of all our wars.” The statistics provide “evidence our society has a grave concern in apprehending and deterring drunken driving and that traditional methods have not effectively combatted the problem,” Pivarnik wrote.

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Of the 100 people stopped at the Hendricks County roadblock, seven were arrested for drunken driving, the court said. Conceding that a roadblock impinged on a motorist’s privacy, Pivarnik argued that “the severity of interference is minimal especially when considered in light of the great public concern involved here and the degree of successfully abating the social evil being addressed.” Chief Justice Richard M. Givan and Justice Brent E. Dickson joined Pivarnik in the majority. Justices Randall T. Shepard and Roger O. Deßruler dissented. Shepard claimed the majority opinion takes too lightly the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Shepard said the majority is endorsing use of roadblocks “to find perpetrators of any crime deemed grave by society.” “The Fourth Amendment rule of probable cause or articulable suspicion may be suspended without any demonstration that the roadblock is more effective than traditional methods of apprehending such offenders,” Shepard wrote, describing the majority opinion. He also complained the roadblock in the Garcia case was conducted without sufficient advance notice to the public.

plant Sunday to fire up furnaces and start parts production, said Delco Electronics spokesman Bill Draper. But Draper said no parts would be shipped until Monday afternoon at the earliest. Grix noted that because of the Thanksgiving holiday, GM will have only three days to get parts to plants that need them. Local 292 President Ron Cassis predicted strikers would approve the proposal. “I don’t think the negotiating committee would have accepted anything less than what we were looking for,” Cassis said. As of Monday, workers will be laid off at four additional plants, including 3,700 at a Kansas City, Mo., assembly plant; 2,000 at a Truck and Bus group plant in Shreveport, La., and 2,500 at a similar plant in Moraine, near Dayton, Ohio.

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Greencastle Post Office employee Harold Surber (left) accepts a Service Award from Postmaster John Bergen, upon his retirement Friday. Surber, Route 3, Greencastle, has spent the last 33 years making rounds for the U.S. Postal Service. In addition to the award, Surber was given a gold watch by fellow employees, who were represented by John Sutton. (Banner-Graphic photo by Becky Igo).

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