12 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 8, 1949
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES SHOW:
Parents May Be Able to
Choose Between Boy, Girl
By Howard W. Blakeslee
(AJAOClated Preu Science Editor)
Durham, N.C., Aug. 8 VP) Scientific evidence that parents may
be able to choose between having a boy or a girl baby has been
found in the Duke university department of lurgery.
The choice has nothing to do with surgery, and it is not cer
tain, but in the Duke studies the percentage is slightly over 25 in
favor of having the sex you
want.
A difficult part is for a wom
an to know for sure her fertile
period, which is a matter of
two or three days, only, once
a month.
In the Duke studies concep
tions in the early part of the
fertile period favor female birth
Conceptions late in the period
seem to show a preponderance of
males.
The Duke studies were made
by doctors Deryl Hart and Jam
es D. Moody, and are reported
in the annals of surgery, a
Philadelphia medical publication.
The idea comes from a num
ber of facts collected by medi
cal scientists in the last decade
One is the surprising results
nf 9.489 artificial inseminations
The usual ratio in human sex is
105 males to 100 females. But in
these inseminations there were
5,676 males. This, says the an
nals article is a 48 per cent in
crease in males over the theoret
ically expected number.
In artificial insemination
fairiv exact knowledge of the
fertile period is essential. Whe
ther this series might have been
due to luck, Drs. Hart and
Moody do not say. They cite it
as a possible result of timing
The series was reported by
Doctors Francis F. Seymour
and Alfred Koerner in the Jour
nal of the American Medical as
sociation. The Duke evidence Is both an
imal and human. Rats were bred
with the timing carefully regu
lated. It is easier to know a rat's
fertile period. The normal ratio
of male rats was increased by
late insemination by percentages
varvinE from 149 to 255. At the
most, more than twice as many
males as females were born.
The human studies were made
on 65,000 pairs of dizygotic
twins, which means twins from
separate ova. These twins can be
either two girls, two boys or a
boy and a girl. Under the usual
sex ratios of human beings,
there would be about as many
boys as girls among these twins.
But the normal ratio didn't
work. In 59 per cent of these
twlnnings, both babies were the
same sex. This seems to bear out
the idea that more early concep
tions are female, and more late
ere male.
"We plan," says the report,
"to undertake similar experi
ments on other laboratory ani
mals, and particularly cattle.
"We also feel that the time
has arrived to apply to humans,
in selected cases, the Informa
tion so far obtained. Prepara
tions for this are already under
way."
The Duke doctors say there
are several possible explana
tions. They make the guess that
the reason is in the male sperm
And it also Is known that one
type fertilizing an ovum will re
suit in a boy baby, while the
other type produces a girl. On
this basis alone the division be
tween boys and girls should be
about fifty-fifty, which is the
fact.
The Duke doctors say It is eas
lest to attribute the apparent
time difference- in sex to differ
ences in the ability of the two
kinds of sperm to move rapidly
Three Die; Four
Children Injured
Three Bend residents were
killed and four children injured
when an automobile skidded on
wet pavement on the South San
tiam highway 36 miles east of
Sweet Home and four miles east
of Sheep creek Sunday morning
Killed were Mr. and Mrs. Ivan
G. Marsh and Mrs. Bernard A,
Blind. The injured were Blind,
broken leg, Caroline Marsh, four
months old, head injuries; Elaine
Blind, 4, broken leg; Wayne
Blind, 6, in a serious condition
and Billy Marsh, 6, both legs
broken and head injuries. He is
also reported in a serious condition.
Blind, driver of the car, made
his way out of a deep ravine into
which the automobile had plung
ed, and flagged a passing auto
mobile in which Fern Jones and
Catherine Hodges, both Salem
nurses were riding. They gave
first aid and a call for help was
radioed by the forest service fire
patrol.
All the injured, with the ex
ception of Blllie Marsh who was
taken to the Lebanon hospital,
were hospitalized at Sweet
Home. Ambulances from five
communities were called.
Rescue workers lowe red
stretchers on ropes to reach the
victims, in the ravine nearly 350
feet below the highway. Parts
of the automobile littered the
side of the canyon from where
it left the highway to where it
stopped in the bottom of the can
yon.
The accident occurred about
9:45 o clock, as the group was
on Its way to Corvallis on a busi
ness trip.
Salem Exhibit at
Bay City Plastic Show
When the three day Plastic
Packing Show opens in the Pa
cific auditorium in San Fran
cisco Tuesday a Salem firm,
White Rose Chemical company.
will have some of Its plastic con
tainers on display there.
Invited by the Monsanto
Chemical company of Texas to
have an exhibit at the show, slat
ed for August 9-11, White Rose
Is showing three types of con
tainers.
The exhibit, including the
squirt type of bottle, the spray
bottle and a new bottle designed
with a special head for catsup,
Is being arranged by Robert M.
Fischer, Jr., advertising and sales
manager for White Rose, who left
for San Francisco Monday morn
ing on the Shasta Daylight.
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Inspection, Bavarian Style Participants line up for in
spection during a festival in Bavaria, Germany, to insure
that they are wearing genuine Bavarian costumes. Two of
the inspectors check to see that underwear is the conven
tional fashion shorts going to the knees. An expert can
tell quickly whether one is a native Bavarian or a "foreigner"
dressed like one. It takes three hours for a girl to dress
"genuinely Bavarian." (AP Wirephoto)
George Beach, 72,
Dies at Woodburn
Woodburn, Aug. 8 George
Beach, 72, city recorder for 20
years and a resident of Wood-
burn since 1885, died Sunday
morning from a heart attack. He
had not been in ill health as far
as is known.
Beach was born May 15, 1877
in Michigan and came here from
Caledonia, Mich. He was a mem
ber of Masonic lodge No. 6, Ev
ergreen chapter Eastern Star,
IOOF lodge No. 102 and Home
Rebekah lodge No. 58. Funeral
services will bo held from the
Ringo chapel Tuesday at 3:30
o'clock.
Besides his widow, M r s.
Gertrude Beach, of Woodburn,
he is survived by a daughter.
Mrs. Winona Coleman, Portland;
five sisters, Mrs. Samuel Hard
castle, Salem; Mrs. Mary Whit
man, Portland; Mrs. Jeannette
Zimmerle, Mrs. Florence Goulet
and Mrs. James Livesay, all of
Woodburn, and one grandson.
Welfare Department Urged
By Marion Farmers Union
The quarterly convention of the Marion county Farmers Union
was held Saturday night at the organization's hall on North
Commercial street and was presided over by Gus Schlicker, county
president, assisted by Marie Cornwell, county secretary of Wood
burn local. Mrs. J. R. Carruthers conducted patriotic exercises
and the devotional.
Roy Marchand reported oh the
activities of Bethel local; Ronald
E. Jones, Brooks local; Mrs.
Mrs. Frank Way, Central How
ell: Wendell Barnett, Gervais
Harley Libby, Marion; Pat Gor
man, Mehama; J. W. Isely. Rob
erts; John Bentz, Sublimity
John Cornwell, Woodburn.
A resolution written by Har
ley Libby and presented by
Frank Way, resolutions cnair-
man, called for the county or
ganization to send telegrams to
U. S. senators urging support
of an act now pending in the
senate to create a U. S. depart
ment of welfare. This action is
designed for the purpose of giv
ing the Federal Security Agency
the status of a cabinet post. The
resolution was passed unanimously.
After a discussion of the men
ace of the poisonous weed, tan
sey ragwort, and its rapid spread
through the country, a resolu
tion favoring a county-wide tan
sey ragwort control district was
approved unanimously.
Ronald E. Jones, state presi
dent, spoke on the Brennan farm
program. He stated that it is
still a live issue and will stand
up under study and scrutiny
Harley Libby reported on the
Farmer Union Health associa
tion and its growing popularity.
Miss Helen Johnston of Wash
ington, D. C, with the coopera
tive division of the Farm Credit
Administration, told of her find
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differences In their lengths of
life and differences in their aggressiveness.
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LaFollefte's Mission
Here Are Your Directions:
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School. Turn left and follow Mission Bottom
Road signs to LaFollette's Mission Orchards.
Orchard
Phone
3-1445
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ings in a survey of cooperative
health associations in the west
ern states. Lyle Thomas, state
secretary, spoke on the educa
tional program of the Farmers
Union.
Announcement was made of
the state picnic at Champoeg
park to be held Aug. 21. The
next quarterly convention will
be held on Nov. 5, with Central
Howell, Sidney-Talbot and Me
hama locals as hosts. This will
be held in Salem and will be
the annual meeting.
The county officers were hosts
for the supper Saturday night.
Mrs. John Cornwell was the
chairman in charge of serving.
Most nails today are made of
steel.
Norval Jones, 63
Dies at Hospital
Funeral services will be held
at the W. T. Rigdon chapel Tues
day afternoon at 2 p.m. for Nor
val Jones, 63, state employe for
30 years, who died at a local
hospital Sunday after an illness
of about a year.
Rev. George H. Swift will of
ficia;t the services and ritu
alist "jr vices will be conducted
by BPOE lodge No. 336 of Sa
lem. Interment will be in the
Jefferson cemetery.
Jones, late resident of Route
1, box 178, was born at Albany
January 9, 1886. He was a vet
eran of World War I and served
overseas with the army for more
than two years. After his dis
charge from the army in 1919
the family moved to Salem and
in 1928 Jones was transferred to
Klamath Falls as superintend
ent of the state highway depart
ment shops. The family return
ed to Salem in 1940 and in re
cent years he had been an audi-
tor for the state highway depart
ment here. He was a member of
the VFW and the Elks.
Surviving Jones are his wife,
the former Winifred Sherman to
whom he was married at Jef
ferson October 2, 1911; a daugh
ter, Mrs. Helen Norwood o
Medford and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Boulden Honored
Unionvale Mrs. T. A. Bould
en was 75 August 3 and honor
ing her, birthday messages were
sent. In the evening her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Boulden, took her
to a show at Salem.
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