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o o o O O O o EIGHT M?DrOPD (ORCCON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Bte.mber 7. 133S Tdrfoise-ShellTom Cats Wanted By Scientists to Realize Ambition BY DELOS SMITH United Prcit Scitnct Editor .N'A- York W Two scien tists would be happy to receive litters a kittens from w?iatevrr source by wiistrvfr means of transport provided the litters contain one or more tortoise- shell males It is the scientific ambition of Lucian M. Sprague and Clyde Stormont of the University of California's school pi veterinary medicine at Davis. Calif ., to solve r.t long last a prime mystery of cats. oranse were sex-linked, they could combine only if the sex KJ, nQ . CALL mtX5$L I IMIEinCD'O L.I..II1UI.I1 U iBi i mi WHEN YOU NEED HEADY-SVIIX EON CRETE ALIcJRUCKS EQUIPPED WITH 2-WAY RADIO . Fqs FAST, EFFICIENT SERVICE! o o o 'AO O F$one02.J5336 r 2-5897 ttl",,.,. nm , Ashland 8121 I tor mat reason tncy appealed ; through the American Genetic , Association for male tortoise shells and their littler mates, j But they don't expect to get many, if any. j The mystery is why tortoise j shell toms are so exceedingly I rare when nature seems to have I no trouble producing tortoise shell females in sizeable num bers. Intensifying this mystery is the fact that male tortoiseshells are almost always sterile but not always, while sterility is not a notable feature of tortoiseshell females. , Difficult Problem Now, if there yvas no such animal as a tortoiseshell torn, the explanation 'wouldn't be too dif ficult, as the scientists pointed out. A pair of genes in the chro- ricd away trees and timber be mosomes of inheritance in cat j lonsing to the plaintiffs, germ cells, stand for color in 1 They also charge that Ihe de the case of tortoiseshells, one j fendant converted and disposed stands for black, the other for j of the timber, valued at $1,501. orange. ! to his own use.Th'ey are asking In the combining of chromp-1 judgment against the defendant ; somes in the fertilized egg, two i in treble damages of S4.5.03'plu ; orange would result in an i costs of the suit and other re : orange cat, tw o black's in a black ! lief the court may deem justi-' ! cat, and one orange and one 1 fieri. . ! black in -a tortoise-shrll cat.- If ' Representing the Haynies is the combining of. black- and P.obcrt A. Boycr, Shady Cove Couple Files Damage Suit Troy and Ann Haynie, post ofiice box 236. Shady Cove, have filed a complaint in circuit court against Norman T. Han son. 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Though womb mates, the divisions of their genes could have come out dif ferently and their heredity would be different. But the Interchange would modify this difference. If one of the joined embryos was female and destined to be a tortoise shell and the other was a male, destined to be either orange or black, it could make the male tortoise-shell instead and at the same time impose a chemical set-up that would prevent male chemistry from producing male germ cells and so bring about sterility. If Sprague and Stormont can only get their hands on the right kinds of cats, they may be able to prove that this theory is a fact, or otherwise end the mystery of how the tortoise-shell torn got that way. Greatest population increase in the U.S. occurred in the de cade from 1800 to 1810 when the gain amounted to just 36.4 per cent. o o o o Attention Buick & CadHlac Owners Parts Department Will e Open SATURDAY AFTERNOONS . . Until 5 P.M. Corne In and See Our Large Selectionl Skinner's Garage M? 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