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SIXTTErT MEDT8RD (OP.ECOm KAIL TRIBUNS Wednet4ar. Julr S. 1937 Missing Portion of Brain in Man Renews Old Scientific Argument BY DELOS SMITH United Preu Science Editor New York TP A man who lived 76 years in good physical and mental health was missing a part of his brain, according to physicians who investigated the unusual case. The brain segment had been missing all his life, evidently, lor there was no trace of it. Ex isting knowledge of such mat ters indicated the brain part simply had failed to develop (for unknown reasons) during the fourth month of his prenatal life when it should have developed. This accidental discovery has renewed a very old scientific argument over how much of a brain a human being needs in order to move about, think, be have, and feel within what sci ence calls "normal limits." The newest conclusion drawn from the newest incident is that a hu man being can do all those things without a corpus callo sum. Corpu Callotum Missing The corpus callosum is a struc ture of nerve fibers which con nects the two hemispheres of the brain. Merely to look at one would cause you to think it es sential for brain function if not for life. Indeed, ancient anatom ists were enough impressed to call it "the seat of the soul." Drs. Ursula T. Slagcr. Alma B. Kelly, and John A. Wagner of Baltimore were impressed by its absence in a man who had lived so many years without giving any indication of having less than a whole brain. They found that the first such case was dis covered in 1912. and since then there have been 123 more proven after death and reported in "the literature." Of these persons with imcom plete brains, only 23 had given no sign during life of their de ficiency. The new case was the 16th of it being found in an adult who in life had been ap parently normal. Previous an atomical explorers were unable to make anything hard and fast out of what it might nean to have no corpus callosum. Three Groups Differ One group said a definite set of symptoms should be produced by the absence. A second group said there would have to be mal functions of bnin and nervous system but they didn't know what the malfunctions might be. The third group said if the lack of this brain part contaminated brain function, the contamina tion was not detectable: Drs. Slager, Kelly, and Wag ner sided with the third group. "The function of the corpus callosum is aDDarentlv such that an adult can well live without this structure, compensating for its absence and living a per lectly normal life with normal intelligence and motor perfor mance," they reported. Mental 111 Traced They noted that in many pre vious cases idiocy, mental retar dation, epilepsy, inability to con centrate, and disturbed nerve functioning, have gone along with the lack of a corpus callosum. These, they suggested, were due to other defects in brain and other nervous structure that were "associated" with the ab sence of the part but were not due to the part being absent: Dr. Wagner is professor of neuropathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Drs. Slager and Kelly are path ologists at Sinai Hospital, Balti more. They reported to the New i England Journal of Medicine. Nothing Worse Seen For Wall Street Than Consolidation Period By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Ediior New York W Except for the bears, the financial district sees nothing worse for the stock market just now than a further period of consolida tion laying the base for a new attempt to scale the rec ord highs. Edson Gould, commentator timer Waller for Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., sees two things in the market's favor the calendar and inflation and two things against it money and bonds. This is a month when prices usually rise. Industrials have risen in 41 of the past 60 years during July. And inflation is supposed to be on the side of common stocks which are sup posed to rise along with the cost of living. Money Guides Destiny Money rates bother Wall Street even though the stock market is almost a cash affair. Money guides the destiny of business and it has a big in fluence on bonds. Right now bond yields are very high and at their levels make for compe tition against stocks. Thus the market might be said to be caught between the jaws of a vise, holding it steady one jaw the inflation factor, and the other tight money with its influence on bonds. The big problem is to pick the right stocks, perhaps a Lukens Steel or a Haveg Industries. The advices on this subject are there but tltey don't give the formula for doing the trick. "This is the time to be an old isolationist in securities," says S. B. Lurie, analyst for Joseph thai & Co. "Find a new key to market profits," says Gerald M. Loeb, a senior partner of E. F. Hutton & Co. Subject To Guess Work "Concentrate only on those issues with a clear and predicta ble upward earnings trend," says Elmer Shankland, economist for Investors Advisory Institute. "Cash reserves should be em ployed sparingly and then con fined to stocks with exceptional promise," according to Standard & Poor's. "Interjection once again of the so-called sentiment factor makes any immediate appraisal subject to considerable guess work," says W. J. Denman, analyst for Shearson, Hammil & Co. Nobody says the market is going to pieces or that it is a bear market. The Fitch Survey believes the market is consolidating a base from which a worthwhile rally could develop, and it is suggest ing that the rails might soon get into action on the upside. Maj. Eblen Assigned Commanding Officer Job Maj. Tohomas H. Eblen, whose parents live in Medford, was re cently assigned commanding of ficer of Cadet Company D of the Reserve Officer Training corps general military science sum mer camp at Ft. Devens Mass. During the academic year. Ma jor Eblen is an associate profes sor of military science and tac tics at Yale university. Previous to this assignment he was con nected with S-2 corps artillery. He was born in Baker, Ore., was president of the student body atBaker High school in 1938 and graduated from Oregon State col lege in 1943. Record Number Waiting Veekly Jobless Checks Salem IP A record number of claimant are waiting to draw weekly unemployment compen sation checks tnat will average S2.50 higher than ever before according to the Unemployment Compensation Commission. As the 1957-58 benefit year opened this week, more than 7,000 workers had filed transi tional claims coming d l r ectly from the 1956-57 benefit period just ending, while several thou sand others are putting in new claims. About 63 per cent of the better-paid covered workers will get higher weekly payments as a result of amendments to the law made by the recent Legis lature. The new maximum for a week of unemployment is S40 against $35 formerly. The minimum re mains at $15 and a few hundred persons with low wage credits will be unable to .qualify for this amount under the revised sched ule. Payments are expected to average $32 a week against $29.50 last year. Other Changes Listed Other legislative changes tak ing effect include abolition of the forfeiture clause imposed in 1955 and the removal of deductions for federal social security pay ments. Workers over 65 will be required to prove their attach ment to the labor market,, how ever, the commission said. Nearly 22,000 workers newly covered by unemployment in surance as a result of the 1955 amendment will be eligible for benefits for .the first time. Reserves of the commission declined more than $5 million during the past year to about $44,600,000 despite increased contributions from e in p loyers. Benefits passed $24 million, com paring with $17,450,000 in taxes, while federal interest and pay ments under the Reed act made up some of the difference. JAPANESE PAINTER DIES Tokyo OPi Gyokudo Kawai, 83, dean of Japanese painters, died Sunday at his home in Mitake, near Tokyo. Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" Health Department Seeks Illness Reports The Jackson county depart ment of health is requesting re ports of any suspicious food poisoning cases which have oc curred recently. During the Lion's . convention, last week reports were received of numerous food poisoning ill ness. The health department is attempting to find out how many people were affected and at what hour, according to Dr A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. For the week ending June 28. 25 cases of measles in Medford were reported to the health fie partment, according to Dr. Merkel. . Other communicable diseases reported last week were chick en pox nine, Medford eight and Ashland one; whooping cough five, Medford; pneumonia two. Ashland and Medford; influenza two, Medford; and measles 11. Ashland eight, and Shady Cove. Prospect and Eagle Point, all one. RETIRED ENGINEER DIES New York n John C. Riedel, 84, retired chief engin eer of the city Board of Est: mate, died Monday night. ' Blue Cross Installs Private Wire System Portland The Blue Cross inaugurated here recently the first international private-wire communications system for use in reporting admissions of hos pital patients. The Blue Cross is the nonprofit hospital service plan. The local plan, Northwest Hos pital Service in Portland, was one of 86 to become intercon nected for telegraphic communi cations with cities from coast to coast and from Canada to Puer to Rico. 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