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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.
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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.
The new communications sys
tem will speed up contacting the
home plan for verifications of
benefits to be received, when
Blue Cross subscribers are hos
pitalized away from home.
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