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Bad Weather Receives Blame For Recent Business Quirks dency to go easy on heavy buildups. Business men say they pay no attention to the stock market in plotting the course of their business, but they are doing more talking about the market currently than for some time. Prices Holding Steady Overall curtainment in busi ness hasn't amounted to a great deal. And the experts point out that more of the dips can be attributed to adverse weather than to declining stock market prices. It is noted, however, that prices have been holding steady in commodities or eas ing, and this situation is one being watched carefully at the present time for a clue to I have come Into prices, say the future of industry general- the experts, ly. Anyhow, the stores are buy- Bigger demand with more ing quantities of goods at clement weather might re- wholesale in preparation for store the small declines that a big Easter volume. suffered from the recent storms with business loans down at a time when a season al rise was in order. Not only did demand fall off because of weather but supply was cut in some in stances. Farmers couldn't move their livestock to mar ket and this reduced offerings stock market decline when demand for any item fell off. Market Not Blamed Purchases of durable goods were said to have beeu cut by the steady decline in .stock market levels although many business men denied the mar ket had anything to do with their sales. The stock market break which recently carried prices to new lows for more than a year is said to have made for caution among business men. The sensitive point in this caution has been inventories where there has been a ten By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor' New York - (UPD - Snow, sleet and rain throughout the nation has taken the blame for curtailment of auto mobile production, although there have been voluntary cutbacks too as dealers try to get their inventories into better shape. The dealers blame the weather for slowing up in auto sales just as department stores blame it for a decline in their business. Gasoline Supplies Up Bad driving weather has sent inventories of gasoline to new record highs and brought sharp inroads into supplies of fuel oil. Construction has suffered from the weather, according to reports, and so have car loadings. Recently some of the railroads got additional piggy-back business because trucks couldn't negotiate the highways. somewhat with a firming in prices noted. Cold in Florida was report ed to have cut supplies of vegetables there with, result ant firmer prices. What wasn't blamed on the weather was attributed to the Some price reductions at retail have been ascribed to the weather as retailers try to get back lost sales by bargain IBIKG Ml ! all sorts of business quirks in re cent weeks. And that's why business men are look i n g forward to spring which is due in less than a week. promotions. Even the money market Slab and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood Big Double Load or Single Load MEDFORD FUEL CO. Ph. SP 2-21 1 1 - Court at McAndrewj Section D 8 Pages Medford Tribune Elmer Waller , MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1960 Cold, stormy weather over many parts of the nation re cently has been blamed for Research May Give Clue to Successf ul Skin, Organ Grafts Los Angeles (Science Serv ice) Understanding the basic mechanism in the human body's rejection or acceptance of graf'.s of skin or vital or gans from another is ad vanced by a report from Dr. Franklin Ashley and Earl Mc Nall of the University of Cali fornia, Los Angeles. They have elaborated the role of ribonucleic acid (RNA), in tolerance to grafts from others. RNA is the nu cleic acid which translates genetic information. Event ually this RNA role may be clinically exploited. Foreign Body When tissue of one subject is grafted to another, the re cipient's system treats it as a foreign body. Somehow it senses substances in the graft tissue genetically different from its own. These sub stances are known as antigens because they cause the recipi ent to produce antibodies to fight the "invader." As a re sult the graft is "killed" by the antibodies and sloughs off. The UCLA researchers have evidence that the donor RNA itself is not an antigen but serves as a template in the manufacture of donor pro teins within the recipient, which are antigenic. By injecting purified RNA from the skin, spleen or liver of one animal, researchers can cause an antigen-antibody reaction in the recipient. This is apparently due to the re cipient's reaction to foreign proteins manufactured by the injected RNA. Furthermore they found that increased amounts of in jected donor RNA resulted in an overwhelming of the anti-body- producing mechanism (immune paralysis) so that it stops producing antibodies against the donor proteins. Successful Takes Thus these grafts may be accepted. Injection of in creased amounts of purified RTA from tissues of a strain of black rats into a strain of white rats resulted in 40 per cent successful takes in skin grafts (back on white). Less than 10 per cent of grafts are accepted in untreated animals. Does this mean that injec tion of purified RNA from tis sues of a potential donor into a patient will cause the pa tient to permanently accept a skin graft or transplanted kid ney from the donor? No, at least not in the immediate future. This finding, however, may be a step in this direction, the investigators say. But much work needs to be done before the findings can be success fully translated into practical, clinical results. Collaborating in these stu dies were Dr. N. R. Dutt, Eu gene Garcia and Robert Sloan. Sex Determination Declared Ready for Laboratory Study Honolulu (Science Service)- Sporadic sex reversal in the course of human development does exist and its sociologic and scientific aspects deserve critical evaluation, a zoologist reported here. Controlled determination of sex in animal breeding and human reproduction has left the realm of mere speculation and become a "fascinating" project for laboratory investi- 175 Rockets Said Fired by Russia Nice, France (Science Service)-Russia launched 125 research rockets during the Interna tional Geophysical Year, Plus 50 more in 1959, a report here indicates. Some of the rockets had payloads up to 4,850 pounds. The launching of these rock ets took place in the Soviet Union, in the Polar Zone and from a ship in the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Pacific. Many indications of the constitution and composi tion of the upper atmosphere were reported obtained with the experiments. According to Russian sources, tne studies showed electron concentration varies with the time of day and sea son in th outer part of the ionosphere. This may be an important factor in radio re ception, because the electri fied layers reflect radio sig nals, thus making broadcasts possible ow long distances. The JtutUimc also found that ther ee rery high con centrations electrons at least 29H Miles above the earth. Of the rockets, 158 were for studying weather. In some cases the luminosity of the sky and the distribution of ozone were studied. New data on temperatures and pressures in the stratosphere - the mid dle layer of atmosphere were collected. MICKEY THK FAUCET Los Angeles-dJPD - Mickey Cohen's answers to questions Tuesday at the trial of Sam Locigno for tie slaying of Jack (The Enforcer) Whalen were o long that the judge remarked: "It's better than turning on faucet" gation, Dr. Emil Witschi of the State University of Iowa told the University of Hawaii Chapter of the Society of Sig ma Xi, national organization for the encouragement of scientific research. Means for Analysis Dr. Witschi said that ani mal experiments provide means for analysis of genetic and epigenetic determiners of normal sex development and of naturally occurring or de liberate modification. (The theory of epigenesis holds that development starts from a structureless cell and consists in the successive for mation and addition of new parts that do not pre-exist in the fertilized egg. It is op posed to the theory of pre formation.) Two classes of epigenetic factors must be considered, Dr. Witschi said. 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