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2 WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1960 6 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. ' Pedestrian Hit by Bear on Motorcycle; Motorist Hits Own Car in Year's Most Oddball Accidents ' Chicago- (UPII -A pedestrian -who was hit by a bear on .motorcycle, a woman driver .whose car was struck by a moving tree and a motorist '.who rammed into the rear 'of his own car were hailed today as the "stars" of 1960's "wacky accidents. !: The National Safety Coun cil, which compiles the list of oddball mishaps, said there were many others. Box Car in Basement Like Robert Coon, of Ma son, Mich., who found a 60 foot box car in his basement. Or Richard Siewertsen of De troit whose foot was run over by a house. The case of the cycling bear occurred early in the year in Miami Beach, Fla when the talented beast was tooling around a ring on the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus lot. The bear lost control and veered into trainer Walter Klauser. Klauscr was treated Each Body Reaction Found To Need Own Specialized Protein Editor'! note This Is the tlilrdj of four dispatches on the wonder -molecule, DNA. By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor - New York-IUPl)-The "queen bee" molecule of DNA Is the 'source of the protein mole- tit "'9 c u 1 e s which Vf generate liv- mi! , Ueloi Smith ing things and ! govern them until the mo ment of death. Proteins are I "giant," com- ; p 1 e x mole ' c u I e s which pericctiy nt- tcd to their tasks as keys to -.their locks. They are the sub stances of enzymes and hor mones; and these in turn are rthe chemical starters, stop pers and regulators of the chemical reactions whose sum total is life. ." Each reaction needs Its own specialized protein or pro teins. A protein molecule which helps to make or oper ate a hippopotamus does nothing for a tiger, and the protein molecules of wheat are useless in a man. '- Proteins are made out of iamino acids. Twenty of them have been positively identi fied chemically. Any given -protein molecule has some of .these 20 linked together In combinations which arc unique to that molecule. Extracts The Acids ." Body chemistry extracts these amino acids from pro teins in foods and then uses them as raw materials in the .making of the highly special ized proteins which it must have. ' The question is, how In the ".world can the DNA molecule contain the designs for all 'these protein molecules and ;at the same time get the de signs executed as needed? The present scientific answer is .largely theoretical. But it is bolstered with enough facts to - tie highly plausible. Let's get back to the Indi .virtual cell. It has a nucleus .which has long been recog nized as its directing center 'The remainder is the cyto plasm which seems to be both a chemical factory and .chemical store house. The .chromosomes, packed with -DNA molecules, reside only In .the nucleus. ' But there is another nucleic acid. It is ribonucleic acid- J?NA for shot. It is a very "close relative of deoxyribonu cleic acid - or DNA. Its mole cules are found both. in the "nucleus and the sytoplasm. Plenty of Room Now, keep in mind that the :DNA molecule is built like a tspirulcd staircase with many, many steps. If each two or thrce steps were a coded re cipe for one particular protein molecule, there would be plen ty of room along these many "molecular staircases for the recipes of all the protein "molecules needed for life -;with room to spare. This is the generally ac cepted scientific theory. The theory of how these recipes are carried out is this: RNA molecules arc molded against the many segments of DNA molecules, They then mi grate from the cell nucleus to the cytoplasm where they at tract the correct combination of amino acids to mold into protein molecules. The number of unanswered questions in these intricate chemical processes is all but uncountable. The fact Is that what science now knows is very little - if you consider how much there Is to ' be known. But, If you remember how little science knew about them only 20 years ago, what science now knows in enormous. As an example of the tough questions, take the one of cel lular differentiation. The original fertilized germ cell divides Into cells precisely like itself, but eventually in the course of successive di visions, there appears many types of cells. Each type di vides only into "daughters" like itself. Behave Difierently Yet each type will have the number of chromosomes char- Non-Alcoholic Parties Urged Salem - (UPII - Oregon Traf fic Commissioner Vorn Hill has urged Oregon business and industrial leaders to make office Christmas parties this year non-alcoholic. Hill, also director of the Oregon Motor Vehicels de partment, said every Decem ber several Oregonlans arc killed on their way home from these parties if cocktails have been served. "In my book, those, who ar range these parties and then permit their employees or guests to drive home after drinking are as guilty as the person behind the wheel if an accident or death should result," Hill said. Hill said it is probably "ex pecting the impossible" to hope that all such parties will be "dry" but he urged party planners to assure that no one who does drink drives home afterward. He suggested car pools whereby non-drinkers could shuttle the drinkers home. actcrislic of the original fer tilized germ cell. Clearly the chromosomes and their DNA molecules in these specialized cell types now behave differ ently from those in the origin al germ cells. Somewhere along the line of cellular di vision, the original DNA molecules produced many specialized DNA molecules. But how? No one knows yet. But you can be sure scientists are going to find the answer to this and to all the other ques tions. Only since the 1940s have scientists had this work able concept of the life pro cesses. It dates from x-ray diffraction studies which re vealed the tightly spiraled structure of the DNA molecule. Einstein's relativity and other ' theories years ago' promised to unlock the energy within the atom. Atomic theory still is far from total verification; yet it has yielded both the atomic bomb and atomic power. As scientists get deeper and deeper into the "giant" molecules of DNA and proteins, the interim results may be quite epoch-making. Nexti The benefit! we can expect from DNA research. UN Command Ships Vehicles To Congo Leopoldville. The Congo -OIPD - The United Nations Com mand Tuesday staked ils fu ture effectiveness in The Con go on a test shipment of ve hicles in defiance of orders of strongman Col. Joseph Mo butu. SELASSIE VISITS BRAZIL Rio Dc Janeiro -OIPD- Ethi opia's Emperor Haile Selassie the first African chief of state ever to visit Brazil, arrived here today to begin a flve-dav stay in South America's sec ond city. bate MS mm Hospital rates have risen considerably in recent years, like most every thing else. But now, mother and baby stay only three to live dnys instead of ten. Were it not for new medical dis coveries and techniques that get mothers home sooner, the hospital bill would be twice as high. Htttlik b Priceless, Tel Costs Less Than Ever Prescription! Frae Dollvery Open 8 .m. to 9 p.m. Daily CLOSED SUNDAYS dQf Green Stamps CONVENIENT LOCATION MAIN and CENTRAL for leg injuries at a hospital. Officers Skeptical Traffic officers were skep tical when Marie Rarrick, To ledo, Ohio, reported that her car was rammed by a tree. Investigation proved she was right. The tree, officers learn ed, was being hauled by a city truck which backed into Miss Rarrick's car. Reed E. Very, Florissant, Mo.; had amassed a half-million miles of accident-free driving-and then it happened. He rammed his company, car into the rear of another car, which turned out to be his. His wife was in the driver's seat. Missed His Grip Siewertsen, a house mover, was riding atop a residence Which was on rollers. He jumped off. When he tried to jump back, he missed his grip and tna house rolled over his foot. Baton twlrler Keith Hodges of Santa Barbara, Calif., flip ped his stick into the sun during a parade. A gust of wind sent it sailing and it hit California Gov. Edmund G. Brown on the head. Yowl in Engine Then there was Jerry Mc- Mahon of San Francisco. Mc Mahon, an automobile me chanic, thought he detected more of a yowl than a purr when he started the engine on his car. He was right. When he turned off the en gine and raised the hood, a slightly battered cat leaped out and ran away. The Family Council Editor'! Note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a paychla trlst. three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each arUoie Is a summary of an actual case history. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Roy B. - How can I keep my mother-in-law a less fre quent visitor? . Elaine B. - Her life is so empty. Why begrudge her the joy of seeing us? e Roy B. - Things have reach ed a point where something must be done. My home isn't my home any more, even though we -moved 500 miles to make it so. We're married eight years and have two little boys. Elaine's father died three years ago and her mother lives with an unmarried daughter. Although she has a married son, our boys are her only, grandchildren and she goes simply ga-ga over them To get them away from her babytalk and nonsense, I wel comed a transfer to a city two states away. I thought she d be satisfied with Christmas visit and perhaps a hello during the summer. But no. Even though the fare is $30 each way by plane, she's here two, and once three, times a month! The last trip was because she just had to see Chippie leave the house for his first day of school. I have a mother and father, too. They live a few hours away. But my mother has more to do than to come run ning to see every new tooth! If this keeps up," boy, next stop is Ghana! Elaine B. - How can Roy compare his mother with mine when it comes to the children? Grandma B. has 11 grandchildren, with most of them within a few blocks of their home. And she has a husband, as well as a big job in the ladies' auxiliary of the local hospital. My mother, who has always adored babies, just has our two now. She would have made a perfect kindergarten teacher but instead she stayed home with us, and then help ed Dad. Now that she's alone the one thing that brings the smile back is being with Chippie and Buzz. Roy should n't begrudge her this pleasure. I admit it s disconcerting to have her turn up from such a great distance for such trivial reasons. But she only stays one . night. And she 11 stop when my sister-in-law has a baby-or my sister gets mar ried. The Council: It's always sad to hear of a woman with a heart that's all dressed up and has nowhere to go! Elaine's mother is winging through the air to the home of her daughter and son-in-law with what amounts to - in the words of a recent book title - "a surfeit of honey." Roy won't have to move to Ghana. He and Elaine can enlist the aid of the other members of the family to siphon off part of Mom's de luge of emotion so that it doesn't drown the B's. A moderate amount of attention and maternal demonstrative ness is pleasant. Too much is dazzling and dizzying, if not cloying. And of course the best way to siphon off some of the ex cess ardor and energy is to channel it in the direction of young children who are pant ing for a little tender loving care. This mother, obviously, has no idea of how precious her wares are in the open market! Naturally there are no lit tle boys like Chippie and Buzz. And, like a real grand ma, she's let them know that. But as a make-believe grand ma to a few dozen orphan boys, neglected and abandon. ed and ill children, she can make those hugs and kisses really count. In his awkward way, Roy is forcing his mother-in-law into a more wholesome design for living. Her pent-up feelings for children were making her obsessive about her own grandchildren. Now she must sign up for an outside activity involving grand motherless children. (Copyright 1360, General Features Corp.) . FORMER ADMIRAL DIES Princeton, N.J. -IUPII- Wil liam Mack Angas, 68, a form er U. S. Navy vice admiral and one-time commander of the 7th Fleet Seabees, will be buried with military honors Thursday at the Arlington Na tional Cemetery in Washing ton. 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