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MF.DFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JULY 11, 1962 Third Category To Maintain Life In Test Tube Added V. By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York -iL'PH- Science now has added a third cate gory to its ability to germi nate and then maintain life in a test tube. The new cate- rft-X--.i fry is that of v the flowering v-, 1 l)plos smith plant. The old ones were of a m p h ibians (such as t h e i frog) and of fish. This leaves the category of "higher" life, such as mam mals, including man, to be conquered scientifically. So far science has succeeded only in stirring the beginning of mammalian life, including hu man life, in the test tube. The process has stopped afler a few cell divisions. The conquest ,'if flowering plant life in the test tube was made by Kusum Kanta, N. S. Eanga Swamy and Ihcir in ternationally known profes sor, Dr. P. Maheshwari in the bolanical laboratory of the University of Delhi, India. They used a common flow er of India, the opium poppy. Their starting materials were the ovules which are the plant equivalent of the ova or eggs produced by female mammals, and their male opposite num bers, pollen grains. I The ovules were excised ; from plants just after thev jhad reached full bloom and '. before they could have been 'pollinated naturally. Thev were put into a nutritional broth in test tubes and then ! "dusted" with pollen grains from other poppies. Within 15 minutes the ool i len was germinating. Pollen tubes quickly developed tnd within two hours covered the surface of the ovules. In proof that fertilization had occurred I the ovules enlarged and j changed in color and compo sition as they would have on the plant. Ovules from a thrce-day-old culture showed a two-cell de velopment when sectioned, j They were on their way to producing embryos. After 'five days of culture, section Jed ovules revealed fully de veloped tissue with which to nourish embryos-and a four cell division. ' After 15 days, the embryos were differentiated into the : characteristics of the poppy J embryo and after 22 days, ! the embryos were fully rie j velopcd into poppy seeds as capable of going through the 1 life cycle of their kind as ! seeds produced by the living ' plant. Had 'Controls' I The scientists had "con ; trols," of course that is I poppy plants germinating and ' J:, J-0f: ; , J SKILLED DRIVER-Hmidlinjj her little ma chine with all the skill and confidence of a top racing driver. Princess Horaya taKcs her Ko-kart around a sharp turn during a workout at a private go-kart track at Mu nich. Germany. The former ;"ife of the Shan ot Iran now maKes ner home in Mu nich. (UPI) maintaining new life in the ! way natural to poppies. Their ' test tube life kept pace with nature in the first stages, the scientists said, but in later ' stages the test-tube embry onic growth was "quicker and better and even surpassed that in nature." The Indian scientists report j ed their conquest to the inter national technical journal, 'Nature. " So far as they knew and the editors knew, it had never been achieved before and there was no apparent ; reason why it couldn't be 'done with almost any variety ! of flowering plant. "Test - tube fertilization" j needs refinements as a tech i nique, the scientists said. When these refinements are i made, plant breeders will be j able to manipulate forms of ; plant life in the laboratory, j As an example the scientists ! pointed to the possibility of i cross-breeding plants in test ; tubes which in nature can I never cross - breed because 'they are incompatible. HAS SECOND THOUGHTS Chicago --IUPIU Mayor Rich ard J. Daley said Tuesday that Chicago "would be happy to welcome anyone and every one" to tne city, including the lf)62 meeting of the World Congress for Disarmament. Daley then had second thoughts about the congress currently meeting in Moscow and said he would like to know more about the congress before welcoming It to Chicago. ' , V7 l4 10 ::, 7A 1 f:4 ftl f tj i .wivrfV v , - i i t a - ' 4 , t Ave v 1- v k New "TELSTAR" relays phone calls and TV pictures for first time! Bell System microwave-in-sky satellite is latest communications triumph for America arising from telephone research Tlie world's first private enterprise communi cations satellite is now being used for dramalio evperimenls in relaying telephone calls and tele vision inlernalionally. lis name: Trlslar. Il was launched from Cape Canaveral al Bell System expense by the National Aeronautics and Spare Administration. Trlslar receives signals beamed lo it from a ground station, amplifies llicin and transmits them to anolher slation on the ground helow perhaps an orean away from I lie first one. The new satellite thus arls as a microwave relay station in I lie sky, enabling voices. TV pictures and data messages lo leap thousands of miles in a new and exciting way. The ground stations in the U.S. now being used for Telstar were built by the Bell System at Andover, Maine, and llolmdel. New Jersey. Or ganizations abroad have built stations in England and Franrr. The latter, a near replica of the slation in Maine, is being assembled with Bell System coopera tion. A receiving slalion in Italy will be ready lale this year, and another in West Germany next year. Trlslar is a first major rxprrimrnlal step toward a world-wide satellite rommiiniralinns system that was firsl proposed as a practical venture al Bell Telrphnnr Laboratories. Progress Inward such a sv-lem would not have reached its present stale wilhoiil continuing research and development by the private rommiiniralinns industry, including six fundamental Bill Svtctn contrihulions the lian siMnr. the snlar halteiy. the traveling wave tube, ruby marrs the wacguide. and new antennas for the ground stations with innovation in circuitry. Above all ebe. Trlslar is ibe lalel achievement in an unending Bell Sy-lem quel ihe search for uavs lo make vour telephone service still better, more economical, and more useful. 4"( V kJ4 ' flU imn n i.i J INS'DE GROUND STATION "RA0nW" AT ANDOVER. MAINE. Giant urtWi rr-i man r.p,v uti o) hon'' conrentf signs'! to Tflstf m a nirrri. po'-cful hpm, r thp sxmt ntfin I receiver implifiM Sana's cc rg f-om Teistsi ten b - It on mti. PACIFIC NORTHVEST BELL House, Senate Check Writers Continue Feud Washington lUPH - Most lawmakers figured UiRl feud ing House and Senate check writers have gone about as far as possible lo prove that neither would yield, and that the time had come for both to give in. However, harassed eon gressional leaders seemed no closer now than three months ago to finding a formula that would save face for the dead locked appropriations com mittees and also assure the government it would not run completely out of money by the end of the month. House Committee members insist that all they want Is the right to preside at half of the House-Senate Confer e n c e Committee meetings where final drafts of differing money bills are whipped into shape. Senators heretofore have always presided at these conference talks. Will Gladly Yitld The Stnators say they will gladly yield half their gavel time if the House will give up its claimed right to originate all money bills, and let the Senate act first on alternate measures. With each side reaffirming its adament stand, some House members have intimated they might be willing to see Con gress adjourn for the year without passing any of the already-overdue money bills needed by government agen cies for their operations in the 12 months that began July 1. 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