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Pregnancy in Diabelic Women . the dangers lhat face her, the
Prof. E. Jurgen Plotz of Al- pregnant diabetic woman
WHAT IS IT? No, it is not a cat. It is not a rat. Actually,
the old guy who seems to be winking at the camera is a
Harbour Seal, trying to get some sleep between shows at
the Miami, Fla., Scaquarium. (UPI)
Cost of Reburying
Indians Dampens
Land Sale Proposal
By JOSEPH H. CAHTER
United Press International
Kansas City. Kan. - WD -The
winter of 1843 struck
the heart of the Wyandotte
Indian nation camped on the
banks of the Kansas river.
Cholera killed hundreds.
Braving sharp winds, survi
vors carried the dea dup a
slpep slope to a two-acre site
where the frozen ground was
broken and the blanket-wrapped
bodies buried.
Thus was the "Wyandotte
National Burying Ground" es
tablished. Years passed and the Wyan
dottcs prospered in homes
away from the damp river
bottom. White men continued
their move westward and
Kansas City sprang up around
the cemetery.
Eye Cemetery
Shrewd businessmen eyed
the cemetery as a department
store side. The Indians, up
rooted from their Ohio homes,
had chosen a plot fronting the
main street for their burial
ground.
Politicians, a group of Wy
andottes in Oklahoma and
lawyers joined the fight to
have the graves moved and
the property commercialized.
Indians and others here
fought to have it named a
national park. But today it
stands a loneiy cemetery in
a busy metropolis, neither a
store sito nor a national park.
It is neatly mowed and the
stones are eroded, some be
yond reading.
Eliza Burton Conley, a
Wyandotte maiden, devoted
her life to the fight to pre
serve her people's burying
ground.
"Only woman ever admit
ted to the United Stales Su
preme Court," reads the in
scription on her tombstone
dated May 28, 194B.
Argue Against Lew
Miss Conley went before
the high tribunal in 11)08 In
argue against a law passed
by Congress to soil the ceme
tery. She said it violated a
treaty the U.S. government
had with her nation.
Miss Conley lost the case
and returned home saddened,
but not defeated.
She joined her sister, Hel
ena (Floating Voice) Conley,
in a shack they erected in
the cemetery and shI as armed
guards over the burying
ground. They posted a sign
that warned, "Trespass at
Your Peril."
The shanty was dubbed
'Fort Conley" and it served
well to protect the dead In
dians from ambitious while
men. Soon Congress repealed
the law.
Floating Voice later was
buried near her parents and
upon her headstone they
wrote ", . . cursed by the vil
ban that molest their graves."
The apparent value of the
real estate overcame the
corse's threat,
Name Oklahoma Branch
Congress named the Okla
homa branch of the Wyan
dolles the official tribe in
1034. Those Indians, who ap
parently had only distant kin
in the cemetery here, started
the battle anew to sell the
land.
The Interior department,
acting on the wishes of the
official tribe without heed to
some 250 unofficial Wyan
duties in this area with rela
tives in the cemetery, placed
the land on the sale block.
The best bid was SI 28,000
in 1960. A funeral director,
Ralph A. Fulton, said it would
cost $180,000 to exhume and
rebtiry the Wyandottes.
With upwards of 500 buried
on the plot and only 98 graves
marked, the challenge and
expense cooled the land sale.
Meredith Jeered
By Students al
Union Building
Oxford, Miss. mm A crowd
of University of Mississippi
students cursed and jeered
James H. Meredith and tried
to hjock his exit from the
Student Union Building Wed
nesday in the first serious
harassment of the Negro since
the university banned such
activity.
No attempt was made, how
ever, to harm Meredith, 29
whose admission to "Olc
Miss" under federal force
touched off rioting that killed
two persons and injured hun
dreds of others Sept. 30.
Escorted by Marshal
A U.S. marshal escorted
Meredith through the demon
strators without incident. Stu
dent heckling of Meredith vir
tually had stopped after the
university warning earlier
this month that unruly sin
dents would face swift and
harsh disciplinary action.
The incident began when
Meredith entered the dining
room of the Student Union
building and sat down at a
table.
Wbout 311 students got up
and left the room. Only a
coed remained, studying at
another table.
The students went outside
the room and stood al the
door. They shouted for the
girl to join them. She appear
ed reluctant to do so but later
left the room.
Entrance Blocked
Five male students, arms
folded across their chests,
stood In a line In front of
the door, blocking the en
trance. The crowd of stu
dents in the hall soon swelled
to around HID. They shouted
insults at Meredith, who sal
thumbing through his text
books. A U.S. marshal, one of a
contingent stationed on Ihc
campus to guard Meredith,
rushed back from a lunch
counter where lie had gone
for a cup of c.f'cc.
He told Meredith to follow
him and shouldered his ivhv
through the five students and
(he crowd in the hall The
students let them out with no
effort at violence
Several hours later. Mere
dith ale dinner al the univer
sity cafeteria without incident.
bany said recently that before
insulin was discovered, dia
betic women
rarely became
pregnant, and
when they
did. the child
AinA Ft, or, for-
f-V years after in
sulin was dis
covered, a dia-
'jf betic woman
ff (could rarely
Aivirez Dear a live
child. Dr. Plotz said that now,
in spite of the expert use of
insulin, injuries to the mother
and infant still occur several
times more frequently in dia
betic pregnancies than in nor
mal ones.
Before the discovery of in
sulin, half of the diabetic wo
men died either during the
pregnancy or at the lime of
labor, or shortly after deliv
ery. When insulin first came
into use, the diabetic mothers
no longer died in their preg
nancies, but still, as before,
nearly all of their infants
died. The woman either
aborted in the second or third
trimester (three months) or
she had such a premature de
livery that the Infant could
not live.
Often even yet, the diabelic
woman has more than the
average chance of getting the
dangerous toxemia of preg
nancy. During her pregnancy
there is also probably an in
crease in the tendency to get
swelling of the legs, to get al
bumin in the urine, and to get
a flare-up of a high blood
pressure.
Trouble With Chemistry
Still, with insulin available
to help her greatly, the preg
nant diabetic woman tends to
have trouble with her body
chemistry, and she is espec
ially likely to have much dif
ficulty during spells of vomit
ing or of an infection. Then
she tends to get an acidosis
(too much acid in the body)
which is likely to kill the
baby in her womb. Usually
the amount of insulin lhat is
needed to maintain life and
health has to he increased
when a woman becomes preg
nant; in fact, the dose may
have lo he doubled or tripled.
During preganancy, some
change lakes place In (he
glands of internal secretion,
and this makes the diabetes
more severe. Because of all
BPA Accepts Offer
Of Crossing Line
Portland - UPI) - Bonneville
Power administration and Pa
cific Power & Light Co. today
announced an agreement
whereby BPA has accepted
PP&L's offer of the use of the
firm's Columbia river trans
mission crossing west of Vancouver.
The crossing enables (he
federal agency to replace tem
porarily a crossing toppled
into the river by the Colum
bus day slorm.
should keep reporting to her
physician every few weeks
throughout ther nine months
of great danger.
Today, even wilh Ihe help
of insulin, and with the great
skill of obstetricians and ex
perts in diabetes, the mortal
ity among babies born alive
to diabetic mothers is still too
large for comfort. I now read
that in several series of cases,
from 18.3 to 29.6 per cent of
the infants died. In some hos
pitals the mortality rate of
just-born Infants of diabetic
mothers is 7 times higher than
that of infants born of normal
mothers.
Among diabetic mothers,
the infant at birth is likely to
weigh too much sometimes
over 10 or 12 pounds. These
babies are fat and often drop
sical. The large size of the
baby, which makes its birth
difficult, is sometimes respon
sible for its death. In the great
Joslin diabetic clinic, 65 per
cent of diabetic mothers are
delivered quickly by cesarian
section. This lessens the dan
ger lo the mother, but adds
somewhat to the dangers faced
by the newborn infant.
A pregnant diabetic woman
should be hospitalized from 2
lo 4 weeks before the expect
ed date of delivery, and kept
in the hospital until her baby
is born.
Should Second Cousins Wed?
I get letters from young
second cousins who are dis
tressed because they would
like to marry but have been
told by their parents that they
must not. They wonder what
I think about the problem.
Probably the answer of an
expert geneticist would be
that just as with first-cousin
marriages, if on both sides of
the family there is no history ;
of illness, with no mental or I
physical diseases, there will
be little to fear. But when sev
eral of the forebears suffered
from hereditary diseases of
the mind or body, the outlook
will be questionable.
In such cases, if Ihe anxious
couple contemplating mar-'
riage live in or near a college
town, the ideal thing to do
would be to consult the pro
fessor of genetics taking
with them to Ihe conference
every bit of information they
can get about the illnesses of j
parents, grandparents, uncles, j
aunts, brothers and sisters and !
cousins. J
The point we must remem
ber is that when cousins
marry, they may both be car-;
rlers of a defect that runs '
through the family, and if
they are, several or perhaps
all of any children they bear
may have the defect. But if
there seems to be no defect in
the family, a marriage be
tween first or second cousins '
need not be distressing to the
family.
Alcoholism and bad tem
pers can be related lo a tend
ency to epilepsy in a family,
says Dr. Alvarez in his book
let, "What Is Epilepsy?" It
might be worthwhile reading
for second cousins considering
Spokesmen said (he plan ' marriage. You may obtain the
will enable BPA to restore
normal power flows Into the
Portland area within two
weeks and also assui" BPA
transmission capacity to meel
coming winter month peak
loads.
Utah law requires big g.mir
hunters to wear red colored
headgear, shirt, jacket or
sweater.
United Air Lines
Crew Commended
Washington - iU'I' - fVdrral
A vtnl ion Administrator Na j
erh K, llalnhy lias awarded
iTi'tiiu-aW's of commendation
tn thoerew oi a crippled lh.it
cd Air Lines IK'7 that land
ed safely at Mather Air Force
Base, Calif , Oct. I I.
The KAA said Halahy pel
sonally j;ave the crew Hip cer
tificates m ceremony in Lo
Anneles Tuesday niKht. Thf
plane, which lost its rudder
and most of lis vertical staotl
ier, was landed by use of the
ailerons and by expert throt
tle manipulation.
The plane was a chatter
liiiht eanyin ;i3 telephone
ro-npany employees fiom
Hvsuo to Portland, Ore.
booklet by sending cents
and a si am pod, self-addressed
envelope with your request to
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept.
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une Syndicate, Box 957, Dos
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