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0 s Thursday. October S 1961 HERALD AND VYS, Klamath Falls. Ore. PAGE 1-1 MM t iw fcr we, it- tw. nt- u.i. m. off. 0Zb Mongolism Highlighted By Drive To Improve Lot Of Retarded Child By DELOS SMITH I PI Srtcnrt Editor NEW YORK (IPH - President1 Kennedy's drive to improve the lot of retarded children highlights new scientific answers for critical questions pertaining to mongol ism. This is cne of the most tragic forms of retardation be cause it is one of the most hope less. , I One question is: Do the parents of one child afflicted with mon golism have a greater than ran dom chance of becoming parents of a second such child? The old "Th trick is to steer him where you want him to go, and after you get there make him think he drove!" Spy Satellite Sysiem Protects From Attack CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (UPH America's newest "spy" satellite is proving the success of a system designed to prevent a space-age Pearl Harbor. The moonlet is a sharp-eyed apace machine called MIDAS IV. It was hurled into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Saturday. Tuesday night, MIDAS IV was given its first test when it passed through the skies above Cape Ca naveral. Simultaneously, the Air Force launched a 98-foot Titan missile on an ocean-spanning voy age from here. The satellite's mechanical eye was wide open. Ultra-cool detec tion devices aboard the multiton satellite picked up infra-red radia tions from the Titan's exhaust less than two minflles after the rocket was launched. 1 MIDAS "memorized" the infor mation of tape recorders and con tinued its orbital flight around the earth. When it passed again over the California base, Air Force sci entists lapped Its "memory" by radio signals. MIDAS IV faithfully told them that a large rocket was launched at a certain time during its flight The test proved that a sensitive station in space can detect the No Time To Read REDDING, Calif. (UPD- Mrs. Fraser Powlison shook her hus band in the wee small hours of the morning Tuesday and asked him to hand her a book on na tural childbirth. Powlison decided this was no time to read a book, called her obstetrician, and delivered their first child by instructions given over the telephone. Then Powlison, an elementary school teacher and former report er for the San Diego Union, took his wife and new son 10 blocks to the hospital. Doctors said all three members of the family were in excellent condition. Grange News MIDLAND A regular business meeting was held Wednesday, Oct. 18, at p.m. with Alex Cammock. master presiding. The Bible was opened and flag presented by Ruth An drieu, ceres. Ida Scala, lady as sistant, and Butch Schneyder, as sistant steward. Opening prayer was given by Opal Waresback chaplain. Visitors introduced were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Youngren ol Riversdale Grange. Douglas Coun ty. and Mr. and Mrs. Wes John son of Poe Valley Grange: Donald and Bertha Kelle were accepted into Midland Grange as new members. All committee re ports were favorable. Grace Stork, juvenile matron, reported tne ju veniles are going to have a Com munity Halloween Party Oct. 27 for children and subordinate grange women are asked to bring decorated cookies. The Juveniles donated $20 to Midland Grange. Thank you cards were read from iat Wright Sr and Guy Galleth. Francis Flowers reported the insurance repaired the Grange Hall root. He also re ported on the stoves. It was even tually referred to the committee for further study. Lecturer's program was present ed with opening prayer by Opal Waresback. chaplain. A game by all followed and a song. Carl and Ethel Youngren showed Items from Sweden. v'ext Home Economics Club meeting will be held at the home of Naonjj Mitchell. 3052 Anderson. Mrs. Waresback will be co-hostesi at the Nov. 7 meeting. Guests are asked to bring vegetables, sal ads and desserts. Next meeting will be Nov. I at I p.m. Election of officers. quite firing of sizeable rockets early in their flights. What this means in turn is that when the day comes that a full flock of MIDAS-type satellites are in the skies, America could about double the warning time it would have In event of an attack by in tercontinental ballistic missiles. At present, the maximum warn ing available would be about IS minutes, primarily from a string of radar stations. Death Toll Reaches 400 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The highway death toll for the year reached 400 in Oregon today as an automobile plunge threw a young Toledo woman to her death The woman, Ardith Florence Downing, 21, was driving the car when it veered off Highway 101 and went down a 30-foot embank ment north of Newport at 2 a.m. Also thrown out was William George iwong, 22, Seaside, who was taken to a Portland hospital for treatment of his injuries. The pace of fatalities could make this the worst year on rec ord in Oregon. The worst previous year was 1959, but the 400th fatal ity that year did not occur until Oct. 31. The year-end total then reached 497. answer was, no. The n e w an swer isfives, if the mother is younger than 35. The younger she is, the greater the chance. Another question is: Can science now identify the parents of one mongolism child w ith the highest risk of becoming parents of a second? A few years ago such identification was not possi ble, but now it is, to some ex tent at least. Science now knows more about human chromosomes. These new answers come from the Institute of Child Health of the Hospital for Sick Children in London which over the past few years has made a number of not able contributions to scientific un derstanding of the causes and handling of retardation. Small Percentage A tiny but stable percentage of live births are of babes afflicted with mongolism. That percentage is the random chance which all parents are presumed to be sub ject to. Two statistical studies, one in 1934 and the other in 1950, indicated parents of one mongol ism chilj, ran no greater than the random chance of having a sec-, ond. But a new study of C. O. Car ter and K. A. Evans of the in stitute's scientific staff found to the contrary, and theirs was re markable for its scientific thor oughness. It covered 698 mongol ism children and their parents. The statistical methods were! highly refined. Carter and Evans concluded' that the parents of one mongol ism child and who have no other close relative so afflicted, should be told their risk of having a sec ond is one to two per cent above the random. This advice takes no account of the age of the mother. Decreases With Age It the mother is under 25, their statistics showed, the risk is about 50 times the random risk. If she is between 25 and 34 the risk is five times the random, but if she is older than 35 the risk approximates the random. In the past few years science's knowledge of human chromo somes has advanced rapidly, due to new techniques which permit their visualization. The institute's scientific staff applied these tech niques to chromosomes of nine families which had two mongol ism children each, including grandparents as well as parents. Three of these families were "carrying" translocations of Chromosome 21 which is the one suspected of being at the root of mongolism when it is missing or disordered in various ways. If their members could have had chromosome examinations, science could have told them their risk of having more babes with mongolism was quite high. r Coait-to'CMt NEWSPAPERS Stll THE MOST! REVEREND DIES CHICAGO (UPH - The Rev. Edmund D. Sopor. 85, former president of Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity and former vice-president of Duke University, died Monday in Evanston. 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