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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.
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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.
He was a former president of
the Association of American Colleges.
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