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BOY OR GIRL-BABIES TO ORDER NOW?***
said his studies have Indicated it is the amount of acid in the blood of the father determines a that sex of
London. A British scientist re- ported today he may have found a way to control the babies. Oxford researcher Dr McWhirter K. G.
MATTER OF
Two
OPINION
entered
New Orleans.
Landis
would-de
the
Krocery More
of Mrs John Fandel.
One brandished a pistol and said: "This in a stick "D."
Mrs Fandel, 54. who wan counting the day's receipts, mapped: "The hell i tn."
The nonplused men left empty-banded.
Versatile Virtuoso
A Dunedin
pertoire
Dunedin.
child's sex. If the acid content is low, the child will be
a girl, he wrote in the scientilc journal, Nature.
Government
stations
are carrying out èx- Hive- periments on stock based on his
conclusions, Mr. Mc- Whirter revealed. He pointed out that people living at high altitudes tend to pro- duce more male than female children. Just the reverse is true at
The Two Lives
man has a re-
of thirteen different
musical instruments.
He can play the violin, car- steet guitar. mandolin accordion, auto
net.
gultor. plono
harp,
musical
ጸበዩ. dulcimer.
swance whistle and one string electric cello He also abbies with a full-sizeu harp, has a zither and cart pou out
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tune on the piano -thinu Mall Special.
Of Don Murra
'BUS STOP'
MAN TAKES A BUSMAN'S
HOLIDAY
Hollywood.
ON MURRAY, a hot new acting
Do had
romances with Marilyn Monroe on the screen. But behind the celluloid he's a religious, con- scientious objector who is spending his own money to help refugees in Europe.
The fans who sighed over Don's tight blue jeans and cowboy drawi
in "Bus Stop" would find an entire-
ly different Don in real life.
In two weeks the actor and his pretty actress wife, Hope Lange, leave for Italy
where he'll croon Western tunes in
where "Bus Stop" la opening.
theatres
But away from the crowds they'll work
on their plan to find a permanent home for several thousand
jammed into a persons refugee camp near Naples.
meet
lower altitudes, hè said. Givin fathers, drugs or altering their diet could be the key to controlling the sex of their offspring, he said-United Press.
Skeleton In The Back Seat
Copenhagen.
A medical historian, Dr Vilhelm Moeller-Christensen,
"We're going first to Geneva to with leaders of different church groups to discuss our programme," he explained. "Hope and I want to buy a large tract of land--with our own money-in whatever country willis driving around Denmark accept these people. We feel they can farm the land and become self-supporting."
with a 600-year-old skeleton in the back seat of his car to collect subscriptions for a
skeleton museum.
Don, now 27, first met the refugees and became interested in their plight when he was
Tho skeleton Is that of # serving his two years' required social service
work as a conscientious ob- woman about 35 years old and jector in Germany duringtains the bones intact of an
cight-month-old
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the Korean War.
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unbam baby. It is one of about 1,000 skele He Is u member of
from the ruins the tons recovered
hospita! Church of the Brethren, whose of members take an official stand Acbeitoft, near Hillerod, north against war.
he pacifist bellet since
Dr
This
tu monastic
Don has followed of Ulstensen
has
was an 18-year-old in East made a speciality of recovering Rockaway, Long Island, NY. skeletons trom old Danish "But I found it difficult as monastic sites for the light they show on the diseases from which our ancestors suffered. China Mail Special.
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"It
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accepted by the
Je said governancn't," took about two years.”
BASHFUL
was
"Then, because anxious to co something con structive right away," he quit his successful role in the Rose Tattoo" on Broadway to
work
for his Church in Germany and Italy. He was a inbourer and
stone-cutter and helped refugees from behind the fron Curtain.
New
MATTHY
returned to York aller 21⁄2 years to play in "Skin of our. Tooth He immediately was signed by director Josh Loga to be Marilyn's ¡co-star in "BUL Stop" Since then, in less theh n your he's won stardomi, finkhet a second picture (Hecht Lancaster's The Bachelor Pariy" which may be noit year's "Marly"), Arc married a girl ho persistently
courbed for five years.
The bashful actor aypedas to be a person who has figured and where he's who he is going. Ho looks with pity on the rebellious, mixed-up young aelors who now crowd business.
show
WONDERFUL THINGS'
in
When I was a chlid I was 4. cut-up” he said. "But when I was 18 the war made me think about le quite seriously. I began to get interested religion. My parent did not belong to the Church of the Brethren
met Bome were doing who member wonderfuul things In the world. "I decided I wanted to bón. good and useful human being, a. more serious and responsible person."--United Press
but
Collects Bottles
Auckland,
An Auckland publican har what is collalciered to be the blagou ooloution of minintur liquor bottle in New Zealand.
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and
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HEAVY RAIN
THIS
AFTERNOON
RAFD
Blackpool.
Harry Organist Wynne thought he was hearing things.
The new electronic church organ started to give a complete weather forecast.
When he flicked down three of the stops, put bis foot on the loud pedal, and pressed the keys, out came a voler with the weather bulle- Lin.
The louder he played, the louder came the vico.
WEATHER REPORT?
Wynne said the voice came on just before a Mass.
1
Horry kept the voice
to down
whisper during the service by Avoiding the loud pedal. He said, "It sounded like a weathor report to. : aircraft,
"It may have been the radio at the airport pick ed up in some freak way by the organ valves."
Technicians, will take the organ to pieces in an attempt to solve the mystery.
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