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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 30, 1964
Smoking Affects Unborn
PALM BEACH SHORES, Flea— (UPI)—Can smoking cigarettes affect the unconceived children of smokers?
Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt, associate professor of preventative medicine at the University of Washington at Seattle, applied the principle of evolution to this question and concluded they could.
The penalties could range from stunted stature and poor function to deformities and childhood cancer, according to Ravenholt.
Ravenhoit started his study with the premise that 'certain substances from the environment outside the body can cause the progeny of cells inside to differ abnormally from the parents.
AMONG THE SUBSTANCES are some which are part of smoke from burning cigarettes, tobacco and other combustions such as those in automobile motors. They can "mutate" or change body cells. Therefore, it follows, said Ravenholt, they can do no less to germ cells.
Men and women of reproductive age "make" germ cells constantly and some become the beginnings of new life—children. If they are already changed in parental bodies toward abnormalities, any offspring which results from them will pay any penalties thus built into them.
Ravenholt told the Science Writers' Seminar of the American Cancer Society that anatomically there could be no question of these substances taken into the body in cigarette smoke reaching the organs in which germ cells are replicating themselves by the cellular method of dividing and redividing. The substances get to these organs by way of the blood stream, he said.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Student Peace Union, 4:30 p.m., Pan American Room, Kansas Union.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
SUA Ping Pong Tournament, 6 p.m.
Big 8 Room, Kansas Union.
Lawrence Center, 1910 Stratford Hall
University String, SW swarthout Hall
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m., 5 p.m. St.
Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford, dr
Air Force Recruiting. 10-3:30 p.m.
Hawk's Nest, Kansas Union. Answer questions on officers training school and take applications for the OFS
Mechanics-Aerospace Lecture, 3:30 p.m.
200 Engineering Building, "American Folklore: Its Scope and Method"—Robert Georges.
SUA Ping Pong Tournament, 6 p.m.
Big 8 Room, Kansas Union.
Big 8 Room, Kansas Union.
Inquiring Class, 7 p.m., St. Lawrence
Center, 1915 Stratford Rd.
Western Civ Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Mu-
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Next . . WALT DISNEY'S "A TIGER WALKS"
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THEATRE ... Telephone VI 3-1065
STARTS THURSDAY - - -
"MUTINY ON
THE BOUNTY"
"Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad." 1:15 p.m.. Experimental Theater.
Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7.30
Maryland v. The University of the Aposhs,
—Rev George Darby;
From Room, Kansas Union. "The Chinese Point of View" - Prof. Ben Wallacker. Inquirer Class, 7:30 p.m., Canterbury House.
TONITE & TUES. . .
"40 Pounds of Trouble"
AND
"SERGEANTS 3"
Open 6:45—Starts 7:15
Sunset
DRIVE IN THEATRE - West on Highway 40
Western Civ Discussion, 9 p.m. St.
Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford Rd.
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
saum of Art Lecture Hall. "Art in the 19th century—Dr. James Connellly." PROGRAM
STARTS WED. ---- "THE GREAT ESCAPE" AND "DOCTOR NO"
Alaskan Disaster Victims
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floated as far as two miles at sea. Aleut natives fled their villages on Kodiak Island.
Vaccines, blankets, and other medical supplies are being rushed in. Portable generators are being sent in by the Navy and a Navy tender is steaming from Puget Sound to be set up as a hospital and control center for the battered Kodiak region.
IN VALDEZ, population 1,220, the waterfront looks as though it was sawed off. Docks were shattered and homes were snapped from their
foundation and shredded into kindling.
Nevertheless, life went on. People went to Easter Sunday services wearing parks and hoods, not the finery they had planned to wear.
"I'm going to start over." was the statement on hundreds of lips.
CROWTHER
"We have received a jolt, physically as well as mentally," said the Rev. Alexander C. Zabriki of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Anchorage. "But we'll build and rebuild."
BARS WERE closed by order of police. Streets were cleared in Anchorage by 7 p.m. on police orders.
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To Europe
This Summer
Kansas University Students, Faculty and Immediate Family
$320
Round trip from New York to Manchester, England For those who want to visit Great Britain.
$356
Round trip from New York to Brussels, Belgium For those who want to visit the continent.
DEPART NEW YORK JUNE 16th and JUNE 17th
By BOAC and Sabena scheduled Jet Services Return by jet at end of summer
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