Hunger study links early malnutrition to slower child development
A Tufts led study of 344 black infants ages 3 months to 3 years finds early hunger dulls mental growth, with developmental quotients dropping from a near norm of 117 at 13 weeks to about 80 by age 3. Experts call for nutrition plus stimulating stimulation and social change to combat poverty.
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Boston
H. Jack Geiger
Tufts University School of Medicine
Geiger
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Tufts
Tufts Delta Health Center
Mound Bayou
Miss
Bolivar County
Florence Halpern
Roy E. Brown
Gesell
Local women visit Dunkirk patients for Christmas gifts
Mrs. Walter DeShazer, Mrs. Margaret Bemis, and Mrs. Lena Hulett joined Misses Shirley and Christine Hayes in Dunkirk on Saturday. They visited Mrs. Myra Cherry and delivered Christmas favors to residents at the home for the aged.
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Lance Cpl
Douglas DeShazer
Vietnam
Walter DeShazer
Gail Alcorn
Thomas Alcorn
Grand Valley
Helen Reynolds
Elouise Marsh
E.K. Storer
Joan
Florida
Peek N’ Peak
Fred Wallace
Marion Nellis
North East
Mary Pettingil
Gordon Bemis
Merton Bemis
Washington, D.C
Ronald Willey
Spencerport
Robert
Phyllis Aikens) VanEarden
Montevideo
Minn
Brent David
Max Bemis
Hatch Hollow
Paul Shinko
Carl A. Marsh
Carl L. Marsh
Tonia
John Hamilton
Johnny
Meadville
Loren Upperman
Clymer
Clifford Aikens
Gary Kostreba
Corry
Loye Albright
Lori
Loye Sr
David Albright
Beverly
Tommy Kostreba
Susan Bemis
Houghton College
Shirley
Christine Hayes
Margaret Bemis
Lena Hulett
Dunkirk
Myra Cherry
Home For
Sniper Faces Mental Examination After Killing and Wounding
A former movie and stage actor, 39 year old Channes J. Dersarkissian, captured December 4 after allegedly killing a man and wounding another, was sent to Fairview State Mental Hospital for a 60 day evaluation in Lycoming County. He faced murder and assault charges and could be kept for treatment or returned for trial after the exam.
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Pittsburgh
Channes J. Dersarkissian
Fairview State Mental Hospital
Lycoming County
Dersarkissian
Rormer
Forteys face gas bill mix up after eight months
In Stourport on Severn England Mr and Mrs David Fortey report eight gas bills three meter reading demands two threats of legal action a disconnection warning and a court warrant all despite having no gas in the house they cook on electricity and lack a gas meter A gas board spokesman cites confusion while a study note from New Delhi follows in the same dispatch.
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Stoukport-On-Severn
England
David Fortey
Th Gas Company
Fortey
Gas Board
New Delhi
Punjab University
Fire Hats Take Look Of Helmet
In San Francisco the century old leather fireman’s hat is replaced by a visored plastic helmet. The new design offers better protection on the move to and at fires and during civil unrest, with neck shields, chin straps, foam liner, and a retractable visor for rock attack.
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San Francisco
Fire Department
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South Center Street
Barney's
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