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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1973
Page
6
The National Institutes of Health awards a $13,000 second-year grant to the University of Akron. Dr. Ivan Gradisar says the project tests a theory by comparing sounds from healthy knees with those showing problems to understand knee health.
The Census Bureau reports the 1972 fertility rate dropped to 2 025 births per 1000 women 15 to 44, below the zero growth level, risking long term population decline if maintained. Factors include economics contraception abortion and urban migration. growth may resume if rates rise. Population on Jan 1 1973 was 209 717 000.
Bar Harbor Maine AP Jackson Laboratory scientists report a major breakthrough linking inherited viral genetic information to cancer in two mouse types. Dr Hans Meier cites a highly significant early life virus expression association with tumors in old age, suggesting possible parallels in humans.
A 1972 census for the Official Catholic Directory shows 48,460,427 Catholics in the U.S., up 69,437 as the second smallest annual gain. Infant baptisms fall, priests and nuns totals dip modestly, schools enrollments shrink, and converts decline to 73,925, the lowest since 1939.
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