The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-11-14, Page 18November 14 1974—
H. GORDON
GREEN
Chicago a few weeks ago
Louise Kubinec fded suit
the neighbor lady who
won the alley from her for
trtm' of a million dollars. On
what s? Alienation of af-
*Usu. &k to use the exact
words as they appear in the
charge, "Mrs. Reamer and my
husband have been openly and
Maliciously carrying on an illicit
affair in Cook County and in Hot
Springs, Arkansas."
Besides that, she. says, "Albert
won't even cut my grass any
more."
Now husband stealing isn't a
rare crime these days, though
husbands are more likely to be
borrowed for a night or two
rather than stolen for good, but
what makes this episode some-
what more interesting than the
usual is the fact that Mrs.
Kubinec is 82, and the neighbor
lady who is playing the hussy
across the alley as well as in Hot
Springs, Arkansas, is 81. And the
husband who is allegedly worth a
quarter million is 90 years old!
When reporters got wind of the
suit they couldn't get Mrs. Reiter
to come to the pfione but her
daughter answered for her. And
her daughter was plainly out-
raged by the: whole thing. Said
that for people of that age to
carry on in such a manner was
'positively disgraceful:
I can't agree to that at all. In
these days when most of what
gets into thelcourts is sordid and
sick, I would say that this must be
once of the most refreshing cases
to come before the judge for
many a long, sad day. And if I
were Albert Kubinec and found
out that my wife thought me
worth a quarter million at the age
of 90, I don't think I'd worry too
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much about being in disgrace.
I just hope that disgraceful or
not, such vitality isn't rimed
for Americans only, and I don't
think that it is. Our own Sir
Charles G. D. Roberts didn't live
to be 90, but in his 00's he too had
an enviable reputation for being a
lady's man. Only being a poet he
seemed to prefer sweet young
things of 20 or 30 to women his
own age, and I have been told by
one of our well known women
writers that when she was a girl
attending her very first Canadian
Authors' Convention - a conven-
tion which featured the presence
of the great Sir Charles 'she soon
learned to make a discreet circle
around the great man because he
was a bum pincher.
Which isn't too difficult to
believe because when at 83 Sir
Charles announced his engage-
ment to a very young and very
charming Toronto woman, an-
other young woman was so
furious about being overlooked
that she flew at the bride-to-be
and tried to pull her beautiful
hair out.
As a struggling writer myself, I
have often dreamed of how won-
derful it would be to be regarded
as one of the patron saints of
Canadian letters after I am dead -
to have stories in the school
books, . my ' biography in Cana-
diana, maybe even a • small
plaque on my tombstone. But now
that I'm finally beginning to rea-
lize that I too will die with the
great novel still unwritten, I'm
beginning to wonder if it wouldn't
be an even lovelier achievement
to be remembered merely as a
man who did not grow old grace-
fully, but still bad the fair sex
pulling hair over him when he
was past 80.
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Part of the herd of six Eland, the largest of the antelope of Africa, that are now on exhibit
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Haploid research a new field
Sometimes half a plant is
better than a whole plant. At least
that's true in agricultural re-
search when that half -plant is the
key to breeding better varieties
of wheat, oats, rapeseed and
other crops. °
The half -plant in question is
called a haploid. It isn't half a
plant in thesense of being just the
top section or the bottom half of a
plant. Nor is it a plant split down
the middle. In .fact, it looks like
an ordinary plant—but inside,
there are only half the normal
number of chromosomes in its
cells.
"Haploid research is a new
field," explains Wilf Keller, a
member of Agriculture Canada's
haploid research team. "But if
scientists can perfect methods of
producing haploid plants, their
work will benefit plant breeders,
farmers and, _ ultimately, con-
sumers.
"The great potential of hap-
loids is that they will. allow plant
breeders to make immediate
plant selections which could re-
duce the development time for
new varieties by several Years,"
At present when a plait
breeder crosses two varieties, he
must continue breedin ' thtbugh
several generations of plants to
assure that' his new variety is a
true one with no undesirable
traits.
That's another way of saying
that normal crossbreeding re-
sults in plants with hidden mix-
tures of genes. Breeders must
put their new products through
several generations to be sure
genes with unwanted traits don't
suddenly jump into prominence
and weaken the variety.
However, haploids would pro-
vide a shortcut. With only one set •
of chromosomes and genes, hap-
loids carry only the characteris-
tics which they exhibit. What the
breeder sees is what he gets.
There are no hidden recessive
characteristics to show up in the
next generation.
A plant breeder could select the
haploids with the best features
and treat them with colchicine, a
drug which causes the chromo-
somes to double. This would re-
store plant cells to their normal
or diploid state. The breeder then
would have a normal plant with
the same characteristics as the
haploid which he selected.
With only half the normal num-
ber of chromosomes, haploids
are sterile and can't produce
seeds. However, doubling the
number of. chromosomes gives
normal plants which reproduce
by seed. Scientists can multiply
these plants to form the stock for
a new variety.
All this is easier said than done.
First you ' need a reliable
method of producing haploids.
"Occasionally haploids occur
in nature;" Dr. Keller says.
"Sometimes in flax, a single seed
produces twin plants --a normal
one and a haploid. We don't know
what causes the formation of
such twins and this process does
not occur in all crops. We need a
dependable andreproducible
method of producing haploids in
all our major crops."
In 1967, European scientists
obtained tobacco haploids by
growing plants from immature
pollen_ Pollen cells -the, male
half of plant reproduction—have
only one set of chromosomes.
But growing a plant from
pollen isn't as simple as planting
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The individual pollen grains, or
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Agriculture Canada's haploid
program at the research station
in Ottawa is headed by Dr. Tibor
Rajhathy. Wilf Keller, Beatrice
Murray and Iris Craig complete
the team which is working to de-
velop haploid production for
wheat, oats, rapeseed, flax and
fababeans. They are co-operating .
with Agriculture Canada's Delhi,
Ont., Research Station tobacco
breeders who also. include hap-
loids in their breeding program.
The four Ottawa researchers
are varying growth conditions to
find the key to producing haploids
from pollen for each of their crop
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search
involves` growing haploid
plants froth single jeaf cells," Dr.
Keller says. "We cut the leaves of
haploid plants such as flax or
tobacco into small pieces ' and
treat them with an enzyme to
dissolve the cell walls. Individual
cells are placed on a growth
medium and we try to get the
cells to divide and form cell.
colonies from' which leaves, roots
and whole plants will eventually
emerge." _
Nutrients and growth regula-
tors are juggled Until the perfect
conditions are found. Growth
regulators oftein cause doubling
of the chromosomes and the re-
generated plants would therefore
be diploid and, of course, fertile.
Sometimes cell colonies will
produce leaves on one medium
Mit must be switched to another
medium to grow roots. Entire
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