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Tl-it NASHVILLE TtNNESStAN. WrdncsJay. june 3. i sells Putnam Pollution Curb Report Slated Jury Seatec 1 1 1 TVA Official If. 5 "It i Si, 1 4 vt I 1 w-l if tj vj im v-r Immy Ellis Stall photo by Jii Peer International on Nashville Scene ne Sells was serving the juvenile portion of a 15-year sentence at Jordonia when he The defense is attempting to prove that Sells is not mentally capable of understanding the charges against him and unable to advise with legal counsel in his own defense.

THE 12TH JUROR, Willie Wittakcr of Monterey, was seated at 4:30 p.m. after defense and state attorneys examined 74 prospective jurors over a two day period. Shortly afterward, the judge excused the panel overnight and allowed them to go home. Roberts warned the jurors not to listen to or read news accounts of the trial. Others selected for the jury which will be expected to return a verdict pertaining only to Sells' sanity and not to his guilt or innocence are: Joe Power Harlan Mul-lins, Floyd Carrington, Fred Brown, Milton Fisher, John Hendricks, Tommy Gentry, Mrs.

Nannie Newbv, Ralph E. Allen, Mrs. Willie Rush Jewell and Perrell Gregory. AN EFFORT by the defense to keep women off the panel drew an admonishment from the judge. Attorneys Mitchell and Elmer Dean Langford of Cookcville, had used a hardly known and seldom used state law which forbids women from serving on a jury if they ask to be excused.

Rv nOVI.F, HOWARD TENNES5EAN Staff Correspondent COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -The 12th juror was seated late yesterday afternoon for the Larry Ray Soils sanity trial in Putnam County Circuit Court afti the defense exhausted its final juror challenge and appealed for extra ones. The request was refused by Judge Hillard Roberts of Livingston. KODERTS HAD allowed 16 challenges each to the state and the defense four for each oi the four counts for which 17. was indicted.

The stale used only four of its challenges. Richard Mitchell, one of two coi'rt appointed attorneys for Sclh: asked twice for the additions! juror challenges and took exception to the judge's action when he overruled Mitchell each time. Sells was indicted on charges of raping, robbing, kidnaping and assaulting Mrs. Helen Jean Boling of Franklin, after taking her hostage during his escape from the State training School for Boys at Jordonia last October. THE COOKEVILLE teenager was convicted in 1967 at the age of 14 of second-degree murder in the slabbing death of Mrs.

Barbara Faye Ramsey Renfro, a Cookcville secretary who was attacked in her car at an intersection while she was enroute home for Ralph Peer II, his mother Mrs. Ralph Peer, and Peer International executive Roy Horton reminisce a little at a dinner honoring the Peers at the City Club here Their firm, one of the pioneers of the country music publishing business, will open a Southern office here today. Among many acccmplishmens, the late Ralph Peer is noted for having published the work of Jimmy Rodgers and A. P. Carter of the Original Carter Family.

sider the testimony of a com-, pet cut private psychiatrist to he just as strong as that of a state psychiatrist. The juror said he would. psychiatrists at Central State Hospital, Nashville, which indicate Sells is sane. Mitchell asked one prospective juror if he would con- VITAMIN Both attorneys told several prospective women jurors of the law during the process of examining jurors. Roberts instructed the at- torneys yesterday that the women must ask to he excused themselves, adding: "YOU CAN'T do it for them." It became clear during examination of prospective jurors that the defense will attempt to refute tests by state KEY TO A HEALTHY HEART Paperback SI.

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But a paper by TVA's director of water control planning is expected to confirm the policy change in line with re-c antipollution declarations of its board of directors. THE PAPER by Rood Elliott, water control planning chief, will be read by an assistant, because TVA is receiving a visit from the President's National Water Commission tomorrow and Elliott cannot be present. The Corps of Engineers is expected to make its first public disclosure at the conference of the formula it uses for justification of recreation water storage and facilities in corps dams and lakes. A corps spokesman also will tell how he estimates the number of visitors at corps lakes projects in advance of constructions. Other sessions will be devoted to new developments in control of air, water, and solid waste pollution.

The water pollution control sessions will fully explore many of the new wrinkles in design of sewage disposal systems. S. Leary Jones, director of the Tennessee State Stream Pollution Board, said that this is the type of conference that every consulting engineer in the water or pollution fields needs to attend. HE POINTED out that Nashville is a center for more consulting engineers than any other city in the stale, "if they are interested in their professional development, they will attend," he said. The annual session is sponsored by the Vanderbilt Department of Environmental Engineering, the Slate Health Department, and the Stream Pollution Board.

HEW Aide Says Morale Just Fine WASHINGTON (UPI) The government's top health officer, Dr. Roger 0. Egebcrg, has denied there is a morale problem in the dcDartment of Tesf Tube Wizard MADISON, Wis. Nobel Prize winner H. Goh-bind Khorana, who announced the first total synthesis of a gene, is shown at work in his laboratory.

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Gohbind Khorana announced yesterday he has accomplished the first successful total synthesis of a gene the basic hereditary unit and a step that could lead to the eventual artificial creation of life. The breakthrough by the noted molecular biologist and his team of associates marked the first time a gene has been artificially produced by combining simple organic chemicals in a test tube. SCIENTISTS previously had learned how to take small bits of genetic material out of living cells, making copies of natural genetic material in a test tube. Khorana was. the first to show that genes can be synthesized from atoms of simple chemical building blocks with no natural gene required as a model in the reaction mixture.

Khorana, 47, a native of Raipur, India, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for work in Deciphering the genetic code, made the announcement at a meeting of University of Wisconsin scientists. He was hesitant to predict the impact of the accomplishment, but said it might eventually permit scientists to "manipulate the biology" of a living system. GENETIC DISEASES, such as diabetes and some mental illnesses, he said, may someday be cured by providing tissues of the affected individuals with a supply of normal genes. He said other characteristics of individuals might also be altered in the same manner. "In the long-distant future the knowledge might allow for genetic planning of individuals tailoring people to fit patterns, turning out athletes or intellectuals," he said.

Khorana said he started with the four nucleotides that are basic building blocks of genes and which can synthesized easily from atoms. HE SAID HE joined the nucleotides into a number of single-stranded segments with the nucleotides in proper se- Honors Set For Retiring TSU Group Five retiring faculty members at Tennessee Slate University will be honored today at a special luncheon and evening reception. The retiring educators are Dr. Alger V. Boswell, TSU vice president emeritus and professor of mathematics; Dr.

Charity M. Mance, professor of education and head of the department of administration; Dr. Earl L. Sasser, English professor and coordinator of graduate studies and research in the humanities; Miss Mazie 0. Tyson, associate professor of geography, and Dr.

Raleigh A. Wilson, professor of history. Mrs. A. P.

Torrence, wife of the university president, will host a reception for the group at noon, and a special reception is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Tennessee Room the Student Union center. quence and later joined those fragments into a complete, double-stranded, 77 nucleotide gene. The single stranded fragments were designed by Khorana so they would spontaneously line up in proper sequence to form the double strands, exactly as happend in natural deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The gene is a molecule of DNA.

Khorana said the ends of the fragments were joined by the enzyme DNA ligase, which is purified from living cells. KHORANA SAID the team used the gene for alanine transfer RNA from yeast as their model. Nobel Prize winner Probert Hollcy of the Salk Institute determined the structure of that molecule some years ago. Khorana said he has shown that the gene they have synthesized is exactly the same as the one they set out to make. He said the researchers' checked the sequence in each of the segments and demonstrated that they joined together in the correct manner.

Work on the yeast transfer RNA gene was started in 1965. Khorana said he is now at work on the synthesis of a second gene, called tyrosine-suprcssor transfer RNA, found in a species of bacteria known as E. Coli. HE SAID WORK on this second gene is expected to be completed within a few months. Khorana said that, now the rules for chemically synthesizing genes have been determined, it is theoretically possible to manufacture any desired gene in a test tube.

Practical use of the artificial genes to produce life, alter living organisms or cure disease is, however, many years in the future. Scientists say there may be problems in developing techniques for introducing the genes into the proper target areas. Methods now being considered involve use of purified geneiL materials or viruses as carriers to induce genes into affected cells. KHORANA. WHO shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine with Holley and Marshall Nirenberg, said an article describing in detail the work will be submitted to a scientific journal shortly.

He said it will also be presented at the international symposium at Riga, Russia, late this month. Khorana said he now wants to find out what turns a gene on and off in a living cell what starts its activities and what stops them. He said the, ultimate challenge would be to introduce the artificial gene into a living cell. Khorana has been assisted by an international group of young chemists. Those who helped in the synthesis of the yeast gene were Vittorio Sgaramella, Italy; Hans Van de Sande, Netherlands; Kjell Kleppe, Norway; Marv Caruthers of the United States; Ashok Kumar and Naba Gupta, India; Ohtsuka, Japan, and Hans Weber and Henri Buchi, of Switzerland.

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