Woman Delivers Own Babies After Highballs; Expects 8th TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) Mrs. Ellerbe W. Carter, Sr. expects her eighth baby in April. As usual, she plans to deliver it herself. The dark haired, blue eyed woman, now past 40, has brought five of her children into the world, unattended. Her oldest child is 17. Her youngest is two. Briefly, Mrs. Carters system consists of taking a few whisky highballs to relax and having her baby. Then she resumes her housework. Mrs. Carter says she enjoys the rapture of childbirth as nature intended it. She added There is no agony, no screaming pain. There is about a half a minute of acute discomfort, but not nearly as bad as having a tooth pulled. Her husband, 71, a retired Army general, is a member of the City Council and president of the Titusville Lions Club. He also heads a realty company. Mrs. Carter read many books on natural childbirth before attempting to deliver her own babies and she blesses their doctor authors. When Mrs. Carter is aware that the birth of a child is due, she mixes a few whisky highballs and goes into a bedroom alone, to relax and wait. When the child is born she gets up instantly, then shows the newcomer to its brothers and sisters and her husband. After the baby has been properly welcomed by the family, Mrs. Carter gets breakfast or whatever meal is due, and goes about her other daily household chores as usual. Mrs. Carter says it is very important to get up instantly and stay up so that the organs can immediately go back into place. She takes the highballs before a birth to obtain complete relaxation. In order to reach a relaxed state in a crowded household like mine, the whisky is necessary, she said. I dont take enough to get drunk, or even woozy. Mrs. Carter had one baby without whisky. There wasnt any handy at the time, she explains. Mrs. Carter, a slender, attractive, gay and charming woman, does most of the household chores for her husband and seven children. Her normal weight is a little more than 100 pounds. She permits herself a five pound weight gain during pregnancy. She writes poetry, conducts a free public library at her home, and is a member of several womens clubs. Mrs. Carter is a vegetarian. She attributes her energy and good health to her meatless diet. Blames Drugs For Thinning Bone Cells LOS ANGELES (AP) A disease which all older people have but few do anything about was called to the attention of the nations doctors today. The ailment is a thinning of bone substance which gradually weakens the skeleton. It is the result of the decreasing production by the body of sex hormones, and is one of the reasons why the bones of the elderly, particularly women, break so easily. This condition, called osteoporosis, can be treated by doctors in general through the administration of sex harmones, Dr. Gilbert S. Bordan told the American Academy of General Practice. Drugs Blamed Dr. Gordan, a gland specialist at the University of California medical school, San Francisco, said the use of acth and cortisone aggravates the condition. These drugs, frequently given for arthritis and other diseases of the aged, interfere with the free growth of bone cells.