Article:Fresno Bee-Sunday October 14,1945
Selma Mother Gives Birth To 5th Set Of Twins SELMA ( Fresno,Co. ), Oct.13- Ronald and Donald, aged three days, and feeling
swell, are wondering tonight in their Selma Sanitarium cribs what all the ado is
about.
At their age, the momentousness of their arrival in the world does not register, and they cannot figure out just what is so unusual about the fact they are the fifth set of twins born to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Dixon, 2204 Young
Street, Selma.
While the medical profession, their parents and the rest of the world ponder the quirk of fate which landed five sets of twins in the Dixon family during the last
20 years, Ronald and Donald make the make the funny little noises all babies
emit and wonder where and when their next bottles are coming from. Dr. R. W.
Binkley was the attending physician.
Born Thursday
The pair arrived Thursday morning, via caesarian section, following by nine years their twin brother and sister, Dorris and Morris, born in 1936 in Fresno.
Four years before that, in 1932, Mrs. Dixon, now 39, gave birth to Richard and
Raymond in the same Fresno hospital, Ellen and Allen were born in Calexico, in
1927, but Allen died a year and a half later.
The first twins, Florence and Lawrence, saw the light of day in 1925, also in
Calexico.
Florrence now married to John Reed, and lives in Selma, while Lawrence is overseas with the Navy.
Favors Big Family
Father Dixon, a farm worker, says many children keep a home bright and happy, and greeted well wisher with a big grin when the birth of Ronald and Donald was announced. Donald weighed 6 1/2 pounds and Ronald 7 pounds.
Incidentally, a dauther, Betty, was born 15 years ago in Selma, the only child of the Dixon clan to arrive in the world unescorted.