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Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
ABOUT YOUR EYES

Remarkable progress has been made IN
reducing the number of new cases of blind
ness among children.
Not only has blindness due to infectious
diseases decreased sharply among school-age
children, but loss of sight due to the admin
isteriag of oxygen in high concentration to
premature infants has become rare.
But eyesight among adults should still be
better protected and there are many OF us
who do not think enough about the gift OF
sight.
Persons in the United States who are
either totally blind or with impairment of
vision sufficiently great to prevent normal
activities number $4,000, 2 per 1000 OF the
population. New cases are estimated at
10000 yearly.
The most frequent causes of blindness
very generally have their onset in middle
and later life, and include specific eye con-
ditions of unknown etiology, particularly
glaucoma and cataract, and such general dis
orders as arterioSclerOsiS, high blood pres
sure, sephritis and diabetes.
Males have a higher blindness rate than
females, which results in part from the high
er incidence among males of blindness due
to accidents and to the earlier development
of arteriosclerotic and other degenerative
changes.
Much can be done to prevent blindness,
according to the statisticians.
A study in Baltimore showed that half
the cases of blindness could have been pre-
vented Early diagnosis and treatment of
pathological eye conditions are the best
available means to conserve sight. Periodic
health checks, particularly among people past
midlife, should include examination of the
eyes for glaucoma and cataract, as well as
for changes due to degenerative vascular
diseases.
A word to the wise, kind reader, should
be sufficient.
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
BABS0N DISCUSSES A SUMMARY OF AFRICA

workers have automobiles, which
are mainly American-made. No oil
of commercial grade is now found
in Africa. Soft coal exists in great
quantities. This is being distilled,
and the distillate is being used for
gasoline for autos and trucks; the
residue is used for tarring the
highways.
(14) MINERALS. My reason for
visiting Africa was to investigate
the diamond, gold, chrome and
copper mines. / was interested only
in the richest and lOngest-lived
mines, of which there are not too
many. especially like those whose
stocks can be bought by the pur-
chase of American Depositary Re-
ceipts and that are listed on the
New York Stock Exchange Too
many African mines are short-lived
and very speculative.
(15) WATER POWER. Africa
leads all continents in undeveloped
water power. Three of these possi-
bilities are now being developed. I
am especially enthused about the
one at the Kariba Gorge on the
Zambezi River. This will be three
times the size of our Hoover Dam,
and has the worlds largest man.
made lake to supply water in the
dry seasons. 1t will supply power
to the copper mines.
(16) WILD BEASTS. Africa has
the greatest number of wild beasts
now remaining on this earth. There
is huge collection in the Kruger
Reservation, 800 miles by so miles
In area. was unable to visit this
reservation, where they all run
wild and have equal opportunity to
follow their natural pattern for
survival; but Mrs. Babson had the
courage to go by herself. with a
guide. These wild animals offer a
suggestion for world peace,-name-
ly. by giving equal opportunities to
all creatures If all men and beasts
have sufficient opportunities to eat
and to develop, there will be no
Communists.
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
By EIoine townsend Diekersor

it with you. For those of you who
have babies in the house Il want to
suggest Whites vitamin A and d
ointment. Leslie is our third child
and with each child / always have
had trouble with diaper rash. I
have boiled diapers, used pills I'm
diaper pals. and have run the
gauntlet, but it seemed inevitable
for my three little gals to have
scalded you know what. This oint-
ment that I recommend to you was
suggested TO me by my doctor and
we used it only one day on Leslie
and the miracle happened. It's
very good. I know how desperate
you get with uncomfortable little
ones and / suggest you give it a
try il you are having similar trou-
BILE in your house.
Our bridge club serves cookies
and coffee for refreshments rather
than desserts. Most of us love
brownies and it seems weekly the
hostess has served them. I didn't
find out until this past week that
| was eating commercially frozen
brownies. "The best brownies you
ever thaw" That's all you do to
them, too. Just put them out to
thaw couple of hours and you
couldn't bake a better brownie
yourself. They're iced too.
Hayes amateur radio friends
have been so good about arranging
contacts for us while Hayes has
been away. Just little while ago
one of the local hams called and
said band conditions were so good
today and he would try to get
through to Shreveport so we could
talk. Hayes will be home this
Thursday, but when you're sepa-
rated for twelve days there seems
to be thousands of things you want
to discuss with each other.
Last Sunday the temperature was
minus twelve. Today our high will
be fifty degrees. I'll take the lat
ter temperature while the head of
the house is away. Then when
Hayes returns we can have ex-
tremes in weather. You know there
isn't state in the 40, unless it is
the newest state, that has any more
severe storms than our little Les
lies birth state, Kansas. It makes
life more exciting to say the least.
Until | write to you next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16

doctor. Do you know what to do
in the emergency? Put few drops
of warm oil in the ear (medicated
ear drops are best, but il you don't
have them, plain warm mineral oil
or even olive oil will do) and a
plug of cotton very very loosely
applied just SO the oil doesn't run
out. Give the child a warm hot
water bottle to put against his ear
and a tablet of aspirin by mouth.
This will usually ease him off back
to sleep until a slightly more re-
spectacle hour to call your doctor.
Causes
Children are much more sus-
ceptible to earache than are grown
ups. There are two reasons for
this. In the first place children have
more colds and other respiratory
diseases than do older people and
infection in the ear almost always
follows infection in the throat In
the second place because of the
shape sof child's head the little
tube (the Eustachean tube) which
connects the middle ear with the
throat is almost horizontal in child
hood and it's easy for infection to
travel along this pathway from
throat to ear. In adults the face is
longer and the Eustachean tube is
almost vertical. It is more difficult
for infection to- work is way uphill
as it would have to in the adult
The middle ear, the troublesome
spot in children, is a small enclosed
area. The eardrum make tight
wall between the middle ear and
fhe outside. On the other side of
he middle ear is firm membrane
that has one opening in 1t for the
Eustachean tube which leads to the
throat. When injection travels up
this tube 1t forms pus in the middle
ear This causes swelling and ii
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16

February; and its coldest in July
and August, with practically no
freezes, except in the highlands.
South Africa is fast becoming a
winter resort for Europeans.
(8) RAINFALL. Long periods, OF
drought are followed by terrible
floods. Someday the floods will be
controlled, but not yet. The weather
is fine for citrus, with no freezes
and much sunshine. Drought is
overcome by irrigation.
90 BANKS. There are several
local banks scattered throughout
Africa; but South Africa has only
four. Each of these banks has hum
dreds of branches. / like Barclays
Bank the best, but all are equally
good. Banks pay 41s per cent in
terest on deposits; bank stocks
yield about 9 per cent to stock
holders. believe these bank stocks
offer the greatest opportunity for
growth of any in the world.
10) LARGE CITIES. There are
only a few large cities in Africa !;
DuCt dlI are udfAu5 q uud1 NCAOun
growth. Forty-five years ago
johannesburg had only thousand
people, all living in tents. Today
the population of this city is over
500 900, and there are dozens of
skyscrapers. My favorite cities are
Cape Town Durham, and Salisbury.
(1D FISHERIES. These are very
prosperous, and mostly on the
Southwest Coast. Frozen fish and
so-caiisd .'lobster tails" (crayfish)
come into the United States free
of duty; but 45 per cent import
duty must be paid on canned fish.
(19 LOCAL INVESTMENTS.
When the South African people sell
cut their mining stocks, they use
the profit to build apartment houses
for rent. They believe that acreage,
business blocks, and apartment
houses are the best hedges against
imitation.
(13) HIGHWAYS. These are wide
and well tarred. Most white-collar
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
2SOs McAlister
Topeka. Kansas
January IL. 1859

-@~@ ~@~~~
Dear Friends:
Hayes has been on a TIDY (tem-
porary duty away from home) for
q week now and we miss him ter
ribly. With six women Including
our female wired haired) in the
house, needless to say we miss
having him around. Things just
seem to fall to pieces when Hayes
leaves. We've been most fortu-
nate to have as few separations as
we have had during our eight years
together in SAC (Strategic Air
Command). Hayes had hardly left
McAlister Street and our televis-
ion tube went out. He has been our
Tv repair man for years and SO
there it sits waiting for his tai
ented fingers to put it back into
shape.
We have had snow and ice on the
ground since December the 29th
hight after Hayes left last Sunday
and headed for school in Louisiana
ons of our male neighbors came &c
our 'front.' door and asked il he
could use our chains-his car was
stuck down the street. / told him
to help himself and went on with
some work inside the house. Soor
| looked out front and there was
Ray leaving our yard with the
chains in his hands. but he had left
one rear wheel of my car witt
chains on. I yelled TO him, "Wh,
don't you take both chains off thu
tires and use both of them?" Hs
looked at me with perplexed ex
preston, went over to my car. lait
down on the ice and snow and re
moved my cars chains. Later
found out he only wanted chair
that Hayes had in the back of tn,
car used only to pull cars. Thil
he already had in his hand, bu
had mistakenly thought he hat
removed one chain from the wheels
OF the car and wondered why il
the heck he didn't take the othel
one off, too. While Ray lay freez
ing in my drive way removing
the chains from the wheels he told
me later he was mumbling under
his breath, "And tomorrow shell
call me up to put these back or
when she gets stuck in the snow.
You know when I find something
good on the market / want to share
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16

IL. Don't buy scared. People
make bad buys through excessive
caution. Be sensible, but have con-
fidence in your ability to improve
your future.
13. Shy away from crazy quilts.
Lean toward restraint in both col
ors and finishes. Look for houses
that appear to be all one piece, not
a tumble Of parts.
IA. Avoid fiashly eye-catchers.
Cuteness or bizarre design may
make the house hard to sell.
Is. House should fit the lot.
Butchering the natural grade of
the land is expensive, and causes
problems later.
16. Figure on air conditioning.
Look for houses that can be air.
conditioned easily.
II. Don't skimp in the kitchen.
It should be well-equipped, pleas
ant and conveniently arranged.
18. Don't guess remodeling costs.
They usually run higher than YOU
anticipate.
19. Save cash for closing. Get a
line on closing costs before buying
they can total up.
20. Rate sewers ogor septic tanks.
If you have to nave 9. septic tank,
make certain it follows standards
recommended by the local health
department.
21. Get a prepayable mortgage.
In many mortgages, there are
heavy cash penalties for making
payments ahead of schedule.
%. Steer clear of derelicts. II
YOU are tempted to buy a rundown
property and fix it up. go slow. Re-
modelling is tricky and full of pit
falls that have trapped experts.
%. Check for moisture damage.
Stains on plaster, rot in sills,
raised grain on woodwork. and
seepage in Easements can tip you
off to serious condensation prob
lem or weather leaks.
"a. Look at windows and doors.
In a new house, windows and doors
that fit poorly are signs of sloppy
construction. In an old house, they
may signify poor construction. set
Ting or both.
rs. Shop for mortgage money.
You may find a longer loan, a
larger one, or lower interest.
26. Count the cost of owning. Add
l percent of the selling price for
annual upkeep if the house is new.
2 percent if it is old. The cost of
bvying plus the cost of owning de-
tt1mines what you can afford
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16

is the pressure in the ear that
makes 1t hurt. Heat helps relieve
the pressure-the medicated drops
also help shrink the tissue and
also relieve the pressure.
Infection in the middle ear-it's
called otitis media-can be a seri-
GUS disease and always needs a
doctors care, though it is safe to
wait few hours If the symptoms
come on in the middle of the night.
Before the days of the antibiotic
drugs it was very frequently neces-
sary to open the ear drum with q
special knife and let out the pus.
Nowadays we very seldom have to
do this because the new drugs
destroy the bacteria that are caus-
ing the damage and the pus and in
| f1ammation subsidies
Occasionally an ear drum will
rupture spontaneously especially
if the child has not received treat
ment.
Never neglect an earache. Even
il the acute pain subsidies always
take your child to the doctor and
let him examine the ear with his
special intruments.
Middle Ear
A neglected ear infection can
cause serious consequences The
middle ear is very close to the
mastoid area. The mastoids are
spongy pieces of bone at the side OF
the skull. II an abcess in the mid
die ear ruptures into the mastoid
nasty infection can result.
In the old days mastoid infec-
tion was common, now thanks to
the miracle drugs it is quite rare.
Frequent attacks of otitis media
especially IL not treated promptly
and effectively can lead to deaf
ness,
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
Buying A House?
Editors Give rs Ways
. To Find Right One

Buying a good house is an ART
and you get better at it with prac-
tice. Unfortunately, say the editors
of Changing Times, the KiplingeI
Magazine, most families don't buy
enough houses in lifetime to. gel
out of the amateur class.
In their January issue, the edi-
tors have listed 26i tips on the fine
points of the art. You may find q
hint that will spare you a costly
buffers mistake.
1. Get a lonely look. Arrange for
a private look at the house, with
ample time to peer, poke and pom
der, without conversing distract
edly With the owner or agent.
2. Buy up, not sideways. Don't
limit your looking to houses that
other people just like you are buy
ing. Give serious thought to houses
being bought by people you would
like to be like. 1t may put you
ahead of shifting tastes in houses
8. Forget about Easements. Be
low-ground-leyel space is expen-
sive. Equivalent space above
ground is more usable, versatile
more liveaDle and may we'll be
cheaper.
4. Insist on lots of storage. Ash
where you would store all the par
aphernalia that every family in.
evitably accumulates.
5. Don't snub dry wall. Those
walls of composition board are as
serviceable as plaster, quicker tc
install and much cheaper.
s. Discount giveaways. Draperies
and wall-tO-wall carpeting thrown
in" at the last minute to encourage
you to buy shouldn't sway YOU
You may tire of them.
z. Consider prefabs. Judge pre.
fabs Just the way you consider con
ventional houses.
s. Suspect low taxes. Look fol
good public services. Be willing tc
pay for them
8. Don't compare tax rates. Com.
pare tax bills, not tax rates.
10. Buy privacy, not acreage. A
big lot does not necessarily guar.
antee the privacy most people
want. 1t can be a burden and ar
expense.
IL. Get more space per dollar
See what You pay for every souart
foot of usable interior. You stanS
to get most in twO-story houst
or a one-story basementless home
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
Weekly Tree Talk
Sub-ZerO Cold Brings Injury. Even
Death to Trees And Shrubs

Death to Trees And Shrubs
Severe sustained cold this winter
has affected trees and shrubs.
Those growing out of range may
be killed. Others may be damage
above and below ground. The extent
of injury will show up next spring
in dead twigs and branches.
The exotics are first to suffer,
according to Don Cantwell, District
Manager of the Bartlett Tree Ex-
pert Co. Boxwood, azalea, chamae-
cyparis and hybrid rhododendron
cannot take prolonged sub-zero
cold.
Snow has been a protective
blanket in many areas, helping to
mitigate root injury during long
winter that began earlier than
usual. Nevertheless, there will be a
certain amount of deep freeze root
kill, especially in newly trans
planted trees that have been i'm
properly mulched.
Most buds are well protected
with furry and waxy coverings.
They will come through all right.
Peach and forsythia buds, how
ever, are blasted when tempera-
lures reach 100 below zero and re
main there for some time. Buds OF
Towering cherry, plum Except 81
berian plum, azaIea, and hybri6
have critical death
bv-snstained-cold point somewhat
lower.
During 1884 when temperatures
dipper as low as 800 below alonf
the Atlantic seaboard and in the
Northeast thousands of trees anf
shrubs planted north of their range
were killed. Yew, which can take
cold, subsequently, became fOun
dation planting favorite instead Of
bOxwood, which was W-Ler-killed
Last year deep cold swept the
Carolinas and Georgia causing
severe tree and shrub damage.
These plants simply could not ad-
suit, say the Bartlett Tree Experts.
temperatures are raised to the
killing point The evergreen need
les turn brown and die next spring.
Dead areas appear on the burned
parts of trunk and branch.
just themselves to the bitter cold
as most trees in the north.
lee Sun-ScaIds Trees
Winter ice can cause sun-scald
OF tree or shrub. Clear ice form
ing along a limb, smooth area of
the trunk or on needles of an
evergreen acts as a burning-glass
concentrating sun rays. As a re-
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16
GAS ATTACK COMING!


Inevitably, in the assembling of Con-
gress of the United States, lot of words
will be spoken. The legislative governing
body of these United States-now forty-nine
lis composed of SO Senators and 435 Repre-
.sentatives.
For the first time, members of the 86th
Congress (the first session of which is meet
ing this month) will have two Senate Office
buildings and three House Office buildings.
The new Senate office building will be plush
inside-as will the new House edifce.
Coming from various regions of our
great country, the different men and women
who assemble naturally represent different
viewpoints. And-aS politicians always will
sometimes these men and women make
statements which are more designed for home
consumption, and to bolster popularity, than
anything else.
But, in the end, Congress usually BUNDLES
through to accomplishment. And the men
who make up the membership of both houses
are no better and no worse than represen-
tative group of business men who might be
assembled from all sections of the country.
There are many smart men in attendance
and some lightweights.
Congress,traditionally fiddles around until
about March or April, but after the Easter
recess things begin to move along. By June
Both, the end of the fiscal year, we can ex-
pect the Senate to be in og-jam, trying to
complete action on various appropriations
bills so that the government can continue to
operate.
After it is all over-the first session of
the seth Congress that is-the nation will
survive and continue to run on an even keel
Some things may even have been improved
The tumult and the shouting and the angry
words-starting about now-will be forgot
ten in a short time.
This first session of the 86tn Congress
viii probably last into August, but one eur
ious fact about Congress is that even though
the reorganization bill of 1916 specifies thai
sessions shall end by mid-year. the leaders of
both houses have never bothered too much to
. obev the law IN this resnect--their owff=iaw
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16


while before dinner. He will CO.
operate especially If he enjoys the
food you fix for him.
If he eats a little less at din
ner there is nothing to worry about.
because the food he has had in the
afternoon was as good for him as
the dinner food.
Appreciation
Every last one of us likes "a
have others do things for us. IN
makes us all feel good inside to
know that someone cares enough
about US to go to trouble for us-
Your teenager will appreciate your
efforts and you often improve your
relationship with your often re-
bellious adolescent by going To
some trouble to fix him a good
after school snack.
OF course you may find that Won
are appreciated not only by your
own child but by the neighborhood
as well. Not only the trouble of
preparing the food, but the ex-
pense can become considerable. IL
you find you're feeding an army.
put up little box and simply say
the expense is getting you down
and you would appreciate a few
contributions. Let them give You
what they'd otherwise spend in
the corner drugstore. They'll do
it and your child will be the envy
of the crowd for having such q
swell mother
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-16

amer, especially IL the SnackS are
mostly sweets. Then the youngster
passes up the good nourishing food
you have prepared for him and you
begin to worry about his health.
This is little problem that ex-
lists in nine families out Of ten all
across the country. Some families
Just live with 1t, nagging sometimes
when mother becomes especially
annoyed. Some families try to for
bid food in the mid-afternoon.
others supply bowl of fruit and
he youngsters will BE satisfied
with that-usually they are not.
Why not just face the facts. Kids
are hungry after school, but you
also want them to eat enough good
body building foods to keep them
in robust health.
Plan Ahead
Prepare for an after school meal.
Label one shelf in your refriger-
ator Mabel" or tom" Every
morning when you are cleaning up
after breakfast put something good
on that shelf Something that taste
good and that the child likes and
something that. is good for him.
not cake or pie or heavy sweets
but good protein food, cheese. hard
boiled eggs or maybe even deviled
eggs. a piece of cold meat Add a
niece or two of fruit and something
~ drink either milk or fruit juice.
Make that shelf something the
voungster looks forward TO. Ex-
nIafn tn him WHY you don't want
him to fiji up on sweets just little