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Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
Medical Researchers On Aspirin Compounds

viewed regarding any stomach
disturbances. .yM1 1svino 5h5
On the basis of this study,
they said: qn
sfExcedrin and Anacin form a
group for which the incidence o.
upset stomach is significantly
greater than is the incidence
after Bayer Aspirin, st. Joseph's S
Aspirin, Bufferin, or the placebo.
The rates of upset stomach asso-
ciated with these last four treat
ments are not significantly diff
ferent, one from the other. I"
The researchers said their
observations were somewhat
contrary to previous reports
which stressed the importance of
blood concentrations of aspirin,
adding:
est is our belief that the only
criterion by which the rapidity of
onset or degree of analgesia can
be judged is the clinical patient)
response to the administration of
the drug"
DR.. DeKornfeld is chief of the
department of anesthe siology,
Baltimore City Hospitals. DR..
Lasagna is affiliated with Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine. Mr..
Frazier is director of the Bureau
of Bio statistics, Baltimore City
Health Department.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
DRIVER TRAINING

There is danger in assuming, as many
parents seem to assume, that school driv-
er training courses can be depended OH to
turn out safe young drivers Safety, like
charity, begins at home.
The only meaning intended in this
rather cryptic phrase is that the school
driver training program must be bolster
ed by parental support. 1t is not enough
to make sure that the son of the house
hold takes formal instruction i'll how to
drive safely and well. He also needs con-
tinuing home supervision, with special at
tention to weak points in attitude and
driving performance. Further, there
ought to be parental control over the use
Of cars by teen-agers.
The point was made effectively by
Chas. Fl. Hartman, associate professor of
safety education at Illinois State Normal
University, at an institute OH driver edu-
cation: Parents must follow up any for
NAL instruction in schools with continued
supervision in teamwork effort to make
youths safe drivers for life in society
that lives in traffic"
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

in the group compares favorably
with that of the more expensive
ones" the author said.
Results of both phases of the
study were based on informa-
tion supplied by patients In inter-
views, the researchers reported.
In all cases, they said, every
effort was made to keep the
identity of the product from. the
patient and the interviewer.
The first phase of the study
involved 298 maternity cases fol-
lowing delivery who were given
one of the five medications or a
placebo, designed to have no ef-
feet, they said.
ttOn the basis of this study,
1t seems that, within the limits
Of generalization permitted by
the population studied, there are
no important differences among
the compounds studied in rapidity
of onset, degree, or duration of
analgesia," they concluded.
In the second phase, gastroin-
testinal side effects were studied
In go elderly patients with a mean
age of about 20, the authors said.
The patients were given one Of
the test drugs or the placebo
three times a day for five days,
they said, and one hour following
each dose the patients were inter-
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

There's only one right way to
handle gasoline and kerosene
around the farm and home any
other way spells disaster, warns
associate county agent Ed Ralph.
''Right now" says Mr.. Ralph,
sis always a good time to check
the way you use and store flam-
mable liquids. Give yourself q
quick test:
l. Do you keep your tractor
and other gasolines using equip
ment stored in an outbuilding sep
arate from the barn and other
farm structures?
2. Do you store your gasoline
and kerosene outdoors at least
40 feet from any building lin
accordance with National Fire
Protection Association standards
for Farm Storage of Flammable
liquids?
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

Babson Park, Mass, January
10. The recent freeze was very
severe. The newspapers say
''worst In the century,. Statis-
tics show that a similar freeze
came In 1899. Then nearly all
citrus trees north of Orlando,
Florida were killed.
This latest freeze hit the cit
rus belt or the central portion
hard; but also, the southern por-
tion where many of the vegetables S
are grown likewise had crops
wiped out. The northern section
of Florida, where the celery and
other hardy crops are raised,
suffers less damage from
freezes.
Florida Received Full Warning
There was no mistake on the
part of the Weather Bureau; for
three days 1t had warned Florida
of the very cold air coming down
from the Arctic regions. But what
could the fruit and vegetable
growers of Florida do about It?
Only the Indian River area es-
capped.
The early crops had been pick
ed. The second crop, including
the Valencia oranges, we're not
ready to harvest. Many growers
built fires; but these raised the
temperature only 2 or degrees.
Growers who had adopted new
schemes of spraying with water
saw the spray itself freeze.
The Loss Has Been Very Great
The loss has come not only
to the growers; but to all the
pickers, the cultivators, and the
teamsters. It has thrown over a
million out of work and thereby
affected all the merchants and
storekeepers. Worst of all, 1t
came at the Christmas season,
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

Medical researchers today re-
ported they found no significant
difference among five non-pre-
scription aspirin compounds In
ability to ease pain during the
first three hours after they were
taken.
Another phase of the study
showed that two aspirin prepara-
tions, which contained ace
tophenetidin, also known as
phenacetin, we're associated with
significantly higher incidence
of fupset stomach" than the
other three compounds.
The study was reported by
Thomas j. DeKornfeld, Md,
Louis Lasagna, Md, and Todd
M. Frazier, Sc.M., Baltimore,
in the current Journal of the
American Medical Association.
The five products studied, all
obtained from retail outlets, were
Bayer Asperin, st. Joseph's
Aspirin, Bufferin, Excedrin, and
Anacin. Excedrin and Anacin
we're the only drugs studied which
contained phenacetin.
"The difference In the retail
purchase price of the five drugs
is not reflected in the effective
ness and comfort of the treat
ment, and the overall perform
ance Of the less expensive agents
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
Cakes Candles Commemorotions
Light March of Dimes 18th Year

Throughout the nation
this month, candles will be
lit on birthday cakes to
symbolic the 25th anniver-
sary of the March of Dimes.
The cakes will range from
real ones of conventional size
to monster, multi -tiered models
as much as II feet in height
and 10 feet in diameter-the
approximate dimensions of the
one to be erected in New York
City's famed Times Square.
Guests at anniversary events
around the country, where
cakes will be of more modest
proportions, will be invited to
decorate them with coins for
the March of Dimes.
Many parties" commemo-
rating a quarter of century of
disease fighting will be held at
special treatment centers for
birth defects, arthritis and polio
which March of Dimes contri-
buttons are financing today in
more than 40 cities across the
US. Other gatherings will be
held in county chapter offices
of The National Foundation
March of Dimes, in the homes
of volunteers and elsewhere.
In many instances, guests at
these campaign 'kickoffs" will
include governors or their
wives. mayors and outstanding
authorities in health fields.
Other guests will be Americans
of all ages who received March
of Dimes aid during and after
polio epidemicS and outbreaks.
Also present will be children
and adolescents with birth de-
fects or arthritis who have been
treated at these March of
Dimes centerS.
To raise the millions required
every year for patient aid and
research in birth defects, ar
Thrills and polio, each March of
Dimes campaign is carefully
planned many months ahead.
There are millions of contribu-
ton envelopes and coin collec-
tors to be distributed around
the nation; hundreds of thou
sands of posters to be erected
in every hamlet, town and city;
two million volunteers to be
organized for the Mothers
March (the climax to the cam
paign at the end of january,
and March of Dimes films to
exhibit to explain the work of
the voluntary health organiza-
ton.
Arrangements must be COM
pleted for the visit in January
of the National March of Dimes
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

when the people and the mer-
chants planned on their best busi-
ness.
The canning of juice has beer
the greatest hope of the grove
industry. If fruit even though
frozen could be rushed to the
Gamers while 1t was still sweet,
such juice could be saved; but the
Gamers could handle only sc
much juice and were powerless tc
can the truckloads of fruit coming
to them. have been In the midst
of the situation and will say that
everyone rich or poor : has
helped freely In every possible
way.
Almost Every State Faces a
Sudden Loss
When I was boy In Gloucester
Mass, our most tprofitable "pro-
duct" was granite and we knew IL
could not freezel We had great
quarries and we shipped the gran
ite to Boston, New York, Wash
ington, and Philadelphia for use
in erecting the largest public
buildings. We believed we had
nothing to fear. Suddenly the in
vention of cement came, and Cape
Ann received a great economic
blow. It was saved only by its
fearless fishermen.
The cities which grew up and
proSpered from coal have suf-
fered greatly since the oil and
natural gas industries have flour
ished. When / was a boy, every
Gloucester home was heated by
coal. went to the woods with
my grandfather when snow was
on the ground to bring home on
a sled kindling wood for future
use. Even the farms of New
England, once so prosperous,
have been gradually abandoned.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
mo. / SUCCESS STORY"
Food is bargain in this country

FOOD is bargain In LnlS country.
That is the substance Of a Readers
Digest article written by John Strohm
And, if you don't believe it, Mr.. Strohn
has some news for you: "Mrs. America
paws out, after taxes, only 20 per cent OF
the family income for food. BY contrast
the Russian family must spend 90 pei
cent. In Sweden it's 27 per cent; in ltlay
SO per cent; Peru, 40 per cent; Nigeria
70 per cent. This means that the U. >
family has 80 cents out of every dollar OF
disposable income left for other things
1T means better homes, better health,
better living"
Mr.. Strohm goes into considerable de-
tail concerning the enormous advances
made in the production, distribution and
processing of foods, including the vastly
popular prepared meals that save the
housewife hours of labor day. And ne
gives credit to all the elements involved
farmer, farm suppliers, packers, food
manufacturers, retailers. All of them
have made material contributions to
what, in Mr.. Strohm's view, is "our No.
l success story.
There has been comparable progress
in providing US with many other COM
modities in day-in-day-out use which we
find in the stores in every community.
Chalk this achievement up to the free
market-in which free men attempt to
outdo each other, working under Sy-
stem which allows free and open COM
petition.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
DON'T BE BURNED UP

Il. If you do keep small amounts
of gasoline and kerosene in build
ings, do you use only safety cans
of types labeled by Underwriters
Laboratories, Inc?
a. Do you fuel your equipment
at a safe distance Cat least 40
feet) from all combustible struc-
lures?
5. Do you firmly prohibit any
smoking near storage areas and
while gasoline and kerosene are
being handled?
6. Do you make sure the equip
ment is cool before refueling?
2. Are light bulbs protected
wherever flammable liquids are
used or stored.
8. Do you use gasoline or other
similar combustible materials to
clean tools and equipment in your
shop here there is an open
flame?
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

which is "Give for the Life of a
Child" will be stressed in all
these special events, and the
story told of the first 25 years
of the organization. Highlights
of that story are:
Patients aided, $4,000; ex-
pended for the medical care
program, 100000; for sci
entific research, $73,60O,O00;
and for professional education,
$4,000, 900.
Basil O'Connor, president of
The National Foundation
March of Dimes, referred in a
recent speech to the 25th an
niversary of the health agency
Most certainly we take pride
in our past 25 years, and we
rejoice. But deep down we
really think of that quarter of
a century as only the spring
board for our future"
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11

Child-who this year is Jimmy
Boggess, 5, Coy. Ark.-with
President Kennedy at the
White House and with various
Senators and Congressman and
other dignitaries as well as
with personalities of the stage,
screen and television.
Special events for the March
of Dimes are staged in all the
big cities, many lesser ones and
in some small towns. These in
clude March of Dimes bowling
tournaments, with "roll-offs" to
select a national man or woman
champion, fashion shows, auc-
tions, teleramas, Coffee Days,
Tag Days and street sales,
neighborhood bread sales, air.
lifts and a long list of sports
activities.
The theme of this 25th An
niversary March of Dimes,
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
BABS0N DISCUSSES FLORIDA FREEZE

The farm machinery introduced
so widely for plowing, cultivat-
ing, and even for harveSting could
not be employed on the rocky New
England farms.
What is the warning this
Florida Freeze Gives to every
Section of the u. S.?
ID 1t is the need to be ready
for change; especially now that
we are on the verge of the Elec-
tonics Age. Every industry in
every county of this great coun-
try is subject to change. (2) 1t is
the knowledge that every COM
munity must diversity more. This
should be the goal of every Cham
ber of Commerce. The watch
word should be greater diversi-
fication.
The only way Florida or any
other agricultural or fruit state
will lock climatic problems (for
droughts and floods may be as
serious as freezes) is by attract
ing more industries. But even
these should be of different kinds.
A city now dependent upon the
steel industry, or the paper in
dustry, or any other one industry
may be greatly handicapped by
foreign competition. Prime Min
lister Macmillan has been telling
this to President Kennedy and he
may be right in saying that we
cannot have world peace with
out more freedom of trade. This
may mean that the shave more"
nations may need to give up more
to the s'have less" nations. This
is what Mr.. Macmillan was telling
Mr.. Kennedy In the Bahama
Islands a few weeks ago. Florida
and every other state shouldpre-
pare for great changes ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
MAKE THEM USE THE FRONT
DOOR

One of the most reWardlng New Year
resolutions that the Administration and
Congress could jointly make would be the
elimination Of ''backdoor spending"
Backdoor spending is the expenditure
of funds outside the regular appropri-
alton process. 1t is a violation-at least
in spirit-of the Constitution which holds
that federal money can only be spent
when the Congress duly appropriates it.
This practice cannot be dismissed as
inconsequential. In 1861 it amounted to
just under $40 billion - divided among
federal programs for agriculture, air
port, area redevelopment, foreign aids,
highways, housing, school milk, and loans
for veterans AS large as that sum was
the money originally requested was even
greater-$29 billion.
In 1862, happily, encouraging pro-
gress was made in curbing backdoor
spending. Through the combined and
commendable efforts of the Administra-
tion and the Congress the rearflow was
reduced to $437 million First the budget
requests were slashed from the $50 bill
ion sought in 1861 to $2R billion for
1862. Then the Congress performed more
surgery on that amount, reducing it to
S437 million.
1t is not enough merely to cut down on
the total spent in this evasive manner.
The backdoor should be securely locked
and permanently sealed.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
IN The AIR FORCE
by Elaine Townsend DickersOn

6 boiling potatoes, 2 med. sized
onions or A green onions, VA
cup fine chopped parsley, 1/2
cup thinly sliced green pepper,
I1/2 cup salad dressing, and salt.
Now then, you'll need:
l large head of lettuce, cups
of potato salad (you just made
this), IL sprigs of endive or
watercress, 2 tomatoes cut into
6 wedges each, l peeled cucum-
Der cut lengthwise into 8fingers,
l avocado pear peeled and cut
into wedges, 4 portions of FETA
cheese Greek cheese), l green
bell pepper cut into 8 rings,
4 slices of canned cooked beets,
A peeled and cooked shrimp
Qarge), 4 anchovy filets, IL black
olives, IL medium hot peppers,
a fancy cut radishes, a whole
green onions, 1/2 cup distilled
white vinegar, and LA cup each
of olive and salad oil blended.
Line a large platter with the
outside lettuce leaves and place
three cups of the potato salad
in a mound, in the center of the
platter. All the rest of the head
of lettuce will then be shredded
and you completely cover the
mound of salad and part of let
tuce leaves with this. Place your
watercress or endive on top of
lettuce leaves around edge of
platter. Place tomato wedges
around the outer edge of salad.
with a few on top of mound.
Place cucumber wedges in be-
tween the tomatoes. Place the
avocado slices around the out
side. Crumble cheese on top.
Green pepper slices over all.
On the very top place the sliced
beets with a shrimp on each beet,
and an anchovy filet on the
shrimp. The olives, peppers and
green onions can be arranged
as desired.
The entire salad is then
sprinkled with the vinegar and
then with the blended oils.
You may omit some of the in
gradients If you wish. For in
stance, If you know someone
doesn't like anchovies or shrimp
leave them out. It sounds like
a big task to combine all of this
and when the recipe was sent
to me I felt like burying it,,
but in desperation fused 1t Satur-
day evening and 1t not only was
but very good. Hayes ate
it at friends house in Georgia
on one of his jaunts and he
raved so about 1t ! requested it.
It would be good with just steak
and hard rolls.
This salad is supposed to be
a @meal with rolls) for four
people. Since I had other foods
this salad served eight people
and was ample.
! guess the dinner and the eve
ming was a success. They stayed
until two Sunday morning. They
all turned out to be just plain
old folk, but there is some un-
usual connotation about "the boss
coming for dinner"
Until next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend DickorSOn
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
1924 Bound Brook Lane
Alexandria, Virginia
January z, 1868
Dear Friends:

Dear Friends:
There comes a time in every
married woman'S life. single
women too, / suppose, when the
boss must come home for din
ner. Really there is nothing,
no reason at all for me to dread
such a fate, but it must be
psychological. The fear of the
boss coming for dinner is deep
ly embedded in us. Saturday night
was the night we had invited
three Pentagon colonels to come
eat my bill of fare. And you
know usually that comes under
the classification of "LOUSY".
We had set the time of arrival
at TOO or 7:30. One wife, when
/ called to tell her this time,
said, "Well, which?" I hated
to tell the boss wife that we
fully expected them all to ar
rive at the later hour--we were
allowing time for them to GET
LOST. And this is exactly what
always happened and did--to all
three couples. We are a mile
north of Mount Vernon, but there
are three roads that one could
take and two of these roads are
route 235. Riverside Estates,
where we live, is off of route
235, but invariably the guests
will take the wrong route les
pecially at night) and so we just
allow an extra thirty minutes
for their meanderings. Ordinari-
ly it is much easier just to go
pick up our guests. Often with
"out -of-towners" this is pre-
ciSely what we do.
Pm not kidding when l say.
"At 8:15 all of our guests were
seated in front of our fireplace"
Some hostesses would have had
the willies by this late hour,
but 1 had planned not to eat
until $3.50 anyway and just ex-
tended the time a bit. "Good
ole Dad" at Christmas time had
given us a wonderful standing
rib roast and these never fail.
/ always cook them rs minutes
per pound at $50 degrees, but
for the first fifteen minutes I
turn the oven to 500 degrees.
With the beef l made a casse-
role of 2 cans of string beans
mixed with one can of mushroom
soup. I thought everyone knew
this easy recipe, but the last
two times I've had it everyone
has inquired about the ingredi-
ents so perhaps its most popu-
lar with our friends in Topeka.
On top of the beans (and these.
are the green variety sprinkle
a can of onion rings or a pack
age of the dry onion soup. /
cook these 80 or As minutes
at $50 degrees.
! had garlic bread with din
ner and also a salad which re-
ceived rave comments. It's
simple to prepare, but to look at
the list of foods that it con-
tains seems like a monumental
job, but really it isn't. Are you
ready? I served my guests buf-
let style and this salad really
iresses up the table.
First of all you make potato
salad.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
1863 = A YEAR OF DECISION

The coming year is expected to pro-
duce decisions of the utmost Signifi-
canoe to the future of common carrier
transportation in the United States.
That is the view of the president of the
Association of American Railroads. AS he
sees it, in 1868 the steadily deteriorating
position of essential common carriers,
such as the railroads, can be halted and
reversed-and the time to do so "has
never been more opportune than now.
This authority dealt with a series Of
specific and urgent problems. One is that
the common carriers must be able to
furnish transportation service at rates no
higher than shippers can provide it for
themselveS-which means that the regu-
lated transportation agencies must be al
lowed greater flexibility to adjust their
rates downward Another is the work
rules problem-the source of feather
bedding" which costs the hard-pressed
railroads a needless half-billion or more
a year. Still another is to expedite merg-
ers and consultations "where the potent
ial for increased operating efficiency is
perhaps the greatest of all'. In this con-
nection, he added that the refusal of Con-
gress to heed union proposals for delay
ing legislation Gin effect has given the
ICC a green light for expediting the
handling Of those merger proposals now
before it,.
So the story goes. The railroads have,
almost literally, been studied to death.
But next to nothing has come from all
the studies-and, to compound the grav-
ity of affairs, the unions have shown a
suicidal refusal to bring the work rules
into keeping with the conditions Of today.
Time is running out.
Milford chronicle., 1963-01-11
I RAMBUNCTIOUS WEATHER

Man has gone far to insure his com
fort in the coolest of weather He has
Enthusiastically controlled central heat,
insulation, storm sash and electric blank
cts. Hot water is at hand. His clothing is
warm and his car, once pneumonia
wagon" is enclosed and boasts heater.
But his insurance is far from COM
plete. When nature delivers the Sunday
punch, as it has been doing lately, it deals
misery and financial loss. Vast sections
Of the East, Midwest and South have felt
the full bite Of winter, with snow-clogged
highways, abandoned cars, delayed trains
and bulging hotels. A severe freeze has
wrought havoc with Florida's winter
vegetable crop, and migant workers have
been thrown out Of jobs.
Most motorists caught in foul wealth
er emerge alive, of course, and ultimately
reach their destination. But the expert
ence is nerve-wracking, all the same. 1t
renews the victims awareness of winter
travel hazards and Of their limited abil-
ity to combat snowdrifts and freezing
temperature.
- Someday billiards, floods and hurri-
canes may be tanned. Someday man may
control the weather He's working at it
but finding it tall order.