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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C-, thursday, March 9, 1967—PAGE 7 Protect Your Children Against Measles, Says The AMA CHICAGO—Now is the time to have your children im munized against measles if they have not already received this protection, says the American Medical Association. Many parents are surprised to learn how dangerous this com mon childhood disease really is. An estimated 250 American children died from measles in 1966. More than 150 suffered measles encephalitis, sometimes called sleeping sickness, or brain fever. Encephalitis frequently leaves children with permanent disabilities, including mental re tardation, deafness, and blindness. Future tragedies can be pre vented, because safe and effective measles vaccines are now avail able. In the past four years, these vaccines have helped cut the measles death rate in half. It’s possible that measles could be eradicated in the near future if more parents protected their children with immunization. The AMA recommends that every infant be vaccinated when he is about one year old. All chil dren over this age who have not been vaccinated and who have not had measles, should be im munized now. It is especially important that children in nurseries, kinder gartens, and the first two grades of elementary school receive mea sles immunization. These young sters have the highest risk of If enough children are pro infection. tected by immunization, measles Measles immunization is will disappear. It's time to get rid safe, inexpensive, and easily per- of this familiar, but often danger- formed. See your doctor for his ous, and sometimes deadly child- recommendations. hood disease. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BHKKD1N “The United States has suffered 1,172 airplanes losses from all causes in the Vietnam war in five years, the Defense Department disclosed Monday. This is almost double the tvsually published official figure which previously has in cluded only aircraft lost in combat while on flying miss ions. Comparable helicopter losses- from both combat and non combat causes - were not made; these would raise the total for all aircraft to about 1,800- An informed source estimated the original purchase price of the lost aircraft at about $1.3 billion. Their replacement with more modern and complicated types will cost much more.” “A side effect of the long boom is the prevalent notion that the country is so rich it can afford anything it needs and even anything it wants, whether it be the ‘elimination’ of poverty or rebuilding the central cities from scratch. Not least, it is a concept that ani mates Federal planning and budgeting. To concede the existence of affluence beyond dreams of avarice is not to accept the argument; it is defective, and you would think obviously so, on several counts. Trying to do anything and everything (which increasingly means through the machinery of the Central Government) requires first of all an awesome amount of taxation. On the most straightforward basis, the cash budget, Washington hopes to rake in over $168 billion in fiscal 1968. and that stupendous sum fails to cover planned outlays of more than $172 billion. Whether or not we are hit with a direct tax boost this year, taxes on the productive I^art of the population are constantly going up; the more money a man makes the more the Government takes. In part the arrangement is supposed to redistribute income, but there is a point at which it developes diminishing returns. It does little good to the poor, that is, if the better off are taxed at a level that discourag es effort, or if the taxation in duces recession. Among econo mists it is widely believed that the proposed 6 per cent in crease may in fact contribute to a downturn this year. But since even oppressive taxation is insufficient to sate the Federal appetite, inflation is a further result of doing too much. Right at the moment an impression exists that inflation has been licked, and accord ingly, it’s noted, interest rates are turning down. Yet the Administration makes no secret of its yearning for still more inflationary easy money, and certainly the same adjective applies to its fiscal policy. The deficits, which can be inflationary, are continuing large, larger than they seem. On a cash basis, the current year’s deficit is figured at $6.2 billion, next year’s at $4.3 billion. The nation is rich, it’s true; it can afford a lot of waste, bungling and abuse. Still, the evidence is rather rapidly accumulating that we are being forced to buy a size of Government well beyond our means.” “A slowing boom is causing more companies to look for new ways to cut costs. For several years, many companies have had their hands full just turning out goods fast enough to satisfy customer demands. But now, sales in some industries are slowing and uncertainty per vades the economy. Profits are being squeezed by rising costs of labor and materials and there is the threat of higher income taxes soon.” “You can get deathly sick at heart, reading any issue of any newspaper - mob vioence if the mob doesn’t happen to like something; rape, stabbing, mur ders, cowards screaming that they won’t fight for their coun try; courts pampering crimin als; teen-age animals. As the Nation, as a commun ity, we should be desparately ashamed. But let’s not lose sight of some of the things we can still be proud of, too. Church and Sunday School at tendance is at an all-time high. Nurses’ aides and Red Cross workers doing menial work, with no pay when they could be having a good time. The finest fighting men in the world, proud to-wear their U. S. uniforms, proud to repre sent us well, around the globe. Individuals and business con tributing more to charity and education than ever before and more per capita than any other nation dreams of. Millions of mothers doing the unglamorous job of runn ing a home economically and raising their children to be decent citizens. Millions of men working long hours at not very interesting jobs but doing them the best they know how, and cutting down on lunches, perhaps, to save money to pay Junior’s way to college - and not demonstrating for ‘rights’ or something ‘free’. And these same Americans hoping their politicians will wake up to the fact these are the true Americans who want what’s best for their country, not what will get the most votes come November. Yes, the screaming head lines are sickening, but the sdence which is America going about its business quietly - that’s pretty wonder ful.” “Anyone who’s on a re ducing diet, or has been on a diet, or is absolutely certain he’s going to go on a diet by tomorrow at the latest, knows one thing for sure. That what it takes to make a person lose weight doesn’t come in bottles - it comes in people.” “When you get sick now- days, your doctor has 7,000 drugs and medicines available to help him cure you or make you comfortable. About 90 per cent of them weren’t on the market 25 years ago. This is medical progress that has helped add ten years to our life expectancy since 1937 - more than 5,000,000 people are a- live today who wouldn’t be if the ’37 mortality rate had re mained level. But this progress toward better health and longer life has brought to light something not so widely recognized in earlier days - the problem of ‘adverse drug reactions’. While 90 out of 100 people will bene fit from the medicine they take another ten may have un desirable, sometimes fatal, re actions to it. The percentage is relatively small, but it’s big enough to concern the medical profession and the Food and Drug Administration. What is ‘adverse’? All drugs, by their very nature, have side effects. They are designed to interfere with the natural course of some bodily condit ion, pain, infection, blood clotting, etc. When this hap pens, other changes in your physical functioning are bound to occur, and some of them can be as undesirable as the ail ment. No amount of reporting, compiling and analyzing can do the slightest good for people who insist on taking the first thing the fellow in the car pool recommends. You can do your part bv steadfastly re fusing to take any prescrip tion but the one the doctor gave vou. Keep in mind that today’s so-called miracle drugs are effective because they are powerful. Btcause they are powerful, they are ‘by prescrip tion only’. A trained, exper ienced doctor is hard put to know which one will do you more good than harm at the moment. No layman could possibly know. If you must treat yourself at home, stick to the simplest over the counter medicine. And to be on the safe side, don’t use even those until you’ve read the label — they all carry pre cautionary statements. Don’t take anything unless you’re positive you can tolerate it. ‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison’ is proverb 2,000 years old.” DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Steve C. Griffith and Eugene C. Griffith to Keitt Purcell, jne lot and one building on Main street $5. Mrs. Sunie J. Livingston to Dr. Robert E. Livingston, one lot and one building on Hunt street, $5 love and affection. R. C. Mayes and Mattie S. Mayes to Isabel S. Kuehl, one lot and one building on Kinard street $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside Daisy B. Cannon to Maggie G. Cannon, 2 1-2 lots $5 love and affection. James Glasgow to Joe Goree, two acres $5. Walter B. Wallace to Hele na Lumber Co., Inc., seven acres and one building $5. Hal Kohn to Betty B. Halti- wanger, one acre $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Mina A. Neel to T. H. Noel, 20 acres, $5 love and affection. Bush River No. 3 Daisy Kinard to Willie F. Kennedy and Gertrude M. Kennedy, one acre, $5 love and affection. Daisy Kinard to James W. Kennedy and Georgia Kennedy, one acre $5 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Samuel L. Hunnicutt to Mary H. Nix, one lot and one building oh Brown street, $700 and assumption of a mortgage. Henry T. Johnson Jr. and Lida Crisp Johnson to Samuel F. Hunnicutt and Peggy Hun nicutt, one lot and one building on Lowry street $10. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Young Gladney Jr. to Bessie Gladney, 71 acres $5 love and affection. T. J. Abrams to Charles L. Hunnicutt and Margaret E. Hunnicutt, one lot, $10. Edna Martha Tyler to Coy C. Johnson and Edna T. John son. one lot and one building, $10 love and affection. Little Mountain No. 6 Georgia Lee Counts to Leo Hills and Annie Lee Hills, 1.1 acre $150. Prosperity No. 7 Herman W. Vaughn to Bon nie L. Vaughan 2.8 acres and one building, $5 love and af fection. January E and H Bond sales higher Combined Series E and H Savings Bonds sales for Janu ary in Newberry county totaled $28,920 reports Joe M. Roberts, which is an increase over the past month. YOUR SAVINGS WILL EARN MORE — At — STATE BUILDING & LOAN 4.50% Per Annum Current Dividend Rate SAVE BY MARCH 10TH FOR A BIGGER DIVIDEND IN JUNE AN INSURED SAVINGS INSTITUTION Jhm STATE Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. Dial 276-5660 Ralph B. Baker Pinckney N. Abrams Louis C. Floyd Thomas H. Pope R. Aubrey Harley