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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
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Louis C. Floyd Thomas H. Pope
R. Aubrey Harley