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New Trustees
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Three new members of the board of trustees of Flint River Regional Library met
with the board yesterday for the first time. The new trustees are (1-r) Gene .
Cook, Mrs. R. P. Sbapard 111 and the Rev. O. H. Stinson.
Eye Strain Concept
Mostly Erroneous Myth
By ROBERT MUSEL
LONDON (UPD — No normal
eye can be damaged by looking
at television, by prolonged close
reading or any other form of
visual activity. In fact most of
the popular concept of “eye
strain" is a largely erroneous
myth.
This is the conclusion of Dr.
M. J. Gilkes who was asked to
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comment on “old wives' tales”
about the eyes and eyesight for
a booklet, “So Now You Know
About Your Eyes”, published
by the British Medical Associa
tion.
Dr. Gilkes wrote:
On Wearing Glasses—“ The
wearing or not wearing of spec
tacles is in itself neither good
nor bad for the eyes. What
should be clear is that, although
it is obviously desirable that the
correct spectacles should be
worn in order to see properly—
no harm can arise from wear
ing the wrong spectacles, some
one else’s spectacles or no spec
tacles at all."
Sunglasses—“On the whole
the wearing of dark glasses or
sun glasses is undesirable ex
cept in very unusual conditions
of lighting. The wearing
of dark glasses when driv
ing is an even more undesira
ble thing. If, however, you feel
there are certain occasions
when you must wear dark
glasses it is unlikely that any
serious harm will come of it.
Simply remember that any un
natural practice may become a
habit and eventually you may
get to the stage of never being
able to go out in any form of
light without dark glasses.”
YOUR PERSONAL FINANCE
You Never Had It So G00d...
But Isn't Something Wrong?
By CARLTON SMITH and
RICHARD PUTNAN PRATT
&/
Pratt Smith
If you’re making more
money this year (as the
average American is), but
oddly enough seem to have
less . . . well, there's nothing
odd about it. You do have
less.
This is the Era of the
Great Illusion, where con
sumer finances are con
cerned. The statistics keep
shouting cheerfully: “Per
sonal income is up again this
year!” And you know it must
be true, because the figures
on your paycheck are bigger.
You must be making more
money. But yet . . .
Behind the “but yet” are
some other statistics, not so
cheerful, which fill out the
picture of what’s happening
to the family budget. To the
beleaguered consumer, they
often don’t mean much, be
cause of a habit the econo
mists have. Everything’s an
index (1957-59 = 100)—and
who knows what nine points
means?
What’s happened to income
and outgo over the past year
—to the end of the first
quarter of 1969—becomes ap
parent in a roundup of con
sumer indexes reported by
the National Consumer
Finance Association. Reduc
ing them to more under
standable percentages,
here's the picture:
Personal income, up 8.9
per cent. Jolly good, isn’t
it? In spite of all the talk
about inflation, pay raises of
9 per cent a year sound like
prosperity.
True, but what counts is
how much you have left out
of that for spending pur
poses. What's called “dispos
able personal income.” How
much, for instance, has to
come off the top for taxes?
The answer: personal taxes,
up 27.7 per cent. (The in
come tax surcharge of 10 per
cent is partly responsible for
that hair-raising figure—but
not altogether.)
Disposable income, then,
was up only 5.9 per cent. For
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Marriage Out
For Mario
Charlton and Lydia Heston are so proud of Chuck’s new
movie, “Number One,” that they hosted a little group in
his hillside home for dinner and a screening. I can under
stand his pride—this is Heston’s best work in years and a
fine picture, although you almost have to be a football fan
to understand it.
I sat with Chuck’s costar, Jessica Walter, and Ernie
Barnes, the old Colt-Charger-Bronco-Titan star, who is now
an artist. Barnes makes his acting debut in “Number One”
and does very well.
Barnes says that he and Mike Henry, the former Los
Angeles Ram and Tarzan, are working up a television
special built around pro football and that Heston will nar
rate. There also may be a series on football from these
two experienced and ambitious men.
Heston’s house, a showplace of art and architecture,
survived last winter’s floods, but his driveway didn’t.
Chuck says they couldn’t get in or out for weeks when the
driveway slid down the mountain. The new one, an engi
neering masterpiece, has so much steel and concrete ex
tending down so deep, Heston says, that the engineer told
him, “If there’s ever an earthquake, stand right on this
driveway—it’s not going anyplace.”
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Mario Thomas hopes everybody understands about
Jennie. Jennie is the title character she plays in a movie
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says, “that our show is
about a girl who is in that very short stretch of a girl’s
life when she is free—after she has left home and before
she gets married. To have her marry now would be to
defeat the whole purpose of the show.”
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Yaphet Kotto is in training for the toughest role of his
career—when he finishes shooting “The Liberation of Lord
Byron Jones,” he’s off for New York to follow James Earl
Jones in "The Great White Hope” on Broadway.
“Jones and I have been friends for years,” Yaphet says.
“And actually, our careers have been strangely parallel.
I was offered ‘The Great White Hope’ first, but I couldn’t
take it—too many other commitments.”
Kotto says he has never been a big fight fan, but now
he’s in such good shape—down to a very taut 200 pounds—
that he could be a fighter. He has, however, never fought
in a ring. , , ,
every spendable dollar you
had the year before, you had
an additional six cents this
past year. And you spent it
—and then some.
What the consumer spends
his money on can be divided
into three categories. One is
durable goods, up 10 per
cent last year. Nondurable
goods, up 5.5 per cent. Serv
ices, up 8.7 per cent. So you
can see what happened to
your six cents.
Because your spending
rose more than your dispos
able income, the difference
had to come from some
where. Personal savings,
down 13.5 per cent, ac
counted for some of it. The
rest was made up by more
things bought on time pay
ments. Installment credit,
up 8.5 per cent.
So between dipping into
savings and going on the
cuff for more of what he
buys, it’s small wonder the
average American is puzzled
by the economic squeeze he
feels, despite all the evidence
of the highest income he’s
ever enjoyed, and unparal
leled (they say) prosperity.
Steadily mounting inflation
and steadily mounting taxes
are the villains of the piece,
of course. What can you do
about it? Our elected rep
resentatives can bring them
under control, if there's
enough pressure from con
sumer-voters.
Mayor Defends
Men's Shorts
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay
(UPI) — Bus drivers here are
more conservative about cloth
ing than police are.
Mayor General Bartoloine
Herrera recently urged that men
refused entry to' buses because
they wore shorts should com
plain to the police. There’s
no law against wearing shorts
in Montevideo, the mayor said.
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she has just finished. She’s
a bit different from Ann
Marie, the girl she plays
on ABC’s That Girl, which
starts its fourth season
soon.
“I hope my fans will un
derstand,” she says. “Ann
Marie, after all, is the
National Virgin. And Jen
nie is an unmarried preg
nant lady. But ‘Jennie’ is
an honest film and it isn’t
dirty at all and I love it.”
There was some talk of
having Ann Marie lose her
honorary status this sea
son-some of the staff felt
she should marry. But the
producers surveyed the
show’s fans and the result
—o verwhelmingl y—
was against marriage for
Ann. Mario agrees.
“I’ve always felt,” she
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Wednesday, July 23
Prime Time
TV Described
As ‘Tasteless’
WASHIGTON (UPI) —The
Westinghouse Broadcating Co.
urged the Federal Communica
tions Commission (FCC) today
to adopt its version of a
proposed rule limiting the three
commercial networks’ almost
total control of prime time
television programming.
The so-called “Westinghouse
rule” would require that no
television station affiliate of the
networks could take more than
three hours of network pro
gramming between 7 and 11
p.m.
It was offered as an
alternative to a 10-year-old FCC
proposal—the 50-50 rule—which
would allow network controlled
programming during only half
of the prime evening time.
In addition, under the pro
posed rule, networks could not
acquire any rights in television
programs produced in whole or
in part by other persons beyond
the right to show such
programs. They also would be
barred from domestic syndica
tion of television programs.
These two provisions would
apply whether the Westinghouse
or 50-50 version of the rule was
adopted.
Oral arguments on the
proposals spilled over from a
one-day hearing on the rule
Tuesday, when, as one attorney
put it, the quality of American
television went on trial. The
FCC will decide whether to
adopt the rule as proposed—or
a modification—sometime in
the future. When is not known.
The critics were harsh in
their condemnation of the
quality of entertainment now
provided by the Columbia
Broadcasting System, the Na
tional Broadcasting Co. and the
American Broadcasting Co.
“Tasteless gruel,” said Com
missioner Nicholas Johnson.
“Mass mediocrity," said actor
producer Robert Montgomery,
noting the three networks will
gross close to $3 billion this
year.
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QUICK QUIZ
Q —Which element was
named by its discoverer for
her native country?
A— Polonium, named by
Madame Marie Curie in
honor of Poland.
Q —Which was the last let
ter to be added to our alpha
bet?
A —The 10th letter of our
alphabet, J or j, developed
from the letter i.
Q —ls a man weighs 150
pounds on earth, how much
would he weigh upon the
moon?
A— He would weigh only
one-sixth as much as on
earth, or about 25 pounds.
Q —Who is the only jockey
to have won the Kentucky
Derby five times?
A—Eddie Arcaro — 1938,
1941, 1945, 1948 and 1952.
Q —Which is the strongest
of all natural fibers?
A—Silk.
Q — What commodity is
measured by barleycorns?
A—Shoes. A barleycorn is
an early English measure
equalling approximately one
third of an inch.