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THE WELL CHILD®
Check All Safety Factors
Before Buying Toy Tunnel
By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT, M.D.
Toy tunnels sold by four
manufacturers under such
names as “Batman Cave
Tunnel,” “Tun-L-Fun” and
“Funny Tunnel” have been
ordered off the market by
the Food and Drug Adminis
tration. The tunnels, about
30 inches in diameter and six
to eight feet long, are made
of wire hoops covered with
fabric. The hazard is the
possibility of the fabric
catching fire while a child is
in the tunnel.
Although the manufactur
ers have labeled the tunnels
“ flameproof. ” FDA tests
showed that rain will re
move the flameproofing and
that, when dried, the fabric
is flammable. Before pur
chasing such a device, you
should assure yourself that
it is thoroughly flame-resist
ant, even after soaking.
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up over my son, 4, and in
jured his spinal cord. Now
he is paralyzed from his
waist down. The doctor calls
it traumatic paraplegia. Do
you think he will ever walk
again?
A—Traumatic paraplegia
is paralysis of both legs
caused by an injury. In
patients who survive for
more than a week, some im
provement can be expected
unless the injury completely
severed the spinal cord. The
greatest improvement oc
curs when the paralysis is
due mainly to hemorrhage
into the spinal cord. As the
blood is absorbed, the func
tion returns rapidly. The
prognosis depends, there
fore, on the type and extent
of the injury to the cord.
Q—My daughter, 6, has
neurofibromatosis. Is there
anything new in the way of
treatment for this disease?
What is the prognosis?
A—Neurofibromatosis, or
von Rechlinghausen’s dis
ease, is a hereditary condi
tion in which pigmented
spots on the skin are widely
distributed throughout the
body. Many of these are ele
vated and appear to be skin
tumors but are really tumors
of the nerve endings. They
are soft, vary in size and
are painless. Strictly speak
ing, this is not a d i s ea s e,
since it does not affect the
general health. There is no
treatment except surgical
removal of those tumors that
become troublesome due to
size or location.
Q—My son, 11, was found
to have a slightly curved
spine. Is this serious? Can it
be corrected?
A—A curvature not dis
covered until a child is 11 is
not serious. A brace or body
cast will correct it if your
doctor thinks any treatment
is necessary.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Please send your questions and
comments to Wayne G. Brandstadt,
M.D., in care of this paper. While
Dr. Brandstadt cannot answer indi
vidual letters, he will answer letters
of general interest in future columns.
LONG TIME NO SEE
TURIN, Italy (UPD—When
two cars collided at an
Intersection, their drivers
leaped out, began arguing and
squared off to fight.
Bystanders separated them
and suggested they exchange
insurance information.
The men looked at each
other’s documents, then fell
into an embrace. They were
brothers separated during
World War II who had not seen
each other for 28 years.
Today, Tues., Wed.
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Double Feature
"OBLONG
BOX"
"HOT MILLIONS"
Romania
Is Dull
But
Friendly
Nation
By ROGER DOUGHTY
NEA News Editor
NEW YOR K— (NEA)—
Nestled snugly between Rus
sia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia,
Hungary and the Black Sea,
Romania has managed to
lose a bunch of wars, become
known as the birthplace of
Count Dracula and —in gen
eral—earn a reputation as
the kind of place most
Americans can do without.
All that will change Aug. 2
when President Nixon
breezes in for a 27-hour visit.
As America’s most famous
tourist, Mr. Nixon is bound
to attract a fair share of
attention.
Naturally, the President
will probably spend most of
his time chatting with
Nicolae Ceausescu, the chief
of state and secretary gen
eral of the Romanian Com
munist party, so even he
may not have much of an
answer if you ask him what
Romania is really like. Here,
as best we can tell, is what
Romania is really like.
“My country,” claims an
attractive young lady at the
Romanian Mission to the
United Nations, “is beauti
ful to look at and full of hard
working people who produce
iron, steel, oil and chemi
cals. It is a very lovely
place.”
Either that loses some
thing in the translation, or
even the Romanians don't
TV Profile
Hartman digs travel
By VERNON SCOTT
I PI Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
Paul Hartman, the inept pro
prietor of the fix-it shop in
“Mayberry R.F.D.,” is just as
useless with a pair of pliers
at home as he is on the air.
A widower, Hartman lives
alone in a modern apartment
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ing overlooking the Pacific
Ocean.
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know too much about
Romania.
For the record, the Ro
mans put the Rome in Ro
mania way back in A.D. 101
when, as they were known
to do, they marched in and
took over the Dacian King
dom, which had been hap
pily running that area of the
world while the Romans
were out conquering every
body else.
Romanians are really
peaceful souls, but living
where they do—and having
the kind of neighbors they
have—they can’t seem to
keep out of wars, fn World
War I they were defeated by
the Germans. World War II
came along, the Romanians
had the bad fortune to hook
up with the Germans to take
on the Russians.
In between wars, King
Carol II managed to take
over the country and set up
a dictatorship between 1938
and 1940. When he was
ousted, King Michael I took
over. He lasted until 1947.
when a people’s republic was
proclaimed and the Com
munists took full command.
Today, thanks to some
clever diplomacy, the
Romanians are just about
the only people around who
are friendly (well, pretty
friendly) with the United
States, Russia, Red China,
Albania, Yugoslavia, the
Arab nations, Israel and
North Vietnam.
One thing Romania does
in a lifetime of travel around
the world -- most of it from the
Orient.
He owns for example, a Chi
nese pigskin cabinet which
houses his stereo equipment.
Hartman bought the niece in
Shanghai in 1930. He keeps
his tape recordings in boxes pur
chased in Formosa this year.
Hartman embarks on hand
shake tours of American mili
tary hospitals when the CBS-TV
series is in hiatus. He takes
pictures of the boys who send
them back to their parents,
wives and girl friends.
The actor is the son of an
old San Francisco theatrical fam
ily which first brought him on
stage when he was 6 weeks old.
When silent movies came along
his father, Ferris Hartman,
toured the Orient with his stock
company of players which in-
* not do, the Romanian U.N.
folks assure you, is swing.
r lt’s a pretty dull place by
Western standards, with the
biggest tourist attractions
being the country’s natural
beauty and warm summer
climate.
Night life isn't much, even
in Bucharest, and we’re told
that the food isn’t all that
great, either. Vegetables are
very hard to come by, but
wine isn’t. There’s a lot of
it and it’s cheap and the
Romanians guarantee that if
you drink enough of it, you’ll
never miss the vegetables.
Transylvania, Count Drac
ula’s old stomping ground,
is a section of Romania, but
you won’t find a werewolf in
sight. Most of the people
there speak German or Hun
garian and they never heard
of the Count.
In addition to a lot of other
things, Romania, which is
about the size of Oregon
(91,699 square miles, if you
want to get technical), con
tains the Danube River, the
Carpathian Mountains, 14,-
300.000 sheep, 5,739,000 hogs,
5.331,000 cattle and 19,540.000
people—at least it did the
last time anybody counted.
And that, more or less, is
what Mr. Nixon will find
when he visits Romania.
Hopefully, the Piesidcnt will
bring along his own
vegetables,
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
——.—.-. I
eluded Fatty Arbuckle.
Today flartman looks back
on those tours with fondness.
Frequently he entertains old
show business hoofers at dinner,
sitting around renewing mem
ories.
Hartman does all his own
cooking. Most of the time his
dinners consist of exotic curry
dishes, Indonesian, Japanese and
Chinese specialities he learned
while kicking around the globe.
Watching him play the bung
ling Emmett on “Mayberry,”
makes it difficult to believe that
Hartman was one of the most
nimble and accomplished dan
cers in the theater. He and his
late wife, Grace., were a dance
team for 28 years.
Hartman still has the urge to
travel. He can see the Pacific
from any room in his apartment.
Because the window was too
high to see the ocean from a
lying position in his bed, he
added an extra box spring and
mattress. Now he can lie there
and look out to the horizon.
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