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Hearing Troubles Have Causes
(Editor’s Note: This is one
in a series of articles about
your health which will appear
regularly in the Covington
News as a public service fea
ture.)
By The Medical Association
Os Georgia
Some 15,000,000 persons in
the nation are hard of hearing, i
Telephone
Talk
by
RAY REECE
Your Telephone Manager
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AM I RIGHT? The most welcome Valentine you can send
on February 14th is YOU —via a Long Distance call to
someone you love. Hearts and flowers and cupids with
bows and arrows are dandy, but no message is more heart
warming than your voice saying “Happy Valentine” across
the miles.
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MUSIC TO YOUR EARS—
©Now, thanks to the new Bell
j Chime, your telephone can ring
gently and melodiously. You
can have the Bell Chime in
stalled in the hallway, family
room, or any spot you choose.
The handy switch also lets you
' set it for a regular ring or a
L . loud bell to reach you in distant
parts of the house. Why not
call our Business Office today and discover how easy and
inexpensive it is to ring in a new era of happy sounds in
your home.
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SPEAKING OF VALENTINES—a sentimental gift that
makes wonderful sense is a Princess phone. Seems to me
any homemaker would be mightly happy to have a Prin
cess extension within easy reach. In the bedroom, for in
stance, where it takes up almost no room on a night table.
Pretty as a Valentine, too, in five colors to fit any decorat
ing scheme, and so light it's like hefting a feather. And it
lights up when you Lift the receiver. How about it? Know
•omeone special you’d like to ask to be your Princess with
this lovely little phone?
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Some of them have had hear
। ing trouble since birth. Others
developed their difficulty dur
ing childhood or adolescence,
some in young adulthood and
others in their older years. A
good many help their hearing
by wearing hearing aids.
For some, the hearing loss
I came on gradually and contin-
ues to increaese. In others, the ;
onset was sudden and the de
gree of loss remains the same. ;
In some persons, hearing may j
improve.
Many hard of hearing per
sons have been helped by medi
cal and surgical treatment, by
training and rehabilitation, in
cluding the use of mechanical j
hearing aids.
The causes of hearing loss
are many. One cause is injury
to the hearing organs by indus
trial noises and accidents. As
our society becomes more and
more mechanized, the danger
of this type of injury increases.
Some hearing troubles are
present at birth. One reason
for congenital hearing defects
is malfunction of the ear re
sulting from a mother’s hav
ing a disease such as German
measles during the first three,
months of her pregnancy.
A fairly common type of
congenital hearing defect is a I
lack of development of the
nerve centers which carry sig
nals to and from the ear.
Hearing losses present at
birth are usually quite severe
and, since the causes usually I
can’t be corrected, the most es- |
fective treatment is generally ■
training and rehabilitation.
The patient is taught to make I
the best use of the degree of
hearing he has or to adjust to I
life without any degree of use- [
ful hearing.
If the defect is of the outer ।
rather than the inner ear,
however, it can often be cor
rected by surgery. A plastic
surgeon can make an ear or
part of one by taking skin from
elsewhere on the patient’s
body and transplanting it to I
the head where the ear be- j
longs. The outer ear then con
ducts sound into the inner ear
where hearing actually takes
place.
In older children, a common
cause of hearing trouble is the
formation of scar tissue in the
middle ear from repeated in
fections of the nearby tonsils
and adenoids. Between the
ages of two and twelve a com
mon cause of hearing loss is
the collection of fluid in the
middle ear produced by infec
tion or allergy. A simple sur
gical procedure in which this
fluid is drained off will cor
rect the condition and restore
hearing.
During adolescence the most
common cause of hearing loss
is injury to the ear from swim
ming and diving accidents.
In adulthood, many workers
are exposed to constant loud
noises which produce gradual
hearing losses. Industrial lead
ers are concerned about this
problem and engineers are
working to develop less noisy
machinery, better soundproof
ing and more effective ear
protectors.
Women of child bearing age
often develop otosclerosis, a
condition in which the small
bones of the middle ear become
fixed and fail to carry sound
THE COVINGTON NEWS
4-H Winners
Two 18 year old 4-H members
were part of the Cracker state's
delegation to the National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago.
Hubie Stephens of Sparta, and
Ginger Wilkinson of Valdosta,
who have both carried 15 proj
ects in eight years of club work,
were named 1960 state winners
in the entomology and home im
provement programs respec
tively.
Stephens, a high school senior,
was county entomology winner
four years. Discovering that the
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Hubis Staphsni
Ginger Wilkinson
Insects were eating as much of
his garden as the family was, he
decided to find out why.
Stephens gave many demon
strations on spraying, dusting
and safely using insecticides at
local clubs and community or
ganizations and on TV. Nine
members joined the junior ento
mology club that Hubie organ
ized.
After completing junior col
lege, Stephens plans on majoring
in entomology at the University
of Georgia. He has been active
in junior and assistant leader
ship and held office in local and
county council.
The Hercules Powder Co. spon
sored his trip, and all entomol
ogy winners across the nation, as
well.
Miss Wilkinson, a freshman at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College, is majoring in home
economics.
She. too, has been on TV, and
her desk, pictures, lamps and
lampshades made in her home
improvement project were used
in a documentary film of 4-H
Club work in Georgia.
President of Lowndes county
4-H Council, Miss Wilkinson has
led a junior club four years. She
was one of an exchange group
that visited New Jersey for two
weeks.
The Sears-Roebuck Foundation
was Miss Wilkinson’s host at the
club congress.
from the eardrum to the inner
ear. The condition, which some
times occurs in men, can be
corrected by one of two opera
tions known as the Fenestra
tion and Stapes Mobilization
operations. In the former a
window is cut in the ear so
sound can get through. In the
latter, one of the fixed bones
is mobilized.
In middle age the common
est cause of hearing loss is a
slow deterioration of the nerve
endings in the inner ear. These
patients complain that they
can hear sounds but they aren’t
distinct enough to be under
stood. The condition usually
doesn’t get any worse after the
patient is 65. Many can be
helped with hearing aids.
Doc MAG says:
Many hearing losses can be
made less handicapping, by
medical and surgical treat
ment, training, rehabilitation
and hearing aids.
Ga. Moves Closer
Toward Curbing
Drag Race Game
Georgia has moved a step
closer toward breaking up the
deadly game of drag racing on
public roads.
The Georgia House of Represen
tatives, just before the Legislature
recessed for two weeks, passed
without opposition a bill making it
a felony to drag race on public
thoroughfares. The vote was
111-0. It now goes to the Senate
for action.
Dooly County Rep. Tom Sang
ster, author of the bill, appealed
for enactment to “help put a
stop to the senseless, homicidal
slaughter upon the streets and
roads of Georgia by those who
would remove a motor vehicle
from the realm of pure trans
portation and convert it in t o a
weapon of death and destruction.”
Sangster said the bill has
“teeth’’ in it and would be an
effective deterrent against drag
racers.
The measure provides a one-to
five-year prison penalty for p e r
sons convicted of illegal racing on
the highways, and it also pro
vides prison terms for passengers
in a drag race and for persons
who contribute to a drag race.
In short, the bill covers anyone
who participates in a drag race
on a public road “in any manner
whatsoever.” The measure also
provides for suspension of a driv
er's license of any convicted vio
lator of the law.
During a six-month period last
year there were 11 documented
drag race deaths on Georgia's pub
lic roads. Public Safety Depart
ment officials estimated at least
nine others were killed in drag
race accidents where available evi
dence could not positively docu
ment the cause. Eight of the
eleven documented cases of fatali
ties involved innocent persons,
records show.
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Forest Ranger
Urges Plan of
Reforestation
You can live In town and
still grow trees to help supply
Georgia’s expanding wood -
using industries.
With more and more people
deserting the farm and moving
into towns and cities because of
the high costs of farm opera
tions, the lure of industrial
payrolls and other reasons,
many acres of land in Georgia
are now idle.
But if you are a landowner
who no longer lives in t h e
rural area, you can still put
those lazy acres to work by
contacting your county forest
ranger — James Pinson.
The ranger, as well as the
county agent and officials of
other agricultural agencies, are
prepared to help you plan a
reforestation program.
They will aid in site prepar
ation. They will help you
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choose the right specie. They
will assist in ordering your
seedlings from the nursery.
They will arrange for a con
tractor to plant your trees by
mechanical means. In the
years to come, they will ad
vise you on the proper mana
gement of your growing forest.
The Georgia Forestry Com
mission, which maintains six
modern forest tree nurseries,
still has several million seed
lings available. They are top
quality, disease - free plants.
The landowners can, of
course, go directly to one of the
nurseries to pick up his order,
but if he is too pressed for
time to handle the details, the
ranger or one of the other
agents will make all the ar
rangements.
, Whether you are a landowner
who has become a “city slick
• er” or you still live on your
. j land, now is the time to inves
tigate the possibility of making
I those abandoned fields, cut -
. j over forest and slopes produc
[ • tive through reforestation.
Larry Lee Byrd
Named To Honor
Roll At Tech
Larry Lee Byrd son of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther L. Byrd of
Covington, has earned honor
roll listing at Southern Techni
cal Institute for the past quar
ter with a scholastic average of
3.71.
It is necessary to make an i
average of 3.00 or better out of I
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Thursday. February 9. 1961
a possible 4.00 to earn this
recognition. Only about one
student in six met these re
quirements.
Mr. Byrd is studying Textile
Technology at Southern Tech.
Keep a tree out of the
ground as short a time as pos
sible when transplanting, ad
vises T. G. Williams, Exten
sion landscape specialist.
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