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Thursday, September 12, 1963
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FAT AMERICAN, TAKE
A SUPERSONIC SEAT
SEATS in supersonic planes
should be built to accommodate
comfortably and safely a 225-
pound man rather than the 170-
pounders planners had in mind
when designing today’s com
mercial transports, says the
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Civil Aerial Medical Research
Institute, research wing of the
Federal Aviation Agency.
Above 170 pounds, the Institute
points out, the inertia of the
seat on impact is greatly ac
celerated. The result is a heav
ier man gets nowhere near the
same protection. This, the re
port stresses, is especially
wrong in view of the propen
sity of the U. S. population to
grow taller and heavier with
each passing year.
EARTH SLIDES threaten the
Washington, D. C. area, warn
officials of the Geological Sur
vey, Department of the Inter-
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Newton's Biue Rambler Band Presents Sparkling Halftime Show at Ram-Morgan Game
THE BLUE RAMBLER BAND of Newton County High School Is shown in
this panoramic view performing their halftime show at the Ram-Morgan
County game Friday on Sharp Field in Covington. The 78-piece band this
ior. Studies indicate that cer
tain land forms and rock types
will become unstable and begin
to “flow” if disturbed by build
ing and highway construction
. . . . AN EXPERIMENT which
may take 2,000 years to com
plete has been started by South
African authority on primitive
art Alexander Wilcox. He has
had a rhinocerous carved out
of stone and placed in his
garden to weather. The experi
ment may provide a clue to the
time it took primitive engraving
to deteriorate and become obli
terated. Wilcox does not expect
to live to see the results.
ANCIENT ICE, some frozen
more than 10,000 years ago,
will be shipped shortly from
Chicago cold storage to Han
over, N. H. protected by a
chemical carbon dioxide.
The CO2’ in liquid form, will
THE COVINGTON NEWS
be used by Cardox to keep the
temperature of the big alumin
um trailer carrying the ice at
an unvarying -30 degrees F.
Elaborate precautions are being
taken to insure that the pre
cious collection arrives at the
new home of the U. S. Army
Cold Regions Research and En
gineering Laboratory in perfect
shape and not as an extremely
expensive puddle .... THE
BALD EAGLE, America's van
ishing national symbol, num
bered only 3,807 in the last
survey.
OIL, according to big think
ers at the Sixth World Petro
leum Congress held in Frank
furt, Germany, may eventually
reclaim the deserts that take up
15 per cent of the earth’s sur
face. In Libya dunes were pl
anted with acacia seedlings,
then sprayed with oil. A year
later the plants had grown into
healthy six-footers, trees cap
able of breaking the wind and
taking over the stabilization
job themselves.
THE STATE of federal fin- ;
ances (in the red) has prompt
ed Rep. Howard W. Smith (D- I
Va.) to question certain gov
ernment-financed research. For I
example, a $31,000 grant to
study the biology of bumble- I
bees, $47,500 to seek evolution- I
ary developments in birds and
$16,000 to decide whether to
revise standard earthworm
classifications.
‘EKISTICS’ is a new science
to deal with staggering prob
lems born of cities and the de
cay that threatens them. The
word was coined by Greek city
planner Constantine A. Doxia
dis from the Greek word for
settlement (oikismos). It means
a multiple approach to fighting
the deterioration of city living
by experts in housing, econo
mics, sociology, psychiatry,
planning, art and philosophy.
Epitomizing the scope of the
problem are cities like Buenos
Aires, Argentina, which in the
last century has grown from
30,000 to 3,200,000, and Leo
poldville, Congo, from 46,000
to 400,000 in less than 25 years.
HEMP, a plant fiber normal
ly used for rope, can be made
into dresses report Swiss re
searchers who have developed a
hemp fabric resembling cotton
but much stronger. Philippine
government officials hope the
new fabric will provide a big
new market for hemp one of
the country’s major exports
.... IMMUNITY to poison
ivy is a fleeting thing, accord
ing to Dr. E. Richard Harrell,
University of Michigan der
matologist. Youngsters before
the age of 5 to 7 are usually
“non-reactive” to the glossy
leafed nuisance, but the poison
ous effect is built up by repeat
ed exposure. The rash itself is
a very common allergic reac
tion. Less common are similar
reactions to carrot tops, del
phiniums and primroses.
REPAIRMEN working o n
combustible gas containers can
light their welding torches
without fear of explosion with
a carbon dioxide “purging”
technique, reports Cardox,
Chicago. The CO2 is pumped
into the tank or pipeline to
displace most of the explosive
contents and mix with the rest
to form an inert atmosphere
. . . . TOOTH BANKS in
which healthy teeth will be
stored for later transplantation
are envisioned by Dr. Miklos
Cserepfalvi, DDS, of Washing
ton, D. C., w’ho reports that he
year is the largest ever at Newton High. It is under the direction of Basil
Rigney.
has performed the operation
successfully a number of times.
For a transplant, he says, the
root structure of the donor
tooth must be only partially
developed and patients must
avoid putting undue strain on
the new tooth for at least three
weeks.
EYEGLASSES for chickens
increas egg production, says Al
Schriner, Santa Rosa, Cal.,
poultryman. The molded plas
tic contact lenses fit over the
animal’s eyeballs and are held
in place by the lids, as in con
tacts for humans. Chicken
lenses, however, cost only
about three cents a pair com
pared with approximately $125
for a human pair and distort,
not improve, vision. Wearing
the glasses, Schriner says, the
chickens, closely packed in big
modern coops, can see to eat
and drink — but not well
enough to fight with their
neighbors.
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Immunity Level
Low For Children
The head of the Cooperative
Extension Service health depart
ment said results of a recent sur
vey show that less than half of
the preschool children are ade
quately protected against polio.
And Miss Lucile Higginbotham
added that the survey also shows
most children from ages one to
five are not protected against
diphtheria, whooping cough, and
tetanus.
The University of Georgia staff
member said the survey presents
a challenge to all parents of the
unprotected pre-school children.
She urged parents to cooperate
with their family physicians and
local public health departments to
protect their children as soon as
possible against the preventable
diseases.
Miss Higginbotham said Public
Health Service figures show that
less than 42 percent of the child
ren from one to five years of age
had received the recommended
doses of Salk vaccine, and that
less than six percent of the child
ren in the same age group had
received the recommended doses
of oral polio vaccine.
“Corresponding figures for pro
tection against diphtheria, whoop
ing cough, and tetanus show that
only about one-third of the child
ren from one to five years have
had the basic DPT immunizations
plus the recommended booster
doses,” she continued.
Among children in the first year
of life, she said, the survey re
vealed that only half had begun
their recommended polio immu
nizations, and about 60 percent
had started receiving DPT in
ections.
The health specialist said many
parents tend to delay the immuni
zation of their children until time
Ram Notes
Continued from Sports Page
Rams since 1959 have been on
line plays; mostly end runs.
Those PATS were the margin
of victory Friday night 14-12.
• ♦ ♦ ♦
The Rams ran a total of only
nine plays in the last quarter
of the game. Morgan County’s
sustained march took up most of
the time. The drove from their
own 18 late in the third period
to a TD with 5:29 remaining in
the tilt.
• ♦ ♦ *
Candler Hunt, the bulldozing
fullback of the Morgan team,
gained 68 of the 82 yards in
the last scoring march put on
by the visitors.
* ♦ * «
Harold Capes of radio station
WITH Madison taped the play
by-play of the game for a re
broadcast of the clash on Sat
urday. Capes has handled th#
play-by-play for many of ths
State Class B champions games
in the past.
* • * •
Jimmy Gardner, Jr. was on
the PA system at Sharp Field
for the 12th consecutive year.
Jimmy started announcing the
play-by-play for the Rams
home games at Legion Field in
1952.
♦ • ♦ ♦
A 5-yard penalty for offsides
may have been the turning
point of the final drive by the
Bulldogs for their second TD.
On second down the ball car
rier fumbled a pitch-out and
was caught for an apparent
six-yard loss. However, the
Rams were offside and that
setup a first and ten instead of
a third and 11.
♦ • ♦ •
Homer Sharp, supervising
principal, said that the crowd
(about 3,500) was the largest
turnout for a home game of
the Rams. Ironically, the same
Morgan County team drew al
most as many here two years
ago.
• ♦ • •
Freeman Batchelor weighs
134 pounds and that just about
makes him the smallest regu
lar back to ever play for the
Newton Rams. Other small men
were: Phil White. Bobby Gene
Rogers, “Beany” Carter, Ronnie
Lynch and Terry Rutledge.
to start to school. “By so doing
they are depriving them of pro
tection in their earliest years
I when they are most vulnerable to
i these diseases.”
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