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Nothing Common About
Expense of Common Cold
There is nothing common about
the common cold as far as ex
pense is concerned. It runs up
an uncommonly high bill in the
United States every year.
Just how high was discussed
this week by Miss Luclle Higgin
botham, head of the Cooperative
Extension Service health depart
ment, as another common cold
season approaches.
In addition to the discomfort
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and the more serious illnesses
which the common cold causes,
she sald you can add the time
lost from work, school and play,
a $3 billlon medical bill, and
an estimated $2 billion cost to
industry in lost productivity.
The common cold is common
in one respect, in that it is the
most common of all human ail
ments. Most every individual
has from one to three colds
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May you be blessed
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boly Christmas season.
during the year, and for some
reason young chlidnn have more
than adults,
According to Miss Higgine
botham, the nonefeverish, nose
infectious cold--usually called
the ‘‘common cold’’ =-comprises
only a fraction of a large group
of upper respiratory diseases,
The group also includes certain
pneumonias, croup, influenza,
and para-influenza.
The health speclalist cited a
recent study by health and medi=
cal authorities showing thereare
approximately 284 million acute
respiratory illnesses serious
enough to require medical ate
tention during the year.
Modern research techniques
have identified more than 100 new
viruses of humans since 1948,
Recent studies show that many of
these newly discovered viruses
cause the more severe kinds of
colds, Miss Higginbotham said.
In fact, the great majority of
colds appear to be due to vir
uses.
Miss Higginbotham did offer
one encouraging note: ‘‘When
medical sclentists learn which
microbes cause mostof our colds
and how to use them to stimulate
the highest possible degree of
immunity, it may be possible to
make a single vaccine or proe
bably several vaccines to pre
vent many of these diseases.'’
Meanwhile, people will proe
bably go on feeding or starving
their colds, going on fruit juice
diets, and swallowing every ad-
vertised drug they or their
wellemeaning relatives and
friends happen to know about,
AS far back as medical records
go, people have tried one remedy
after another to ‘‘cure’ a cold,
Miss Higginbotham said there
is still no known cure. There
are, however, some helpful hints
such as how to escape at lou‘
some colds; how to prevent such
complications as pneumonia,
bronchitis, sinusitis, and ear in
fections; how to avold carelessly
transmitting colds to others, and
what to do when you feel a cold
coming on.
She sald a free copy of help=
ful hints about colds may be
obtained by writing to the Co~
operative Extension, Service,
University of Georgla, Athens.
Southern Bell
Observes Its
85th Birthday
A well-known local firm cele~
brated its 85th birthday, Sunday,
December 20,
The Southern Bell Telephone
Company was incorporated on
December 20, 1879, just three
years after Alexander Graham
Bell obtained a patent for the
telephone he invented,
““we’re proud of our long-time
service and for the privilege of
serving Covington,”” sald Ray
Reece, Southern Bell’s manager
here, ‘“but the important thing
is that we're still growing and
improving our service.”
Shortly after its incorporat
ion, Southern Bell began opera
tions with a little over 1,000
telephones in 11 Southern cities,
including Augusta and Savannah,
Today Mr. Reece says the Com~
pany serves more than 8,875,000
telephones in its nine-statearea,
with the nine millionth telephone
expected in 1965,
Mr. Reece said Southern Bell
now operates some 1,350,000
telephones in Georgia.
¢All indications are that the
future will bring even greater
progress and prosperity to the
South,”” saild Mr. Reece, ‘‘and
Southern Bell is preparing to
meet the demands for communi
cations services that will come.’’
Georgia Tax Study
Committee To Be
Formed Soon
Deputy Commissioner Martin
B. Roberts today announced the
formation of a Tax Study Com
mittee in cooperation with the
Georgia State Chamber of Com=
merce to take an objective look
at Georgia’s tax structure in
comparison with those of other
southeastern states.
The Committee composed of
tax attorneys and specialists re
presenting the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce and re=
presentatives from the State Re=-
venue Department held its or
ganizational meeting December
16 and will hold its first general
session on February 2.
The entire study is expected
to last six to nine months with
a full report to be issued pro=-
bably next Fall.
In making the announcement,
Deputy Commissioner Roberts
said: ‘‘A comprehensive review
of the tax structure of the State
has not been made in a number
of years and we felt it would be
productive to take a look at it
and compare it with the tax
structures of other states.
¢¢This study is not being made
to solve a particular problem,
but will, instead, examine the
broad range of our statutory tax
provisions.”
Representing the State Revenue
Department wili be Deputy Com=
missioner Martin B, Roberts and
Lamar White, Director of Re
search.
Wintering the brood cow ac
counts for 30 to 40 percent of the
total annual production costs,
according to M, K, Cook.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Contact Lens Wearers
Are Increasing
By the Medical
Assoclation of Georgla
Many people wear contact lens
es and those around them don't
know it, Contact lenses are not
easlly detected,
There are an estimated 3,500,
000 successful wearers of con
tact lenses in the United States,
and the number is said to be
growing each day.
Teen agers seem to adapt to
wearing contacts better than any
other group. Nearsighted teen
agers seem to do particularly
well,
Many physicians advise young
people to wait until they are in
their teens to obtain contact lens=
es because, at that age, they are
more likely to adjust to wearing
them, Young people in their
teens--particularly intheir early
teens--seem to have a strong
incentive to overcome the un
comfortable sensation ‘‘con
tacts” produce when they are
first worn,
Teen-age girls generally tend
to adapt themselves to contacts
more easily than teen-age boys.
Perhaps they are encouraged by
the cosmetic effect of the lens
es, Boys who are active in
athletics and who must wear
glasses also do well,
When vision is greatly im
proved by wearing contacts,
people in all age groups tend to
adapt to them., The very active
person who has undergone sur
gery for the removal of catar
acts and who needs strong lens
es often finds contacts give him
wider, undistorted, better vis
fon than regular glasses. The
magnifications of ordinary cat
aract glasses may be quite dis
turbing and contacts may spare
him his discomfort.
As more and more people wear
contacts, the understanding of
the tiny lenses that fit over the
cornea increases and the fear of
wearing them lessens. This
causes people to be more re
laxed when being fitted and they
become successful wearers
sooner,
The requirements for a good
candidate for contacts include a
strong desire to adapt to them,
the necessity for wearing strong
glasses, and a specific need for
wearing them such as participa
tion in sports, a cosmetic effect,
or the desire to lessen distort
ion caused by other types of
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glasses,
Very excitable, nervous people
who want to wear contacts simply
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screening of patients, most pro
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contacts may well bring them a
new, happler outlook on life,
Thursday, December 24, 1964
VALUABLE SWEETS
What's the food value of sweet
potatoes? Cooperative Extension
Service nutritionists say they are
an excellent source of vitamiy
A. 1f quickly cooked and served,
they provided worthwhile quanti.
ties of vitamin C. And smal
amounts of iron, calcium, and the
B vitamins are present, too,