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WOMEN'S HEALTH
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Women's Medical News Service
An old saw maintains that the
only certainties wo ali face are
death and taxes. Now a third can
be added for many of us: Over
weight.
According io some eslimatL*s.
about 25.0(X),(MX1 Americans
more than one in eigiit ol us
are overweight. Wo weigh be
tween 10 and 20 |)(*rcent mcno
than is healthy.
Apart from b<*ing an aesthetic
problem, ov(*rweight can lead to
sbrious medical j)iobl<*ms. Heart
trou’de. high blood prt*ssure,
hardening of lh(* arteries, diabe
tes — all seem to 1h* related in
some way to overweight, al
though scientists are not certain
why.
According to Dr. Michael H. K.
Irwin, Medical Officer of the
United Nations and author of a
Public Affairs jjamphlct on over
weight, {H‘opie wiio are ovim -
weight may have a shorter life
span than those tiicir age who
are not. The mortality rate, he
says, is 8 percent higher for a
middleaged fK»rson 10 pounds a-
hove thenormal weight for his
height, IS percimt higher if lie
is 20 pounds overweight.
If you want to remain a long-
.Ktemmed Amt*rican twauty ami
live longer walfh y )ur weight.
Eat sensibly, exercise, and if
I you gain weight for no apparent
; cause, see your doctor.
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A study of the relationship be
tween the rate at which infants
suck pacifiers and the rate at
which their hearts boat has been
made by Dr. John J. Boehm of
Lexington, Ky. Dr, Boehm stu
died the sucking rate of 30 ba
bies ranging in age from a few
days to two months. He found
that many infants suck in exact
time witli the beat of their
hearts!
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President Johnson made an IS-
word promise in his Slate of the
Union message that was heard
round the world - in many places
with thankfulness. Tlie promise:
"I will seek new ways to use our
knowimige to help deal with the
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explosion in world population...." \
Commenting on the President’s
statement, Dr. Alan F. Gutt-
macher, one of the nation’s most
distinguished obstetricians, and
head of Planned Parenthood,
said: "We have the knowledge
and the means to help ensure
that the world we bequeath to our
children and grandchildren will ;
be a better place to live, a world :
in which every child will he
wanted--and will therefore bo
well-born. Family planning is
the key."
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Most of us think of syphilis as
exclusively an adult’s disease
but, alas, it is not. Adults can
and do pass it on to infants at
an alarming rate. Between IfHiO
and 1963 syphilis among the
newborn-to-one year age group
jumpetl nearly iso percent, ac
cording to the U.S. Public Health
; Service Communicable Disease
i Center, reflecting the rise in
I syphilis in the adult population.
I To protect babies and mothers.
I Dr. William J. Brown, director of
j the center’s Venereal Disease
I Branch, urges thefollowing:
I AH pregnant women should
I be blood tested for the disease
; both early and late in pregnancy
so prompt treatment can be
started if necessary. Treatment
during the first 18 weeks of preg-
] nancy will prevent infection of
i the baby. Propi'r treatment even
j later .may cure the baby although
' it can’t prevent possible damage
I to bones and teeth.
I —Careful examination of ba-
I bies whose mothers have had no
prenatal are or who gave birth
without medial attention.
—Reporting by private physi
cians of all cases so that these
can be treated and followed up.
If there is even the slightest
suspicion that the disease has
been contracted, see a doctor
promptly. You’ll save vourself
and your child — a lifetime of
heartache.
Lime Now
For Fall Pasture
! H. R. Clapp, county extension
j chairman, says about six months
j are needed for lime to dissolve in
the soil. Therefore, fields to be
used for hay and pasture should
:e limed now so they will be
j ready for seeding this fall.
I Mr. Clapp further states that
lime well mi.xed with tiie soil re
acts quicker and does a better
job correcting the pH than lime
broadcast on top of the ground.
If row crops are limed before
planting, regular cultivation
practices will mix lime with the
soil.
The need for lime should be
determined by a soil test before
any is applied. If testing indi
cates an acid condition the soil
must be limed, especially if le
gumes are to be growm. Bacteria
that fix nitrogen on legume roots
cannot work well in acid soils.
When soils are limed to the op
timum pH these bacteria can
soon fix enough nitrogen to pay
for liming. Low calcium leveU
and other factors caused by an
acid condition will make it al
most impossible to maintain a
good stand of clover or other le
gumes.
Proper liming increases the a-
vailability of phosphate and the
capacity of y^ur soil to hold pot
ash. Both of these elements are
necessary in largo amounts if
you are to got high yields. Our
heavy textured soils tio-v.p phos
phate and our thin soils do not
hold much potash so liming is
necessary to make the most pm
fit from purchased fertilizer.
How much lime does your soil
need? It is not too late to find
out from a sod test in time to
lime this spring. Get sampling
supplies from the Agricultural
Extension Office and send yam-
sample to the Soil Testing Lab
oratory now.
Highway Litter
D^es Create
Higiuvay litter, if laid end to
end, would create the world’s
record traffic jam.
In fact, it would bring traffic
to a dead stop along the prefer
red 3000 mile route between New
York and San Francisco. That’s
what KiX'p America Beautiful,
Inc. says. KAB is the the nation’s
premiere anti-littor organization.
In North Carolina we can be
lieve what they say for highway
workers annually collect 20.0(K)
truckloads of debris from our
roads each year.
If all of the rubbish dumped
on thestreets and highways all
over the country last year were
concentrated it would bury the
transcontinental route a foot
deep in discarded wrappers and
cat tons, paper cups, plates, tis
sues, cans, bottles, garbage and
sucli assorted ti’ash as old mat
tresses and auto parts.
KAB based its graphic picture
of the national "litter harvest’’
on an estimate from the US Bu
reau nf rublie Roads that up to
20 million cubic yards of litter
was dumped on the nation’s
streets and hi^liways last year.
The estimated price tag for
cleaning up the mass was over a
hundred million dollars.
Everyone can lend a liand l)y
putting a litterhag in their car.
When thebag is full empty it in
a receptacle along the way or
take it back ho.Te and get rid of
it there. It may seem like a little
thing to do. But today’s highway
litter jam is made up of "litter
things’’- millions and millions of
them. If each person would just
dispose of his owh litter properly
there would bo no highway litter
problem.
Mis. Wilson's
Rites Conducted
Funeral rites for Mrs. Annie
Lee Wilson, 78. 220 Walker
street, were held Wednesday at 3
p.m. from First Baptist church,
interment following in Mountain
Rest cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson died Monday af
ternoon at 2 p.m. at her home
following several years of de
clining health.
A native of Gaston County, she
was the widow of Jasper Wilson
who died in 1953. She was a
member of First Baptist church.
Surviving are her daughter,
Mrs. James Cole of K:ngs Moun
tain; and four sons, Haskell
Wilson, Harry Wilson and J. U.
Wilson, all of Kings Mountain,
and Dalbert Wilson of the U.S.
Army in Germany. Also surviv-
are 14 grandchildren and 12 “f Rev. B. U Raines officiated at
! great-grandchildren. I the final rites.
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