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I —THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 19681
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l»% At STIN .Ml IIOI.S
"Hey." the voice bellowed.
"You using stale ice or some
thing? This drink tastes terri
ble." Listening in. I learned an
earful. First that "stale" ice
isn't a figure of speech. It 's a
fact. Stale ice has an unpleasant
taste not easily detected in ad
vancc. but destructive to the
l>est mixed drink.
Ice gets stale if it's left too
long unused in the refrigera tor.
It also gets stale if the refrig era
tor is not kept thoroughly clean.
If eveh a trace of sludge is per
mitted. ice al>sorfis this odor.
Beware alsiyfTf cheese I lull's
allowed to melt and refree/ e. as
well as salami and other strong• j
smelling foods that are pi aced
loosely packed or completely
uncovered in the refrigerat or.
So watch out for the "st ale"
ice gremlins that can destroy
even the host prepared »iH'k tails
and make your uuvsts lt>ok
askance when you tell t hem
that your bourbon is If >l pre
mium Wild Turkex llu* U*st
money can buy.
II you're hearing thint.s go
bump in the night. look for the
Bison Hump —the newest « Irink
making the jet stream It's
made with two ounees of I 'olish
vodka. an egg a .linger of t ream
;i 11 well shaken with ice.
strait Ted. and served into a
chilled champagne glass
Other hits of incidental in
telligence picked up from my
stentorian "stale" ice informer
are that Wyborowa. a na me f«»r
Polish vodka, means "quality"
in Polish ami that Camp;iri the
Italian A|x k r»tif. is getting pop
ular as a liner's toast in South
America
When a man goes to school
and learns some big words,
he's only half educated. His
education will be completed
when he learns to translate
those big words back into sim
ple English that ordinary peo
ple can understand.
WHAT A 17f5 YEARS IT HAS BEEN!
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TIIE 1 1.1 .-FATED TITANIC The luxury liner TITANIC de
|iurl» Southampton. England prior to her maiden Atlantic
ami li-»i«lrmu .«rrjinjg nilh an icelwrjc on ihr (>r*nH
liank* off Nc* found land.
A now book makes clear that
while much is written about
new gadgets and gimmicks,
few people are aware of how
much we have gotten rid of;
piracy is just one example!
When America's oldest stock,
fire and marine insurance com
pany in America recently cele
brated its 175 th anniversary,
it was noted that the first life
insurance |H>licy written by the
firm was on a ship captain for
$5,000 in 1794, protecting him
against "Algerines and other
Barbary corsairs." Since then
it has insured the 30 scien
tists who built the atomic
bomb, officials of the United
Nations, and the beauties of
the Miss America Pageant.
When Insurance Company
of North America was found
ed in 1792 in Philadelphia's
lnde|>endence Hall, the U.S.
had been independent from
Great Britain for only nine
years.
That same year the corner
stone of the Capital was laid
in Washington, D.C.. a group
of merchants met in a New
York City coffeehouse to or
ganize the New York Stock
Exchange, and Virginia was
the last state to ratify the Bill
of Rights.
In many ways the history
HOOL? "L A BEL" y
&EFEK/ZED OEIGINAILS TO
THE CLOTH &AMDS, OR FILLETS. - K" \
ATTACHED TO A SISWOP'S
Labeling WAS BEGUM "
\v!!nfell\ 2,000 YEARS AGO BY A
koaaam who &akep
his name into jars
Containiwg his ointment.
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LABELS OM FOOP COMTA/MtsRS ARE SfIQUIREP
By LAW TO TELL THE COMPLETE NAME OF THE PROPUC I. Kit T
WEIGHT OH VOC UMf , THE CANNER OR DC", Ik'ltMJ TOR AMD IHE
INGREDIENTS. 35 Y/EAK3 rkf.VKHJ&LY THE naimnal i AMNI t-,
ASSOCIAIION WAi AHEAO.T 11flMf WITH A PESCl'imvE LABfiIWO
PROGRAM WHICH'TOLP THE TkiJIM AKOUT A CAMS INGfcftUIEM T5
IN Simple, familiak, tp^mo.
&HE FIRST LABEL PAT EM r
WAS GRANTEP IN 107+ K>k A 3*\
BREAKFAST HOMIMY LABEL IO BE X' A «' Vil,, I
ATTACHED TO THE SACK., yon ok / vrf .■ 7Wl;| '
■ABEEL IN WHICH IME ' A Jftt 1 , wTXiI :
HOMINY WAS TO W- SOLD.
ON THE tgoo's WOVEM LABELS
JB CLOTHES WERE COLLECTORS
ML ■. W iLri* ITEMS. SOME MADfc IN ENGUNP
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> PIMENSIONAL PORTRAITS
V OF WASHINGTON PISfctAELI
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"LOOK, NO HANDS" - HAYMAKING TODAY
A flood example of tli«- Irr
lilcililoti* al\an''» in farm
iiiacliiiicry i* illu*lrat-l liy
the impro\«-m-iit>> through
I In- yearit in haymaking.
Karly Haymaker* (altme).
Automatic llalr \\ ajion
(lop ri;lil). World* Kir«l
Viitomatic Italer (bottom
rijilit).
Not IIHI in.inx mo>l I
American lartners not t»ril\ ctil |
11\ated crops. the> also grew j
their own l.ibor stippl> l>\ j
having huue families. There was
plentv o| work on the farm, and 1
the more hands there were, the
easier it went Hut no matter
how main hands, hard work
was the lot ot nearly everyone
who lived on a farm -li-was a
year-round. >un-up to sun-down
existence and it was tough and
hare A
Kven so. there's no doubt
farm life had some advantages
money couldn't buy and many
people who grew up on yester
day's farms.look hack with nos
talgia. You might even hear one
of these not-so-old-timers say
ing. The best goldurn times I
ever had was puttin' up hay in
the hot August sun. drinkin'
One can handle a hundred
typical enemies, but one bitter
individual can be a nasty prob
lem, especially if it is a fe
male.
of INA and that of the nation
arc parallel, and the fascinat
ing story is now told by dis
tinguished historian and prize
winning author William H. A.
Carr in his book. Perils.
Named and Unnamed, pub
lished by McGraw-Hill. The
title of the book, taken from a
phrase in some ancient insur
ance policies, is apt - for INA
has faced every peril known
to man.
Most of the company's early
l>olicies were on ships and
cargoes, many insured against
piracy. The "unsinkable" Ti
tanic was partly insured by
INA. In 1967, the company
paid about $600,000 when the
oil tanker Torrey Canyon
broke up on rocks off the Cor
nish coast of Britain, spilling
over 90,000 tons of crude oil
into the sea.
Perils: Named and Unnamed
reports these and dozens of
other fascinating anecdotes
about an insurance company
that has paid claims ranging
from $4 million for the San
Francisco earthquake in 1906
to $300,000 for a cancelled
Boy Scout Jamboree and 90
cents for a home-made pie
ruined when a golf hall smash
ed through a kitchen window.
mm
I | good well water out of camiin
I iars " etc . then drift away
{in mistv cvtHl revcrx
Balers and Thermos l*»ttles
> I have replaced pitchforks and
I ! canning jars on most North
I American farms, and old stvle.
back busting haymaking is little
more than a memory—and not
always a pleasant one
Ttnlay. farming is more a way
of making a living for the
farmer-businessman and less a
way of life for his family. The
key to the farmer's new life and
productiveness is a dynamic
larm technology that's created
tremendous advances in ma
chinery. seed, fertilizers and
methods
Some of the more notable ma
chinerv advances have helped
take the "ache" out of haymak
ing Mowers replaced scythes.
Form of Hereditary Blindness
Diagnosed By Meharry College
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The
first diagnosis in America of an
extremely rare form of heredi
tary blindness was made re
cently at Meharry Medical Col
lege in Nashville as reported in
the August edition of the Ame
rican Journal of Ophthalmolo
gy-
Dr. Axel C. Hansen, head
of the Division of Ophthalmo
logy, reported on two cases of
the disease which he encounter
ed in two Negro children seen
at the eye clinic at Meharry's
teaching hospital, George W.
Hubbard.
The, two brothers both were
afflicted with a disease called
Nonie's Disease after a Danish
ophthalmologist, who first des
cribed the syndrome in 1927.
Since then, and until 1966,
35 cases were reported in six
families around the world.
The syndrome is chaiac-
terized by tumors of the retina
of both eyes and is found only
in males and is sometimes ac
companied by mental retarda
tion and lo6s of hearing or
deafness.
"Unfortunately, there is no
known treatment for the
disease, but families in which
the disease occurs may be ad
vised that it is inherited, "Dr.
Hansen said.
According to Dr. Hansen,
the disease may be less rare
than has been thought, because
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balers obsolete*! pitchforks and.
more recently, automatic bale
wagons eliminated the drudgery
of lifting and stacking bales by
hand.
The machine shown aliovc
was a big step in bringing "no
hands" haymaking to many
North American farms. It's a
Stackliner' automatic bale
wagon made bv New Holland,
the farm equipment division of
Sperry Hand Corporation. One
man. with a Stackliner. can
pluck bales from a field, drive
to an unloading area and unload
all the bafc»s either one at a
time or as a complete stack. The
Stackliner takes the place of a
three man crew and lets the
farmer finish his haymaking in
less time and with much less
effort than he ever could before.
it can be misdiagnosed. Symp
toms of the disease are very
similar to those found In an
other eye disorder, retinoblas
toma, in which there are tum
ors in the eye which are malig
nant. Tumors found in patients
with Norrie's disease, however,
are not malignant and, there
fore, cannot spread to other
parts of the body such as the
brain.
The key to diagnosing Nor
rie's disease is in the careful
study of tjie family history
which may reveal male relatives
who are blind. Dr. Hansen said,
as was the case with the pa
tients diagnosed. Since the dis
ease is sex-linked, it does not
show up in women who may
be carrying the defective gene,
but there is a 50-50 chance
that their male children will
have the disease.
Also accompanying the dis
ease in about two-thirds of the
cases is mental retardation and
in fewer cases loss of hearing
or deafhess.
Dr. Hansen's work in diag
nosing and publishing his find
ings was aided by a grant from
the National Institute of Neu
rological Diseases and Blind
ness which supports free eye
screening clinics for pre-school
age children and also glaucoma
detection clinics for adults.
Coca-Cola USA
To Make Study
Negro Market
ATLANTA, Ga.—The dyna
mics of food and grocery store
buying patterns among the
nation's 22,000,000 Negroes
will be revealed to marketing
management by a new audit re
search service just launched by
Audits & Surveys, Inc., the
second largest marketing re
search Arm in the United States
Hie new service, called Ne
gro Market Index, is keyed to
food stores located in metro
politan areas with a heavy con
centration of Negro population.
It enables national and provid
ing retail stores, inventory and
distribution data on specific
brands in various product ca
tegories. The Coca-Cola Com
pany already has contracted
Solomon Dutka, president of
Audits & Surveys, disclosed.
Dutka explained that the
service is based on a unique
definition of the Negro market
and provides a continuous flow
of information on sales trends,
competing brand shares and
other product movement ele
ments. To insure accuracy, he
pointed out, the Negro market
is viewed as a separate entity,
rather than merely as a fraction
of the "national market."
"TTiis is the first time, to
the best of our knowledge, that
the Negro market has been
clearly segmented," he said.
"It has become increasingly
apparent to manufacturers that
in purchasing certain products
Negroes display an influence
disproportionate to their actual
numbers. But until now there
has been a lack of practical
Information; this important
area has been treated only as
part of the whole and not as an
individual market with its own
dynamics."
Product and brand move
ment information is derived
from a representative sample
of grocery stores and super
markets - both chain and inde
pendent - in which continuous
bimonthly audits of food store
sales are made. Field work is
conducted by Selected Area
Surveys, an Audits & Surveys
affiliate, specializing in re
search among Negro Puerto
Rican and other ethnic groups.
To obtain meaningful and
up-to-date information, repre
sentative panels of food stores,
each doing virtually all of their
business with Negro clientele,
have been established in three
major metropolitan classifies-
These brands
keep 2£)70 people
working
in Durham
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"America's greatest Rift to Indi
is shown with her companion, F ;
House, New Dehli, India.
It took a sightless heroine to
open the eves of the world to
the injustices growing from old
myths about the "helplessness"
of the blind.
Helen Keller, blind and deaf
from infancy, put it this way:
"Not blindness but the atti
tude of the seeing to the blind
is the hardest burden to bear."
Throughout a lifetime of
awesome personal accomplish
ments. she uprooted supersti
tions nourished by milleniums
of ignorance. Here are some of
the most stubborn fallacies, ex
ploded bv. the facts of Miss
Keller's inspirational career:
The blind have a limited ra
pacity /or learning.
Yet in 1900. Miss Keller en
tered RadclifTe College, took
all the standard examinations
during four years of study and
was graduated with a B.A.— i
cum laude!'Later, she became
the first woman ever to receive
an honorary doctorate from 1
Harvard University. I
The blind read little or not \
at all. j
Yet Miss Keller not only was I
an avid reader of braille books i
tions across the country:
Northern areas, Southern mar
kets with 100,000 or more Ne
gro population, and Southern
areas with less than 100,000
residents. Data are as
sembled and reported separate
ly for each category. Dutka
noted "that with the continu
ing and increasing migration of
the Negro to large urban cen
ters across the nation, the Ne
gro today is one of the most
urbanized segments of the
country's population. It is es
timated that 70 percent of all
Negroes now reside in metro
politan markets. Negro Market
Index will foe lis on this Ur
banized Negro."
Data gathered will reveal
shares of major regional brands
as well as competing national
brands for all product cate
gories. Moreover, special
analyses will disclose brand
shares by type of outlets, con
trasting marketing strengths in
supermarkets versus smaller
j groceries. Other reports will
ia," is the way the Indian press described Helen Keller. Here she
Polly Thomson, charming I'rime Minister Nehru at Government
in Knglish and German but
wrote I.'i autobiographical and
inspirational works of high lit
erary merit. Her first book,
"The story of My Life," ap
peared in l!) 02 and her last.
"Teacher." in lt). r >. r x -
Tire blind lire isolated Irom
reality.
Yet Miss Keller joined the
American Foundation for the
Blind and the Helen Keller
World Crusade for the Blind
as counselor on national and
international relations and
toured 39 countries on the five
continents. She was received
by kings, queens, premiers and
other world leaders, including
every American President from
Grover Cleveland to John F.
Kennedy. She so impressed
her hosts that many estab
lished pioneering programs for
their national blind.
The blind are unemployable.
Yet Miss Keller convinced
hundreds of employers that
blind workers are capable of
performing the most challeng
ing tasks. Today there are blind
teachers, lawyers, computer
programmers, salesmen and
show shares in only those tion bias where brand availabi
stores carrying a particular lity is less than 100 percent,"
brand, "eliminating distribu- Dutka pointed out.
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engineers. Nearly 30,000 blind
college graduates hold respon
sible positions once closed to
I he sightless.
The blind are immobilized
by tlicir handicap.
Yet Miss Keller swam,
danced, rode horseback and
hiked over the countryside
around her Connecticut home.
After Miss Keller's death
last June, her friends estab
lished the Helen Keller Mem
orial Fund as a living monu
ment. Co-sponsored by the
American Foundation for the
Blind and the Helen Keller
World Crusade, with offices in
New York City. The fund com
mittee is headed by actress
Katharine Cornell, a long-time
friend of Miss Keller's. In a
public appeal, Miss Cornell
said:
"I hope that you will join
us in this tribute to Miss
Keller by making a generous
gift to the Memorial Fund in
support of the services which
were her life work."
The Memorial Fund is in the
finest tradition of Helen Keller
—the blind woman of vision.