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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1958)
r 53rd Year MEDFORD Price 10 Cents Tribune Pages 1 to 6 MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1958 2nd SECTION ,. .. .. ' ' " - ' -1 . - ., j.. :iv SHOCKING U. S. Naval Academy officials, Susan Johnson, 17, donned mid shipman's uniform, marched and ate with students, es caped undetected by brass. Pacific's Air Routes May Gain Extension Extension of Pacific Air lines' routes has been recom mended by a civil aeronautics board examiner, according to an announcement by T. R. Mitchell, executive vice presi dent of the airlines. If approved by CAB, Pa cific Airlines routes would be extended to include Los Angeles, Burbank, Long Beach. Catalina Island and San Diego, Mitchell said. More Than 4 Million Americans Said Wearing Contact Lenses New York-fllPI-You would not notice it-of course-but more than four million Ameri cans now wear contact lenses. They are spending more than 100 million dollars a year on the tiny slivers of plastic and their numbers to day, according to the Eye Re search Foundation, compares with 200,000 in 1950 and about two million two years ago. Behind this boom is an im proved contact lens-a far cry from the old kind, which was oval shaped and covered even the whites of the eyes. The new lens is about the size of a small thumbtack head and weighs about as much as a down feather. It floats on the natural tear layer of the eye and is held into place by a force known as capillary attraction-a kind of suction. And it covers less than 60 per cent of the iris. The modern design lenses can be worn 16 or more hours daily and, if correctly pre scribed, cause no pain. They can't pit .won't steam up or cloud in weather changes or streak in the rain. - And, because the lens fol lows the .eye and because of the absence of spectacle frames, there is, a 15 per cent gain in margin vision - the peripheral view. According to the Eye Re search Foundation, the lenses are used most frequently for these vision disorders; myopia (nearsightedness), hyper o p i a (extreme farsightedness), astigmatism (distorted, blurred vision), aphakia (post-cataract removal), and keratoconus (cone-shaped cornea). Children and teen - agers wear 27 per cent of the con tact - lenses in use today. Fifty-nine per cent of the wearers are female; 41 per cent male. Improves Appearance A recent survey by the Eye Research Foundation tells why men, women and adoles cents are switching to con tact lenses, which sell for $150 to $300. Women do so primarily to improve their appearance and vision. They also said their mates-or dates-prodded them into getting rid of the spec tacle-frame look. Sixty per cent of the gals v-ho wear the lenses are single. . Men said they changed be cause of ego, athletic activi ties, the influence of women and because "contacts" are less bothersome. 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The process was developed by Dr. Gilbert Cepero, of Ha vana, Cuba. The opthalmolo- gist recently reported 90 per cent of 217 patients adapted to such lenses in less than one week, wearing them 10 to 12 hours on the first day. Normally, it takes two to six weeks to reach this goal. Another aid is an electron ic device developed by Dr. A. E. Reynolds of Tulsa, Okla., which determines the exact curvature of the cornea ' and allows the grinding and pol ishing of a perfect fit in con tact lenses for the first time. Bifocal Contact Lens And now, there is the bifoc al contact lens. Introduced on ly last spring, 500 are wear ing them today. An experi mental tri-focal contact lens ii also' in the works but it hasn't been tried out yet. Even hypnosis is being used in contact lens research. Eighteen patients from Mil waukee, Chicago and Lexing ton, Ky., all suffering from anxiety over the transition to contact lenses, were hypno tized. Dr. E. E. Aston, reporting on the experience, said: - "It was suggested that they would have no discomort when the lenses were insert and worn.. The hypnothera pist stressed that they could accommodate to the new lens with ease." Dr. Aston said patients re sponded with gratifying re sults in every single one of the cases. Contact lenses now come in 200 shades - or tints. In Hol lywood, according to the Eye Research Foundation, the lenses sometimes are -used to change the natural color of a starlet's eyes. " In one case, for' example, the script called for a blue eyed red-head. The red-head had brown eyes, but 'in the film her eyes are blue. A lens of the proper tint did the trick. Majority Can Adjust Ninety million Americans wear spectacles and the Eye Research Foundation, predict ing an even bigger boom in contact lenses, notes that the majority of these can adjust to the practically invisible "contacts." What do you do with the lenses when you're not wear ing them? They are kept in tiny receptacles smaller than pocket-size tins of aspirin. Or in cylindrical cases k smaller than lipstick tubes. There is a depository at each end, one marked "R" arid the other "L" to signify which lens goes where. Incidentally, these are lined with rubber or plastic. Velvet or . a plush lining would cov er the lens with lint. TURNING 84 Sunday, for mer British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was all smiles and good nature. Lord Keynes, the famous English economist who died in 1846, left an estate of more than $11 million.. How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place i-i faiF t-Mth mnnv And em bsrrass by slipping, dropping or wob- . i . . ta.tah rr tnllr? Dims WBea jruu eo, " - Just Sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates, xnia sikuiiic iuuu-bwu, powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour Checks "plate odor" denture hMxitht net. FASTEETH today-at my drug counter. Federal Reserve System Sees Money Gets To Height Pflace ' Editor's note: All that most of ns know about money is that we work for it. spend it, try to save it and never seem to have -enough of it- But the subject isn't even as simple as all that. How does your bank manage to have eough money on hand to cash all the checks presented to it? How does the Fed eral government determine how much money shonld be in circula tion? What about inflation? De flation? Credit? FoUowing is the first of six dispatches explaining in everyday terms the mysteries of high finance as they affect our daily lives. CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH By UPI Correspondent New York-(UPD-One morn ing recently, a white canvas sack arrived by registered mail at the post office in Oreana, N.Y. It looked like a bag of flour, but closer exam ination showed there were red letters on it announcing that the sack had come from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And inside was $38,500 in denominations run ning from $1 to $100. The post office phoned Bill Johnson, a vice president of the First National Bank of Oreana, telling him the sack had arrived. Johnson enlisted a bank guard, drove $o the post office, signed for the money and returned to the bank with it. Pulling out the neatly wrap ped bills, he handed the money to a teller to count saying: "Guess we - have enough now to handle the weekend withdrawals.'" Filling that sack is just one of the jobs of the nation's super bank, the Federal Re serve System, which sees to it that money is at the right place at the right time and has a lot to say on the ability of. your bank to give you a loan. Handles Billions It's a big job. Your bank might deal in millions of dol lars. The Federal Reserve handles billions. . Actually, 12 super banks, each responsible for a certain geographic area, make up the system. The New York bank, New York City financial dis trict over money and credit matters in an area encom passing New York State, southern Connecticut and northern New Jersey. The other super banks are located in Boston, Philadel phia, Cleveland, Richmond, Va., Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City Mo., and San Francisco. Assets of these 12 banks -made up largely of govern ment bonds and certificates representing gold buried mainly at Fort Knox - are nearly $52 billion triple the assets of the nation's biggest corporation. ' Without Federal Reserve controls, ; there might be too much money chasing too few goods and services like cars and shoe shines, or too little money chasing too many cars and shines. With too much money around prices tend to rise and you've got inflation. Too little money brings recession. Wasn't Always Control There wasn't always this control. Before the Federal Reserve was born in 1913, the nation was -plagued by panics caused largely by too much or too little money around. A particularly severe panic led a fed-up Congress in 1907 to appoint a commission to update the nation's financial machinery. From this grew the Federal Reserve. Now you can be sure when a holiday comes your bank will have plenty of cash that you can draw on for gas or a weekend in the country. Or, if you're a farmer, your bank can lend you enough to ship crops to market. You also can be sure when you see prices starting to rise all around you that the Fed eral Reserve is trying to check their advance by re stricting the supply of money. It's true there have con tinued to be inflation, reces- for example, rules from the sions and even a depression despite the Federal Reserve. 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