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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1958
2nd SECTION
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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.
Adolescents said they chang-
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ed to improve tneir appear
ance and to gain more social
acceptance.
Among r e c e n t improve
ments in contact lenses is a
process for grinding the lens'
edge to hitherto unattainable
angles. This means' the edge
never touches the eye-lid or
the eye. And this reduces
adaptation time by 80 per
cent.
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..
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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.
But this shows not that the
super banks aren't doing a
good job, but that the prob
lems are immense when it
comes to preventing wide
fluctuations in the world's
most complex economy.
' (Next: What Is Money?)
LIZ' DAUGHTER OKAY
Los Angeles -DPD- Elizabeth
Frances Todd, 15-month-old
daughter of actress Elizabeth
Taylor and her third husband,
the late Mike Todd, has been
released from UCLA Medical
Center where she had been
under treatment for pneumon
ia. The child, taken to the cen
ter Nov. 13 by Miss Taylor
and singer Eddie Fisher, was
released Saturday.
The name of Bruce comes
from a town named Bruys in
Normandy, France.
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