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Show COUNTY CLUBWOMEN SEEK TO DETECT AND REMEDY 'LAZY EYES' IN CHILDREN The Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Milford and Beaver have undertaken a program of eye testing of preschool pre-school children to detect any cases of "lazy eyes" in Beaver County. Cooperating with the National Association for the Prevention of Blindness, the Beaver County clubs will carry out an educational program in the county, as well as screening of all 4- and 5-year old children to detect any cases of defective vision in ore-school children. Date for testing eyes of the pre-shool pre-shool children will be announced in the near future. In the mean-1 tine, to acquaint parents with the "lazy eye" correction program, a series of meetings and conferences is planned. First of these meetings will be held Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Milford High School auditorium. At this time a film will be presented pre-sented by representatives of the Utah Committee of the National Nation-al Association for the Prevention of Blindness. During World War II, 60,000 military selectees were tested and more than 3 were found to have one eye in which the best vision - - with lenses was less than half the normal standard of 2020. Some of these eyes had practically no central vision and all lacked sight adequate for normal reading. Many could have been salvaged by proper treatment . begun at an early age. About 100,00 children's eyes are passing beyond the help of treatment treat-ment each year. Some of these children will suffer loss of then-only then-only good eye through injury or disease. Few of them will ever have normal two-eyed or three-dimensional vision for accurate judgment of distance. The Business and Professional Womens Clubs of Beaver County seek to find local children who have "lazy eyes," so proper corrective cor-rective measures can be taken in time to save their eyesight. |