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Show With the approach of summer, sum-mer, many of you will be getting get-ting your boat , ready. The Coast Guard reminds you that boating is one of the safest family sports. Let's keep it that way! Be sure hat you carry one approved type life-saving life-saving device for each person on your boat. Check with the Coast Guard or Coast Gua' Auxiliary o be sure that ya boat carries adequate safe equipment. Man, as a general ru thinks well of himself. Penny-pinching people a often dollar losers. America noisy; kitchen is noisiest room America is the noisiest country coun-try in the world, say the experts, ex-perts, and more and more of us are becoming "noiseated." Furthermore, scientific tests show that the noisiest room in the home is the kitchen, where mother spends so much time. It's no wonder that women and homemakers in particular suffer more nervous tension headaches. As machines, automobiles, trucks and household equipment equip-ment have increased, the sound levels to which we are subjected sub-jected have increased an average aver-age of one decibel a year for the past 30 years. We are, one might say, victims of sound pollution. Contributing to the raised decibels in the average suburban subur-ban home are as many as 20 small motors, which may whir and buzz in competition with the radio, hi fi, TV, the snarl of power mowers outside, the roar of jet planes overhead, the telephone, and the yelling of .children. Heaviest sound pollutants pol-lutants iinside the home are the rumbling automatic dishwasher dish-washer (60-70 decibels), the garbage disposal unit (70) and refrigerator at low setting (30-40). (30-40). Add the roar of the washing wash-ing machine and the whistle of the air-conditioners for a raucous background. Although some of these sounds drown out others, the typical result is an average decibel level of 80 equivalent equiva-lent to that of a big-city street corner. (A steady over-all reading read-ing above 95 decibels can cause permanent hearing damage.) One expert observes that "the noise level in a modern kitchen kit-chen is just below that of the cockpit of an old DC-3. |