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Show lis the season to be (a) jolly, or (b) injured; select carefully guns, dart guns, air guns, bean shooters and toys with rubber bands that release projectiles, such as sling shots. Chemistry sets with ingredients which may cause burns or explosions should be considered as gifts only for those youngsters with the exeperience to use them knowledgeably and prudently. With reference to Christmas tree hazards, the Society recommends rec-ommends that: Christmas trees which are not chemically fireproof ed should be kept in water to prevent drying and causing fire hazards. Christmas trees should be kept away from heated radiators radia-tors and fireplaces. AU electrical wiring, including includ-ing that for tree light3, should be double-checked for shorts 'Tis the season to be (a) jolly (b) injured. No one would wittingly make the second choice; yet the Utah Society for the Prevention of Blindness reports that potentially poten-tially dangerous toys and Christmas tree hazards will cause hundreds of American children to suffer needless eye injuries during the coming holiday season. The Society urges all parents to insure the right choice by "making their list and checking it twice" and three times if necessary, to make certain the toys they buy are not potential eye hazards. haz-ards. Richard W. Sonntag, M.D., president of the Society, warns parents that 17 percent of the mere serious injuries to children's child-ren's eyes are caused by missile-type toys such as pellet that can cause sparks and flames. All tree decorations should be unbreakable and nonflammable. nonflam-mable. The Utah Society is an affiliate af-filiate of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. The National Society, founded in 1908, is the oldest voluntary health agency nationally engaged en-gaged in the prevention of blindness through a comprehensive compre-hensive program of community services, public and professional profession-al education and research. Oil has been discovered in the Artie Slope an uninhabited uninhab-ited area some 390 miles north of Fairbanks. Governor Walter J. Hickel said the distcovery of oil would stabilize Alaska's economy. |