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Show HELPER The JOURNA1 (Utah) THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1962 PAGE SIX More than $36 million in highway construction contracts were awarded during the year 1961, according to C. Taylor Burton, Director of Highways. Of the more than one hundred construction projects underway during the year, 69 were completed before winter weather brought a halt "to most construction activi- People, Spots In The News SKIING ballerinas Gardens, Fla. - put on SHE at Cypress one-- high-steppin- g " ski act in perfect chorus line array. '- UTAH 1961 HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION BOOMS ties in the State. Interstate (Highway construction 79 mild: of it took about three fourths of th? construction funds, or more than $30 million. Already completed and open to traffic by the end of 1961 were 73 miles of Interstate superhighway throughout the state, at completion cost of $23,576,000. Segments of the completed freeways are now found in 11 coun-tir- tin Utah, Box Elder, Morgan, Summit, Salt Lake, Davis, Tooele Utah, Beaver, Washington and Grand. Still under construction throughout the state are projects totaling an additional 56 miles of freeway at a cost of 24 million a an with German wound cem, s i i i one nanu. a Key, nau jn m oniy a a l' it rsuiova collection u contrasts g OLD TIMEK at left is early-170- 0 .1 : with proof recent water- - l, .? wrist model. diamond-dia- l ? dollars. Besides the more npectacular Interstate Highway construction activity, the regular construction projects on the primary, second ary, urban and state highway at a also continued system raipid pace during the past year. Ten million dollars during fiscal 1081 went for these non-Inte- 11V r- ft TIBETAN noble, refugee in bealtle, Wash., celebrates first birthday in ceremonial robes, loves that cake! f ITS UP TO YOU but By ET me record another example 'of. the destruction of incentive and the creation of a "couldn't care lew" attitude by the collectivize-1 lion of the econ omy under government management of industry. -- A dispatch Poland STYLE amphitheater to seat 60,000 for ski lumps is being built at Innsbruck, Austria, for 1964 winter Olympics. Here they pack in some imported snow for an inter-citJumping tournament GREEK daiiical attitude y Cstal Dexterity Test Asaoonced By t TJ. Students interested in taking the manual dexterity lest should make reservations at one with of U. The Unrverrity of Utah in co operation with the Western In' tersUte Oomnr: si on on Higher the Msmrtlon, has announced seaaai manual dexterity tests to B th. rven February OsDe rtudents 4 high school considering careers la , are offered the oppor- to take the test at the Mrs Marybcrth Monti, School of Dentistry, University of Calif. Medical Center, Sm Francisco 22 CpJtfornia. There are no dental schools in the Rocky Mountain area. However, information about schools where dental students may re ceive special consideration under the Student Exchange Program may be obtained from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Fleming Law Building, Boulder, Colorado. Oahwraity of Colorado, Boulder. The Is given under the super-ftSta- B of the UhweWity of dental school, Sm Fran and is required for en-t- o that school. will be to anyone interested in WorryinK is like a rocking the dental profession chair it keeps you busy but it of the school he may doesnt get you anywhere. to attend. a', Sea Us Flint! CENTRAL COMMISSION AND SUPPLY CO Phone GR Helper 2-56- 91, L- I speaks of shodd) work and a lacks Will t3P I I on the part oil I both labor and I i r management. The work is described Dr. Kankmm as sIoddv. Bride of workmanship is lacking and no one in either management or labor ranks seems to care. In one instance 30,000 knives were returned to the factory because they could not be sold. A Polish woman representing a newspaper made an investigation and reported that the knives . . . were crooked, badly done, blunt and had loose handles." th ''v 'MU ," S't - three-year-o- hf ld v born. '"Stevie was born with, an open spine and water on the brain in 1958, the year The National Foundation expanded its than 250,000 mothers of babi "IS MY BABY All RIGHT?"-M- or born with birth deftcts in the U. S. each year hear a heartbreaking reply to this question. Marching mothers will seek public support late in January for March of Dimes research and patient aid ta control crippling birth defects and rheumatoid arthritis, just as polio has been controlled. program to include birth delects," says Mrs. Sublett. "I had never heard of either condition. Since then I have learned that these malformations, and hun- tie Sondra developed juvenile dreds of other birth defects, rheumatoid arthritis, I'd always afflict one out of every 16 thought arthritis was somebabies born in this country thing you got when you reached each year. old age. Now 1 know that thou"These children need help, sands of children are stricken their parents need to know with it each year. It can twist where to find the specialists and cripple little bodies with who can give prompt and effe- permanent disability if it's not ctive treatment. I know now caught and treated in time. that the March of Dimes supTve seen the wonders acports work in clinics to im- complished at Arthritis Clinical prove treatment, in laborato- Study Center at Parkland Hosries to And the causes, and is pital in Dallas supported by building a network of diag- the March of Dimes, and I nostic and treatment centers know that doctors in the laboto make new knowledge avai- ratory there and elsewhere lable to everyone, not just those are working hard to find out fortunate enough to live close what causes arthritis and how to great medical institutions. it can be prevented or cured. "The March of Dimes already I'm a Marching Mother De-supports nearly 50 centers cause I know firsthand how throughout the country, and important this work is." manv more are being planned. Marching Mothers across the "'that's why I'm in the Mot- nation have similar reasons. hers' March to let people know Mrs. George Dibbon of Kansas this help and hope exists. I City, who lost a child born want to ask their support so with a birth defect, marched the 250,000 American babies actively until the past year. born each year with birth de- But then her own arthritis fects need not go through life forced her to "retire" to a hopelessly disabled for lack of quieter paperwork and recordproper treatment" keeping job for the Mothers' In Denton, Tex., Mrs. Mona March. Grisham says, "Until our lit- In Tustin, Calif., Mrs. Polly . highway users' taxe. State main tenance forces have ing duties including shoulder line painting, weed control, care of roadside rest areas, trash barrel maintenance, snow removal and randing slick roads, in addition to "regular" activities of maintaining the surfacing of state 5) will be prevented annually, and money savings In fuel consumption and time saved will more than pay for the entire highway network in a few years. causes increased sharply with the number of cigarettes smoked daily. Lung cancer death rates went more than 10 times at high among regular eigarettc smokers as among men who had never smoked. Coronary death rates for smokers were nearly two and a half times as high for two or more packs a day smokers as for Deaths from lung diseases other than cancer were nearly three times as numerous among cigarette smokers as U.S. Public Health Service in a study of 200,000 veterans has found that cigarette smokers have an overall death rate 38 greater than that of This study concludes that hing cancer death rates for regular cigarette smokers are 10 times the death rates for MAKES SENSE A farmer, bought a painting, took it home and hung it first one way and then another. Each ' time the effect was confusing. Finally his wife asked, "What in the world its that supposed to bet" "Why," said the farmer, "it's a realistic picture of the farm situation. No matter how yo ulook at it, it just don't make , sense." YOUD HEALTH ni affect on the human body, some certain that this type of mistake being; extremely poisonous and is not made with our newer meother miracles, while dications. life-savi- ng micro-organis- they or group of teria. They also differ micro-organis- RARITY ms only bacor in their not be sufficient and the plhysi-cia- j im sa HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER IS A HERITAGE TO PROTECTl ss lost effectiveness of penicillin is due to the promiscuous use of small amounts of the sub- this stances in toothpaste, gum, cough drops, in etc. We must make Wilt sIDAtWaY IAIT Ull Antibiotics are one of the marof our age, but through familiarity we may be prone to look lightly on some of the pitfalls and complications inherent in their use. like all potent substances used by humans their administration should always be under the guidance of a competent physician. This is a fact which our Pure Food and Drug Laws recognize in prohibiting their sale without prescription. vels CUT, VTAR Income Tax Returns Federal and State Filled.Contact John Daskalos, Jr. 387 North 4th East, Price Phone: ME 0 EDquEdu , Nvw awatt about word meanings or for people judge you on spelling how you speak and write! N. tfwM ab.t 11, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary helps you speak more effectively, write more accurately, and read with mors unin business, derstandingwhether in school, or at home. Gain confidence and authority with this ... nanay-siz- e dictionary! r 1M.00O Ml,!.,, Professionals A w i THORIT HATCII i Helper, Utah MITCHELL FUNERAL nOIIC , . Dick Mitchell a ssdixio 21 1 FlUMMl 4 reason. n will find It necessary to obtain substances from the patient, such as blood, sputum or pus, which can be cultured, or grown, In the laboratory. The susceptabillty of these artificially grown bacteria to a particular antibiotic can then be tested and an exact determination of the proper antibiotic thus obtained. TWe ability of bacteria to become resistant to Inadequate dos ages of antibiotics is of extreme importance. In the brief number of years since our first success ful antibiotic, penicillin, was first introduced, many diseases of vi tal importance to mankind, which were at first successfully treated with penicillin have become, re sistant to Its effect. This resistance has recently received much publicity in the case of hospital-typ- e Infections with staphyloccus. It is generally felt that much of Phone OR aaasasaaiisisBiii wanted reaction on the part of the body to a foreign substance, In this case an antibiotic. This reaction may vary from a mild itching at the site Of an injection to a generalized reaction which can even lead to death. These sensitivities frequently result from previous use of the same or similar substances or in rare cases, may be present for no obvious ms Lawyer soav Another characteristic of antibiotics of importance to the patient Is their ablflity to produce allergic readons. An allergic reaction is an abnormal and un- will 195 So. Main iMsiaMai Multiply these shining examples by thousands, and you have the reasons for the scope of success of the traditional Mothers' March for the New March of Dimes. Mothers' March volunteers knoto there is a need for the cause they support, and they are determined to make every one of the 40,000,000 households they call on aware of the magnitude of the problem. Mothers' March volunteers will be identified by a distinctive badge bearing the Golden Key of Hope, symbolizing medical progress against crippling diseases. Each will give those who open the doors a valuable health information slip summarizing basic information about birth defects, the most important unmet childhood medical problem today; as well as arthritis and rheumatic disease which afflict 11,000,000 prescribe proper antibiotic. will wish to prescribe Then he inhibit the growth of, destroy or administer the drug in appro other in the labamounts over a sufficient prlate and the or in animal oratory human body. Their ability to per period of time so that resistant form this function varies, how- forms of the bacteria will not be within the patient. In ever, in that certain antibiotics developed some cases clinical judgment will one wiH inhibit or destroy and micro-organis- Then a newspaper was a thing to be marveled at lor memories of the Press' fight for freedom were fresh in mind. Although newspapers are common in our country today, their existence should not be taken for granted. It is a wonderful fact that almost all of our modern communities have their own hometown newspapers, freely edited by members of their own communities spreading the news, stimulating the business of the community, and keeping their readers informed of important events elsewhere. It is well to keep in mind that a free press, and a free people are an unbeatable team. mr 1 kits for ers' life IN MANY AMERICAN COMMUNITIES! mnmmmtwm-mmmr- m Spangler has been confined to a wheelchair since a paralytic polio attack in 1954. Yet she, too, enthusiastically works for the Mothers' March via the telephone, and prepares march-distribution. The foQowimg if one of a others are completely ineffective. of arttcUs from VtaS Stat aftd-ic-sl Another factor of importance in Assn. published in coopera- antibiotic therapy is the ability tion with tMs newspaper. of bacteria to become Immune or to the effects of the resistant ANTIBIOTICS The literal meaning of anti substance. characteristics of antibiotic is, to be opposed to, or These to destroy bacbiotics, ability of life. To millions gainst, on the human body, effect teria, people the word has come to and ability of bacteria to develop mean Saving." From a little are important in the resistance, two known biological curiosity of these substances application decades ago, antibiotics have bein the treatment of human discome a commonly accepted means ease. of reducing human suffering and Before an antibiotic is presof saving countless lives. cribed it is necessary for the The large group of substances to ascertain which bacphysician known as antibiotics have some characteristics in common. They teria could be responsible for the disease so he may are all produced by the growth of particular live . . . A NEWSPAPER WAS A UR i (1-2- 1S7,-78- - fed ;i Why do these women brave to ask their neighbors for funds? Mrs. PhyllisSublottofEvans-vill- e, Ind., does it because experience with her fourth child, Stevie, who was born with a birth defect, has shown her the need to have medical help more readily available in the community when an imperfect child is 1 (1-7- After a 3 study of men the Cancer Society concludes that death rates from all A Few Decades Past ft - t ! winter weather MAINTENANCE 'Maintenance activities, account ed for the .second largest expen diture, next to constructicn, in the highway program of the State. A total of $5,170,000 was spent for maintenance of state highway during calendar year IAA1 J ..J for maintenance purposes, all of the money coming from state highways. INTERSTATE SYSTEM When completed, in the early lS70's, the Interstate System of National Defense Highways, as the freeways are officially called, will total 934 miles of divided super - highways, bisecting the Stkite from north to south (interstate 80 and 80S); from east to west in the center of the State 0, linking Denver with and the Salt Lake (Belt .Route 15 and encircling the capital for a distance of 29 miles). Nationally the system will consist of 41,000 miles of con trolled --access divided highway to cost about one million dollars per mile, of $41 billion. When the system Is finished, 12 to 15 years from now, a motorist will be able to travel from one end of the State of Utah, or from one part of the country to another without ever meeting a stop sign. Thousands of accidents wearing the and polio. i J March- symbolic Golden Key of Hope, will appear on America's doorsteps toward the end of January asking support for the 1962 New March of Dimes fight against crippling birth defects, arthritis j 1 Mothers, ing j 1 million Some two ever-incre- as Howard E. Kenhner, L.H.D. from March ol Dimes Mothers Hold Key In Fight Against Crippling Disease state highways. Some of the biggest of theso jobfj were improve ments or new construction of VS. 50-- 6 between Helper and Castle Gate; 7th Bast and Cotton ,wood Diagonal In Salt lake; a new road through Capitol Reef National Monument in Wayne County; Harrisville Road in Weber county; other projects near th Arizona State line; in Gold Bar Canyon near Dead Horse Point In Grand County ; at and the Kennecott Copper Industrial Plant in Salt Lake county; and the "Defeat Road" near the Tiokol Chemical Plant northwest of Brighaim City, j Major structures, principally lor interstate nignways, were con strutted throughout the state, the largest being a $654,000 span more than 600 feet long at South Temple and 6th West In Salt Lake. Bid; were also let for the longest single span bridge In the State up to the present time (550 to be built over foot single-spa-n) Cart Creek near Flaming Gorge Damsite in northeastern Utah. KMMt mi" him o assstas AT -- !CjJJsiijsB TNI - |