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Show LJ.ALi mat yme P) Al fll L. oanuage ft TOM PJM 1 (0) ffl Gte New CURAD with non-stickin- g Telfa pad won't hurt when you take it off . . .won't reopen healing wounds in Not this! Bandage with ordinary gauze pad sometimes pulls off scab, Our National Parks reopens wound, causes r. by H. N. Ferguson The shadows of late afternoon were long Now this! CURAD age Band- with Telfa pad, free of scab, peels off V',t-- : without sticking V to wound, doesn't hurt. Here's why. The pad in the Curad adhesive bandage is the exclusive new Telfa. Telfa is "the mercy dressing' that the nation's leading hospitals are using to prevent damage to healing skin tissue . . . speed wound recovery. It has a plastic surface with scores of tiny holes in it that does the trick allows wound to drain, but doesn't stick to the scab. So when you take it off, it won't reopen the cut. Don't take a chance on hurting your children. Get a new Curad (the waterproof plastic bandage g with medication right 'Tnite'lrtodT" germ-fightin- CURAD boNdoflM for smalt wounds. UriU pod for largor wound. TELFA in the canyons when my wife and I pulled up at the entrance to Yosemite National Park. We paid the $3 fee and drive shoved off again on the eight-mi- le over a crooked mountain road to park headquarters to register. The season was still young and we had reservations but, nevertheless, we had to line up to await assignment to quarters. Suddenly the public address system boomed out: "All who do not have reservations will please step out of line!" There was a noticeable thinning of ranks those unfortunates who were eliminated slept in their cars that night! At last we reached the head of the column and a lad on a bicycle conducted us to our destination a tent The canvas shelters were jammed close together with two community "bath houses" for all the campers. We quickly discovered someone had neglected to put in the baths: they were merely comfort stations. " ""; Our experience was not an isolated case of overcrowding. From the rhododendron-studde- d hillsides of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the dense rain forests of Olympic Park in western Washington State, the national parks simply cannot accommodate the stampede of visitors who want to enjoy their scenic beauties. You might think that in the park system's 181 separate areas, covering nearly 25 million acres, there would be room for everyone. And there would be except for one thing: 99 percent of the visitors must crowd themselves into 1 percent of the total area. The rest is as yet undeveloped. Back in 1940 the National Park Service ; Bauer Black DIVISION OF THE KENDALL COMPANY 20 Family Weekly, June S, 1951 ' - ' 'If V 1 r S ( At Shenandoah National Park,' visitors line up to enter. They'll face other lines, too. was geared to handle 20 million visitors annually. In 1955 the parks had to cde with over 50 million. And this year an army of more than 60 million pleasure-seeke- rs will be searching out Uncle Sam's play areas all the way from Big Bend in Texas to Acadia on the rugged coast of Maine. And they will be discovering that park facilities haven't kept pace with the growing guest list. This unhealthy situation rjas been responsible for the burning of much midnight oil in the Interior Department Looking to the future, one official predicts: "For every three Americans today there will be four in 1975. There will be shorter work-week- s, longer vacations, earlier and better-financretirements and longer lives." And a lot of ed |