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Show igw y 'iiiiiiimHinnr ynnjFrnVtlW19Vft'WIitiiiii piPur I DESERET A Scream, Quick Kick A A 3 Your Save Might By JEN and FRANK McKIBBI Copley News Service ; According to the Federal Bureau of investigation, a serious crime is commit-- k ted in the United States every 10 sec- - c'ds. If you are aware of the tremendous problem of crime jr the streets, alert and cautious m your daily travels and prepared to defend yourself when necessary. your chances of becoming a victim of these crimes is greatly reduced. We all tend to think that it won't hap-- j pen in our neighborhood or to anyone u e i ; ; course in judo or other method of you know whjit to do: but chances are you havent had time for such instruction 50 here are a few suggestions. As a woman you are equipped vviin some pretty good weapons. Dont be hti-tain using them all, in any order, as hard and as often as you can. Natural weapons are your fingers and fingernails, elbows, knees, heels, your head and teeth, plus, of course, vour continued screaming. You may never beat a man down with them, but you may make him realize that you are more trouble than he bat gained for and may cause him to ieae hiitriedly. If jour adversary seizes you from the front, in a position, lilt jour knee up and forward, smashing with all the force you can into his groin. This classic blow, properly delivered, can stop any man eoid, and its relatively easy to accomplish. If your arms are free, don't try to swing vour fists. Do thrust jour thumbs deep into his eyes. A very effective blow is the use of the edge of the hand in a short, sharp chop to the throad or a rising chop to the base of the nose. Don't worry about hurting an assailant. If he has rape on iiis mind, you should have mayhem on yours. If your assailant grabs jou from the back, drive a heel as far as it will go into his instep using a twisting motion if you can and all of your weight. Try an elbow to the pit of his stomach, his throat, or even his groin. Slump forward as far as you can and bite his finger, hand or arm. There Is also the defense of dead e, nt face-to-fac- e know. We couldn't be more mistaken. It Is happened in every neighborhood. And it can happen to you! Some advice to women and gills: Dress properly before you leave your bouse or apartment. Low-cdresses even ft bikini may have their place, but not on you when you must go out alone, especially at night. Remember that there are sick minds out there that might take this as An Invitation to what they're looking for, and sicker ones that could find it reason enough to kill. Be alert. Observe the things around you. Carry a good flashlight. Use it as you walk, not only to light your way but to check the darkness alonfc your way. Your greatest safety is in avoiding trouble. If you meet or are followed by anyone, feel free to cross the street or change your direcfJon, Look ahead for lighted buildings or other people, and get ready to run. No one can attack you if he, cant catch you. If you are wearing shoes be ready to slip them off before you start running. Don't toss them aside. Grasp them firmly at the instep as you would a hammer, and if you are forced t use them as a weapon, go for your assailant's face. Your greatest protection whefi "under attack is help from the immediate area. The fastest method for getting this help is to scream. Take a deep breath and let go with the loudest scream you can manage, and keep on screaming with every breath you take. If you can make enough noise your assailant may decide its not practical to stay around. He may, however, be on narcotics, or drunk and just keep on coming. Now is the time to remember to stay as calm as possible, forget you're a lady, and protect yourself in any way you can. If you have had a mini-skirt- Your Doctor Knows About Side Effects By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My husband suffers from asthma and the drug Prednisone has given him great relief. However he has heard that it is very powerful and dangerous and is afraid to use it as the doctor prescribed, although the doctor toid him not to worry about it. He is supposed to take six a day (I dont know the strength) and taper down to three when he has the attack under control. We know it is in the cortisone Mrs. V. A. family. Yes, it is one of the steroid (or cortisone) family, and extremely useful for quite a number of ailments including asthma, some arthritis cases, lupus erythematosus, and others. Your husband has been instructed to taper the dose as his condition improves, and that is proper advice. It should not be stopped abruptly, as that can cause unpleasant reactions. It should be tapered over a week or two to what is called a maintenance dose, a small amount that controls a condition. States, one every 20 seconds, with an economic loss to the victims of almost Depending on the patient and his ailment, it may be tapered off to none at all, but in chronic conditions the goal is a small dose that will maintain the beneficial effects while minimizing any risk of side effects. Granted that large and ' continued doses of the steroids may have unplesa-an- t or harmful side effects, your husband should realize that his doctor know s about this possibility and has known about it for years. He will watch for any possible aide effects and la aiming at establishing a dosage small enough to avoid any. Your husband should do as his doctor take the specified amounts and says not worry. Most cf the trouble from steroids comes when people take more than has been prescribed or because, In emergency cases, very large amounts are unavoidable. If side effects to begin to appear than the dosage has to be tapered , off. Your husband's doctor is having your husband do the tapering in advance to avoid trouble. Burglary is a crime of stealth and opportunity. Stealth is something the burglar will always have, but we tan stop giving him the opportunity. In about 2"0,000 of last year's burglaries, the door wasnt even locked! When you go out at night, leave a light burning. Be sure, however . that the light is not left burning in a room where a prowler can easily look in and see that no one is there. Draw jour drapes or leave the tight on a bedioom 01 bath. Tuere is a wide range cf timing devices available that you can meret to have the lights or radio turn off or on at a given time. Any method you use is of value if it causes a prowler to think jour home is occupied. There are not enough police to keep an eye on every home, or even ev ery street, so we must be alert and willing to help. If vou see someone or something suspicious, call the police at once. Social precautions should be taken for the protection of yo; r home while you are away on vacation. A telephone call will stop the delivery of your daily newspaper and milk. At the post office fill in a change of address card. In the section for the new address write hold until called for. When you return from your trip pick up your mail and the card so delivery w ill resume. Inform several of your neighbors how long you plan to be away and where you can be reached. Give one of them your house key. And finally, notify tne police. Take time now for precautions. Don't volunteer to be a victim. You may write to Salt Lai r By JACK ANDERSON The Nixon administration is close to signing; an agreement with NATO nations that could auto safety and reduce the slaughter on the highwaj's. Under the pact, the NATO allies not only would safety but conduct joint experiments. A U.S, study - ! i 1 research i 1 r i I t I i would team, for ex- ample, is interested that would automate safety belts. British scientists have developed a safety belt that reaches cut and embraces the driver like a bride on a honeymoon the moment h8 settles behind the fvheel. For the benefit of the daredevil who The Americans believe this may be superior for drivers to the air bags they have developed. These bags are designed so they will balloon in the driver's face within .004 of a second after the first shock of a crash and cushion him from the impact. In tests with baboons, however, the air bag sometimes didn't inflate fast enough to save the animals from crashing their heads against the windshield. The researchers also worry that the air bag could be triggered by mistake, thus immobilizing the driver and causing an accident. They may still have value for passengers, if not for drivers. The Americans are also studying a telemetry system, now being tested in Eu Mon, Box 257 1 City, Utah 841 10 To Do Just ask. The judges are most phone numbers on the list. Sometimes a hurried phone calls can locate a tardy child and save you moments of anguish. Other mothers receiving calls from you might be alerted to dangers that exist too. few Always check on the baby sitters that you hire. A call to one or two of the families that they have worked for takes only a few minutes and the peace of mind is more than ample payment for the time it takes. Be sure to give the sitter a telephone number where you can be reached. If this Is not always possible, take a moment to call home and check to be sure that everything Is all right. A sitter should alpo be given the telephone numbers for the police, fire le partment and your family doctor. She may not ever need them, but if she did, wouldn't it be worth the little effort? WHAT CAN YOU DO? If you are appalled at our rising crime rate and wonder what you as an individual can do, there is rn answer: Communicate, organize, participate. even better than you It works think. The answer to the anguished, What can I do? Is as simple as this: I bought a vacuum cleaner front Kirby Company. After I signed lip for it, I realized I couldnt handle the payments, beeause I am on Social Security. I sent in a written notice on Monday, after buying the cleaner on Wednesday, sajing I didnt want it. Can jou help me get out cf this? Mrs. M.K. Salt Lake City Accept the responsibility of helping in your own neighborhood. The first step toward success in any endeavor is communication, the exchange of thoughts between people. If police departments across the country could ge granted one tool to help in the No way! Your contract informed you fight against crime most of them would canrellntion period that you had a express a desire for better communicain case you changed your mind, but you tions between neighbors. failed to read it and didnt know about it Awareness is the object of communiuntil the Kirby manager told you on cations. If every member of your group Monday. is made aware of the situation as it exYou wrote the letter then, and it was ists today the first step toward itnpiove-men- t postmaiked Monday, but it should have will have been made. If each one been written Saturday at the latest. You same the be made at of aware can, time, now have a choice of returning the vacucitihis responsibility us a um to the company and paying $125 for zen. a very great deal will have been accancellation of the contract: fulfilling complished. the terms of the contract and paying for You don't have to expose yourself to the ( leaner as you agreed to do, or selldanger. No one wants you to risk your ing the vacuum for cash and paying off life apprehending a criminal. All you your contract. have to do is observe, remember and You have a case of buyers report. remorse which could have been cured Police dont want us to be policemen. immediately if you had only read your VVliat they do need desperately is just contract! our willingness to call, to tell them when we see a crime committed, or when we Son Serves see a person, a vehicle or action that arouses our suspicions. I would like to know the draft policy perlaining fo the only- son of a family especially if (hat son is also the only grandson carrying the family name. K.W., Centerville By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor MUSICAL WHIRL The ninth annual Utah Shakespeare lievable total attendance of 8.700, an increase of 2,150 over 19(i9s high of 6,550 . . . And it was an overall attendance for the 21 performances of 80 per Cent of capacity, which is also incredibly high . . . The Festival was also the realization of a welcome and profit, tentatively estimated at approximately $5,000 (which will be apphed to previous deficits) . , . The Shakespeare Festival was the deep and chilling concern of a number of local and visiting patrons its (no exceptions with anyone this department talked with) with the blatant that was offensively emobscenity phasized in the comedies (M e r r y Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night"). And before the letters start coming in. I'm fully aware that "Merry Wives was Shakespeare's bawdiest play written for the barbarian aristocracy that appreciated that sort of thing" . . . The Shakespeare Festival was the e long-soug- long-tim- e cars. The research on the 2,000 pounders would cover the Volkswagen, Renault, Snnca. Fiat and other European models. rope, which would signal an accident v condition ahead 10 the hospital while he is still in the ambulance. An ambulance technician plants an electronic device on the chest of the victim en route to the hospital. This permits doctors to monitor the injured man's heart and to instruct the technician by radio bow to keep him alive. As part of the proposed agreement, Britain, France, Italy and West Germany would develop experimental ears in the class to test safety features. The U.S. has already gone ahead with experimental cars in the class. Confidential fact sheets, prepared for two-wa- y 2.000-poun- d 4.000-poun- d Transportation Secretary Tolin volpe, explwn that the Europeans and Americans would share the test data on these The Americans have made it clear in the secret negotiations that foreign car makers must cooperate in this Experimental Safety Vehicle" program if they expect to continue importing cars into the United States. For 13 per cent of all cars on U.S. roads are foreign models, and they have higher fatality rates than the larger American models. the express order of President Nixon, U.S. salety emissaries ha-- e leen sent to Europe fo organize joint safety At studies within the NATO framework. Volpe, according!;. , has twice dispatched a trusted assistant, deputy safety director Robert Brenner, to negotiate with America's allies. The agreement about to be signed would save an $20 million in lesearch e.ti-innt- ' Orly On Highly Successful Note Wool-growe- e, Buyer's Remorse Shakespeare Festival Ends support . . . And it was th largest number of people ever to register from Ogden and Las Vegas . . . The Festival was the Cedar City Rotary Club the St. Inviting George Rotary Club and their partners to a dinner meeting in the Southern Utah State College (SUSC) Student Center prior to taking them to a performance of one of the three plays . . . And it was a new high number of state conventions the Utah Association, for example scheduled at the same time on the SlSC campus sc that its members could sec the three plays . . . The Festival was an almost unhe- - coopeta-tiv- especially in hardship cases. If you have a justifiable reason, the judge (who is the only one who can release you) will be very understanding. Most terms cm the jury in federal courts run about six months. In jour case, there lias been a heavy calendar of narcotic cases fo be heard, and it lias been necessary to keep three sets of jurors available to alternate on cases. You will probably be released soon, but if you are not. just ask the judge. cruelest crimes. The incidence can be low- Festival was Gov. and Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton again giving their, enthusiastic a t tendance and Ask have been serving for over a year? Mrs. T., Salt Iaike City and loud." ered significantly if your younger children have proper training and are warned of the seriousness of getting involved with trangers. We all say, Don't ever get into a car with a stranger, but perhaps he will offer them something that seems to be a good reason for getting in. So, we must go a little farther with the teaching. Explain to them that a stranger may offer candy or a toy, or he might tell them that you have sent him to get them. He might frighten them by saying you are sick or have been hurt. Impress upon your child that he must never get into a car with anjone unless you tell him to. Tell him that if someone tries to get him into a car to scream for help and run. As he gets a little older tell him to try to get the license number from the car for hi friend, the policeman. Parks and plaj grounds are a favorite place for molesters. Teach jour child that he must play in the area where other children are at play. Take time to get acquainted with teachers and school officials. They are interested In the safety and welfare of your child too. Make a list of the children that yours plays with. Include their Is How long dues a person have to serve on the jury of the federal court? Is there any way you ean get released If you Advice to women when faced with an attacker: "Scream long revolu-tionali- I t All You Haye HILDREN C MERRY - GO - ROUND doesnt buckle his safety belt, the loving arm encircles him automatically. Do-l- 111 Nixon Wants To Broaden NATO Scope WASHINGTON 17 IDG-A- T $350,000,000. of all YOUR HEALTH A fesr Child molesting is one of the Let yourself go completely weight. limp. It you can da it suddenly he may lose his grip. Don't go limp and just hang there, but reverse It Into a sudden jetk up, back or to one side. Make all movements fast and hard. All the time you must keep on screaming (if not biting), as loud and as often as you can. It may bring help to you or it may only make your assailant think that it will. In either case he might decide to leave you and search for an easier victim. An estimated 1.5 million burglaries were committed last year in the United 11, 1970 Life TRAIN YOUR high-heele- d NEWS, Tjesday, August deep and disappointing concern of all Shakespeare buffs concerning the adding ol many lines not Shakespeaie's just for laughs or whatever reason . . . Whether or not the artistic directors will come to recognizing these problems and become intent on correcting them is, of course, the fundamental concern of those who are now hesitating whether to continue their suppoit. . . The Festival is the dedication of Dr. president of SUSC. for the Festival . . . And it is his enthusiasm that the Festival rise in quality from its piesent level of an excellent college production to one of near professional standards. (By importing Rojden Biaithwaite, professional haps? My question.) The directors, per- . , . is Festival Shakespeare appreciation for the gifts of Mrs. 0. C. Tanner, Mrs. Will Barnard, the Eggertsen Foundation, and others, for the permanent new Luella R. Adams Stage and the Will Barnard Gallery in time for the 1971 Festival . . . And it was the choice Renaissance music-playeand instiuinents displayed under the direction of Prof. Fred Gable of the University of California at Riverside . . . It was also the exciting news that a first folio of Shakespeare's works from the Folger Library in Washington. D.C., will be on display (with accompanying guarus) during the 1971 Festival . . . The Festival was the nationwide mention twice daily on the CBS radio weather reports that brought a number of visitors from San Francisco It was al- - o the news that Madeline Codeila, Festival secretaiy, and her husband, Peter, Festival business manager, are leaving SUSC for Logan where he will become a teachIt w as the ing assistant in chemistry ns happy news last Saturday from Governo-Ramptooffice that 300 West is a state road and that it will be closed next summer during perfoi mar.ces (to provide additional parking room and stop annoying traffic noises) . . . And it was Pi of. Fred Adams, Festival founder and producing director, announcing that the plays for 1971 will bp Taming 0! the Shrew, The TemHaifly IV, Part I, and No special deferment for an only sou, unless he is a sole surviving son. The only way he can be deferred is if his father, brother or sister died in the service of his country (killed in action or line of duty or subsequently died of injuries incurred while in the service). If this is the case and he is the only son left in the family, he has no draft obligation. The fact that he is the only grandson to carry on the family name does not influence the decision of the draft board. Ducky Solution How can I entice some birds (the kind that will consume mosquitoes that are. eating me up) to nest in mj backyard? Seems like the sparrows always chase the other birds away. What birds devour these bothersome pests B.S., Salt Lake City How about a duck? With a penmt trom the bo-of health and a place to house the duck 50 feet away from your home, you nave instant mosquito contiol from the knees down, anyway! The only wild birds that could help with your mosquito pioblem aie night hawks and swallows, and neither can be enticed to nest in b.ukvaid bud houses. id 1970 They Cost A Lot everyone's enthusiastic ... ... pest. . . Since am a statistically minded spurts fan, cun vou fell me how many baseballs are knocked into the stands during eurii game at our local park? How man; Imm trills du the iadres use each gam- -, anil how man; du they use each seasun, Vlso, how much du they have to pav fur (hem? I.C.D., Saif 1 City Don't know how man; get knocked into the stands but each game begins-witdozer, balls, and ends with about-dozen and a halt. Pa dies use 250 to 300 dozen balls each season at S20 a dozen. That adds up to between kJ.tKtO and So ,000 each season for busebul.s 4 ACTION REACTION In regard lo the ladjs request fur slender heels on her shoes, I sympathize completely, f feel the same way she dues. .She ean huj that kind of shoes at Mrs. IV., I.aUies in Cottonwood Mall. Draper. The Paris Company keeps a stock of the shoes, in ease the lady is Mrs. J. II., Sait Lake City interested. high-heele- d (Editor's Note- We're sorry the number of calls and the vcume of mail make it impossible to answer every Question Please, no medical or lebal questions. as Don't send stamps or envelope answers can only be 9iven in 1ms column. Omv quas ttc.is of seneial interest will be answered anu tei phone calls can be accepted only on the Give vour pihe at the hours prescribed. not for publfcatHtfl addrss and feiphone number Man help vou.J hut to he'p Do-- tin, , h |
