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Show Page 20—THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. Wednesday, December 5, 1979 ManyU.S. Workers Eying 4-Day Yule-Season Holidays WASHINGTON (UPI) — Many American workers will be getting four-day Christmas and New Year's holidays this year a new survey of personne! executives says In addition, nearlyhalfwill attend company-sponsored Christmasparties hefore leaving for the long The Bureau of National Attairs turkey or ham in their arms. work forces; both in manufacturing d However nearlyone-fifth of those surveyed — 19 percent — are closing operations from Dec. 22 through Jan. 1 The BNA survey showed company-sponsored Christmas parties being held in 44 percent of the cases, the majority outside of working hours at off-companypremises and state and local governments. This year Christmas and New Year's Day — bothtraditional holidays — are on Tuesday. Those The survey included both major firms with more than 1 000 employees and those with small sore with a panies giving Dec. 31 as a holiday tions such as health care education work companybonus in their pocket, or Christmas weekend with only 37 percent of the com- and no.-manutacturing industries. and some non-business organiza- Washington-based private publisher of specialized information. found 66 percent of the more than 200 cur panies it surveyed planned to give employees Christmas Eve off trom employees given Monday off too will have a four-day weekend. The policy is not as widely ac- cepted for the New Year's holiday Dr. LawrenceLamb went to my doctor and he took wax out of my right the ‘irm’s profit Twenty-one percent of the com. vice, nsrcent of salary or based on panies give workers non-cashgifts with turkeysstill the most popular pre upit alcoholic beverages Non-supervisory employees will receive year-end bonuses in 12 per- Some workers will receive hams gift certificates, key chains or cent of the companies. ranging from $25 to $1000, with the amountfre- sets, paperweights, fruitcakes poinsetta plants, towe] and safety items. INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCERS eek 1Stall Discussed ear and the ringing went away. Thelast time this happened andI was having a buzzingnoise, just taking wax out of my ear didn’t hetp. bi am 72Ao old and have a constant buzzing in my ear. sent me to an ear, nose and throat specialist who said the nerve in the ear was degenerating and that because of that and my age there wasn't anyining he coulddoto help me. also have sinus trouble and am a very nervousperson. NowthatI've learned that there are some methods. oftreating this problem, I'm wonderingif I really couldn't get some helpforit. DEAR KEADER Atleast you could try. The methods of helping people who have buzzing and in the ear, called tinnitus, are fairly new. Nevertheless, they are very well established. They won't help everybody but unless you try, you'll never know. You say in therest of yourletter that you have excellent hearing. If you have nerve degeneration with some hearing loss, you might not know it because it might involve sound frequencies that aren’t in the range of normal conversation. Sometimes because of nerve damage, hearing aids areof limited use, However,even if oneis of partial benefit, it may eliminate the buzzing soundsthat pepe complain about. our hearing is perfect, thenatleast a tinnitus maskercan be tried. These devices present a constant sound to the ear and literally mask the annoyis buzzing or ringing sounds that a person may quently depending on years of ser cafeteria to elaborate dinner dances Of the parties permitted during normal workmg hours, 90 percent Brigham Young University Ear Buzzing By Lawrence Lamb, M.D. DEAR DR. LAMB — read your column about the womanwhohad ringingin her ears and I would like your advice. I used to have this problem and I The activities range from special holiday meals in the company 20th Annual CHICKEN FRIED STEAK Christmas Around The World PLATTER $ 2.89 Reg. $3.28 Includes: + All You Can Eat SOUP ’n SALAD BAR Chicken Fried Steak with Country Gravy. Baked Potato or French Fries + A thick slab of Stockade Toast ‘ : A Seancesaeaes7 466 N, State Street, Orem @e6000 ave, | ; * I’m sending you The Health Letter number12-19, Help For Tinnitus: Noise Or Ringing In The Ear. You can take a copy of this with you when you go to see the ear, nose and throatspecialist just in case he may have missed the information available in the medicalliterature about it. Other readers who want this issue can send 75 cents with a long, stamped,self-addressed envelope for it. Send your Tequest to me, in care of this newspaper, P.O. Box 1851, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019. One of theees that’s still presentin trying a tinnitus masker is that not everyone is authorized to fit them. Like any device that puts noise into the ear, it must be properly adjusted for the individual. If not, excessive noise put into the ear could even cause a problem.Atthis date, because it’s a recent development, not every hearing specialist has yet qualified to fome this service to patients. You it try a home tinnitus masker method. Use your FM radio and tune it between stations. Then turn up the volume and sit close by. If the sound masks your buzzingnoise,thatis a clue that a properly adjusted tinnitus masker em help you. le who have trouble sleeping because of ear ap benefit from this method. - (NEI PAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) Bitter Cold, Dry Winter Hits Peking December 7, 8, MARRIOTT CENTER 8 P.M. Tickets ROW ON SALE At MARRIOTT BOX OFFICE All you caneat, $1.99. Pass throughour breakfast buffet as many times as youlike, And enjoyall the scrambled eggs, bacon, country sausage, hash browns,hot cakes,biscuits, and gravy you caneat. With all the coffee you can drink. For one very sensible price. Only $1.99, every day from 6 to 10. PEKING(UPI) — The annual curiosity of a bril- SIRLOIN STOCKADE peep gti ere cones with white face masks, fredaing yellow Quality that keeps you comin’ back dust and heaps of green cabbages. ‘The sun shines endlessly in the 14-degree average 466 N.State Street, Orem temperature. Snow is rare. To add to the dryness, what the Chinese call ‘‘the yellow wind” brings, clouds of dust from the treeless North China plain that runs from the capitalto the Tai Hang mountain range separating Peking from the Gobi Desert 140 miles away. Dustalso spirals from construction projects that are modernizing the 3,200-year-old city, such as a new expressway circling the capital. More dust rises from the grounds of apartment complexes, where grass never grows in dryness, and from eps and lanes packed hard with the dirt of “One foreign tourist watching dust spiral up from the earthen courtyardofthe 16th century Forbidden City palace commented,‘Well, there goes some more dust that has been lying there for 400 years." For protection, Peking residents cover their mouths and noses with gauze masks, on sale at pharmacies. They give both males and females a seductive appearanceof exotic almond-shaped dark eyes over white masks, like veils worn Arab women. . The masks fail to keep dust out of the eyes, however,so children and bicycle riders braving the icy wind wrap sheer gauze scarves completely over their heads. OPENING 22% IN AN EXCLUSIVE UTAH APPEARANCEAT THE BYU MARRIOTT CENTER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1980, 8:00 P.M. WE’RE CELEBRATING THE GRAND OPENING OF THE 10TH GREATER SALT LAKE ARBY’S! Welcometo the new Arby’s in town. BIN PANBY 90TH SOUTH - JUST EAST OF I-J 59 f Dryness is the talk of the town. Foreigners import electric humidifiers and still their furniture splits. The Chinese slap water directly on their bamboo chairs. Windows are taped against the icy wind, but the dust sifts even through double storm windows. Skin and fingernails dry and crack. The Chinese Arhs’s Roast) Beef rants, our delicious ae put what they call ‘vanishing cream,” a 1930s Western expression. and glycerine on face and hands. The manytrees that line Peking streets receive special care during the dry winter. City trucks makethe rounds to pour waterintolittle hollows scooped out at the hase of each tree. , As with ever: winter, Peking is literally blanketed with jousands of huge, oblong green cabbagesthat will be a staple food throughout the four-month winter except for occasional tomatoes, cucumbers a aplnacy grown under plastic es near city. You're eating right at Arby's, the selling ieval poresAt advise: ‘Buy cabbage now save for One man supervising the annual ritual of cabbage unloading Src During the winter we grow so few vegetables people must buy cabbage. Otherwise theywill have noting 4, Many le have no storage space in their cramped flats or hnts. So after lu; ging home cabbages on their bicycles they stack etables on roofs, window sills or balconies or inhallways. ot COUPONS GOOD AT ALL UTAH ARBY’S eSITSAANSS bs Soldiers have dumped the cabbagesto form green hills on street ener vacantandon the narTow, wil resident ines. jiers do mostof roastieef bun. ona tresh ATs A bs Cal Lidstbes A i joo & enn tetas i ectess, ¢ i Me Name I I SUP 2 Seapets | 85 | 2 ROAST ah $ s HE SANDWICHES Buy upto. 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