Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 19

Feb. (JRKKLKY TKI8UNE It It's Valentine season In Sweetheart Town' By DON MCMILLEN Fort Collini Coloradoan LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) While most post offices find themselves swamped at Christmas every year, it's Valentine season that's the worst in this northern Colorado community. Loveland Postmaster Henry .1. Porter Jr.

is preparing for an expected deluge of 125,000 valentines in coming weeks to HEARTWARMING JOB Helen Dewey, :17, this year's Miss Loveland Valentine, lends hand to postal clerk James Arndt in processing some of the thousands of valentines sent here each year to be stamped with a special cachet and postmarked Loveland. (AP Wirephoto) FDA having trouble finding what products contain unsafe agents be remailed to all 50 states and several foreign countries. It all started 2G years ago when former Loveland Postmaster Elmer Ivcrs told Ted Thompson he was receiving between 30 and 40 letters annually to be cancelled with the Ixve- land postmark. Thompson, president of (he Loveland Chamber of Commerce at (he time, decided to promote the idea of sending valentines to Loveland to be re- mailed with a romantic postmark. The Associated Press carried a story in 1947 about the program, and 4,000 valentines were received the first year.

Since then, Thompson has earned the nickname "Mr. Valentine" as the program mushroomed. He developed the idea of a sentimental poem in a crimson cachet which includes a "Cowboy Cupid" figure. Twenty retired persons volunteer annually to hand stamp the cachet on every valentine sent here. Thompson composed the poems annually.

He tried using the same poem in 1947 and 1948. "Boy did we get a blast from the collectors," he laughed "They said that in order for them to become collector's items that we would have to have something different each time." Because valentines are sent to grandfathers as well as lovers, Thompson has to be careful to stay away from what he calls "gush stuff." This year's poem reads: "More than the tender memories that enrich this happy time is the pure delight of knowing you're still my valentine." Thompson said thinking up the poems is the hardest part of his job. "I'm not inclined that way at all," he confessed. Another of his ideas was "Cowboy Cupid." He tried using a 3-year-old boy dressed in chaps, boots and a hat holding a bow and arrow, but the youngsters were prone to cry when posed for photographers. Thompson kept the Cowboy Cupid figure on his cachet, but turned to an annual Miss Loveland Valentine contest lo select a winsome lass to replace his toddlers.

This- year's Miss Loveland Valentine, 17-year-old Helen Dewey, won the performing arts division at (he Colorado Junior Miss Pageant this year. Did you know In our state males outnumber females from birth to 21 years of age, but females outnumber males in the over 25 age category. (Prepared by Greeley League of Women Volert) Birds nests uied in the making of a jelly-like soup in Thailand sell for about 130 per pound. The nests are built by Swifts in limestone caves. The people believe the soup lowers Ilic human blood pressure, as well as being a delicacy.

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DAVID WALLACE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Food and Drug Administration officials weighing the safety of germ-killing agents in household products say they are having trouble finding out which products contain the chemicals. A panel of doctors appointed FDA was. charged with determining the safety and effectiveness of such germ-killers as h'exachlorophene in toilet soaps. The panel recommended a Virtual ban on hexachlorophene, which was ordered off the over-the-counter market last September except for low- level use as a preservative. Candy? STOVER'S GILBERTMERIT PHARMACIES We give Green Stamps Now the panel says evidence it has seen has failed to prove the safety of five other antibacterial agents in soap, and FDA officials are trying to find out what other products use the five agents.

"Knowing just what's on the market is very difficult," said Dr. Jean Lockhart, FDA medical officer in the division of anti-infective drugs. "For the most part we don't know what they've substituted. We are not getting good cooperation from the cosmetic manufacturers generally who are using antimicrobial ingredients." Over the 30 years of its use in nonprescription products, hexachlorophene had turned up in soaps, vaginal cream, mouthwash, skin lotion, toothpaste, furnace air filters and even toilet seats. Hexachlorophene was found VALENTINES sv JOCKEY SIZES 30 to 40 JOCKEY VALENTINE BOXERS LOVE CONTRACT DESIGN JOCKEY VALENTINE SOX SOFT TERRY CREWS-- RED OR WHITE VALENTINE BRIEFS Smooth, comfortable Acetate Tricot in thr- colorful "Lover, Lovee" pattern, packaged in a special "Love Contract" gift giving box.

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It was banned after U.S. studies showed infants bathed in it suffered brain damage and after nearly 40 French babies died from a talcum powder containing accidentally high levels of hexachlorophene. The FDA review panel has studied experiments in which hexachlorophene substitutes caused brain lesions and testicle damage in animals fed on or injected with the substances. The panel said those substitutes, TBS, TCC, TFC, triclosan and Vancide FP, "are not generally regarded as safe for incorporation into toilet bars for personal-hygiene use." Triclosan had been suggested by the marketing arm of Ciba- Geigy for 18 products, including spray starch, fabric softener, sanitary napkins, tissues and disposable diapers and towels. A Ciba-Geigy spokesman said the firm sold triclosan for few of those uses, however, and now recommends the chemical only for toilet soap, surgical scrubs, underarm deodorants and antiperspirants, disposable paper products and fabric softeners.

"There have been 50 million personal contacts with (triclosan) without a single report of any hazard or any reaction," said the Ciba-Geigy spokesman. Labels on many products are no help to either the FDA or consumers in detecting the presence of germ-killers. All eight leading deodorant soaps contain at least one of the antibacterials questioned by the FDA review panel, yet only Safeguard, Dial and Lifebuoy say so on their labels. Antiperspiranls--classified as drugs--have to list active ingredients, but mere deodor- ants--consideredcosmetics- do not. Cosmetic ingredients don't have to be listed, although the FDA moved Tuesday to require such labeling.

Four companies make the five germ-killers questioned by the review panel. The companies try lo limit use to those products it has tested for safely, spokesmen said. Lt. Bechtel on patrol off Europe In Mediterranean Navy Lt. Joel J.

Bechtel, son of Dr. and Mrs. Martin J. Bechtel, 2455 22nd and husband of the former Miss Betty Cox of 1719 Gth is on a Mediterranean deployment with Patrol Squadron 11. His squadron, operating from the U.

S. Naval Air Station, Uota, Spain, and Lnjes Air Base, Azores, Portugal, performs a i a i and shipping surveillance missions in support of the U.S. Atlantic and sixth Fleets. A 1963 graduate of University High School, Grcclcy, he is a 1967 graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder. 627 8th Ave.

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