The Newark Advocate from Newark, Ohio • 15

Eyeglasses enable blind to drive By The Los Angeles Times Washington Post GARDEN CITY, N.Y. For I most people, driving a car is a relatively simple thing: They learn in their teens and do it all their lives without giving it too much thought. For 34- year-old Curtis Long, however, driving is an unexpected bonus. Long, who lives in Amityville, N.Y., has been legally blind since birth. Despite his handicap legal blindness is defined as less than 10 per cent of normal vision Long received his driver's license recently with the help of special eyeglasses and an innovative program of training.

A number of people in New York previously were licensed to use the same sort of telescopic lenses for driving, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the department later declared a moratorium after some tometrists objected to the use of the glasses for driving. The moratorium has since been lifted and Long has become the first since then to receive a learner's permit. He received Now that he can drive, Long plans to buy a camper so nearsighted person not wearing glasses. The special glasses that he and his family can travel next summer. At present, improve that capability enough to meet the state requirehe's doing the shopping and driving to visit friends in his ment for a driver's license.

wife's 1972 Volkswagen. The car has a special rear-view mirror that gives him a 180-degree field of vision. He must Long's miracle lenses work on a principle similar to the but bifocals. The lenses are made of plain glass. A small teleuse the mirror along with glasses and contact lenses, is not restricted from night driving.

scopic area protrudes about an inch at the top of one of them "I never gave much thought to my handicap until I was to help him see detail on the road, while the plain bottom to said. "I part doesn't interfere with his contact lenses. Long looks older and my friends began learning drive," Long other children did, I marbles and through the telescopic part to see what's ahead of him on the did everything played even talked into letting me have a bike." But, he said, road and through the plain glass for the rest of his driving my parents feel needs. not being able to drive as a young man had made him different from everybody else. Then the institute provided a training program in the use Thanks to the National Institute for Rehabilitation Engi- of the glasses.

Dr. Donald Selwyn, technical director of the neering, a nonprofit rehabilitation facility in Pompton institute, said that most doctors who can prescribe teleLakes, N.J., Long, an employe relations assistant at Double- scopic lenses for the visually handicapped don't teach the day in Garden City, is now able to "feel" normal. patient to use them for driving. He must learn how to scan The institute's three-man team first fitted him with the through the lenses for detail every 10 second, then go back to telescopic lenses. Normally, Long wears contact lenses that using his normal vision, because looking through the tele- his license two weeks ago.

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Warne, Consumers League of Ohio president, said. The Universal Product Code, the vertical black lines now on many packages, would make prices on individual items unnecessary at the computerized checkout register, Warne said. Instead, prices would appear on shelf labels. "Ignorance is not bliss if the consumer finds there is no way to check the shelf label price against the price actually charged," he said. "There are several ways that fraud or deception can take place by manipulating the computer prices and not changing the shelf labels up or down at the same time." Warne said that since such changes could be made without consumer detection, supermarket managers would be tempted to use them when prices come off.

Legislation pending in the Ohio Senate would require that individual packages be marked with the price, except for small items. However, the Ohio Retail Merchants Association has proposed an amendment, Warne said, that would gut the bill. As a result, the bill is stalled in senate subcommittee, and may not be ready in time for a floor vote this session. The house has already passed the measure, he said, which is considered by consumer groups to be of major importance to food shoppers. Among supporting organizations are the Ohio Council of Churches, the Catholic Conference of Ohio Social Concerns, the Ohio Consumers Association, the Office of Consumer Affairs of Cleveland, the Urban League of Cleveland and Women Speak Out For Peace and Justice.

Similar legislation has been passed so far in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and California. FHA raises $888 for Children's Hospital kale The Licking County Future Homemakers of America (FHA) collected $888 for the Children's Hospital, Columbus, in this year's "Penny Projects." The money was presented to Norman Meyers, a representative of Children's Hospital, at the recent annual Licking County FHA Spring Rally hosted by Northridge High School. It will be used to help pay medical bills for children from families who cannot pay. This year, the Watkins Memorial High School chapter raised the most money, a total of $200. During the rally, Pamela Reeves, a Northridge High junior, was elected 1976-77 president of the county FHA.

Shelly Smith, a sophomore at Heath High School, was elected vice president. Carolyn King, a Northridge High freshman, and Toni Polinori, a Heath High freshman, were elected FHA representatives on the Junior Hartford Fair Board. Terri Justice, a Northridge High senior. was crowned Licking County FHA Queen. Miss Justice, president of the Northridge FHA and vice president of the county FHA, will be the FHA's entry in the King and Queen contest at the Hartford Fair.

The following students received chapter degrees, the second highest degree an FHA member can earn: From Newark Kathy DiBlasio and Dianna Fowls, both sophomores; From Johnstown Denise Jones, a junior: and Rise Palladino, a sophomore; and. From Northridge Cindy Remley, a senior; and Sue Butcher, Julie Hankinson, Deana Hewitt, Linda Piccolo and Vicky Warner, sophomores. Garfield fifth-graders holding craft days Fifth graders of Garfield Elementary School will give public demonstrations of historical crafts Thursday and Friday as part of the school's Bicentennial observance. The demonstrations will be given from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m.

both days in the fifth grade open area of the school. 680 S. 30th Heath. The crafts will include baking bread. churning butter, dipping candles, spinning wool, weaving baskets, weaving cloth, leathercraft quilting, and making apple butter.

tin candle holders, potholders, bootjacks and hearth brooms. Parents will help supervise the crafts and serve as guides for visitors. In addition to doing the crafts, the fifth graders have prepared a lesson on early crafts which they will present to Garfield's kindergarten through fourth grades. The fifth grade teachers in charge of the project are Margaretta Bunning, Jeanne Saunders and Rosemary Smith. Southgate Shopping Center Monday thru Saturday 10 AM to 9 PM Phone 522-2121 Sundays 12 Noon to 5 PM.