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aar The Miami News Friday. May 20.1983 TV Advice Section Drii a 4 0 i The Miami News Ilreo 3 Friday. May 20.1983 TV Advice Section VIM I aimiliniatiratima Mr 4 John Eldridge i East meets West Dade at Fairchild festival Many Americans celebrate the arrival of full spring on May Day. The Japanese call it Haru Matsuri. If you'd like to see how they welcome balmy weather, plan to attend a Japanese Spring Festival tomorrow from noon to 9 p.m.

at David Fairchild Elementary School, 5757 SW 45th St. The Japanese Association of Miami will set up demonstrations of classical Japanese dance, folk dance, ikebana flower arranging, calligraphy, Origami paper folding, bonsai, and music in the cateretium and Sumo wrestling, martial arts and karate on the grounds of the school. Funds from sales of Japanese foods and crafts will benefit the Florida Japanese Language School and the school's PTA. Admission is free. i t'o- ...4, 1:::, 2 II -1 A4 17.: 1.

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'4 iki, ts 4. East meets West Palm Beach Get even more well-Oriented at an exhibit called "Treasures of China Past 50 Centuries of the Written Word" on display at the Science Museum in West Palm Beach, behind the zoo at 4801 Dreher Trail North. You'll find the world's first dictionary, a catalog of maps, books so old they're made of bamboo slats, playing cards, bronze and gold signature seals 3,000 years old and priceless Ming vases. Demonstrators from the National Museum of Taipei will show how to make paper and write Chinese characters. The exhibit is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m to 5 p.m., and Sunday and Monday from 1 to 5 p.m.

Admission is $2 for adults, 81 for children and senior citizens. The exhibit closes to tour nationally June 5. The Miami News JOE OAK US Dr. Richard Price checks stitching done on Sylvia Frielich's finger at Immediate Medical Care Center in North Miami Beach DRO 8 oEg 0 CT RO 0 Walk-in clinics offer a convenient alternative A list of local centers. Page 3B.

r7 ti F-- I LOIS WOLFE special to TM Miami Nom No appointments are needed. We always have an MD, a nurse and an X-ray technician on duty." They handle "episodic emergencies" like burns, abrasions, sprains, minor lacerations, on-the-job injuries. They treat minor illnesses like colds, sore throats, earaches. They do physicals, simple blood tests, electrocardiograms, full X-rays, simple urine analysis. Medicare and insurance claims are processed, although "we try to deal more on a cash basis," Hale said.

"We try to attract the patient who can pay for services and who wants to get better service at a convenient cost." While a walk-in center's $25 to $35 office fee is comparable to that of a general practitioner, "we are undercutting hospital emergency rooms Ifeesi by about by about one-third," said Marcie Jackson, assistant manager of the Immediate Medical Care Center in Hollywood. "The idea is not to replace the family doctor, but to supplement him," said Dr. Richard Lipman, a staff physician at the newest private walk-in facility in South Florida, Family Medicine Center near Dade land, which opened last month. Walk-in centers are opening at the rate of one a day throughout the country, Dr. Lipman said, in answer to consumer demand for convenient low-cost health care.

A trip to the emergency room of a hospital for a sore throat and fever could cost $60 to $150, adding up ness and injury at a reasonable cost. The centers respond to a population "that has become used to instant service, instant packaging and immediate solutions to all life situations," says Paul Hale, business manager of Immediate Medical Care Centers in North Miami Beach and Hollywood. These new centers are letting the consumer know that drive-in health care is an efficient alternative for any of life's little medical problems. Walk-in centers compete directly with hospital emergency rooms, 80 to 85 per cent of whose patients don't have critical injuries. The fast in-and-out treatment for minor emergencies at walk-ins costs about one-third of what an emergency room visit does.

Suburbia offers another target market to walk-ins: 25 to 35 per cent of suburban families don't have an identified family physician. "They need somewhere to go," Hale said. Walk-in centers, which readily refer more serious illnesses to private physicians, are that family's "entrance into the health care industry" in South Florida, Hale said. "People are tending to use the emergency room as a primary care center," agreed Sandy Sears, director of the Community Health Services Division of Jackson Memorial Hospital. "The emergency room is primarily to treat real emergencies." Explained Hale: "Nobody comes here in an ambulance." Hale's walk-in centers are staffed by board-certified emergency care physicians who handle everything from minor bone injuries to routine physical What do you get when you cross a doctor's office with a convenience store? A walk-in, minor-emergency medical care center where: No appointments are needed.

Walk in anytime during office hours. Licenced physicians handle minor illnesses and injuries everything from a sore throat to a possible fracture. (No ambulances allowed you must be able to walk in.) A doctor is on duty 10 to 12 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can walk in for an X-ray, electrocardiogram or blood test and walk out in less than an hour. MasterCard, Visa and American Express are accepted.

It's a new idea that's only recently arrived in South Florida. There are three privately owned walk-in centers in Dade and one under construction. There are at least two in Broward. In Palm Beach County there has been a mini-boom of centers five existing and one under construction. Walk-in emergency centers locate in crowded urban and suburban strips to catch the middle-class consumer who needs fast treatment for non-critical ill A real cream puff from the old days Heavenly Chevys October was awaited with great suspense during Detroit's heyday, because the big three automakers would truck out their new line of fins, chrome and steel to tempt the credit line of consumers throughout the land.

Although gas was only 19 cents a gallon in 1956, perhaps your budget allowed no fishtail Cadillac, so you settled for a Chevrolet. Some of them were classics, too, but yours probably made it to used car heaven long ago. The Gold Coast Classics Chevy Club invites the public to look over some vintage Nomads, Bel Aires, 2105 and other models from 1955 to 1957 at their Classic Chevy Show tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Midway Mall, off The Palmetto Expressway at West Hagler Strbet.

Admission is free. Book your weekend Give in to your bibliophiliac desire to pick up plenty of book bargains at the Friends of the Mimi Library's book sale today and tomorrow frdm 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the second-floor auditorium of the main library, 1 Biscayne anp tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

at the Hispanic Branch Library, 2190 W. Flag ler St. Biographies, misteries, sports, nostalgia, fiction and other hardback books, plus beaucoup paperbacks will be on sale at greatly reduced rates. Funds will help buy new books and materials for library prOgrams. Please see CENTERS, 3B I '0' ''1; 7 l'4.

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Page Bryant is a psychic who has researched parapsychology for several years and recently studied with Sun Bear, a Chippewa medicine man. She'll deliver a lecture entitled "Surviving the Earth Changes" tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Florida Society for Psychical Research, 2005 Jackson Hollywood. Her subject deals with prophecies of sweeping 'planetary changes prophesied for our century by seers from Nostradamus to Edgar Cayce. Admission to the program is Call 920-4623 for further enlightenment.

or picture that will reveal whether chest is healthy that ill reve la al ether chest or picture healthy Technician Eva Bernet operates X-ray equipment while patient poses poses Datien al ui X-ray ea ceratea Bernet Eva Technician I 1 1 Erma Bombeck Tough 'Eddie Haskells' teach shy kids lessons 1 Wings and things Almost anybody can tell the difference between a tiger swallowtail and a red-spotted 2 purple, but how do you discern a moth from a butterfly? It has to do with how fuzzy the antennae are, among other factors. South Florida is home to plenty of species of fluttery lepidoptera, as entomologists call them. Tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 4, butterfly enthusiast Marc Minno will present a program called "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Butterflies" in the museum of Arch Creek Park, 1855 NE 135th St. He'll show slides and take you on a trail walk to point out some of our specimens. Admission is VI Call the park at 944-6111 to let them know you're coming.

beck? I swear I thought it was a recording of Olivia Newton-John. Are you sure it was you?" After he left, my son said, "Morn! Don't you see what he was doing? He was being smart and putting you on. Laughing at you. He was just plain cruel. What do you need with that kind of friend?" I said, "He's not my friend.

He's yours." Neither of us ever saw Eddie again. It's a shame. I never got a chance to thank him for contributing so much to my son's education. was that they always interacted with mothers on a contemporary basis. Throughout the years, the Eddies have grabbed my attention with such lines as, "Gee, Mrs.

Bombeck, didn't I see you last month on the cover of Seventeen?" "These baked beans are astounding. My mom never knows what cans to buy." "I'll bet it's a real pain for you to whip out your I.D. every time you want a drink." "Level with me. Your maiden name was Fonda, wasn't it?" It took me a while to figure out what my kids saw in them. Then I realized.

They talked like an adult and acted like an adult, but had the judgment and responsibility of a child. They walked in two worlds, but belonged In neither one of them. One of the greatest coups Eddie Haskells can pull off is to be condemned by parents. have to hand it to old June Cleaver. She handled it just right.

Instead of saying, "Beav, I never want you to see that boy again," she opened her home to him. In many ways, my kids learned more about integrity and behavior from the Eddie Haskells than they did from all the fine upstanding role models who filed in and out of their lives. They learned that the Eddie Haskells get caught. Eddie Haskells wear thin. They pay for their mistakes.

They have few friends. They will eventually do unto you as they do unto everyone else. I think it was one of the last Eddie Haskells in a long series of them that appeared with my youngest one day and said, "Was that you singing, Mrs. Born All of my life, my kids have brought home Eddie Oh, not the real one who was the boy every mother forbade her son to play with on "Leave It to Bea- i ver." But certainly 27 1, i his counterpart. A My kids always found so much in their borderline rot- tenness to admire.

Eddies never called 7 home so their moth- Bombeck ers wouldn't worry. They ate with their hats on. They teased the dog until he had to be put in the basement. (The dog, not the Eddies.) They always smelled like tobacco. Every time you walked Into a room unexpectedly, they hung tkp the phones.

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