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Page Twenty--Courier News, Blytheville, September 10,1975 Sept. 2 Was Mustache Day 1 By Judy Kkmesrud New York Times News Service NEW YORK-Hardly anyone knew it, not even those with the hairiest upper lips. Sept. 2 was National Mustache Day. Since 1969, a Chicago group called the Mustache Growers Ltd.

has been proclaiming the day after Labor Day as "a day of recognition for mustache cultivators." In other words, it was the day when the wearers of handlebar mustaches, walrus mustaches, brush mustaches, Panco Villa mustaches, Teddy Roosevelt mustaches, Mark Spitz mustaches, or any other kind of mustache, were supposed to feel special and loved, "What? You must be kidding!" said Rick Phillips, a 26- year-old mustached bank clerk when told that Tuesday was his special day. "We're not so special; it seems like everybody is wearing mustaches these days." Well, not everybody. According to Douglas Briggs, executive secretary of the National Association of Barber Schools in Salt Lake City, about 20 per cent of the men aged 18 to 45 sport fuzz on their upper lips, while only 1 per cent of the men over 45 do. Phillips, who has been wearing his thick brown mustache for two years, said he grew it because he thought he would look better in it, and because his wife liked mustaches, "which is a big plus." "It's a pain in the neck as far eating and drinking, though," he added. "Sometimes I'll walk out of a restaurant and find something lodged in my mustache that shouldn't be-like a piece of cheese with tomato sauce from the pizza I just a(e." Most of the two dozen mustachioed men interviewed said they grew their mustaches because the women in their lives liked them.

There were other reasons. Milt Micromatis, a 30-year-old credit analyst, said he let his upper lip sprout because he wanted to feel "more masculine." Ernie Sheetz, a 45- year-old banker from leetwood, said he grew his mustache when friends bet him a steak dinner that "a banker wouldn't have the nerve to grow a mustache." When asked the biggest disadvantage of wearing a mustache, most of the men mentioned the difficulties of eating such foods as soup, ice cream, spare ribs and whipped cream. Several of the men said that mustaches were somewhat frowned upon in the business world a few yeVs ago. thought you were a dangerous radical if you grew one," a Manhattan lawyer said), but that now they were generally taken for granted. The same thing cannot be said for breads, however.

Milt Micromatis said that when he once grew a beard to go with his mustache, he was asked to shave it off. "I did," he said, "because I wanted to stay employed." Gas Works Park: A Departure from Norm By I'aul (ioldberger view of the city skyline and that, New York Times News Service in any case, the condition of the SEATTLE--Since 1900, an soil, soaked with oil from the enormous gas refining plant has years the a was in occupied a prominent site at the a i would make edge of Lake Union in the center elaborate landscaping virtually WIN AT BRIDGE --Demonstration of the end play NORTH 16 4 7 4 2 9 6 4 3 2 8 4 3 4 3 WEST EAST A 6 A 9 8 5 3 10 7 5 10 9 2 7 6 5 A 10 8 9 7 6 5 2 SOUTH A A 10 A 8 A A North-South vulnerable West North East South Pass 4 Pass Pass Pass Pass Opening lead 4, 2 6 Dr. Lamb Headaches Vary In Type By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. DEAR DR.

LAMB Some time ago you mentioned in one of your columns that Sansert was excellent for the prevention of migraine headaches. I developed what I thought was a dental problem with pain in my lower left jaw that would work its way up into my left temple and settle in my right eye. A dental examination established that my teeth were o.k. A neurologist diagnosed my problem as a vascular condition, and the only thing he gave me was Valium. It didn't help.

Then a neurosurgeon put me on Sansert. I began to take four a day, and, much to my amazement, the pain stopped. After taking Sansert for five months I began having both back and stomach aches. An orthopedic surgeon diagnosed a a degenerated disc and treated me with various medicines and therapy to no avail. My internal medicine doctor put me in the hospital, and he ran all kinds of tests and everything was normal.

I was getting so distressed that I discontinued taking all medicine, including Sanserts. I asked my internal medicine doctor if Sanserts could have caused the problem, and he said it was possible, but the neurosurgeon said he didn't think so. Could Sanserts a caused my problems? I still have the same pain from time to time, but not every night as I did to begin with. If I catch it in time, Em- pirin will help, but I may have to take four to six over a period of an hour or so to get relief. DEAR READER I am not sure from your letter what type of headache you have or had, but it is not the typical i a i headache.

a headaches are on a vascular basis, though, even if they are not migraine headaches. Headache pain can be caused by over dilitation of arteries that stretch nerve fibers and cause pain. A good example here is the "morning after" headache with dilated arteries to the head region. Headaches can be caused by muscle contractions and often cause those at the base of the skull and back of the neck. Or, they can be caused by pain from pressure or traction on sensitive areas within the brain.

Nervous tension, migraine headaches, even bad posture, can produce their effects through one of these mechanisms. If you want more information on the i types of headaches and methods of management, you might write to me in care.of this newspaper, Radio City Station, P.O. Box 1551, New York, NY 10019. Send 50 cents and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope, and ask for The Health Letter number 2-9, Headache: Man's Most Common Pain. Sansert i works on headaches, because it a i a i threshold.

In other words it takes more pain for you to notice it. It does this by neutralizing a chemical in the body that lowers the pain threshold and is sometimes involved in headaches. It will prevent migraine headaches in about two out of three cases. It is not totally innocuous and must be used in selected a i and not used in patients with a variety of problems, including high blood pressure and heart disease. I don't think the kind of reaction you had after five months is from Sansert.

Nausea and vomiting may occur at first, but with smaller doses and a gradual build up, this problem can be avoided. The medicine should be stopped after five or six months of use and careful medical supervision of anyone taking it is mandatory. The complications of Sansert are easily reversed by stopping the medicine. iNKWSI'AI'Klt KNrailMIISK ASSN I By Oswald James Jacoby American Bridge Teacher's Association's President Ed Gordy and his wife, Laura Jane, believe in giving beginner's hands that show some important principle of play, but where there is only one really good line. i i a employs a 1935 Jacoby gadget, This gadget is that the jump to four after partner opens two shows trumps, but denies an ace, king or singleton.

South is disappointed to find dummy with three spades, but the hand is still a sure thing. All South has to do is to draw trumps, cash his clubs and diamonds, enter dummy with the nine of trumps, lead a spade and stick in the jack or 10 after East plays low. West wins and is totally and completely end-played. A Jacoby modern gadget gets to the slam after a bidding sequence that differs from the one shown in the box. Two clubs (artificial), two diamonds (no ace, king or queen), two hearts, three hearts, six hearts.

A reader from Texas, with tongue in his cheek, asks "What percentage advantage accrues to a player who sits with his back to the door-all else being equal?" The answer is that he gains little advantage in the bidding and play, but after an argument with partner he can get out quickly if he finds evasion desirable. (Do you have a question lor the Jacobys? Write "Ask the a co ys care ol this JAPANESE SHIPS AREN'T CHEAPER NEW YORK (AP) Ships "Made in Japan" are no longer launched with bargain basement price tags, reports The Compass, a publication of MOAC, marine insurance underwriter. "In the past, Japanese ships were being offered at 10 per cent or more below prices quoted by European shipyards," The Compass notes. This provided a major saving on an oiltanker which might cost $20 to (30 million and helps to explain the past popularity of Japan's ship exports. But the costs of marine equipment and materials have gone up 30 to 40 per cent in Japan in the last two years.

"Japanese industry officials now admit that the rising prices have put Japanese and European ships on a price par," says The Compass. Road signs read with care provide clues to dangerous traffic situations. Inyo County in eastern California takes its name from an Indian word meaning "dwelling place of great spirit." newspaper. The most interesting questions will be used in this column and writers will receive copies of JACOBY MODERN.) of this city, and for almost as many years, local residents have been complaining about the way it marred the landscape. The gas works closed down in 1956, and in 1971 the city hired Richard Haag, a local landscape architect, to prepare a plan for a park to occupy the site.

"I started hanging around there and I suddenly realized that the city's intention to raze the site was all wrong," Haag said. "So I decided to launch a campaign to save the gas works." It took a year and a half, during which time Haag's office prepared a master plan calling for the huge, rusted-metal plant to become the monumental, sculptural centerpiece of the new park. The plan was attacked at public hearings as "hideously ugly" and "an environmental intrusion," but the City Council, won over by Haag, approved it in 1972. His reasoning was that a traditional park could not work at this busy lakefront site within impossible. The first stage of work on the park, now called Gas Works Park, is nearing completion, and Seattle is about to have one of the nation's most advanced pieces of a landscape design.

The complex array of towers, tanks and pipes of the gas works forms a powerful industrial still life, like a Charles Sheeler work, serving both as a visual focus for the park and as a monument to the city's industrial past. The park represents a complete reversal from a period when industrial monuments were regarded, even by preservationists, as ugly intrusions on the landscape, to a time when such structures as the gas works are recognized for their potential ability to enhance the urban experience. Although public opinion seems now to have come around in favor of the scheme, the turnaround was not easy even in this relatively sophisticated city. And when approval finally came, it was over the objections of the a i of Myrtle Edwards, a deceased city councilwoman for whom the park was to have been named. Mrs.

Edward's family let it be known that they considered the gas plant an unfit memorial, and made the removal of the plant a condition for the use of her name. The city held firm to Haag's plan, and thus the project was officially renamed Gas Works Park. The master plan for Gas Works Park envisions an active urban place that will be suited to the bustling lake-front site and the industrial artifacts that are its centerpiece. "The contrast between the timeless grandeur of the structures and the softness and temporality of the landscape will set the design scheme," Haag wrote in' the master plan. The first phase of the park, which includes improvement of the soil conditions to permit simple landscaping, and the creation of a children's play barn within one part of the gas works themselves, is complete and due to open sometime this month.

The play barn is a shed that has been created over the plant's dormant compressors, a i colored vision of machines out of Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times." The main gas works-the high tanks and towers which, with their elaborate network of pipes, are the focus of the site- will be only a visual element for the next several months Haag's master plan calls for making the towers climbable, as well as for placing a camera obscura, offering a view of the city skylines through special lenses, in one tower. The composition of tanks, towers and pipes, some time before its official opening, has already become Seattle's preeminent piece of public sculpture. "I'm amazed every time I go down there," says Haag, "that I actually pulled it off." Ocean Ridge The Mid-Ocean Ridge is a continuous underwater mountain chain that winds through all the world's ocean basins. A major portion of the Mid-Ocean Ridge is the i A a i Ridge, lying almost halfway between North America and Europe. Here violent volcanic eruptions occur and molten rock constantly wells up through the rift as the floor of the Atlantic spreads outward, carrying Europe and North America apart by nearly an inch a year.

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