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THE GASTONIA GAZETTE, JMM 27, The hangover Man hunts for cure in vain By TOM HOKTON Copley News Service Wherever you find widespread suffering, you will find those who are eager to save us from such, at a price. At last count, there were three companies trying to save me from my hangover. The hangover is an ancient affliction the Bible speaks of it in unholy terms but the business of grappling with it in a purely scientific fashion is a relatively new one. Judging from the litter of unused containers of miracle cures to be found inside my medicine cabinet, the business of the hangover is becoming a big one. This noble struggle against minor discomforts resulting from over-indulgence was once restricted to voodoo treatments, home remedies and tasty cure-alls served up by sympathetic doctors licensed only to serve adult beverages.

More often than not, the drinking man of the past turned to the same source for relief from which he drew the sickness. In saloon parlance, it is called the hair of the dog that bit you. Science, however, conquers all, and science is out to conquer the curse of the drinking man, the hangover. My body has experimented with three such modern cures: Reprieve, Chaser and Morin' Afta. The first two came in the familiar form of tasteless tablets while the third is a mixable powder, much like Tang or one of the instant breakfasts.

The makers of Morin' Afta go so far as to suggest to the drinking man that he sit down to their product much as the puritan sits down to his Post Toasties. They say, "Try a Sunshine Cocktail one package of Morin' Afta mixed in orange juice." It is not the hair of the dog, but the goal is the same. I am not afflicted by the hangover; I am demolished by it. 1 thank Uod for that. The hangover is part of a man's ecological balance.

It io nature's way of reminding man that he may abuse his body at will, but lie must be prepared to suffer the consequences. Were it not the hangover, drinking would be an ever greater curse- to tile workingman, tor he would be able to indulge himself slavishly without any thought to tomorrow. Because it is so common, the hangover is like the common cold: Everyone has a private cure for it. This may range from Variations of the hair-of-the-dog theory to massive doses of vitamin B-l or seasick pills. Cold beer, warm beer, stale beer, beer with torn a juice, hot coffee, Alka-Seltzer, bloody marys, V-8 juice, cow's milk, or even all of the above blended with a raw egg there is a brand of home remedy for every brand of hangover.

Man will go to great lengths to overcome the hangover. I have one friend who gave up on all the traditional weapons and decided that the only way to effectively remove the curse from his body was to sweat it out. After an evening of overindulgence, he punishes himself by working in the yard, preferably under a hot sun. "Sweat it out; that's the only way," ho says. Unfortunately, he has run out of flower beds to work in, so frequent are his evenings of over-indulgence.

So he has bought lumber and is building a lath house in the bachyard. He advertises it as a lath house, but actually he relies upon it for relief from minor discomforts resulting from overindulgence. If there were some way he could market his cure, he would make a million. There are surely more hangover cures on the market than the three scientific formulas my body has toyed with, and there will surely be more to come. A POSH WATERING PLACE in South Vietnam is like gold where you find it, even in a helmet.

This GI is refreshing himself near a stream six miles west of Phu Bai. Prisoner then starts to climb out By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH Life in Central Prison is an endless march of lonely hours, isolation from family and friends, and the frustrating feeling that nobody really cares. The view from inside the walls is related by John Campbell. He's been there. Prison was the place where he hit bottom and turned upward.

He came in early in 1970 to serve 15-to-lS years for armed robbery. "I'd reached the point where I couldn't make any worse goof-ups. I had to begin to examine my own values and motives," he said. At the right time he grasped a helping hand. The North Carolina Jaycees, as part of its support for rehabilitation in the state's corrections system, established a chapter.for Central Prison inmates.

Campbell was its founding president. Officials observed his resolve to make a fresh start. He was moved to an honor grade center outside tlie Central Prison walls. He was given a place in a new program to train selected inmates, upon their release, to work as counselors with other prisoners. Last Christmas Gov.

Bob Scott reduced his sentence by commutation. The outlook now is that Campbell, 30, will be paroled next fall and make the transition from inmate to employee. State Jaycce President Fred i 'recently appointed Campbell associate secretary of the organization. Morrison said it indicated not only faith in Campbell as an individual, but commitment to expand the Jay- cee involvement in prison reform. Doubling ths current 22 Jaycee chapters in correction units is a goal for the coming year.

Campbell faced a panel of in- Icrvlowers recently on an educational television broadcast over station WUNC-TV to talk about prison life and how those inside can be helped to make it on the outside. Question: You seemed a solid citizen, married and with a job. What led you (o crime? Answer: That's a very difficult question. I couldn't respond in an appropriate fashion to problems in my personal life. I was having trouble in my family.

The business wasn't as successful as I thought would be. No, I never thought what would happen it I didn't get away with it. What's it like to be in prison? Certainly not very good. The endless stretch of time is the worst part. You're separated from your friends, without the luxuries a free citizen is used to, and confined with a large number of people you wouldn't normally associate with.

It's hard to handle frustrations. I never saw guards abuse prisoners. The usual complaint is that you are ignored so much. 0: Is prison a school for crime as it is sometimes described? Yes, to an extent. Some brag about their crimes, I've listened to many plans for operations inmates intended to pull when they got out which undoubtedly would prove as unsuccessful as the last one.

The man who's trying to change doesn't talk about what brought him to prison. He wants to put it behind him. Why do some prisoners find a new direction and others do not? They hate too much. No one has shown them the love and attention they need in order to change. There are good programs in the system now, but they need to be expanded to give opportunities to all inmates.

The man working in a ditch under a gun breeds hostility. He has no incentive to change, Can those of us outside help those inside return to society? Community volunteers can be so effective. If every inmate had somebody interested in him, he'd have a better chance especially for the difficult, transition when he's released from prison. A volunteer is assigned as sponsor for an inmate, to take him out on nights or weekends. Let him go with you to church a ballgame, dinner at home what you usually do.

Let him get used to a normal environment. What change would you make in the corrections system? One statistic speaks for itself. Twenty-one per cent of those paroled return to prison. It is 70 per cent for those released at the end of their sentence. Inmates should be released under some form of supervision to help them adjust to life outside.

Man invades the domain Chess champion of wants it perfect a woman NEW YORK (AP) A friend of Bobby Fischer, America's challenger for the world chess championship, says Fischer wants "everything perfect" for his match against Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. And lire type of lighting proposed under a six-figure television contract is not so perfect, according to the friend, Fred Cramer, past president of the U.S. Chess Federation. "Fischer won't play under anything but flourescent lighting it is very important to him," Cramer said Sunday night before flying to Reykjavik, Iceland, where the 24-gamo match is to begin next Sunday. The television people, Cramer said, have "insisted" they must use additional incandescent or tungsten-halogen lighting because flourescent lighting docs not have the "proper color spectrum for color film." Fischer was to have flown with Cramer but cancelled his flight without explanation at the last minute.

Col. Edmund W. Edmonsdon, head of the U.S. Chess Federation, said, however, there was no reason to believe the unpredictable Fischer would fail to appear for the match. Fischer's whereabouts was not disclosed, but Cramer said he was "not far away." BAY CITY, Mich.

Is the "mom image" important in kin- dergarden? Well, Andrew Kochany found out that it was to many women teachers who regard kindergarten rooms as their long sacrosanct domain. Kochany, a 240-pounder, was turned down by several schools, because other women teachers objected, before he was accepted at Hampton School as a trainee. Reverse chauvinistic action, he called it. "Sex doesn't make that much difference in teaching," says his supervising teacher, Calhermae Waldron. "We're a teacher image, not a mom or dad image.

The kids have enough mother image at home for their first five years, and they never forget." Kochany gets help with his school problems at home: He and his wife, have children age seven, four and six months. WHO CASH For Those Who WHO! 1st 2nd AWARD 3rd AWARD 10.00 MATCH PICTURES WITH ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS SECTION! Simply Cut Out The On These Pages And Paste Them In The Ads To Which You Believe They Belong AMONG GASTONIA AND RULES OF THE CONTEST 1, Anyone may enter this contest except employees, and former employees, of The Gastonia Gazette or members of their families. 2.. On the following pages of this issue of The Gazette you will find ads representing Gastonia and area business firms. Also on the following pages of 1liis paper, you will find pictures of representatives of these firms.

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Entries will become the property of The Gastonia Gazette and the judges' decision will bo final. 5. ONE ENTRY PER FAMILY PLEASE. The names of the successful contestants will be published by The Gazelle with the tarred pictures in each advertisement on Tuesday, July 4th, 1971, GASTON COUNTY BUSINESS PEOPLE.