The Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • 78

A Single Again by JUDIE KOHR A friend of mine recently came up with the profound thought that marriage "sure isn't like television." Amen! How many women grew up subconsciously believing it was, tried their damndest to make it that way and failed. If you're suffering from a large dose of the guilts, unload. Lay it on TV! I was a member of a generation raised on television. I had programmed into my mind the family lives of "Father Knows Best," "The Donna Reed Show," "Make Room for Daddy," "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Leave it to Beaver." These programs portrayed Mother as an always well groomed woman in dresses and spike-heeled shoes who occasionally donned an apron to indicate her role as wife and mother. I don't remember ever seeing Donna Reed "freak drink too much or scream at her children.

Women weren't allowed to be human in those days, they were feminine robots. We girls in our formative years were being programmed to expect this artificial existence. It was to be our utopia. UGH! Naturally, all the women in these programs had husbands. It was the thing to have in those days.

He was called Father, and Father handled everything. He always had a good job, plenty of money and a lovely home. He contributed all the ideas, made the decisions and was the "rock" in times of crisis. Father was allowed a drink before dinner, but you never saw him run around with other women, hang out in bars or be inattentive to Mother. Father was perfect, Mother was perfect and nine times out of ten the children were perfect.

The most severe problem I remember was "Kitten" getting her pigtail stuck in the screen door. Mother ran to get Father, who never seemed to be at the office, and he saved the day. Father Knows Best. He always did. And so the first television generation grew up, married and wondered just what the hell went wrong.

Instead of an episode of Ozzie and Harriet, we got episode after episode of As the World Turns. We were face to face with reality, and we had been programmed for fantasy. Many of us simply could not cope. Sometimes I still have trouble dealing with reality in relation to those models. I can't understand why my two boys don't act like Wally and Beaver Cleaver.

Beaver and Wally never bloodied each others noses 1 three times a week, drove their mother crazy, or threw up in the car. Television has changed. Today we are offered a dose of reality with drug abuse, homosexuality and violence. This is what today's children are being programmed to accept. Although the realistic approach has its merits, I wonder what they'll expect from life? Luckily, my kids don't watch too much television.

Already byproducts of its violent programs, they're so busy fighting to see who gets to sit closer to the set that by the time a victor has been declared, the show's over. Fortunately, the option of television viewing is still up to us. (Hang in there George Orwell). We still possess the right to unplug the set and plug into life. Thank God! Questions, ideas or shared feelings may be sent to Judie Kohr, Hershey Magazine, P.O.

Box 332, Hershey, Pa. 17033. Follies prodigy (cont. from p. 13) is different.

You're bound tofall once in a while. But as long as you know how to fall you won't get hurt," said Berens. Unfortunately, her partner sometimes does get hurt. On one occasion Dwyer was spinning Susie over his head and, as she came around, her elbow, slightly off the mark, socked him in the mouth. "Richard has broken teeth now.

He had to wear braces for several months," she said. Susan began pair skating at the age of nine, having been trained by her famous mother, Betty Berens. She passed gold figure, gold pair and two gold dance tests becoming worldfamous for her double-twist lift. Estrogen cancer warning TOW It is now clear that if a woman wants to be "forever female" she will have to accept an increased risk of cancer of the uterus. Research suggests that the use of female estrogen hormones (frequently prescribed in such brand-name forms as Premarin and Ogen) leads to a statistically higher incidence of uterine cancer.

It is important to note several facts about this form of cancer: First, it cannot be diagnosed by a standard Pap smear test, which merely tests for cancer of the cervix (opening of the uterus.) Second, it is a very lowgrade malignancy, rarely spreads beyond the uterus itself, and thus can be easily cured by hysterectomy. In fact, some experts feel this kind of tumor has never resulted in a proven death. Estrogens were widely prescribed in the 1950s and 1960s for women after the menopause. Since the menopause itself represents a shutdown of estrogen produced by the ovaries, it was reasoned that administration of estrogens either in pill form or by injection would overcome some of the unpleasant effects of menopause. Though the menopause is rarely the dramatic "change of life" so beloved of soap-opera heroines, it can occasionally be a hellish time, marked by mood swings and debilitating hot flashes.

Furthermore, a more serious long-term effect has been associated with the shutdown of the ovaries: osteoporosis, a thinning-out of bone substance: that results in compression of: the vertebrae, producing the common humped appearance: found in many elderly women, and, frequently, spontaneous fractures of the upper part of; the leg (usually known as a bro-1 ken hip.) Many women have found that use of estrogens improves their Perspective (cont. from p. 2) These messages can be carried through radio, television, videocassettes videodiscs, tape, cable and other emerging distribution system. As we move to become a more viable social resource for multi-media materials, we will be in a position to develop projects, both in cooperation with educational institutions and with state agencies, because we will be in the capital. We are enthusiastic about the future and what WITF.

can mean to this area. We are confident that we can continue to respond to the needs of great numbers of people within our total viewing area whether they reside in Reading or Hershey or Lancaster or York or Carlisle or Harrisburg. We are beginning a fresh new run at our mission of service through bold, innovating, independent programing of value for those who own WITF-TV and skin tone and cures itching and dryness in the vaginal area. Some physicians and some nonphysician authors become positively evangelical about the long-term use of estrogens, producing the "female-forever" fever. The Seattle researchers found, however, that the longer a woman took estrogens and the higher the dose, the greater was her chance of developing endometrial cancer (cancer of the Although some physicians still feel this research is statistically unsound, I am now convinced that the relationship is a real one.

Women who have been taking estrogen daily for a long time should reassess with their physicians the reason for this use. Of course, if they have already had a hysterectomy there is no need for concern because cancer cannot develop in an organ that is no longer present. If estrogen was taken to re- Today's Medicine BY MICHAEL J. HALBERSTAM, M.D. uterus.) Among women who had taken estrognes for between 11 and 14 years, the risk of endometrial cancer was 24 times that of non-users.

It is not important whether the medicine was taken every day or only for three weeks out of every four the incidence was the same. The higher the dosage, however, the greater the chance of cancer. lieve minor symptoms of irritability or flushing, it would seem wise to discontinue its use. However, if a woman has a strong family history of osteoporosis or if osteoporosis is already well advanced, thje possible benefits of estrogen in slowing the development of this bone disease must be measured against the increased incidence of lowgrade cancer of the uterus. Collar it! A fine 14K gold monogram, available in 2 or 3 classic block initials as shown, with or without the pt.

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Pairs; 1967, second, North American Pairs; 1973, Skating Queen of America; 1974, Fourth World Professional Championships (Japan) and Pairs (with Richard Dwyer). The Muppet characters from Sesame Street will also be making a return appearance in Hershey this year. In all, 17 shows will be presented during the tour stop, including morning and afternoon shows on Saturdays and afternoon shows Sundays. Ticket information is available at the Hersheypark Arena box office. 14 HERSHEY 14, 1979.