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C0UWW-T1MR 6, 19.5R High on the Hog and the Agenda Are Your Bones Fragile? BriBtnl lailtj (Conner Emttimm Owned and Published by the Bristol Printing Company 800-806 Beaver Street, Bristol, Telephone ST 8-3325 Route 13, Levittown, Pa. Telephone WI 5-1000 (Incorporated May 27. 1914) S. W. CALKINS, President and Co-Publisher MURRAY C.

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News Editor Paradoxical American Way Amcrica is a land fabled throughout the world for its wealth and its high Jiving standards. But amid the riches and the plenty are some strange contradictions and contrasts. We're not talking about slums, or the destitute. The rcnl oddity as we spin along in the fa't half of the 20th Century is that there should be so many Americans of reasonably good economic circumstance who seem to be priced out of so many important markets. A good many independent studies, including some of recent vintage, indicate that people of the middle income level do not have an easy time finding new housing within their means.

Too often for comfort they must go heavily on the cuff to get the kind of living accommodations they need. For the past two or three years a lot of automobile dealers have complained that something similar seems to be happening in the motor car field Many of their potential customers figure they just undertake the financial burdens involved. Even persons of better than average means tend to blanch when told they face an extended hospital stay, whether or not they have some form of pitalization insurance. The charges are heavy. The Educational Testing Service at Frinceion, N.J., says now that some O.OOO above-average U.S.

high school sludents go to college because they get the needed financial support. Schooling, housing, medical care, transportation, these are basic fields. No American should have to regard any one of them as a luxury he can't afford. Most who take note of these facts are simply commenting on a curious contradiction. They are not placing blame anywhere.

Everyone is aware of the tremendous postwar rise in costs which has helped to push prices in many fields to sometimes forbidding heights. A seasoned Washington observer, fingering the plush furniture in a richly-appointed new government office some years ago, said: friend, government is a very luxurious operation in this Perhaps we ought to have some new formulas for bringing incomes and needs into closer alignment. Otherwise somebody one day may say that living in the United States is a very luxurious operation, beyond the means of millions. Fow The Blow No Illusions About Tito From the outset in the late our economic and military aid to Yugoslavia has been a cold business proposition. Thus there will be no tears shed in America as the military part of the deal is terminated.

The probable character of a future war has been so dramatically altered in the past half dozen years that there is not much point, anyway, in shipping additional arms to Marshal Tito. The Increasingly in recent times Tito has seemed to move closer to the Kremlin he once defied. Naturally this has caused us to look with mounting suspicion upon the whole aid deal. Ironically, at this juncture Tito announces he wants no more military aid because our periodic congressional reappraisals of the program are humiliating to his country. types we would be willing to send would be of diminishing value.

The day of conventional weapons is passing. No indication has been given that we intend also to stop economic assistance to the Yugoslavs. Veiwed in the hard business light, there is still some advantage for us in such an arrangement if it helps Tito to cling to some shred of independence from Moscow. We are not as hopeful of that continued independence as we once were. That is perhaps another reason we have now decided against putting any more of our military substance at disposal.

Presumably he may have his domestic reasons for taking this stand, but to us it can only be laughable. In the best of circumstances we had to be skeptical of this deal all the way. As things have worked out, he has given us ample justification for repeatedly re-examining the program. We have tried to fortify Tito as an independent bulwark against Russia. To the extent that goal can still be served, we will go on pursuing it.

But we have no illusions about Tito or his Communist state. He is not our friend and we are not trying to make him one. We find him useful as he finds us useful. When there is no more value in this convenient association, the last penny of our assistance will be cut off. In The Teen-Age World Bv Earl Wilson NEW YORK So here, a little late, are my for '58.

Ike'll stay in office Dulles won't be in the World Series be de-emphasized to the extent that some girls'll have flattening operations Margaret decide to have another baby CBS Boss Bill Paley will order a big shakeup because of the recent gains of ABC and NBC Frank Costel- lo'll live on, but (wo other prominent Racket Guys better stay out of barber shops! Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall get married; each'll be romantic with somebody else. (Just to show you how clever I am in these fearless forecasts, last year I said, Crosby won't marry Mr. Wilson Carol spoof of Marlene Dietrich (which opened at the Plaza) will be the most talked-about cafe act Playboys'll give their dolls Rolls-Royces instead of minks. (Gloria Swanson just got one for Christmas) Calypso'll be forgotten entirely Tina be the most-photographed glamour doll become the hemisphere hot spot with everybody going because everything goes. Bill Is will become the big quiz show but other pro- grams'll sneakily reduce their prizes by giving produce Ferraris will be the sports car of the year Ginger decide she should dance in her act in Las Vegas Montecatini, Italy, will be the health resort of the year Deb Nornie Phipps of Palm Beach should be the new' beauty Four of Show Bias mast famous marriages 'two of which are will go perilously near the rocks.

Jack Paar and Dodv Goodman will part Robert Preston'll win acting awards for Music opening wHl be a gigantic social affair Perry Como'll start loafing and Jackie start working Millionaire Paul D. Getty will go to tiie altar Joanne Woodward and Tony Perkins will be accalimed the best young performers. Hal Block, the fresh new Saturday Eve- Washington News Notes By Ruth Millett Miss Millett Being a teen-ager today is supposed to be a snap. Lots of privileges, lots of freedom, lots of activity and practically no responsibilities. Bui.

in many ways being a teen-ager is exactly the same experience as being an adolescent back in the days before the teenage world was invented. Girls still are so unsure of themselves and tneir own judgment that they can't go anywhere without calling up six other girls to make sure of what they are going to wear. Boys still are to dale anyone but the most popular girls, and since they can't ali get tiatts whh these choice few maw of boys never have any dates at all. Girls still find it no easy trick to let a boy know they like him, without being so obvious about it they scare him off. HEROES STILL SHINE Boys who aren't football or basketball heroes siili have a struggle to win a place ior themselves among their contem poraries.

GirJs still are so concerned with how they look that a hair-set that didn't do quite right or a dress that isn't quite perfect tor the occasion can throw them into last-minute despair that ruins any chance of having fun. Boys still have the problem of convincing their parents that they are able to take care of themselves and don't need to be constantly reminded to do this and not io do that. Iio.ii boys and girls still feel the urgent need to belong to a group and those who are left out are just as miserable in the teen-age world as were the kids who quite fit in back in the days when we called teen-age the awkward age. Things haven't changed so much, and the years between childhood and adulthood are still no picnic. Bv Peter Edson Q's and Why are the Assyrians spoken of as Romans of A Like the Romans, they were great conquerors.

They won their victories in the Roman way. by superb organization, weapons and equipment. did the Tuscarora Indians live? A Originally in North Carolina. After many wars with the colonists, the remnant of the tribe migrated r.orth and in 1722 was adopted into the League of the Iroquois in upper New York State. What part of the world was first called America? A The name was first applied to Brazil, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, who claimed its discovery.

The name gradually came into use for ail of South America, and was later given to both continents. WASHINGTON -The new year promises to produce a new, bona fide No. 1 Washington hostess. It's going to be Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of ihe vice president.

Since moved into their new' large house Mrs. Nixon has gone into big league entertaining and the word is out that she's a great and charming hostess. When they lived in their small house the Nixons could never have more than two or three guests over for dinner at a time. When they did official entertaining it was always at a hotel or private club. Nowr, with a huge house and several servants, she's making up for lost time.

The socially minded members of the administration family are delighted, too. Because of Ike's illness and fondness for the Gettysburg farm, the White House has never been the soical rallying point for the party in power which it traditionally is. The Nixon parties, formal dinners and gay receptions are filling this void. Mr. Edson that the U.S.

catch up. Of course, he wants the U. S. to catch up, too, but Jbeen so busy lately he has had to give up (he afternoon nap he used to take in his office. No matter what Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson proposes these days, it seems to get him in trouble.

His latest recommendation which has him in hot water is a plant to substitute an for a He got the at reducing an apple the New York Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. But it has the Brazilians and other South America coffee producing countries highly irritated. The coffee people are about to protest to the State Department. What is the minimum number of persons needed to call a disturbance a riot? A In law, a riot is the disturbance of the peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons. Mrs.

Jimmy Doolittle, wife of the famed Air Force general, surprised firends at a cocktail party the other night by revealing she was not drinking a Martini but merely a glass of water containing an olice. kind of a drink is a guest asked her. called the Vanguard Mrs. Doolittle replied. has no lift to it at Pentagon missile boss, Bill Holaday, has a special reason to be furious with the Rus.

si arts for launching two satellites and causing everybody to get excised and demand Pierre Boyer, new French attache, has been flooded w'ith so many invitations since arriving that he's had to install an extra mail box in his apartment to hold them all. He hasn't been without a gorgeous date each night for the last month. When a phone company official recently asked why he wanted his telephone disconnected, Boyer replied: just see any reason to pay for one when I'm never home to use Nothing upsets the Washington cocktail routine. Othere evening an elevator lifting four people to a party at the National Housing Center got stuck between floors. When workemn opened the elevator's hatch to make reapirs, a waiter leaned over and delivered drinks and hors oeuvres to the people inside.

An hour later when the elevator was finally repaired, the four guests agreed they felt as if they had been at the party all the time. Bv Dr. William Brady Dr. Brady According to Meltzer. the best way to deprive the body of calcium is to give magnesium 'as in magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salts; or milk of magnesia); and Mendel Benedict and others have shown that magnesium forces calcium from the system harmful effect of a diet deficient in calcium (such as the everyday diet of most when it is at the same time rich in magnesium, as the cereal grains, meat and potatoes It would seem that there must be danger in the repealed administration of magnesia, at least to children or to those with fractured bones or bad teeth.

Lest some trick specialist dismiss the foregoing statements as pipe dreams, perhaps I'should say that I them verbatim from Bastedo's Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The calcium requirements of women are greatly increased by maternity. The need of an abundance of calcium for the rapidly growing skeleton of an infant is obvious. Before birth, and normally for several months after, this demand of the child is satisfied through the mother, whose need for calcium is thus greatly increased. The weakening of the bones and teeth which is said to be a common accompaniment of pregnancy and lactation is doubtless largely due to a withdrawal of calcium from these structures to meet the nutritive requirement of the fetus or the nursling.

milk, cheese, eggs, peas, beans, greens, nuts and peanuts, that is, what doctors call, a diet. Ihe minimum daily means bareiv enough to prevent manifestations of nutritional deficiency disease, malnutrition. To maintain vigorous health, vi.e. the daily requirement is at least half as much again. Read again Prof.

statement about withdrawal of calcium from the bones AND TEETH of the pregnant or nursing woman who doesn get an optimal daily ration of calcium and vitamin D. Keep it i nmind when a nineteenth-century dentist opines that the calcium content of teeth never changes. As a result of the low calcium diet of jnost Americans, adults experience a long continued loss of calcium thiough the years. This does not become superficially manifest because the great calcium stores in bones are drawn upon to supply calcium to the blood and tissues, such as the heart and artery muscle, the nerves, mucous membranes, gums. AS A RESULT OF THIS CONSTANT DEPLETION THE BONES BECOME POOR IN CALCIUM AND MORE Treatment of the Patient Past Fifty.) ning Post contributor dropped in with some New wishes: For Elvis rivals, new for TV comedians, for Jack Paar.

a new kiddies' show calied Just like to say also that I Confidently predict that next year Christmas'll come on Dec. 25 and Thanksgiving'll fall on a Thursday. THE MIDNIGHT A N.Y. promoter's after Rocky Marciano to fight Floyd Patterson; The Rock invited liim to Miami to discuss it Xavier Cugat's replacement in maybe Eddie Platt Rock Hudson came to N.Y, quietly, ducking trying to patch uo his busted marriage Henry Fonda helicoptered from Phillv for a big party in N.Y. Three experts in Louise, Greta Thyssen and pitcher Whitey judge Grossinger's barrel-jumping contest.

Tony Bennett's gift to the missus: A 12G Continental The Micki Marlo-Ron Ascher romance is gets custody of her $10,000 ring? Tropicana chorus girls, enroute to N.Y., decided instead to spend the holidays at Elvis's Memphis home Ex-Miss America Lee Ann Meriweather's dating skating champ Dick Button Lola Albright, busting up with husband Jack Carson, has a new album called Wants Producer Dick Adler and Sally Ann Howe 'who'll follow Julie Andrews in Fair may get hitched any day. C. V. Whitney'll get the divorce in Lovelock, Nev. Comic Don Rickies, a hit in Silent, Run got a fat contract from Hecht and Lancaster.

He got the job by insulting Bossman Hecht from a cafe floor) Janice Gilbert, hostess on TV giveaways, had her baby girl. PEARLS: Opposites certainly do attract. Nothing attracts a poor girl like a rich man. WISH SAID THAT: Middle age is the time a guy starts turning out the lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. John Marino.

Quote. BEST LAUGH: A local theater Is showing a psychological western; instead of saving the Indians kept saying Victor Borge, making his only '58 TV appearance Feb. 19, says, Claus has the right people once a carl, brother. Lest some physician or dentist question the foregoing statements, perhaps I should say that I quote them verbatim from Sherman's Chemistry of Food and Nutrition. The ordinary mixed diet of Americans and Europeans, at least among dwellers in cities and towns, is probably more often deficient in calcium than in any other chemical element.

That, too, I quoted from famous textbook. The National Research Council's estimate of the minimum daily requirement of calcium for an adult is 750 to a.bout 12 grains, the amount of calcium one gets in a diet which includes Think of this when you notice an elderly person withering away, actually shrinking in height, weight and strength as he or she worries through the years on a low calcium diet. Thmk of it when an elderly ner- breaks his or rather think of it years before the ponr soul's bones have become depleted (osteoporosis) ot calcium that a trivial injury is likely to cause fracture. And try to make the poor soul understand that he or she must consume at least 1 whole milk, skim milk or buttermilk every day, or the equivalent in other high calcium foods, plus an adequate daily ration of vitamin or the equivalent in exposure of skin to skyshine or sunshine, to hold back those cold gradations of decay. If you want to learn more about calcium and health these items may interest you: THE CALCIUM SHORTAGE.

(heart and artery troubles). CHRONIC JOINT DISABILITY (rheumatiz or. as credulous customers call it, SAVE YOUR TEETH. For any of these booklets, send 35 cents and stamped, self-addressed envelope. No Understanding Fashions Bv Fred C.

Othman might say my bride and I were getting ready to live it up. 1 had my pants pressed. Mrs, O. had a new haircut which looked to me like it had been done with a dull lawnmower, but which she said was perfection. She also wore a pair of shoes with pointed toes and high heels no bigger around than a 29-cent ballpoint pen.

The Othmans, pulling up to the brilliantly lit lobby of a fancy hotel, obviously were about to make an entrance. They were, for a fact. The doorman held wide the portal while my Hilda swept across the rubber matting in front. Then she stopped. She went, eek.

I said, what was she waiting for? She said she wasn't waiting. She was stuck. Mr. Othman The heel of her left shoe had through one of the small holes in the doormat. It was a heavy mat.

The harder she pulled, the tighter the stick. There was an audience. It w'as fascinated. My wife said, do something. I ask you.

fellow husbands, what w'ould you have done? 1 grabbed her leg and yanked. Her foot came out of the shoe. This left her off balance. She was not pleased. She got back into that shoe and once more she was immobilized.

She tried to kick herself free. This did not work. I suggested she walk out of both her shoes and leave 'em there. She said, do be ridiculous. just paid $27.50 for and what did hotels mean putting holes in doormats? I suggested this was for drainage purposes.

Mrs. O. said her question was rhetorical. She did not seek an answer; she just wanted her shoe to go along with her. So I stooped down and twisted the mat across the hole where she was trapped and eventually freed her.

When we left the hotel Mrs. O. was faced with crossing the mat in the opposite direction. This she did without incident. I even have to remind her.

She walked on tip-Uies. I do not know what all this proves, gents, except that women and their clothes are not to be I believe somebody once observed that before. Only pleasant part of this tale is the fact that, in addition to the haircut and the shoes, my also wore a new dress. It was a beauty, with jingle-jangles around the neck, and I was delighted to observe that she was observable underneath it. No sacks for Mrs.

O. No bags. No (if pardon a fashion chemises. leash no chemises on the outside. She said tried on some sacks at the dress shoppe, but they all looked like bags.

The management, she continued, had provided belts for conservative types like her, but a bag with a belt around it made her look like a sack of flour being hoisted by a rope. I swear it, friends. what she said. Mrs. O.

also reported that never, so long a.s she lived, would she wear a bag, roped or otherwise. Of this, not so sure, I remember not long ago when she said she wouldn't wear needle-pointed shoes. These are dangerous. A husband can get kicked under the table with one of these and suffer4 a nasty wound Idea Is Father To Deed By Dr. George W.

Crane Dr. Crane Case W-3S6: Clarence aged 18, is President of the Young People's Society of his church. Crane, our topic next week deals with making good Clarence began. example, my dad smokes. My mother is 25 pounds overweight.

And I procrastinate about doing my homework. we make good resolutions and then break them, doesn't that make us neurotic and unhappy? does psychology suggest in such MAKE RESOLUTIONS If Florence Nightingale had drifted with the spirit of her age, she would never have resolved to renovate the handling of wounded soldiers. Without her strong moral resolution, probably have no Red Cross today. If Dr. Jenner had not resolved to work and buck unfavorable public opinion regarding his theory of vaccination to stop smallpox, then some 40,000 Americans now living, would be dead or so badly pockmarked be nauseating to view.

The idea is father to the deed, so it is well make good resolutions. said Lowell, low aim is So aim high, eyen if you attain your goal. And get your family to join you in mutual competition to get rid of slavery to bad habits. During the past few months Dr. Daniel Horn and Dr.

E. Cuyler Hammond gave us the report of an intensive survey of 188,000 men as regards the medical disadvantages of tobacco. This investigation was sponsored by the American Cancer society. Dr. Horn estimated that heavy eigarct smoing lops off 7 to 8 years from your lifespan, due to lung cancer, plus coronary heart trouble.

Moderate smokers lose 2 to 3 years. Cigar smokers shorten their lives an average of Vz years, while pipe smokers lose maybe 3 months. The average cigaret smoker burns up $100 annually on the ends of his cigarets. But if he earns $5.000 per year and shortens his life by only 2 years, that means he loses $10,000 in earning capacity, plus the $5.000 he spent over a 50-year span of smoking. So it costs him $15.000.

or an average of $300 EACH YEAR jn cold cash. DIETING ADVICE Each pound of surplus fat likewise helps shorten life. So you dieters can add to your lifespan and also save an average of at least $2.50 per pound in groceries by dissolving away that roll of excess upholstery around your equator. Plump wives, make a deal with your smoking husbands! You go on a diet while they quit tobacco. Add the salvaged money to your vacation fund or give part of it to your church.

When quitting tobacco, use candy coated gum and carry it in the same pocket as your former cigarets, so your arm wiil have a chance to go through the old pattern of movements similar to those when reaching for the cigaret. You dieters should dehydrate yourself for 10 days, till you lose the first 10 lbs. as per the booklet mentioned below. And. teen-agers, make an agenda of your next day's duties! Write down your chores and studies.

Then check them off as you finish them. never get half of my work done without such an agenda. And work on the 24-hour plan. Don't think too far ahead, for that is discouraging. Quit tobacco or overeating for Use short goals! Send for my booklet to Lose 10-Lbs.

in 10 enclosing a stamped return envelope, plus 20 cents (non-profit), It also contains a calorie chart..