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4 Belvidere Daily Republican, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1969 DR. COLEMAN Cysts, stones not inherited ailments Go slow -on Trailers Belvidere City Council's decision to post- pone action on a proposal to annex 60 acres of. property for a new mobile home park appears to be a wise move. Annexation of the property would bring the first mobile home park into the city limits, although other such parks are so near the city they use city water facilities.

The Council's decision to postpone action does not indicate a desire to keep mobile home parks out of the It is apparent that the city is going to have mobile homes within its limits as it continues to grow. Rather, the postponement is designed to give the city time to draft an ordinance to regulate establishment of the parks. The city has no ordinance now simply because it has never needed one. Faced now with the prospect of annexing the park, aldermen wisely chose to take their time and set some ground rules for this and future trailer parks. The ordinance committee should not move hastily in setting up regulations.

The ordinance passed this year should be designed to serve in future yejars as well. pevelbTieFSo the 60 acres in question, on Rt. W-nearvthe American Legion club, have said their development will be a "five-star" one, the highest classification of mobile home parks. But the city must think of future developments when it drafts its ordinance and consider every conceivable angle problem that may arise. That is a big order.

The county board of supervisors has experienced how involved the question of trailer parks' can become. With that in mind, the city should consider carefully the laws it lays down, and be prepared to defend and enforce them both now and in the future. Am Competition for spinach take tonics if a family is eating three normal, healthy meals a day? Mr. D.S. Wyoming Dear Mr.

I must confess that I do not know what is really meant by worn out, broken down, decrepit blood. I've never seen it under a microscope and honestly not believe it exists. When red blood cells have exhausted their function, they go to the hallowed burial ground in the liver and spleen and there, like the phoenix, rise up from the ashes and help build healthy blood again. Healthy red blood cells are manufactured in the spleen and the bone marrow and the rate at which they are produced depends on body needs and special requirements. Following injury, infection, or blood loss, the wonderful machinery of the body grinds out the red cells to fulfill those needs.

Expensive vitamin and mineral supplements are never necessary unless there are specific diseases which demand them. If there were pernicious anemia, scurvy, or beri-beri, doctors would suggest definite massive doses of vitamins. In the absence of known deficiencies, I believe that the elderly, the infirm, and young, growing children benefit from good, inexpensive vitamins in addition to a nourishing diet. I emphasize, inexpensive, because millions of dollars a year are spent unncessarily by people who can least afford it, on- excess vitamins. Is it possible to have a family tendency to form cysts and stones in the body? Both my mother and I have had stones in the gall bladder and cysts of the ovaries.

Mrs. N.I., Pa. Dear Mrs. I doubt that there is any hereditary tendency to the formation of either of the conditions that you and your mother had. Patients frequently say that all their particular trouble seems to be on one side and question the possibility of some inherent weakness.

This is not true and is simply a coincidence. Cysts are pouches which contain fluid or semisolid material. They occur in all parts of the body and in many instances are due to a blockage of the tiny tube that leads from the cysts resulting in accumulation of 'material. Cysts can occur in al- most every organ of the bocy and are almost always non-cancerous. When they grow to a very large size and put pressure on neighboring organs, they are removed even though they are benign.

The tendency to form stones is probably unrelated to any genetic background. Since diet plays an important role in the formation of stones, especially in the gall bladder, there may be instances of this condition in members of the same family who usually eat the same foods. It is estimated that more than 30 per cent of all women develop stones in the gall bladder, many of which lie dormant and produce no symptoms, I don't know why I find it difficult to resist the pun of "cysts and stones, etc." Does blood really get worn out? When is it necessary to From Republican files and proteins. Once they learn how spinach does it, researchers hope to duplicate the process in the laboratory to produce a chemical which, sprayed on weeds, would convert them into food plants. They report progress.

Several plant elements that intiate and control photosynthesis have been isolated. Success would certainly rank as a momentous scientific achievement, but chances are it would make no difference at all to countless small fry who already regard spinach as a weed. If a nice mess of weeds shows upas the piece de resistance on your dinner table in the not too distant future, blame scientists at the University of California. They are looking into possibilities of expanding our food supply by making hitherto despised garden weeds as nourishing as present food plants, such as spinach. Spinach happens to be a good example, since it is under the most intense study in the effort to decipher the secrets of photosynthesis, the complex chemical process by which green plants transform sunlight, carbon dioxide and water info food components, fats No Way to Brighten the Picture! lES PYETTE Shame the polluters Mod fashions fine, but beads must go Russia, where the government owns all the means of production and where the social ills caused by capitalism aren't supposed to exist, is apparently having as many difficulties in the matter of pollution as other less-enlightened industrialized countries.

The U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers has announced a seven-year pollution abatement campaign to try to clean up the aspian Sea, with stiff new regulations governing oil well operators, the shipping and fishing industries and community sewer systems. At the same time, because past directives have been ignored, it has adopted the weapon 'of public ridicule and scofn against these major sources of pollution. This is one page from the socialist book that might well be copied over here. Antipollution laws are a vital first step, but we will not begin making real progress until the day arrives when any manufacturer or company or municipality that dumps its wastes into the common national air or water or landscape is considered to be as irresponsible and disreputable as the Individual who dumps his garbage on the common highway.

SPEAKING OF YOUR HEALTH: A good place to convalesce after an illiness is in your own home. LETTERS 'Let work together ing about Donna's hemline ending at the knee. Today, the guys are talking about other things. see-through blouses, topless dresses and since this is a family newspaper, it's just about time to wrap things up. Not that 1 have anything against see-through blouses, mind you, but there's one word which will sum it all up for all men.

imagination. And in conclusion, folks, did you hear about Roger Fieck of Appleton, Poor Roger, he's not half the man he used to be. Fieck, using a secret diet, has reduced his waist size from 66 to 36. He has trimmed down from 420 to 181 pounds. it all hang out.

With most young people, the trend today is toward the mod look. You know, skip the barber1 a few times, buy bell-bottom trousers, knit yourself an egg-shell sweater, buy a bead or two, the ones which best fit your personality, and man, you are swinging. Cloud nine. 1 have a few friends who wear the sailor suits and have to brush their hair back to hear what you're saying. I don't mind the hair and bell bottoms.

If that's their selection, fine. But those beads. They got to go. They're feminine, guys. No symbols involved, Just a feminine piece of Jewelry.

Which brings us to the gals. I remember all the guys talk- Today, it's a small peak at fashion. Men and women. Not that I'm an expert. Far from it.

I own one suit and the left hip pocket on the pants is In desperate need of a tailor's needle. Once I was considered a hip dresser, though. Back about three years ago. I was single. Had a big, red fish.

Used to groove around in it all the time. Had the situation checked out pretty good. Used to wear sharp clothes, too. Why they were so sharp, I once stuck a friend with my tie pin. Fashions have changed.

Just a few short years ago a guy was considered a little strange if he let his shirttail hang out. Now, to coin a phrase, they let THOMAS A. LANE into the category of those pesky little gnats who have the nerve to question the society In which they happen to live. In reading Ron Freeberg's column, It seems to me he felt his idealism was wasted. The dreams that did not come true were wasted because they did not come true; the dream that To The Editor: It is unfortunate that as Ron Freeberg's dream begins to come true he is disappointed by the results.

His column ol Jan. 21 gave me the impression that perhaps he would like the younger generation to apologize for having advantages he never had. Well, it isn't our fault. 1 have never been in a war. In fact, 1 have not even died in an automobile accident yet.

(However, going on Ron Free-berg's advice, 1 would rather be killed in a war, as this method of death has been statistically proven to be less than one-third as painful as the automobile-accident variety.) I am not starving to death. I do not have to beg for a job to keep myself alive, This makes me totally inexperienced, which in turn automatically throws me 65 cup Jan. 23, 1904 An unknown man, helpless from exposure, lies at the Hazelo home in the town of Flora, so badly frozen that he is unable to talk, and his limbs are so frozen that it is feared that amputation will be necessary even if he lives which is doubtful. The man appeared at the Hazelo home this afternoon. The family heard a knock at the door and when it was opened the man tried to speak, staggered and fell from the steps into the snow.

He was helped into the house, and examination showed that he was seriously frozen. His boots could not be removed, so they seemed to be frozen solid to his feet. They were cut off with a knife and then it was evident that his feet were frozen. 25 ifecvti, cup Jan. 23, 1944 Formidable American and British assault forces now are massed in the expanding Allied beachhead south of Rome in preparation for a quick drive at their main objective (apparently Rome) It was announced officially today.

Gen. Sir Henry Mait-land Wilson, Mediterranean commander in chief, announced that the bulk of the Invasion force had been landed and plans were shaping up swiftly to strike anew as soon as possible. The Allied troops were fanning inland against negligible German resistance, and already were within artillery range of the Appian way and threatening to cut all transport lines to the Garigllano front where 100,000 Nazi troops faced possible entrapment. Universities mis judge motivation for revolt did come at least partly true wag wasted because a more prosperous way of life for at least some Americans has led to a generation of students who have time to worry about peace instead of potatoes. If you feel you are too old, Mr.

Freeberg, to do anything for this world (which I doubt, although you class yourself among the very old and very wise), please do not hate us because we still have a chance to realize our dreams. If you think you might Just have a tiny shred of life clinging to those old bones, why don't we all work together, and. Instead of arguing among ourselves, fight the real enemy if we can manage to find him? Maybe we have made some progress, though, because this dialogue between the "old men" and the "young men" has at least placed a few planks over the gap lefween them. We are no closer, Im at least we know both sides are concerned. RATI I Bl RKF.

Bl IS Senior Ideas not new BHS frosh says To The Lditor: If we are supposed to excuse the HI IS senior for his surely he can excuse me for mine. Ijke most people 1 have a desire for the truth both sides ol it. The UHS senior tells us the Saigon government is corrupt. Somehow, he forgot to answer this question; How is a government supposed to lc free from corruption when the people are ignorant and have had little or no experience in governing themselves, and with a war going on In the country? The war In Vietnam is not so much about the regime which we are fighting for, as it Is about the system which we are fighting against: communism. That system put more than 5,000,000 to death In hina between 'SO and "55, following In the footsteps of the Great Purge in Russia, which had 8 or 10 million people killed.

(My source is the (iuiness Hook of World Rei ords). Perhaps the 30,000 American lives sacrificed will prevent that from happening in Vietnam. The BUS senior talks aloui the dreams and aspirations of the younger generation as II they were something new, when they have really been around since the beginning of man. The younger generation's "perfect" new ideas of life are actually very old. Let's step down and Join the human race.

UHS Freshman 10 qeate, cup WASHINGTON In the recent wave of illegal violence waged by black students against selected universities, demands for "black studies department" have featured the strife. Insurgents, have also demanded the right to control the new department, making It virtually Independent of university authority. This Is part of the revolutionary tactic, viVhen colonial powers moved into darkest Africa, their scientists followed. Anthropologists and sociologists and all the rest recorded their ol- by white scholars. As native peoples developed their own professional elites, these made important contributions to the record.

How competent were these early studies of the African peoples? Were they truly scientific or were they marred by racial bias? Science knows no color lines. Studies made with objectivity should be valid. But in some branches of sociology which are not truly scientific In nature, we can suppose that either bias or simple Ignorance would produce mlsjudgment. Perhaps revision is in order; black scholar might well have special Interest In the work. If he is competentand is trained -in the disciplines of scholarly research, he may be the preferred instrument.

But if he is not competent and" trained, the whole effort may be wasted. It Is reasonable to establish, when there Is student demand and a competent staff can be assembled, a major in African history corresponding to the majors in European and Asian history. This has already been done In some of our leading universities. This is not what the student Insurgency is all about. The movement is not aimed at the enlargement of African studies programs.

That is merely the pretext. The movement conceives Itself to be In revolt against capitalist oppression. It seeks to establish a national history for black citizens to support the rationale that blacks are not Americans. Its real Jan. 23, 1959 Belvidere officers and U.S.

secret service agents, with help from a 17-year-old high school student, broke up what promised to be a vast counterfeiting operation with a surprise raid last night of a rear area of the Apollo Coffee Shop on North State street. Federal and local authorities declined to identify the suspected counterfeiter who had been In Belvidere for "two or three years." The counterfeiting suspect told authorities of plans to distribute phony coins throughout northern Illinois and Into Wisconsin. The arrest was made possible throuch the cooperation of Donald Swanlund. servatlons. because western science was so far advanced, Who will do the revision? all the early studies were made Must It be a black man? A RAY CROMLEY WORLD U.

Alexis Johnson urpose Is revolutionary action. aid Nixon team f'Ul ts wi motivation is Marxist. Absolute freedom ol the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty DAILY REPUBLICAN CREDO I staUished H')3 dJtl except Sunday ly Ik-lvulere Iteih Keput li. at, 401 Iclvideri. III.

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Rebellious students demand the creation of an African studies department which shall be tree of all university discipline and subject to tlie exclusive control of black revolutionaries. They want to set up in the university a base of power from which to attack the whole tradition of free enquiry. Our Institutions will not be preserved and Improved by forsaking standards of personal responsibility and Justice, by tolerating arrogant abrogation of the rights of serious students, by condoning the resort of factions to violence. Our institutions of higher learning have a serious obligation to meet the. legitimate interests of black citizens.

They must not suppose, however, that these Interests are served by truckling jo revolution. College presidents who shirk responsibility in fear of strife do in fact invite the strife they abhor. They are serious liabilities to our society and to the institutions they nominally lead. WASHINGTON (NLA) I. Alexis Johnson's appointment as undersec retary of state for political affairs marks the fifth time in U.S.

history that an active career diplomat has held so high a post. This Is a man of unusual character, ability and experience. This reporter first ran across Johnson in 1936 when he as a language student in Japan. In 32 years covering the State Department in Washington and abroad, this writer has never met a finer career public official. You could disagree with Johnson's Conclusions at limes.

You could never disagree with his honesty pr ever believe that he acted from anything but the highest motivation. It is easy In hindsight to question some of his recommendations. Considering the in-' formation available at the time, this manactedIogKalryndith surprising insight. He is no doctrinaire extre mist. He knows that in foreign affairs there are no perfect solutions.

There are often onl the least undesirable of a variety of undesirable answers. Johnson is no dove and no hawk, lie looks to long-run goals, rather than short-term objectives. If the long-term alms demand accepting short-term losses, he will accept that logic. He is a man of no pretense. When he doesn't know the answer, he does not pretend that he does.

When he believes in a course of action, he pursues It to the best of his ability. But he does not believe those mho disagree are thereby frauds or fools. Johnson has spent many years In the thick of dealing with Communist crises and In meeting with Communist negotiators. He was deputy assistant secretary of state for the Far East during the Korean mar and true negotiations and deputy undersecretary oTTtate for political affairs during the negotiations for a three part government in Laos. In 1964 and 1965 he was deputy ambassador In South Vietnam and was ambassador to Czechoslovakia in the stormy 19S3-58 period.

He attended the Geneva conference on Vietnam and Korea In 19S4 and was co-ordlnator of the Korea sessions. He spent much of 1955-57 negotiating with the Chinese Communists in Geneva and Warsaw on the return of U.S. prisoners and other major U.S.-Peking problems. As a result, Johnson is under no Illusions about the difficulties and traps in negotiating with the Communists. He does not despair about the practicability of such talks.

He has not forgotten the les-anna of Korea, Laos or Czechoslovakia. But be believes there are workable diplomatic paths to pursue inasmuch as the Com munist States and the United States live on the same globe. of if.e Associated Press. 1U- AsMtiatcd Press is eMitled exclusively to the use (or republication of all the local nes primed in this ncspap-r. as well as all AP news dispatches.

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