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Foul air By ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (Distributed by NEA Special Services) Swing Into Spring Howard Wolf Country Set Charm 'Fred Rothschild and Many Others Fashion Showplace Brasespect Village Shaping Center Lets Jackson CY 7:6402 YOUR PERSONAL adds to There was a heavy fog blanket over the valley town of Donora, Oct. 26, 1948. Smokestacks, as industrial plants fired up, poured more grime into the poisonous aerini stew. Soon, the air could hold no more and there was a shower of dirt that laid a black contIng on homes and streets. For the next four days In Donora there was little ditterence between day and night.

At the end, when rains came, 5,910 of the 14,000 residents had been made ill and 17 had died, It was a fearsome example of what happens when a temperature inversion (cold air above -warm air below) puts a cap on heavy air pollution and does not let it move away, The combination of fog, industrial wastes, furnace and incinerator smoke and the byproducts of truck and car engine combustion are stranglers for those with respiratory allergies. In asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis, there is a constant struggle to breathe, Pollution makes it just that A few facts: In Los Angeles, 10,000 tons of exhaust gases and unburned gasoline vapor goes into the air each weekday from million autos burning 7 million gallons of gasoline. In Chicago, 50,000 smokestacks expel 570,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 142,000 tons of soot each year. Ninety per cent of our pollution consists of such colorless gases as carbon monoxide, Shakespeare's liamlet has words that fit the situation: "This most excellent canoPY, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appearest no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors." Many of the pollutants are poisons and there is a vast difference between a poison and those comparatively harmless things which cause allergies. Yet, while pollution imperils everyone, it is especially difficult for the allergy-sensitive.

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Persons who have not received a card from another source may use the one printed in this issue of The Facts. susceptibilities. In some instances, a sort of snythetic asthma appeared; In a smoggy Tokyo area, military personnel developed such symptoms. They would disappear when they left but showed up, stronger than. ever, when they returned.

Unfortunately, this synthetictype asthma can go on to blossom into emphysema. The degenerative effect of pollution on chronic cases of asthma and emphysema is well established. Its action as a fuse to touch off allergies is under strong suspicion, (NEXT: Woes of Babyhood) See "ALLERGY" coupon on page 15. page 15. Man bilks Angleton woman ANGLETON A man used a ruse to gain entrance to a home and then ran away with a billfold containing $50.

The theft was reported by Julia Butiste of 607 North Columbia, police said, The investigation was underway Friday. Chief of Police Richard Kaufman said the woman told officers that a man posed as a gas company employee, He asked to check the kitchen stove, and she took him to the kitchen, Chief Kaufman said, The chief reported that the man evidently spotted the billfold, a and that he grabbed it and 1 ran from the home. He said the billfold reportedly contained $50. Slide show set A program in color slides of "Animal Kingdoms of the Ancient Seas" will be shown at the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science in Lake Jackson at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

FROM PAGE ONE Nol at Home FAMILY RELIGIOUS CENSUS CARD Vacant Refused .00 New Construction Family Name Assignment No. Residence Address Apt. Telephone No. Post Office. Zip Code.

Date W.Weekly Attendance Date Birth of meds Given Name Sex lion Rela- Church? Member of Where? What Whal Member Sunday School1 5-Seldom Monthly tian Church Preference (or 8.9 N- Never Month Unable to altend because of health Absentee member in Aimed Services Unable to attend because of work Absentee member in school Language spoken in the home other than English This Information is for Church Use Only Code 436-796. Form 796, Broadman Supplies, Nashville, Tennessee, Printed in USA (Revised 1966) Henry service set Monday SWEENY Funeral services for Guy Robertson Henry will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in West Columbia. Henry, 71, died Saturday afternoon in Sweeny Community Hospital. A long -time resident of Sweeny, Henry worked for Dunnam Grocery in Old Ocean and was a World War 11 veteran.

He lived at 607 Elm St. in Sweeny. The Rev. Charles W. Roberts, pastor, will officiate with burial following at Sweeny Cemetery, Sweeny Funeral Home is in charge of arrange ments.

Henry is survived by his wife, Verna Ellzabeth; two daughters, Mrs. Helen 0. Greer of Freeport and Mrs. Marilyn M. Franze Jr.

of North Carolina; two sisters, Mrs. Gladys Baird of Huntsville and Mrs. Olive Dunnam of El Paso, and four grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Larry Kownslar of Sweeny, Sam Wooderson of West Columbla, Bob Price of Rosenberg, Earl Cameron of Angleton, H. C.

Mollard of Houston and J. L. Massoletti of Freeport. Honorary pallbearers are Edgar Martin and Howard Grover, both of Boling, and Harvey FranzeSr. of Wharton.

Government to public attention. a citizen right now has problems with the police department, he can bring them before the Councll, The Council can inquire. The problem, and whatever the Council finds out about it, are public knowledge. wwith an appointed city judge, the citizen would have the same right regarding Corporation Court, "But with an elected judge, the Council has no right of inquiry into problems a citizen might have with the office. A citizen doesn't have that right elther, "So actually, making the office appointive gives a citizen means of bringing problems In Corporation Court before both the Council, which cando something about the problems; and before the public, which can also do something about the Robbery case back to county The robbery of a Houston man has "bounced back' to this county after being referred by local officers to Houston police.

Sheriff's Dept, Investigator C. O. Daniel sald Ray Henson was apparently robbed of about $100 and a diamond ring in this county. He sald the robber then reportedly drove Henson to the louston International Airport area and knocked him into a ditch there. Lake LWV meeting called A meeting of the Lake Jackson League of Women Voters has been called for 9 Stonday at the home of Mrs.

Leonard Levine, president, Her address is 246 Forest Drive. The meeting is for a conterence with Mrs. M. S. Braunagel, state field service specialist for the League.

She has been asked to aid In planning continued operation of the Lake Jackson group on a limited basis, because finance drives have not been successful In raising funds tor full FROM PAGE ONE equal number of residents, based on 1960 census figures. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that districts must be designed to be 'S nearly equal as possible tu give everycitizen nearly equal representation. Hargrove sald his bill comes within about four per cont of equality Inall districts and the other two bills are iLS good or better on this point. One of the other bills WILS Introduced by representatives from San Antonto and the other was Introduced by 3 West Texas Republican, He said that one legislative redistricting proposal might be presented at the hearing but that the legislative dis. trict question is still a nebulous matter.

flairgrove explained that attempts are being made to get more guidelines from the federal courts as to just what would be accepted in correction of present problems. His tentative Idea is that the present Brazorla- Fort Bend district might be spilt by putting part of Brazoria County with Fort Bend County and making one district of the THE BRAZOSPORT FACTS Freeport, Texas, Sunday March 12, 1967, PAGE. 16 scale action. YOU'RE ONLY 45 MINUTES FROM THE GULF COAST'S FINEST SEAFOOD RESTAURANT and MOTEL Galveston 37 39th Beach Bled. Serving fresh local red snapper, shrimp, trout, flounder and crab all prepared to perfection.

and enjoy your favorite imported or domestic wine with your dinner. remainder of Brazoria Coun, ty. Ife said House Speaker Ben Barnes is now in Washington along wIth a Congressional and Legislative Districts Committee member, seeking guideline Information, Hairgrove said that law requires all district boundaries to be drawn on the basts of 1060 census figure, but that, there have been indications that the courts might consider. leniency toward areas that have demonstrated rape! growth, If the apparent growth would be in a direction to cort rect Inequality of district sizes. Ile said much pressure for protection of Incumbent leg.

Islators has been evident. This he cited as the reason for adoption of the present district plan that has been condemned by the Supreme Court, He said the plans approved by the House and Senate 1p the last session of the Legis. lature were far more equal in district size than the cur. rent plan, but they caused Sumne displacement of legislators. lie gald this meant that be.

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System To Return $750 INCLUDES: VISUALINE Balance Front Wheels With Weights Furnished $300 Repack Front Wheels And Adjust Wheel Bearings Inspect Brakes for Hydraulic Leaks, Low Fluid, $250 Master Cylinder Leakage and Lining Wear $200 Special Reduced Price Regular Price $1500 ONLY '9 GM Air Cars Slightly Higher. All Work Done By Ford Factory Trained Technicians FRED CLAIBORNE FORD 220 HIWAY 332 AN 5-4224 problems," Norman said. Norman emphasized that there were no personalities involved in the study, "We're not for or against any clique, We're not antiHester (Albert Hester Is the Incumbent judge). These are our own ideas. "The problems we've been having are the outgrowth of a system that doesn't work, not of any Individual personalities involved in the system." Stability of city government is necessary in order to hire and keep competent, experlenced administrators of city departments, he said, "A good administrator of any department has to have the feeling that he'll be allowed to do job, and he has to have some security.

"Also, even a good, experlenced man has to stay in the community awhile to do his best. He has to know this particular community to do the best job for It. file is most valuable when he buys a horne here and participates in the life and activities of Clute. A newcomer -and we've had too many just cannot identify himself with the community until he has been with us a while.".