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Many thanks for your March 3 article "Gun, Gat & Rod." With the exception of a very few, all children's shows on the current TV programs seem to be composed of nothing but gangsters, tough cowboys, blustering, blood & thunder pictures which give every child from Maine to Louisiana the idea that it is right and honorable and pure heroism to shoot and kill in cold blood. At the tender age of four years, my daughter has a well-established idea that it is nice to shoot people...
...mothers concluded: "The gun, the gat, the rod, the six-shooter is the prime motivator of most children's TV programs. Life ... is cheaper than a cigarette butt in a gutter. Not one episode, not one character, not one emotion did we see evoked that the children might emulate to their gain." Their recommendation: "If we had our way, we would make it compulsory for every TV official to sit down and take four hours of the punishment we have just taken, but every week...
...requirements had been met in St. Francis' well-run operating room. The main exception was that the anesthesia machine itself had not been grounded, and on this, some experts violently disagree with the bureau: grounding the machine, they say, may make it behave like a lightning rod. There was nothing to suggest that the Evanston accident had been caused by a spark outside the machine. The explosion had been inside it, and the best evidence was that the spark originated there, too-probably in a valve...
Glass fiber wool is used as insulating and soundproofing material, because it will not shrink, rot or absorb moisture; it goes into practically all refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, trucks and cars. Glass textiles are used for wiring insulation and as curtains and drapes. Three years ago a glass fishing rod was put on the market; now 10 million glass poles are in use. Boeschenstein knows how to advertise his products. In a "roving revue" the stars were an unbaked cherry pie, a quart of ice cream and a pot of hot coffee. The ice cream (wrapped in glass wool...
...pictured above, a boat & bay rod, that may be purchased for only $9.00, would make an ideal Xmas gift...