B4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 15,1983
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To someone, bitten with the
writing bug, that moment when
you first see something you’ve
written come out in print, spelled
out there in news or magazine
print, brings a rewarding
satisfaction.
But the greatest harvest of seeds
of an article idea has to be in any
feedback it elicits from readers.
Sometimes, such response
comes as a gentle, comforting pat
on the head. Other times, it
descends more like a baseball bat.
Regardless, writers without
readers might just as well hock
their typewriters or video ter
minals and let their fingers walk
into some other line of em
ployment.
So when a letter of reader
response arrives, forwarded from
the editor, it’s welcomed with
anticipation and appreciation that
someone would take time to write,
whether it’s with you, or a’gain
you.
A letter received last week not
only wanned my heart, but won
applause from other family
members.
“Hurrah,” said the letter.
“True, some crop ground renters
or ‘land scalpers,’ as we call them
here, plant com or beans from
border to border of farms, uphill
and downhill, over grass strips,
sod waterways, even out to the
edge of the macadam roadbed.”
The column in question had been
on conservation and the washing
away of our soils, by careless land
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On being
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Joyce Bupp
renters, tillage a concern shared
by the farmer who wrote the
above. “It is every farmer’s duty
to save our soil it is for their
own benefit and future
generations, ’ ’ he added.
At lunchtime, the farmer picked
up the handwritten letter that had
arrived with the daily influx of
assorted end-of-month bills.
I could sense what was coming,
from the grin that followed.
“Please write again; blast off
your mouth and mind,” he read
aloud, from the letter, breaking
into appreciative laughter.
“Yeah. If I didn’t know better.
I’d swear you wrote that part," I
retorted.
Three hours later. Teenager
arrives home from school, sorts
through the mail seeking an an
swer from one of her dozen world
wide penpals. Finds my letter.
Gets to the “shoot off your mouth
and mind part.” Loud laughter and
hoots.
“Boy, Mom, this guy has you
figured out.”
So, Mr. S., with encouragement
like yours, and the continued
tolerance of such soap-boxing from
publishers, editors, readers and
my long-suffering family, I will
continue to shoot off my mouth.
That is, if 1 can keep my foot out
of it long enough.
LANCASTER Hypothermia is
caused by prolonged exposure to
the cold, but it doesn’t take sub
zero temperatures. Also known as
cold exposure, hypothermia, is the
lowering of the body’s inner core
temperature to dangerous levels—
typically 96 P or below.
While extended exposure to the
cold ran harm anyone, it is par
ticularly hazardous to the elderly.
Nearly half of all hypothermia vic
tims are over 65.
Hypothermia can be prevented.
Dressing warmly during the day
and while sleeping, eating enough
of the proper foods, and staying as
active as possible are good ways to
maintain body heat. If possible,
older persons should not be alone
for very long or should ask friends
or neighbors to look in on them
once or twice a day, particularly in
severe cold weather.
“One of the first signs of
hypothermia is uncontrolled
shivering,” says Joseph Car
denuto, Penn State Extension
recreation specialist. "This is the
body’s mechanism to create heat.
Other symptoms are numbness
and drowsiness, staggering, failing
eyesight all leading to un
consciousness.”
The temperature doesn’t have to
be below zero for hypothermia to
set in. Exposure to moisture on
chilly days can also lead to
hypothermia.
Wet clothing is a major factor in
accidental hypothermia. Wet
clothing can extract beat from the
body 240 times faster than dry
clothing.
In cold weather, wear several
thin layers of clothing, rather than
one bulky layer. Several layers
retain body heat more effectively.
If it is rainy, he stresses the im
portance of a parka or a down coat
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But wet clothing is not the only
way body heat is taken away.
Human heat naturally radiates
from the body from the head, in
particular. An uncovered head can
consume up to 75 percent of the
body’s heat.
Body heat is lot through con
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weather draws heat from the body.
A fourth way is evaporation.
When you work up a sweat,
evaporation takes heat from the
body. Simply breathing also allows
heat to aid “convection”
Indiana Co. 4-H’er
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FARM SHOW - Pamela Ross of
Marion Center, Indiana County,
captured first place in the first
year 4-H entomology classes at the
67th Farm Show.
Winner for second-year 4-H
members was Michael Dwyer of
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Brian Petro of Pennsylvania
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Sylvia Rover of Lebanon was the
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