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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 3, 1964
Picnics Bring Danger Of Food Contamination
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Food poisoning usually is brought on by eating food which has been contaminated by toxic bacteria.
Cleanliness and refrigeration are the combined solution to food contamination.
Foods most likely to be poisoned are picnic favorites—eggs, fish, fowl, and dairy products.
THE SYMPTOMS of food poisoning are nausea, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, headache, chills, and fever, appearing from six to 48 hours after eating the contaminated food.
When symptoms signal, call a doctor. Attacks usually last 24 to 48 hours and very rarely can cause death.
IN THE PREPARATION of summer foods in the home, remember that the cleanest-looking hands ordinarily carry millions of staphylococcii which thrive in the foods named above.
To guard against food poisoning, watch eggs, fish and chicken salads or sandwiches. Mayonnaise dressing alone can become unfit for use if not properly refrigerated. Dried eggs may cause epidemics of diarrhea.
Nowadays housewives are learning, as are restaurant workers, that washing with a new anti-bacterial skin detergent (Phisohex), removes staph and counters their regrowth.
Doctors use the detergent before surgery. Nurses use it before handling newborn babies. Its use in home and restaurant keeps and helps staph contamination down and helps prevent food poisoning.
KEEP THE susceptible picnic food refrigerated until you leave for the picnic site. Use insulated bags and ice to keep the food cool in travel and before you eat.
Watch out, too, for things that like to feast on humans at picnics, camps, or in the backyard.
At best, insects are an annoyance, even when they don't bite or sting. At worst, they are life threatening when they are vectors of disease. Sometimes their stings can cause fatal allergic reactions.
If your druggist cannot recommend a mosquito repellent to keep you relatively free of these pesky creatures, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) can.
IF YOUR PROBLEM is fire ants or black widow spiders or any other anti-human creatures, the USDA research service can help you also.
The common sense approach to these and other summer health hazards is best described by the following:
Thresher Inquiry Ends—No Solution
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Congress has completed its inquiry into the Thresher tragedy. One investigator said no one knows why the nuclear submarine went down with all 129 crew members.
After a three-hour closed meeting, the Joint Atomic Energy Committee finished its exhaustive investigation of the world's worst submarine disaster.
Intensive efforts have failed to locate the Thresher, which sank in deep Atlantic waters 220 miles east of Boston on April 10.1963.
Sen. John O. Pastore, D-R.I., committee chairman, said, "No one knows exactly what happened" because the wreckage was not located. But numerous possible causes have been mentioned, including structural failure.
The committee will issue a report on the disaster which "will spell out what might have been the cause," Pastore said.
Jerry K. Barland, a University of Kansas alumnus, has been appointed assistant track and field coach at Stanford University. He is a high school coach at La Puente, Calif.
Barland Is Named Stanford Coach
After graduation, Barland was assistant freshman football and head varsity soccer coach at KU. He also taught physical education at KU.
He has taught physical education at various high schools in Kansas and Missouri.
Common sense, relatively uncommon, is the kind of sense you realize afterward you should have used beforehand.
Starts SATURDAY!
TONITE!
4 BIG UNITS!
8:10 — "13 Frightened Girls"
10:00 — FIREWORKS!
10:25 — "Drums of Africa"
12:05 —
"Road to Hong Kong"
Open 7:00 Starts Dusk
SATURDAY ONLY!
John Wayne in 2 Big Hits "Wings of Eagles" "North to Alaska"
rius
"Jack The Giant Killer"
SUN. - MON.
James Stewart
Sandra Dee
"Take Her, She's Mine"
Plus
"The Dream Maker"
FRIDAY FLICKS
presents Alfred Hitchcock's
"PSYCHO"
starring Janet Leigh & Tony Perkins
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