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AUGUST 20, 1969 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 13 safety conscious is a high price to pay. Statistics show that 50% of Canada's blindness is preventable and that more than 300,000 eye acci+ dents occur annually in industry alone. Sight is a precious possession. Be safety con- scious while you still have it. Use eye protection when the situation calls for it. Keep looking at life with both eyes. Skirts may get even shorter. SOME FIND LOOPHOLES © THE MAN EXTRADITED from Britain as the alleged killer of Martin Luther King found that the British and U § authorities move swiftly. Apparently it would have been better for him had he been a high-ranking member of a powerful union. In that event, he might have fought his extradition and, at the last moment, somebody might have decided that he was not extraditable. ae : a Taken from the Printed Word "DID YOU SEE THAT MINI-SKIRT GO BY?" Too bad you aren't seeing very well. Impaired eyesight take a lot of pleasure out of life. There are many ways to acquire 'one sided' looks at life, or none at all. For one, don't wear safety goggles when your job calls for it. Like the forest worker with two eyes and no safety goggles who didn't look to seewhere he was going. After tangling with a tree he now has only one eye to see with. Or the man who was using a drill, and a splinter of ' steel from the drill entered his eye. Or the man who was using a piece of pipe to hammer a rear spring hanger ona car. A chip broke off the, pipe and struck his eye. Neither were wearing safety goggles. Now, looking at life is a one-sided job. Another good way to lose your sight is not to use protection when handling chemicals, caustics, corrosives or acids and leaving your eyes vulnerable to splashes. Or not using eye protection when the job you are doing results in particles flying in the air Like the man who was tearing up an old wood floor and the wood was dry and powdery. He got slivers in his eyes. There are many other ways. You probably have experienced some yourself. Must you bse your sight to become safety conscious Because of their serious handicap, blind workers may be more safety conscious and less apt to be injured than sighted workers. Recently, an almost complete- ly blind industry worker won a safety award for having no industrial accidents in ten years, o very commendable feat. HE METS SUDDEN . ARRIVAL 45 A POWER W EASEBILL STEMS SEAVER WAS ONE FEW ROOKIE PITCHED EVER BE NAMED 7D ILL-STAR TEAM IN 1966. i BE MIS GREATEST YETooe But losing one's sight to become