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1^ ^ i. ; <- r ’ THURSDAY, DECEMBER a , 19BB mm -Th* Fre«pori Pott M e * wUl baVa .fio window Mrrico «nd ao; catrler deli^oty »«rTic* on Do- emxibut 26, 1966 and January % 1967 in eommomoralioo of dxrisff ina* and H w Y mt ' o Day^^ ^ Spodal dolirery mail wU dallTorad 'a* recoived and Ihw lobby will ba opan from 9 aan* to 5 p;m. for iha conTanience of boxholders. B 0 M Miss Margaret Gibbs (right) of 171 Evans Ave., Freeport, re ceives on Allstate Foundation Nursing Scholarship Award from Kathy Maibach, industrial nurse of Allstate Insurance Companies, us Miss Breda Nolan of Nassau Community College,' School of Nursing, looks oh. ' Miss Gibbs, a student nurse at. Nassau Community College, is reediving an annual scholorship o( S300.00 for each of the two years of her school program. The All state, Foundation gives grants fo(aling<660,a00 anually to Schoob of Nursing, countrywide, to pro-’ vide nursing scholarship. In the four counties of Long Islandi there arc seven, such grants totaling $2,- SSO.OO annually. The recipients are selected by the schooFs Scholar ship Committee on the basis of- quality and need. ' Happy Hofidays? ...It's Up To You By THOMAS F. McMAHON Will a couple of alcoholic drinks affect your vision? The New York S tate Department of Motor Vehicles wasn’t sure, HO it decided to And out. It wanted the information so that It could prepare reasonably accurate drinking-drlvlng safety posters and television film clips. . How did the Department go Some.. 30 d^erent kinds of evergreens ore used at Chiistmas: time in the United States. i^d^RVS • • I m f I ... (- C o m e r of M ilburn & A llaniic Aves. i for resenrallone * BA 3-9727 a t the TOWERS [BALDWIN aaw w u a u . a n v .w j / u i ai<ti.iaa (pw nboiit finding out? By throwing a party—with the .assistance of tho IDivlsioh.. of Alcoholbm, -De- l>9rtmont o t. Mental; H y g iene- . for |a specially, selected group of vdlUfiteejrH.' and testing., their vi- ■' Blon'os they drank.-, TherO were 16 nten ond women in . the group —aU: over age. 21, and all per sons = who classified themselves «8 ’^social drlnkon.” ; ' \ The party began at noon-with (5 hungry volunteers who hodn'l . eateii since breakfast. Before, tho drinking began, a representative of the New York State Optometrlc u n t ^ r were already tipsy. And tholr vision also was Im paired. The second eye test, one hour imd.onc drink after the fitef test, showed: —Tht - beginnings' of. s6-call^ '‘tunhel vision.” It was as lliqugh the wide screen of one’s vision was being .gibwly darken^ be ginning at the four,; outer bord e r and moving inward. -^A slight but m e a^rable loss of sharpness of irnages seen, as though through a camera sii^U y out of focus.' second drink—another • Ilndlnga. Tl.eu.\e»ch, participmt \ ?u^rlstag ' was given o high-poweted “screwdriver”—two ounces.'of 100 proof vodka (about one ounce of ^cohol) in 0 small glass of orange juici*. _____ Each participant was ‘ glveii about five mlnute,s to fliiisH :his centent r m g ^ from '.03 per cent to '06 per cent. Under tlew York State law, a-reading of .05:^ per cent is-“impaired” for drivers- ■*?^giS@^SSS povimred *0me of the vot results: Breath alcohol content ranged between ,07 per cent and 10 pbr cent. Under New York State law, you are legally iTPipaired with only *10 per cent, and hitoxtcated with ^15 per cent iami aboverAf- itphess of the im age. '• •. The test ended after the. sec ond drink, with eandwichea and cpffoe for the participants;. Tl\en7’ LYMAN DURYEA SAYS THANK YOU 1 wbuld Jike to take this opportunity to publicly diank all of nyy friends arid customers for their past patronagre and t o ^ t e n j l ; i ■.jw— -j... ...^ .. to AU. 1