Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1954 — Page 9

SECTION TWO

TV Shows Affect Household Chores Survey Shows TV Effect On Homes NEW YORK, UP — Television lias caused more changes in home life than a new baby, one survey of homemakers reveals. Living rooms have become dining rooms, coffee tables dining tables, and the dinner hour dependent on network schedules. A whole new problem in child rearing Has gTsW=the problem of how to get the children away from the set and to bed on sched-

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Dlahwaehing has become a complex chore — with homemakers either getting them done in a hurry once the meal Is over, leaving them in the sink, or washing them a few at u time during station breaks. Television has speeded up housework for some women, slowed ft up for others. Survey 100 Families The changes wrought by the new medium were outlined in a survey of 100 families In the Philadelphia area, the eheck, made by door-to-door questioning, was conducted by a washing powder clinic. (Tide) which keeps tab on how AmerTcallves, so it <Kb can know how It keeps clean. Nearly two-thirds of the women

said their families often eat and watch television at the same time. One-third of the housewives planned their menus around their favorite shows. Meals which could be served on one platter, and eaten off end-tables, coffee tables or laps were the favorites. Some of the homemakers reported the children made the shopping decisions. Mom has to buy the cereal the space man eats. Eleven percent of the Women admitted to having burned at least one meal while engrossed in TV. A bride of six months confessed, "I don’t need TV to make me burn the meals.” Half the women said their dishwashing routine had been altered. Family Arguments, Too "Sometimes we leave tnem and

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rush out to the sink between acts," said one matron. "This is a show in itself.” One family said it hit on the Idea of locking the kitchen door until the last pot was dried and put away. Forty-eight percent of the women tried to do housework and watch at the same time. Ten women reported scorching shirts as a result. One woman reported having her eyes crossed. Others confessed family arguments. "He hates comedians and plays/’ said one wife. *’l hate fights.”More than 50 percent of the women said television- definitely had helped them do their Job as homemakers. They praised the tips from cooking shows in particular.

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“Why we never knew where to put our plants, until we got a TV set,” said one woman. Another reported, ”1 don’t have to work as hard. Nobody notices a little dust now.” "Cheep" Trick FORT WORTH, Tex., UP—Burglars entered the Western Hatcheries and made off with 17 crates of hatching eggs. , Not On The Menu MEMPHIS, Tenn., UP — Diane Moore rushed off to school, picking up her “lunch bag" off the TV set. A tew hours later, her father called her out of the class-room. Diane had picked up a sack of TV tubes by mistake.

M 6 I fl fIL if .<■■ j|[ j A v | < Bkj||||SE| J. V& r *▼* V SHAKES iqcrum IT'S THE WRONG season for curb service, these two raft riders learn as they negotiate eight-foot-deep flood waters in Guerneville, Calif., where a winter storm sent the Russian river over its banka. Guerneville is a summer resort area. (International Boundphoto t

U. S. Stamp Issues Aid To Knowledge Good In Geography, Historical Studies The collecting of postage stamps is an easy way to learn something of both the history and the geography of the United States. The 32-stamp regular, or definitive, issue which came into use in 1938, depicts, in order, the 29 U. S. presidents from Washington through Coolidge. In addition, Benjamin Franklin, founder of the U. S. postal service, is on the %-cdht stamp; Martha Washington on the 1%-cent, and the White House on the 4 >4-cent stamp. . , Events commemorated by single stamps or sets, these having been Issued more frequently in the past, range-front the discovery of America by. Columixqs. In. .M,Weri4j War’ll and touch upon manyha> penings in between. In addition to historical developments, stamps also provide a close look at cultural aspects. Thus, in 1949, a 35-stamp series of “Famous Americans” was issued. That series was divided into seven groups of five stamps each, honoring authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, artists and inventors. Geographically, many stamps include maps of individual states or regions within their design. It is .possible to trace the cotlfse of much of the Revolutionary War through stamps which have been issued to commemorate battles or individual heroes of that war. Industry has not been neglected by the U. S. Post Office Department, either. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad was noted on its 100th anniversary in 1944. That year also saw stamps marking the 125th anniversary of the S. S. Savannah, the first steam-propelled ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean; the centenary of the telegraph and the 50th anniversary of motion pictures. The centennial of the American poultry industry was the subject for a stamp in 1948; Peter Stuyvesant was pictured on another 1948 stamp that honored 300 years of volunteer firemen. The American Bankers Association, in 1960, and the American Bar Association,

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in 1953, are professional organizations which have been honored. Sports have not been forgotten. Both summer and winter Olympic Games were held in the United States in 1932, and three stamps were issued that year which depicted a skier, a runner and a discus grower. Meant of transportation —- particularly the airplane — are common subjects for U. S. stamps. Ships form a part qf the design of more stamps than any other mode of transportation. But you can find an ox cart on the Minnesota Territory stamp of 1949. teams of oxen with a wagon on the Oregon Territory, Swedish pioneer and Fort Kearny stamps of 1948, or the Utah Centennial of 1947, and a Pony. Express rider on a 1940 stamp. Although war forms a motif for many stamps, peace is not forgotten. In 1948, a special stamp commemorated IDO years of friendship between the United States and Canada. . . f No matter what sublet jtfliwpft, interested in, a little digging probably willdisclose that IfliM lieeh commemorated in some fashion on a United States stamp.

AM In lt« battle against polio, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has become the largest Importer of monkeys In the country. They are used In making the trial vaccine which will be tested In 1954 and In other polio research financed by the March of Dimes. Scientists examine one of the monkeys kfter Its flight to the U. S.

Long Way Around MEMPHIS, Tenn., UP — The . mail does go through. A letter from Germany addressed to “Gimml W. Griffis, 1148, Chelseow, Memphis, Egypte,” finally got to Jimmie W. Griffin at 1148 Chelsea here after going first to Egypt. No Amateurs Wanted WESTPORT, Conn., UP — The Westport Volunteer Fire Department says it’s okay for policemen to go to blazes, but it thinks they should confine their activities to traffic duties; The firemen adopted a resolution asking police not to "Interfere” by helping fight tires. Not To Grouse About LANSING, Mich., UP — The state conservation department said Lewis Michelson of Houghton Lake, Mich., set a record for the , recantly season when he bpgged three flying gyouse with one shot. The birds tell together with barely a yard separating them.