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SECTION 2 - PAGE S - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. JUNE 29,1«M National MWI --t S Sliver anniversary celebration set Aspirin used to fight stroke, MI for 2,300-mile Seaway system By David Armon United Press International Crowds of wide-eyed ship en­ thusiasts are gathering at ports, locks and dams along the vast St. Lawrence Seaway this week to commemorate the waterway's silver anniversary. The focal point for the two- nation celebration is the northern New York village t>f Massena, which hugs the shore of the St. Lawrence River across from Cor­ nwall, Canada, an area once swirl­ ing with white water and im­ penetrable to freighters. While a weeklong celebration is held in New York, ports in Chicago, Cleveland and Duluth, Minn., have scheduled events or timed existing festivals to coin­ cide with the 25th anniversary. In Massena, where the economy revolves around the seaway and hydro-power harnessed from the International Robert Moses- Robert Saunders Power Dam, the community has braced itself for a welcome stampede of tourists. In 1959 -- the opening year of the seaway -- the number of people crowding Massena's famed Eisenhower and Snell locks and the neighboring power dam reach­ ed 800,000, according to the U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Develop­ ment Corp. They came to see what was labeled as the eighth wonder of the world -- a billion-dollar project that used enough cement to make a 22-foot-wide highway 1,000 miles long, and so much steel that, if it were pressed into one large bar, it would circle the earth at the equator. Last year, 200,000 people travel­ ed to the Seaway to gaze at ships reaching lengths of 730 feet as they were raised and lowered, and given friendly send-offs into the Great Lakes or the Atlantic. The herculean seaway system begins in the Altantic Ocean and ends at the western tip of Lake Superior -- a distance of 2,342 miles. From the Gulf of St. Lawrence, vessels begin an eight-day journey to Duluth, traveling past Montreal and 190 miles down the St. Lawrence River into the Interna­ tional Section, site of the mam­ moth power daqi and seven locks. Two of them ace operated by the United States and five by Cana­ dian authorities. Past the Thousand Islands, ships enter Lake Ontario and bypass Niagara Falls through the 26-mile Welland Canal, whose eight locks raise and lower vessels 326 feet. From there they enter Lake Erie. Aside from a set of locks built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between lakes Huron and Superior, ship traffic flows freely I IS YOUR HOME | REALLY COVERED? 3152304 mm mm msmss MMTM urt 'SSMMTMUFT A/n*ftcm r *nily Mutual InMjranc* Co ---- RENT RIHSEflVAC the professional do-it-yourself carpet cleaning system First Hour of Rentol $1.00 per hour for every hour thereafter. (Example-2 hours • total charge $1 plus tax.) Special Rental Rbte Good Mon-Thurs RINSE N VAC doant the way do at a fraction of the OVERNIGHT SPECIAL I 1:00 pm-9:00 a $10.00 4400W.RTE. 120-McHENRY.IL SAT. ft SUN through the upper Great Lakes. Eisenhower lock manager Steven Rybicki explained that locks along the seaway "act as a set of steps" to raise and lower ships 602 feet from sea level. Two U.S. locks, a traffic control center and the seaway's ad­ ministrative building are in Massena, where Vice President Richard Nixon dedicated the U.S. part of the project on June 27, 1959. A day earlier, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, representing Canada, and President Dwight Eisenhower had waited for the fog to lift to officially mark the open­ ing of the seaway near Montreal. Neither President Reagan nor Queen Elizabeth accepted invita­ tions to the silver anniversary. In­ stead, U.S. Tranportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole and Canadian Minister of Transport Lloyd Axworthy will conduct the ceremony June 27 at the Eisenhower Lock. Festivities planned throughout the system on the United States side will vary widely, and include fireworks, ice cream socials, parades and passage of tall ships in Massena. In Ontario, Canada, Seaway celebrations are being combined with Toronto's sesquicentennial and other events along the water­ way. Similar events are planned in Quebec, which is also com­ memorating the 450th anniver­ sary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of the new world. Inter­ national races, tall ships displays and other celebrations are plann­ ed. By Cathy Burke United Press International NEW YORK -- A survey showed a growing number of doctors think eating an aspirin a day may help prevent two of the nation's leading killers -- heart attacks and strokes. Among 316 heart doctors surveyed, 67 percent said they prescribe aspirin to "first time" heart attack victims to ward off future attacks. Seventy-six per­ cent told such patients to eat an aspirin a day. The survey also showed 39 per­ cent of the doctors tell patients who have never had a heart attack to take aspirin "to prevent car­ diovascular disease." Seventy- two percent of those cardiologists recommended a daily dose. Of the survey group, 23 percenl of the doctors said they themselves take aspirin to pre­ vent heart disease, and 74 percent of them take it once a day. The recommended dosage in each case was 300 to 350 milligrams -- the average con­ tained in one aspirin. "It is especially significant when cardiologists make a judg­ ment with regard to protecting themselves against car­ diovascular disease by adopting so simple a preventive measure as taking one aspirin tablet a day," said Joseph White, president of the Aspirin Foundation of America, Inc. and a Washington pharmacologist and physician. The survey was conducted bet­ ween May 25 and June 22 for the Aspirin Foundation. Results and evidence from clinical trials using aspirin were revealed at a science writers seminar in Manhattan. "Taking all the evidence available so far, it seems that aspirin does have a small beneficial effect in the secondary prevention of death and a rather large beneficial effect on non-fatal infarctions (heart attacks)," said Dr. Peter Elwood, director of the Epidemiological Unit of the British Medical Research Councif. Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death .in the United States. An estimated 1 million Americans each year suf­ fer a first heart atack. Over half die from the first -- or subsequent -- attack. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Elwood said there now have been six studies of aspirin in the prevention of second heart attacks conducted around the world. "Taken together, all showed the same trend -- a 10 to 15 percent reduction in cardiac mortality apd a 20 to 30 percent reduction in subsequent non-fatal infarction," he said. Dr. , William Fields, chief neurologist at Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas, where he con­ ducted one of the six studies, add­ ed that new data appears to disprove earlier reports that aspirin as a stroke preventative primarily benefits men. Weekend Sale Last days to save during our semi-annual lingerie sale. 1 r \ f 25% 50% off - swimwear. Cover the hot spots with cool looks and sizzling styles; in dazzling colors. For misses and juniors. 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