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SECTIONS PAGE 6 - FLAINPEALER - FRIDAY. OCTOBER 17, MM To Your Health A Service of McHenry Hospital By Marion Olsen Health Reporter Are you one of many people who have trouble swallowing pills? A little bit of butter on the pill may help your medicine go down. Hopefully, the pill you take is prescribed by your doctor and not just an over- the-counter drug taken in­ discriminately. Prescriptions currently are not the mystery they used to be years ago when written in Latin. Now, most drugs are listed by their English names. A prescription usually carries the physician's name, your name and your age. The physician may indicate his drug registration number par­ ticularly if the medication prescribed is a narcotic. The symbol that looks like "Rx" on a prescription stands for the Latin word, "recipe", meaning "take."' Amounts of the prescribed drug are usually listed in the metric system as gms. far grams, mgs. for milligrams, kgs. for kilograms, and 1,000 cc. for 1,000 cubic cen­ timeters. Occasionally, the apothecaries' system is used which includes the symbols for pounds, ounces, drams or pints. Instructions to the pharmacist for when the patient should take the medication are still written in Latin abbreviations. The most common are: a.c. - before meals, p.c. - after meals. h.s. - at bedtime. . p.m. - as needed. t.i.d. - 3 times a day. b.i.d. • twice a day. a.i.d. - 4 times a day. "Sig", indicates what information the pharmacist should write on the label. Patients often wonder when a medication is prescribed to be taken four times a day, Just whan the drug should be taken. The general rule is to take the drug every four hours during the day. The physician usually prefers that the patient get needed sleep. It helps to read your prescription before leaving the doctor's office so you may ask him any questions that may arise. The Veterans Ad­ ministration employs some 33,000 handicapped men and women including 13,000 with s e r v i c e c o n n e c t e d disabilities. About one in every seven VA employees is disabled. Ethanol Production total corn planted in this country to about to million Affects Corn Prices Additionally, the yields of fields wou As gasoline and diesel fuel prices continue to increase, interest in ethanol as a fuel additive or substitute also escalates. Several large companies have announced plans for new investments in alcohol production. . Corn is one of the major sources under consideration as a raw material for ethanol production. The impact of devoting a large amount of the nation's corn acreage to alcohol production is the subject of a recent study by Schnittker associates, Washington, D.C. The study was prepared for the National Alcohol Puds commission. Schnittker's projections, as reported by senior vice- president Martin Abel, call for large increases in corn acreage and yields per acre if the expected demand for ethanol is to be met For example, if the United States is to produce one billion gallons of ethanol by 1990, the nation's corn acreage would need to in­ crease by roughly 10 million acres. That would bring the nation's fields would to increase by an average 15 bushels per acre from the 1979-00 average of 106 bushels per acre.. About 400 million bushels of corn would be required to produce one biffion gallons of ethanol. Abel points out that these projections are based on assumptions that the cost of fuel will continue to rise, that corn production costs will increase along with in­ flation, and that the nation's corn outpout will keep stride with projected increases in domestic and export demand. 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Reg. $9.95 sq.yd. $695, ONLY... sq.yd. 18 Colors To Choose From mtihwww mn»' Mini iainm*iu CARPETS & AREA RUGS 200 WASHINGTON (fcV£)WpODSTOCK, ILLINOIS (815) 338-1000 863 VILLA f1 ) ELGIN, ILLINOIS (312)697-2600 Mon.,Thurs., Fri. 9-9; Tues.,Wed., Sat. 9-5; Sun. 12-5 It is feasible for the United States to produce one billion gallons of ethanol by I860. In fact, "two billion gallons of ethanol production by 1990 appears likely" says Abel, "and four billion gallons are quite possible if gasoline prices continue to increase and U.S. and world grain production continue to grow at current rates." There are several ways that corn acreage can in­ crease. In the 1870s about four million acres were brought into corn production as a result of irrigation and conversation of land use from hay and grass to grain production. At present rates of increase, Abel notes, another four million actes of land are expected to begin production in this decade. An increase in the i»ice of corn relative to other crops also would cause increased corn production, he con­ tinues. Abel projects that the value of a bushel of corn for ethanol production would be as high as $6.04 in 1985 and 19.25 in 1990. And because the high protein by-products of ethanol and corn sweetener, production can serve as livestock supplements, some of the acreage now devoted to soybeans could be shifted to make way for increased corn acreage. STAMPS & STORIES ;dL®»y *> *-r ..•» , | I J MIT Er> STATf *> POSTAGI By Stanley James On April 12, 1861, George Haynesworth, a young cadet at The Citadel, South Carolina's historical military college, is reputed to have fired the shot that started the Civil War--the first shot at Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Har­ bor. History records that the man who fired the first shot for the Union was a 41-year- old army officer from Balls-' ton Spa, New York, named Abner Doublesday. Double day, a West Point graduate who had served under General Zachary Tay­ lor in the war with Mexico, is little remembered for this footnote to history. But he is known the world over as something that he probably wasn't-inventor of the game of baseball. Legend has it that Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839. Historians dispute this, contending that baseball ex­ isted long before that and that Doubleday probably never played the game. He did write about it, however, describing baseball games at army training camps. The U.S. Postal Service has issued two stamps com­ memorating this fact. The first, honoring sand-lot base­ ball, was issued in Coopers- town, N.Y., at the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1939. Hie second, recognizing the cen­ tennial of professional base­ ball, was issued September 24,1969, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where professional baseball began. THOUGHTF0H FOOD •v GOUlD CROOK BAKED BEEF CROQUETTES 2 caps groaad beef, cooked 1 cap grated carrots 1 cup of soft bread crumbs V* cap grated oaioa 1 egg, well beatea 1 teaspooa salt 1/8 teaspooa pepper V* cup melted bacon drippings Dry bread crambs Combine alii bread arum except and bacon 'dry drippings. Mix well and shape into 6 croquettes. Roll in melted bacon drippings and then in the dry bread crumbs. Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 40 minutes in a moderately hot oven (350° F). Serves 6. 'REUND JRAL HOMES •WONDER LAKE 7411 HANCOCK OR. •15-728-0233 COOPER-FREUND •MARENGO 205 N. STATE 815-568-7345