European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 197fl the stars and stripes Page living k of Afla some Southern the Faa  level of v holds which grow on we Surner watch by Mary Neth vitamins Are essential to your bit Loo Many can be according to the associated the food Mil drug administration says that More than 1000 esses at Vitamin poisoning Are reported i also says there Are Many myths about Vita Jug claims thai they will do everything from Ity tag sex we to prevent heart t and the Are detailed in j prepared by the Agency and Avail Feir Tomt charge from the consumer info Naum Jet myths n firming has depleted the soil so that food no contains adequate not the Mius Nwe is known today than Ever before about Jura More la done to protect and enrich the Tinl vitamins Are better than synthetic the Fra says each Vitamin is a Partlou chemical Structure and your body cant Distin it is the main difference is that edited natural vitamins can Cost up to five into Baa synthetic trough vitamins boils Down to following Basic the Fra says a Well balanced diet adequate nutrition without a Vitamin supple 1 worries about contaminated Mea o p when a Fol take a Calm la or them be milk Fern Imam roat Doesman Wayne Pines hid Aflatoun had been in milk in Georgia and North and South on he brighter Louise Cook of the associated Esom promo in the United thought they had a better year and the government agreed with of that a us number of patents issued in 1978 by the and trademark office of the department of com almost three fourths of All applications were torn using or Selling a Par the Patent give to bolder we or Tell the invention unroll it simply allows urn to prevent anyone else from Mug la t patents should not be confused with which protect us writings of an author against or which Are used to indicate the source of origin of goods and to distinguish them from other prod tote first Patent Law in the United slate was enacted in the Law now in effect is a general revision which was pasted in Samuel Hopkins of was granted Patent 1 on july in connection with a process used in making the government has issued More than four million patents since applying for a Patent is a complicated Hie Are covered la general information concerning Pat out by the Commerce depart in 41page Booklet n Yon can get of Witting cow Wner Orfo Namton Deal the Law provides that any person who invents or Dis covers any new and useful manufacture or composition at matter or any new and useful improvements May obtain a Patent new and useful Are the key there Are two standards or determining the newness of an at the time you invented the item or process was already in on Sale or had been described in a printed publication anywhere in the you cant get a you also wit be denied a Patent if the item was in on Sale or had been described More than one year before you made your in order to be termed a machine or product must perform its intended you cannot get a Patent based on an idea or a you must pro vide a Complete description of die process or relatively few Patent applications Are granted exactly As but Many Are oko after an inventor May prepare his or her own application and file it with the Patent and trademark but he May get into trouble unless he is familiar with a number of technical most inventors use Patent attorneys or agents to research the newness of an item and hand Ling the filing of an application and any amendments or appeals that must be As a general Only an inventor can apply for a the term of a Patent is it years and it cannot be since a Patent i considered personal prop in May be mortgaged or bequeathed in a if a Patent is the Holder May sue in Federal anyone who makes or Sells articles covered by a must Mark each item with the word Patent and the number of his or her the phrases Patent applied for and Patent pending have no Legal but simply Tell the user that a Patent application has been false use of these phrases or their equivalents is How Safe Are hair dryers fourteen Vearold Donna of Chi was drying her hair with her Itow mild hair a f 6 Purchase thai seemed tenure like a As her Mother described Phat she set the Hairdryer momentarily on the it burst into i Tad the presence of mind to put he plug before w the flaming hair dryer into a Bathtub of us fire and preventing a severe electric i the hair dryer was retrieved from the ism Hawrysz complained about her daughters joint to local officials and in july to product safety commission in Wash f nun Dong that the mini hair dryer and those Flo it were a menace and should be taken off the asked the commission to set safety Stan Ottee to Chicago occurred a August or tarty of handheld hairdryers was b posting sales Tram million la in in and bringing with it other his father found him face Down in id inches of and the boy spent 14 Days in the Hospital Ullh collapsed in haircare appliances injured an estimated people seriously enough to require Hospital Emer gency room in the year in which under writers laboratories issued much stricter safety the number of injuries dropped 20 to children under the age of s were injured three times is often As people in other be the commas sons investigation of 99 accidents that occurred Between july Ltd and August and involved haircare found that hair dryers emitted and of molten they Bant into exploded or less to Cdr rods exploded or caused Curling Irons also shocked nut Many accidents occurred when people touched  the husband of a 26yearold woman was drying her hair when a piece of plastic shot out of the Blower and struck her in the another was drying her heard a loud and Felt something blow into and Cut her ear a piece of cardboard was later sex children were injured when they grabbed hot electric Combs or placed the nozzle of a hair dryer into the a 7yearold who took a hair dryer to bed with her for warmth spent 74 Days in the Hospital with bums after the neat set her bed and Nightgown on a staff report to the commissioners last August reported that stricter underwriters laboratories Stan Dards had been designed to Correct Many these included a mandatory thermostat to prevent overheat and tests to ensure that a dryer would not break if ninety percent of All hair dryers now sold in the Are listed with underwriters and their makers have agreed to meet these special assistant to president Carter w was then vice president of giant my its customers were complaining that overheated or caught she also i asking for safety standards in by and similar products in the very near Man april the which has been catch my logjam of consumer voted to deny Lor mandatory safety standards the Indus i u adhering to stiffer underwriters standards to the Point that Federal studies of injuries connected with and electric Combs seem to a relatively Small number Are defect cause severe or fatal Aad August were by hair telling on tellers by Mario Hollett new York times m aryan Wheeler is a Nonon sense woman who handles the hundreds of customers who Stream by her tellers window in the Chase Manhattan Banks Wall Street Branch with the unflappable aplomb of one Bush Day for More than Hirough her bands in a shift that lasted of inv to apm w but she thinks of herself As very Calm her Quick two Lille were both electrocuted when a hair on a Radiator next to the some were taking a their Mother left alone in the bathroom for in Mother Wood the Bathtub for aur dryer be found sitting on a window thousands of Dot in ripped de Sud apart and counted out All the while a wary Eye on bulletins that alerted her to stolen identification forged cd Bob and other scams that Are All part of the routine at 8 us War probably grosses better than a week and is  by her Bosses have tried with to coax her into higher paying supervisory or to stay exactly where she is on at wac Eek has Snell most her s Yean in the business with Chase As a and that her a rarity the turnover rate among com Mercial Bank tellers averages 8 percent n at some including it has climbed to percent or one result of that turnover has been a Sharp drop in the level of experience behind the Teller errors have been rising until they now Cost the Banks about f 110 Mil lion a year in direct nto pocket costs and millions More in the time wasted As a result of those the Banks Are in double errors Hurt on the other Side of the a recent Survey by the newspaper advertising Bureau of commercial Banks and Thrift institutions savings Banks and savings and loan associations in Long and showed that 6 out of every 10 customers who transferred their accounts did so because of errors 18 poor Servia 1g rude or unhelpful employees 13 percent or cold or impersonal service 11 As Paul a professor of finance at Rutgers puts a Teller can make or break a Bank the Way a stewardess can make or break an