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Fischer7-Th# Cmbtritnd Ntwt Thursday, Stpfonbtrtt WiABERDEEN, S. D; (UPI) — The Fischer quintuplets, four girls • and a boy, celebrated their 23th birthday Sept, 14 in thefamily’s ..big farmhouse on the outskirts of Aberdeen.As usual, it was a fairly quiet birthday party, • With the quints, their parents and six brothers and sisters on hand — a cake and candles, but no civic hoopla.When the quintuplets were born, the Fischers were drowned In publicity;But Andrew Fischer, 51, now a cattle raiser, and his wife, Mary Ann, 43, housewife and avid bowler, havO wanted the blond quints to grow up normallywithout fanfare.“You’ve got to give them credit,” a neighbor said, “Mary Ann wanted them to be ordinary, everyday kids, and someone with an I. Q. of 180 couldn’t have.suceeeded any better.” .The quintuplets blend in with their family in thecommunity with little special attention or publicity.The quints -? Mary Ann, Mary Margaret, Mary Catherine, Mary Magdalene and James Andrew — will enter the seventh grade at Sacred Heart Parochial School this fall along with a younger sister, Cynthia, who will be 12 Sept. 24.The quints, do chores around their 20-room house and the farm along with their brothers and sisters. They are active in scouting, take piano or dancing lessons and appear at recitals with other youngsters, and enjoy bowling like their mother.• But the five seldom appear in public as a group. Usually they split up or mix with other members, of the family.“It’s hard for most people to recognize the quints when they see them in a store or on the street,” a neighbor said.The mother cded all night when Dr. James Berbos,Ancestors of theAmerican Indians, history shows,' moved from' Asia into North America about 20,000 B.C. and were using stone tools and fire.Mark Quiet 13th Birthday At Farmhouse In South Dakotathen . at the Aberdeen Medical Clinic, told her she could expect quintuplets. Andrew, then a grocery shipping clerk, worried about how he could support a family of 10 children on $76 s wsck.But the birth of the quintsIndoor Tennis Lights Cause Eye ProblemsANAHEIM, Calif. (UPI) — Temporary nearsightedness can occur when playing tennis indoors because of the way the eye focuses in reduced lighting, according‘to Dr. William Harrison, optometrist for the Council on Sports Vision.“Even well-lighted indoor courts cannot duplicate sunlight, in which peoplecan see the best,” he says. “Because success in tennis depends on seeing the ball as it leaves your opponent's racquet, fully corrected vision is critical.”. In reduced lighting, the pupil of the eye must open wider to allow in more light. As this happens, more peripheral rays of light enter the eye. This increases the focal point, whichdecreases sharpness, or acuity.For example, a nearsighted person with 20-40 visual acuity (20-20 is normal) needs - twice asmuch illumination to see an object and react as quickly as a person with normal vision. With illumination levels the same, the player with 20-40 acuity has to be ane-half the distance closer to the object.When a player notices a difference between his daytime performance and nighttime, or, indoor, performance, or if he’s not reaching balls he thinks he should, it’s time to have his eyes examined,” Dr. Harrison says.■ went well and gjfts poured in from all over the country, Agencies clamored to sign big money contracts for exclusive news and picture rights.It was estimated they received at least $80,000 the first year from contractswith Curtis Publishing Co., and Brown and Bigelow, an advertising firm. They alsosigned a contract withBorden Dairy Colt;The contracts ran out several years ago. But the Fischers now have a large house surrounded by trees,shrubbery and flowers, a station wagon to carry the youngsters, money in the bank for the children's education, and an 800-acre cattle-raising operation.The. Fischers made a public appearance once a year for a while at GypsyDay,, the homecoming celebration of Northern* State College, riding on a parade float. But that was discontinued several years ago. :“For quintuplets,” a neighbor said, “they live hi relative seclusion,Indoor Light Garden A Success PlantSalesA couple of weather station reporters atop Mt, Washington .in New Hampshire grow salad crops under lights when they are isolated by winter’s iGOmiie-an-hour winds and SObelow-zero temperatures.A Chicagoan whose grown children have left home converted their room to an indoor garden under lights. When she called to thank E. Woody Bickford for his advice on plant selection and illumination, she compared her plants to the children, saying: “At least I can talk to them, and they don’t give me any back-talk.”: Bickford invented and holds the patent for the first plant light. As manager of environmental lighting for the DuroLite Home Lighting Institute, he spehds a lot of time these days answering phone calls and letters from people beginning to garden with artificial light. So far, they represent a tiny 'fraction of the indoor gardeners in America. A recent survey indicates that only 2.7 per cent use artificial light, although 44.5 million of the country’s 69.4-million households have three or more individual plants indoors.In an interview, Bickford laid there was a time when he received two or three calls a week from giggling high school and college coeds asking for • information about closet foliage. “You knew they wanted to grow ‘grass’ (marijuana), but they wouldn’t tell you. Underground books really contain sound informationon growing it in a closet.”; Bickford added that he did not giye these callers either the growing information or the names of the books.A recent marketing survey on indoor gardening indicates it’s not the plants, but the accessories that add up.However, the type of plant a grower chooses also makes a difference. ‘‘Nonflowering plantsgrow with less light than blossoming plants. The cost.♦ .Beta OmegaTaking-Part%In CelebrationtiIn conjunction with theFlintstone Homecoming and Bicentennial celebration, this weekend Beta Omega Chapter BSP formulated to have its celebration and conduct a booth there. Home made candy and soft drinks will be for sale, Antiques also will be displayed.The meeting was held at the home of Rose Custer. Plans also were made for a 'Christmas .party for members and husbands. It will be December 11 at the home of Sandy Smith, Flintstone;The program was “Art Painting”. It was given by Ramona Heavner, whodemonstrated how to outline a painting.A social hour followed and refreshments were served. Others attending were Mary Collier, Mrs. Smith, Btondie Jones, Jane Shipway, Linda Clingerraan, Connie Logeston and Kay Andrick,is twice as much for miniature vegetables as for nonflowering plants,” he said.That's becausse vegrgetables In general require much more sunlight to grow, mature and ripen.“You can even grow cornif you want to, but it would cost about $30 an.ear to provide ail the light the plant needs. A corn plant six feet tall needs a level of light almost equal to full sunlight, about 150 watts per square foot of growing area.”Lettuce, on the other hand, can be grown fairly reasonably, he said; it is a short crop that gives a high yield for a small area. Small cherry tomatoes can also be grown successfully indoors, he said.Bickford sees a lot of motivations for Indoor gardening: part therapy, part getting away from routine, part pride or status. '.‘It is used, for psychotherapy in‘ some mental hospitals,” he said. .Sources he; recommends for guidance on indoor gardening under lights include plant light manufacturers, books (but, borrow a library book first to see if it is worth buying, he suggested), horticultural society information services and' publications, Cooperative Extension agents and free government publications.Bickford said one thing every indoor light gardener should keep in mind is placement: shelves are not as good as direct light, and glass shelves are preferable to plastic because plastic alters light spectrum.Successful InSupermarkets•NEW YORK (UPI) — Asupermarket trademagazine says floral departments are the supermarkets* n e w superstars, ... outpacing virtually every other product group In sight.* *Plants lead the way, but flowers are growing fast, said an article in Progressive Grocer. The report cited the case of a market in Oklahoma City that doubled its floral department volume, goingfrom $5,000 to $10,000 In one week when It ran a sale, Tliq increase reflected a greater profit than the entire miat department of a typical supermarket and half as much profit as an entire grocery section, the magazine said. . \The article’s annual report on the industryshowed said some independent companies have shown a 600 per cent hike in horticultural volume In thq past three years. Betweeh 1071 and 1975, Independent^ merchandising fresh flowers or plants grew from20 per cent to 46 per cent; Nearly half of all supermarkets currently have some permanent horticultural display. Progressive Grocer-estimated. *Most observers see aii! unlimited run in this grow Ui. j.- jThe U.S. Department of: Agriculture estimates that! each billion dollars of farm)exports creates about 53,000nonfarm jobs. * ;
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