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82 etc. Battalion/Page 13 September 17, 1982 Water lens is long-wearing New contacts developed United Press International NEW YORK — Contact lenses that are mostly water can De worn around the clock for two weeks. W'earers sleep in their contacts, jog or disco with- aut jiggling or displacing them. Authorities say the new generation contacts hold the promise of revolutionizing the ttontact field. Currently the long-wearing' contacts most ordered by eye- are specialists correct myopia, bringing poor distance vision within more normal limits. Another of the water-containing lenses helps astigmatism, or, blurry vision. Williford said the lenses cost about $100 more than regular contacts.He estimated average cost at from $300 to $350, in cluding three to eight follow-up visits. But, extended wear con tacts are not for everyone, due to individual eye differences The long-wearing lenses started moving into the optical mainstream in 1981 when the Food and Drug Administration approved two brands for gener al use. One, Permalens, comes from Cooper Laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif. The second, Hydrocurve, is from Revlon Health Care Group. The extended-wear contacts from Cooper contain 71 percent water, providing the greatest amount of oxygen to the eye sur face. The Hydrocurve lens con tains 55 percent water. Experts says the key element in extended wear contacts is ox ygen. Permalens, for example, is designed to absorb water. This allows a high oxygen flow through the entire lens surface. The extended-wear lenses were not newcomers to eyecare specialists when the FDA approved them for general use last year. The FDA approved them for limited use in 1980, mainly for men and women who had their natural lenses, clouded by cataract, removed. About five percent some of these patients cannot be fitted with the optical lens implant, a plastic device that takes the place of the malfunctioning natural lens. For these patients the next option is to try a contact lens. If the contact doesn’t work, there are special cataract glasses. John H. Williford, vice chair man of Cooper Laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif, one of two manufacturers of the longw^ar- ing lenses, said cataract patients have found the contacts most re markable. They don’t have to fiddle with daily removal, as in the era of old-style contacts. Some go to the eye-care specialist every two weeks to have an office aide or other health care professional remove and clean the lenses. The Boston Consulting Group estimates the 1982 con tact lens market at $225 million and projects it will grow to $500 million by 1986. Wisconsin man makes life a merry-go-round gsworth uded Jther at dru( tz or hean > 65 pet iboutli a the® t the be 1 qualit xcellen of tin* vivors, he Sept l of tit ciation dons a/ indude f cancel f arterj planted rd pet .nsplanl 67 ' :an en pet Id. enthit Rein ults led ate pes ts have r trans- ing and natural foreign f other cent re- iplanta- ie then of pa- ill from United Press International NORTH LAKE, Wis. — Dale Sorenson keeps a menagerie of rancing horses bedecked with powers and ribbons, a shaggy ion and a dancing rabbit in his living room. They’re all made of wood. Sorenson,39, buys, restores nd sells authentic old-time carousel animals — only one of wo men in the nation, he says, who have made merry-go- rounds their full-time profes- ii. The former psychotherapist ame upon his first carousel horses in 1975, a pair from the state of the famed Ringling irothers. He bought them for $165 ach and took them to the anti- |que store he owned with his wife, Carla. “We put them in our shop nd they started growing on jme,” Sorenson said. “I sold them both within a month, so I went looking for an entire carousel.” He found one in Ohio with 22 horses and two dogs, but bank ers were not interested in loan ing him $3,500 to buy an amuse ment park ride. “I went to a finance company and borrowed on everything we had - the refrigerator, the TV, everything,” Sorenson said. “The very next day I sold four of the horses and got half of my investment back.” That was all it took to make believers out of bankers, he said. Sorenson’s most inexpensive restored carousel animals range from just under $2,000 for horses to $30,000-$40,000 fear a Dentzel lion. The life of a carousel connois seur has its risks, he said. “Boy, have I been in some seedy places — let me tell you —- and you have to take cash, they won’t take a check.” He recalled one time count ing out 35 $ 100 bills as he sat in an old auto surrounded by car nival workers. The first carousel, from 17th century France, was a wooden device with suspended carved horses that allowed young no blemen to tilt with miniature lances at golden rings. The first American carousels were small, Sorenson said. They contained no more than a dozen rough-hewn suspended horses or swings. With invention of the steam engine and the electric streetcar, carousels grew in size. They were at the height of their popu larity between 1880 and 1920. Nowhere in the world were carousel animals carved as care fully or beautifully as in Amer ica, Sorenson said.. He rarely buys any made outside the Un ited States. The animals were carved by fewer than a dozen American companies, each of which de veloped its own style. The anim als were usually made of yellow poplar and brass. “They put so much more into it than they would have had to for an amusement park ride,” he said. “They’re a bit of Amer icana.” His clients include Knott’s Berry Farm, American Band stand’s Dick Clark and The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wis. Sorenson said he spends ab out 25 percent of his time travel ing around the country to look at carousels, plus a lot of time on the telephone. “I know where every carousel is in the U.S.,” he said. “In so many cases they are not taken care of. “There were many around the turn of the century in Amer ica. A lot of them were destroyed by fire. Some just wore out.” He expects his business to de cline sharply in the future, but he thinks he will always have a market. pcxma .VOO.Y BUFFET • Monday thru Friday — All You Can Eat! 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