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MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Com Bread & Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/ Chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/Cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea i i'° * o r < ►' THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese- Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing—Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FOR YOUR PROTECTION OUR PERSONNEL HAVE HEALTH CARDS FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL Fried Catfish Filet w/Tartar Sauce Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of One Vegetable ^ Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast Texas Style (Tossed Salad) Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First’ SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING Roast Turkey Dinner Served with Cranberry Sauce Combread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And Your Choice of any One Vegetable Turning down the volume on the iv Group aiding deaf United Press International NEW YORK —Just about every one knows someone — maybe a usually considerate and loving par ent or grandparent — who sits down in front of a television set and turns the volume up so loud the rest of the family runs for cover. Howard Stone, president of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc. (SHHH), tells a story about Wal ter Ridder, national editor of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, who told him his family deserted him ev ery time he tried to watch television. The volume was driving them crazy. Stone’s non-profit organization, based in Bethesda, Maryland, told Ridder how to use an audio loop, a device that enabled him to turn the television volume down so low, his family had to start turning it up to listen. “They’re all watching TV to gether again,” Stone said. The exact Figure is almost impos sible to determine, but federal agen cies estimate there are 20 million hearing impaired people in Amer ica. Of that number, some 17 million — those that are not totally deaf — can be helped by several hearing im provement systems now on the mar ket. One of the newest systems that works for people suffering moder ate to severe hearing loss is the in frared system. It has been sold in this country for several years by two overseas compa nies, Sennheiser of West German and Oticon of Denmark, and it now also is being manufactured by an American firm, Controlonics Corp. of Westford, Massachusetts. John Vecchione, director of mar keting for Controlonics, said his company’s home-use system lakes two minutes to install. “It plugs into normal wiring, a small mike is placed on the television set and wired into a transmitter,” he said. The transmitter uses invisible light waves to send audio to a re ceiver that comes in two models — a stethescope-type headset or a light weight strap that is worn around the neck. “The strap is more comfortable and convenient, but the stethescope receives more decibels, making it better for those who are more se riously deaf,” Vecchione said. Vecchione said the entire home system costs $199-$22r) and can be installed by the customer. The home receivers also can be taken to one of more than 100 the aters and cultural centers in the country — including Washington’s National Theater and New York’s Lincoln Center — that now are equipped with sound improvement systems. Stone said Sennheiser first devel oped the infrared system in 1979 for theater-goers in Europe who were bothered by rustling paper, children and coughers. Then the cok started making the home-use te,n - I Controlonics has been nw luring the home-use system' about a year and it began mam, taring a wide-area system a[ ( months ago that can serveu» 4,000 square feet in theaters,lij,. tals and nursing homes, ” Vecchione said there still i problem in marketing the detice many people don’t admit to hatj- hearing problem becausetheyfe will mark them as handicapped, “There is a big denial prot^ said Stone, who is almost t^ deaf. “There seems tobeastigimj lac bed to hearing loss. People get away with ridiculing an ar hea ri n g- i mpaired person." Stone said that on theaveraa person experiences hearing dill ties for seven years beforeadraii* there’s a problem. He called the devices that et; hearing impaired people toi; down tlie television set asignil contribution to family life,esptcj now. “When an older personturnt the volume in a house, itcomplie life for everyone,” he said. “Itj even result in violence to theoii person. And now we have crease in three-generation fatii because of the economy and housing shortage. You caning the strain a family is underwheti older member wants to hear TV.' Thousands of East Germans emigrating West to freedon United Press International This year, East Germany has al lowed nearly 30,000 of its subjects, an unprecedentedly high number and more than tw’ice the total for the whole of 1983, to emigrate to the West. Several thousand more are ex pected to leave before the end of the year. East Germany also dismantled some of the automatically denoted anti-personnel mines along its fron tier, extended the time limit for cross border visits and reduced bor der fees. Chernenko began clamping down on East-West contacts, the Soviets had appeared to tolerate a certain amount of flirtation between the countries in the hope that this would block the NATO missile deploy ment, encourage the West German peace movement and perhaps even tually woo Bonn away from the At lantic Alliance. For its part, West Germany granted East Germany a $330 mil lion credit last month on top of a similar amount in 1983. It has pro moted major industrial cooperation deals and permitted companies such as Volkswagen and Siemens to build jointly owned factories. Many in West Germany have criticized the government for giving away too much in return for too little. Burdened with hard currency debt and obliged to meet sharp price increases for Soviet oil and gas, East Germany needs all the East-West trade it can get. Contracts with West Germany accounted for 40 percent of its foreign trade last year, and gave East Germany access to the huge market of the European Eco nomic Community. Moscow accused Bonn of using economic leverage to subvert the communist system, betraying an ap parent fear that the lure of money might tempt the East Germans to stray from the communist orbit. Before President Konstantin Those hopes evaporated after the West German parliament ratified the deployment decision and Chan cellor Kohl repeatedly reiterated his country’s determination to remain a loyal member of the alliance. On the Western side, the relationship between Bonn and East Berlin also has created concern about the possible rise of German national utopianism. This is partic ularly so in France, where newspa pers, concerned about the strength of the peace and ecology movement in the Federal Republic, refer dis paragingly to “the German disease,” and the “emergence of national pac ifism.” Although the nuclear-armed French are not members of NATO’s military command, t hey regard West Germany as a vital buffer between them and the Soviet bloc. President Francois Mitterrand’s government has been pushing hard for reactivation of the Western Eu ropean Union, the long-dormant forerunner of NATO, as a vehicle for closer Franco-German military cooperation. WEU foreign and de fense ministers will meet in Rome in October to discuss building a Euro pean defense pillar that would stand alongside the United Stats NATO. The Soviet Union decried; WEU’s decision earlier this yen lift remaining restrictions on & man weapons production, alhr. the Bonn government to deid missiles and bomber aircrafti wishes. “Mitterrand is convincedthiti NATO commitment is notaedi enough to the new generaM Germans in particular and Eis peans in general,” a WEU oi said. “Either the Germans iiatt strong say in Western defenseotji will eventually see a united Gena under the dictate of the Sw Union, and then God help us,"■ said. West German officials stress it the Bonn government’s primetoi mitmerit is to Western dentooi values, expressed through iM bership in the European Co® nity. 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