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In fact, nearly 100 million American adults wear some form of prescriptive eye- weal Rut at least 4 million visually* im- |)airtr<l Americans have ev©sight that cannot be improved rucdically or with conventional lenses. “An ordinary pair of glasses does not give these people sufficient vi sion to do everyday visual things — reading a newspaper, filing their nails or recognizing a person’s face,” says Dr. Eleanor Faye, ophthalmo- logical director for the Lighthouse Low Vision Services since 19(i5. The Lighthouse, founded in 1906 as the New York Association for the Blind, is a not-for-profit organiza tion that helps the visually impaired make the most of the sight they have. It offers a number of special low-vision aids to help the visually impaired become more functional and less dependent on others. Among these aids are devices such as magnifiers and telescopes that are prescribed to meet individual needs. There also are everyday items — wall clocks, telephones, playing cards — with extra-large markings, special reading lamps, talking clocks, video magnifiers and various large- type magazines and books, including a dictionary, atlas and the Bible. One of the visual aids the Light house fits is a device to help visually impaired motorists see distant ob jects such as highway signs, traffic signals and street signs. What looks like an ordinary pair of spectacles actually has two small, cylindrical telescopes mounted in the upper portion of each lens. Dr. Bruce P. Rosenthal, clinical di rector of the Lighthouse Low Vision Continuing Education Program, says the motorist, while driving un der normal conditions, looks through the regular lenses. He glances into the telescopic part only when something distant needs to be brought into his field of vision. Rosenthal says the device is legal in several states. The purpose of the Lighthouse is to rehabilitate people who have vi sion problems, Faye says. They are brought to the Lighthouse, she says, “with the possibility that something can be done to help them.” She says patients with low vision are faced with hazards from things that don’t fa/e people with normal or corrected sight. Such otherwise simple tasks as shaving, setting a thermostat, nego tiating sidewalk curbs and steps, and dealing with traffic can be hazardous to those with low visiom Low vision can cause social prob lems, too. “People who have trouble seeing faces feel socially out of it, and they end up staying home,” Faye says. T he Lighthouse serves more than 4,000 people, from infants to the el derly. Dr. Barbara Silverstone, exec utive director, says that over the years, “the profile of blindness has changed. Only 5 percent of the 4,000 we serve are totally blind.” Faye stressed another problem the visually impaired face: While the ublic , can often understand the andicap of a blind person, “partial sight is not simple to understand Dairy farm owner caught in line of fire for ownership of Civil War battlefield SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) — Once again, Millard Kefauver’s 280- acre dairy farm is in the line of fire. Kefauver’s great-grandfather farmed the same land when Union and Confederate troops surged across the ioiling western Maryland landscape on Sept 17, 1862, in the bloodiest single day of fighting of the Civil Wat Now Kefauver and his family ate swept up in a struggle over ef forts to protect the Antietam National Bat tlefield Park from encroaching de velopment. It is typical of many struggles be ing fought out as the great cities of America extend their suburbs into the once-quiet countryside. “Battles were fought near areas that had strategic importance then and, since they nad strategic impor tance then, they would have growth potential now',” says Edwin Bearss, chief historian of the National Park Service and a specialist on the Civil War. The National Trust for Historic Preservation says Cedar Creek Bat tlefield and Belle Grove Plantation at Middletown, Va. — where Union General Phil Sheridan handed the Confederacy one of its final stun ning blows by winning control of the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 — could be surrounded by eight 10-acre in dustrial parks. In 1988, Congress authorized ac- quisition of Stuart’s Hill at Manassas, Va., stopping plans for a 1.2-million- souare-foot chopping mall on land where the Blue and trie (n ay fought two crucial battles. Just last year, Congress stepped in again and approved expansion of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Virginia. It is not just Civil War battlefields that are threatened, say preserva tionists. The National Trust has a list of what it calls the 11 most endangered historic places, including sites asso ciated with Columbus’ landing in the Virgin Islands and 19th century gold and silver strikes in South Da kota. Preservationists are far from I here are still people in Sharpsburg who would just like the whole battlefield and the National Park Service to go away, and that isn’t going to happen.” — Tom Clemens, Save Historic Antietam Foundation president united on how r to deal with the situa tion. “One view is that the only way to protect a park and the only way to be truly fair to landowners is to have the federal government purchase the property,” says Bruce Craig of the National Parks and Conservation Association. That approach got a boost as long ago as the 1890s, when Congress es tablished Gettysburg National Mili tary Park in Pennsylvania, blocking the Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. from building a development around Big Round Top. That area was a vital point of ground in the en gagement that marked the high-wa ter mark of Confederate fortunes. The railroad sued, saying Con gress didn’t have the pow*er to ac quire land for commemorative pur poses The Supreme Court, in a unani mous opinion in 1896, replied, Such a use seems not only a public use, but one so closely connected with the welfare of the Republic it self as to be within the powers granted the Congress by the Consti tution for the purpose of protecting and preserving the whole country.” The trouble is that protecting and preserving the whole country can be costly. In the Manassas case, for exam ple, the purchase price was left to fu ture negotiation, and hasn’t been settled yet. “I can never be satisfied with any thing the Park Service does,” says Russell Weaver of Sharpsburg, pres ident of Save Historic Antietam with Responsible Policies (SHARP), one of two rival citizens’ groups that have sprung up around the battlefield here. Tom Clemens, president of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF), says, “There are still people in Sharpsburg who would just like the whole battlefield and the Na tional Park Service to go away, and that, isn’t going to happen.” Millard and Nancy Kefauver, meanwhile, continue living inside the park boundaries in their pri vately owned home, which served as a Union field hospital during the battle. “We sort of felt like we knew as much about protecting it as the Park Service did. ” Nancy Kefauver says Enjoy Spring Sports! Don't let an injury hold you back! 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