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Low vision patients get help
from Lighthouse for the Blind
NEW YORK (AP) — There’s
nothing unusual about wearing
glasses or contact lenses to bring vi
sion up to or close to normal. 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
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