Thursday, December 30, 1999
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Too much orange drink turns child's skin yellow
Too much of a popular orange drink made by Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble turned a thirsty 5-year-old's skin yellow, a Welsh doctor says.
Dr. Duncan Cameron, a pediatrician at Glan Clwyd hospital in Rhyl, Wales, said tests found that the girl had high levels of vitamin A, which was derived from beta carotene used as a coloring and vitamin supplement in the drink Sunny Delight.
According to a report in the Sunday Times, the girl was drinking more than 11/2 liters, or quarts, a day of the drink.
“One and a half liters a day is more than we would expect a child to be drinking,” said Shanae Gibbs, a spokeswoman for P&G.
“Sunny Delight is completely safe to drink. Excessive consumption of Sunny Delight can lead to a change in skin pigmentation, just as drinking too much carrot juice or eating too many carrots or other food containing beta carotene can. The condition is harmless, and the skin will revert to its normal color,” she added.
Paul Tipps to head local FHLB board
Paul Tipps, a lobbyist in Columbus, has been named board chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati (FHLB).
Mr. Tipps, 63, also was reappointed to a three-year term as a director of the FHLB, effective Jan. 1. The FHLB is a $46 billion-asset regional credit bank that provides mortgage financing and other banking services to more than 750 member banks in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Mr. Tipps, a Cincinnati native, is co-founder of State Street Consultants, one of Ohio's top government-affairs firms.
In addition, Joseph F. Hutchinson, a senior vice president at Franklin Savings and Loan in Cincinnati, was elected to FHLB's board.
Columbus TV station stays with Time Warner
A last-minute deal has ended a threat by the Columbus CBS-TV affiliate to leave the Time Warner Communications cable system.
WBNS-TV had said it would deny access to Time Warner when the station's contract expires Friday. The station wanted the cable company to include the WBNS-owned Ohio News Network in its standard 61-channel programming package offered to 305,000 customers in the Columbus area.
Time Warner offered to carry ONN, a 24-hour news cable station, on a digital service with fewer subscribers.
The agreement reached Tuesday allows Time Warner subscribers to keep WBNS, which operates as Channel 10, for the next two years.
The two sides will continue to negotiate during the next four months on whether Time Warner will carry ONN.
New Jersey chain buys Bick's northern schools
A Cincinnati-based chain of driving schools has been bought by a New Jersey firm, Top Driver.
Bick's Northern Driving School operates drivers'-education shops in Forest Park, West Chester, Fairfield, Centerville and Kettering. Top Driver's acquisition of Bick's follows its recent purchase of Akron-based Mr. Zip's Driving School.
Top Driver now claims to cover more territory in Ohio than any other commercial driver education company. Top Driver has 49 locations in Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana.
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