A symmetric covering theorem (Q1118053)

By a symmetric full cover of the real line is meant a collection S of closed intervals with the property that for every real x there is a \(\delta (x)>0\) so that \([x-h,x+h]\in S\) for every \(0<h<\delta (x).\) The authors prove: Let S be a symmetric full cover of the real line. Then there is a denumerable set N so that S contains a partition of every interval neither of whose end points belongs to N.