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2 The) Newt-Review, Rotaburg, Ore. Thur., April 13, 1950 Turbine Engine Weighing But Fraction Of Diesel Motor Is Boeing-Produced For Trucks SEATTLE MV-The Boeing Airplane company announce today it hat produced the "world's first turbine engine for trucks," weigh ing only one-fourteenth as much as a diesel motor producing the ame power. The Mighty Midget, which gen erate 17S horsepower, tips the beam at ZOO pounds. It has been road-tested in a 10-ton freight truck for the past several months on the mountainous roads In the vicinity of Seattle. The Boeing engine, being dev eloped for the U. S. navy bureau of ships, is similar to the jet airplane engine in general design, officials said. The power is har nessed by a secondary turbine, however, to turn a shsft rsther than being exhausted as jet thrust. The truck Is considersbly quieter, Boeing engineers ssid, than a con ventional diesel truck engine. Ex haust gasses, about which much worry has been expressed, are ap proximately the same temperature as those from a diesel or gasoline truck. At idling speed It Is possible to place hand over the end of the oversited exhaust stacks without danger of being burned. The ex haust gasses are invisible and virtually odorless. Some fear has been expressed in publications that r i1 It" 0& I ; the exhaust from turbine engines would "fry" anyone unlucky enough to walk within its range estimated at up to 75 feet. Work en Various Fuels The engine runs equally well on gasoline, kerosene, light or heavy fuel oil, and has been test run on "bottled" gas. The cooling system common to trucks snd motor cars now operating is eliminated. En gineers said the motor reduces gear shifting to a minimum. It starts immediately and develops full engine power without any warm-up period. The engine can not be stalled. Conventional truck engines weigh at least 2,500 pounds more than the Boeing turbine, its producers claim, in addition, the turbine occupies only 13 percent of t b e space normally taken by a con ventional 200 horsepower gasoline or diesel engine. This points the way to major economies in space in truck construction and storage. Engineers said the engine, which they have designated as the "502" operstes on the same principle as a ship steam turbine, but uses exhaust gasses in place of steam to turn the shaft. Boeing started research In the engine in 1943 and plans to continue tests on the turbine for the next several months on regular rreight hauls. T t ' MM ICT DIP Uu turned out to be dog's best friend when Denny, an Irlib setter, tell Into the awouen Israel River In Lancaster, N. H. Firemen quickly responded to aa emergency call and are shown ma lnf a suocesaiui rescue. Wheat Quotas To Depend On Dry Weather Of Area SPOKANE (PI Whcst quotas in 1951 will depend largely on dry weather in Oklahoma. Kansas and Texas Panhandle, a production and marketing official says. They are major wheat produC' tion areas. L. K. Olson of the Spokane pro duction and marketing administra tion office, included that statement a report given to PMA county committeemen. The secretary of agriculture is required by law to announce in July whether a marketing quota will be established for the follow ing year. Growers must approve recommended quota by a two- thirds majority vote. Olson, recently returned from a Washington, D. C, conference, said exports this year have fallen about 75,000,000 bushels below predictions. "Twenty-penny" nails arc four inches long. New Model Plan For Marriages On Rocks 'Must LOS ANGELES UP) k new model plan for ailing marriages, something besides divorce, is an absolute "must" in the United States and a committee of the American Bar association if form ulating the plan, Judge Paul W. Alexander of the court of common pleas, Toledo, Ohio, who heads the Bar asso ciation's special committee, said in an interview that legislators have been trying Since 1884 to get uni form divorce laws by consti tutional amendments. "But It just isn't In the cards," Judge Alexander told Superior Judges Joseph Maltby and Elmer Doyle of Los Angeles' domestic relstions court. "Migratory di vorce, involving couples who run for instance, makes up only three percent of the total, so it's really the 97 percent who divorce at home that worry us." Judge Alexander said his com mittee is striving, not for a "stan dard" Jivorce law, but a good working divorce model. "There Is a uniform support act already adopted by a dozen stales," the jurist pointed out. "There's no reason- why all shouldn't adopt it, for it concern financial care of children. AU re ligious faiths have adopted it. The present method of dispens ing divorce, he said, is Use per mitting a airk man to diagnose his illness and prescribe his own remedy. "The Bar association's special committee doesn't want to take away anybody's rights," said Judge Alexander, "but our model plan will be for conference, investiga tion, consultation and deep prob ing even psycho-analysis if nec essary. 'Applications for divorce will not be called 'complaints' and they will not be worded vs.' It will be application in the interest of the John Doe family." And when the the 30cm investigation uncovera what is wrong, why papa is inter ested in a blonde, there will be a report. 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He was the victim of a reporter' embarrassing mistake that brought to light the wide spread interest in one incident, and brought him a basketfull of mail. Littleton is chancellor of t n e Philadelphia Bar association. Re cently in a luncheon speech he detailed the origin of the phrase "Philadelphia lawyer" aa it is used to describe an attorney or person who is very astute, resourceful. Quite correctly, Littleton said in the speech that the appellation was esrned by attorney Andrew Hamilton, of Philadelphia, who was counsel for John Peter Zenger in a famous New York libel suit in 17SS. Zenger, a pioneer printer and newspaper publisher, had declined to accept official censorship o f his government exposes, and was arrested on charges of seditious libel instituted by the colonial gov ernor. So powerful was th gov ernor, Cosby, that two New York lawyers who sought to defend Zen ger were disbarred, wmcn discour aged others from undertaking the defense. Hamilton accepted the case and by his brilliant work in court earned acquittal for Zenger. To quote Littleton: "Without a shred of law with him he carried on one of th most magnificent defenses ever conducted before a jury." An Associated Pre reporter preparing a new story of Little ton's speech erroneously wrote that Littleton had identified the lawyer as "Alexander" Hamilton. The re porter added that this "Alexander" Hamilton was the first U. S. secre tary of the Treasury. The story wss widely published. And shortly afterwards Littleton began receiving chiding I e 1 1 e r e from strangers and friends. Corre spondents from Maine to Florida, and as far west as Wisconsin and Kansas, wrote to point out that Alexander Hamilton, the first se cretary of the Treasury, was not born until 173722 years after the Zenger trial. The letters came from school teachers and pupils, from retired army officers, bankers and law yers, from relatives and friends. One girl, a high school pupil, wrote thst: "This may come as a shock to you, but Andrew Hs mil ton, and NOT Alexander etc." To each correspondent Littleton wrote a letter explaining that the error was not his but that of the reporter. Littleton says the one inescapable conclusion . from the whole correspondence was that a great many person know the correct version of the Zenger defense. GRAND FINAL! SOUTH RIVER, N. J. (.P Stephen Preffack of East Bruns wick was driving along a bark road here when th car's wheels stuck in the sand. Than, police said, Preffack, at tempting to get the car loose, spun the wheels until the tires caught fire. The fire set nearby brush aflame. The brush tire spresd to the car. The 19S0 auto, which police said Preffack borrowed from a friend, was destroyed. Dtprtsttoi Thrtof Sttn In Bank Rt$trvtV Slump PULLMAN. 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