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
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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.
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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.
If the report shows tne mar
riage Is a dead duck, as the saying
goes, the pair will receive coun
sel regarding the new single state
they are about to enter. The legal
dissolution will be private and
without accusations.
"In other words, the corpse ot
the old dead marriage will be
brought to court for burial. There
won't be any lies or smears. Mar
riage banns have long been a eus-
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ion to divorce banns."
Judge Alexander is studying
southern California's divorce aitu
ation. The divorce rate here is
among the highest in the nation.
Correction Of Attorney's Name In
Famous Libel Suit In 1735 Proves
Americans Know Their History
American Knew Histery
PHILADELPHIA (. A lot more people than you might think are
surprisingly well informed about and interested in American history.
That' th conclusion of Attorney Arthur Littleton. 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. Wash., UWThe
research director for th Federal
Deposit Insursnc corporation pre
dict a serious depression for this
country next year if bank reserves
continue falling at their present
rate.
Edison H. Crsmer of Washing
ton, D. C, addressed 200 western
bankers attending the Pacific
northwest conference on banking.
Prospects for avoidance of a ser
ious depression are not so hopeful
aa they appeared a few months
ago," he said.
Th effective volume of bank
reserves hss declined more than
four percent since the first of the
year, he said.
"If this rate of contraction in
bank reserves should continue for
a few more months, the recovery
from our present mild recession
will not occur during 1950. Should
it continue for a year a serious
deoression will be upon us,' he
said. . ... ,.
Federal reserve authorities could
help the situstion by reversing
their pressure on bank reserves,
he added.
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