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A WHIZ AT FIGURES AND CHESS
Giant Brain Can Do
Any Math Exercise
By HERB ALTSCHULL
Philadelphia, Auk. 24 ff The long-dreamed-of-day of the
thinking machine may be nearer than you imagine.
Scientists have invented an electrical monster that can perform
any mathematical exercises and can memorize more than 500
numbers.
This giant brain, using wires
and coils instead of nerves and
blood cells, is known as the bi
nac. It is the second electronic
brain created by J. Presper Eck
ert, Jr., 30, and John W. Mauch
ly, 42, former University of
Pennsylvania physicists.
Details of the binac were dis
closed yesterday for the first
time. Eckert and Mauchly put
the machine through a test run
in which it did 500,000 addi
tions and 200,000 multiplications
In two hours.
A man working with an add
ing machine would have taken
years to do the same comput
ing. Eckert said it isn't true that
the machine can think right
now. But in the future?
"We don't know that it's im
possible for these machines to
think," said Eckert.
Binac's predecessor was
known as the eniac. It perform
ed very much like binac, but it
is 30 times bigger and can't op
erate as fast, Eniac weighs 30
tons, binac less than one.
Eckert and Mauchly now are
at work on their third automa
tic computer. That one will be
called the unlvac and it will be
far superior to either of the oth
ers. Univac will be able to do al
most anything. The first two
univacs produced will play each
other a game of chess. Eckert
said they may even be able to
write music.
After univac, what?
Eckert was asked whether the
day will come when each of us
has a mechanical man at his
beck and call to do his thinking
for him?
"That's a distinct possibility,"
the serious-minded young sclen-
Polk County Girl
Suspected of Polio
Dallas, Aug. 24 Joan Orton,
4Vi-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. Orton of North
Dallas, was taken to the Doern
becher hospital, Portland, Mon
day for observation immediately
after the family physician stat
ed that there is a possibility that
the child has poliomyelitis.
Mrs. Orton stated that she and
her husband took the girl to the
doctor when she complained of
feeling ill and was unable to
stand alone.
Diagnosis to determine defi
nitely whether the case is polio
myelitis will not be completed
until Wednesday or Thursday.
No other cases of infantile
paralysis have been reported to
the Polk county health depart
ment, although several have
been sent to Portland for obser
vation recently. In each case it
was found to be something other
than polio,
Mr. and Mrs. Orton have two
other children, Florence, B4,
and Billy,
Guests Schendel Home
Liberty Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Schendel and family on Rt.
9, had as guests for dinner, Mr.
and Mrs. James Hill, Jimmy, Vi
vian, Juanita and Carolyn.
Dropping in for the afternoon
were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Free,
and Paula of Corvallis, and Mr.
and Mrs. John Turner, Charles,
Roberta and Ann.
list asserted. "At the moment,
any problem that can be trans
lated into .mathematical terms
can be solved by the machines."
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HOUSEWIFE TO GAMBLING ADDICT
A Case of Too Much Gasoline Joseph Featherstone, 8, is
swathed in bandages at Swedish1 Covenant hospital after he
suffered second degree burns from holding a lighted match to
look into the gas tank of an abandoned truck near his home
while playing with cousin, Gary Long, 5 (left). Gasoline
fumeR ignited, burned his clothing, and a neighbor beat out
the flames. Nurse is Dolores Gonzales. Motorists are having
trouble getting gasoline in Chicago because of a strike of
gasoline truck drivers who service retail outlets. , (AP
Wirephoto)
Shoveling Isn't Too Bad at Times
Savanna, Okla. OP) Frank Putnam figures being on the
business end of a shovel isn't too bad if
"A car ran over cat," his wife told him the other night.
"Will you get a shovel and bury it?"
Putnam did.
"There's a dead dog out in the road," the missus said the
following night. "Will you get, . ."
Putnam did.
But he rebelled when It happened the third night. This time
he said, it was a job for the highway department.
' "I'd be all night," Putnam said, "digging a hole for that
mule." '
Cure Is No Substitute
For Craving for Cards
Long Beach,. Calif., Aug. 24 m Take it from Sula Bell Stim-
son, gambling grandmother of Gardena, glutamic acid is no sub
stitute for poker.
Mrs. Stimson, 49, has been undergoing medical treatment under
court order to curb her graving for cards. She had undergone a
personality change from a nor-
mal housewife to a gambling
addict.
Two months ago the treat
ment was pronounced 40 per
cent effective by Dr. Marcus
Crahan, county jail physician,
and the woman was released to
her family. Monday she was in
court again on the same old
charge passing worthless
checks to finance her gambling
in nearby Gardena, where poker
is legal.
Superior Judge Fred Miller
continued the case for a week
while he talks 'it over with Dr.
Crahan. It was Crahan who
originally suggested glutamic
acid might restore the house
wifes' normal personality.
The gray-haired woman asked
the court to "restore the shots"
and added that it was due to her
own neglect that they hadn't
been continued after her release
on probation.
Glutamic acid, a protein brain
food, was given to her by, Dr.
Crahan "to restore her sense of
responsibility."
It ends to make up for defi
ciencies in the cranial system
College and Academy
Doors Opening Soon
Mt. Angel Ml. Angel Wom
en's college and Mt. Angel aca
demy will open the new scholas
tic year with registration on
September 4, 5, 11, 13 and with
regular classes on Wednesday,
September 14.
Registration dates for day
students for both institutions
will be Sunday, September 4, af
ter 10 a.m. and Monday evening,
September 5, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Resident students will be regis
tered on Sunday and Monday,
September 11 and 13, at which
time no day students will be
served.
Mt. Angel Women's college
offers a bachelor's degree in
elementary education after the
four years' course, as also the
regular teacher's certificate for
a three-year teacher training
course. Lower division liberal
arts courses are also offered.
Capital Journal, Salem. Ore., Wednesday, Aug-. 24, 194915
September Month for
Pasture Planting
Fall planted pastures for next
year's feed supply will be most
satisfactory If planted early.
September is accepted as the
time to seed most pastures this
all.
If the longer grasses and leg
umes can grow and develop
roots this fall, the better they
will stand the cold freezing days
in winter.
Commercial fertilizers applied
Just before or at seeding time
are good. Ben A. Newell, coun
ty extension agent recommends
at least 100 pounds of 16-20
Amo-phos per acre or 100 or
more pounds of super phosphate
or its equal and at least 10
pounds of actual nitrogen per
acre,
Nitrogen will stimulate rapid
growth, says Newell, and phos
phate will promote winter hardiness.
Cuba's domestic excise tax on
manufacturing tobacco is caus
ing many Cubans to switch to
cigars.
and has been used with some
success in cases similar to Mrs.
Stimson's.
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