BIX MEDFOHD (OHEOON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, May 28. 1950
A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On This and That
Washington, May 26 (U.R)
Every year when I tackle the job
of interviewing Kids in the na
tional spelling
bee I run into
trouble.
I send copy-
readers and ed
itors to th
how do you
spell It? dic
tionary. Last
year I had an
interview with
cute little 13
year - old, and
when I spelled
out some of the
words she had
Uirmu Nichols trouble with
the UP had to carry two cor
rections on the first paragraph.
Ill never learn; here I go
again.
Tomorrow the Scripps-Howard
newspapers are holding the na
tional finals for the say-it-by-the-letter
business, and here I am
with another piece about it.
This time, I think I can give
you-all the winner. Maybe. A 14-year-old
blonde from Sovington,
Tenn. (pop. 4,000) named Martha
Ann Kennedy.
Martha Ann can outspell most
copyreadera I know. She Just
graduated with honors from her
grammar school and did well in
everything but deportment.
Which is understandable in a gal
that age.
Wins Several Tests
First the kid, a blue-eyed lit
tle girl wearing her first pair
of high heels, won the spelling
contest in her classroom and
then took the run-off in the
sixth - seventh - eighth grades.
Then she won the Tipton county
(Tenn.) meet and later the mid-
south contest in which young
sters from fjl counties competed.
Martha Ann spells with a
southern accent. She won the
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prats feature Writtt
mid-south thing by licking the
young man ahead of her by spell
ing correctly the word "apprise.'
The other kid put a "z" in it and
he was wrong because I looked
it up in Webster s latest.
Well .these kids from many
states are in for a bad time when
the clock strikes 9 tomorrow at
the National Press club, where
the contest will be held,
Spelling List Given
Please check me back on some
of these, but the boys and girls
will be asked to spell such
words as:
Misstatement.
Mercurochrome.
Meticulously.
Psychoanalysis.
Balustrade.
Antimacassar.
Braggadocio.
Appurtenant.
Candelabrum.
Ebullition.
Ichthyology.
And so forth.
You folks can look 'em up and
see wnetner tney are rigni.
There will be no corrections this
time.
Calm as Cucumber
To get back to my pretty little
blonde girl from Memphis. She
is as calm as a cucumber.
I m having the time of my
life and I'm not scared a bit. I
can win in a walk," she said.
Richard Kennedy, her 12-year-
old brother, started to give Mar
tha Ann a rough time on that
count.
You can't spell c-a-t," he said
to his champion sister.
What did you get in spelling
last year? she asked in a huff
Richard thought it was a goon
time to go down to the lobby and
look for a new comic book.
Television Sets
Seen As Aid For
Atom Bomb Areas
Chicago, May 26 (U.R) Ato
mic scientists have developed
three-dimensional television sets
which some day may act as
"eyes" for robots performing
rescue and clean-up operations
In atom-bombed areas, it was an
nounced today,
An announcement by the Ar
gonne National laboratory here
told of big advances being made
by its remote control engineer
ing division to permit scientists
to operate from a safe distance
while experimenting with radio
active materials.
Important Step
It described the development
of the three-dimensional TV sys
tem as an "Important step in the
development of equipment and
techniques needed by scientists
In order to protect themselves
from radiation. ..."
The new television cameras
may some day act as "eyes" for
"master slave" units with almost-human
arms and hands
which will be sent into atom
bombed areas "rendered unin
habitable bv radlonrtlve materi
als." said Dr. H. L. Hull, director
of the engineering division.
Scientists could control the
slaves by viewing three-dimensional
screens set up miles from
the atom disnster.
May Handle Explosives
"Applications in weapons
work may Include handling of
explosive materlnls and de-arming
or disposal of bombs," Hull
aid. "Industrlnl applications
will also suggest themselves,
especially chemical plant opera
tions involving toxic materials."
He said the new "stero" TV
units were constructed by modi
fying stnndnrd television equip
ment. Twin lenses, correspond
ing to human eyes, view the
radioactive materlnls. At the
receiving end, viewers wear
special polarized spectacles
which fuse the two pictures into
a single three-dimensional Imnge.
An alternate system, involving
the use of cathode ray lubes nnd
a hal-silvcred mirrnw with plnr
izlng filters, eliminates the
necessity for the spectacles.
Shady Cove -Trail
Shady Cove-Trail. May 26
Patricia Brown, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Brown of
Shadv Cove and sister of Bill
Brown, has been named valedic
torian of the senior graduating
class at Prospect high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prichard
and baby daughter, Joy Ann
from California, are here visit
ing Mr. Prichard's parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Prichard of Trail.
Mrs. Prichard is also the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. lorn
King of Shady Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Perdue, for
merly of Shady Cove and now of
Bakersfield. Cai., spent a week
end recently visiting with friends
in Shady Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Auspclund
and son Dean from San Pablo
Cnl., have been house guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Eastgate and
familv of Shadv Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker
and son, Craig of Roseburg spent
the week-end visiting Mrs. wal
ker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Burdctt of Shady Cove.
Attending the baccalaureate
services Sunday for Prospect
high school were Mrs. Mary
Note, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Willson.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brown and
Dolores Snarl, all of Shady Cove.
Jerry Willson, Pat Brown and
Jerry Nate, all of Shady Cove,
are graduating this year from
Prospect high.
SENATOR SHARES
Sknwhegnn, Me. (UB Sen.
Margaret Chase Smith, R., Me.,
gave up her 30-room mansion
and moved into a small three
bedroom house here. The senator
converted her former home into
a hospital memorializing her late
husband.
BEDFORD
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