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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE 'Crying Light' Aid Deaf Parents To Care for Child HURRY! HURRY! TO PENNEY'S BIG , , ' - Tuesday, January 1. 1957 j ! w , MEDFORD " Dallas, Tex. OI.P-' Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wood, both to tally deaf, use a "crying light" to tell them when their baby needs attention. The "crying light" was built by Wood's co-workers at Texas Instruments, Inc. Whenever the baby cries, it sets a table lamp to blinking. It has been a boon to Mr. and Mrs. Woods, but confuses their cocker spaniel, Topsy, which learned that a blinking light, before the baby came, meant somebody was at the door. The gadget isn't completely original. Before Robert Joseph Wood Jr. was born Oct. 1, the parents were intrigued by a magazine advertisement of a crying lamp but were bothered by the large price tag. So, Cecil Magers and Jesse Mosely at the instrument plant put together a box, containing among other things a transistor, which is placed near the baby's crib. Connected Is the table lamp which can be moved to any part of the house. Lamp Flash Whenever the baby makes the slightest cry, the lamp starts flashing and continues until a witch on the box is cut off and the device reset. Naturally, the lamp flashes quite often. And Topsy immedi ately runs to the front door to welcome visitors because she learned months ago that ring ing the doorbell caused lights to blink in every room in the bouse. Lights, too, start off the day for the Woods. They have alarm clocks that wake them by blink ing at a pre-set time. Their son's hearing is fine. Both the Woods attended spe cial schools in St. Louis, Mo., to learn how to read lips and how to speak. He won letters in foot ball, baseball and basketball at Jesuit High School and also played football at St. Benedict's College in Acheson, Kan. She was graduated from Crozier Technical High School in Dallas and from Christian College in ; Columbia, Mo. 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