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Tiny Television Camera May Open Way for Exploration of By GLENN STACKHOUSE Uniltd Press Correspondent San Francisco (W A tiny television camera", no bigger than a cigar box, has opened the way for exploration of the last great unknown territory of the world the depths of Davy Jones' locker. This latest development in a closed-circuit video will soon give man a closeup look at un dersea areas which previously have been as remote and myste rious as outer space. The fascinating possibilities of sumbarine TV was expounded by William Ivans Jr., vice presi dent of the Kin Tel division of Cohu Electronics, Inc., of San Diego. On The Side (Distributed by King Are you a bit bulgy? If so, you better check your weight on the charts showing what you should weigh for one of your sex, age, heights and type of figure. After you have reached the age of 35, each pound of overweight decreases your life expectancy by one per cent. So claim the life insurance com pany statisticians. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. Theodore Liebler Sr., well known theatrical producer of the yesteryear who weighed 300 pounds or more lived to be 90 years of age. Who is the oldest fat man you know? Slogie Department Am ' practically cleaned out of stogies. All because of my griev ous error as to the number of places named Dublin in the United States. While there are more Dublins in this country than I said, there seems to be a disagreement as to the exact number. The Encyclopedia Bri tannica Jr. lists 12. A Brooklyn- ite, however, claims there are 17. He includes Dublin, Idaho, which he says has a population of three. I wonder if I have a reader there. . Sidelights Franz Weichsebraun, who is 103 years of age, is the oldest man in Austria. His recipe for a long life is: "Drink milk until you die but stop having girl friends at 80" . . . Am informed that to get "closed TV" pro grams, sucL as championship boxing bouts, on a home set re quires no particular technical knowledge. It is accomplished by an attachment made for the purpose. However, my inform ant does not say where this gadget can be obtained. Songwriiing There is not much of a mar ket for poetry these days. Those having . poetic talent should try writing lyrics for popular songs. In this connec tion it is interesting to note that Dorothy Fields was a high school teacher and a writer of magazine poetry when she witched to popular song writ ing. In partnership with Jimmy McHugh she wrote such hits as "I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby," "On The Sunny Side of the Street," "I'm In The Mood For Love" and "Lovely To "Look At." Marrying Man So you think Tommy Man ville, who has been married 10 times, is a much married man? Ben Ahmed of Singapore, who is 73 years old has been married 69 times. He is the father of 60 children. He is about to be mar ried for the 70th time. Horses and Women Has your wife what is re ferred to in the women's wear industry as a "difficult figure"? If so, she may be interested in knowing that a recent survey has revealed that only 10 per cent of British women can wear "ready to wear" clothing without alterations. Please Note Did your mother come from Ireland? How about your fa ther? My grandgather came from there. The exodus from Erin's Isle has been going on for some time. The population of Ireland is now less than half what it was 116 years ago. In 1841, it was 6,529,000. Today it is 2,894.822. Standing on Head Standing on the head stimu lates the brain. I have known i several successful fellows who spent a brief period standing oh their heads when seeking an idea. Sam Wood, the great film director, was one of them. Mi chael Grace, the shipping mag nate, stands on his head for brief periods. However, Mr. Grace does not do it to stimu late thought. He says it is good for sinus trouble. Asking Queries from clients. Q. All Sales - Rentals WHEEL CHARS Open Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E MAIN PH. SP 3-5345 1 Block East of Hawthorn Park Ivans said Kin Tel's gadget is a midget-sized television camera and transmitter encased in a sort of miniature bathosphere, or diving bell, capable of tele vising the ocean's floor with the aid of powerful colored search lights. He said the principal custom ers for underwater TV have been the Navy and offshore oil exploration firms. But he said these users so far "haven't even scratched the surface" of its pos sibilities. Salvage Work Its main function for the Navy has been in salvage work. Oper ated by remote control from the surface, the cameras survey un derwater ship damage. What the By E. V. Durling Features Syndicate. Inc.) right, Edgar, you tell us why New York couldn't keep the Giants. A. You have the qusry reversed, sir. It should be: Why couldn't the Giants keep New York? That is, why couldn't they keep the local fans inter ested enough to continue a pat ronage that would be profitable. The answer is simple. The New Yorkers grew tired of the phoney lively ball, the cheap home runs into a shortened right field stand, the fake argu ments with the umpire, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if the Giants experienced the same box office trouble in San Francisco, which has a highly sophisticated population. Junior Colleges Now Permitted A bill passed by the 1957 state legislature opened the way for community junior colleges in Oregon. It allows a school district to establish a junior col lege or several school districts to form a college district. To qualify, a district must have an estimated true cash value of $20 million, enrollment ii grades nine through . 12 of at least 500, and adequate library and plant facilities. The state board of education must give ap proval. Courses of study may extend up to two years beyond the twelfth grade. Reimbursement from a special account set up under state basic school support will not exceed 25 per cent of the operating costs of a junior college. Ninety-thou- j sand dollars were appropriated j out of the fund for the 1957-59 biennium for community col leges. 'Something Different' In Eagle Point Music Eagle Point "Something a little different" will be intro duced "in music activities of Eagle Point schools this year, ac cording to Charles Martin, high school music supervisor. Martin promised a "treat" in marching maneuvers performed by the marching band at home football games. The group con tains 50 pieces. The 30-member concert band will follow the new trend with a "pops" concert. An operetta is scheduled for November by the high school chorus. New robes are being made for the group by the Parent-Teacher Student as sociation. Grade school music is under the supervision of Keith Kram beal, who will jdirect beginning and advanced bands and inter-, mediate and upper grade chor uses. Vice-President of Paper Company Dies Portland Of) Joseph R. Frum, retired assistant vice president of Crown Zellerbach Corp., died in a Portland hos pital Friday. He was 65. Frum was associated with Crown Zellerbach for 38 years before retiring in October, 1956. IRRIGATION PDS to 60 H.P. From 2950 up ft H.P. SHALLOW WELL 8950 V3 H.P. DEEP WELL Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-2939225 W. Main MturOKD, OREGON W GWa S&H Green Stamps $900 Sea Depths TV "eye" sees in the depths is transmitted to a viewing screen aboard a salvage ship to allow experts to assay the damage. The Navy also uses the equip ment to inspect such things as submarine nets and is experi menting with the TV camera as an underwater mine detector. In oil exploration, Ivans said, the TV camera provides the company's geologists first-hand view of the rock formations and canyons of the ocean bottom to make decisions where to drill. "This job previously was done by divers," he said, "but this has been inefficient because the divers aren't geologists and the oil company scientists have had to rely on second-hand in formation from a layman." Special Lights The powerful floodlights used with the equipment enable the cameras to "see" for several hundred feet even in the pitch blackness encountered at great depths, Ivans said. Because the television lenses can see light that is invisible to the human eye, the equipment uses special ultra-violet lights which pene trate the water much further than ordinary white light. Ivans said he saw virtually no limit to the depth at which the cameras can be made to oper ate. He predicted that some day they will be used to explore such spots as the 34,400-foot Mindanao Deep of the Philip pines, a place that scientists have only been able to guess about. "The possibilities of undersea television are staggering," Ivans said. "It can be used by oceanog raphers to make a detail map of the ocean's bottom which pre viously has been charted only by blind soundings." It has possibilities for com mercial fishermen to sight schools of fish. And for the ro mantic, the cameras might find sunken treasure ships. Some Experts Think T Market May Do Better After Labor Holiday By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) Some Wall Street experts after deep study on their respective park benches have concluded the market just might do a lot better after Labor Day. They point out the selling nnce July 12 has done a lot toward correcting an overin flated market at a time when in flation was losing its sting gen erally. In their study of the market's prospects for the future the mar ket men turned some of their deep thinking on the causes of the sharp decline in prices of equities. No Big Boom The main reason brought out was that inflation talk didn't set off a big boom as many had an ticipated. There had been so much inflation talk that the stock market observers had be gun to think this was the type" of inflation that would send people scurrying away from dollars into goods at any price. It just didn't work that way. People resisted high prices and the net result was a profit squeeze instead of a Drofit boom. It wasn't that Wall Street wanted inflation or simply that Wall Street needs it to have a real bull market. The idea had been that with inflation here, the people just could not put all their money into potatoes, er motor boats, or other goods, so they'd buy stocks and the prices would go up and up. When it didn't work out as ex pected the market fell of its own weight. Demand dried' up and small amounts of selling brought wide declines. Now that there has been a correction without many rallies, Originators WITH JACKSON HOTEL i. BUILDING IN CONNECTION WITH THE FIDLER-MACKENZIE AGENCY 122 East Eighth St. Phone SP 3-3922 the market men anticipate an adjustment to a new situation a high rate of business without a boom. They look for strength in many sections of the list on the basis of merit of the particular issue rather than an overall rise. These experts point out that there still is a lot of money seek ing investment. Some of this, they feel, will go into bonds which provide better yields thttn many stocks. But they also look for a new demand to develop for a long list of stocks, a list suf ficiently long to give the market an appearance of strength. Once the economy adjusts sim ilarly, the demand for money lighten moderately with a pos sibility of a dip in money rates, it is held. Translator Operates For TV Signal Relay The Southern Oregon Broad casting company and the Ore gon - California Television, Inc. put into operation Thursday a TV translator to relay signals from KBES-TV to the Illinois valley. j The unit is used to pick up signals from KBES-TV's main transmitter and change them into ultra-high frequency signals on channel 70 before forwarding them to the valley. The pickup translator is located on Eight Dollar mountain. A rhombic antenna is beng used to get the ghost-free pic tures, according to Ed Malone, engineering vice president of KBES-TV. Tests proved that pic tures were received at the Ore gon Caves and almost all points in the Illinois valley. Work is underway to clear the picture re ceived at Kerby and Selma. of Prepaid Medical and Hospital Care -MEW. OFFICES' LOCATED . IN Sunday. September 1, 1957 Catholic Award Given To Medford Boy Scout The Ad Altare Dei cross was presented recently to Arthur J. Erving, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur G. Erving, 344 South Grape St. Fourteen-year-old Arthur re ceived the award as recognition from the Catholic church for ad vancement made in the spiritual content of scouting, according to Father John Ilg, Sacred Heart Catholic church. The award is made on the au thority of the bishop of each dio cese, Father Ilg explained. To qualify generally the youth must have become a First Class Scout, attended services over a period of time, have done a daily good deed and provide satisfactory proof. The candidate must also fur nish a chart of his parish and city and be able to give direc tions to the hospitals. Erving is the second youth in the parish to have received the award. The first was presented about nine months ago to Jerry Randolph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Randolph, 120 Ashland ave. Approximately four youths are now working toward the award, Father Ilg said. Two Sept. Drills Cut For Guard Companies Two September drills for Med f or National Guard companies have been curtailed due to real location of federal funds, Capt. Bert W. Riebe said Saturday. ; Instead, drills will be held for headquarters company on Sept. i 9 and 23 and Company A on i Sept. 10 and 24. Both companies ' belong to the 186th infantry. , All cancelled drills will be J made up next spring during rifle i range practice, Captain Riebe said. THE APPOINTMENT WESTON Special Agent Representing ... COTTON THE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE About 8 percent of all the coal mined in the U.S. comes from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. License Suspended For Drunk Driving Guy Goin, Delhi, Calif., was fined $255 in district court Fri day after he .pleaded guilty to charges of driving while under the influence of liquor. A 10-day jail sentence was suspended by Judge James Main on payment of fine and Goin's operator's, license was suspended for 90 days. There will be an estimated 530,000 new cases- of cancer in the U.S. during 1957, according to American Cancer society of ficial estimates. A cow eats about 100 pounds of food daily to produce 20 to 25 pounds of milk. For Over 25 Years A Dependable Place to Buy Safe -Satisfying OIL HEAT QUAKER HEATERS STANDARD HEATING OILS Expert Oil Burner Service Valley Faael Go, 26 West Main 1-3 OF GROW Contracts Awarded for Highway Construction Salem OP) The State High way commission Saturday awarded a $666,289 contract to Roy L. Houck and Sons, Salem, for 1.95 miles of grading on the Pacific highway near Albany and a railroad overcrossing. Also awarded was a $500,656 contract to Parker-Schram com pany, Portland, for .60 mile grading and paving on the High lands Interchange section of the Sunset highway west of Portland. Canadian rivers are estimated to have one-fourth of all the po tentiay hydroelectric power in the world. 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