TEN MEDFCmD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, October 8, 1957
Study
clenfis!s
elective Hearing,
Use Hath Formulas
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York OF) Science has
worked out plausible mathe
matics to explain a mechanical
marvel which all of us carry
around in our heads. The figur
ing will be proved, however,
only when science is able to con
struct a mechanical brain which
can listen either to its left "ear"
or its right one or to both and
make something out of what
ever it hears.
The new mathematics repre
sent an advance toward a solu
tion of "the cocktail party prob
lems" which has fascinated phy
sical scientists for some years.
The puzzle is this: How in the
world can anyone listen intelli
gently to only one voice with
one ear or both while both his
ars are being assailed by many
voices, loud, soft, near and far?
Independent Mechanisms
Mathematically it is demon
strated that each ear has an in
dependent mechanism which
permits it to relate all the var
ious sounds which enter it any
one sound to all and any of the
other sounds. With such a me
chanism, either or both ears can
select any sound or sounds it
wishes to let in.
Those admitted sounds are
then passed on to a central me
chanism which has to relate
what the left ear hears with
what the right ear has picked
up and make something of the
mess of sounds, which is a very
neat trick that all of us perform
without ever drawing a long
breath over it.
-What comes out of this second
mechanism is passed on to third,
and one which still stubbornly
defies mathematics and is one
of the toughest problems which
must be solved before there can
be a true mechanical brain. This
is the mechanism of judging
not only judging where the
sounds come from and what
they mean but also judging
whether they are worth listen
ing to.
The mathematics are those of
Drs. Bruce Sayers and E. Colin
Cherry of the University of Lon
don, contributed to the Acous
tical Society of America. Cherry
is a veteran worker at the prob
lem of explaining scientifically
how our brains can tell the di
rection a sound is coming from
when we're hearing it with two
ears and how our brains can
"pull apart" two persons who
are speaking at once.
Previously he had demon
strated that there is a "fusion"
process going on in our heads.
Only if our two ears are hearing
the same sound, it is possible
for us to tell where the sound is
coming from and how far away
it is.
He had proved that when both
ears hear the same sound, the
listener can't possibly separate
the sensations of one ear from
those of the other the "fusion"
is that complete. If he listens
to one speaker with one ear
and to another speaker with the
other, he can't possibly under
stand both at the same time, but
he can understand one of the
other or one after the other.
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Parking Lot Mishap
Injures Medford Man
Ashland Melvin M. Taylor,
1107 South Oak st., was slightly
injured by a car driven by a
17-year-old boy in the Teen-Age
club's parking lot early Sunday
morning, according to state po
lice. State police said the 17-year-old
driver and his companion, a
17-year-old girl, were arrested
on charges of being minors in
possession of liquor. Both were
on probation at the time of their
arrest, state police said.
State police said Taylor was
taken to Ashland General hos
pital where he was treated for a
sprained ankle and had x-rays
taken before being released. Hos
pital officials said Taylor suf
fered minor injuries.
State Police said Taylor was
pinned between the rear bumper
of the 17-year-old's car and the
left door of a pickup truck
driven by Darlene Joy Lorenz,
267 Eighth st., when the youth
suddenly backed his car with
out giving Taylor warning.
Griffin Creek Plans
Rink Party For School
First skating party of the year
for Griffin Creek school will be
given Thursday in the Ashland
skating rink, according to Myr
na S. Frink, principal.
Busses will leave the school
promptly at 6:30 p.m., she said.
The rink has been rented for
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. All parents are
asked to pick up their children
when the party returns to the
school at 9:40 p.m. or earlier.
The party is limited to fourth
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
graders. Regular drivers will
take the busses to Ashland and
the group will have faculty sup
ervision, the principal said.
Fall Citizen Classes
To Start Thursday Here
Crater Lake chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution,
announced today the annual fall
citizenship classes will begin
Thursday, Oct. 10.
Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini, chapter
member, will conduct the classes
at her home, 308 North Ivy
street.
Two classes will be held, one
afternoon and one evening. First
session of the afternoon class
will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, and
the evening class will begin at
7:30 o'clock.
Necessary materials will be
provided by the chapter.
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WORLD'S LARGEST
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
THE PSYCHIATRIST at an Army base was having a hard
time classifying an oddball caught in the draft until he ex
tracted the admission that the draftee never went out with
girls. "Aha,' nodded the
psychiatrist "You don't
like women, is that it?"
"On the contrary," the
draftee assured him. "I sure
like women. That's why my
wife won't let me take oat
girisT
Another new GI, on his
first evening in carnp, was
handed a knife and a big
sack of potatoes, and was
told by the sergeant, "Peel
away."
"They told me," grumbled
the recruit, "that the 1957-modeI Army had potato-peeling
machines."
"So they have," nodded the grinning sarge, "and you're the
latest modeL"
A persistent personality staggered into the bar and demanded,
"Give me the usual" So the bouncer threw him out.
1957. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Quotas From the lews
' By UNITED PRESS
Cambridge, Mass. Navy scientist N. Whitney Matthews, on
the prospective launching of an American satellite:
"We have tested several kinds of satellites extensively. Several
of these, when subjected to tests of vibration, vacuum and other
severe shocks far greater than anticipated in the actual launching,
withstood the tests successfully." -
Milwaukee Brave pitcher Lew Burdetie. on his second vic
tory over the New York, Yankees:
"Monday's win over the Yankees wasn't as much of a novelty
as that first one but don't go getting the idea I was bored."
Union, S.C. State Rep. John Calhoun Hart, confirming that
the Union county state legislative delegation has authorized the
purchase of machine guns and ammunition for the sheriff's de
partment to forcibly oppose school integration:
We will have a lot of integrated cemeteries in South Carolina
a long time before we have integrated schools."
Moscow Moscow radio, disclosing the Soviet explosion of a
new design" hydrogen warhead:
"In the interests of the safety of the population and partici
pants in the lest, the explosion took place at a great height. The
test was successful.
Seattle, Wash. Charles S. Purdell, attorney for retiring team
sters president Daye Beck and his son, Dave Jr., in successfully
requesting continuances of their grand larceny trials:
A trial at this time would necessarily be conducted in a feel
ing of extreme bitterness and hostility toward both defendants."
Russian Satellite
Seen Great Service
To U.S. Capitalism
By ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York (TP) Russia, in the
ecstasy of triumph in being the
first to launch a man-made sat
ellite, may have done capitalism
its greatest service, some Wall
Street experts believed today.
Not that the financial district
regarded the man-made moon as
having any great economic sig
nificance in itself, but many in
the street felt it would unite
the free world in a new scientific
Influenza Tops Listing
Of Cases For County
Influenza topped the list of
communicable diseases reported
in the county for the week end
ing Oct. 4, according to the Jack
son county department of health.
Thirty-eight cases were report
ed, 10 in Medford, 20 from
Phoenix, and eight in Shady
Cove.
Measles were runner-up dur
ing the week with Prospect re
porting 12 cases plus two of
German measles, Shady Cove,
one case, and Medford, one.
Other communicable diseases
reported included trench mouth,
1 in Gold Hill: infectious hepa
titis, 1 in Medford; impetigo, 7
in Shady Cove, 1, Ashland, and
1, Central Point; and strep
throat, 1 in Medford.
Tri-Hi-Y Girls Meet
For First Gathering
First Tri-Hi-Y meeting of the
year was held by the junior
class Wednesday, it was report
ed Monday. Twenty-one girls at
tended. Ceremony and publicity com
mittees were formed with Ruth
Schroeder chairman of the first
and Shirley Lilly of the second
As part of the evening's pro
gram Carolyn Spike on "What
Tri-Hi-Y Means to Me," and
Herb Partridge, YMCA official,
spoke on "Tri-Hi-Y, An Interna
tional and National Movement.
The organization's next meet
ing will be held Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. in the YMCA. Officers
will be elected.
drive to outdo the Soviet achive
ment. It would dramatize the
missile project.
Getting such a moon into the
stratosphere, it was believed,
may have been accomplished
with an intercontinental ballistic
missile which in itself represents
a menace to world safety.
Would Seek Supremacy
Hence, the financial experts
concluded that this event would
set off a new drive by the U.S
and other nations of the Free
World to rush perfection of a
missile of similar or even greater
scope.
Such a program, it was felt,
would involve spending vastly
more money for defense. It could
mean the end of the Washington
economy move, a new debt ceil
ing, a resumption of spending in
the aircraft plants lately hit by
government cutbacks in pay
ments.
An all-out drive to produce
an intercontinental ballistic mis
sile and the vast cost involved
could restimulate the inflation
ary forces to the point where
Federal Reserve pressure would
be inadequate to stem the tide, it
was felt.
But coming at a time when
business generally was cutting
back somewhat on new plant
expansion and inventory accum
ulation, the move could rein-
vigorate the whole economy in
a healthy resumption of the ad
vance. Means New Spurts
As a result, many felt that
here was the one factor which
hadn't been reckoned with for
the 1958 economic life. What
had been considered a drab out
look, a high economy without a
zoom, could be turned into a new
spurt which could make previ
ous record years look small.
And if that were the case, the
market men felt that stocks
easily could zoom to new highs
on big volume.
All this doesn't mean that
Wall street is war-minded. War
is considered a stock market deterrent.
But big boosts in government
spending and the vast use of
raw materials that might be in
volved in a giant missile pro
gram would be considered high
ly bullish, according to market
experts.
Claude A. Lewis, D.M.D.
ANNOUNCES the OPENING
of His
NEW DENTAL OFFICES
at 545 Pine St. - Central Point
Phone NO 4-1525 for Appointment
Electronic Industry
Predicted For Valley
One or more electronic plants
will be operating within the
Rogue Valley area by one year
from now, according to William
J. Williams at a chamber of com
merce roundtable meeting yes
terday noon.
Williams, who is head of the
committee to look into bringing
new industry into the Rogue
Valley, said that he and his com
mittee have been "wooing" sev
eral firms into looking at the
valley area for construction of
new plants. He told of the size
of the new industry and said the
government's decentralization of
vital industries would be a help
ful factor in bringing such a
plant to Medford.
Other reports of chamber ac
tivities at the meeting were Russ
Jamison who told members that
public relations was both an ex
terior and interior job that re
quired full time. Ron Gandee
told members that tourists were
Oregon's third most important
industry and what the Jackson
county chamber is doing for pro
motion, Frank Van Dyke who
reported on governmental oper
ations and .told members of the
unfair state tax system" and
Dwight Houghton who gave
members a brief history of the
chamber and how it is financed.
Jackson county chamber of
commerce president Miller Hug
gins led the reports with a 'short
speech on coming activities and
told members that new ideas
were needed.
PROFESSOR DIES
New York (IP) Dr. Jeku-
thiel Ginsburg, 68, professor of
mathematics and director of the
Institute of Mathematics at Ye-
shiva University, died Monday of
a heart attack.
New York HP) Stephen
O'Sullivan, 65, who, under the
name of Roy Stever, toured the
Keith Circuit as a dancer, died
Monday.
New York HP1 Horace J.
Parmalee, 68, a concert manager
and vice-president of Columbia
Artists Management, Inc., died
Monday.
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Parents!
Your Junior Fire Marshals want
you on their team!
Your school age youngster will soon be coming home with a
Home Inspection Report to make out. Its part of a Fire
Prevention Week campaign to make our homes safer. And
you'H have an opportunity to take part with your child in a
worthwhile community project, the Junior Fire Marshal
Program.
As your local Hartford Agency, we are happy to cooperate
with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company in sponsoring
Junior Fire Marshal activities here. More than three million
boys and girls throughout the nation are participating, this
year. And the program has the unreserved endorsement of
teachers, fire officials and civic organizations.
Won't you join the children - and us - to help make our
community a safer one to live in?
Opening Dec. 1
BARKER-HART AGENCY.
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Medford
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How telephone men fight metal-eating winds
Tony Gurnari and Vic Sculatti (left and
right above) are part of a telephone metal
testing team. They're prying open what we
call a terminal box. It's like the one to
which telephone wires from your house
are connected But this one is frozen shut
by a hungry metal-eater called corrosion.
Corrosion can be caused by salt-laden
wind, fog or ocean spray. It can rust, pit '
or crack tough metals. So we test to find
metals that are economical to use yet resist
corrosion. Telephone men also study other
destroyers like wood rot, insects and even
gnawing animals. By controlling such de
stroyers, we save thousands of dollars
worth of equipment each year.
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At the test site, Tony and Vic are at
work learning new facts about corrosion
by exposing metals to ocean winds and
other elements. Their tests are part of our
Working together
to serve you better ....
effort to lengthen the life of every kind of
equipment serving your phone. At the
same time these teste help as keep your
service dependable,
The men and women of
) Pacific Telephone
in Medford
Veuf buiinMi efficai 131 N. Bartlttt Si., SPring 2-6101