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Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A PSYCHIATRIST encountered a challenging problem in the person of a patient who was absolutely convinced he was in love with an elephant. After endless sessions on the couch, the analyst convinced the poor fellow it all had been a hallucination. "Okay, so I'm cured," nodded the pa tient weakly, "but row I've ot another problem you must solve for me." "What rio-A-?" asked the analyst wearily. The patient asked, "Do you happen to kr.o'A' somebody in the market for one mighty big engagement ring?" Most successful used car dealer west of Chicago was a 300-pound gorilla who called himself "Smiling Sam from Amsterdam." "Nobody never bring back a jalopy what I've sold 'em," boasted the Smiler and he was right. He thoughtfully had established his lot at the top of a sharp hill and when a customer drove a car off, he couldn't bring it back! C 135. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Ballistic Missile Undergoes Tests in Old Woolen Factory Lawrence, Mass. 'IP1 The nervous system of the Titan inter-continental ballistic missile is being taken "into space and back" by scientists working in an abandoned woolen mill. Testing equipment designed to simulate the wrenching take-off of the missile, the violent tem perature changes as it soars into Family Council Gilbert J. She's making a sissy out of our boy. Martha J. I don't want any hoods in my family. ' Gilbert J. I would like to know whether a man has any rights at all over his own chil dren. We have a boy and a girl. I don't pretend to know anything about bringing up girls, so I don't interfere with "my wife there, but when she brings up the boy to be a regular sissy, I say it's time for me to step in. Our boy Steve is 12 years old and I don't think he's ever had a good fight in his life. He's been beaten up a couple of times, sure, but I've never seen him even make an effort to defend himself. I brought him a set of weights for his birthday and I want him to get interested in body build ing. My wife threatens to throw them out. Martha J. I don't want any hoods in my family like there were in Gilbert's. One of his brothers is still doing time in a state pen, another was so badly hurt in a prize fight that he has been a sick man for the past ten years. Ever since he was old enough to toddle. Gil has been trying to get hold of Steve to teach him to fight. Of course, I don't want Steve to be a sissy or to get beaten by the other boys, but he doesn't have to get lessons in being a fighter to take care of himself or does he? Steve is a very smart boy, very' good in school' and he reads a lot and sticks to himself. I'm proud of him, but his father has shamed him into working out in secret with those awful weights. The Council Steve must be a mighty unhappy boy, torn as he is between a father who sees him growing into a sissy and a mother who fears he'll become a "hood." Gilbert is right, however, in feeling he should have some say about his son's bringing up and his daughter's too, for that mat ter. But. possibly because of his differences with his wife, he places too much emphasis on the sissy-versus-manly-fighter angle. Martha's statement that Steve "sticks to himself" and has start ed secretly working out with the weights indicates that the boy lacks self-respect and self-confidence. Even a smart boy of 12 should want to play with other boys. The real lack in Steve's life is not fighting ability, but en joyable activity with others. Practising secretly with weights may so hand in hand with crandiose dreams and less and less contact with reality. It is very important that Gil bert cut out the "sissy" talk and help his boy to self-respect. He won't do that by making slight ing remarks about the boy's puny build, either. Gilbert can help him by playing ball, racing or wrestling with him until the boy both builds up strength and be comes accustomed to rougher phypical contact. Gilbert should recognize that it is possible to lose fights and still be considered a real man, or to win them and be counted among the phonies and jerks. (Copyright 1957. Ge neral Features Corp.) space and meteor-like heat as it returns to earth all this where looms made woolen cloth five years ago. The old wood mill of what then was American Woolen Co. is the temporary home of the re search and advanced develop ment division of Avco Manufac turing Corporation. Head of the division is Dr. Lloyd P. Smith, former Chairman of Cornell's physics department. Missile Reenters Atmosphere Recently, Avco scientists an nounced they had achieved a "theoretical break - through" in their major task designing a missile that would reenter the atmosphere and find its target without disintegrating like a meteor. At 18.000 miles per hour, the friction of air, dust and moisture in the atmosphere would build up heat to thousands of degrees. Ordinarily, this would destrov j both the missile and its hydrogen bomb war head. How the "theor etical break-through" was ach ieved has not been revealed. But here are some of the testing ma chines that contributed to the solution: A 100 - foot "shock tube" in which gas is compressed in an eight-ton pressure chamber up to 80,000 pounds per square inch. A steel diaphragm lets go at a predetermined pressure and a shock wave plunges down the testing tube, past the "hardware" to be tested. Other Equipment Other testing equipment re produces simultaneously (1) the pull of acceleration a delicate electronics part would experi ence in a rocket take-off (2) vi bration equal to the shattering vibration of rocket ascent (3) and temperatures from minus 65 de grees to 250 degrees. Other equipment tests rocket parts for corrosion - resistance, susceptibility to noise, resistance to fungus, sea-water and sudden temperature change. In one corner of the old mill, where some 1,600 Avco research ers are employed, is a magnetic "isolation booth." Here electron ic components are tested behind a copper screen to make sure they radiate no magnetic energy to other sensitive instruments. 52nd Year Senator Morse fo Gel Service Award Utica, N.Y. Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon will receive the 1957 Meritorious Service Award of the Jewish War Vet erans organization at a banquet meeting here Nov. 10. Utica Post Commander Irving A. Schwartz announced that the Oregon Senator was chosen for the award on the basis of his position on major foreign policy issues, especially as they affect the Middle East and Israel. Senator Morse will be guest of honor and featured speaker at the banquet. The national commander and other officers of the Jewish War Veterans organ ization will attend the event. Oregon, the Beaver State, has no official motto. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS - IOOJC FOR THE HAPPY LITTLE DOG TOPS IN QUALITY! tow m PRICE M EDF0RD United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957 Pages 1-1? Mechanized High School Possibly Could Solve Educational Crisis By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York 'IP Many scien tists are keenly aware that there is coin? to be "a crisis in educa-! tion" which will make the present so called crisis seem to be nothing at all, i and so they ve been stirred by an outline of an electron ic, m e c h a n- Ueios Smith ized high school which could theoretically prevent or solve the crisis, al though at great cost. In this high school most of the teaching would be done by ma chines. It would be staffed by a large number of clerks to co ordinate machine-taken records of pupils and their progress in learning, and a small number of highly skilled teachers who would function only on the high est educating levels, thus teach ing only what machines couldn't. Ramo Makes Outline The outline was made by Dr. Simon Ramo, noted scientist, electrical engineer, and member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. After he made the outline, the Russians both launched an earth satellite and proved their mastery of long-range rocketry. Unanimous scientific opinion is that such de velopments brings the big crisis closer. It is an always increasingly technical world, Ramo pointed out; this world more and more takes scientists and engineers away from teaching and into in dustry. But the always increas ing complexity of this world "makes science seem unattractive to the youngsters," he said. . The mechanized high school would concentrate the identities of its pupils into codes "punch ed" into bits of metal like "chargaplates." Entering a class room, the pupil would insert his plate into the machine built into his chair which would automat ically record his presence and also give him some access to the mechanical teacher at the head of the room, through a number of push buttons. No Trig, No Sputnik Ramo used trigonometry as an example. Without it, there can be no Sputniks and no rockets capable of putting Sputniks into orbits. The mechanical teacher would ''enunciate or narrate" its principles with sound movies us ing 'human actors and various and sundry fixed and animated geometrical diagrams." At vari ous times, the students would be required to push buttons, to show their attentiveness, and the ma chine would ask questions which the students would answer with push buttons. That machine would be for mass instruction. There would be another machine for individual instruction, one for each pupil. This machine has been adjusted to the special requirements of the individual. Mixed in with these machine lessons would be "a special session with a skilled teacher" who would have com plete machine-made records of "weeks of intensive machine op erations" to guide him. AN EXPENSIVE QUARREL' Chicago (IP A quarrel over a punched transfer has led to a 810,000 damage suit being filed againt the Chicago Transit Au thority. Mrs. Bluma Rockman said the angry bus driver told 15 passengers to leave the bus . . . drove Mrs. Rockman to the terminal. . .and told other bus drivers not to give her a ride. Students Could Romp Pamo said "a brilliant student could romp through trigonome try in a very small fraction of the course time. A dull student would have to spend more time with the machines." He said the machine principle could be ap plied to chemistry and other technologies, to English, to for eign languages. Technically those machines could be designed and made on the basis of present knowledge. But they'd be ex tremely expensive. Indeed, they'd require a new industry and a new technical profession, that of "education engineers." He made his outline in a re cent unpublicized speech to a California educational meeting. It is now being circulated among scientists by Cal Tech. He emphasized-that he wasn't urging anything, except to "look ahead." Scientific technology can now blow up the world, he said. That is one alternative unless "the coming crisis in education" is solved. The other is "a robot control world that consists large ly of ignorant and uneducated masses who are enslaved to a few individuals who push all the but tons on the machines." There fore, somehow youngsters must be taught how to push the buttons. Employment Notes Slight Increase Salem (IP Oregon employ ment last month gained slightly over August, but fell short of last summer's peak by 11.100, the Un-employment Compensa tion Commission has reported. Figures showed 512,900 per sons on non-agricultural jobs, last month, 1,600 more than the pre vious month. Manufacturing was down 14, 400 from 1956, while trade, serv ice and governmental units counted more workers than a year ago. The lumber industry reported 77,000 employes, 3.600 fewer than in August and 11,000 under last summer's total. Most of the loss was in logging and sawmills, but plywood plants with 12,900 workers were 200 under the pre vious month and 900 down from a year ago. October layoffs were breaking all post-war records with 15,000 initial claims reported from local employment offices and over 19,000 asking weekly compensation. Defederalized Guard Said Not Accepted Little Rock, Ark. HP Gov. Orval E. Faubus said Wednesday he has not accepted the 8.500 defederalized National Guards men, and it appeared their sta tus may be that of civilians. The governor said he had con sulted with advisers versed in military law. It seems to be a "very defi nite possibility," he said, that the defederalized Arkansas troops are no longer in the Na tional Guard. "Always before they have had to be discharged as soldiers and reorganized and accepted into the guard," Faubus said at his news conference. "Normally, the Guard through the aothority of the governor, accepts them. This time, all the Guard was fed eralized but me. I have accepted no one." CZECHS SEIZE TWO Vienna OP Prague Radio announced Tuesday. night the ar rest nf two "snips" whn allnfrpHlv I worked for Western intelligence services., xne broadcast said Mar tin Schmitt and his wife of Prague were seized by Czech po lice on charges of spying for the British Secret Service. 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