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52nd M EDFOKD Section Section Springtime Leaving, Physicist Concludes By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York T? After due deliberation. Dr. John Van Horn, a physicist, has con cluded that springtime is on the way out. We could have a short pause right here, while audible gas pers exercise their art. But there's no call for that. The doctor is not talking about a season of the year, famous for greenery and amour. He's talking about time, a thing that marches on, and keeping track of it with a watch powered by a coiled spring. Dr. Van Horn has converted wristwatches to el ectricity. They's been on the market - a year now, undergoing such everyday trials as being drop ped into boiling soup and be- jng part' of the action involv ed in spanking children. Dr. Van Horn claims that actual wear tests show the electric watch to have half the error Tribune Expands In Bay Area Oakland, Calif.' (IP) r The Oakland Tribune has an nounced a $1,500,000 expan sion program, which it said was made necessary by the "spectacular growth of the area" it serves. The Tribune, an afternoon paper,' is the major daily newspaper in the East Bay. Publisher Joseph K. Know- land said the newspaper would add six new Linotypes, four Hoe press units, an ad ditional Sheridan inserting machine and a new Parker tieing machine. The expansion will also in clude extensive remodeling of the Tribune building to ac commodate the equipment. The Tribune has a week day press run of 220,000 and a Sunday circulation of 250, 000. Milwaukee PI The good grade school deeds of Normal Bilty, 23, earned him a windfall. Bilty, who shovel ed snow, cut grass and ran errands for Miss Lilla Bra band, 82, a teacher, in his younger days was willed 10 per cent of her $300,000 estate. SOLID PROGRESS Sound management and steady growth have earned for The Manufacturers Life a reputation for strength, safety and service in the public interest. The funds we hold in trust for policyholders and their beneficiaries are profitably invested by a team of experienced investment specialists. Returns on these care fully selected investments help to lower the costs of life insurance for our policyholders. Assets of 5761,669,880 are more than ample to fulfil our obligations to pay the sums of money promised in our policy contracts. This figure includes an amount of 559,047,558 set aside in surplus funds providing a wide margin of safety. The 71st Annual Report shows The Manufacturers Life now provides 52,610,637,086 in insurance and retirement protection for over 500,000 policyholders. In 1957 41,000 people purchased $380,499,333 of new insurance to take care of tomorrow's uncertainties. The 71st Annual Report also shows that the Company paid to living policyholders and to the families of those who died, a total of $48,338,145 in benefits last year. Liabilities including Capital now amount to $70:,622,322 Lam HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO, CAN V5I Branch Office: 408 Yeon Building Portland 4, Oregon G. R. Guest Manager for Oregon District Representatives: C. "Chuck" Cox, 500 Helman St., Ashland, Oregon 210 Elm St., Medford, Oregon Donald L. Basey, Telephone: 2-8420 Telephone: 2-6642 Year of the spring drive; four sec onds off per day on average, compared with 8 to 20 sec onds for a good spring-driven watch. Expresses Belief "I believe the electric watch will replace the spring! driven to the same extent that j the wrist-watch has replaced the pocket watch," he said. "Why develop an electric watch? Well, it posed an in teresting technical problem, but the product was some thing better in accuracy and more efficient machin ery. "In a spring watch you throw about four- fifths of your power away before it gets to the balance wheel, and high friction causes wear. In our electric watch, the bal ance wheel itself is the motor and it does double duty be cause it also keeps time." When Dr. Van Horn be came chief physicist (he is now director of research and development of the Hamilton Watch company), they had been working five years to develop an electric watch using a standard watch wound by a tiny motor. He changed the approach to the problem Magnets Create Field His idea, which took five more years to perfect, was a balance wheel with a wire coil. The wire is one-sixth the thickness of a human hair, and the 100 feet of it in the coil occupies only little more than a quarter-inch of the wheel's rim. It moves through field created by two per manent magnets and gets its electric current from an en ergy cell the size of a man s button. This tiny battery, develop ed by the National Carbon Co. need to be changed yearly, cost $2. The power needed to run the watch a year would run a 100-watt lamp only three seconds. Van Horn and his associ ates haven't yet figured out how to get the electric works small enough for a woman's watch. Women, he says, are the more absent minded sex in forgetting to wind watches and hence need an ever-running one. Give him time it's a new field. His first electric watch, six years old, is now in the Smithsonian In stitution. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1958 LA T 11 Af'tl yti tg J r '1r?,l L , St ' ITS " X pv; A HOLDING HANDS, Lee Ann Meriwether, San Francisco's "Miss America, 1955," and Frank Aletter, actor, tell New York newsmen they plan to wed in June. (International) Dog's Long Pedigree Longer Than Man's By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (W Man has no justification for disparaging references to the ancestry of the dog, according to Dr. Ed win H. Calbert. The dog's family goes back many mil lions of years farther than man's family, and its pedigree is incomparably better docu mented. Furthermore, there is no justification for disparaging comparisons of the dog with the cat, either. For many mil lions of years, cats have been stereotypes of cats. "Structur ally" they've changed very lit tle, but the dog has had the gumption to divide itself up into many varieties. Colbert is curator of fossil reptiles and amphibians at the American Museum of Natural History. He was moved to cap sule the history of the dog comparative and lineal, be cause February is the month of dog shows around the coun try when the dog gets its due. Has Long Lineage The dog is a very remote relative of cats, sea lions skunkr, bears, badgers in deed, of all modern flesh-eat- s ij WjiWM (Is 1 IT It1" Tribune m ing animals. The common an cestor was the miacis which looked a great deal like the Old World civet cat. The mia cis flourished some 60 million years ago. The miacis had big ger and better teeth than other animals of its time, and that probably accounts for why it founded so many ani mal families, Colbert said. Some 25 million years later the miacis line produced the hesperacyon which was the common ancestor of animals ranging '"om the bear to the raccoon, including the dog. Now skip over 16 million years more or less and you come to one of hesperacyon's descendants, a dog-like crea ture called temarctus, and from temarctus' line devel oped a definite dog, canis, which appeared some 2 mil lion years ago. That was a mil lion years before man put in his first appearances. Friendship Developed But when man came along, he and the dog became pals on account of both were hunt ers and both had the intelli gence to see that they'd get more game together than sep arately. Colbert said the chances were that the modern dog was a direct descendant of the North American wolf. "Wolves have been sociable and intelligent hunters at least since the beginning of the Ice Age, and so have men," he said. Colbert accounted for the many kinds of dogs by sug gesting that when men ac quired leisure, cultivating his food rather than hunting it, he began breeding dogs for special purposes. , Colbert told his dog story in the museum publication "Nat ural History." Daughter Dying, Dad To Return Washington (IP) Robert Backover has sent word to his leukemia - stricken daughter Saturday that he will be home Tuesday. Backover advised his wife, Irene, in a telegram to tell "baby" he would be home Tuesday. SSe said the mes sage came "from California." The daughter, Paula- Ann, 6, has said she would get bet ter if her Daddy would just come back. She spent the day in children's hospital lookirig at her Christmas Bible and praying that her father would return. Her father, Robert Ly"nn Backover, 28, has been miss ing since two weeks before Christmas. The day he dis appeared he told his wife: "I'll see you tonight." His family hasn't seen him since. The day he disappeared his employers, a bowling alley concern in suburban Hyatts ville, Md., reported some $2, 300 also disappeared. ' Green HAND PICKED BIG DOUBLE LOAD EAGLE Price 10 Cents Pages 1 to 6 Kidney Exchange Now Predicted By Medical Men Boston HP) A prominent medical scientist predicts to day that people soon will be able to exchange diseased liv ers and kidneys for healthy new ones. Dr. John P. Merrill, Pent Bent Brigham hospital direc tor of kidney research, also forecast a bright horizon for sufferers of certain forms of rheumatism, high blood pres sure, nephritis and rheumatic fever. The treatment of cancer also will become possible once the medical researchers have overcome the last major obstacle getting certain blood cells to match and work together, Merrill told a press conference. Kidney transplants have become the most widely known operation of this type. Yet only transplants between identical twins having the same type blood cells and chemical composition have been successful. "Transplant operations of tissues are technically suc cessful," Dr. Merrill said, "but these operations are not all biological successes." For some reason, tissue transplants between different people failed while six out of eight kidney transplants be tween identical twins were highly successful." Merrill said' researchers have learned that during the transplanting process, if the chemical composition between the patient and donor did not match, the tissue graft failed. The graft failed, they learn ed, when it came in contact with the patient's white blood cells. Judges To Make Press Awards For California Los Angeles (IP) The Uni versity of California at Los Angeles has announced the judges who will make final selections for UCLA's first annual foreign press awards. The judges include: Raymond B. Allen, UCLA chancellor; Erwin D. Can ham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Marquis Childs and Thomas L. Stokes, Washington columnists for the United Features Syndi cate; Jonathan Daniels, edi tor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer; A 1 d e n C. Waite, president of Southern California associated newspa pers; Robert E. McClure, edi tor of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Outlook, and Barry Bingham, editor of the Louis ville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. There will be five press awards, including the David E. Bright award. All awards, $500 series E bonds, will be presented at the Foreign Press Awards conference at UCLA May 15 17, with round trip air trans portation form any point in the U.S. and housing for three days provided award winners. Four press awards will be for "excellence and objectiv1 ity" in reporting of U.S. po litical and business affairs, U.S. culture and United Na tions affairs. The David E. Bright award will be. for an interpretation of American history or con temporary life. LATIN AND GREEK Northampton, Mass. (IP) Smith College officials re ported that enrollment in Greek and Latin courses there has nearly doubled in the last three years as. compared to other colleges where the sub jects are being neglected by students. Augusta, Me. flPl The 1,957 Maine deer kill of 40,142 was the third highest since the state has kept records. There were 41, 080 slain in 1951 and 40,290 in 1956. Cedar FUEL CO. Air Force's Hop Boosted For Space Ship Venturex Washineton (m Dp. Washington (IP) De- fense Secretary Neil H. Mc Elray has raised the Air Forces' hopes for operating space ships and manned sat ellites. McElroy told newsmen Fri day he thought the Air Force "naturally" should get the coveted job. The defense secretary's statement was a blow to the Army and Navy. However, he partially allayed the senior services' disappointment by saying his opinion was sub ject to change. Air Force leaders have long maintained that space near and far above the earth is their rightful domain. How ever, the Army launched the only successful U. S. satellite so far and wants authority to put up 'a "whole family" of earth moons to carry out its role of worldwide map ping and communications. Navy Interested, Too The Navy, still struggling to get up its Vaneuard satel lite, is known to be interested in handling future space veh icles. McElrov made his state ment at a news conference shortly after naming General .hlectric executive Roy W. Johnson to head the govern- n On n nrziTN mm u m m ' For i Iras Save as much as $90.00 over j jjj : 1 : ' ! - I : ' ad No. 1 hi t of tlx I in 1 Itodino automatic woiinrs 1 Si A I undtr controiltd laboratory f & i niMM eonditicni, by U. S. Toting I I 1 Li : : : Co.. inc. Keoom 5l od i i I '' fp -Vi, JT59123-A. dotd Mov 2, end I I May 10, 1557. 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