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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.
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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
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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-
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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. '
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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.
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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-
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projects agency (ARPA) for
development of outer space
projects.
McElroy also indicated he
favored letting present gov
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dividual space programs once
they reach an advanced stage.
He appeared to be opposed
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Quick Thinking Saves Army Man
Augsburg, Germany (W
A quick-thinking GI gave his
lifesaving answer to this
question: What to do if you
are hanging from a rope over
a mainline railroad track
too far down to climb up and
too high up to jump down
and with a train bearing
down on you.
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end of the year ahead of
schedule.
McElroy announced that
he and top aides will confer
in Puerto Rico for four days
wires over the railroad track.
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but his chute tangled in the
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Then he had an idea. The
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Lane said he opened it,
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coming express.
The train snagged both of
the chutes and "disappeared
down the track with them"
he said.
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