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Stretch skyhook, the t'4 CENTER, CAN OUTREACH .ANY PLAYER IN THE LEA3UE Rr rr AM WIS LITTLE HELPMATE WHO DOES THE REACHING AROUND i Antennas Become Big Business With Emphasis on Military Use By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York - (UPD - Remem ber not too long ago when people were putting up an tennas just to make it look as if they owned televi sion sets a5r HI which they ftjsL ' mi thCy didn't? I ". J Thnco Have are gone be cause practi cally every- ElmerWalzer one has a set. So now, the problem comes . up of how to get rid of that unsightly antenna on the cnimney Deiore it oiuws auwu or has to be replaced. There are two ways one "might get rid of the old rig. " unc 15 lu uuiiu an Lciina into the "skin" of the house supersonic military aircraft. dio sets. Arthur Dome, president of Dorne and Margolin of Westbury, N. Y., admits these possibilities although his firm concentrates its attention on antennas for aircraft, mis siles, and satellites. Before World War II, air borne antennas were needed only for radio communication and were fairly simple. "Today," says Dorne, "a typical fighter plane has a basic complement of commu nication and navigation equipment requiring seven or eight antennas. Radar for Gun Firing "M o s t military aircraft have a . lot more than that, such as radar antennas for gun firing. A fully equipped 'ferret' plane, designed to search out enemy radar and confound it, have as many as 80 additional antennas. "Other special equipment The other is to have the an- requires even more antennas ,tenna built into the set on as ' 'ears' and 'vocal chords.' the order of present day ra- Examples are automatic guid- W-3 INVEST with CONFIDENCE at FIRST FEDERAL Your investment is insured to $10, 000 by an instrumentality of the U.S. Government. Earn healthy returns through current dividend at 4 per annum rate. Your investment is available for emergencies. It is our practice to pay withdrawals upon request. Invest NOW! FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager ance systems that help an air plane home on its target. "Guided missiles launched aloft require special anten nas on both missiles and the airplanes. "And, of course, there are the highly sensitive antennas that send and receive be tween the earth and outer space." Making these complicated tennas for planes' navigation Dorne and Margolin which started as a small business 10 years ago with 10 employees. Now the company has vast ly expanded its plant for en gineering and production and maintenance of a big outdoor testing site with employment rising to 139 persons. $2 Million Gross Dorne says the company expects to gross $2 million in the fiscal year ending March 31. For the first five months of that year it re ported net income of $38,000 on sales of $611,000. In addition to making an tennas for places' navigation systems, the firm now devel ops and makes entire systems. But, says Dorne, that does not detract from his com pany's interest in turning out the most sensitive and most effective antennas achievable. "An antenna," Dorne says, "can be as simple as a length of dangling wire. But actu ally, antennas must be de signed to avoid drag in flight. "We must always keep weight and size in mind, and shape our antennas to fit into the design of the airframe." Problem Compounded The number required and the space allotted to them compounds the problem. With these limitations, antennas must be more and more sen sitive to do their job on su personic planes and missiles. If today's engineers can build antennas sensitive enough to pick up signals from space satellites, how come we get static on home radios at times? "That's simple," Dorne says: "The trouble is not with the antenna, but with the AM broadcast band a band in which atmospheric disturb ances are picked up by the receiver. If your antenna were more sensitive, you'd get much more noise." Come to think of it, one of those scientifically design ed antennas built into the "skin" of your house might cost a pretty penny. Better keep the old rig on the chimney. Hatfield Cites Failure To Pass Traffic Measures Portland-TOPB-The 1959 Ore gon Legislature came under fire Monday from Gov. Mark Hatfield who said' it failed to pass bills to tighten traffic law enforcement. Hatfield urged at a meet ing of the Oregon Highway Lifesavers committee here that persons interested in cracking down on traffic violators appeal to holdover legislative members and to po tential members for action in 1961. The governor cited several specific bills he said were not passed. One would have im proved the record system, another would have removed the requirement for written consent for chemical sobriety tests, another would have per mitted arrest for probable cause in some traffic cases in cluding driving while intoxi cated, and another dealt with certain safety standards such as th'ose applying to seat belts. Soma Bills Lai Hatfield said the public had approved tougher traffic laws by its support of such special control methods as placing National Guard helicopters ' and observation planes in the : air on the Fourth of July j week end and placing un marked police cars on the highways over year-end holi days. Rep. George Layman (R Newberg), chairman of the House Judiciary committee, said some bills failed to pass last session because they were received late and could not re ceived sufficient study. Director Vern L. Hill of the Department of Motor Vehicles said the Lifesavers committee was still divided on speed maximums. However, he said a majority favored limits of 70 miles per hour on free ways, 65 on other highways, 30 in urban areas and 20 in school zones. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- BIGGEST DRAWING CARD for New York's Yiddish theater is Molly Picon. Her recent limited engagement was sold out weeks in advance. Nevertheless, one devoted Picon fan subwayed all the way from the darkest Bronx and sought a ticket for the matinee. The box office treasurer reported, "We haven't had a ticket left for a monthl" The lady shook her fist in his face and shouted, "It's because of bad service like this that your Yiddish theater is dying!" When Alan Jay Lerner, author of "My Fair Lady," vras an undergraduate at Harvard, ha wrote a musical for the Hasty Pudding" Club about New York's ebullient mayor, Fiorello La Guardia. (the subject, also, of a current hit on Broadway). La Guardia attended, the opening of the Hasty Pudding effort, and later young Lerner rushed over to hear the "Little Flower's" comment. What Fiorello said was, "I envy you, young man your youth,, not your talent;1 1960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed ty King Features Syndicate Postal Service Reduction Scorned Washington (UPD - Key house members today pooh- poohed Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerf ield's warning he would have to cut postal service if Congress does not give him more money. They planned to push through the House today with out change a $3,971,000,000 appropriation for the Post Office department recom mended last week by the Ap propriations committee. The bill would provide $104,590,000 more than the Post Office department got this year, less than it wanted for the year starting next July 1. Summerfield said in a state ment Monday he would have to impose drastic reductions in service if the cut was sustained. 2vi 9 Stockport, England (UPD Union officials Monday pro tested the suspension of eight apprentices for throwing snowballs- through the win dows of the Mirrlees, Bicker- ton and Day diesel engine works. The suspensions were illegal, the union officers said, because the incident occurred when the apprentices threw the snowballs on their own time. VALUABLE COUPON! No Purchase Necessary Clip Out and Receive Limit f K (fiV THRIFTY cZni GREEN STAMPS F",y Central Market &j Clip This Coupon Now! Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Judy Foreman Wins Contest Miss Judith Foreman, a ninth grade student at Mc Loughlin Junior High school, has been announced winner of the annual Americanism essay contest sponsored by Medford unit, American Legion Aux iliary. The topic for this year was "Why I Love My Coun try, and the contest was supervised by Krs. H. L. Al ford, Americanism chairman for the auxiliary. Miss Foreman is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Fore man, of 336 Plum st. Almost 200 essays were written in this area. The five other finalists were Rosemary Turk, Richard Deffley, Boyce Kellogg, and Mark Lawrence. Miss Foreman's essay will be sent to Portland to be con sidered in the state-wide con test. The essays were judged by Mrs. E. H. Hedrick, Mrs. L. A. Mentzer, and Vern Wolthoff. The winner and her parents will be guests at the Ameri can Legion birthday dinner on March 8, at which time she will read her winning paper and receive a cash award and the American Legion Auxil iary medal. Russian Premier In Indonesia Denpasar, Indonesia (UPD Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev flew here today with President Sukarno to relax for a time on beautiful Bali before plunging, probably Wednesday, into serious nego tiations. The two leaders were greet ed at the airport here by an array of security guards armed with sharpened stalks of bamboo and a double file of bare-breasted Balinese girls who pelted Khrushchev with flowers. - Khrushchev and Sukarno were expected to spend most of today resting and rambling about the grounds of the Tampaksiring guest house. The Khrushchev party came here from the Communist-influenced city of Sura baya, where the Soviet leader received the largest and most turbulent greeting that has been accorded him in Indo nesia. Troops had to fix bayonets to restrain the enthusiasm of the crowd of about 50,000 which surged into a soccer stadium to hear speeches by Khrushchev and Sukarno. Largest Animal From An Egg? The Crocodile, Of Course Seems impossible than an animal weighing several hun dred pounds, and often 20 feet in length, could possibly have been hatched from an egg, but such is the unbelievable beginning of a crocodile; an animal whose one outstanding claim to fame is that it is .the biggest animal in this modern world that is hatched from an elongated egg, barely larger than a lemon. It is also somewhat incredu lous that a species of these creatures, probably descend ants of the prehistoric rep tiles, should still survive right here in these United States -but they do. In the remote fastnesses of the Florida Ever glades, crocodiles still can be found. Their numbers are not great, and probably no indi vidual specimen still lives that measures over eight or nine feet, but there was a time when 14-fpot crocodiles were common in southern Florida. Likes Brackish Water The crocodile, unlike its relative the alligator, seems to prefer water that is brack ish. They have even been ob served swimming in the sea. Their preferred habitat would appear to be swamps and marshes adjacent to salt wa ter. Pictures of jungle scenes in the movies, where a delicate and beautiful girl is being res cued from the very mouths of man-eating crocodiles, are us ually misrepresented; depict ed are alligators, taken in some enclosed area known at traction -wise as "alligator farms." The genuine crocodile has a Larry Motherwell Trial Resumes Downieville, Calif. - (UPD The murder trial of Larry Motherwell resumed today in this small California mining town with Judge Warren Steel expected to rule on the admissibility of evid e n c e which the defense contends is hearsay. Motherwell, 43, is accused of slayinr Mrs. Pearl Putney, 72, of Washington, D.C., in 1958. Her bones were found near here a year after she was seen leaving a Marysville, Calif., motel with Motherwell. Last Wednesday, a jury of nine women and three men heard District Attorney Gor don I. Smith call for the death penalty for Motherwell, even though the evidence against the former construction work er is circumstantial. The first two state witness es were relatives of Mrs. Put ney who testified that Mrs. Putney gathered $21,000 in cash shortly before her death. New Orleans -(UPD- Chair man Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) of the House Committee on Un-American Activities said he would invite the secretary of Air Force before his com mittee Thursday to tell why he apologized to the National Council of Churches in the recent training manual controversy. pointed snout, while "that of the alligator is rounded. The crocodile has 68 teeth; those of the lower jaw fit into cavi ties, provided for them, in the upper jaw, while the large teeth in the upper jaw fit into corresponding cavities in the lower jaw.-The tail is flatten ed from side to side; the body covered with hard, bony plates, usually highly ridged on the back. The preferred food of both the crocodile and the alligator is fish. We often hear uninformed folks claim the main differ ence between the crocodile and the alligator is the jaw arrangement. T h e s e people claim the upper jaw of the crocodile is hinged, while the upper jaw of the alligator is solid. However this is a miscon ception; both animals have the under jaw hinged exactly like all other animals, including man himself. Alligator Hangs On In securing its prey, which sometimes consists of large animals that are incautious enough to drink in waters where these large reptiles are present, the crocodile is prone to snap and release its grip, while the alligator, once it secures a grip, will hang on, sometimes for hours. Tremendously large croco diles of Africa and India were once held sacred by the peo ple. Often the reptiles were adorned with precious stones and jewels and kept in places of honor- in the temples. On special occasions, robes of the finest silks and satins as well as luxurious furs were draped on the lizard-shaped bodies, and people worshiped at the "shrine of the crocodiles," the largest animals in the en tire world hatched from an egg. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Church Head May Face Germany Trial Berlin (UPD - The East Ber lin Communist district at torney announced today he has taken the first steps to w a r d bringing Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius to trial on charges of advocating dis obedience to the East German government. The East German news service ADN said the district attorney had begun "prelim inary proceedings" against the head of the German Evange lical Lutheran church. "Preliminary proceedings" is a German legal term used to describe an investigation carried out by the district at torney before a person is placed on trial. Three Accidents Reported in City Three minor traffic acci dents have been reported to Medford city police recently, none of them resulting in any injuries. Walter Jackson Tackett, 51, of 320 South Orange St., was cited by city police for follow ing too close after an accident about 7:33 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Riverside ave. and Edwards st. Police said Tackett's vehi cle hit the rear of a car oper ated by John E. Rowbotham, 59, of 131 South Grape St., which had stopped for a red light. Both cars sustained fender damage, according to police. Another accident occurred at 11:20 p.m. Sunday when cars operated by Harold Law rence Snodgrass, 48, of 653 J St., and Bert Glen Parrack, 55, of 1305 Woodlawn dr., collided at the intersection of Eighth and King sts. Police said damage to both vehicles was negligible and no citations were issued. A third accident occurred at the entrance to the Park and Shop lot behind Robinson Brothers, 114 East Main st., about 9:10 p.m. Saturday, ac cording to city police. Police said the accident in volved vehicles operated by J Arling Corrin Lofthus, 17, of g 545 Havana St., and Vernon i f Richard Wynkoop, 46, of 2642 Springbrook rd. Damage was negligible, po- j lice said, and no citations ; s were issued. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. TuMriiy, Fab. 23, 1960 HONOR NIXON South Bend, Ind.- (UPD -Vice President Richard M. Nixon will receive ' a patriotism award from the University of Notre Dame tonight. He will be accompanied here by his wife, Pat. ma wmmmmmmmi i Moved fo I We've I037V2 Court St. J I Mufua, 'lit OF OMAHA Accident Company in the m World. Mora than $2,000,- 000 Paid in Benefit. I United OF OMAHA One ef America's Foremost Life Companies. More Than TWO BILLION Dollar of Insurance in Force. 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