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TVESSAT. JULY 21, 1160 MEDFORD, MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORB. Lightning Made To Test Power Supply Systems LeRoy, N.Y.-fflTO-LeRoy Is i "lightning" town. And the lightning, of man made variety, Is Just as potent as nature's, with electrical kicks of tome 2,250,000 volts. The simulated lightning Is being manufactured at the John Lapp High Voltage Labo ratory, research and develop ment branch of Lapp Insula tor Co., Inc. of LeRoy. The purpose Is to develop Insulators and hardware that can contain the wallop along a 750,000-volt test transmis sion line. Tha test line, which would carry twice the power supply of present utility transmission systems, is being built Joint ly by American Electric Pow er Service Corp. and Westing house Electric Corp. The role of tha Lapp Laboratory in the project is to contribute research information and rat terials to serve as insulators, clamps and fittings. At the LaDD Laboratory, voltages duplicating that of lightning are created by an Impulse generator for testing metal and porcelain materials. Brent Mills, executive vice president of. the LeRoy con cern, said one of the obstacles facing engineers is adapting materials to control corona flashing or sparking from conductors, clamps and Insu lators. The corona, often visible and sometimes audible. Is par ticularly violent at extra-high voltages and causes power failures and interference to radio and television reception. New Car Buying Big Gainer In Economic Expansion in 1959 BRILL METAL WORKS Commrcljl Industrial Rtsidenrijl Shwf Mttal Work Stainless; Girvantxtd - -and Copptr Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONI SP 2-4440 Washington OJPt Ameri cans spent a record $313.8 billion for goods and services in 1959 - possibly because more of these were available than ever before. "Every major category of family spending shared in tne expansion," said the Com merce department, which Is sued the report It said new car buying showed the big gest percentage gain. The surge in auto sales, like the overall pickup in con sumption spending, reflected a cyclical upturn in the econ omy from the 1958 recession, the report said. Compared to 1958, con sumption spending rose by 6.9 per cent. But allowing for price markups on many non-food Items, the Increase was only 8.8 per cent Well Above Average This was well above the average gain of slightly more than 3 per cent for 1947-59. But the 1958 increase was only 0.9 per cent. Those who believe govern ment spending should be in creased to meet military, eco nomic and social needs of the nation have argued that growth of private consump tion should be slowed by high er Income taxes or a national sales tax. Others argue that the na tion's non-defense needs can best be filled by maximum re liance on private enterprises and a minimum of govern ment activity. Spending for transporta tion, mainly new cars. Jump ed 1S.4 per cent last year to a record $38.9 billion. This large Increase was is part the result of the sharp drop in car buying in 1958. Failed To Equal Record Although spending reached a new high, the number of new domestic cars sold failed to equal the 1955 record. Price Increases and greater buying of foreign cars ac counted for the disparity be tween dollars and volume. The department reported a lump of 11.4 per cent in "per sonal business" spending. This included higher Interest pay ments on Installment debt -which hit a record last year - along with higher non-prenv lum costs of life Insurance and other financial charges. Spending for food and to bacco rose 2.4 per cent to $85.2 billion, the largest tin gle item in the consumption total. A larger rise would have occurred but for de clines in some rarm and food prices. Education Spending Up Other types of spending which went up more than the 8.9 per cent average were: private education and re search 8.3 per cent, recre ation 8.9 per cent, religious and welfare activities 7.5 per cent and foreign travel 7.7 per cent. Spending for clothing and Jewelry rose 6.4 per cent, personal care 8.8 per cent, housing 8.6 per cent, house hold operation 6.8 per cent and medical care and death expenses 8.8 per cent Modern Education Methods May Curb Number of Geniuses Washington (UFD - Modern methods of education may re sult in the development of fewer and (ewer geniuses. That Is the conclusion of Dr. Harold D. McCurdy, Uni versity of North Carolina psy chologist, after studying the childhoods of 20 men from history who had extraordi nary ability in various lines, from military to literary. Although the men came from widely varying back grounds, they had at least three childhood patterns In common. Common Attribute Natural superior intelli gence was another common attribute, McCurdy's report showed, but this In itself does not guarantee the flowering of genius. It must be comple mented by other factors. McCurdy stated in his re port published by the Smith- sonina Institution, that the following characteristics were found to be common to the childhood of those studied. -A high degree of atten tion focused on the child by parents and other adults, ex pressed In intensive educa tional measures and, usually, abundant love. -Isolation from other chil dren, especially outside the family. -A rleb efflorescence ol fantasy, as a reaction to the other two conditions. See Die Chevy Mystsrj Shoe la tutor Stndayi, HBC-TY. CHEVYS CORVAIR KEEPS YOU COOL HJUL COOL! Here's another of Corvalr's exclusive advantages and you sore won't want to be without it these warm summer days. 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COURTESY CHEVROLET 9th at BARTLETT MEDFORD PHONE SP 2-6115 "It might be remarked," he said, "that the mass educa tion of our public school sys tem Is, In Its way, a vast ex periment on the effect of re ducing all three of these fac tors to minimal values, and should accordingly, tend to suppress the occurrence of genius. As far as tha individual Is concerned, this trend may be a boon, since genius is gen erally a costly gift. "Superficially an enviable piece of luck," he said, "it is actually a fatality which ex acts tribute from the possess or. Extreme absorption in very hard work, with some times broken health. Is one of the penalties. Isolation from contemporaries, often In creasing with the years, is another." The genius seldom has a normal family life. "Fifty-five per cent of this sample did not marry at all," be said. According to census re ports, by the age of 60, about the median for this group, approximately 90 per cent of the men of normal Intellect are married. For the study, McCurdy chose Individuals who did ex traordinary work In science, law, literature or politics. Their lives cover the period from 1497 to 1873. Catholic Schools Teach Catechism With Modern Aids Washlngton-fllPMJ.S. Catho lic schools are using modern audio-visual aids to teach an historic old catechism. The new teaching materials are a series of sound-and-color film strips which cover, In narrative style, the same ba sic material which Catholic children formerly learned in questlon-and-answer form in the 75-y ear-old Baltimore Catechism. The film strip series took 10 years to produce, and cost $300,000. It was developed at St John's University, Brook lyn, N.Y., and Is known as the St. John's Catechism. Although the 30th and last fllmitrip in the series was Just completed, the first units of the lesson program have already been Introduced in about 8,000 of the nation's 15, 000 Catholic parishes. The late Pope Plus XII pre viewed the first part of the se ries In 1957, and pronounced It a "wonderful" advance In religious education. Protestant churches have made extensive use of film strips In their Sunday school program. But this Is the first time that Catholics have used the technique for such, basic instruction as the catechism. The Rev. Michael F. Mul len, C. M. St John's profes sor who supervised the film strip preparation, said the whole purpose was to make the catechism more under standable" to children, par ticularly at grade school ages. Each of the 80 film strips present! a lesson built around one chapter of the eatecmsm. As the color pictures are pro jected on a screen, the narra tion is supplied by a record ing. It takes 10 minutes to complete the showing. Then there is a question period and a discussion period Father Mullen emphasizes that the film strips are not In tended to supplant the Balti more Catechism, which will continue to be studied in the traditional q u e s 1 1 o n-and-answer form, but merely to make it easier for children to grasp Its concepts "before they get down to the memory work. Much of the art work was done by Vincent Colabella, who painted more than 2,000 water-color illustrations for the series A large part of the narrative was written by the Rev Lawrence A. Lonergan of St. John's, with advice from Fulton Ousler, Clare Boothe Luce and other promi nent Catholic author. Woman Motorist Uses Bus as Brake Los Angeles-"Hlt the bus!" Gerald Antonson shouted at his wife when the toot throt tle of the family sednn stuck. That's what she did while driving - at SO miles an hour. The couple escaped with minor injuries. People board ing the standing bus down town were unhurt. Banner Year Seen For Use of Parks Snlem-OTD-The Sliile Parks Division has reported thut HltiO apparently will be an other banner year for Oregon park attendance. The first six months shows an increase in visitors fnr nearly all of the slate's 175 parks. Yaqulna Bay State Park at Newport traditionally the leader in day attendance re corded 102,114 visitors this May compared to 67,797 for May last year. Movie Explosion Wrecks Police Car Nogales, Ariz. - Sheriff's deputies kept spectators and their vehicles at a safe dis tance when a film company blew up a movie set with sev en tons of explosives. Except for the set, the only damage was to the sheriff's patrol car, a quarter mile away. A large boulder ripped off the car's windshield and hood. First Atomic Bomb Fired in New Mexico On July 16, 1945 Socorro, N.M. 0IPD By a quirk of geography, and per haps fate, a New Mexico wasteland barely awure of 20th Century America became the maternity ward of the Atomic Ago 15 years ago. The first atomic bomb was triggered with uncertainty at Trinity Site (Inexplicably named) before the startled eyes of Its makers, July 16, 1945. "It was an awesome experi ence," Dr. Marvin H. Waken ing recalled. He was among 50 to 60 scientists, technicians and military men on hand. Tower Vaporised The blast, far greater than any ever dreamed, vaporized the steel tower that held the bomb and glazed tha desert sand. Its power became known to the outside world In a short time Twenty-one days later Hiroshima was hit, three days after that Nagasaki, and then on Aug. 12 less than a month after the New Mexico test Japan surrendered and World War II came to an end. The pre-dawn flash of light at Trinity S 1 1 e "brighter than daylight" w as seen scores of miles away. To soothe alarmed ranchers, the military reported there had been an ammunition depot explosion In the area that night. This piece of misinforma tion hardly compared to the massive amount tha rumor mills churned up In towns around Los Alamos, N.M., during the wartime years tha bomb was being built there. One report, prevalent in Santa Fe, Insisted windshield wipers were being made for submarines. The collection of world re known scientists Including Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppcnhelmer w ere really racing against a phantom. It was, of course, the un founded tear thai Nazi Ger many too was developing the same weapon. Some of the very scientists at the former Los Alamos Boys Ranch School, on a remote mountain plateau, were exiles from Hitler's Europe. Knowledge ol Counters Only 24 at the time, Wl). kenlng had been brought In on the super-secret Munhattan Project because of his knowl edge of neutron counters, called to official attention by his masters' thesis at Illinois Institute of Technology. He Is one of a handful of scientists who witnessed the first bomb test and the start of tha first nuclear reaction under Stagg Stadium at the University of Chicago two-and-a-half years before. Seven hours after the Trin ity Site explosion, Wllkenlng and a radiation team went Into the blast area to start checking the level of radio activity, Wllkenlng now Is a profes sor of physics and geophysics at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro, 38 miles trnm the first teal ground Ills research still Involves radioactivity, but a milder type, He Is studying natural radioactivity In the atmosphere. Minneapolis (IIPDA sub urban electronics firm Is now producing for the government a oustnmer-operaled pasta I inhalation tor use In super markets and other retail as tahllahmsnts 1'he vendor sella three denominations of tamps, Hump books, two IO ol itamped envelopes, poM curds and ttatlnnery. It weight mull, keeps a running account ol purchases and makes ohniige, Edmund E. 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