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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
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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.
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"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
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poM curds and ttatlnnery. It
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account ol purchases and
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