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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1960 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Adjustable Cigarette Filter, Portable Jet Muffler Among Patents Awarded in Week Washington (Science Serv ice) - A portable sound sup pressor for jet aircraft en gines, a potential boon to those living within ear-shot of airports, was one of 712 pat ents awarded last week. ' Conrad J. Morgan of Read ing, Mass., was granted a pat ent for this device, which not only cuts down the noise of a jet engine while it is warm ing up but also uses the hot gases to produce electric power. Morgan's invention con sists of a cylindrical shell of increasing diameter. Its small end fits around the outlet of the engine. Within the shell there is a turbine operating an electric generator. The blades of the turbine become increasingly widely spaced in successive stages set in the cigarette about half to provide a gradual expan- an incn from one end- sion of the bases. Much of the Balkind claims thai the cf- heat and energy of the gases i f iciency of his filter is "aston- is absorbed by the generator in producing electricity. The entire unit is mounted on a wheeled support which can be adjusted for height. In another patent last week, the cigarette manufacturer's problem in trying to produce one filter that will please everybody may have been solved. A patent was grant ed to Solomon Balkind of Los Angeles for his adjustable cigarette filter. The filter consists of a disc of chemically impregnated, absorbent paper completely covered with cotton. This is ishing," although it does lend to make it harder to draw on a cigarette. The smoker may, however, adjust the filter to increase the ease of drawing, at the cost of a little filtra tion, by pressing the side of the cigarette so as to bend the filter disc. A record player incorpor ating not only an automatic record changer but also an automatic means of playing both sides of the same disc won a patent for Andrew Maxim of Cleveland. Ohio, who assigned it to the Im perial Manufacturing corpor ation. Record players of this type have been placed on the mar ket before, but these have al way been complex and ex pensive. But Maxim claims his player, which incorporates a novel spindle mechanism and a pick-up with needles both above and below the head, will be relatively inexpensive to produce. George O. Shecter of Los Angeles and Irmin L. Hirsch of North Hollywood, Calif ., have invented an unusual means of stopping ladies' backless shoes from falling off their feet. The invention calls for the inclusion in the top of the heel under the inner sole of each shoe of a permanent mag net. A thin plate of soft iron is attached to the underside of the heel of the foot with adhesive tape, and the attrac tion of the magnet for the iron holds the shoe in place when it is lifted off the ground. The list of assignees for this patent includes Jerome B. Rosenthal, Samuel P. Nor ton, Gordon MacRae, Doris Day Melcher, Martin Melcher and Kirk Douglas. Other inventions patented here last week include a ro tating parachute for the de celeration of aircraft or the recovery of missiles, a re versible transmission, especi ally suitable for use in a ra dio controller for aircraft and a "method and mix for can dy coating apples." A patent was awarded to John T. Andreadis of New York and Saul Miklean of Massapequa Park, N.Y., for tile use of Dihydroxyacelone DHA, in artifical tanning formulations. DHA is the ac tive ingredient in virtaully all the many tanning prepara tions which have come onto the market over the past year or so, and a patent for an im proved process for making DHA was reported last week Mr.' Miklean assigned his share of the patent to Mr Andreadis. Also patented were a "therapeutic shower" which stimulates the skin with a number of independent jets 25 Years of Research on Live Polio Vaccine Pays Off for Dr. Albert Sabin By SUSAN WAGNER United Press International Washington - (UPD - Twenty five years of research on a dread, crippling disease have been vindicated by govern ment approval of Dr. Albert Sabin's polio vaccine for use in this country. Sabin, a 56-year-old Univer sity of Cincinnati professor, has fought for four years to convince U.S. authorities of the safety and effectiveness of his vaccine. Many foreign countries, notably Russia, have reported successful use of the Sabin vaccine for two years. Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney announced Wednes day that the U.S. government is ready to license pharmaceu tical laboratories to manufac ture his vaccine as soon as they meet certain technical re quirements. The L e d c r 1 e laboratories said it would start manufac turing the vaccine as soon as possible. Burney said the Public Health Service expect ed to license manufacture next spring. But he said mass pro- Rural Library Bill Backed By Edith Green Sent to Ike of hot and cold water, a dec orative tissue paper with sequins embedded in it so as to be visible from both sides and a push button knife in which the blades are replace able and may be locked in a number of positions. Ir ' i i mm if feste atf Etf mss (Grown-ups make it into Cand H) Every day's a picnic for children in Hawaii. These sun-bronzed youngsters gather lunch on the way to the beach. Bananas, bread fruit and papaya are picked from the fruit-heavy trees they pass. And for dessert-you guessed it-sugar cane! Our sugar cane is so pure, sweet and clean, little Hawaiians eat it raw. This is the very same sugar cane we grown-ups make into sugar ... for you. C and H Sugar. World's finest, we believe. Hawaii is a tropical garden with sun-drenched days, warm, geniie rains and earth so rich even orchids grow wild. This must be the place where sugar was meant to grow. Thousands of people wouldn't dream of buy ing any other sugar than C and H. We're very pleased if you are one of theml v sugar PUf?ECAf4E granulated j. m ioo w fed WmM duction was not anticipated before the fall of 1961. Easier To Takt The Sabin vaccine lias cer tain advantages over the Salk killed type vaccine which has been in use since 1955. For one thing, it is taken orally, cither in liquid or tablet form rather than injected. Officials hope that this will induce a greater number of Americans to become vacci nated. They are disappointed that only about half the popu lation has taken the Salk shots, with the result that po lio has been drastically re duced but not entirely elimi nated. They hope that the com bined use of the Salk and Sa bin vaccines in a concerted nationwide program will eradicate polio just as diph theria, yellow fever and other diseases have been conquered. Public Health Service offi cials want to work out a way to administer the live vac cine on a community rather than individual basis. They believe there is some danger of a reversion to virulence If only a few individuals are in oculated in a given area. Study Soviet Program Officials finally were con vinced of the Sabin vaccine's safety by evidence produced at numerous international conferences in the past three years. A team of U. S. polio experts also visited the Soviet Union earlier this summer to study the Russian program, The cautious approach o I U, S. officials was reflected in Burney s decision to give the go-ahead to only the Sabin vaccine. He withheld approv al of two other live. vaccines, developed by Dr. Harold Cox of Lederle Laboratories and Dr. Hilary Koprowski of the Wistar Institute in Philadel phia, because they have pro duced damage to the nervous system of some monkeys, The National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis estimates that more than $1 million in March of Dimes" contnbu tions went into development of the live vaccine. The Salk vaccine experiments and field tests cost more than $25 mil lion. It is generally believed that the oral :. vaccine will be cheaper than the Salk Inject ed type when it 1 produced in mass quantities. Since the Salk vaccine went on the market, about 91 mil-' lion Americans have been in oculated. This is reflected in a steady drop in the number of polio cases reported. Radio Assists Cotton Orders Altus, Okia. - (UPD - They're saying "10-4" . in the Okla homa cotton patches those days. Two-way radio makes the police lingo possible and is a valuable factor in the fiber farming business. "The radio doesn t pick cot- Ion but it saves about 100 miles travel each day," said Wayne Wlnsett, who operates a 1,900 acre cotton plantation. - Winsett's cotton fields sprawl over a wide area sur rounding this southeastern Oklahoma city, which will be one of Uncle Sam's major Atlas missile launching bases. Electronics is common talk in this area which prompted Winsett and two of his farm ing friends to install the sys tem which sends their voice over a 25-mile radius. The farmers use the radio to issue orders for workers in their scattered cotton fields, order parts for machinery, command aerial spraying and direct many other operations. The radios are installed in eight pickup trucks. Correspondent Washington (Special) - Con- ress has sent President Eis enhower a bill extending for another five years the rural library act originally spon sored in 1956 by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) Although it was originally advanced as a temporary pro gram of federal grants to the states to promote library fa cilities in rural areas, its con tinuation for another five years was supported by both presidential candidates, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy. The House passed the bill this week, 129 to 29, after the Senate had previously approv ed it, clearing it for the president. In addition to Congress- woman Green, another Ore gon sponsor of the extension was Rep. Al Ullman. Librarian's Report Eloise Ebert, Oregon state librarian, reported to Mrs. Green as follows: "There is no doubt but that this pro gram has had terrific impact the area where projects have been held and where a grant has been offered. The educational value of this pro gram has made more people aware of library needs than anything that has happened in years." The Oregon division of the American Association of Uni versity Women reported to Mrs. Green that "many rural areas and smaller towns in Oregon need this help in es tablishing library services for our citizens." The' act provided federal grants of $7.5 million yearly, to be mixed with state funds on a sliding scale matching basis which favors the less prosperous states. Sponsors of the program es timated during House debate that 40 million persons living Breaking Diplomatic Ties With Dominican Republic Not As Easy As It Sounds Washington - WPI) - Break ine diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic isn't as simple as it sounds. For one tiling the State De partment has had to hunt up another country to represent U.S. diplomatic Interests there. The foreign ministers of the Organization of American States voted in Costa Rica this week for all OAS members to sever diplomatic ties with Generalissimo Rafael Trujll lo's regime. Several Latin American countries already have com plied. The State Department has Indicated the United States will follow suit very soon. Won't Juet Walk Out But it will not simply walk out of the Caribbean country cold. Important U.S. affairs will be placed in the hands of another government. Since all Latin American govern ments also are breaking rela tions, the State Department had to go to Europe. diplomatic immunity. The Do minican Republic also has no consular treaty with the Unit ed States guaranteeing them against arrest Officials said the collective break in diplomatic relations also raises a problem of where political opponents of Trujillo can seek asylum when they gex in irouDie, Formerly they went to the Latin American embassies in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. embassy there has not accepted persons for asvlum Neither have Britain and oth er European governments. It mainly a Latin American custom. BELGIANS MOURN DEAD Brussels - (UPD - King Bau douin leads national mourn Ing ceremonies today for the 54 Belgian soldiers killed in the Congo since independence was granted July 1. The bod- leu nf th Knlrilora 11 nf died in a transport plane country.'' nrnoh .Tttlv In a,.-. 1 1 ReP. C Apparently Great Britain by ship and train Wednesday. will nd up with the Job. l.. , Also,- the - United States 1 ounwcni new lorK wro leievi- in rural America are still without adequate, if any, li brary facilities. Since the ad vent of the library aid pro gram, it was estimated that 5 million books have been pur-t chased and 200 new bookmo biles with 1,000 books each' have been added. It was also reported that the states have increased their appropriations by 54 per cent, and local funds have been increased 45 per cent, since the start of the . program. Plan Criticiied The extension ran into criti cism from some congressmen who recalled that when Con gresswoman Green advanced it four years ago it was called a temporary program that would last only five years. Rep. William Colmer (D- Miss.) said it was only such an assurance that this would not be another long-range federal program that caused him to help get it out of the House Rules Committee. Colmer said the program has "brought library service to untold thousands of our rural people," particularly in his state of Mississippi. But he said to support an extension would be to break faith' with the House because of the orig inal assurance it would last only five years. Mrs. Green replied: Rath er than looking at words of well-meaning men and women 5 years ago, let us look at the urgent needs of today. When Admiral Rickover appeared before the House Education and Labor Committee, he stat ed very forcefully that in his opinion 'we must spend more on education even if we have to take it away from the De fense Department.' It seems inconceivable to me that to day, three years after the first Sputnik when we are recog nizing as we never nave De. fore the urgent need for more highly trained people-when we are seeking the best brains in the country-when we are putting more and more em phasis on adult education-it seems inconceivable that we would cut down on the funds for the libraries across the probably will leave a handful of consular officials In the Dominican Republic to handle visas, worry about 'fugitives from U.S. justice and look after American business in terests. ion and movie star Lucille Ball is in New York Polyclln- ic hospital for minor surgery on her right loot. The surgery was required to treat bruise she suffered when in an accl- Consular officials have no dent on a motion picture set. Reo. Carl Elliott (D-Ala.) aaaea: -wnen we nave ayeu the taxpayers' money to es tablish 161 libraries in foreign countries, complete with bookmobiles ' and traveling bookshelves to help them maintain zree, aeinuui-awu buv. ernments, it seems reasonable we should be concerned with our own citizens who need li brary "service." Golfer Hits Fowl, Then Bitten by Dog Ada, Okla.-IUPD-Good inten tions took a beating here and golfer ' W. M. Emanuel was the whipping boy. Emanuel hit his golf ball hard and true and smacked a wayward guinea on the head. The fowl keeled over. Emanuel went to a nearby farmer's house to report the mishap and was bitten by the family s pet dog. After first aid in town, Emanuel returned to the farm home, bent on telling about the guinea hen and to learn if the dog had had rabies shots. There in the front yard was the "deceased" fowl, ap parently unhurt by the golf ball mishap. The owner dis claimed rabies in his dog as Emanuel hobbled off with his golf clubs. BOMB KILLS THREE . Benevento, Italy - (UPD -Three Italian girls were killed Wednesday when a wartime dud bomb exploded as they played with it. Three others Limit Rights Reserved? Local Spear Melons gj JELl Local apear Q I JELL 0 lMelons 'jg can................. Ocean Fresh T-XTl3Sf v Whole or Half 0 ,1 39 h Qih QSlcJ wrtfgy; 4H & FFA : , V Jf 2PZ PORK aayv - 89' SU GAR A PORK STEAKS 55' f wwn"m 1 Fancy Blades lb. 11 , , . .. A I PORK SAUSAGE MM J 3 pounds ' , r Swiftning59 Korner Farm GRADE AA MEDIUM EGGS 350 PINE ST. SUPER MARKET CENTRAL POINT America's 50 State A GOOD PLACI TO TRADE were hurt in the blast. The victims were aged two to 10
