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.
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(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
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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
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