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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1S60
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What A MEMORY1
HAS AGENDA
AS LEADING
LADY IN HER
HIGH SCHOOL
PLAY SHE HAS
HER OWN LINES
DOWN COLD AND
KNOWS EVERy
0"ER PART IN
i THE SHOW TOO-
THEN BENVOLIOSAVS.TO SFFk UlM iccurn I i-rte
mckc ihai MtANa NUT TO be FOUND. ( IVONDERPUL .' YOU
INCH m SOtNb TOO KOMEO ENTERS UAVPW'T Micccn
SAVING."ME JESTS AT SCAP TUAT owe iMnnc -,vpc
FA ?S.Cf?ir 7UU?U- THEN MY LINE. LINE. SHAKESPEARE
VK&S" Em SOPT.' WHAT LI6HT THROUGH l WOULD HAVE EECN
WNUfcK WINDOW BREAKS.'",-' V PROUD OF YOU rrfi
By Jimmy Hatlo
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'UT CAME IT THE NIGUT
OF THE SUPER PRODUCTION-SHE
DID FORGET
SOMETHING AT HOME
WHICH HAPPENED TO BE
NINE MILES THAT-A-WAy
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Thyroid Ghrcds of Slaughter Animals Detect Atomic Blasts
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York - (UPD - A sensi
tive detector of atomic bomb
explosions anywhere in the
- world record-
. r i v ed two "posi
A tives" in the
V early part of
this year
t w h i c h the
s c i entist in
: charge is un
a b 1 e to ex
plain. This detcct
- or is the thy
f the slaughter
animals oi me wurici - sneep,
cattle and swine. The scientist
in charge is Dr. L. Van Mid
dlesworth of the University of
f
Dclos smith
roirt glands
ISZfoflCPi? Of UtlUSOi
Bf iftraNow Ppoduefis to Market
tea-
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
UPI Financial Editor
New York (UPD W here
there's a will there's a way.
This old saying mav well
descrilV Na
tional Patent
patentiO but which it is not
utilizing.
If the?e companies could be
b r o ur3 t loget'fSi -the
P e vclopmcnt one supplying use oi the pat
Corp., QvOi I ent. the other supplying the
is p r o v i nQ nccO for it everyone would
that there benefit, Larson statcO
still are new Qhe problem hcjQ, w add
and OHfttOe.-t ed, 0 to brirQ buycO and
wacO to n-cDe OUcO tco;thcO to their mutual
m o n o P in ObvQU). It 0 llcl "O C5
Slmerico. I tional o'atent Devekment
Ocnry BechioiO This recent- Corp. tfir.Os HOcOn be (O in-
ies often are seeking the same opmcnls to the commercial
or essentially the same idea'stage. O
which ano'O-r company haAj Larson noted thiHmany big
y-formco: company 'o unc'Oi'jj' vahpb'o ocoOOncO O C in
lei iwL'uiiivii.
c'Pot only cO'i it brirQ io'Or
ested companies t o Qo tlicO,
LO"Son saiQ, but it alOi can
invcstoi'O tcchnolcQcol de
velopments, supply li'Qgl Oad
technicol advice, and, Cere
necessary, obtain financiiO Oi
sistance to briro the;o devel-
lyii-O purpose is to irirQ ne6
ideas Ond products to"i);
Qet throi'O'i the utiliCQticffi of
(jormant patents.
The.'O unused lO'en'o. :"
ordirQ to compan" chairman
jess Larson, eoulP pave the
Oay for millionPof dollars of
new prodiOisOind other tech
Dolro'cal advances.
Literally thousands of new
developments -are kept from
commercio'izanon because
they are covered by patents
Onot being utilized, the former
H'ar AsslOs Administrator de
clared. B9-'CO 03EJ5?
The U.S. Patent Offite an
nually issues more than O,
000 new paltcnts and it cur
rently has an estimated back
log of some 200,000 patent ap
plicalior However, only a
fraction of all patented de
velopments is ever commU;
alized, and of these, only
smaller fraction turn out to be
profitable.
The problem today, Larson
said, is that countless new
products and applications are
daily beinjLJuncovered as an
offshoot of industrial re
search. These new develop
ments customarily aQ pat
ented, but they are not com
mercially exploited for Jhe
benefit .the public because
they are not related to the
principal business of the com-pany-xhat
sponsored the re
searcVr work. Q maybe the
company docs not foresee a
market for them.
Meanwhra other compan-
Tenr.essce, Memphis.
Thyroid glands whether of
man or beast will absorb any
iodine which becomes avail
able to them. Iodine -131, a
radioactive isotope of this ele
ment, is made available to all
thyroid glands by atomic
bomb explosions since it is
one of the fall-out products.
Middlesworth established
the scientific accuracy of this
detector some years ago. He
organizations with patents not
now being utilized are mak
ing these patents available to
Nnonal Patent Development
.S-r. ... , i i ;
oil it luiiu (tuiiLii utiais.
Oiicse firms include Ameri
can Machine & Qmndary,
AVCO, Chance VotP., Glid
d c n. International Latex,
C-'rck, Perkin-Elmcr, O. O.
TOW. Swift and ThicCp'.
TheQ cO'. diveiOlty of these
compankO siCO's'.O the O'de
rarO- of fields in O'hitQ PO'
ented (velcflirOnts (CP 'O
put to O'Q O
LOoson concluQjO tl'O
counthO1 disflor:Os XJn '-'O
transloted into prO-ticO' cOj
comprO.imOnts anO hQ'-or liv
0,0.9&Qo Q totter iQ is
mo9e of our technical re
sources bp utiliziro coOiiQ
discoverico 0"d inventions, o
lodar Used For
Trsckingjnfry
Info Atmosphere
Boston, Science Service
Radar tracking of a speeding
object's re-entry into the
earth's alRVsphere is being
studied usiirg six-stage rockets
fired fVm Wallops Island. Va.
ThreeStages are used to hurl
a space vehicle to nearly 200
miles, the other three send
it earth ri
Dr. GleO F. Pi:('rt of
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Lincoln labor i
tory reported on research aim
ed at solving problems of de
fense against ballistic missiles
Old improving methods of lo
cating and communicating
with homovard-QLlnd space
vehicles.
Dhen the five-inch sphere
Canal Winchester, Ohio -The
mailman sees spots when
he delivers mail to Mr. and
Mrs. Webster Shaw.
They l.e a red, blue,
green, yellow and black polka-dot
maillipx. Mrs. Shaw
designed anpainted the box,
using a jar top to oufGe the
circles.
"Some people like it, and
some don't, ,K Shaw says.
receives the preserved thy
roids of slaughter animals
from many parts of the world
periodically and measures
them for iodine-131 content.
In the first four months of
this year there were four
marked increases of this ra
dioactive isotope in animal
thyroids. Two are readily ex
plained. The French tested
atomic weapons in the Sahara
Desert on February 13 and
again on April 1, according to
the official announcements at
the time.
Reach Relative High
However, the iodine-131
content of the thyroids of
sheep reared around Nash
ville, Tenn., reached a rela
tive high in January. And
after the peak of increased
iodine-131 in animal thyroids
in many parts of the world
following the February ex
plosions, there was a second
peak which occurred well in
advance of the April explo
sions. It may be that the atmos
pheric fall-out of iodine-131
following a series of atomic
bomb explosions comes in two
phases, Middlesworth report
ed. If so this would explain
the two peaks of thyroid
iodine-131 between the two
sets of atomic tests.
But it wouldn't explain the
purely local increase in sheep
thyroids around Nash ville,
Tenn. A second explanation
would be new increases in
atmospheric iodine-131 not
connected with announced ex
plosions, Middlesworth added.
The remarkable sensitivity
of animal thyroids to atmos
pheric iodine-131 was illus
trated by T(g)1dlesworth's new-
JSigiu clays
est calculations.
after the first Sahara ex
plosions on February 13, the
thyroids of sheep around
Haifa, Israel were taking up
the radioactive isotope.
Iodine Content Increases
Eleven days afterwards the
thyroids of cattle in Formosa
contained 100 times more
iodine-131 than they had in
January and earlier in Febru
ary. Even the pigs around
Middlesworth's own b a i 1 i -wick,
Memphis, had an in
creased amount in their thy
roids. The highest concentration
he measured were in the thy
roids of sheep in Portugal.
By early March the content
was at its maximum in sheep
in Germany, around London
and Nashvillnj.and in cattle
around Memphis and in For
mosa. Sheep around Munich, Ger
many and in Portugal got
their highest boosts after the
April 1 test explosions, but
those around London and
Memphis got their highest
from the two peaks following
the February explosion. Mid
dlesworth was unable to ex
plain this discrepancy. He
didn't have enough data.
HELP
US!
Wa need clothing, shoes, dishes,
furniture, and bedding.
We Pick Up.
HELP OTHERS!
The Salvation Army
30 N. Holly
SPring 3-7335
! JO KOJjt JL
Chicago-WI) - Even before
Howard R. Conant left the
University of Peniylvania
th his deerce in 107. he
had Qrned 3,000 by scllinQ
steel on the telephone.
(J'oday, Conant, 36, heads a
firm Interstate Steel Compa
ny tha will gross $15 nrl
lion iji fiscal I960.
Coismt was just out of the
i-inv and newlv entered al
Philarlnlnhia to finiiffil his in
tcrruO-d education when he
decided to make steel his ca
reer. His idea was this steel is
so big at the mill level why
wouldn't there be a gooibusi
ness iiQelling ,'Q;iHcr cW.tom
ers who needed steel in a
hurryQnd not in the large
amouiiTs usually sold by the
big mills. O ,
Actually this is the steel
warehousing business, or as
it is lftiown in the trade
steel service ccnttgs.
STICli Mr BrocOTV'ffl
For capital in buy5!i$? steel,
Conant used the proceeds
from the sale Of automobile
before entering tne army. He
bid on government surplus
and advertised sale of the
eel in trade ioiirnals. e:rting
his tralernity hoiTSe teiepnonW
icd in the space vehicle c!
O rocO-tcd earth-CD1- "
tD'ns hypervAicities. The
splore leaves in its wake a
fiery tO.iil of eIO:trif:Od Qises
for tlO sCQntisOlo probe and
tO;t witli radar Old optical
rievises.
Ohen an object O'lt'i 'W r g
velocitO re-entc ine ouno's
plOiO, tl'O O'r is l'Ced to fji
iniwoen 5,000 Q.id lu.uuu ciq-
if6jes cpjjtierado. (She son s
temperature is u.uuu oiajrucwj ,v
i ionized ffy;'.-s sheath is j
formed and left in the oo
iect's wiifte. Thin plasma is
beii probe and tested as J
part ot me L,mcoin i,auma
tory's re-entry research, Pig
pert repcO ed to the Nofchcast
lectronics 'jGMorcl1 and
ginciPii-Qmeetino nere today
All gnown comiOuOication,
rfnir.nl inn nnH trA'jflinft tech
niques are affected by the 1
drastic cwinges that ocour
when a vehicle from space re
enters the atmosphere.
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Phone: SPring 2-4294
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n Eouitable's own ar.d lyitematie lavirgs at 4'
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omatic PaOff plan at 4Va
Returning here aXtcrayadu-
alion, Conant contmucu at a
borrowed desk and chair in
a V.Q'. sic?Q office. The busi
ness mushroomed, aided by
Conant's sales aQ service
techniques overnight deliv
ery service, using looiban
players as salesmen, flying a
company plane anywhere to
close a deal by personal contact.
Looking back in retrospect
today, Conant observed:
We skyrocketed so fast in
sales volume, I didn't have a
chance to pause and reflect
until the steel strike came
along andQut a temporary
halt on our business when we
got down to the bottom of our
inventory. All of a sudden we
looked around last fall and
found our warehouse just
about empty and all our assets
tied up. I guess to some fel
lows in buriness, this would
be a desirable situation, but
frankly we didn't like it."
Worked as Shoe Salesman
Salesmanship was not a new
thing to Conant. He did his
first selling while a high
school student here at the age
of 15, working as a shoe sales
man on Saturday. He amazed
the manager one day by com
ing up from the budget base
ment with his arms filled with
16 pairs of shoes he had sold
to one woman.
Typical of the small scale
on which Conant launched in
terstate was one of his first
deals. He saw a newspaper
ad offering steel for sale in
one column and a "steel want
ed" ad in another column.
"There was a total of 3,480
pounds involved," he recalled.
"I made a penny a pound, or
$34.60, by making two phone
calls, to the seller and to the
buyer."
But sales volume soared
tremendously after that-frorn
S500.000 the first year to S4.7
million in 1950.
I guess we were younger
and more energetic than oth
lers in the strong steel market
at the time,' Conant said.
Several Offices
Interstate's sales force now
operates out of offices in Mil
waukee, Minneapolis, Indian
apolis, Des Moines. Green Bay
and Rockford and Niles
Mich in addition to Chicago.
"Every salesman we have
is an executive on his own,'
Conant said. "He has full au
thority to make and closi
a
Staffs Cfeifej
Boulder.
Service-,4.
Colo., Science
new tool that can
storms, tornadoes ana Hurri
canes with greatrr. accuracy
, , j i.Srj 4 ti-,n
lias DUCIl uevuiujjuu ai
National Oreau Ji.t Stand
ards' Moulder lSworatories
here.
ThcQ'stem, named "Ephi,"
consists of three 125-foot an
tca towers, four miles
apart, and a central control
station, located in an old
schoolhouse near Brighton,
Colo.
The three antenna poles
form a triangle, and when
a storm occurs, the sfcric, or
static, radio signals reach each
antenna at a slightly differ
ent time, except when a storm
occurs at the axact center of
the triangle. From the anten
nas the signals are sent to
the central control station
where electronic equipment
determines the direction to
the lightning source.
Counts Signals
Ephi can also count the
number of static signals ar
riving from several different
directions at thC'Same time.
In addition, the sferic wave
form on an oscilloscope can
be photographed either with
dill 'nr movie cameras for
studies aimed at a better un-
derstanding ot radio wave;
propagation and the nature
of lightning.
For tracking tornadoes and
hurricanes, two stations like!
the one just installed could j
determine the position of a j
storm at distances of many
hundreds ot miles from either
station. ,
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Cry or Town-
by his home office even
though we may not particu
larly like it. But we feel
that only by giving hint full
nnthnrilv to make decisions
can we give cusiuiiicia m
kind of fast, immediate serv
ice they need."
A slender, highly-charged,
fast-moving businessman, Co
nant is a lover of sports, both
as a spectator and a partici
pant. He keeps in shape by
olaving a fast game of tennis
in the summer ai his own
rvrivntp court it e x t to his
r.lenview home and in winter
broaaway ar-
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BISKIT MIX F,He,2.,.bQ 351.00
ZOOM, Cooked Cejeal ,,b.4$1.00
INSTANT POTATOES Minute Mashr 6j... 451.00
TOMATOES Cottage 303 335c
TOILET TISSUE waid0rf 12rol,s 51.00
PEACHES Gold Hill 2i Irregular Slice 551.00
Bayer's, Reg. 25c 19c
ANTI FREEZE G3on 51-49
FROZEN STEAKS Williams Buttered, 12-oz. ..... 59c
ANGEL FOOD CAKES Reg. 89c, Patterson 69c
(hfrfraie ib.
Apples
Newtown.,
2 it. 19c
JELLO
Assorted
9 Flavors
c
1 each
THIS WEEK'S COUPON
Splendid BREAD
Brown r V2 lbs. 5c each
With $5 or More Order of Groceries.
GERBER'S STRAINED
BABY FOOD
12 for S00
Christmas Tree Light Sets
Renown Underwriter i4.Qa
Approved, Reg. 98c each tjlw
Outdoor Light Sets
Reliance underwriter OO
approved-Reg. 1.98 each I.UU
IcideS Regular 25c 51.00
IdC.eS Regular 49c 31.00
Gift Tye Ribbon Re9 10 15 1.00
Ben Curl Ribbon Reg. 49c 31.00
a ;nduors at the
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