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THURSDAY. MAY 11, lltl MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 11 13 it : ;. co r-n I.1 " w i i V - ..I PULL STRINGS Technicians arc ihown pulling itringi releasing blocking plugs from Ashland's new telephone system which went into effect Saturday night Getting the all-number lyitem into operation are Ron Province, Keith Fletcher, William Mc Intyre, Ken Bullettet and Ken Nagle. (WhlUand Locke photo) BACK TO IRONING BOARD Wrinkle-Proof Shirt Doesn't Dry Without Wrinkles, West Finds Br DICK WEST " Washington (OTB I well remember that bright yester year when I bought my Urst wash and 4i wear ahirt. I bought It ai a tort of Moth er'! Day pres ent for my wife. The reason I well remem ber this is be cause she had wait some iroume understanding the sentiment that was behind the purchase. I had to explain it to her sev eral times.; ''.;; , "Look," she would say, V'l don't like to appear ungrate ful,' but I can't see what your buying a new shirt has to do with Mother's Day." "Well," I would replay, "since you don't have to iron it, it will give you mosj time to tend to the children." In theory, I think I had a Lvalid case. The Instructions said that if I dunked the shirt in the lavatory and draped it over a coat hanger overnight, I could put it on the next morning and go out looking like a fashion plate. Back To honing Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. My shirt looked more like a plate of spaghetti. So it was back to the ironing board for good ol' Mom. . I was reminded of this ex perience upon reading, here in this week before Mother's Day 1961, an account of tome research that the Agriculture Franklin Could Have Been 51st U.S. State Nashville, Tenn. - ,am -Chances are they never men tioned the State of Franklin In your history course, but there's talk now of reviving the lost state and making it No. 91. ew Americana an aware there ever was a state named for that symbol of thrift and hard work, Ben Franklin. Fewer still know that in Franklin you could pay your taxes in "deer, beaver and raccoon skins; tobacco, rye whisky, pea eh or apple brandy, and the like, as well as money." , Franklin was born in De cember, 1784, in what was then North Carolina's western terrltory-now the eastern tip of Tennessee. No sooner had the moun taineers west of the Alle ghanies elected a legislature and a governor and named their state, than North Caro lina declared them "in open rebellion" against its au thority, For three years .Franklin and North Carolina fumed at each other across the moun tains; the dispute near blood shed. Franklin asked for rec, ognltioh from Congress, but North Carolina vetoed the idea. . Then, after North Carolina offered pardons to the rebel lious mountaineers, Franklin drifted slowly to IU death in March, 1788, when the gov ernor's term ran out. An attempt to revive it In thel840's failed. Latest to pro pose Its revlval-though light heartedly ta Republican State Rep. James Qulllen of Kings port, Tenn. . East Tennessee is a long time pocket of Republicans in a Democratic state, but Qulllen says party politics is not behind the idea of re creating Franklin.'-;, "I just want to rekindle some interest in the' State of Franklin which many young people have never heard of," explained Quillen. "Besides If we talk about the thing long enough, It Just might happen." After Qulllen suggested that the Tennessee Legislature let the eastern third of Tennessee secede to form th 81st state, he got telegrams from Ken tucky and Virginia. Carl Knight, editor of the Big Stone Gap (Va.) Post, wired that "southwest Vir ginia would be pleased to be included in the Grand Old State of Franklin." Kentucky State Sen. H. Nick Johnson of Harlan ask ed Quillen to "please expand your plans . . . to Include southeastern Kentucky." But the Tennessee Legisla ture adjourned with no more than a smile for the proposal. And Quillen is quick to admit that in the 20th Century the mountaineer State of Franklin hasn't much of a chance. Department is doing in the wash-and-wear field. . It was presented to Bouse appropriations subcommittee by Dr. G. W. Irving Jr. of the Agriculture Research Service. Apparently things haven't changed very much since I bought that shirt. "One of the properties that has been observed by consum ers in wash-wear-type cottons is the somewhat less than op timum wet and dry wrinkle recovery' of these fabrics," Irving told the subcommittee "The problem has not yet been solved largely because we do not know what the fun damentals are of wrinkling . . . we will have to get a more complete understanding of the mechanisms involved in wrinkling..." ;. Tend to Wear Out .That, however, will not en tirely solve the problem. As noted by Rep. Alfred E. San tangelo (D N.Y.), another trouble with wash-and-wear fabrics is that they tend to wear out after being washed a few times. - "I bought a suit when I was married and just outgrew it," said Santangelo, who has been putting - on a little weight "But the suits I buy today don't last a year." . Irving said this was because the treatments used "to pro vide the properties that con sumers want In easy care and non-muss fabrics often weak en the strength and durability of the fabric." He said researchers are try ing to overcome that handi cap, too. v N It is heartening to know that the government is getting down to the fundamentals of wrinkling and I like to think that the day of optimum wrinkle recovery is close at hand. Then I can go back to buy ing myself shirts for Mother's Day presents. UNIMPRESSED Alan Shepard Mann, son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Mann of Mlddletown, N.Y., seems bored with his first rocket ship despite hisspace-age name. He was born May 8, less than an hour after' Cmdr. Alan Shepard com pleted his successful space flight; ." ' (UPI Telephoto) Space Flight Success Brings I Help To Instrument Companies , " i By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor New York - (DM) - Things are looking up for the makers or Instruments and guidance systems for aircraft and space lowing the success of A m r i ca's first manned space flight last week. The now anticipated ac c e 1 e r a tioh of space ex- , BwhtoM . p 1 o r a tion efforts should help such com panies as Collins Radio, Ben dix Cdrp. and Standard Kolls- man Industries, all of which played a big part in building the navigational instruments business to a booming $260 million in 1960. The industry foresees a jump to $300 million this year and continued gains into tne future as the need for com plex instrumentation systems increases. 13 per cent Gain , Standard Kollsman Presi dent James O. Burke noted that his own firm, one of the pioneers of the astro - naviga tional business, registered a 13 per cent sales gain during the first quarter. And he added that historically the second half of the year usually is con siderably better that the first. Kollsman, which provided some of the instrumentation for last week's space flight, also developed the "star tracker" asro guidance sys tem for space vehicles and high flying aircraft. These in struments utilize the stars or sun to plot position and di rection in flight, automatic ally and continuously tracking 100 Volunteers Help Texas Blind Students Austin. Tex.-(UPD-Slx Uni- versity of Texas students do some of their best studying when a record player is turn ed on or when someone talks to them. ! They are blind students be ing helped in their course work by 100 volunteer stu dent readers. The Co-opera tive Blind Students' Service Association also gives the stu dents subscriptions for special recordings for the blind. . "" . I.I T" "I ff" 1 mnrimt nr i mr nature ipirii i l 1 1 it f i m . j i in n ... , ..-..iii i 1 ; ; yljA 11 you'll flwer J '' css M V u buy better L lit', . mflffalB M IJI U " ! Vnv "hetter bread than Wmiar. Here's why-Williams Bread has that fresh baking day flavor...that pass-me-another-shce taste. Taste and savor that fresh baMng day flavor...then you'll laiow why... vou'll never buy better bread than Williams. v THE BBHID xm TT; the celestial body and giving precise latitude - longitude readings simultaneously. Burke said th. speed and range of today's missiles, air craft and space vehicles b a required intense research and development programs on th. part of the Instrument indus try. Th. rapid strides being made in air and space vehicles calls for-greatly expanded ef forts in developing guidance systems and control instru ments, he added. New Systems Sought New systems, concepts and techniques are being investi gated in areas of passive and active tracking, computing, optical communication, con trol and Instrumentation. With the space race getting hotter every day, and bigger and bigger craft calling for more and more complex in strumentation, research ef forts should pay off for those companies Involved. But, according to Burke, th. instrument makers also are looking for new fields to con quer, confident that further advances in astro navigation will be paralleed by instru mentation break-throughs in other fields. . , . He noted that research pro grams already under way range from Integrated apse. navigation and communlea tion, through combat surveil lance, to underwater sensing and instrumentation, and in dudes advanced medical irx strumentation and surgical aids. WW M M t Hot Cakes? AiYo) fa) try hot i7 MAPLEINE SYRUP Interesting flavor Idea that mikai better-then-bottled ayrup at much leaa cost. 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