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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1962 C-7 Microfilm, iiiveiiteci New York-4IPD-Few persons realize to what extent their personal lives are recorded on microfilm, a one-time bank clerk's invention which added photography to the evolution of man's record-keeping. Chances are that every check you write to pay the butcher, the baker or the baby sitter is microfilmed by your bank. So are important pa pers such as your Social Se curity record, property titles, insurance policies, birth cer tificates, income tax returns and even your department store bills and sales slips. Whenever you cash in a U.S. Savings Bond it is micro filmed and the bond is de stroyed. If you are hospital ized, your case history prob ably is microfilmed. So is your registration at some ho tels. And if you live in cer tain areas of the nation your childrens school records are being kept on microfilm. Modern microfilming owes its existence to the invention of a New York bank clerk named George McCarthy. Mc C a r t h y's imagination was stirred one day in 1923 when a large depositor claimed his account was charged with a $300 check he had never drawn. At that time, the bank kept no other proof of pay ment when returning a de positor's cancelled checks with his monthly statement. So it had to make good the $300. Knowing that this wasn't the first such occur rence, McCarthy sought a practical answer to the prob lem. Photography Idea Occurs While watching a slow-motion film of a pitcher throw ing a baseball, he thought of the possibility of photograph ing cancelled checks. Though experts scoffed at his idea as impractical, McCarthy persist ed and finally hand-built a South Africa May Seek Scout Shrine By NEIL SMITH United Press International Johannesburg, South Africa - (UPD - The little out country town of Mafeking is launching a worldwide appeal to become an international shrine for thj Boy Scout movement. It was in Mafeking, 150 miles northwest of here, dur ing the Boer wtvs. .that Col. (later Lord) Banden-Powrtl first conceived the idea of the Scout movement. At the time Mafeking was besieged by the Boers. The first "boy scouts" assisted the men defending the town. The impetus for the inter national shrine idea was eco nomic. The future outlook for Mafeking is bleak. The town now is the capitol of Bechuanaland protectorate although it lies 16 miles inside the South African frontier. But the Bechuanaland gov ernment has decided to move the capital to Gaberones, 80 miles to the north. With the move will go many of Mafe king's 4,500 white inhabitants and most of its former import ance and prosperity. One of the ideas suggested as a means of keeping Mafe king from becoming a frontier ghost town was the establish ment of a sort of "holy place" for the Scout movement, which was born there. The Mafeking town council has adopted the idea with en thusiasm. Plans are emerging for a worldwide appeal to Boy and Girl Scouts of all nations to contribute to a fund. The money will be used to build a museum-shrine in which rel ics of the seige and the Boy Scout movement will be housed. Some will be set aside to maintain in their original state the many buildings con nected with Baden-Powell. The buildings include the original dugout used by Baden-Powell (now a wine cel lar), the old officers club (now the Mafeking Club) and the watchtower from where Baden-Powell used to observe the Boer attackers (now a law yer's office.) One factor dims the outlook for establishing an interna tional shrine to scouting here. The worldwide movement em braces all races and colors. But in South Africa today rigid laws restrict non-whites in "white" areas. The town of Mafeking is a "white man's" town. A non white visitor would not De permitted to stay at local ho tels, eat at local restaurants, or attend a white cinema show. He would be subject to all the rigors of the South African pass laws. Will the thousands of non white Boy Scouts and their governments take kindly to an appeal for a shrine which they may never be allowed to visit? to the International Concatenated Order of the Hoo-Hoo For their efforts in promo'""" 'Forest Product Week" thus aiding the lumber Industries of our Rogue River Valley HAUPERT TRACTOR CO. Sby Cleric crude piano - sized machine called the "Checkograph" that would photograph checks quickly and inexpensively. Banks remained for the most part unmoved, however, until McCarthy interested Eastman-Kodak in his project. Eastman technicians re-engineered the "Checkograph" principle for a more compact and efficient machine called Recordak and also perfected a special formula microfilm. In 1928, the first Recordak was installed in McCarthy's old bank - the first to use the new machine. Now Much-Used Today, microfilming is at work in many thousands of banks, insurance companies, public utilities, retail estab lishments, manufacturing or ganizations and public offices. The nation's vital records are being microfilmed in dupli cate, with the duplicate films stored in underground vaults outside of possible target areas against the possibility of nuclear war. World War II brought mi crofilming's biggest and per haps most memorable job, V-mail. From the time it was started in 1941, to save cargo space on mail to British troops in Egypt, until V-J day, it is estimated the Allies delivered one and a half billion V-mail letters. A space age application of microfilm is in the Project .AidsRecordKee ARIES space laboratory re cently opened at the Ameri can Museum of Natural His tory in New York City. There, eight tons of reading material, representing more than 4 mil lion pages of scientific books, literary classics, best sellers, even comics, are reduced to a 90-pound microfilm library, We Salute... Maximal Breathing Capacity Test Noted La Jolla, Calif. - (UPD - Do you have enough wind to blow out a paper match held three inches form your mouth? Hold the mouth wide and blow. Don't purse lips. That's cheating. If you can't blow out the flame, your maximal breath ing capacity is not up to the standard. Better have your lungs tested. Dr. C. Robert Olson, of the Scripps Clinic and Reasearch Foundation here, made that point in a re port published in the Ameri can Review of Respiratory Disease. FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY We're proud to offer our congratulations to the area's number 1 Industry and to share in their efforts to keep Southern Oregon a leader of Ore gon progress. 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