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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1962 Ahout 50.000 towns and village in the U.S. have no rail nutlets and depend entire ly on motor transportation. -A 5 Alaska's population has tripled in the last 20 years. Youthful Scientist Invents Method of Direction Finding Washington - (UPD - A 17- year-old boy scientist has in vented a new method of di rection finding to guide peo ple who are lost without a compass. It's such a big improvement over previous methods that IT'S HERE! Half P Sale nee Shulton's StERT FLOWER DEODORANT Cream or Roll-On Regular $1.00 Value Add Federal Excise. Tax on Taxable Merchandise TT Plus Tax Free Delivery in Medford 1 , A r PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS. MEDFORD'S ORIGINAL DISCOUNT STORE JJLLU-LLL W N. CENTRAL " DIAL OPEN WEEK DAYS 8 to 9 CLOSED TODAY! SUNDAYS 9 to 5 it has been officially adopted by the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army for use in survival training manuals. The young inventor is Bob Owendoff, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Robert A. Owendoff of 153 Gundry Drive, Falls Church, Va. Bob is a Life Scout and has always been interested in out door lore. He also has a keen unhappy hours trying to rie termine which way was east. When he finally got home, he made a careful study of all known methods of deter mining direction without a compass. He concluded that none of them was satisfactory. He set out to develop a new system. His solution has won the applause of eminent mathe- least three feet of it is above i movement as a clue to direc- interest in science, and has j maticians and astronomers won top honors in higii school science fairs. Four Unhappy Hours Three years ago, on a hiking trip with a Boy Scout troop, he got lost and spent four nd has stood the test of more than 50.000 field trials. Bob calls it the "shadow tip" method. It works like this: Drive a stake so that at ground. Mark the tip of the shadow it casts. Wait for a while - 10 minutes Is long enough - and mark the spot where the tip of th shadow is then resting. East and Wait A line drawn between the two marks will always point east and west (the second mark being the eastward di rection). Bob contends that this meth od is actually more accurate. In many instances, than a com pass. "A compass is really not such a reliable direction find er when you're lost in strange country," he explained In an interview. "Unless you know what correction to make for the magnetic variation at that spot, a compass can lead you astray by as much as 55 to SO degrees." His own method, which re lics on the east-to-west move ment of the sun, has an aver age error of about 8 degrees, he said, and even in extreme circumstances will not be off by more than about 30 degrees. Bob is not the first person to think of using the sun's HAPPY BIRTHDAY Fondling his favorite cat is Lee Meri wether, who is 100 years old today. His cousin, Avery Strat ton, Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. Stratton are in St. Louis, Mo., to help Meriwether celebrate the event. Meriwether mark ed the occasion with completion o his hook, "My First 100 year,'1 to be published in January. (UPD Oi-fCfifaaofr(tsms' my fnie Ccvegave io iwaf&yfridye- wafcarfrce Otitic second day of' '(Jiri'ms- Mf frm faegaVc to we cyjurtk doves OntfefflrrfC day of 'Qtristmas- Mf ime Cow jjavc io we "Jjindi dpf OKtfcejmrfkday'of QiristHias; - jfttf itm (cc gave io w& 'cuCtiiuj lurd? Ofriftcjififc daif of 'feusfmasr tMf -hie (oVe gave io wegoCdcH' rigs Ofritfest&fcdalf fhitstm wifirM (ovejave io we fo tywf OilifoseVCMfkdof(JiribH.asr mif fruc (dto attc io m svans k- swwhuhf 0nt6e egtewdufof(Jltistwa$r wjfim (ovejave to -me 8& wilh'fuf 0p tte ?UMf' dalf of '(Jm'sMasr my irm Cove.jpn io w QLfadi'es (tikaxj 0k tfic i&ttk djy of ' (Jtn'sf-hi'asr. TWfirue (ovecfMcia Mfy Cords k (eafty 0k tCc cCfreHtk dalfofQircstonas: wjf irc Cm jjaVc to me forsjjipituf Oyv tfi-c iwdfih' day 'of (fn'sfynai s fjf frkC l&CaVC to fncj dfUMhctsdn-MHtCuy t m i in ii mil m pwpp yrM' .ij In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What happened at Nassau? It boils down to this: President Kennedy and British Premier Macmlllan got together in an agreement to do these things: 1. Create at once a nu clear-armed bomber force. 2. Put Polaris-armed Brit ish submarines in action un der the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) banner by 1970. Hon. At least three direction finding systems based on shadow-marking have been in use for many years. Each of them, however, has serious disadvantages. Easier at Night Until Bob perfected his con venient "shadow tip" method, it was, ironically, much easier to find direction at night than In the daytime sys tem, which has been in use since the dawn of recorded history, is simply to locate the North Star, Polaris. The classic method of spotting Polaris is to follow the lip of the Big Dipper, which will always point to a very bright star some distance away in the sky. In the Southern Hemisphere, the Southern Cross substitutes for the North Star. Although Bob's father is an Army officer, it was his mother, a civilian employe of the Army, who called his sys tem to the attention to mili tary authorities. She did so by the simple expedient of dropping the idea into an employe suggestion box. After the Army adopted the idea, Bob got a check for $500. MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency I XTl I F. R. Brennan L.L-uirCl' jfT May Your ScfvL g. CHRISTMAS ifjf Be Merry! fcT GOODWILL pF rpHIS far - reaching agree- x ment to give the Western alliance a broadened nuclear shield against its Communist enemy will take effect in two stages: 1. The U. S. and Britain agreed to set aside IMME DIATELY an undisclosed seg ment of their bomber forces for use by NATO - which would decide the emergency missions and targets if and when they are loosed against NATO'S enemy. 2. The U. S. agreed to pro vide Britain with intermedi ate range Polaria missiles -MINUS warheads - for use on British submarines. THESE forces - both bomb ers and submarines - will he committed to the new multi-nation NATO nuclear forces and the U. S. will assign to NATO one Polaris-armed sub marine for each similar undersea craft equipped by the British. We will sell th Polarl? missiles to the British. The British will pay for them at their production cost, but will not be called upon to pay their share of the $2.5 billion we have put into Ihe develop ment nf the Polaris. Among other things, that will help to ease the burden on the British taxpayer, who Is be ginning to get restive under his lax burdens. The British will furnish THEIR OWN nurlear war heads. That salves their pride by rnnceding that they are a nuclear power. 1IM1AT does all this mean? ' Well, among other things, It means that the U. S. is pre paring to retire from the EX CLUSIVE nuclear field. We re getting ready to take the British into the lodge -which is reasonable, since British scientists, operating on their own, have created British nuclear weapons. The same deal. It is announced, will be offered to France -which has also created Its own nuclear bomb. That's about the shape of the deal put together on Brit ish soil down under the sun ny skies nf Ihe Bahamas by the President of the United Stalei and the Prime Minis ter nf Great Britain. Birthplace of the Star, Spangled T.anner at Fort Mr-i Henry, Md., Is now I national ihrlne. ' Sj'v i"""A ww ,ittd eo,Nif V llOs , Wo ami wort-Hit ht JS. I, , i ' """" wnaliui lit b alwayt pHf. T-Ov fT-rT eSV 'v Eoty M put l and loin off " oJM !'Ljslasy X di higglng, lifting, tooitngy 117 S. 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