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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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