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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1961)
HERALD AND NCWt. KUaulh FIU, Orw By IRVING DESFOR AP Newsfeatures What does 1961 hold in store for camera funs? It looks like an automatic year. Besides the many new automatic cameras, there will be automatic film and flashbulb vending ma chines, automatic electric projec tion screens as well as automat ic 8mm movie screening by re mote control. The vending machine took eight years to perfect.. Its inventor, Fra zier James of Nashville, Tenn., is one of the pioneers in the field of designing and building vend ing machines. The idea was born on a vacation trip when he ran short of film and couldn't find a place to buy any. The result, which I saw demon strated in New York recently, has also been introduced in Florida and Texas. It's a remarkable machine which dispenses 15 dif ferent types of films, three types of flashbulbs and also accepts film for processing. It takes, in payment, coins and one dollar bills up to a total of $5 and makes change when necessary. "The machine has an electronic memory system," James ex plained, "which scans the mon ey and rejects it if it isn't genu ine." We tried to fool the machine by putting in foreign money and pa per that resembled dollar bills. It wouldn't accept them. When genu-1 ine money is accepted, it is count ed visibly on a totalizer and held m escrow until a selection of film or flashbulbs is made. If no sel ection is made or if the selected film is depleted, the money is returned. "More and more people are on tlie go," James said, "and more of them are taking pictures. My machines will make it easier to Asks Educators j For Agreement On Schooling PORTLAND (AP) State Sen. I Jean Lewis, D-Portland. told a roup of Oregon educators they should reach agreement among themselves before presenting any kindergarten proposal to the state Legislature. The educators met here Wed nesday to discuss the possibility! of obtaining state funds to sup- port a kindergarten program in the state school system. State Sen. Monroe Sweetland, D-Milwaukie, said their case should be well-documented, add ing: "The needs of this program must be weighed against other needs and the case must be pre sented in Hs best light." Henry Osibov, OEA research di rector, was directed to form a committee for study of this pro posal. Osibov said any disagreement about a kindergarten proposal was on the matter of priority. He said 600 additional classrooms would be needed for state-wide kinder garten operation. With so many demands on available funds, the question becomes how important the program is, he said. shoot pictures everywhere they go because they'll make all pop ular types of film and flashbulbs available at any hour, day or night, every day in the week." j In the next few months, the film vender will start making its appearance at airports, rail road stations, bus terminals, ho tels and tourist attractions. Another product of the automat ic age is the Autoeleclric projec-l turns on the projection lamp.! starts the projection. Then, as desired, it holds a single frame on the screen, reverses the ac tion or stops it . . . without press ing a button! No, they haven't harnessed thought control yet but they do use mercury or gravity switches instead. The remote controls are in a little illuminated cube-like box. It can be held in one of four RACE IS EASY GASOLINE Rl'NS KKKE DENVER (API-Democrat Da ! CASTLE, Okla. (AP) Resi vid Brofman. ex-newspaper report- dents carrying saucepans and er, was reelected county judge as buckets reaped a bonanza of free soon as the first voter pulled j gasoline one day. The gasoline down the level opposite his name. I poured freely after a road grad The Republicans didn't bother to er slashed an 8 - inch gasoline put up a candidate. transmission line near here. 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From the projection end, a new type of automatic control is being introduced by Bell and Howell. Their Dual-Lectric 8mm projec tor takes over automatic opera tion when the film is inserted in the threading device. It threads the film, turns off the room lamp, positions, each of which controls' a single activity of the projector which is seen uppermost. If the box is turned to another side, the mercury switch drops and acti vates another phase of the projector. Even a child who can't read Forward, Still, Reverse and Stop can operate the projector and imake it perform all its tricks by remote control. For those who prefer to stay by the projector, a single-knob control operates the machine in its different phases. Fiberglass Boat Building Materials The Gun Store 714 Mom Ph. TU 4-3843 All Work Guaranteed To Satisfy! BROWN'S Plumbing 1 Hearing 2244 S. 6th TO 2 1 5 REMODELING ? FORMICA An orroy of colon and pat terns too numerous to list! 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