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HERALD AND NEWS, Ktamalti Falls. Or. Sun., Jan. u, itn Fan I By IRVING DKSKOR Jul ever taken by the smallest AP Newsfeature camera. The result is on pub- Photo enthusiast Joe J. Marx lie view in the Cincinnati Public of Loveland, Ohio, is a tiny-camera fan who does small things in a great big way. lie proved this recently by making probably the largest mur- Library: a 15-foot .panorama of the city's skyline photographed with a sub-miniature camera. The original scene was shot on four negatives each' of which measured order YOUR Progress Edition COPIES NOW! Use this handy coupon form to re serve enough copies for your friends, relatives and business associates else where. Just fill out the form and mail with your payment of 50c per copy to the Herald and News P. O. Box 941 Klamath Falls, Ore. and all wrapping and mailing will be handled for you on publication date, Feb. 26th. Mail To: Nome Address Moil To: Name Address Mail To: Name Address Mail To: Name Address Mail To: Nome Address Sent By Address less than Half an inch. I know Joe Marx from his pre vious achievements in the ultra- miniature field. For two years in a row he took the first prize awards in the national Minox photo contests. He couldn't do it a third time, however, because in 1960 they asked him to become a judge in the contest. But what spurred him on to his recent feat? "I had often studied a 40-foot daguerrotypc mural on permanent display in the library," Marx ex plained. "It was a view of Cin cinnati's waterfront taken from the Kentucky side in 1848, en larged from eight daguerrotypes, each 4x5 inches. " 'What tremendous changes have taken place since then,' I thought. 'The city . . . cameras. Why not use the smallest, most modern camera to take the same picture? What a challenge.' ' With this goal in mind, did Marx rush down to the river's edge, camera in hand, shooting in all directions like a Roman candle? No, he went back to the library to look up some photo books. Till now he had specialized in closeups and human interest pic tures and he realized a little re search was in order. He found some helpful information in the Focal Encyclopedia, a British publication, which has been put out in a new desk edition distribut ed in this country by Macmillan Co., New York. He learned that to make a good panorama, a tripod must be used, something he had never used before with a Minox. In addition, it would require a car V Si MURAL, MINOX and Marx prove that small things can be done in a big way. Joe J. Marx holds the tiny camera which produced the 15-foot mural which hangs in the Cincinnati Public Library. penter's spirit level to make sure that the film plane remained ab solutely vertical in each of the separate exposures. Without it, the Ohio River might run up hill at the extreme edges of the picture. Marx made the enlargements for the mural in his own bathroom-darkroom, printing 30 x 30 inch panels with a slight overlap at each edge. Not having big enough trays, he worked on a waxed masonite board set in the bathtub. He sloshed on the devel oper w ith a big sponge and con trolled the rate of processing with a garden hose. He sponged on the hypo too and hosed the prints for washing. In mounting, the shorelines of each nanel had to meet and the match. The final assembly was on a 15-foot masonite board. Public recognition of his feat, Marx believes, is a tribute to I what can be done with a sub miniature camera. I "But this was a special project off its usual beat," he says. "I It -I I iiiuim h miuws up ucsl in every- J i..!- , uuy-piciure-iaKing. nn uura min iature camera is portable, con cealable and available. "Obviously you can't get pic tures if you don't have a camera at hand when you run across something unexpectedly. And many another good picture has been lost because the camera, if it is on hand, is too obvious. "Look at me now. Would you know that I'm carrying three Minox cameras and a flash unit under my jacket? One is loaded with a fast film, one with slow film and one with color. I'm pre pared for anything and my pic tures won't look posed because they aren't posed. "For a final bit of advice to other camera fans, I'd say this: Shoot more close-ups. Select one important person, thing or detail and concentrate on it. Make it an exercise for one whole roll of film . . . nothing but close-ups. See if you don't like the results." Painess Or Not, Liquid Diets Help Fatties In Battle Of Bulge NEW YORK (L'PD The hula hoop fad was small potatoes com pared to the proportions of the liquid diet fad. Secretaries are sipping the "900 calorie" drinks at lunch count ers, bosses are drinking them in Ihe privacy of the executive suite mothers are using the stuff for an 'emergency meal for the kids. It's even appearing at cocktail parties! One of the fluid meals reported ly has made it to the menus at Ihe White House. And the Quaker Onts Co. an nounced that its "Quota," in choc olate, vanilla and banana flavored powder form, is being test-marketed in tile Midwest and soon will go into supermarkets nation ally. You also can buy liquid diet powder in orange, chocolate, va nilla butterscotch, and even coffee-flavored. For the dieters who want to wander from the regular flavors, there are other ways of dressing up the drinks. You make it rum flavored by adding imitation rum extract; get a brandy-flavored one by adding imitation brandy. Prices on jars and cans of the compounds in the New York area: range from 89 cents to $1.59 for a full day's supply. The lowest price is found at a discount house pushing its own brand of "900 calorie" a day powder. Competition is so hot in the fluid meal field that Ihe nation's first producer Mead-Johnson Co. recently cut its price from $1.59 to $1.29. The firm brought out Metrecal in September, 1959, beefing up its sales promotion with clinical re- ! ports from doctors who had used liquid diets in reducing programs. Some patients had lost nearly a pound a day. Others lost less, but almost all who stuck to the liquid meals lost some weight. William De Lav, a spokesman for the Indianapolis firm, said production constantly is being ex panded to keep pace with demand. The pioneer producer also was the first to offer ready-mixed li quid diet in a six-can carton like beer making it easier for those who want to tote liquid meals to the office or a cocktail party. The Mead-Johnson firm has no firm hold on the basic formula, De Lay said. As a result, there now are some 40 brands avail able. Leo Bertish, president of the Whelan Drug Co., said his firm is getting best results with a ver sion of the liquid diet powder that combines coffee and choco late flavoring. The coffee gives the dieter an extra surge of en ergy. , Bertish said his firm's com pound, like the others, is forti fied with essentials needed for nutrition. As a result, the body Are New Liquid Diets Safe? Dr. Philip L. White, secretory of the America Medical Association Council on Foods and Nutrition, answers the question this way: "The use of better grade formula weight reduc tion products under proper conditions is medically sound. However, the careless use of such formula diets is unsound. "The short-term use of the 900-calerie formulas twill not harm the individual who is just a teeny bit overweight. "However, such persons will achieve more satis factory long-term results when they develop and maintain good eating habits then weight moin . tenance will no longer be a problem." is not robbed of anything during lheliquid diet. But to keep on the safe side, many makers of liquid diet re peatedly point out that physicians should be consulted on how you should work the liquid diet into your reducing program. . Persons who have heart trou ble, kidney ailments ami other difficulties are urged to see their doctor before trying liquid diels. But meanwhile, the liquid diets have done more than reduce some fatties. They've taken over where "Miltown" left off as a topic of conversation. A public relations executive complained that his secretary, on a fluid diet for seven weeks, is beginning to look like six o'clock. National Airlines allows its stew ardesses to serve the stuff lo those who prefer it for breakfast. There are no guarantees, of course, that the diet will reduce everyone. A New York career girl plump but also short went on the diet for 10 days and gained a half pound. "Besides I was burping all over the place," she said. . To make the liquid dieting eas ier, many restaurants and hotels serve it on request. Some drug stores find it is giving the ham burger competition. When the diet works, it proves, of course,- what doctors have n-Miinlmned All alnn: that most they eat too much and the ex cess calories are stored in pads of fat. By limiting the intake to 900 calories a day a difficult diet the old caloric-counting, food-limiting way the body is given a chance to burn up calories stashed in fat. The fat goes away. The liquid diets do not wash fat out of the system, as some reducing products in the past have claimed to do. A New York accountant who had this idea was using the liquid diet instead of dessert. He gained weight.
