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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falli, Ore. Tuesday. May 2, 1963 PAGE 1 Role At Daughter's Wedding Seen Revenge By ANN LANDKRS Dear Ann Landers: I disagree ilh your reply to Deserted Moth er. She was a nervous wreck be cause her about - to - be - mar ried daughter wanted to walk down the aisle alone as a symbolic slap in the face to her absent father who had skipped 17 years earlier. You said there was no need to make a specta cle of herself and . t h a t it , would only pro- 1 vide more grist tor the gossip mill. You alsc added, "Why hu mutate your I mother in an at tempt to punish your father who probably couldn't car less? Well, I'm a mother who was faced with precisely the same problem and you are wrong wrong wrong. I walked my daugh ter down the aisle myself. I then took my place in the front pew. When the minister asked, "Who giveth this woman?" I stood, faced the guests proudly and re plied. I do! My three brothers would have been glad to perform the honors but why should they have been asked? I raised the girl myself and she was mine to give away It was, I might add, the happiest moment of my entire life. NO PHONY Dear No Phony: The about-to. be bride described in the first letter was a bitter young girl whose hostility would have spoiled (he wedding and hurt her mother. your letter reflects an even more savage bitterness and hos tility. What you refer Ifl as the happiest moment of your entire life was a moment of revenge. Dear Ann Landers: I belong to a club with 17 other secretaries and the problem about which 1 am writing is a surprisingly com mon one. The boss' wife. She waltzes into the office at most every day, ignores closed doors, breaks in on private con ferences, sits herself down and acts as if she is Chairman of the Board. This is terribly annoying because I'm supposed to take down everything said at these conferences and when she butts in I'm never sure if I should record her remarks. 'DENN'S THE MENACE" borne days she just struts around the office, reads over our snouiaers, shuttles through pa pers on our desks and noses through the file cabinets. What baffles me is that this woman should know better be cause she was once a secretary in fact, she had my job, which is how she got the boss to divorce his wife and marry her. Why doesn't she have brains enough to stay home? AN NOYED Dear Annoyed: She sounds like a brass-plated beaut but maybe she's afraid history will repeat itself and she's down there to make certain II doesn't. Dear Ann Landers: We are de lighted with our new daughter-in-law. She and our son gradu ated from college last fall and they live about 200 miles from here. They both work and have a love ly apartment with all new furni ture. My husband and I are very eager to go visit them and see their little place which they have described in detail. Of course we plan to stay in a hotel since they have only one bedroom, so that is not the question. What we want to know is this: Should we wait for them to in vite us, or should we write and tell them we are coming? My hus band says since we will stay in a hotel we need not wait to be invited. Our relationship with the new daughter-in-law is so good I would hate to do anything that might hurt it. My instincts tell me to wait until a specific invi tation is Issued. What do you say? - MRS. CAREFUL Dear Mrs.: Your instincts are right. Walt for an invitation. You'll be glad jwi did. Are your parents loo strict? You can benefit from the experi ences o: thousands of teenagers if you write for Ann Landers' booklet, "How To Live With Your Parents," enclosing with your re quest 20 cents in coin and a long, self - addressed, stamped enve lope. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of this news paper enclosing a stamped, self- addressed envelope. r Tj 30 Senators Join Plan To Urge Nuclear Pact Subcommittee Disagrees On Burning Gold Notes WASHINGTON (L'PIl A boa- subcommittee that investigated disappearance of $7.5 million in V. S. securities from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank has concluded the certificates may have been stolen. If so. the theft would be the big gest in history. The subcommittee, in a report by its two-man Democratic maj ority, said there is no actual evi dence that the securities were ac cidently destroyed, as claimed by the bank. It said this means the missing securities "quite conceivably" may yet be presented for pay ment, despite their May 15 matur ity date. Taxpayers in the end could take the rap for all the loss except FOMEOWNERS , INSURANCE for $500,000 covered by a private insurer, the subcommittee major, ity asserted. The report was mede by Reps Henry S. Jleuss. D-Wis., and Charles A. V a n i k, D-Ohio. It sharply criticized bank officials and the parent Federal Reserve Board both for their handling of the case and their initial decision to keep it secret. Mon. cow we watch reimsmoH ? WE'KE TIPE0 OF WACHW iiS.' WASHINGTON (UPH - Thirty senators joined today in a pro posed resolution urging that the United States seek an agreement with Russia to ban all atmospher ic and underwater nuclear tests. The group included some law makers with differing views on the V.S. proposal at Geneva for a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, which also would cover underground testing. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., offered the proposal. He has been a critic of the U.S. proposal. List ed as principal co-sponsor was Senate Democratic Whip Hubert H. Humphrey, 'Minn., a champion of the administration's proposal. In separate statements prepared for Senate delivery, Dodd and Humphrey said a proposal to ban atmospheric and underwater nu clear tests would avoid the con troversy over detection of under ground tests and the right ot on site inspection since underwater and atmospheric tests could be readily detected. They said the limited treaty would end testing which contami nates the atmosphere and would slow the nuclear arms race. It also would be a first step toward agreement on a comprehensive treaty when technical questions relating to underground detection have been resolved, they added. "This resolution is a major at tempt to stuff the genie of radio active contamination and prolifer ation of nuclear weapons capabili ties back into the bottle where it belongs," said Humphrey. Dodd said an underwater and atmospheric test ban would be "a 350 Americans Apply Daily For Patents tremendously significant begin ning." It would, he said, "sub stantially reduce the amount of testing conducted by both sides "It would eliminate the testing of multi-megaton weapons," he said. "It would take account of the legtimate, if somewhat exag gerated, concern of world public opinion over the danger of cumu lative atmospheric fallout. If approved, the resolution would express the sense of the Senate that the United States should again offer an underwater- atmospheric treaty to the Soviet negotiators at Geneva. The resolution also urges that, if the Soviet Union rejects the underwater - atmospheric treaty, the United States should commit itself "before the world" to re frain from testing underwater or in the atmosphere so long as the Soviet Union abstains. It would require that the United States, in any such moratorium keep its testing facilities "in s state of constant readiness" s that this country would not be unprepared if the Russians should resume testing. Other signers included: Sens, F-ank Church, D-Idaho: Clair Engle, D-Calif.; Lee Metcalif. D- .Vont.: Wayne Morse, D-Ore, Frank E. .Moss, D-Utah; Maurine B. Neubcrgcr, D-Orc. By HARRY FERGUSON WASHINGTON (UPU - Every day 350 American inventors apply to the federal government for a patent and automatically become mental millionaires. They have rosy dreams of quick wealth, but as the days, months and years roll by they are driven to the con clusion that roulette and crap shooting may be better bets. The odds against an inventor getting rich are formidable. There is almost a fifty-fifty chance that somebody thought up the gadget before he did and already has obtained a patent. In anv case his application goes to the bottom of a list of 198,000 others which are awaiting a decision in the U.S. Patent Office, and on an av erage it will be between three and three and a half years before he will know how he stands. Only The Beginning But his troubles are only be ginning. Once he gets the patent, he has to persuade somebody to manufacture and sell his gadget and here, again, his chances are only a little better than fifty fifty. Too many people invent tilings that nobody happens to want at the moment. The classic example is Johan nes Gutenberg, a German who in vented movable type in the mid dle of the loth century. He made crude block letters and printed a 28-page book in Latin advising people how to make speeches Then he ran out of money and got a loan from Johann Fust, a banker. Gutenberg then printed some bibles, but they didn't sell well. The miscalculation in Gu tenberg's plan was that very few people knew how to read and there wasn't any market for printed pages. The banker fore closed on him, seized all of his equipment and Gutenberg wound up working or the archbishop of llainz at a salary of one new suit of clothes a year. Has Same Problem Bartolomeo Cristofori ran into the same problem when he in vented the piano in 1709. The Ital ians didn't like the piano, prefer ring the dulcimer and the harpsi chord, and Cristofori's pianos rot- led in the warehouses. Long after the inventor's death a German. Gottfried Silbermann, read about Cristofori's pianos and ; began to build them. He got rich fast. The Germans happened to like pianos. American industry is highly competitive and the natural as sumption would be that corpora tions would elug it out with each other in an attempt to get an in vention that would improve their product. But sometimes they ap pear to be completely blind when a new idea patented and proved is put before them. Tells Amazing Story In 1926 K. W. Davis invented power steering for automobiles. It made a car infinitely easier to handle and obviously was a strong selling point to women drivers. But just the other day Davis, in Boston, told in the Wall Street Journal an amazing story about his invention. As soon as he had perfected steering. When Chrysler intro duced a power steering model, everybody wanted one and I be gan to make some money." Gels First Patent Before adoption of the U.S. Constitution the American colo nies and states issued patents and the first one went to Samuel W inslow of Massachusetts, w ho in 16-tl devised a new method for manufacturing salt. President George Washington signed the WASHINGTON (L'PI) Thomas A. Edison was the champion inventor of all time. During his career he held 1,093 patents. The Wright brothers. Inventors of the airplane, had only five patents. Samuel F. II. Morse needed only one basic patent lo protect his invention of the telegraph. The first woman to obtain a patent was Mary Kles of Klllingly, Conn., who invented a process for weaving straw In 1809. WASHINGTON (UPI) Benjamin Franklin invited friends to Christmas dinner In 1750 and told them he would kill the turkey with electricity. While explaining the process lie touched one of the Jars In volved in the experiment and was knocked to the floor. That gave him the Idea for the lightning rod, which protects houses by run ning lightning into the ground. People Rad SPOT ADS you are now. the device he took it to Detroit and demonstrated it to 10 auto mobile companies. None was in terested. In 1928 he stirred some interest in Cadillac Motors, he said, and a tentative licensing agreement was drawn up. But Cadillac decided the cost ol tool ing the invention was too high and the agreement was allowed to expire. Davis said he then went to the Bendix Corp., which agreed to ex perimcnt but only on pilot models for buses and trucks. Sometime 1940 Davis said he got uie Buick Motor Co. interested in power steering. It looked like we were ready to go," he said, "but tnen camci Pearl Harbor and the end ot ci-i vilian automobile production. ' After the war I went back to Cadillac and they told me they didn't need anything new because they were selling all the cars they could make. It was not until 1951 when a Duycrs marKci re turned that the automobile mak ers became interested in power first federal patent law on April 10, 1790, and since then the U.S. Patent Office has granted 3,090, 044 applications. Most of them have been forgot ten, and that is the reason lew inventors get rich. But when a man comes up with the right thing at the right time, the mon ey rolls in like the tides of tlie ocean. Take Cyrus H. McCor- mick, for instance. His father owned four farms in Virginia, two saw mills and a blacksmith hop, and was constantly tinker ing with the idea ol a machine for harvesting his grain. Solves Problem Young McCormick went to work on the problem and in 1831, at tlie age of 22, submitted his plans to the family blacksmith. 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