HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falli, Ore.
Tuesday. May 2, 1963
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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
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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.
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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.
What he had done was to solve
the problem of how to keep
stones and stumps from breaking
the sharp edge of the knives
which cut the grain. He did it by
protecting them with a string of!
metal fingers which brushed
aside the rocks.
Before 1831 a man with a
scythe could cut about half an
acre of grain a day. boon Mc
cormick's reaper was cutting IB
acres a day, even though it was
horse drawn. McCormick had hit
the jackpot and he moved to Chi
cago, where he put up a factory
and sold reapers as fast as he
could make them.
One by-product ot McCormick's
invention was that the Chicago
lawyers never had it so good.
They wcnl up and down the land
suing people who were Infringing
on McCormick's patents. : When
an inventor has to spend lota of
time in court, he knows he has
it made.
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