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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1963)
'Self'Correcting Typewriter Ribbon' Comes To Aid Of Secretarial Goofs By DICK WEST WASHINGTON IVPV The U. S. Patent Office issued a patent this week for a "self correcting typewriter ribbon." : It was described as the answer ; to a secretary's prayer. ; A secretary I know put one ; on her tyjwwritcr and it worked fine. The ribbon hasn't made a mistake jet. Now if only someone will In vent a self-correcting secretary, Three Holiday Packed Floors OPEN EVERY NIGHT 'TIL 9:00 "Klamath's Home Accessory ond Gift Store" 721 Main TU 4-4561 la ''Evans JUST 2 FROM OUR COLLECTION 698,. The ultimate in comfort, outstanding in quality. Made of the very softest leather, specially tanned for slippers . . . cushioned with relaxing foam rubber. Come in and see our complete selection soon! CHARGE THEM AT DREWS Manstore 733 Main and Town & Country the world will be a better place in which to dictate. Actually, the "self-corrcctinfi" label is a bit of a misnomer. The ribbon was not designed to correct its own mistakes but to make it easier or a secretary to correct hers. William Wolowitz, a local man who invented it, has high hopes that it will become a commer cial success. He conceded, how ever, that it is not a "panacea." .Still Slight Problem In other words, the ribbon will not solve the problem of a sec retary who can t spell "pana cea." She will still need a dic tionary. Or a smart office boy. The fact that Wolowitz's in vention is not the final answer to typing errors was demon strated in a press release that I received from the Spellright Corp., which markets the rib bon. Whoever typed the release goofed up the patent number. Made it 3144447 instead of 3114447. Had the secretary who typed the release caught the mistake at the time, she could have cor rected it with the ribbon, which has an inked strip for typing and chalked strip for erasing. Here Is Procedure The procedure is as follows: Backspace to the first 4 and strike the key again with the ribbon in the chalk position. That would erase it. Then backspace again and hit the figure 1 with the ribbon in the ink position. YOUR STORE ore 12 98 That done, the secretary would finish typing the release. Or perhaps take a coffee break. Eventually, Wolowitz predict ed, it will not be necessary to operate the ribbon shift lever to correct mistakes. He feels that typewriters of the future should have an "error key" that would change the ribbon posi tion automatically. He feels that way because he also has invented an error key. At present, the erasure part of the ribbon is white. There fore, it only works on white pacr. Hut Wolowitz said plans are afoot to produce it in pas tel shades, which will make it possible to rectify colorful mistakes. Jacob On Bridge NORTH D) A J85 A 10 AKQ108 AQ3 EAST 19 WEST AQ72 VKJB7S4 A 4 3 JS7S2 J 1087 5 2 43 .98 SOUTH A A K lOOt 3 VQ952 6 K4 North and South vulnerable North Ems South West 1 2 2 A 3 Pass 4 4k 4 N.T. Pus S 8N.T. Pass V 8 Pass Pass Opening lead 4 9 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Two Jacks Defend My old friend, Walter Malow an, who just celebrated his 81st birthday, plays rubber bridge regularly at New York's Re gency Club. For many years the Malowan overcall has been the subject of good natured banter between us. Ho just hates to pass if he has anything at all. A recent letter from him reads, "I think my overcall on two jacks even outdoes tlie or dinary weak Malowan overcall, but the opponents were vulner able and I thought we might find some cheap save in clubs against their almost certain game. Anyhow tliey bid mer rily ahead to six spades and my overcall did produce a club lead from my partner. Had he 0cnod a heart South would probably have let the lead run around to his queen, but my club overcall produced a club lead. "South won witli dummy's ace and dropped his king under it while I signalled as strongly as possible by playing my jack. South attacked trumps. I played the ten of clubs on the second trump and the deuce on the third trick which my partner won with tlie queen. I really wanted a club continuation but my partner ignored my violent signals and led a heart. This gave South a chance to play low from dummy and make tlie hand, but South preferred to try for a reasonable diamond break. Ho roso with the ace and went after the diamond suit. JVIy five diamonds to the Jack-nine kept him irom getting three dis cards and he had to go down." 20 O The blddlnR has been: North East South West 1 Pass 1 Pass 3 N.T. Pass T You, South, hold: AJ4 J VA.6S 4KQ14 81 What do you do now? A Bid tlx no-trump. Yon hVB 14 point. Your partner at least 19, but not mora than 21. TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner opens ona club. This time you hold: 4AJ4 VA 4KQ14 AKJ51 What do you respond? Answer Tomorrow VV iMlWlSsf MARX ELECTRIC W& MMyS INTERNATIONAL p S j friwIvlV ROAD i I YPil WITH TRANSFORMER! i 3 YVVL-3m S INDIVIDUALLY CONTROLLED CARS. 5 2 bwi,r?,illift4A I CROSSOVER TRACK HAS LAP 5 .4 3 FLZ?2rS?r-i5? COUNTER. GEAR DRIVEN SPORTS &5 3 SUNDAYS j"" , . ROLLING ALONG With cap pulled down tightly over her ears, Josie the Penquin skims along on her new pair of roller skates. The talented bird, who lives at Marina land of the Pacific at Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., tried out the ball bearing method of transportation and found it to her liking. Usually she just waddles. UPI Telephoto Handsome Socialist Mayor May Challenge De Gaulle I'AHIS (UPH A handsome Socialist mayor who favors Western unity is expected to be President Charles de Gaulle's leading opponent in the next French presidential elections. Gaston Deffcrrc, 53, the mayor of Marseilles and a member of the National Assem bly, announced Wednesday night ho is willing to represent the French left against De Gaulle. The next national elections must be held within 18 months. At present, no one is being given much chance of defeating De UKOKPTIVK ADVERTISING WASHINGTON (UPII The Federal Trade Commission has accused three toy manufacturers of deceptive television advertis ing. Tlie agency said Tuesday night that dcce)trve claims were made by the American Doll & Toy Corp. of New York, .for its "Dick Tracy 2-way wrist rad io," the Rainbow Crafts, Inc. of Cincinnati, for its "forge jrcss" and Kmenoe Industries, Inc., of New York, for its "elec tronic rifle range." WOULD YOU THEY'RE MOVINGJODAY? Smart girlt She phoned Lyon ond told them her moving plant. To day, school-trained Lyon movert orrived promptly on the icene ond pocked every item clothes, even the crystolwore all her family's furnishings with heirloom core ond scientific precision. BEND-PORTLAND Klamath Falls, TU 4-4138 Phone your Lyon Authorized Moving Counselor Today... r , M Gaulle, unbeaten in a series of elections and referendum votes since 1958. A Socialist -party congress in February is expected to ap prove Defferre's candidacy. There has been speculation that other left-of-center parties also might adopt him to present a united front when De Gaulle makes his expected bid for a second seven-year term. As a candidate, Defferre would give French voters a real choice of issues. The mayor, a war hero and successful urban administrator, opposes De Gaulle's go-it-alone policies in Europe, favors European and Atlantic unity and is hostile to De Gaulle's concept of an in dependent French nuclear force. In addition, Defferre's Social ists follow the U.S. policy of ne gotiations with Russia in oppo sition to De Gaulle hard - line anti-Communist stand. A Defferre victory would bring tlie French government considerably closer to American thinking as it stands today, ac cording to political observers here. BELIEVE TRUCK SERYICE Lakeview, WH 7-2309 ntT LVOH GUABO VWH OOOOS" AGENTS FOR f TVan H Holdup Artist Even Fooled Wife Into Believing He Was Teacher SPRINGFIELD, Mass. lUPD Bail of JoO.OOO was set today for a 26-year-old man who al legedly was staging holdups while his wife thought he was teaching school. A plea of innocent was en tered in district court on behalf of Frank Winoski Jr. of Holy oke, who never completed col lege but convinced friends and relatives he was a grammar school teacher. He was arraigned on three counts of armed robbery. Judge Charles D. Sloan continued the case to Dec. 27. Winoski was arrested as the polite, toy-gun bandit who al legedly netted more than $18,000 Deputy Chief John Lyons said the arrest of Winoski, described by neighbors as a devoted hus band and (ather. apparently solved a batch of holdups in western Massachusetts and Con necticut during (tie past year. He was arrested Wednesday night at his home and charged with the $6,100 armed robbery of the Westinghouse Electric Company credit union office here. He was held in $50,000 X. 3 FINER POWER "" jr - BLACK & DECKER & SKIL AT "BUY WHERE THEY NO DOWN a a WITH FREE TV STAND 1 ' J, m Ann OTHERS START AT w8r $88 PORTABLE TV - 19" WITH FREE STAND M608 NOW COFFEE TABLE STEREO RC4831 NOW No Down Payment - First Payment Feb. '64 GOODYEAR SERVICE STORE 201 So. 11th Open Till 9 P.M. TU 4-8141 bail. It was the third time in 13 months Winoski had held up the office, police said. Church Leaders Will Meet VATICAN CITY (UPII - A major preliminary step toward ending the nine-century division of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches ap peared likely today with the projected meeting of Pope Paul VI and the Orthodox pa triarch. Spokesmen for both churches said there probably would be a meeting next month in the Holy Land between the Pope and Athenagoras I, who together lead about 683 million Chris tians more than two thirds of the world's total. The historic confrontation of the Roman Catholic pontiff and Athenagoras would mark the first meeting of leaders of the two churches since the split in 1054 A D. A spokesman at Athenagoras' FOR THE MAN WHO LIKES TO WORK WITH TOOLS Longer-Lasting & HAND TOOLS BY SWAN LAKE MOULDING CO. 3226 So. 6th TU 4-5145 KNOW ABOUT TOOLS" SEASON'S END PAYMENT NO TRADE 168 198 I Police said they found about $4,000 of the money taken irom the holdup in the trunk of his car. headquarters in Istanbul, Tur key, said the bearded patriarch would not make a final decision until the other patriarchs of the church had been sounded out. This cast some doubt on the announcement Wednesday by Theodosios VI, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch, that Ath enagoras would meet Pope Paul in Jerusalem "at a time w hen all the heads of the Chris tian faiths look forward to Christian unity." Athenagoras, 77, is the 'spir itual leader of the divided East ern Orthodox Church, but he lacks the authority to enforce a decision affecting the whole church. ; ; 4 MARIONETTE SHOW and VISIT from SANTA FRIDAY . . . 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY... 3 SHOWS 10:00, 2:00 and 4:00 DRAWINGS SATURDAY AFTER 4:00 MARIONETTE SHOW FREE Christmas Stocking Filled with 560 Worth of Toys Plus Opening of Santa's Mail Box Some Child Will Win the Toy of His Choice! OPEN NITES 'TIL 9:00 4 Am 734 So. NO PAYMENT TILL FEB. '64 OPEN NIGHTLY UNTIL EXCEPT NEEDED sat. 1 t r PORTABLE TV - 11" WEIGHS ONLY 13 LBS. MHO NOW CLOCK RADIO TV 11 INCH MI80 NOW I Friday, Dec. 20, 1963 Page 10-A Herald News Klamath Falls AT SHAW'S How to hold on to money: LADY BUXTON French Purse U; the divided bill coni ng itnicm to separate your b'g bills from the small ones. The wide-opening change purse for silver. Pockets, too. 5.95 plus tax. SHAW STATIONERY 729 Main mm m mm Ph. TU 4-4197 SP40V SHOWN $179.95 98 88 148 88 K P. R R 8 R R R
