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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1952,
ELECTRIC WATCH SHOWN
NEWSMEN IN CHICAGO
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
AP Science Reporter
CHICAGO, March 20—(AP)—
An electric wristwatch, hailed as
keeping almost perfect time, was
announced yesterday.
It has a little electric motor in
side, yet is no bigger than a con
ventional wind-up watch. It has
a barely audible tick, no main
spring, no winding mechanism,
A main secret is a tiny amazing
battery, smaller in volume than a
penny. It runs the motor for more
than a year. Cost of a new bat
tery probably will be less than a
quarter.
The battery delivers power at
an absolutely constant rate. It
takes only 1-100,000ths of a watt
to run the watch.
The wristwatch was demon
strated at a press conference by
Elgin National Watch Company.
Only a laboratory model has been
made; said J. ‘G. Shennan, Elgin
president. §
Electric Watch
Simultaneously in Paris, the Lip
watch Company of Besancon,
France, ~announced an electric
wristwatch. It differs in many
mechanical and electrical respects,
Shennan said. The two firms have
exchanged information, but each
did its own research separately.
Shennan said the electric watch
keeps better time than wind-up
ones. #
The electric watch will cost
more, for some years at least,
Shennan said, but price was not
estimated. The first watches,
possibly available within a year,
will be for men, for the tiny mo
tors aren’t small enough yet for
women’s wrist watches. The
watch is anti-magnetic, can be
fitted with a water-proof case.
The works consist of a battery,
motor, and a train of gears to the
hands. There are far fewer parts
than the 150 in a conventional
watch.
Only -a few detals were dis
closed immediately.
The battery, or energy capsule
ac Elgin named it, powers a syn
chronously-controlled motor, re
placing the usual mainspring and
other parts.
Uses Little Power
The motor develops only 1-75,-
000,000 th of a horsepower. The
watch uses so little power that
electricity to light a 100-watt bulb
would operate 10 million of them.
Coils for the motor are only an
eighth of an inch in diameter, on
ly 1-32nd of an inch long. They
are wound with 3,000 turns of in
sulated eopper wire, only a sixth
as thick as human hair.
The eompany did not announce
the exact shape of the tiny battery
but sald it was comparable in vol
ume to one a half inch long and
smaller around than a pencil.
The Armour Research Founda
tion of Chicago assisted in the re
search. : i 7
1 JAPKESE EXPERTS
STUDY MINES
TOKYO (AP) — Japnese ex
perts, by request, are probing
mines in the Philippines, Thailand
and India, seeking ways of ex
panding produection.
The economic journal, Nihon
Kebai, reported the calls on Pap
anese geologists and mining ex
perts. One mining company pro
mised to send -its ‘ace geologist to
the Apari copper mine in the phi
lippines,
When ‘operated by the Tapanese
company during the Pacific war,
it yielded 4,000 tons of ore mon
thly. Now the: Philippine operator
is seeking help to mine 1,200 tons
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likes to play ‘‘heavies'’ in the
movies. The villainess often
has a good role, she finds. In
her latest film, *‘The Sniper,’’
some fellow kills her, It seems
he was a psychopathic case.
Spring Fever Advice:
Fit Moods To Season
By ALICIA HART
NEA Beauty Editor
If you've been suffering from a
general loss of energy, wild
flights of fancy and a substantial
lack of interest, the symptoms
strongly suggest advanced stages
of spring fever.
It's difficult to know just how
long the condition will last, but
you can be sure you have nothing
to worry about. The best way to
cope with the situation is by re
laxing and enjoying it.
Take your loss of energy, for ex
ample. Whenever you get that
worn-out, logy feeling, don’t fight
it. Take to your couch or bed,
and treat yourself to an extra rest
petiod. You'll feel a lot more like
working when you get up.
If your trouble is a matter of
boredom, why don’t you plan sev
eral all-day trips, or go on a sew
ing spree and make yourself some
pretty spring clothes?
Read a new book, or give a small
party for some of your friends.
Try a different make-up and hair
do. Take stock of your over-all ap
perance, and change anything
you don’t like. & g
TR, O SO W W ST
It might even be a good idea to
eat a lighter diet, with special em
phasis on fruits, vegetables and
salads. Don’t forget to drink water
and fruit juices during the day
too.
The encouraging thing about
spring fever is that no matter how
awful you may feel at the moment,
if you approach the situation from
the right direction, you're bound
to come out of it feeling better
than you have in a long time.
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Under-Secretary
0f Agriculture
Speaks To Group
Agricultural production per man
~hour increased 35 percent from
1940 to 1951, while gross produc
tion per man-hour in industry in
creased only 11 percent, Under
Secretary of Agriculture Clarance
J. McCormick told a farmer- busi~
ness audience in Lebanon, Pen
nsylvania. Mr., McCormick spoke
at an annual rural-urban dinner
sponsored by the Lebanon County
Chamber of Commerce.
“Last year the Nation’s popula
tion was 22 million persons larger
than in 1940, Mr. MecCormick
said, “while farm population was
nearly 6 million smaller than in
1940. Yet the American people
consumed per person 7 percent
more food in 1951 than they did
11 year earlier.”
Pointing out that farmers in 1951
produced one-fourth more food on
only one percent more harvested
acres than in 1940, the Under
Secretary declared, “they did it
by producing more per acre, per
animal, and per man-hour.” 1
Mr. McCormick * stressed the.
important role farm programs in
promoting agricultural efficiency,
Referring to the current investiga
tions of grain shortages, he de
clared. “There have been some
grain thefts by private owners and
operators of grain elevators, but
not collusion or dereliction of duty
on the part of Department employ
ees has been found.” In the past
four years the Department has
been investigated and audited 150
times without discovery of any
criminal activities on the part of
its employees, -Mr. McCormick
said. Only one investigation even
suggested the removal or transfer
of an employee, he added.
Récord Proportion
Even though 1951 output 3
of almost record proportion, %ur.
McCormick said that still larger
production is needed for 1952.
“Our reserve supplies of food
grains are becoming dangeoursly
low and there are very large num
bers of livestock on farms,” he
stated. “The production goals for
1952 call for 15 percent more corn,
29 percent more grain sorghums
and 14 percent more wheat and a
cotton crop of 16 million bales.”
If the goals for 1952 are met
and production of livestock reach
es the levels anticipated, total
farm production will be nearly a
‘half more than the 1935-39 aver
age and ‘about six percent above
1951.
It will require hard work, good
weather, and adequate production
supplies for farmers to produce
the abundange that is needed in
1952 and the years ahead, the
Under Cecretary = declared. But
over and above 'all these, farm
programs are vital to agricultural
success in the production effort. -
“Farm programs do not exist
for farm people alone,” Mr. Mc~
Cormick said. “They are intended
to serve all of the people. In fact,
the measuring stick for all Gov
ernment action is the common
good. 'Any program, whetehr it’s
for labor, for agriculture, or for
industry, has got to be measured
by whether or not it serves the
common good.”
Value Self-Evident
The value of many farm pro
grams is almost self-evident to
many people, the Under Secretary
said. He painted out that progress
in conservation under which four
fifths of the Mation’s farms are
now in soil conservation districts
is obicously for the benefits of the
entire Nation. The same is true of
REA, under whoch the proportion
of farms with power line electricty
has increased from about 11 per
cent in 1935 to around 85 percent
today. Progress in research is
obviously of benefit to the entire
Nation, for the resarch programs
have. played a major role in in
creasing agricultural output per
man-hour by about 75 percent in
the past 20 years.
But some people do not im
mediately see the value of price
supports to the whole Nation, Mr.
McCormick said. “Price Supports,”
he pointed out, “stabilize supplies
for the benefit of consumers, pro=-
vide increased farmer buying pow
er which is reflected in business
profits, and help prevent the
weakening of the economy by
preventing colapses of farm
prices.”
Farm prices at the end of 1951,
Mr. McCormick said, were about
the same as they were in January,
1948, while the prices paid by
farmers for goods and services
were about nine percent above
January 1948. Moreover per captia
dollar from incomes have risen
less than half as much as per cap
tia dollar nonfarm incomes since
the pre-Korea peak, he said.
SOUTH SLOPE WARMER
UMATILLA, Fla—(AP)—Melon
grower W. F. Austin, sr., ran tests
through the winter to determine if
it was warmer on the south slope
of a melon field than the north
slope. The south slope was as
much as 20 degrees warnrer, at
times, he reported.
TOWEL TIP
When buying towels, be sus
picious of bargains with uneven
weave and stretch. If the main
part stretches more than the bor
der or selvage, the towel may
pucker after laundering.
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The American Legion’s “Tide
of Toys” has sent more than 10
million toys overseas.
World War II displaced 10 for
every one person left homeless
before in Europe.
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~ the sun (partially hidden by building) above the Oakland Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, Cal.
Four Gallons Of Uranium 135
Mixture Poured Info Afom Furnace
BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor
RALEIGH, N .C,, March 20.—
(AP)—Four gallons of a cham
pagne-like fluid worth nearly a
pound of diamonds will be poured
into a stainless steel can here in a
few months.
The fluid will be water mixed
with the A-bomb-type uranium
235. The can will the world’s first
private atom-splitting furnace. It
is built and owned by North Car
olina State College.
You might mistake this can for
a scrubwoman’s water pail with
mop handles thrusting upward.
This illusion is due to 14 pipes
emerging from the can. Eight car
ry water for cooling-the furnace.
You could tuck this furnace un
der your arm and walk out. But it
would kill you with the rays
emerging from the atomic fuel.
The apparatus will produce
atomic energy as incredibly big as
the container is little. It will pro
duce transmuytation rays (streams
of neutrons) with a density about
equal to those made in the 24-foot
cube of graphite unveiled to the
press at Oak Ridge, Tenn., in mid-
February. That was the nation’s
{irst big atomic furnace.
The can will sit inside an oc
tagonal concrete structure resem
bling a wayside shrine. This lit
tle atomic temple is mnot much
taller than a man (10 feet) and 17
feet broad.
Around it State College is erect
ing a great laboratory, . costing,
with the reactor, about a half
million dollars. The little shrine
sits on a concrete platform in the
basement. Around it is a 20-foot
wide corridor for working at the
reactor faces.
Obseravtion Room
Outside this wall is a large ob
servation room for students and
the public. They will look through
a huge goldfish bowl, a water
tank enclosed in glass, ,
“They will see port holes around
the concrete shrine, each for
placing materials in a heam of
transmutation rays. All ports are
knee high. If a worker accidentally
walks in front of a port the rays
will hit him around the knees
where the harmful effects are
small.
To avoid kneeling to work at a
port, there is a covered trench in
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the floor and rises, like an eleva
tor, to the level of the port as a
work table. The worker steps
down into the trench. The cover
is set so that he cannot stand di
rectly in front of the port.
The neutron rays from ports
travel like bullets. Opposite each
port, 20 feet away in the corridor
wall, will be an opening for atomic
bullets to pass through, out into
the earth.
The atomic furnace starts as
easily as a scrub woman lifting
her mop from a pail. Remote con
trol will lift two rods up out of
the fuel in the can. That is all.
At night the concrete shrine
ports will be locked like a bank
vault.
Free Loan On Fuel
The U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission will make a free loan of
the fuel. The four gallons will last
probably ten years, possibly much
longer. There are no other govern
ment strings. !
The reactor was designed by
Dr. Clifford K. Beck, head of the
depariment of physics, and his as
socidtes, He formerly was one of
the scientists in Atomic Energy
Commission work. The Burlington
Mills Foundation, a textile corpor
ation, is furnishing some of the
construction money.
The reactor is part of a new ed
ucation course, the first of its
kind. Among the 114 students are
42 officess of the U. S. Air Force.
They will learn many things they
have to know when they fly
atomic planes. This reactor seeks
new knowledge in training of col
lege students to becomre the engi
neers of a peacetime atomic age.
BIG FLAME IS BEACON
LONG BEACH, Calif.—(AP)—
The Calstate Refining Company
here doesn’t have any trouble with
its huge open gas flame until
workmen turn it off.
The big torch, seen for miles at
night, burns- off surplus gases
from the plant. On rare occasions
when the fiame doesn’t burn, the
plant and local police station are
swamped with telephone calls with
the complaint: “The torch is out.”
" The flame is also a marker for
pilots who land at Long Beach Air
Terminal, a company official said.
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School Principal
Killed As Colquiti
COLQUITT, Ga., March 20 —
(AP)~—Percy P. Jones, 37-year
old principal of the Miller County
High School, was killed last night
in an automobile accident five
miles south of here. Six persons
were injured in the crash.
State troopers from the Donal
sonville station identified the in
jured as Dr. James Merritt, co
owner of Merritt's Hospital here;
Hunter Rawls, mayor of Colquitt;
Billy Tipton of Tallahassee, Fla.;
Mrs, Lige Bush of Colquitt and
two of Mrs. Bush’s daughters.
Jones, Rawls and Tipton were
passengers in the Merritt car that
apparently attempted to pass the
Bush automobile as the latter ve
hicle was making a left turn. Both
cars, troopers said, were headed
in a southerly direction.
Trooper Sgt. J. R. Lee said the
Merritt car was believed to have
swerved back to the right side of
the highway, crashing into the
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The Television is perhaps the least understood of all home ap
pliances. It is wise to buy your set from a TRAINED and PROVEN
DEALER. We have had 32 years experience in solving TV serv
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rear of the Bush vehicle and
overturning.
Jones was a nephew of Dough
erty County Clerk of Court James
W. Bush and Rawls was a brother
of Albany’s Sen. Grady Rawls.
Doctor Merritt was taken to
Phoebe Putney Hospital in Al
I am running for re-election to the office of Tax
Collector of Clarke County in the Dembcratic Pri
mary to be held next Wednesday, March 26, 1952,
I served as Deputy Tax Collector from June,
1944, until May 11, 1951, when I was appointed
interim Tax Collector after the death of my father,
the late Albert E. Davison.
In the election on June 27, 1951, to fill the unex
pired term of my late father, | was originally op
posed by my present opponent who withdrew from
that race due to the fact that he had too recently
moved his residence from Oconee County to Clarke
County.
Many of you know me, as | have lived in Clarke
County all my life, as did my father, grandfather
and great-grandfather. | attended Athens Public
Schools and the University of Georgia and have had
over seven years experience in the office of Tax
Collector of Clarke County. N
Since being elected Tax Collector on June 27,
1951, | have handled the affairs of that office to the
satisfaction of both the county and state auditors.
Due to my present duties as Tax Collector I have
1 not been able to personally see each of you, but I
’ want to take this opportunity to let each of you
know that your vote and support will be greatly
1 appreciated by me.
‘ With over seven years of experience and training
| in the office of Tax Collector I feel confident of my
| ability to continue to render courteous and efficient
} service to the tax payers of Clarke County.
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bany where his condition was
described this morning as “seri
ous.”
Rawls is in a Bainbrid:. Hos
pital, Mrs. Bush and her daugh
ters are in a Donalsonville Hospi
tal, and Tipton and Rawls are in
Merritt’s Hospital here,