Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 172, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1961 Page: 5 of 23
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PAGE FIVE
Thursday, February 23, 1N1
ERECTOR SET TOPS
Red Technicians Plentiful In Cuba
OF ASTRONAUTS
Parents Have
Mixed Ideas
Yet' some diplomats claim to
By HAROLD K. MILKS
Of Choices
source said
the Cubans
One diplomat said he had infor-
This informant and a majority, mation on rockets 'seven meters
of the diplomatic envoys here are. (19.6 feet) long." which his infor-
flung open the door. One day his
This area has been restricted
crowd.
Alfred
rocket launching pads in Cuba.
side Havana
I has not permitted visits to the key
"We are sure our son will be
pads exist.
first,"
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In Dropped Case
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A driving while intoxicated
charge was dismissed «n Denton
County Court Wednesday because
John Lawhon’s title was wrong
mi the information.
The information against Wayne
Redick Ford of Orange was signed
Dec. 30 by Lawhen when he was
assistant county attorney but was
not filed until Jan. 5 after Law-
bon became county attorney.
Denton County Judge W. K. Bal-
dridge quashed the information
against Ford because Lawhon’s
title was erroneously listed as as-
sistant county attorney at the time
the document was filed.
Arvie Richard Gentry of Denton
pleaded guilty to driving while In-
toxicated and was sentenced to
three days in jail and fined 150
and costs.
Gentry’s bond previously had
been forfeited for non appearance
but the forfeiture was set aside
by Beldsidge 4
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dent that the government wil‘
take every possible precaution
Francai.se premiered this week keyshines He earns added credits
7 and 135 pounrs in his prime— "We are sure our son win oe
but was wiry and strong and took thrilled if he is chosen to be the
offense at biographers who de-
Most said they were "more than
certain” no such rockets or pads
He borrowed $5,000 from
ry, N H, home: “We re confi
sell a tew kits for Christmas ed to undergo tests for
money, and got orders for $600 flight. Intime, all three will take
| worth a space trip. ..
“I sat right down and multiplied '
, this figure by all the book stores, ;
‘ toy stores and department stores
ince in January. He said the; there.
Toy Maker
Boy’s Friend
main motionless on a string He
free
gets; and a physics set which
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work magic in the hearts of boys.
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1 went up to the attic and messed father
around," wrote Stephen Smith of ’
an electronics set with
snatched young
not allow his model airplane to re-
put a rubber band in it and it j
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Salem’s first parachute
BENDIX ECONOMAT $35.00
Smith, have added to the ones ous
passed along to them by their
fathers because the thing hasn't1
changed a whit since A C. Gil
Another diplomat reported he nor allowed private planes to fly
was told 28 heavy, tracked vehi- over it. Cuban journalists who
burglar alarms and other gad- introduced bis educational line of
toys he changed the name to the
A C Gilbert Co. cause I know he wants to go,"
Today it is a $20-million con- she said "I’ve thought all along
cern which no longer features | he would he one of them And I'll
ernments' sponsorship to i
possible better deals with
Cuban regime.
father and opened the Mysto
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represents "a substantial part" of
its science toy business.
American Flyer electric trains
account for one third of the com-
pany’s income and science toys
two-thirds
Gilbert insisted all his toys
“had to do something." He would
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"We don’t know how many Rus- agricultural experts, these Chinese
sians. Czechs and Communist are uniformed.
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at City Center for a limited en- by doubling as the designer of
gagement prior to a national tour lively costumes and set for the
bert built the first on back in Since being here six years ago, i piece
the Gallic troupe has had a gov- in the Versailles playlet, acted
money-
More than 10 million boys have,
owned Erector sets, and who can
say how many, like Stephen
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alerted by a gathering are very proud that he has
• been chosen,” was the reaction
Curtain fall into three categories: A source close to the Kremlin s or me aipomauc envvys neze are (19.6 reet» long wncn ns intor-
military technicians, whose activi-‘ embassy in Havana said Soviet inclined to scoff at reports frommant was able to describe and
ties and numtiers are kept strict-officials numbered the Soviets now . . C... , IT„. ■ 1 . I .
ly secret, technicians and experts in Cuba at just over 250. Other abroad that the, Soviet m n draw for him. These reportedly
employed by the Cuban govern- sources tend to confirm this fig- attempting to install long-range were seen at a military base out- for months and the government
ment. and trade and commercial j ure. rocket launching pads in Cuba, side Havana ha- —• -iad --i- - *- he
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Gilbert went to the office only
three days a week and concerned
himself mainly with choosing
new toys to add to the existing
line of 51 different sets in 11
science categories
which i Manufacturing Co in an old New .
Haven carriage house. When he'
By WILIIAM GLOVER
Associated Press Drama Critic
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Cuba's national life. But diplo-
matic experts here believe they
heavily guarded equipment in-
cludel “pipes or barrels" 59 to
65.5 feet long and 20 inches in
diameter.
There have been recurring re-
ports the Cuban regime— posibly
with Soviet technical assistance—
is constructing submarine or other
naval stations on Cayo Largo,
★ ★★★★★★★★★
John H.
iretoni
# where your dollar buys MILES more
The initial bill comprises a pair
of short plays by Moliere—"Sca-
pins Pranks" and "Versailles
NEW YORK ‘API—The French impromptu -
have landed, and all's well on the As the roguish Scagjin, Robert
theatrical front. Hirsch scores the personal tri-
Unwrapping a bundle of hilari-1 umph of the program with a
ernment-ordered shakeup Later in a polished style of classic ele-
in the run, new facets of versatili- ! gance, veteran Louis Seigner re
ty and range are to lie displayed, turns Jacques Charon, another
But for right now one thing is senior of the company, acts in
clear—reform hasn't bruised the both items, and directs "Scapin’s
comic flair. I Franks."
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gil Ivan Grissom, John Herschel ,
Glenn Jr., or Alan Bartlett Shep
wazlainsecshamgin” | ardusr which one actually will be
recorded in history as the first '
funny thing. I didn't know what it
was. strate
“I opened it and it came to my j *
mind it was an Erector set. When I
"wumunuuummmimummmmummmmmmmamaraus
cians have arrived in Cuba to the Soviet Union has supplied
give Castro’s soldiers and officer* Prime Minister Fidel Castro with
training on tanks, antitank and some rockets, though they're tie-
antiaircraft artillery and some lieved to be of short-range anti-
other weapons," one qualified aircraft or ground-to-ground types
have been brought in or construct- cles moved 300 tons of unidentified visited the key in the past said
ed here. Castro's propaganda or- military equipment into the area what appeared to be a light plane
gans consistently have denied the of Mayari Arriba in Oriente Prov- airstrip was being constructed
.Chinese there are in Cuba today,” “It’s no secret that some Rus- --- ---- —-------- ------ -
said one veteran diplomat. “but sian and Czech military techni- have "excellent information" that
TUBELESS WHITEWALLS *
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
How does a parent take the
news that a sun soon may be
launched on a rocket ride into
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my father was a little boy he1
had an erector.
“For Christmas I wished to
have an Erector and a micro-
scope and a lab set. And ever
since then I did many things
with both."
The youngster’s letter, sincere
If not altogether grammatical,
didn't differ much from more
than a million others written to
A. C Gilbert over the years,
which shows that when he died
Jan 24 a part of American boy-
hood went with him.
will not be known until immedi-
ately before the launching, possi-
. . . . . 1. . .0.11 ... bly late in March or April
instructor he felt he should have Glenn, 39, is a Marine lieuten-
a medical degree. He set out to ant eolonel; Grissom, 35, an Air
of Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Shep-
ard Sr.
“Oh, no! I've been hoping and
praying he wouldn't be the one,"
said Mrs. Dennis D. Grissom.
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with an Erector set,” Gilbert
once wrote. “you would know I
had done something besides make
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flew—opening up a whole new
hobby.
But no toy does more than the
Erector, nor were its creations
confined to the playroom.
The prototype model of the
World War II Bailey Bridge was
built with a No. 1012 Erector. An
Erector was used to design in-
dustry's Gantry Crane The mo-
tor and other Erector parts were
used to build the first heart-lung
machine, now in the Smithsonian
Institution. • At the A C. Gilbert
Co factory in New Haven, Conn.,
baskets constructed from Erector
sets carry parts to the assembly
line on overhead trolleys.
The thought for the versatile I
Erector "seemed to come to me
aP of a sudden in the fall of ,
1911," said Gilbert, during a time
when he was commuting by rail |
between New Haven and New
York. Girders being put up to
carry new electric cables gave
him the idea
Gilbert was born in Salem, Ore.,
Feb 15, 1884, and tales from his
adventurous boyhood read like a
Mark Twain novel The family
barn was his haven, and was
where his inventive knack began
to bud.
He once rigged a fire house pole
from the loft to the floor, for
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