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TUESDAY, APRIL 18,1961
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THE WORLD TODAY
The indoorsman who loves to
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guards and soldiers.
Of course. Some inventions are
this:
1. Kennedy, after his arly grim
pant of the chair.”
A slot machine “purge" in Den- ’ was taken from a house in Denton
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Zany Inventions
Through The Ages
Kennedy’s Program Gets
Little Concrete Action
Many Read Books
For Richer Life
but Sheriff Ones Hodges would not
elaborate on the seizure.
Yesteryear
Looking Baek Through
Record-Chronicle Files
were
new
a battery, it used a generator.
In appearance it was a weight-
Imagine vour delight when the
handles suddenly gave you an elec-
tric shock At the same time a
paddle comes up and whacks you.
This alone would have insured
THE INVENTORS don’t mention
if the doll has a lifetime guaran-
tor women who forget their hat-
pins
This is child’s play compared
with the combination flashlight,
gun and billy. Not only can you
crack somebody’s skull with this,
but you can blind him with tear-
gas bullets or puncture him with
real bullets It was invented in
a president.
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lifting machine. You stood on it. J
bent over and pulled at two han-
ales to test your strength.
which will either kill them or star- 2
tie them, so they will leave the '
bed."
Another startling device, is a H
music box that can be inserted in-
to women’s high heels. A key does 4
the winding, the music issues from A
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dent Kennedy has impressed the
nation with his sense of action, KNODW YOIIR U RR 4 RY — 2
But the people seem to be paying
more attention to him as a per-
illuminated darning ball, an illu-
minated yo-yo, and a child’s ted-
up way back in .1908 Instead of and urgent warnings, has shoveled
out his programs with far too lit-
The Record-Chronicle welcomes letters from readers
subject in good taste.
Letters must be signed and the writer’s address given,
serve the right to edit letters when necessary.
cry about. So at least it proves
again the amazing ingenuity of
the human mind.
Last year, the U. S. Bureau of
Patents awarded some 50,000 pa-
tents at a rate of 1,000 a week, and
only to those inventions consider-
ed novel, useful and operative. In-
ventions, like rabbits, seem to be-
get more and more inventions.
Take the simple battery, used in
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“in a snappy and attractive man-
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BUT PROBABLY the zaniest in-
it you’ve been racking your brain
over a suitable gift. for a little
ghoul or bogey, stop. It’s been in-
vented.
Legally, it’s called a “Doll for
Selectivity Exhibiting Symptoms of
Illness." A patent was applied for
in 1953.
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as you walk.
In 1957, application was made to
patent a condiment holder—a flash-
light that could disvense salt and
pepper. The inventor observed:
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immortality for the inventor. But
his ingenuity had not yet been ex-
hausted. For attached to the pad-
dle was a blank cartridge that ex-
ploded upon contact.
FOR LAZY GENTLEMEN—Tired of tipping your hat for the ladies? In 1896 this
automatic hat raising device was patented. It could fit inside any hat, and be re-
moved at will. You just press a spring, and pop! up went your hat. The illustra-
tion accompanied the original patent application.
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persons normally having flash-
lights in their possession often find
themselves in need of seasoning
for food.”
the bottom it had a fan to keep the
air circulating. What’s more, as
the inventor pointed out, “Anoth-
er object of the invention is to pro-
vide a chair with a cooling cham-
ber in which can be stored fruit, J
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Jan. 13. 1921, according to Act of Congress, March 3, 1872.
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payment to me of any royalty 1919—a doormat attached to a doll-
thereon." sized figure. You wipe your feet on
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his hand caught in a light socket son than to what he's saying as
Later, whenever he holds a light'
ton County netted officers only one
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FOR THE UTMOST comfort in
bed, there’* the electrical bedbug-
exterminators, patented in 1898.
Quoth the inventor: “It consists of
electrical devices applied to bed-
steads in such a manner that cur-
rents of electricity will be sent
through the bodies of the bugs.
first. Then
again.
1. Kennedy is increasingly pop-
ular
2. The people show little inter-'
est in his programs.
The result of No. 2 is an ab- j
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do what the President wants.
There are three ways to interpret
the unemployed. don't feel much
urgency themselves because they
are not hurting for money or com-
forts Their inclination, without
White House prodding, is to rock
along
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medical care for the aged, are
i not the kind that stir up enthusi-
asm or controversy
Kennedy's programs, except for
medical care, are not even tinged
with newness but are either rou-
tine, like his budget message, or
extensions of programs long in ex-
istence. like raising minimum pay
or extending unemployment pay.
If most Americans are showing
little interest in Kennedy’s pro-
posals — because, under No. 2
above, they are comfortable and
feel no urgency—then this is a
complacency which has been a
constant American condition for
some time.
A good example is the Ameri-
can reaction to the Soviet achieve-
ments in space
This country was shocked in 1957
when the Soviet Union fired its
first Sputnik into orbit Briefly,
there was intensive soul-searching
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and filed in 1057. Drop the thing— the like while fishing without dis-
or hit somebody over the head wit turbing others or the sh."
it—and the alarm goes off Ideal The indoorsman who loves to
Make Life Interesting
PRESIDENT KENNEDY already is becoming known
as a fast-moving President. This certainly is appar-
ent in one of his latest moves in abolishing 41 govern-
ment committees of various kinds.
Kennedy is interested in having decisions made by
one person who is responsible for his decision, rather
than by a group of people Certainly, both ways have
their advantages.
But, more than anything else, the abolition of the
41 committees shows how great the federal govern-
ment has become and in how many areas of our life it
penetrates.
For example, take a look at the names of just some
of the 41 abolished committees:
Joint Committee on Application of Protective Dusts and Sprays
to Stored Grain.
Stay-in-School Committee.
Ad Hoc Committee on Hemispheric Center for Cultural and
Technical Interchange,
Backstopping Committee for the NATO Planning Board for Euro-
pean Inland Surface Transportation.
Working Group II Diversion Control Panel of the Economic De-
fense Advisory Committee.
Far Eastern Economic Defense Problems Panel of the Economic
Defense Advisory Committee.
Interagency Commtitee on National Censorship Planning.
Interdepartmental Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation.
U.S. Section—International St. Croix Engineering Board.
Committee on Negative Scribing.
Federal Agency Population and Housing Census Council
Interagency Advisory Committee on Biomedical Effects (Test Se-
ries).
Interdepartmental Separation Committee
Advisory Group on Training for Boards of U.S Civil Service Ex
aminers in the Washington, DC., Area.
Weapon Test Reports Committee.
Interagency Committee on Establishment Statistics.
Nine Foreign Trade Commodity Classification Subcommittees ot
the Interagency Committee on Foreign Trade Statistics.
And the list goes on and on. We’re not exactly cer-
tain what all these committees have done or were ex-
pected to do, but simply reading their names makes
you wonder about their validity—and also makes you
wonder how many reams of letterheads these agencies
must have used.
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in ion AIWim Min in vention of all time was dreamed:
in 1911, an Alabama man in-
vented a' rocking chair aimed at
increasing Southern comfort. On
Wall Street Journal last week I
checked with members of Con-,
gress returning from Easter va-
cation and reported they had found
: back home:
T»o years later it seemed hard-
the nation relaxed ly disturbed when the Russians hit
• the moon.
West Virginia has come up with
a fishing rod with a portable ra-
dio in the handle and the an-
With this doll, you can move the
limbs to simulate broken bones.
Inflate the neck, and the poor
thing has mumps. Turn a switch,
and a light inside illumnates pock-
marks and fever rashes. The teeth
can tie taken out and put back.
The tongue goes in and out too,
and can be capped with an un-
healthy looking tongue.
"There's still a ray of hope, for-
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read in bed is not being over-
looked. For him are special spec-
tacles. with thin batteries for arms
and with small light bulbs next to
the lenses. He can aim the light
at whatever he’s reading and not
disturb anyone who’s sleeping. A
well-known variation are ’ those
spectacles equipped with wipers to
defrost fogged lenses or remove
SOME JOKE—The innocent victim, blindfolded, is asked to test his strength by pull-
ing at two handles. As he does so, he gets an electric shock; a paddle comes up
from behind and whacks him; and—to finish him off—a cartridge attached to the
paddle explodes. The patent was applied for in 1908 by an Illinois man, who call-
ed it “a new and useful Combined Lifting and Spanking Machine.” Try it on some
practical joker—then move to Iceland and change your name.
1949 by two California men, es-
pecially for use by policemen, rainwater.
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NEW YORK <AP» - The great-
est social event in the modern
business world is the "coflee
break," now observed twice a
day in most offices
The employer's idea originally
was that office output would tie
increased if the white collar
peasants were given a 10-minute
period to gulp down a hot cup of
coffee.
Since then the hired hands have
WAGON MISHAP
INJURES MAN
APRIL 18, 1921
M. L Chapman of 709 N. Elm
was seriously injured in a runaway
horse accident. Chapman was driv-
ing a delivery wagon for Fritz &
McCrary when his team of horses
were frightened by a parcel post
delivery motorcycle. The horses
ran wild and turned over Chap-
man's wagon
COUNTY EIGHTS
PARKING METERS
APRIL 18, 1941
The Denton County Commission-
ers Court today asked 16th District
Judge Ben W. Boyd for a tempo-
rary injunction to prevent the City
of Denton from installing parking
meters on the sidewalk around the
Denton County Courthouse. The pe-
tition drawn up by County Atty.
Earl Coleman said the sidewalk
was constructed by the county and
the installation of the meters was
an invasion of property rights
ONLY ONE SLOT
MACHINE SEIZED
APRIL 18, 1951
the sick doll. There are reams of
records about battery-operated in-
ventions—some of them hilarious,
some silly and some of them dis-
putably morbid. tenna in the rod. “The fisher-.
THERE’S a combination night, man,” declared the inventor, “can
stick, flaslight and audible alarm listen to music, broadcast news or
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the illuminated message contain-. Maybe you saw the movie in
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, joyously enlarged on that theory
I until today the coffee break has
' become practically a way of life
The caterer’s refreshment cart
in thousands of offices wheels in
regularly at 10 a.m. and i p.m.,
and all work stops as the em-
ployes gaily line up for their
goedies The 10-minute gulp is
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have music wherever she goes.
•The inventor, Annie B. M done of
Twin Falls, Ohio, suggests that the
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ed earrings. The battery is clever-
ly disguised behind an attaching
T haircomb and bow. The inventor’s
Silly and morbid’ Or practical enlightening explanation: the ear-
nd insirucive? rings are, "highly decorative."
Up to now the last word in dolls Along similar lines are illuminated
....... compacts, illuminated lipsticks, 11.
lominated handbags, illuminated
slippers to help you see in the
dark, and shoe heels that blink
airplane. It can easily be spotted
by a Fifth Columnist on the
ground.
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knows — that because of coffee i thing else - whv se ye every-
breaks an employe paid for a 40- ! martini" ’ they serve
hour week now puts in only 35 Thn .0. ....
hours, less ti.ne off in the rest drhe,, 3 ?' Executive - He
rooms for indigestion doesn. really want anything He
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characteramhzou may have noted ahad fasfer" VsX KS
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steps.n uickiy in at head of stares Roros atomrstnoutaand
the line, murmuring. ► "terrible break . 1 me cotlee
hurry Know you won’t mind just gossiping istsucating., laughing,
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bulb, it glows.
Its inventor, a patriotic gentle- The frosted bulb is really a flash-
man from Dayton, Ohio, generous-1 light—its batteries are inside To
ly prefaced his 1941 application ; light it, you connect the electri-
with "The invention described i cal circuit from outside A metal
herein may be manufactured and ring will do it.
used by or for the government for More dated humor was an in-
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By MRS. RICHARD HAMPLEMAN
Coordinator Of National Library Week
During National Library Week it is interesting to
find out who reads what and why.
Recently, a Denton family obtained a goat as a pet.
The mother went to the library to see if possibly the
book. “Billy Whiskers," a story of a goat which she
had read as a child, was available. It was and now
her children too can enjoy this old favorite
Many of Denton’s professional people read "who-
done-its” or other light reading for relaxation
High school students read the classics assigned in
their courses or pursue research on various topics.
Authors (we have a number in Denton County) come
in to research—perhaps on Texas history of which
our library has a fine collection or on Civil War his-
tory. Space topics bring in many young people.
A movie or television show may provoke a run on
certain books or authors Currently while "Gone With
the Wind” is showing at a local theater every copy
of the book has been issued The recent show. “Made-
line” brought a demand for the “Madeline" books.
Plays appearing at the colleges bring requests for the
book.
People travel more than formerly and consequent-
ly books on foreign countries, especially Mexico, and
on other parts of the United States are frequently
used. A planned vacation may be one of the best wavs
parents can use to teach their children research meth-
ods
Club women or those giving book reviews make
extensive use of the latest thing out. Do-it-yourselfers,
gardeners, boy and girl scouts all come to the library
for information. People who are building or redecor-
ating make fine use of the current books and maga-
zines devoted to interior decorating or architecture.
And there are books for the antique hunters too.
But above all, there are all kinds of books for all
those who love to read And Denton county has an
amazingly large and growing group of those who read
“for a richer, fuller life."
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