Show Speaker Tells Future Wonders At Vernal Club More impossible things have happened in the past ten years Ulan than in the whole prevo previous ious history of the world and many more will happen in inthe inthe the next five years This was the predIction of Barton P North special re- re representative re- re representative to the district manager of Mountain States Telephone Co at Vernal Ro tary Club Thursday of last week MR NORTH dIscussed Bell Laboratories attempts to har har- har harness ness the energy of the sun and saId that if the suns sun's energy could be used for just 24 hours it would exceed aU all oth er sou sources ces of energy present ly used He said that scientists are discussIng an automobile that will run on atomic power and travel for miles with with- without out refueling Also on the drafting board is a plane de de- de designed signed to travel one million miles per hour Mr North said that a com com- communications engineer had forecast the time would come when every infant would get geta a number at birth which would identify him all U his life Also each person would be equipped with a watch like Instrument that would com com- communicAte I with anyone else with three dimensional col color a or picture HE DISCLOSED that Bell Laboratories already has tel tel- television television sets that hang on the wall Uk mirrors lie He showed his audience a apiece apiece piece of equipment the size of a frame of 35 mm film that could remember differ differ- different ent items Mr North commented hum that it was getting to the point where things are getting smarter than people but as yet nothing could remember member like the human brain lie He said that current trans use only one millionth the power of the old vacuum tube lIe showed the new push button telephone that re- re reduces duces dialing error and has a keyboard similar to an add add- mg ing HE GAVE A demonstration of converting light to sound through the use of silicon cells and pointed out that someday they will be mounted on roof roof- rooftops tops to provide power Mr North said that an ex exchange change of phones has op op- operated for nine years without a dimes dime's worth of power by usIng several hundred cells on a pole that absorb sufficient sunlight during the day day- daylight light hours to continue to operate through a storage bat bat- battery tery during the night Mr North showed samples of coated aluminum mylar that were used on the Echo satellite The width Is of an inch and it has third one the strength of steel CLUB VISITORS Included Ed Dunbar and Wallace Mos Mos- Mosley ley by of Alabama Gordon Dad Bad Badger ger Holladay Don Cowley and Jack Kler Kier Vernal |