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Show PAofc SEVEN PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1941, West Center Viaduct One Of M odern Road Improvements in Provo UTAH'S HEW STATE PBISO: Had Her Eyebrow Lifted, Anyhow 'GIIUTE CABLES SEEN AS TRAP FOR COLDER! r s BE!f!G DUIL1 BY J. EDWARD M UK RAY I'nited Tress Staff Correspondent WHEATON, 111.. Feb. 22 (U.P.) A 48-year-old aviation "handy man" and inventor is ready to present pre-sent to the War Dc-ji '.merit "a revolutionary air defense weapon composed of miles of invisble sawtooth saw-tooth cable hung from samou-flaged samou-flaged parachutes." Will T. Davenport, who has been building and flying: airplanes and experimenting with plane devices since 1914, said he had perfected "an airplane death trap superior to and cheaper than the London balloon barricade." He is ready for the War Department to come and get it. "Neither the secretary of war nor the president nor any of the rest of us will have to worry about invasion of the United States by air, if I can get the right people to listen to my ideas," Davenport asserted. "My defense plan begins working work-ing when you have located the squad of planes coming to tomD a citv." he explained. ""In half a minuie 10 planes can box in the approaching bombers with an ai most invisible wall which will disable dis-able and wreck the enemy ships trying to come through it. Sieed Factor Stressed Ten planes can lay a mile oi this wall in 10 seconds." The wall, Davenport said, would consist of half mile lengths of specially designed, quarter-inch steel cable wiCn a duzz saw" edge. The cable, attached to a cheap cotton cloth parachutes dyed black or pale blue depending on night or day use, would be dropped at 52-foot intervals 100 to tne mile by, fast planes sent out to intercept a flotilla of enemy bombers; A fleet of intercepting inter-cepting planes, Spelling in banks a mile above each" other, he said, could lay an impenetrable wall of cable to any height planes can fly. Each plane would carry approximately approxi-mately 15 of the 250-pound ensembles en-sembles of parachutes and cable roll. Explaining that the cable uould unroll" 16 fet per second, lie said it would remain suspended from the puarachutes for a fraction frac-tion of an hour, the length of time depending upon air. currents and wind conditions. To maintain the wall, cable would have to be dropped at intervals from the top. Scheme Called Most Deadly "This wall or trap's superiority to the London balloon barricade." he said, "desides in the fact that Provo city and Utah county boast an excellent road system. One o f the recent improvements was construction of the modern overpass over-pass over the railroad tracks on West Center street. free either to the United States or Great Britain. "My wind tunnel and training ship were in valuable use during the last war," he said. "I'd like to do something again, and I think this is it." my cable would depend for its effectiveness ef-fectiveness upon sawing the entangled en-tangled planes to pieces while the balloon cables depend upon their weight to damage ships striking them. "Furthermore, the balloons have proved easy to shoot down while the parachutes would not be. And the cables, not only would do no harm in landing, but could be retrieved." re-trieved." Estimating that one ensemble of parachute and cable would cost from $50 to $100, Davenport said he wanted the War Department to take over the plan, because he had no funds to build a trial set. He said he had applied for a patent on which he spent 18 months ex- The Dominion of Canada pro-perimenting, pro-perimenting, but that he would be duced 120,970,000 pounds of loc-glad loc-glad to release the whole schema tory cheese during 1933. TO RETIRE BONDS SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 22 L'.I! Utah road and general deficit bonds totaling $1,500,000 will be retired on April 1, E. E. Monson, secretary of state, announced. The first continuous rolling-mill for producing wide strip-sheets was installed in the steel industry in 1926. The Inter mountain Ar ea This organization is devoted exclusivesly to the development of the intermountain area. Through the mobilization of the combined efforts of hundreds hun-dreds of the business men affiliated with it, this Chamber of Commerce is constantly developing projects which reflect to the advantage of everyone every-one residing in the intermountain empire. It cooperates with every constructive agency in providing facilities through which the people of this area earn a livelihood.. Hundreds of specific projects receive the attention atten-tion of this organization annually, and its complete com-plete staff covering all phases of business activities ac-tivities is available at any time to serve any and all agencies in the development of the area. Salt Lake City Ch amber of Commerce "The Center of Scenic America" Ice Cream Firm Expands Dapldly Since 1935 when Earl Cook of Springville opened his first ice cream plant in his home town, "Cook's Ice Cream" has grown rapidly. Mr. Cook now operates a .chain of six ice cream stores in Utah cities. Store No. 2 was opened in Provo in 1936. In 1937 Mr. Cook opened store No. 3 in American Fork which is now maintained by J. S. Cook. The same year he opened store No. 4 at Richfield. In 193S stores were established at Nephi and at Payson. An average of 16 girls are employed em-ployed the year around in the stores. Each shop has its own in buying volume, freezing plant with IhtTmost mod- ern and up-to-date equipment. According to Dr. Cook, all hia ice cream is maue from pure cream, purchased locally. lie invites in-vites the people of Utah county to visit his stores. Ice Cream Industry Reports Trade Gains Maintaining a sales pace that has brought envy to other productive pro-ductive enterprises, the ice cream industry of the intermountain west has grown by .leaps and bounds in the last decade. Manufacturers Manu-facturers 10 years ago did yearly business of perhaps no more than $1,500,000, while last year it is estimated that the total topped $2,000,000. Purity and flavor in a wide diversity di-versity of products together with establishment of artistically-equipped retail stores have been large ly responsible for the steady gains SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 22 ft'.H) Utah state prison authorities are going ahead rapidly with development de-velopment work and construction i of Utah's new, model, wall-less prison at Point-of-the-Mountain. Construction of the first two cellblock units, started last November, No-vember, is well under way although al-though the units will not be used to hold prisoners for several months. L But already, Warden John E. Harris is making plan3 for this summer. Most of the plans center around agricultural activity that will be carried out by trusties "Our problem is having too many men and not enough work," Harris said, "and we hope to increase in-crease the ratio gradually so that many more inmates can be given something constructive to do for selif-advancement and contentment." content-ment." 60 Trusties There The prison now has 60 trusties living at the new prison site in new barracks that were erected last fall. Then to 20 other inmates are taken from the prison to the site by truck each day. Harris expected to have all prison pris-on agricultural activities going at the new prison within tne next two years maybe within 18 months. Previously, the prison farm work was done on a plot of canyon-bottom ground adjacent to the old prison in sugarnouse, j Salt Lake City suburban district. The warden said that the prison already was producing all the vegetaDles it needed for its own use each year. In addition, all the pork and most of the fruit and bugar used at the penitentiary during the year is prison-grown. The present prison farm covers 171 acres. The new prison site in southern Salt Lake county, near the Utah county border, embraces 721 acres. Before winter set in, convicts planted about 125 acres of winter win-ter wheat at the Point-of-the-Mountain site. This wheat acreage acre-age will be increased in the spring. The trusties have also planted 7500 fruit and shade trees. Many of these will be transplanted in the spirng to permanent locatioiis throughout the new site. The prison already has a small herd of cattle that supplies some of the beef products consumed by the prisoners. Harris said it was planned to enlarge the herd as soon as conditions at the new prison site made such an enlargement enlarge-ment feasible The new Utah penitentiary was f .V i f ST Amid momentous controversy over whether the Duchess of Windsor did or did not have her lace lifted, this new picture of the famous pair arrives from Nassau. Proves nothing, maybe, except that the Duchess can still lift those charming features when surprised. , . . i model among American penal in-j stitutions. The old Sugarhouse prisons that it replaces was first constructed in the 1850's and was condemned as unfit for prisoners pris-oners by territorial legislative in-vestigtating in-vestigtating committees three times before Utah was a state. The first two units, now under construction, are called "medium security" units. They are designed for "average" prisoners. The two cellblocks will contain 264 cells. There will be one prisoner placed in each cell-cleminating prcscht "double-deckers." When finished, the new penitentiary peni-tentiary will have six buildings, connected by corridors, in addition to shops and other outbuildings. The prison's eventual capacity will be 600 inmates. There are now 432 convicts in the Sugarhouse prison. Instead of the traditional wall, 70 acres of the new prison, including in-cluding the main buildings, will be surrounded by a 14-foot chain-type chain-type fence. A six-foot fence will surround the entire site. be erected. From it, guards will have unobstructed view of all prison areas. Girl Loses Old Hat, It Becomes Precicus In the middle of the main group designed by architects to be a cf buildings, a guard tower will CLEBURNE, Tex. aV.) Milady's Mi-lady's lost wnnet is always the prettiest of them all. Such is a woman's fancy. Now take Miss Mary Fuston, Miss Fuston had a bonnet and she was about leady to throw it away. Then one windy day it blew off into a stream as she walked across a bridge. If htat wasn't bad enough, she had "dolled" it up with a new pin. The hat, which she was ready to throw away, sank, and Miss Fuston has been looking for it since almost "dragging the river." In 1875, Charlie White, first baseball player ever to wear a glove in playing, was severely raxzed for doing so. Town Assures Letters To Men Serving Flag MIDDLEBORO. Mass. (U.E) High school students, business men and housewives hundreds of them are engaged in a community letter-writing project to this town's men in military service. Names of soldiers, sailors, marines ma-rines and coast guardsmen are assigned as-signed to various groups by a civic committee. The home town correspondents corre-spondents do not ask for prompt answers, knowing the men have little free time. During the World war a similar project was conducted for men overseas. Here's Glamor Plus 1 i i 2 if V Mary Taylor, above, models one ot the top designs displayed at the "Fashion Futures" show in Los Angeles An-geles at which 75 of the state's top designers placed their latest fashions fash-ions on display. This formal, of black taffeta and net, features a $12,000 diamond garter which hangs from the belt and passes through a slit la the dress ta the stocking. ' r' if? Apologies You When Needed tsy. g2??';,,'j( n The stamina, simplicity and long life of "Caterpillar" "Caterpil-lar" machinery stand back of its famous fuel economy. econ-omy. Each quality is important and the combination combina-tion spells matchless value. There is a size of "Caterpillar" "Cat-erpillar" track-type tractor or Diesel engine fcr your job. Let us give you details. A FEW GOOD mm 0500ILI LIAGHIIIES for Farm, Mining, Industrial Use We have a number of good used rebuilt machines that are ideal for farms, mines or industrial use. They are available at bargain prices. 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