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Show Eisenhower Urges Nation Support March of Dimes V 1 iw'h i x p H If i k - a ? - . v-i-w- kt'f i 11 -V.,. s ,(t S ",J? - - W t I L -.- v " - t I. -' , " J - '! i -. ..-v - ' mf President-elect Eisenhower meefs 1953 March of Dimes Poster Girls Pamela (left) and Patricia O'Neil, of Raleigh, N. C. they're completely recovered from polio, thanks to the generosity of the American people." He urged all Americans "to help the others like them by joining join-ing the March of Dimes." Later, he joined the poster giris in making a short film which is being shown by television stations sta-tions throughout the nation. This year's March of Dimes follows the all-time record polio epidemic of 1952 in which more than 55,000 were stricken. At the beginning of 1953, there were 58,000 polio victims of former years still undergoing treatment, with financial help from local March of Dimes chapters. NEW YORK CITY Presidentelect President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower called on the American public to support the 1953 March of Dimes being conducted throughout the nation during all of January. He joined in the annual appeal after meeting the two Raleigh, N.C., sisters who are pictured on the 1953 March of Dimes poster. They are Patricia, 6, and five-year-old Pamela O'Neil, both of whom were stricken with polio but now are recovered completely. "It's hard to believe that these are the same little girls whose Bictures are on the March of limes poster," he noted. "Now Wingwvers All the news that's fit to print from the Delta Airport by Dick Morrison ANNUAL HI JINKS You couldn't tell it was New Years by the weather, but there was one sure sign at the airport. The bulletin board in the radio house was plastered with clever works of art, appropriate to the sea 'son, which had come Ln on the teletvue. Among theme wets - picture of the Salt Lake temple, which had originated at the Salt Lake airport air-port tower. Pocatello had contributed contri-buted a Ennta Claus with sleigh and reindeer. A champagne, glass filled with type letters O for bubbles bub-bles and fizz came from North Bend, Oregon. A convivial gent leaning against a lamp post and holding a bottle originated from I know not where. The letters HIC were worked into the design, but a discussion of the matter with Ralph Kelson left me in doubt as to whether the picture was anonymous, with the HIC part of the art work, or whether it came from a station with those call letters. let-ters. HIC is the identication for Hicks Field, Ft. Worth, Texas. A really comprehertjivfc work showed pictures of a pyramid, the Sphinx, a sun dial, calendar, and clock with poetry as follows: From the days of ancient Egypt, To these days of Auld Lang Syne, We've had many, many gadgets, To denote the march of time. And now we even have machines, That send that message thru, Have a very gala holiday, And a happy new year, too. The guy who wrote that was not only a poet and an artist, but a philosopher as well. A beautiful paper illustrated with three candles, lettered D, C, and A, came in from Washington, D. D., where National Airport uses the call letters DCA. San Francisco, as conscious of its civic pride as Salt Lake, sent a picture of Golden Gate bridge, out on the wires, with the words "1052" Greetings, and the radio station designation, KFSO. The holiday season is one time when the guys and gals of CAA let their hair down and engage in hi-jinks with the teletype, so that instead of giving out with the weather from the wesern states it may deliver a picture of a beautiful beauti-ful girl or something. However, they find time to put the weather on it, too. They do not play any tricks on the radio. That might involve' misunderstanding among pilots, with result which can only be surmised. But the closed circuit cir-cuit of the telety lends itself to holiday playfulness, not officially, offici-ally, of course, but everybody knows it's done. Heads might roll for it if the levity were not condoned, con-doned, off the record, but it is, fortunately, condoned. Incidentally, the trick of drawing draw-ing pictures with the figures on a typewriter, is a fascinating past-time past-time for anyone who wants to work them out. SCIENTIFIC TOY If you ask me, the Westinghouse Electric Co. may have created a Frankenstein monster. At the very least, they are playing with fire. Sunday watching Leo's TV, which comes in good at the airport, we were shown some tricks by the electric company's robot, Electro. Electro is a large mechanical man, powered by electricity, and guided guid-ed by electronics. He is an . improvement im-provement on the evolutionary robot ro-bot scale over his predescessor, Televox, who gained notoriety some years ago. Electro is of rather formidable appearance, sruare jawed and all that, being made of metal. He talks, telling us all about himself, him-self, counted on his fingers, blew up a balloon, and walked, in response res-ponse to spoken commands. He said his electronic brain weighed sixty pounds. He obeyed orders, but the question arises, what, with that sixty pound brain of his, if he shoudl decide to disobey? . He is not so different, except for outside shape from fancy elec tronic calculating machines of latest lat-est design, which can work quantum quan-tum equations infinitely taster than humans. These machines use electronic tubes, and almost seem to think. Some scientists say they do think. They take problems, work them, check their own an swers, and, if wrong, try again. If they can't solve them after many tries, they give up and flash a red light. They also get sleepy, and don't work accurately (think clearly) until fully awake, and they get tired. Of course, before concluding that they actually think it would be well to define thought. What is thought? A mechanical process? Some say our brain cells are like electronic tubes, only finer, more numerous, and smaller. But, even I so what is this thing that causes I matter in living form to look at itself and the universe and try to understand them? Does the electronic brain try the same DUKE'S TUTOR . . . Flight Lt. Caryl Gordon bas been selected to teach the Duke of Edinburgh to fly at White U'altham, Eng. He recently won the queen's commendation. thing? An important distinction between be-tween Electro and his kind, and living beings, is that the former have no will. Are they just advanced advan-ced adding machines? Certainly the mechanical adding machine is not a brain. It's just a bunch of cog wheels with figures printed on them. It has no will either, but always comes up with the right answer.. But suppose Electro should, some day, get an idea of his own? Suppose he should develop some sort of will to self preservation want to keep himself in existence? Then, an instinct of self aggrand-izment, aggrand-izment, a desire to possess? And, most dangerous of all, suppose he should get ideas in that brain of creating a desire the reproduce and perpetuate his own kind? "... .... - i j A 1 V- DISTRAUGHT . . . William Jones, distraught factory work- er, Detroit, electrocuted his wife in a bathtub and tried to kill self. Maybe if they don't destroy him now, it will be too late.. The Teiegvie laboratories have just announced another autonian, named Audrey. The first meeting of Audrey, and Electro might be something to see. . ' PROGRESS NOTE Maybe two years ago, this column col-umn reported an article in Fortune For-tune to the effect that development develop-ment work was being done on a process to record TV programs on tape. Not' on movie film, as is now done, but on magnetic tape. The process would record the electronic elec-tronic impulses which modulate the frequency of TV broadcast signals, so that both sight and sound could be recorded the way sound alone is now recorded on tape. The chief difficulty with the process then was its complexity. if 3 NOBEL WINNER . . . French ' novelist Francois Mauriac was awarded the Nobel prize tor literature. lit-erature. Mauriac, 67, is author of "The Viper's Nest" and "Desert of Love." Whereas 5000 cps are all that are needed to record sound, four million mil-lion impulses per second, of varying vary-ing intensity are needed for sight and sound. ' Last week, . the 'Wall Street Journal carried an. Item reporting that the trick was accomplished. Bing Crosby enterpries developed develop-ed the system, and a Jack Benny TV. program was taped and re-shown. re-shown. While imperfections were noted, it was said the engineers have the answers, and they will be eliminated from the next recorder. re-corder. It is said that the system may handle color TV. Now while the immediate purpose pur-pose of this invention was to record re-cord TV programs, for delayed broadcasting, it may work a revolution rev-olution in movies, too. Hollywood might photograph its plays with - I! yt j ' -i v 1 PREHISTORIC . . . Nicolas Or-landi, Or-landi, in charge of coast guard station on Puerto Rico's Mona island, holds one of the giant iguanas, last evidence of a prehistoric pre-historic era. TV instead o! film cameras, then ship tape recordings instead ol film to the theatres, which would on the way out, because of an invention developed for television, just as the old acoustic phonograph phono-graph pick-up went out when the Telephone laboratories developed the electric pick-up as a mere byproduct by-product of their research in voice transmission. TIME ERRED Time Magazine went completely off the beam in chosing its "man of the year" for 1952. Elizabeth II of England simply doesn't deserve the distinction, nor does the prestige of the British Empire, in its present low estate, warrant it. Elizabeth is only a pawn in power politics. She has run them off with a TV projector instead of the old flicker machines. mach-ines. Perhaps the old business of changing reels would be eliminated, elimin-ated, the whole show on erne piece MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah, Thurs.. Jan.' 8. 1953 of tape. It is quite possible that the old shuttered movie film projector is done nothing herself. She may turn out to be a tragic figure, as have so many queens. To me, Time's choice reflects the pro-British pro-British slant of its Rhodes scholar publisher, Henry Luce. McCormick, of Chicago, whom Time derides has said the Rhodes scholars become be-come more British than Amerisan. If course my criticism of the choice is not based on the fact that Elizabeth is a woman insead of a man. To dispel any idea on that point, I'll refer to the human of the year, which includes both sexes. Dwight Eisenhower deserved the distinction this year. His election, plus the fact that he pulled a Republican Re-publican Congress into office with him, is the most important happening hap-pening in many years. The American Amer-ican government is the big IT bs the world affairs. England, whether wheth-er we love her or not, is now a fourth rate power, and the colonialism colon-ialism that made her great Is as dead as a dodo. In a silly article explaining its choice, Time dismissed Elsenhower Elsenhow-er because he has an opportunity to become the man of 1953. But what of Elizabeth? Doesn't such logic apply to her new regime, too? Of course.' "The King is dead. Long live the Queen." Yes, yes, of course, and may she have a long and successful suc-cessful reign, though not not nes-essarily nes-essarily at the expense of us A-merican A-merican taxpayers, 75 of whose income taxes are being sent a-broad. a-broad. But regardless of all that, the simple truth is that Dwight D. Eisenhower is the human of this year, 1952. Time" was wrong. AG OH DISPLAY FRIDAY, JAN. 9 SEE IT! --V':' i ' -; - --tV.-i'- ) ' x7)1- ' - ' - Tha Hom-Swee-Hom Win lk Grandma Used to Make a taste of the good old days 1$. C H goL Y - .. ' ,s 1 5f(?R M fcirmiuMtrfirr"- "m ---aain t, , n irr1 i ir "" - - - - " .......-..-.---.n, ...Lik a t?svAcr:, Ife-vsjAotevl j vifc;'. 1 '.v,vcd feiWkj tjn.'tc;A'(ri fssan<z. L i rum mrl. 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