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Show Tuesday, December THE HERALD. Provo.' 19, 1972. Utah-P- 23 age Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus Christinas Reunion to Honor Woman Who Inspired Famous Letter NORTH (I'Pll CHATHAM. -- Three generations in some ways the that of OHanlon Douglas' Virginia descendants gather Christmas day in living memorial to the woman whose letter 75 years ago sparked one of this season's most enduring tributes. Mis. Robert Temple told UPI will" is the spirit that prompted the letter from Virginia OHanlon, asking if there truly was a Santa Claus, and the now famous reply, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Mrs. Temple recalled that her mother wrote the Sun in the Fall of 1897 and the response by editorial writer death was that tne number of telephone calls from newsmen the had dwindled although family recently went to Washington. D C, to help launch the first Santa Claus stamp ever issued by the United States. family observance has changed since her mother died more than 14 years ago at the age of 81. But many of Mrs. Douglas' grandchildren and greatgthose who live randchildren will be here to close enough help celebrate. Mrs. Temple noted that one change since her mother's NY. - One thing that has not changed, however, said Mrs. Temple, "and probably never New-Yor- Fiancis P. Church appeared Francis P. Church appeared shortly after. It was reprinted each Christmas Eve thereafter until the 1950s when the Sun merged with the now defunct World Telegram. Church died in 1916 and Mrs. Douglas always insisted it was he who deserved all the credit. The most famo-part of s were letter: be as dreary as it mere were "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable their existence. We shcild have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the word would be extinguished." Another Stearn n ALL POGL TABLES By LEROY POPE Upl Business Writer demonstrated recently at Thousand Oaks, Calif., by Pritchard and Pancoastal, Inc., a Hartford, Conn., investment firm that has acquired North Ameri- can rights to it. The Pritchard is a true steam engine that evaporates water like the old Stanley and White steamers and like the Williams experimental steamer built in Pennsylvania. A New England firm is trying to develop such an engine under a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The other "steam" experimental cars built in America recently are really Rankine cycle vapor engines. They use a fluarcarbon chemical over and over as the vapor medium without evaporating it. They include the vapor turbine into which financier William Lear of Las Vegas has sunk almost $10 million and the reciprocating engine developed by Thermo-Electro- n Corp. of Waltham, Mass., with the aid of an investment of several million by Ford Motor Co. Pritchard claims that on recent tests in Australia, a Ford Falcon car equipped with his engine averaged 40 miles to a gallon of water. That would give the car a range of 240 water miles with a tank. Range always has been a critical problem with a true steam engine in an automobile. The old Stanley company, which quit business in 1924, claimed a range of over 200 miles for its cars between water refills but seldom was able to achieve it. In hot weather, the Stanley often had to refill its water tanks every 100 miles. As recently as a year ago, Capt. Richard Alexander, USN (ret), an independent consultant who made test for Pritchard, estimated the engine's water range would be less than 21 miles to the gallon. But Captain Alexander was present at the demonstration in California and said he accepted the new tests at 40 miles to the gallon. As to fuel, consumption is about 19 miles to a gallon of kerosene. The engine is a 2 double acting, uniflow type weighing 150 pounds. Like the old Stanley it uses no torque converter or transmission gears but drives directly to the rear axle. Pritchard doesn't believe it will be necessary to idle the engine much. In winter months a e aould be cheap added to the steam water. The engine has an electric blower for the burner and an alternator to generate electricity for lights. The water feed pump and condenser fan would be turned by a steam exhaust motor, which would turn the fan much faster than the main engine, an important factor. Much of the water loss in eld steam cars was fashioned caused by slow fans, Pritchard said. 1 BW B htmmm D DIlLblVU BEFORE ... SPALDING YOU BUY! Expertly BASKETBALL. . Reg. 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