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Show WEDNESDAY. 0CT.-Ut1 County. uth" 196T 4, fordid Daily ll . 4 f - '"T ' -- - ... V -- , 0 t - I vtr -- " : . k ,. ' Tii jjt AP&i : . 111 " -- - - .: Sis TJbV m m m a v .'iir -1 ' v - - - r wim a : T - Look what you ean dp . f i- , aryer ! 14 M r" A.if 1 t ' J -p 1 - Mfw 1 . , . ....... I. : DISCUSSING ALPASCOPE sales with his sa les director, Alfred W. Landvatter, left, is Dr. Harold Minas, inventor of the Alposcope. Three Alpascopes are visible on the table between them. Theproduct is manufactured in Provo. 1.- -4: I .i..- - .,.,,,.. &r PV .J- -- - f " H K I ssyLV1 Alpascope Factorytarted Provb-Base- d With TOne Employee; .'NUpt6:Smteen (Editor's note: This is the in a series of articles on new, and thriving, small industries which have come to Provo within the past year or so.) first By TERENCE L. DAY An Alpascope is an electronic marvel, as sopnisucaiea as us name. , Nert time you go to an op tometrist, he may ask you to peer into one of the machines. If he does, you'll see two bars of light. The optometrist will increase the, light intensity until you can see but one bar, although the light is actually coming from two. When you report the bars have converged, or that the sjace between them has dis- - The first Alpascope was a Brigham Young University crude electronical device rigProduction within a month ged inside a portable sewing machine cast. But it has under is expected to hit 300 scopes a gone tremendous modification month. Dr. Minas predicts it ifltoUiesophisticated machine will eventually level off at about 400 a month. Total market it is today. calls for about 25,000 nation-wide It is marketed by distributors .who handle all scopes In use across the country. sorts of optical supplies. Dr. Minas reports there have But, Dr. Minas says new mod been few sales in Utah so far els will make older machines although there have been obsolete, thus insuring a con but sales are brisk on tinuing business. ; some Dr. Minas also plans to ex the East Coast. The Alpascope has been test- pand his industry with other ed by--- top professoTof IMiysKP products, which he hopes to logical optics at a leading uni- announce soon. versity, who has validated its performance. LIKES HIS WORK Dr. Minas said the report will be published soon in a scientif GRAHAM, Tex. (UPIMn the ic journal: Until then,; the pro 27Kmberlire lepartmerit of fessor and his university must this North Texas town, Amos remain secret. Bourland is one of the two paid Alpa Corp. started production men. The others are volunteers. with one employee in a tw- o- Bourland is pretty well t he room building at 1460 N. State mainstay of the department he little over a year has been a fireman 44 years. St., Provo,-"ago. Dr. Minas picked Utah Bourland, 69, said he came to Valley to start his firm because the job by happenstance, "I was of friends who persuaded him working at the furniture store to come here. They participated and a fireman came by and intlnancing, along with the wondered if I was wanting to be Small Business Administration. a fireman, Bourland said. I In less than a year, Dr. Min- told them I Ihought h was all as had r to move - to larger right I went to all the fires quarters at 753 Columbia Lane, anyway. So I took the job." He and has expanded to 17 em- has no intention to retire any ployees. Most are women or time soon, he said. Dry us4 eyes. v The Alpascope Alpa stands for absorptive lens prescribing aid is manufactured in Provo by Dr. Harold Minas, who invented it and gave up a tive Sacramento ' optometrist practice to form Alpa Corporation and begin production. 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