Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1953 — Page 10

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Oddities Revealed In Patent Browsing Interchangeable Gun Barrel Is Not New WASHINGTON, UP—The army Is rightly proud of its M-48 tank, *hoae guns use interchangeable barrels. The army thinks the idea of the barrels Is something new. It isn’t exactly new. While browsing through a record of old patents collected by Edward Rogers I came upon a somewhat similar gimmick. It was invented by James Puckle of London in 1711 and was called a “portable gun.’* It fired both square and round bullets. Puckle’s own description of his invention said: “The shapes of the chambers may be changed and the bullets may bo varied—some for shooting square bullets against Turks and rdund bullets against Christians.” The rare collection describes many other old and interesting inventions. In 1885 Herbert W. T. ' Jenner of Washington patented a new-fangled liquor flask. It was designed to “conceal the flask and at, the same time admit of ready access to the contents.” The drawing of the invention displayed the flask encased in a book with a phony The title of the \ book was “Legal Decisions.” August Lindquist of lowa in 1893 invented what he called a

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He'll Learn LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP — Mark Painter, 44, of nearby Okolona, will probably think twice before he tries to help an out-of-state motorist at an accident scene. Painter was fined $lO for being a nuisance at the scene of an autocrash. He told the judge he noticed one of the cars involved -was from Illinois and butted in to help the stranger. Cap-tions SYRACUSE, N. ¥., UP—Problems of Syracuse taxi drivers have been capped by a city ordinance. Cubbies, the police department announced, must wear a gray uniform cap that must be approved by Police Chief John A. Kinney. A cabby must tip his hat to the rule or face a fine as high as SSO, a 30day jail sentence, or loss of his licenses. A

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To Blanket Britain With TV Network BBC Sets Goal To Bldnket Britain LONDON, UP — The nationalized British Broadcasting Corp, is planning to blanket Britain in the next four years with a television network serving 97 percent of the nation’s 5(1,000,000 people. The number of stations would be more than tripled. But the ven-turef-pdrt of an over-all 10-year expansion program-t-ls vitally dependent on continued government financial support. !11 The BBC director-general, Sir lan Jacobs, said the density of coverage envisaged was “incom-

parably” greater than that ’in any other country, including the United States. 1 ilr ■ The plans he announced were strictly for the BBC, but the government of Prime Minister Bir Winston Churchill already! has announced that there will be commercial television, too—a decision that has provoked heated controversy. Medium, Small Stations Plans for commercial television are expected to be revealed soon. The corporation now has five high • power stations operating. Plans call for the completion of five medium-power stations and eight smaller ones. The eight would be spotted over an arfea extending from southeastern* England to Londonderry, ’ Northern ( Ireland. When all 18 stations were operative, the corporation said, regular service would be increased from five to seven hourOa day. This would not include time devoted to televising special qv&nts, suc h as the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11, when BBC TV. ran all day. * . :b I . ' Provided the money \ia forthcoming and the government relaxes restrictions on capital expenditures, the BBC said, the five medium-power outlets should be ready for business late in 1954 and the eight smaller oiies by 1957. ' i , *1 \

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7,000,000 Sets Seen These developments eventually would make possible the inauguration of a “second-string” service of stations to cater to local tastes or specialities. The ultimate aim is to put the supplementary service on a five-hour basis, giving viewers a choice of programs during the evening, when audiences are largest. The porporation said plans for the second service depended largely on whether the government would set aside the needed channels. If they were not granted, the scheme would have to be “considerably Modified.” Jacobs said he thought color TV could be introduced at some point during the next nine years, but the bulk *of programming would continue to be in black-and-white. Jacobs said current predictions were that 7,000,00(1 sets would be operating by the time thefJO-year 'program is completed. Despite this expected increase in TV popplarityj\he said, there is no intention of reducing radio services. The cost of the entire development was placed in the neighborhood of 3,000',000 pounds ($8,400,000). Hospital Figures KNOXVILLE, Tenn., UP A survey of local hospitals showed the cost to patients to be about 85 cents an hour.

Aims To Please HARTFORD, Conn., UP —Rob* ert E. Sullivan, 21, got his wish on his 13th arrest. Charged with stealing an automobile, a familiar coupt with Sullivan, he told Su-

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perior Court Judge Samuel Mellitz he had served h term in the “ reformatory and didn't like the place. “This time, I’d rather go to . prison,” Sullivan said. Mellitz ac- • commodated him .with a two-to- ■ five' year prison sentence.