Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1963 — Page 8

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Odds Formidable Against Inventor

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON <UPI’ A favorite story at the U.S. Patent Office is about the man who walked tn, put a sliver of wood on the desk and said he wanted a patent on the toothpick. He didn't get it because of a special provision in Ute patent laws. You cannot obtain a patent on something that has been publicly described in a newspaper, a magazine or a bock. The toothpick has been described so many times that a patent never has been issued on it and never will be. But if you can come up with some variation on the toothpick, you can get a patent, and there is one on the market now. It is described as T “tooth . space

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-Cleanser and gum massager". i You dampen the piece of wood, | stick it between your teeth and 1 massage the glims. Patent Office officials long ago ' ceased to be surprised at the things people invent. It is not the function of the office to pass on the economic potential of an in | vention, but merely'" to determine ; whether it is novel or new-. A i farmer who obtained a patent on a pair of spectacles for a neari sighted rooster got the same sourteous consideration as Alexander Graham Bell did when he invented the telephone. Many Strange Patents But over the years some | strange things have been jiatented: —A fly swatter pistol. When i you pull the trigger, a long 1 spring in the barrel uncoils and i hits the fly on the wall. —A gra'pe fruit shield. It is a plastic shield which is placed oyer the sliced half of a grapefruit, but is enough smaller than the grapefruit to allow a person to use a spoon. When the juice flies upyTt hits the shield instead of going into your eye. —A woman’s hat that blows -soap-bubbles. A—tube -runs from the hat to a bulb which the lady holds in her hand She can win friends and influence people at any time merely by pressing the bulb and a large soap bubble will float out of her hat. —A labor saving device for children in cold climates called “a snowball machine.” The child packs a tube with snow, presses a plunger, removes the cap of the tube and a snowball pops out. —A spoon made out of pastry. When a child is through using the spoon, he eats it. Inventor Poor Judge An inventor frequently is a poor judge of the potential of what he has made. Joseph F. Glidden of De Kalb. 111., apparently had no great hopes when he received patent No. 157.124 in 1874 for something he "described as “an improvement in wire fences.” What he had invented was barbed wire and the ranchers on the Plains bought it as fast as it could be produced. Elias Howe, who was working

BODY OF POPE i (Continued from Page One) others. In the words of the Vatican Radio, he the world “simply and magnificently how to die." The visitors filed into the salon to see the Pope's body throughout the morning. Each one, from diplomat and cardinal to Vatican employe, bowed to kiss the redslippered feet pt the Pope as he passed. The Pope lay with the golden cbijical-shaped miter on his head. It glistened in the candlelight. Discuss Church Business Elsewhere in the Vatican, the chamberlain met with three senior cardinals in the first of a series of sessions on continuing church business until a new pontiff is chosen. Dressed in the scarlet, gold and white robes of his church office, the Pope's body lay in the salon of the pontifical apartments for visits of homage by the diplomatic corps and other high officials. The funeral and nine days of requiem rites will follow. The diplomats and members of the College of Cardinals began filing into the hall next to the pontifical library at 9 a.m. (4 a.m. EDTV A procession this afternoon will move the body to St. Peter’s. Dies In Bed The Pope died in his simple wooden frame bed at 7:49 p.m. in a machine shop in Cambridge, Mass., was a victim of public indifference. He invented the sewing machine. People were so unimpressed that Howe did not bother to patent it in the United States,but sailed for England in search of backers. A corset manufacturer bought the English patent from him and hired him to manufacture pie machines. Four years later Howe returned to the United States and found that people were pirating his invention all over the country. He entered upon one of the longest series of litigation in his nation and won every suit he filed. Howe died a millionaire, but his unhappy experience had done something to him. To the very day he died he kept building small, queer machines. Nobody, including Howe, could figure out how they could possibly be of any use.

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(2:49 p.m., EDT) Monday, surrounded by his three peasant brothers and sister and a group of intimate associates ranging from cardinals and monsignors to the servants who had been with him for years. • Outside in the wide square before St. Peter’s Basilica, a crowd of 100,000 prayed and wept for the pontiff at an open-air Mass. When his death was announced a great sob went up from the crowd. More tens of thousands are expected to throng the basilica Wednesday when its doors will be opened to mourners. The Pope's body will rest on a back-draped platform during the night. Prepare For Conclave Pope John was the 261st supreme jxmtiff of the Roman Catholic Church and one of the bestloved in modern times, but the grief and mourning that followed his passing did not interfere with the necessary job of choosing his successor. The College of Cardinals, from

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whose ranks Pope John cattle in 1958, began preliminary steps for electing the new Pope to lead the world’s half-billion Catholics. Their secret conclave will meet between June 18 and 21. Pope John had struggled for a year against an abnormal stomach growth, believed cancerous. Its existence first became publicly known last fall, when he had an attack of internal bleeding that seriously weakened him. Two weeks ago the bleeding returned, and despite blood transfusions and blood-clotting drugs the pontiff grew worse. Four days ago, peritonitis, or inflammation of the abdominal lining, set in. With it came pain that no drugs could relieve. Prays For Council But the Pope prayed not for himself but for continuation of his major work, the Ecumenical Council, which he hoped would be a start toward the reunification of the Christian church. His last known prayer was “Ut. unum sint” — Let there be one, the

115 PINTS (Continued from Page One) H. Kauffman, Dorothy Call, Mel Tinkham, Paul Carll. Eugene Miller, Dianne Linn, Mrs. Lowell Smith, Carl Badenhop; Mrs. Clarence Bultemeier, Mrs. Robert Babcock, Mrs. Lester Ceumon, Mrs. Otto Boerger, Betty Roberts, Kathleen Deats, Dan Freeby, Mrs. Art Lengerich, Mrs. Harold August, Robert Worthman, Mrs. Kenneth Erhart, Al Gillig. Floyd Marguart, Mrs. Charles Cook, Joe Weber. Don Bieberich, Jane Ann Carnail, Mrs. Russell Mitchell, Bill Smith, Margie Smitley, Dick Heller, Jr., Les Hackman, Ron Secaur, David Liby, prayer Christ said at the Last Supper. A coma in the final hours mercifully drew the curtain on the Pope’s suffering.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1963

Swimming Program To Open Next Monday The Adams Central swimming program will begin Monday, June 10. and run through the months of June and July, Carl Honaker said this morning. Buses will be run to Pine Lake, west of Berne, each Mpnday and Wednesday, morning through the two months, Honaker explained, leaving promptly at 9 a.m. each day. Cost of the program is 30 cents per day, which covers the cost of the ride to Pine Lake. Next Pleasant Mills Meeting On June 29 The next meeting of the Pleasant Mills community organization will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday. June 29, and not this coming Saturday, as erroneously reported in Monday’s Daily Democrat.