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Evening star., 1954-04-26
New Battery, Powered by Sun,
Shown to Scientists Here

The first practical direct con-
version of sunlight into electric
power-perhaps potentially one
of the most revolutionary devel-
opments of the age-was demon
strated before the National
Academy of Sciences here today
by engineers of the Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories.
The engineers have succeeded
in making a solar battery which
theoretically should last forever,
which consumes no fuel of any
kind, and which produces an
electric current sufficient to op-
crate a radio transmitter and
transmit voices or music. This
opens the door. although per-
haps only a crack. to mans util-
ization OF importing energy
which every day amounts to more
than that obtainable from all
the coal, oil, falling water.
uranium and thorium if totally
consumed.
Even at this stage, tine engi-
neers reported, the sun battery
may be of practical Importance
in the telephone industry as a
power source for certain mobile
equipment.
The battery is composed Of
very thin strips of silicon, most
common substance in the earth s
surface, each about the size of a
safety razor blade. These strips
are extremely sensitive to light.
They can be linked together to
deliver power from the sun at
the rate of so watts per square
yard of surface.
Long Sought by Scientists.
The possibility of utilizing sun
power directly has been a bright
hope of physicists and chemists
ever since it has become appar-
ent that at the present demand
the fuel supplies of the world
were approaching exhaustion.
Even prospects of atomic en-
ergy offered little relief from this
dilemma with the likelihood that
it always would be extremely ex-
pensive for general usage and
would offer, at the best, only a
temporary relief for so long as
there were abundant supplies of
fashionable material. There have
been prophesies that nuclear
power never actually would
amount to much because its use
would be forestalled by the direct
tapping of the sun with it's un-
limited energy.
The problem has been pushed
in many laboratories from va
rlouS directiOnS-increasing the
rate and efficiency of photosyn-
thesis for the creation of new
conventional fuels, trapping of
sunlight by enormous mirrors,
splitting water into hydrogen
and oxygen by means of sunlight
and then burning the hydrogen.
There has been some progress
in all these directions but none
of the processes ever has reached
more than a l per cent efficiency.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Fringe Benefit Bill
May Pass This Week
With Public Works

Senate Majority Leader Know
land said today he hoped the
Government employe fringe
benefit bill and the Districts
public works revenue bill both
can be acted upon by the Senate
this week.
He expressed the hope to re-
porters at the White House
after this mornings conference
between Republican legislative
leaders and the President.
Outlining the weeks schedule,
he said the Senate will vote on
the wool bill tomorrow. He said
he hoped then, mot necessarily
in this order" to call up the
Federal employe, District works
and sugar bills. If they clear.
it may be possible to start debate
on Taft-Hartley revisions by the
end of the week, he said.
Senate leaders earlier had said
the public works bill, providing
increased taxes, a higher Fed
eral payment and Federal loans
to finance the long-range $305
million public works program,
might be called up Wednesday.
The Government fringe bene-
fit bill would repeal the Whitten
rider curbing Government ap-
pointmentS and promotions, in
crease overtime and longevity
pay benefits, provide 300 more
super-grade $4,000 to $14.800 a
year jobs and provide $100 al
lowances to employees wearing
uniforms.
Evening star., 1954-04-26

The telephone company device
demonstrated today achieves a
6 per cent efficiency in CONVEX
sion of sunlight. This is COM
parable. the engineers reported,
to the efficiency of most steam
and gasoline engines in the
conversion of fuel. Most of the
previous ideas have contemplat-
ed production of power indi-
rectly through the production
of heat.
The two possible exceptions
have been the thermocouple and
the photoelectric cell, especially
the lead sulphide cell developed
during the war. Both these de-
vices have transformed sunlight
directly into electricity, but in
such minute amounts that they
have been valuable only as
measuring instruments for as
tronomers with a limited use in
industrial thermostats. It long
has been agreed that they Of
fered no practical power possi-
bilities.
Silicon Junction Is Basis.
The device demonstrated to-
day is based on extremely COM
plicated physics but apparently
combined something of the prin-
ciple of the thermocouple and
of the crystal detectors used in
the early days of radio. The
basic unit of the new battery is
a junction Of two strips of sill
con into each of which has been
introduced slight impurities,
thus making them unequal
conductors.
Basic in the battery is So
called pm junction." based on
the same principle as the lately
introduced germanium transis-
tors which are replacing vacu-
um tubes in various electronic
devices.
Although the work still is
in the laboratory stage, ac-
cording to Bell Laboratories,
actual use of the solar battery
in the telephone business is a
strong possibility. Such batter
les might be used as power
supplies for low power mobile
equipment. or as sun power bat
terry chargers to be used at
amplif1er stations along a rural
telephone system such as that
now under trial at Americus,
Ga. This points to greatly i'm
proved service without the ad-
dition of new wires"
The sun. according to calcula-
tions cited by the engineers,
supplies the earth with over
a thousand trillion kilowatt
hours of energy daily but hither-
to there has been no practical
means of trapping and concen-
trating it.
The sunshine battery is quite
different from the recently an
nounced atomic battery which
converts rays from radioactive
atoms into current. AS yet, the
atomic battery produced only
one millionth of a watt.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
S11,25O in Furs Reported
Stolen From Apartment

Theft of a $7,750 mink coat
and $500 mink stole was re-
ported yesterday by Mrs. Wy
nema B. Lawler. 81, of the Carlyn
Apartments, $500 @ street NV,
police said.
The furs were taken from her
apartment between $3.50 pm.
Friday and yesterday afternoon,
police said Mrs. LaWler told
them. Officers said entry ap-
pears to have been made with
a duplicate key.
Mrs. Lawler is the widow of
a California oil man.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Northeast Man Accused
In Fatal Stabbinq

Police last night charged
James Sidney Thomas, 20, COL
ored, of the 500 olOck of Nor
ton place NE, with the fatal
stabbing of an acquaintance
during a street fight.
The dead man was Warren G.
RayleS, 80, colored. of the 1000
block Fourteenth street NV.
Police said the two men got
into an argument near Thomas
home yesterday afternoon. They
quoted Thomas as saying he
stabbed Rayles after the latter
threatened to cut his throat"
Thomas surrendered to police
after he heard Rayles had died.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Cole Launches
Demolition Of
Area BUnits
RedeveIopment Gets
Under Way as Wall in
Dixon Court Topples
By George Beveridee

Federal Housing Administra-
tor Cole today yanked a length
Of clothesline and toppled to the
ground a wall of the first slum
house to be demolished in the
city's Area B redevelopment pro-
gram.
The long.awaited demolition
start took place, while Federal
and District officials and about
100 Southwest residents looked
on. in the Southwest's notorious
Dixon court.
Mr.. Cole said the demolition
was "a symbolic project" in the
program to "help people obtain
better homes, better neighbor-
hoods and better communities.
Symbol of Deterioration.
BY the same token, Mr.. Coles
toppling of the Slum wall was
symbolic of the deteriorated
buildings in the Dixon Court net
work of alley homes.
From a speakers stand Mr..
Cole yanked a rope attached to
the wall of a two-story build
ing which previously was No.
352 Dixon Court. While he
pulled, work crew lacked the
wall outward until it collapsed in
a pile of dust and broken brick.
Mr.. Cole was assisted by the
widow of Mark Lansburgh, who
until his recent death served as
chairman of the District Re-
development Land Agency. The
agency is in charge of the slum
clearance and rebuilding pro-
gram.
The RIA already has acquired,
through eminent domain powers,
the entire block-bounded by
Third. Fourth. H and I streets
which contains Dixon Court. It
is here that the first demolition
will take place in the 76-acre
Area B.
RIA has turned over to the
General Wrecking Co. about go
per cent of the 134 lots in the
square. How fast the demolition
can proceed will depend on re-
housing of present residents and
on the outcome of court chal-
lenges brought by a few property
owners there.
Within Dixon Court itself, how
ever, only II of SO families still
remain to be rehoused. Harry
Milzman. vice president of the
wrecking firm, said he expected
to have the first row of Slum
dwellings in the court demolished
by the end of this week.
Slums "WOrst" Encountered.
He said the slums were the
worst my firm has ever en-
countered."
The District Commissioners,
RIA officials and James w. Fol-
lin, Federal Slum clearance and
urban redevelopment director,
Joined Mr.. Cole in applauding
the start of tangible work in the
vast attack on slums.
The Rev. Benjamin H. Whit
ing, pastor of Friendship Bap-
tiSt Church, First and H streets
S.W.-within Area B. called on
residents to Cooperate fully with
government officials in the
project.
"Those who have been re-
housed" he said, ARE happy in
their new homes, much happier
than they were in the ones they
left behind.
Each resident, though he is
put to a temporary disruption,
should give this agency and the
contractors support so that in
the near future this can be one
of the beautiful places of Wash
ington.'
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Record 22,949 See
Home Show in 2 Doys

Opening attendance at the
Home Show in the National
Guard Armory was 1883 Satur-
day and 1896 yesterday for a
total of 22,949-a new record
for Home Shows, officials re-
ported. Expected total attend
ance is 100000.
Evening star., 1954-04-26

OM" ISSUES SLdtement.
The United Mine Workers said
in a statement yesterday that
the Government should establish
a national fuels policy to bail the
coal industry out of it's current
economic flight.
The union said the interna-
tional situation makes it man.
datory that the American coal
industry be kept strong and eff
cient in order to meet the fuel
and energy needs of our Nation
and of our allies" and it added:
THE Communist aggressors
are capable of shutting off
our foreign oil imports virtually
at a moments notice. Atomic
energy is not now and will
not be for an unpredictable pc
riod of time capable of supplying
both the weapons of defense and
power to operate the domestic
and, if necessary, war production
economies.
Evening star., 1954-04-26
6. o. P. Club to Meet

The Chillum Branch of the
Prince Georges County Young
Republican Club will meet at 8
pm. Wednesday at the Coop
meeting room, New Hampshire
and Ethan Allen avenues.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-03-01

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Confidential Correspondence

One of the richest experiences I
had as a child was the correspond
ence I carried on with my great
grandmother. I never saw her after
l was three; yet until she died when
I was grown, l wrote her every week.
During my adolescent years, I poured
out all my secrets to her, secure in
the knowledge that they were safe.
(She carried each letter in her bosom
until it was answered, then destroyed
it without letting other members of
her family read it, Each week after
writing to her, felt as if had had
an emotional bath. For a growing
girl that is good.
The gradual awareness of good
form in society is helped with the
custom of writing thank-you notes.
Many children arrive in their teens
without feeling confident in social
situations. They want to do the right
thing, but the more emphasis they
make of what is proper" the more
self-conscious they become. They are
embarrassed because they shave
never done those things" The simple
acts of politeness, just as with bodily
acts such as skating and swimming,
are more easily learned in child
hood.
Without practice, even the small
est gestures of social grace prove
awkward to them. They are not sure
just what amenities to observe in
leaving house at which they have
been guest, in responding to a
favor done them, in recognizing a
gift or courtesy. They feel uncertain,
confused, torn between fears of be-
ing considered gushing or. being con-
sidered uncouth. Frequently there is
no one around whom they feel free
to ask what to do.
Practice Gives Poise
On the other hand, their friends
who have been trained gradually
are poised and un-selfconscious. They
|
say or do. 1t is the difference be-
tween being a gracious, attractive
young person or a bore. And believe
me, the thoughtful, self-containec
ones suffer a great deal less. Thu
bore knows he is bore but feels to-
insecure to do anything about it.
Children who are never required
to write courtesy letters frequentl,
do not do so as adults. Time afte
time they make wrong impression
and wonder why. Witness the dis
appointed hostess who puts herseI
out to be hospitable to guest an
then never receives an expression {
appreciation. The guest may sa.
Good old Sally. She knows me we
enough to know I enjoyed being ;
her home" But Sally is probabl
thinking either that her efforts
hospitality have failed or that 81
had poor judgment in her choice
friends.
The adult who as a child WI
taught to write thank-you lette
takes the habit for granted. He
hardly aware that he has it. To {
the right thing is easy for him. F
is so sure of himself that he max
no issue of being proper, but he
never beset with fears of his ov
awkward behavior. He will
blessed by his hostess no matter he
she has been harrassed with deta
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-03-01

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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-03-01

of ideas, though sentimental, exag-
gerated, trite, or whatever they may
be.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
AT BYESVILLE last week. a ra-
Caldwell Athletes
Enroll al Ohio u.

Al Walton and Tommie Fergu-
son, stellar performers on the
Caldwell Redskin football squad
the past several years, left Sun
day for Ohio University, Athens,
where they have enrolled for the
coming semester.
Walton is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Al Walton of Chautauqua
Court and saw plenty of action
for Caldwell high school on both
the football and basketball
squads.
Ferguson is the son of MIR. and
Mrs. Bill Ferguson, Belford
street, and has been employed
the past summer at Commercial
Fuel coal company in Brookfield
township.
Al Christopher, another pro-
minent athlete from Caldwell
high school, is a sophomore at
Ohio U. this year.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
Caldwell Hot Lunch
ProjeCt Menu Listed

Mrs. Ruth Evilsizer is again
serving as the supervisor for
the hot lunch project at the
Caldwell high school which
opened Immediately after school
started, Sept 7.
The menu for today (Thurs-
day. calls for lima beans, cole
slaw, pimento cheese sandwich.
fruit and milk. On Friday they
will serve maearoni and cheese,
harvard beets, fruit, sandwich
and milk.
The complete menu for next
week, beginning on Monday,
Sept. q, will be as follows:
Monday, spaghetti, cole slaw,
one-half orange, bread and but
ter and milk; Tuesday barbecu-
ed hot dogs, buttered potatoes,
spinach, cherries and milk; Wed
nesday, beef and noodles, peas,
ham salad sandwich, fruit and
chocolate milk; Thursday, soup
beans, corn bread, honey, head
lettuce salad with dressing and
milk; Friday, salmon cakes, car
rot and celery strips, creamed
tomatoes, bread and butter,
apple and milk.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
Seaso, Football
Titkeis On Sale
Holders Of Reserved
Seats Get First Chance

Principal Gilbert w. Weekley
announced today that tickets for
the Caldwell Redskins football
season at home would go on sale
next week.
Marvin P Wood will have
charge of the season tickets and
those who wish the same reserv-
ed seats as last year may con-
tact him at Ralston's Rexall
store, Monday and Tuesday
evening, Sept. q and %. He will
be at the drug store from 700
to 900 p. m.
On Wednesday and Thursday
of next week, Sept. 29 and 30,
the tickets will be sold to the
general public.
Principal Weekley said there
would be four home games this
year with q season ticket costing
$3.50.
The first home game will be
Friday evening, Oct. / with
Roseville. On Oct. Is, Dresden
comes to Caldwell and on
Thursday, Oct. %, Glouster will
play at Caldwell.
On Thursday afternoon, Nov.
II, the season will close with
the traditional meeting of the
McConnelsville Big Reds and the
Caldwell Redskins. This game
will be played at 2:30 p. m.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23

another occasion lost the ball on
Byesville's II after penalty had
cost precious yardage.
Taking Falcon punt, the
Redskins drove to first down
on the Byesville 10. Bates on
two thrusts at the line picked
up six pards to the four, but
Frederickson was caught behind
the line of scrimmage for a five
yard loss to the nine. Bates then
passed to Frederickson who was
hit and fell on the goal line.
After a quick conference, the
officials ruled no touchdown
and Byesville had the ball less
than six inches from the goal.
In the final frame, the Red
skins got rolling again, driving
to Byesville's 20 where tumble
lost the bali. On the next play,
Dick Quinn started between
Caldwell's right tackle and end,
but Vance Bates took the ball
right out of his arms to turn
the tables with a clean steal.
Bridgeman picked up three
yards to the 18, then Freder-
icksOn took pitch-Out and
circled left end for a touch
down behind Vance Bates kew
block. FredericksOn also swept
right end for the point and a
14-6 lead.
AS expected so late in the
game, Byesville tried to keep up
by passing, but Bob Kidder in
tercepted to give Caldwell the
ball again on the Falcon 30.
Crock took a 12-yard pass
down to the II but once more
Byesville snagged one of Bates
aerials on the Is and returned
it to the "a.
Quinn passed to Aleshire
for six yards, then repeated
with another good for 40
down to CaldwelI's 2O-yard
line. After an incomplete pass
from here, Fehrman tossed to
Sichina who took the ball
lying down in the end zone,
the game ending on this play.
The first pass for extra point
was no good but both sides
were Offsides, so on second
attempt Fehrman connected
with Sichina for a 14-13 ball
game.
Photo observation-disclosures
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
AT Least lis
A Good Story

Joe III. Heinrich of MassillOn,
SWears it's true.
-Four of us left MasSillOn to.
hunt squirrels at Caldwell.
We arrived there at a. IN. i'm
the rain and dark. One of the
boys who had hunted this area
before said he'd place us
around the woods, as he knew
the territory well. He said
we'd see squirrels hopping all
around when dawn came"
FINALLY when daylight did
arrive we found ourseIf sitting
out in an open field. The
woods had been cut down
since our friend had hunted
there last"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
RIFLE SHOOT PRIZES

The Noble county Rifle and
pistol club held shooting match
at the Playground, Sunday after
noon. Prizes were won by John
Witchie of Woodsfield, who won
three chickens; CIetus Estadt,
two chickens and a turkey and
Leander Crock, two chickens.
There were IS contestants COM
peting in the match. Charles
Lorenz, president, said another
match would be held Sunday,
Oct. 3.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
EXPENSIVE HUNTING

This should discourage pre-
season pheasant hunting. Judge
Don Wargowsky, Municipal
Judge, Port Clinton, levied fines
totaling 81, ,485.80 against a
Dayton man who illegally pos
sessed ii pheasants. The birds
cost 500 each for 6 cock birds,
$3.50 each for hen birds, and
$125 each for 2 birds for which
the sex could not be determined,
$1l0 for destroying the outer
sexual characteristics of the
birds and $25 for exceeding the
legal possession limit.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
STARTING LINEUP and weights |
TEN YEARS AGO New Lex and
for the Panthers will probably
be as follows:

TEN YEARS AGO New Lex and
Caldwell did not meet this sea-
son but instead the Redskins
went to GAINESVILLE to defeat St.
Thomas 1876 in a Homecoming
game for the Irish. In the first
period, Dana Reed recovered a
tumble on the st. Thomas 48 to
set up the first score. Ralph Sef-
fens tossed two passes to Lloyd
King, one for 33 yards and the
other IS for the touchdown.
Ralph Radcliffe drop-kicked the
point for a TO lead. After st.
Thomas scored to trail 7-6, Eek
Clark returned the kickoff 80
yards to midfield. fluffy" Tilton,
a freshman who was soon to
blaze his name across the sta
diums of the league, came in and
reeled off three successive first
downs before going on over to
score. Radcliff's kick was block
ed this time.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
RETURN FROM TRIP

Mrs. Charles E. Kirchner and
John T. Kirchner will return
this weekend from a six weeks
motor trip through the western
states. They visited points of
interest in California and spent
several days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Price Elson and other Caldwell
natives in Coolidge, Arizona.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
LOST HUNTING LICENSE

With the opening of squirrel
season, some unlucky hunters
will be confronted with the pro-
blem of finding a lost hunting
license. If not lost, it may be
accidentally destroyed or stolen.
If this happens, a hunter should
go back to the license issuing
agent where he purchased his
original, and make application
for a duplicate license. Upon the
payment of $O.25, and a license
agents fee of $0.25 - a total
of $3.50 - the duplicate license
will be issued. The same pro-
cedure must be followed to
obtain duplicate fishing
license.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
RETURNING FROM KOREA

Sgt. Charles R. Howiler, who
has been serving in Korea for
the past sixteen months left
Japan on September IS and is
expected to arrive home on Oct.
l. Sgt. Howiler has been serv-
ing with the Marine Air Group
No. 2, and he is the grandson of
Mrs. Anna Howiler of Caldwell.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-09-23
AT CAPITOL UNIVERSITY

Miss Thelma Davis, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Davis of
Pleasant City route enrolled at
Capitol University at Columbus
on Monday morning. Miss Davis
is a 1854 graduate of SarahsvilIe
high school.