TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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No More Chipped Teeth Enamel Gimmick Saves Fingernails, Too
Washington, Jan. 3—(U.P.)-The whole thing started when Naomi chipped some enamel off one of her best front teeth while spreading the wires of a bobby pin.
Naomi mentioned it to her artist-inventor husband, Fred H. Blaschke, who hails from Hastings, Neb.
Fred, whose main job is art editor in the airways and communication division of Walgreens, draws Field. Md., didn't waste any time getting down to his inventing.
Now he has perfected a simple little gimmick that not only will protect our ladies' front teeth, but also their fingernails. It works like this:
Little inventions like this roll across the desk of Col. Paul E. Holbrook, the executive secretary of an outfit here known as the National Society of Inventors. He helps the newcomer get his patent and maybe get the stuff on the market.
It's a "v" shaped thing made of metal and has a rubber suction cup bobby pin on the "v" gadget instead of with your teeth or fingernails. It's made to sell at the five and dime stores.
Robert S. Casavant of Southbridge, Mass., who is a student of the Capitol Radio Engineering Institute here, got to worry about his cigarette lighter. The flint was made from old gasoline, so now he has invented a flint for lighters that is five or six times as long as the usual ones.
Cap. Arthur A. Chester of Brooklyn had been having a lot of trouble with the rear vision mirror in his car. He couldn't see what was coming behind him on the left or right. People in the back seat were blocking his view.
Well, the captain invented a mirror that eliminates all of the hazards. It's a series of four prisms, placed strategically on the inside of the car. You don't even have to take your eyes off the road to see fore and aft, starboard and portside.
One of the most active members on Col. Holbrook's list is a young man named William Damon of Liberty, Mo.
No inventor with any sense reveals exactly how his gadget works until he has his Uncle Sam on the line for a patent, and he adds details, lists one of his most recent doings as these: Pipe with a pocket clip.
Method of renewing carbon paper so it will last longer.
An upsidedown water bottle that won't leak.
J. Scott Dekubber of Grand Rapids, Mich., invented a machine that opens big paper bags in chain grocery stores. It saves the time of the busy cashier who not only has to add bread and butter to breakfast food but also has to pop open that bag, which sometimes doesn't want to be popped.
Dekubber doesn't want to say how the machine works until he has it patented, but he swears it will work.
And in case you've always wanted one, Charles Lindsay of Washington has invented a bass ocarina—which tootles the same as a little one, but weighs 11 pounds.
Kansan Calendar of
Coming Events
University of Oklahoma basketball game, 7:30 p.m., Hoch auditorium
Friday, Jan. 6
Saturday, Jan. 7
Sophomore dance, 9 p.m. to midnight, Union ballroom.
Paganini string quartet, 8 p.m.
Strong hall auditorium.
K. U. band concert, 8 p.m. Hoch auditorium.
Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, 8:20 p.m. Houdt auditorium.
Monday, Jan. 16
'Dooks' New Campus Club
Thursday, Jan. 19
Final examinations begin.
Monday, Jan. 20
Enrollment begins for the spring semester.
The Dooks club, a new organization on the campus this semester, is an honorary aeronautical engineering club for men who exhibit particular ability in aircraft design and structure.
Current Exhibits
Fur exhibit through Jan. 31, Museum of Natural History.
The primary function of the club is social. Paul D. Wilson, secretary, said. It is not a national organization but a local which enables students of the aeronautical engineering department to meet socially. There are 18 active members at the present time. The club meets twice a month.
Indians in the United States were given citizenship on June 2, 1921.
Officers of the club are William P. Horton, president; Isaac A. Hooer, vice-president; Wilson, secretary; and John H. Burnett, program chairman. All are engineering seniors.
The colors in the American flag stand for courage (red), liberty (white), and loyalty (blue).
Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 3—(U.P.)—Television, now under fire from sports promoters who claim it cuts into the gate, may be having the same effect on parades.
More than 1,500,000 persons lined the streets here yesterday for the 61st annual Tournament Of Rose's parade, described as the most lavish in history.
Parade sponsors, while pleased at the turnout for the spectacle, said an estimated 500,000 spectators stayed at home because (1) the parade was televised and (2) there was a threat of rain.
Television, however, probably kept most of the missing onlookers from trying to buck the heavy traffic which annually pours in here for the parade. Rose Bowl and nearby Santa Anita race track.
Long Beach, Calif., won its second successive sweepstakes trophy in the parade, entering a float of roses and orchids which depicted three white doves, made of roses and representing freedom, bursting from the hearts of huge, red roses. At the rear of the float, a fountain of orchids spouted a floral stream of water.
Marshall Plan Administrator Paul G. Hoffman served as Grand Marshal of the parade whose theme was "Our American Heritage."
Out of state floats which won prizes were from Santa Fie, N. M., the national trophy; Portland rose festival, for cities over 50,000 outside California; and Springfield, Ill., for cities under 50,000 outside California.
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Men Get Red Faces As Rifle Team Loses To Modern Annie Oakley's
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Five members of the air force Women's Rifle club recently fired a 500-point shoulder-to-shoulder match with five members of the air force Men's Rifle team. The sharpshooting women won the match 475 to 460.
Members of the winning women's team were Barbara Cleaves, College senior, who fired a 98-point score; Mary Anna Ward, College junior, had a 98; Geraldine Tonkin, College senior, scored a 97; Jane Klooz, fine arts sophomore, had 88; and Myrna Lynch, fine arts junior, shot a 94.
Members of the men's team were Richard Kummer, engineeri junior, who had a 98; Edward Slye, College junior, fired 96; John Denman, engineering senior, shot an 89; F. C. Hiebert, business senior, scored an 89; and Stanley Wilbur, College junior, fired an 88.
The womens Rifle team is coached by Capt. John N. Barley, assistant professor of air science. Lucille Murray, College senior, is president of the Women's Rifle club.
The Men's Rifle team is coached and managed by Master Sgt. R. L.
Williams, assistant instructor of military science.
The match between the men and women was not a regularly scheduled match.
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