Oddly Enough
First machine developed by
man to speed mathematical
calculation was the abacus
which came from Egypt be
fore the birth of Christ. Tire
abacus was later improved by
Chinese monks to handle fig
ures with the speed of modern
adding machines!
Retnembe ’ ig i long hours
spent by his customs officer
father in compiling records af
the end of the day, Blaise
Pascal, the great French
mathematician, invented the
adding machine in 1642.
Many of its features are re
tained in present day calcu
A new, 5 lb., book-sized key punch
printer is a modern computing aid de
veloped by Varifab, Inc., High Falls,
N.Y. The portable unit does the work of
350-pound consoles, allowing workers'
on-the-job to punch out data cards that
are later fed into giant computers for
quick, accurate data processing.
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!Communist
Ships
Riirouto lo Cuba
By Lewis Gulick
WASHINGTON W — Fifteen
Communist stops wore reported
enrouto to Cuba Thursday.
Tliey are in addition to lt> ves
sels said to have docked at Cuban
ports late last month with an
estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Communist
bloc technicians plus lame quan
tities of goods including weapons.
President Kennedy said at his
news conference Wednesday the
US. government has information
that Red “supplies and technicians
of rather intensive quantity in re
cent weeks" have been landing on
the Caribbean island.
Kennedy gave no figures, but
said there is no information that
Russian soldiers have come to
Cuba or that the Communist aid
is a builduo for an invasion of
another country.
The President declined to assess
the significance of the stepped-up
assistance to the Communist-link
ed regime of Fidel Castro, saying
“we are examining it now.”
Other U.S. authorities indicated
they do not yet know what the
Reds are up to.
One speculation is that Moscow
wants to strengthen the Commu
nist hold on Cuba by sending in
large numbers of “technicians”
who will operate in key positions.
Another is that the Cuban econ
omy is sagging so badly that the
Communist bloc has decided mas
sive aid is needed to revive its
Western hemisphere ally.
It is speculated also that the
Communist help — while not of the
kind for any large scale attack —
will augment efforts to export
Communism from Cuba to other
Latin American countries through
subversive means.
Reports reaching Washington are
unclear as to the nationality of
technicians who have been arriving
in rece'nt weeks.
The information has been im
precise, also, as to the exact na
ture of the cargoes. One reason is
that cargoes have been unloaded
in secrecy by Communist bloc per
sonnel.
Available information indicates
that among items inside crates
taken off the ships have been
tanks, trucks, communications gear
and modern small arms.
A drop of water is a small uni
verse. If it were enlarged to the
size of the earth, each molecule
in it would be only the size of a
plum.
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Hoc; Ci’won, Ilcro of
Western Films, Is Dead
l!OIJ.,VWOOi) V Hoot Gib
sen. the mu ;ii-riding, quick shoot -
iii': cowbny of three decades of
western films, died in ,i hospital
Thursday of cancer.
Gibson, 70. had been at the Mo
tion Picture Country Home Hos
pital in Woodland Hills since Sun
day. He had undergone serious
surgery last January for an ab
dominal obstructing.
I loot Gibson —- born Edmund
Richard Gibson was the last of
Hollywood's earl.v-day western
heroes to die. He was a king of
the celluloid range in the 20’s and
.10 s, and was a two-fisted contem
porary of Buck Jones, Rex Beil.
Tim McCoy. Wm. S. Hart and
Harry Carey.
He started as a real cowboy,
came to Hollywood in 1910. and
stayed to become a stunt man. In
Hollywood his daring was legend
ary.
A director once asked him if
he would risk a spectacular stunt
fall from a racing horse for $5.
Said Gibson:
“Make it $10 and I’ll let him
kick me to death.”
He made more than 200 films.
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!:; Men Die m T' u■!F-.el
Curing Building Explosion
| BACCHUS, Utah ,,?i _ Tmtc
' rm‘u were killed and three ethers
. injured Thursday when a rock, t
; fuel-curing huildin.tr blew un at
the big Hercules Powder Co. mis
sile and rocket complex hero.
Ih G. S tiler, assistant works
manager withheld the names of
dead pending notification of rela
i fives.
| Sailer said an undetermined
: number of 40-pound charges of a
i propellant being developed for use
. in experimental motors were in
the building.
He said no one works in the
euring building. The six men killed
and injured were delivering the
charges from a mixing plant a
short distance away, he said.
A Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion team arrived to work with
Hercules security people in investi
gating the accident.
Officials would not say what
! project the propellant was being
developed for.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
CLAIM 24 LIVES IN ALASKA
JUNEAU — Trafic accidents
in Alaska killed 24 persons through
Aug. 20 of this year, compared
with 18 during the same period in
1961, the Department of Public
Safety said Thursday.
Fires claimed the lives of 13
persons during the 1962 period
ending Aug. 20, compared with
38 during the same time last year.
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