NOW THEY'VE DONE IT: TRAINED CHIMPS
TO WORK IN FACTORY ASSEMBLY LINES
HOUSTON, Tex., UP>— Quite a |
bit of prompting from a trainer
was needed but Bobby, Fudgie,
and Candy, three chimpanzees,
carried out their assignments on
a furniture factory assembly line
for the benefit of photographers
and newsmen Friday.
Union workers and office em
ployes enjoyed the performances
and accepted the appearance of
the chimps as an opportunity for
an extended morning coffee
break.
Ben Friedman, general manager
of the factory, viewed the experi
ment as a real revolution in labor.
He said chimps eventually may
change the make-up of the labor
force at plants which cannot be
entirely mechanized. >
Alfred Sturm, president of In
ternational Upholsterers Union
Local 250, disagreed.
“I can’t see anything wrong |
with this, but is just a big joke
and a publicity stunt as far as
we are concerned," Sturm said.
Bobby, Candy and Fudgie were
used on an assembly line for
packing couches for shipping. The
outside of each cardboard box
bore pictures of chimps and large
letters reading “Made by the
most modern methods available.”
Bobby’s job was to pick up
paper sacks containing the wood
en legs for couches and place a
sack in each box.
Fudgie had the job of zipping
the covers that were on cushions
already in the boxes.
Candy completed the three
chimp process by closing the lids
to the boxes.
Manuel King, the trainer,
prompted each chimp through
each process.
“There are too many distrac
tions here today,” King said.
“They can do better than this.”
If the chimps do good work,
said Friehman, he plans to es
tablish an entire assembly line
of chimp workers. He said he
would need 23 chimpanzees to
manage his assembly line with
two humans as foremen.
“All they have to do is the
same thing over and over,” Fried
man said. Tests have proved that
chimps are easily trained for
routine jobs and can replace a
man on an assembly line position.
There are 30 to 40 jobs in our
factory that we can teach a chimp
to do repeatedly.”
Actor Walter Catlett Dies
HOLLYWOOD, WV-Walter Cat
lett, 71, veteran of half a cen
tury in show business, died Mon
day. He was on the legitimate
stage for 30 years before he
made his film debut in 1929. He
had appeared in scores of movies.
He was born in San Francisco.
Mrs. Crinklaw Arrives
Mrs. Howard Crinklaw, wife of
the manager of the Nome Power
and Light Utilities, arrived this
week to make her home here. The
Crinklaws are housed in the
Weaver residence on First Ave.
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X-15 with “Most Powerful
Engine in World” Makes
Successful Test Flight
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., (44—An X15 rocket plane
made a successful first flight
Tuesday with the mightiest air
craft engine ever built.
Test pilot Scott Crossfield made
the brief test with the engine
choked to its slowest speed and
landing brake flaps wide open.
Still, the stubby black craft shot
to 78,000 feet and reached 1,518
miles an hour during an eight
minute flight before landing on a
dry lake bed.
Crossfield throttled the XI5
during his wide circle around this
desert test center in order to com
ply with government orders not
to exceed certain speeds and al
titudes.
At full throttle, the new rocket
engine generates 57,000 pounds of
thrust, nearly four times that of
the engine that in earlier flights
set world speed and altitude rec
ords of 2,196 mph and 136,500
feet.
Ultimately, the new engine is
expected to push an X15 at speeds
of 4,000 mph to altitudes between
50 and 100 miles.
Churchill Breaks Bone In
Back In Fall at Home
LONDON, UPi — Sir Winston
Churchill has broken a bone in
his back in a fall at his home, a
household spokesman said today.
The former prime minister, who
will be 86 on Nov. 30, “will have
to remain in bed for a little time,”
the spokesman said.
The accident occurred at Sir
j Winston’s home in Hyde Park
! Gate.
j Churchill has suffered two
strokes and bouts of pleurisy and
pneumonia in recent years.
The informant said there was
no reason to suppose that the in
jury was serious, even consider
ing Churchill’s advanced years.
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Judge Remembers
Traffic Violator As
WWII Slave Laborer
•MIAMI, Fla., Ufi—Judge Fred
erick Barad took a long hard look
at a traffic offender who appear
ed before him yesterday.
“Where are you from?” asked
Barad, a native of Czechoslo
vakia who served with Czech
guerrillas during World War II.
“From Hungary,” replied Ar
thur Schindler, 39.
This confirmed Barad’s belief
that he once had seen Schindler
in a slave labor camp. Barad had
observed the camp and the work
men while on a detail to blow up
a railroad bridge.
Barad told Schindler he was
glad to see he had made it thru
the war. Then, putting memories
aside, Barad returned to business
and fined Schindler $10 for going
the wrong way on a one-way j
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IN MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Three women were each fined
$25 for drunk and disorderly |
conduct—Mary Ayek, Mary Esch
oldt, and Ethel Ailak, who was
also given a 15 day jail sentence.
Sgt. Gene Morris of the State I
Police, has just returned from his !
first trip to Kiana and Noorvik.
Morris stated he was amazed with
the fine school and quarters at 1
the latter village.
Although he has been stationed
in this district for the past year,
this has been the first time that
a complaint made it necessary t)o
take the trip in this part of the
district.
Morris observed that many
drivers are violating traffic reg
ulations here, and several have
been warned. Most common is
when coming off of secondary
roads to an arterial. In Nome
proper, Front Street and B Street
as well as Airport Road is the
arterial and any car should stop
at a crossing whether there is a
stop sign as a reminder or not.
Elsie May Smith of the BIA
Welfare Dept., and Louise Bock
man of the State Welfare Dept.,
returned from Shaktoolik yester
day.
The found much concern among
the residents on acquiring hunt
ing licenses as their livelihood de
pends on hunting and trapping.
As there was no one in the vil
lage authorized to sell them, it is
somewhat of a hardship on those
who do not read or write.
Another problem confronting
the community where incomes are
very low and in some cases non
existent, was how those wishing
to wed could get blood tests, ac
cording to law when there isn’t
even an itinerant nurse serving
the area 1o give the tests and
they haven’t sufficient income to
travel to Nome to get the tests.
State Election Costs
Run To $136,000
JUNEAU. OP)—The official state
canvass of votes cast in the Nov.
15 general election should be com
pleted by next Monday or Tues
day, Secretary of State Hugh J.
Wade said today.
Wade said the State Canvassing
Board would start its work Wed
nesday and the count of absentee
ballots would commence Friday.
He said the absentee ballot
count would take about two days.
Wade said the cost of conduct
ing the primary and general elec
tions this year will run some
$36,000 more than the $100,000
appropriated by the last legisla
ture, after all expenses have been
paid.
Two things accounted for the
deficit, Wade said.
“The appropriation was made
before the new election code was
cleared by the Senate-House con
ference committee during the last
legislature.
“The conference committee
made several changes in the or
iginal bill, which increased elec
tion costs. This, coupled with a
heavy vote in both the primary
and general elections, boosted ex
penses past $100,000.”
The Secretary of State said a
request for $150,000 to cover the
1962 primary and general elec
tions would probably be made
to the 1962 legislature.
Jerry O'Connor, who has been
attending the Hearing Clinic of
the A.C.C.A. in Fairbanks, is
home for a short vacation and
will return to school in December.
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