EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, May 29,
1952 Vol. C363
LOCAL
NEWS
EAST FAREWELL TAKES PART IN UNIVAC TESTS
East
Farewell – The first commercial computer, UNIVAC, created by the Remington Rand
Company, and designed Presper Echert and John Mauchly, used East Farewell and a
number of other towns in the state in an early test for the Census bureau.
Echert and Mauchly first created the general-purpose computer (ENIAC) at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1946 for the US military, for calculating artillery
fire. The first machine had 5,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 16,000 pounds and
measured 14.5 by 7.5 by 9 feet in size. It can do an amazing 1,000 calculations
in a second. This will greatly improve the efficiency of the Census Bureau.
The Bureau wanted to run some tests
before they put the machine into full operation so they chose 100 small towns
in the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC area to make a limited
test run of the census. All the towns simulated a census taking and all the
results were fed into the computer. The tests have proved very helpful and the
Univac is expected to start processing input information.
On a side note, Presper Echert and
his family were seen downtown in East Farewell last week. He had brought his
family here, staying at Mrs.
Mallard’s boarding house, for a brief vacation. “I love this town,” Echert
said when approached on Main Street by
local teacher, inventor, and scientist, Dr. Quantry, “I am surprised that you
recognized me. I am not your glamorous celebrity and I didn’t expect anyone to
know who I was but that is OK. I am pleased that people around here are
interested in modern technology.”
The townspeople of East Farewell have
always kept up with technology, even when massive railroad engines were the
height of technology. As the amazing technical advances made by the military
during the war make their way into the public sector it is a given that the
people of East Farewell will be some of the first to embrace it.
Presper Echert works on the original ENIAC
SPORTS
TRAVELERS LOOKING OLD IN YOUNGSTOWN
Youngstown – The Travelers came into Youngstown
feeling invigorated, riding a three game win streak, and hoped to add to the
streak. They left feeling older and worn out after losing to the Steelers 5-2.
Joey Alfred started out on the mound for the Travelers and was looking good,
keeping the Steelers off the scoreboard until the fourth inning. But then the
Steelers caught up to Alfred’s fastball and things started to come apart. Alfred
gave up a single to Harry Veller and then Frank Mastroeni hit a double, scoring
Veller. Then Dave Sarcoma came up and jumped on one of Alfred’s fastballs and
sent it out of the park. The Travelers were able to get on the board with three
hits in the fifth and a Joey Brown single scoring Artie Archibald. That was it
for the Travelers, though and the Steelers were able to get two more runs, one
in the sixth and one in the eighth.
The
Travelers head up to Erie next week to face the Eagles. They are going to try
to reenergize their flagging offense and score some runs. “That is the answer,
score runs. You can’t win if you don’t score. We have to start scouring again,”
said a frustrated Johnny Cloos after the loss.
Next week’s game will start at 2:00
on Saturday on Erie’s field.
NATIONAL NEWS
RIDGEWAY REPORTS BIG BUILDUP OF RUSSIAN
MILITARY – TRUMAN SAYS WATCH OUT FOR COMMIE DOUBLE CROSS – YOUNG GIRL ASKS
EINSTEIN A MATH QUESTION – BRITISH DITCHING COMMIE CHINA BUSINESS – LAKE FILES
FOR DIVORCE
Gen. Matthew Ridgeway reports a “significant” buildup of Russian military strength in the Far East and said the Communist “potential” in Korea is the greatest ever.
President Truman said the nation must be “alert and ready’ for a possible Communist double cross in Korea – even for the renewal of large-scale fighting. The free world, Mr. Truman said, has the atomic and other weapons needed to strike back at aggression and will use them if necessary. “The plan fact is that the Communists have utterly failed in their objectives in Korea. The Communist aggression failed to shatter the United Nations. Instead, the Communist attack has made the United Nations stronger and more vigorous and has demonstrated that it can and will act to defend freedom in the world.”
A 15-year-old girl from California writes to Dr. Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for a solution to a plane geometry and weighty problem neither her nor her classmates could solve. By return mail, he sent her back a diagram of the problem, sketched on the back of her letter, indicating the method of solution, all though not giving the explicit answer. He signed the diagram A.E. without further comment. The letter to Dr. Einstein indicated that he might know the girl’s grandfather, Professor Frank Mankiewicz of C.C.N.Y.
London newspapers report that weary British business has decided to abandon its (almost $1 billion) worth of investments in Communist China and get out for good.
Veronica
Lake (29) files for divorce against Screen Director Andre DeToth (37). She
complained that for some years past, her husband has subjected her to “grievous
mental and physical anguish.”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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