The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1945 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CAMER<)\' HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945
REDS IN 137 MILK OF
BERLIN WEDNESDAY
The Red army Tuesday night had
reached the Oder river and was storm-
ing the outer defenses of Breslau, was
within striking distance of Poznan, in
Western Poland only 137 miles from
Berlin, and was dashing northward in
East Prussia to complete encirclement
of the Nazi defenders of that provi-
nce.
The German people heal’d one dole-
ful report after another from Berlin
radio and the news from the western
front offered little cheer.
St. Vith, the last German strong-
hold in the collapsed Belgian salient
fell to the U. S. First army as the re-
treating Germans were pounded by
fighter-bombers in an all-day assault.
The Amei’icans returned to St. Vith y
month and two days after they were
driven from it by Marshal Karl von
Rundstedt’s December counter-of-
fensive.
On the southei n end of the western
front, the French First army launch-
the British Second army in the north
carved out more gains above Aachen.
All along the front, General Eisen-
hower’s armies were on the move and
at no point did the Germans register
any gains.
But it was the east front to which
Germany looked in what her radio
commentators called “the decisive
hour.”
The Oder river has been advertised
by German and other commentators
as Germany’s best natural defense in
the east. Should the Red army cross
it in Silesia, its victory over the Reich
would be much closer.
The Germnn high command itself
told of the threat to Posnun, the last
big town on the shortest road to Ber-
lin, saying that Russian armor had
penetrated into the area and fighting
raged east of the town.
The East Prussian victories, an-
nounced by Premier Marshal Stalin,
who has issued 26 orders of the day
in the last week, took the Soviets
within 22 miles of the Baltic port of
Elbing in a move that is cutting the
routes to the West for German East
Prussian fox-ces and threatening Dan-
zig, and pushed with 23 miles of Kon-
igsberg.
The Moscow radio, reciting the tri-
umphs of the five massive armies
speeding westward into Germany, de-
clared, “nothing can stop the Red
army and the Russian people from
cari’ying out the death sentence on
Nazi Germany.”
640 Poll TaxesPaid
In City to Wednesday
Noon, Report Shows
Up to noon Wednesday 640 Poll
Taxes had been paid in the City of
Cameron.
This figui’e was regarded as below
expectations but with 6 days left to
pay the total may I'each 1000 or
more. In off political years poll tax
payments are usually about 1000
strong in the city.
Each two years during primary
periods some 1200 poll taxes are paid
in Cameron.
The bulk of property taxes are paid
in October when the city allows a 5
per cent discount. This discount is
costly and may soon be discontinued.
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MAMIE A. HEFLEY
INSURANCE
THE VERDICT OF THE YEARS IS
SATISFACTION
“Time Tried and Fire Tested’
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INSURANCE IS NOT AN EXPENSE—IT IS AN IN
VESTMENT IN SECURITY!
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CORRUGATED GALVANIZED IRON
SHINGLES-LUMBER
A. E. MATULA,
Phone 27.
Cameron. Texas.
J. O. MITCHELL,
Phone 18.
Buck holts, Texas.
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Machine Solves
Many Problems
Calculator Will Be Used to
Explore Vast Fields
In Mathematics.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — A ma-
chine that “thinks” and is possessed
of an algebraic superbrain has been
presented to Harvard university.
The machine, the theoretical ba-
sis for which was worked out by
Comdr. Howard H. Aiken, U.S.N.R.,
associate professor of applied
mathematics on leave from the Har-
vard graduate school of engineering,
performs every mathematical opera-
tion called for in every known type
of mathematical problem.
At the dictation of a mathe-
matician, it will solve in a matter
of hours equations never before
solved because of their intricacy
and the enormous time and person-
nel which would be required to work
them out on ordinary office calcula-
tors.
For the present the calculator,
which consists of an interlocking
panel of small gears, counters,
switches and control circuits only
a few inches in depth, held in a
steel frame 51 feet long and 8 feet
high, will be used by the navy for
war service.
Use After War.
After the war it will be used to
explore vast fields in pure mathe-
matics previously barred from re-
search by excessively intricate and
time-consuming calculations and in
the applications of higher mathe-
matics to all quantitative sciences.
Completely new in principle, unlike
any calculator previously built, the
machine will solve virtually any
known problem in applied mathe-
matics, producing a result accurate
to 23 significant figures.
Among many time - consuming
problems the machine is especially
designed to handle are the compu-
tation and tabulation of functions,
evaluation of integrals, solution of
ordinary differential equations, so-
lution of simultaneous linear al-
gebraic equation, computation of
least squares and operations in har-
monic and in statistical analysis.
In the completed machine are 500
miles of wire, 3,000,000 wire con
nections, 3,500 multiple relays with
35,000 contacts, 2,225 counters, 1,404
10-pole switches and tiers of 72 add-
ing machines, each with 23 signifi-
cant numbers.
To carry out solutions, the ma-
chine is equipped to consult loga-
rithmic and other functional tables
lying in it or coded on tapes.
The operation of the machine is
controlled by a coded tape. To use
it, a mathematician must prepare
the problem for the machine, con-
verting figures, signs and symbols
into code holes according to a code
book written by Commander Aiken
with the assistance of Ensign
Campbell.
Skill Not Needed.
The operator, who need not
be a trained mathematician, then
punches code holes, using a special-
ly developed punch, into the control
tape to feed the problem to the ma-
chine. Each item of information
punched amounts to a single state-
ment of direction, such as "take the
number out of counter A; deliver to
counter B, start grouping opera
tion.’’
The tape passes over a drum ad
vanced by means of a rotating
clutch connected to the main powex
drive. The holes in the tape are
recognized by mechanical feelers
which close relays. These relays
set up the electrical circuits neces-
sary to the routing of numbers
through the plant and the initiation
of the various procedures.
Addition and subtraction are per
formed with the use of adding coun-
ters, multiplication with a unique
mechanical multiplication table
division with the table and a sensing
circuit, and computation of elemen-
tary, trigonometric and hyperbolic
func tions, and functions of the funr
tions, by mechanical tables.
Encoded functions can be cata
logued in the library for use in fu- |
ture picblcms. Thus a typical prob-
lem, which formerly took four ex-
pert girls thre e weeks using ordinary
calculators, is solved by this ma
chine in 19 hours.
Railroad Save* Paper
By Thinning Tick< s
CHICAGO.—To aid in the pap -
salvage campa.en, a Chicago road
is using streamlined tickets.
By cutting down the weight oi |
cardboard tickets from six ply to i
two ply. the Chicago Si Eastern Illi- |
nois railroad has reduced its paper
ticket consumption by two-thirds,
says J. L. Phlering, purchasing
agent.
He said because of the difference
in weignt it has been necessary to
caution ticket agents against pass-
ing out two tickets instead of or/
Wilhelmina Is Given
British Order of Gan
LONDON. — Queen Wilhelmina ft
the Netherlands was invested with
the Order of the Garter, the highest
British order, by King George VI
in a private ceremony, the Nether-
lands news agency A. eta reported
recently. The Netherlands Queen
thus became the only reigning for-
eign queen admitted since the order
was founded by King Edward U in
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DWIGHT CHARLES HUGHES
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
On January 18, 1945, Mrs. Stanley
Hughes entertained her son, Dwight
Charles Hughes with a birthday party
at the home of her mother, Mrs. C'has.
Worcester. Dwight Charles was six
years old.
Valentine motif was used. A beau-
tiful heart-shaped cake, punch, stick
candy, sandwiches and apples were
served to the following: l'aula dean
Thompson of Coleman; Rita Hughes,
Rita Reid, Jeff Burkes, John D.
Reichert, Gloria Blake, Jimmie
Price, Ilo-Bo Price, Tommy Grove,
Mickey Grove, Jimmie Markham,
Dickie Denson, Bobbie Witcher,
Kenneth Stufflebeme, Dan Howard,
J. L. Kirk, Wanda Kirk, Dwight
Moody, Wayne Esslinger, Grover Mc-
Cullin, Lawrence Tiller, Jr., and Mari-
lyn Hughes.
Games, songs and stories were en-
joyed by the group. The mothers who
stayed for the occasion and assisted
the hostess were: Mesdames Buck
Price, W. B. Denson, Dwight Moody,
Lawrence Tiller, A. W. McCullin, A.
C. Hughes and Charlie Worcester.
Chungking Embassy is
Destroyed by Fire
The American embassy in Chung-
king, China, was destroyed by fire
early Saturday, it was announced
from both Washington and the far
east.
Origin of the fire was not announc-
ed, if known. It was estimated some
6 million dollars will be required to
replace the buildings.
PLAN NOW
fail GeteflU ‘tfom 'P'ttwte ELECTRIC SCRVICI
Rudolph Zetliz of Buckholts trans-
acted business in Cameron Wednes-
Mrs. Herbert Coleman of Yarrellton
visited in Cameron Wednesday,
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LAW OFFICE
Henderson Building
CAMERON, TEXAS
•’SERVANTS’
ENTRANCE”
Plan now to have
plenty of outlets in
your post-war home
for "plugging in"
electrical appli-
ances wherever
they are needed.
'TVT’HILE you’re working toward
Wt winning the war today... help-
ing to produce the materials needed lot
.Victory, buying War Bonds, supporting
the various wartime civic activities...
you’re naturally planning for the better
living that Victory will bring. And you’ll
want your home to provide the full bene-
fits of modern electric service. To be as-
sured of tliis you’ll need to include in
your plans for building or remodeling
provision for Adequate Wiring, which
means: Enough outlets in every room for
present and anticipated appliance and
lighting needs; enough circuits to dis-
tribute the electric load properly; ade-
quate protection for all circuits; and all
wiring installed in accordance with high
Standards.
Adequate Wiring costs very little
more than poor wiring and is your assur-
ance of efficient operation of your pres-
ent electrical appliances, plus the new
ones to be available when Victory is won.
Plan now for equipping your home
with better wiring through your con-
tinued purchases of War Bonds...you’ll
be glad you did — for better wiring
means better living in the peacetime
world of tomorrow!
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose
under the heaven!
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A time to plant, and a time to
pluck up that which is planted*
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A time to keep, and a time to
cast away;
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A time for war, and a time for
peace.
fucltiiastn, Chapter Til.
Today, for the sake of your Country and for have worthwhile dollars for the worth-while
your own individual sake, is a time to plant comforts of life after the crisis of this war is
... a time to spend less and to save more... a over and we get back to normal,
time to make sure that you, too, will share in Expect to spend the money you arc making
the good things which money
can bring when it is the right
time to spend.
If you will plan to spend sen-
sibly and to save steadily you can
But plan to spend it at the right
time when it will do most for you.
That time is not today. This is "a
time to keep ’—a time to save your
money and to put it in War Bonds
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1945, newspaper, January 25, 1945; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561455/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.