The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 52

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 34, 1948 A GADGET FOR EVERYTHING ATFOGLEHOME By MAURY TEAGCE no escaping it J. L. Fogle Is a gadgeteer. At his home, 1320 Broadmodr, he keeps a collection of the weirdest, oddest pieces of mechanism you ever saw.

Some of these he had made. Others he baa bought or acquired by various means. But all are Interesting. In the Fogle workshop "dinguses" to catch the tye of anyone, whether he be searching lor buried treasure or looking for a place to teeter-totter. Or, if it be summer, bugs might be annoying him.

Mr. fogle has that situation well in hand with his specially constructed Insect trap. Thli latter gadget is Foffle's own Invention. It consists of a large circular pan suspended on three chains. To the chains, about ft Inches up, Is a light reflector with a bulb in its center.

Theoretically, when the "juice" Is on the bugs flock madly to the light, are burned and fall pell-mell Into the water or crankcase greaire In the pan below. Fogle swears the thlnjt'il work and says he to apply for a patent. For the treasure hunter or prospector there is the M-scope. Now there are probably hundreds of people around town who don't know what an M-scopc is but, to hear Mr. Fogle discuss it.

one would assume there were at least two in every home. The M-scope, technically speaking, is a prospector's treasure- hunter's divining instrument, designed to ferret out any metal or Greetings of the Season THE AMARILLQ GLOBE. AMARILLO, TEXAS Orchard in Sky SAN GABRIEL CANYON, Cal. I U.R)--Ernest F. Fricke calls It his! ''orchard in the sky." At 71, the old-time Alaska sourdough miner finds that 20- tract, high on a mesa 20 miles up Gabriel Canyon, payi off better than the many told claims he has staked In his lifetime.

Since he took a government lease in 1921, Fricke has carried single- handed all his farm equipment up the mountain on a foot trail that is the only means of access from the highway below. His windswpnt From Dr. A. D. Foreman.

pastor, and the members oi the First Baptist Church. mineral which might be lurking beneath the earth's surface. Equipped with earphones and little dials, the machine docs this miracle both visually arid audibly. Fogle recalls that it was this apparatus which helped an Amarillo woman several years ago to unearth about $3,500 concealed in her back yard, Other smaller and simpler "dl- jvining rods" are to be found in Mr. iFogle's possession.

They operate on the same principle but are much I lighter and easier to carry. The combination swing and teeter-totter almost fell on our heads before its maker could dislodge It from the shelf upon which it had been gathering dust. "Had a man tell me If I made him a model of this," declared "Fogle, would set up a factory and give me h.ulf the patent rights. Guess he forgot my address. Haven't heard from him since." But the swing is fascinating.

It has two seats facing each other while over it is suspended the teeter totter. The manufacturer failed to mention what kept occupants of the swing from being conked by the cavorters on the seesaw. He did say there were five and his collar button or his last dime in the grass by the bus stop. Not forgetting the housewife either vented us from pursuing the subject any further. When "doodlebugs" were brought up memories came forth of small insects lurking at the bottom of a conical depression into which care- lless ants would occasionally stumble to comprise the ambusheir's dinner.

But this is not what Mr. Fogle meant. His "doodlebug" is a cylindrical weight filled with minerals whose rames he refused to give. Suspended on a small chain, the weight follows either silver or gold until directly over it, when it begins describing a circle over the hunted metal. Something like this would be the salvation of one who had lost an Indoor drying rack for winter washing.

He pointed out his lawnmower sharpener, also an original contrivance. These and many more are the wonderful gadgets to be seen at J. L. Fogle's home. It was worth the taxi fare to watch his eyes light up as he demonstrated them.

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