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mm 0Tlm t''atrJI" Mrjr Dramatic Emergence Of an Adult Cicada "HARLES A. Bl'RRl'S. Fair Haven, spent "several hours In the middle of a July night i 14 section photographing the emergence of a cicada (also known as the. harvest fly) from its skin Into its brief adult phase of life. Durrus, a research physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel Township, found the bug with a flashlight as it crawled up a rail fence in his backyard.

In his own words, this is how he produced this extraordinary sequence of pictures: "I had been watching for the 17-year cicadas for a month or so without success. However, the News Features children had been collecting cicada shells for two or three days, and on this particular night (July 20) I decided to look for emergence of the bugs from the ground in the backyard. Finding (with a flashlight) a dozen or so crawling toward a willow tree and a rail fence, I decided to set up the camera and watch my first such experience. Soon I selected one on a vertical rail fence post to photograph. "Over a period of 2Vi to 3 hours, I made about 36 exposures, then started all over again observing a second one, finally getting to bed at 3:30 a.m.

"During this period, there were several going through the same process, and by 3 a.m. a flashlight revealed eight or ten of the pale green insects, with extended wings, hanging from various positions on the tree and fence. Eerie and fascinating! "My only regret is that they were not the famous 17-year variety, which are supposed to have red eyes. The eyes on these were very dark brown-black. "The photos were taken with a tripod-mounted Minolta 35mm SLR and a Vivatar 90 mm macro lens at fll.

The image was about half life size on the film. was from a single flash reflected from an umbrella. Film was Ilford FP-4." Education Books Energy Asbury Park Press Aug. 12. 1979 8.

The World Book encyclopedia describes the cicada as a heavy-bodied insect with four thin wings that it folds over its body like a roof. It is darkly colored and usually one to two inches long. They are commonly known for the buzzing song the male makes. A drum-like membrane (thin layer of skin) on the abdomen vibrates rapidly to produce the sound. Its song attracts females or calls others together, and each has its own melody.

Essentially, there are two types of cicadas called dog-day and stomach. Tips of the twigs often die as a result. In a few days, the eggs hatch and young cicadas appear, fall to the ground, enter the soil and feed on roots. When they emerge from the soil, they climb a tree or shrub, shed their skin and presto are now an adult. In a few weeks, the cicada dies.

periodical. The dog-day, like the one shown here, appears in July and August, and normally takes two to five years to develop from egg to an adult. The periodical variety takes 13 to 17 years. A female cicada lays eggs in the twigs of trees and shrubs, and places them in small holes she makes with a sawlike organ near the tip of her tv ja 0 Ml' -iff i 3 Lf K( 3 Ml XS' f' 5 -Tj ft Interlaken. Widow's Latest Patent Finally Pays Off "I had a cousin who was on her uppers," she said.

"I got a woman in Brooklyn to make them for me. "Of course, in those days (I was living in Newark) I had a car and a chauffeur and it was no trouble at all to go to Brooklyn. "My cousin sold them for me to Wool-worth and J. C. Penney and I used to give her $100 a week whether she sold them or she didn't.

She needed it and I was glad for her to have an excuse to get that money. "But no sooner had we put them out than the market was flooded with stacks of powder puffs cheaper than we could make them." Mrs. Hollander said her love of business came from her initial efforts to help her late son, Alfred, who was a skilled wood craftsmen at the age of 14. Alfred Hollander, who died four years ago at the age of 42 after a long series of illnesses, also held patents and Mrs. Hollander and he sold many of his products through such quality outlets as W.

J. Sloane, Saks Fifth Avenue, Marshall Field, Bonwit Teller and Alfred Dunhill. He also made delicate mahogany easels for the Spode china patents for products that were sold through Sears, Roebuck and Co. many years ago "but it was very hush-hush because she was a society woman and wasn't supposed to be doing things like that." Bolstered by meticulous menus prepared for her by her cook before retirement. Mrs.

Hollander learned to prepare meals, as well as to do other housework. "I don't like it," she said. "It bores me. I get tired of it. But when I cook 1 try to do it well.

I like good food. "I admire women who go out and work for a living who are capable. That's why I get such a kick out of everything Jane does. One of my friends calls me a stage mother. "I'll never forget the first Thanksgiving after Jackie (the cook) left.

"I thought, 'Goodness, I don't have anybody to make a turkey for me. How do I make a So I looked at what Jackie had written. "I said, 'I'm gonna make this turkey and if it doesn't turn out any good I won't make "It turned out very good, to my dismay, because I've been making them ever since." SHE FOUND that "business is very interesting" when she got involved in her son's work, Mrs. Hollander said. A painter who does work in water colors and oils and who most recently learned Japanese brush painting, told Mrs.

Hollander he thinks "I'm best in water colors." An exhibitor for many years for the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, of which she is a long-time member, Mrs. Hollander noted regretfully that her recent activities with regard to her inventions have kept her from painting. A year after her husband died 21 years ago, Mrs. Hollander sold the family mansion on Ocean Avenue, Long Branch (now owned and occupied by Assemblyman Anthony Vil-lane), and moved to a much smaller house in West Allenhurst, Ocean Township. The only servant she retained was a cook, who retired five years later.

She and her daughter have lived in their present home, which is rented, nearly 14 years. MRS. HOLLANDER said an aunt who lived in Minneapolis obtained a number of Offshore Power Awaits Decision By SAM STHRAEGER Special to The Press DOLORES SMITH HOLLANDER got the idea for her most successful, invention after a messy feeding session with an infant granddaughter about 10 years ago. "I noticed the food was going all over her and me and the floor and everything else," Mrs. Hollander recalled, "so I thought to myself, 'I've go to find something that will realy do the job so this won't happen'." A short time later she developed a bib with an open pocket on the bottom to catch morsels that didn't make it into the mouth.

"I took hat wire to keep the pocket out, anything I could find at home," said Mrs. Hollander. "My daughler-in-law said to me, 'My goodness, it really works'." She gave one to a friend with a grandchild and was startled to learn the woman had used it for her husband, who was in a Long Branch convalescent home. "He was a small man," Mrs. Hollander said, and the bib protected his clothing from spilled food when he fed himself with palsied hands.

This encouraged her to develop a geriatric feeding bib for adults which is now being sold throughout the United States and Canada. THE GERI-CARE Products Division of the Blessings Corporation, a major diversified conglomerate, is marketing the adult bib to hospitals and nursing homes and manufacturing the infants' bib which she sells herself. Both are covered by the same patent. Mrs. Hollander, who holds "between six and eight patents," said this is the first one that has earned her any money.

The bids are made of durable heavy gr.uge soft vinyl and the food catcher pockets are held open by plastic boning, she explained. The pocket is the patented feature. translucent blue feeding accessories are washable and, according to the manufac-tuer, are "boilable, chemical resistant and stain resistant." Mrs. Hollander said the bibs have been selling for about a year. The reason it took so long to market tnem was, among other hings1, the difficulty in finding a manufacturer there were the time, effort and expense of research and the legal details of registering the "working patent." A working patent, while it is far more difficult to obtain than a design patent, is of much greater value because of the protection it gives the inveulor, Mrs.

Hollander said. said she isn't certain about the number of each kind of bib sold to date, although she feels an estimate of more, than 100,000 would be accurate. Both kinds sell for from $12 to $15 a. dozen, depending on the quantity ordered. IN THE MEANTIME, the Blessings Cor-tporation is preparing to manufacture and Ashury Park Press Mrs.

Dolores Smith Hollander, Interlaken, holds baby bib she invented and wears adult-size bib with slice of bread in it to demonstrate the manner in which bibs catch food and keep clothing clean. If the license comes through, initial plans are modest. One plant would be built per year, employing about 4,000 people and an additional 10.000 in allied industries. Uter, should OPS succeed in constructing four plants a year, which an NRC environmental study hased its conclusions on, 13.800 jobs would result, with 20,000 more jobs in other areas. "I think once they get an approach for it, once orders start coming in the next two or three years, they'll be all right," said Scott Peters, a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum (AFI), a nuclear lobbying group.

OPS' chances for success still rest on a basic premise: building the plants on an "assembly-line" basis in Jacksonville, thus eliminating many of the regulatory nightmares for a utility." "Once they approve one design, they'll be able to approve them all," said an industry lobbyist. THIS, however, doesn't take into account the sitting constraints, which the NRC has addressed at length. "Finding acceptable (plant) sites in estuaries, rivers or near barrier islands will most likely be extremely difficult" hut not impossible, according to the NRC environmental study. Off the record, attorneys and marketing analysts within the industry paint and an unencouraging picture about the future of such plants. In light of the Three Mile Island accident and anti-nuclear sentiment generating throughout the country, there is skepti cism that new nuclear units have much of a chance on land, let alone offshore.

List year, only two nuclear units were ordered in the United States. The offshore power systems have peculiar design problems, best illustrated by the complex contingencies in the event of a core meltdown. In its environmental report, the NRC indicated that the OPS concept is workable, provided extra provisions he made to delay radioactive matter from getting out of the platform containment area. This, in effect, placed the platforms in the "class 9" category, the most severe type. OPS DISAGREED with the designation hut.

having little choice, submitted designs for an elaborate four feet thick "core ladle." able to hold up the debris at least two days. That gives the utility and OPS some time in determining what steps to take. To be made of magnesium oxide, each iadie would cost $3.5 million. NRC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards will consider the proposed ladle and other OPS designs, in October. Then, the licensing board will rule on the whole CPS package, probably in the spring of according to a commission spokesman "The entire concept is a uniq it has bronchi with it a lot of unique "-wis." said the spokesman.

aiUnw there are numerous issues to he resolved besides the solution to a core melidou OPS officials make clear ih.o thou nuM stumbling block is the adniinisttaion wm'i-lain commitment to mi -lcat 1 Press Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A $3.5 million ladle may be the only technological prohlem holding up Offshore Power Systems from constructing floating nuclear power plants, and eventually adding as many as 13.800 new jobs to the Jacksonville, economy. However, the political hurdles are awesome. After years of hearings thousands of pages of testimony and assorted environmental impact studies, OPS officials are expressing cautious optimism that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will approve the floating plant proposal within four to six months. That approval, plus an expected increase in energy demand among south Atlantic coast utilities, could spur the missing element in OPS's game plan: customers. Since New Jersey's Public Service Electric and Gas Company canceled its order of four offshore systems due largely to a drop in a peak demand and environmental concerns no other utility has struck a deal with OPS.

JACK POPE, marketing director for OPS. said power companies are supportive of the nuclear platform concept, but no actual negotiations are under way. Still, the company employs 185 people down from about 300 when the contract was being worked out mostly in licensing and marketing positions. Mrs. Hollander, whose father was in the fur business In Chicago, met the Hollanders when she went to Deal at the age of 16.

She married Leonard Hollander, who was then starting to learn the family business, a year later. "We were very rich," Mi's. Hollander said, and she and the other women in the family, surrounded by servants, were discouraged from any domestic activity. "My husband told me the women in the family just didn't do those things," she said, so she turned her considerable energy and fertile imagination to painting and to invent-infi- SHORTLY AFTER her marriage, she said, she ohtained a patent for a twin powder puff. market her patented short apron somewhat like the bibs.

She is also seeking a patent on an even later invention she declines to describe. Mrs. Hollander, who lives at 416 Bridle-mere Interlaken, with her daughter, Jane, public relations director for Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, is the widow of Leonard A. Hollander, a grandson of the founder of A. Hollander Son for many years the world's leading dresser and dyer of furs.

The firm, originally based in Newark, had plants throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in England, France, Germany and Australia. It was perhaps best known to the general public for its fur coat cleaning process known as Hollanderizing..