The News from Frederick, Maryland • Page 24

Page B-12 THE NEWS, Frederick, Friday. July 7, 1972 An By WILLIAM E.GRAFFAM County Towns Reporter MT. AIRY-- How do you start to make a new snowfence invention that makes a better mousetrap of the older of managing snow? Robert Luebke says that he "enjoys tinkering around with new ideas, turning the old ways of doing things around and around to see if there can't be a better way." And Luebke believes that he has a better way of managing snow, and sand too, to keep it off of important rights-of-way. He said he started thinking seriously of a better way of managing snow when the nation's railroads were "seriously tied- up" for days and weeks in the snows of 1965. Luebke, a 36-year-old aeronautical engineer who did his work at the University of Colorado, patented his idea with the United States in 1966 or 1967.

He also has a Canadian patent and is momentarily expecting to receive the patent papers from Japan. He lives with his artist-wife and their four handsome, lively children, two inquisitive dogs, and "Raindrop," a palomino horse, on a small country estate north of here and south of Taylorsville. Besides the snowfence patent, he has patented four other ideas, "mostly dealing with railroad work," and also developed an idea for a better man-carrying kite such is used by waterskiers. He said his kite idea is being used out in Los Angeles but that he didn't get the patent rights to the idea because he was working for Pratt-Whitney Aircraft at the time and didn't have the money for the development process. Regarding the snowfence idea, Luebke said, "My idea was instead of trying to keep snow out of the air, I'd let it fall where I wanted it, so I built a couple of models in my backyard in Connecticut." He said, "The results of the analysis of protection requirements and costs show that the Sno-Control fence is by far the most economical means of protecting critical areas such as narrow cuts, sharp fills, turnouts, crossovers, switches and retarders," important areas on railroads.

Current practices used in con- troling drifting snow use two types of fence structure: the first is thepermanentfencewhichgen- erally consists of a row of trees trimmed annually to maintain a 9-foot height; and the second, and most common, is composed of wood slats wired together in 50-foot rolls. As an illustration of the shortcomings of the permanent fence of trees which were allowed to grow unchecked, Luebke mentioned the problems of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the snows of 1965-66. "This type of fencing becomes ineffective during abnormal winters because their location must be geared to the average winter conditions," Luebke said. The problem with portable snowfences, the most common kind used, is the space available from property owners, and the need for second lines of such fences during heavy weather. "The ability of the Sno-Control fence, however, lies in its ability to keep the snow suspended over the area to be protected," Luebke said.

His fence idea has been tested by F. H. Theakston, considered the leading Canadian authority on snowfences, who does his work at Guelph University at Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Theakston uses a type of wind- tunnel, really a water-tunnel, and has measured the effectiveness of Luebke vane-type of fence in handling sand. The fence has been tested in Vermont with snow alone and in Michigan with both snow and sand.

It has also been tested by the United States Department of Transportation at Pueblo, Colorado on sanding conditions with the department's test track there. Luebke is a native of Marinette, Wisconsin on the border of Michigan and Wisconsin. He has a good background for being exposed to new and different ideas for he attended, because of his father's moves in railroad work, some 14 different high schools. Both of the Luebkes are now in railroad work, his father as director of purchasing and materials with the Western Pacific, and Luebke with the Baltimore and Ohio, Cheaspeake and Ohio, at Baltimore as manager of pmv chasing and materials systems, Luebke, who is now working on the sale of his patent rights to firms which have the developmental money, notes that the last basic patent for snowfences was registered in 1933. Thus, he figured it was time someone came up with a new idea.

Some of the uses for the invention besides highwau and railroad installation are for sand control countries, the plains of western Canada where they have large cattle lands, on polar explorations, to control silting in rivers, and beach erosion control. Some of the large firms interested in the idea include Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, National Steel and Western Pacific. As yet the fence has not been marketed. It has thus far been made out of 28-gauge galvanized sheet iron SNOW OR SAND CONTROL Robert W. Luebke, Mt.

Airy, shows a small model of his snowfence invention which allows greater control of the areas in which either snow or sand will be deposited, thus keeping the elements off important railroad or highway rights of way. The picture at the left is of a test instal- lation in 1969 for the Vermont Railroad in Burlington, Vt. ar.d the other picture is an illustration of sand control in a test for the Dept. of Transportation at a test track in Pueblo, photo by William E. Graffam) Two Horses Struck By Cars On 70S Spassky Gets First Move In Chess Match REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday.

Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. The confusion of the past week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked in the beginning: "Fischer come?" Near the end it was: "Spassky go?" "I'm very pessimistic," Dr. Max Euwe said at 10 a.m. At noon: "It's a very delicate situation." At 7 p.m., the president of the International Chess Federation sighed: "There's hope." That was Tuesday. It could have been any day in the gar- Carnival Next Week At Brunswick The Brunswick Ambulance Company will hold its annual carnival July 10 through July 15 on the lot adjacent to Acme Supermarket.

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Monday, the Blue Ridge Partners (Bluegrass Band); Tuesday, Kenny Hawker and the Country Playboys; Wednesday, the Western Gentlemen; Thursday, the Countrymen; Friday, Johnny Norris and the Free State Boys and Saturday, Crazy Face (Rock and Roll Band.) There are 652,755 Puerto Rican children in N.Y. City Schools. bled prelude to what chess lovers say is the match of the century Spassky of the U.S.S.R. vs. Fischer of the U.S.

A. Spassky arrived early to wait for Bobby. Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didnt show. Later he demanded an apology or he wouldn't play. At one news conference, one of Fischer's lawyers said he'd come to say he had nothing to say.

Yefim Geller, Spassky's second, fielded questions with: "Kak Gavarit po Angliski," or as you say in English, "No comment." Then there's the "Eavesdropper," a man approaching middle age with a shock of graying hair combed in careful disarray onto his forehead. He takes voluminous notes, for a magazine piece, he says. On scraps of paper he records conversations he's overheard. He carries the scraps in a red plastic shopping bag as he moves soundlessly about the hotel lobbies. One final quote, from Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, who was under pressure from Fischer to give up a share of the gate receipts: "I have worked for more than a year to get this match to Iceland.

I would do many things. But I will not bite into a sour apple." for the installations in Burlington, for the Vermont Railroad in December of 1969, the Pueblo, Colorado and Michigan experiments. Woodsboro Bids Postponed Till July 13 Opening day on bids was postponed Thursday for Woodsboro Elementary School's improvement until July 13. Seven contractors interested in the project need more time to prepare for bids. A preliminary figure of $695, 000 was estimated for site im provement, equipment and new structure which will increase Walkersville Parade Awards WaJkersville Volunteer Fire Company held their annual parade in Walkersville.

Awards were given to the following: Best Appearing Fire Prevention Float United Steam Engine Company No. 3, Frederick. Best Appearing Apparatus first, Hyattstown; second, Middletown. Best Appearing Ladies Auxiliary first, Upper Montgomery County, second, Frederick Am- vets. Company Coming Longest Distance Libertroad.

Oldest Apparatus Still in Service Rocky Ridge. Best Appearing Ambulance Thurmont Community. Majorette Groups first, Accents, Middletown; second, Shamrocks, Frederick; third, Twirlettes, Frederick; fourth, Libertyettes, Libertyrown. Youth Organizations first, Glade Valley Little League; second, Walkersville Girl Scouts; third, Mt. Pleasant Libertytown Cub Scout Pack 1062; fourth, Walkersville Boy Scout Troop 1070; fifth, Walkersville Cub Scout Pack 1070.

Best Appearing Non-commercial Float first, Shangri-La Marine Corps League; second, New Midway Girl Scouts. Best Appearing Commercial Float Willard Chemical Company, Frederick. Most Comical Vehicle Am- vets Post No. 2, Frederick. Most Comical Other Pete the Clown.

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Neither drivers of the cars which hit the animals were apparently injured seriously, police said. A third horse, a Palomino gelding, was captured as he attempted to hurdle a barrier in the highway's median strip. Jan E. Silver, 24, of Silver Spring, said she was returning home from a pottery class al Montgomery College when she suddenly became aware of two horses in the lefthand lane directly in front of her car. She said she swerved to the right to avoid the animals, but "it was too late," and a bay mare crashed into the side of her white 1969 Cutlass, smashing the windshield with its hooves.

A second car spun around in the road to avoid the collision and landed in a nearby ditch. The driver of the second auto, Mrs. Jack G. Bethesda, a newspaper reporter, said she removed the collar from the head of the dying mare to use on the gelding, which was described by the owner, Kenny Etter, 23, as a Tennessee Walking Horse. Mrs.

Polly Buell, Humane Society head, said the mare and her four week old foal were put to sleep at the scene by Dr. Harold Holbrook, a Potomac veterinarian, after the colt was also struck about a mile further down the highway. The driver of that car did not stop, according to Mrs. Finley. Miss Silver suffered cuts and bruises in the accident.

The mare had a broken leg and chest injuries, eyewitnesses said. Police said no charges have been filed in the case. "It was a horrible experience," Miss Silver said Thursday. Etter, who is employed by Albru air conditioning, and lives in the District of Columbia, said he has been keeping the horses on the Viers Farm on Md. 28, where a large subdivision of homes is being built.

He said he found some fence rails down Monday night after the horses got loose, and that he replaced them personally at that time. Wednesday, he said a friend checked the fence before turning the horses out for the night, and all the rails were in place atthat time. '-It looks to me as if somebody has been doing it (letting down rails), but I can't understand why," Etter said. "I don't have any enemies that I know of." Etter said the Palomino was the most valuable of the three horses, and that the combined price of the other two would be about S650. Mrs.

Buell said an inspection of the fencing showed that it appeared to be "O.K." Etter also stated that if the animals had lumped the fence, there would lave been deep imprints in the damp soil, which appeared to show the horses had stepped over he rails after they were lowered. None of the rails were broken, he said. Fedders Requests Zoning Change At Walkersville White Lightning' Will Play For Dance White Lightnin', a local rock group, will play at a benefit dance for the Frederick Wei- are Rights Organization Saturday from 8 to 12 a.m. at the Vest Frederick Junior High chool. The FWRO is asking a lonation fee of $1.25 per per- on.

Refreshments will be serv- County Commissioners Lawrence A. Dorsey and Donald Lewis heard an appeal to rezone the 208-acre site of the Fedders compressor plant near Walkersville yesterday. Lewis said the commissioners had visited a Fedders plant in Edison, N. and were "favorably impressed." Dorsey said after the hearing that "Frederick is fortunate to have Fedders coming in. This county needs industry, and the competition is on to jet it-- even down to the counties.

There are a lot of other counties that have been begging Fedders to come to them, and shouldn't make it any harder 'or them than is absolutely necessary." David Weinberg, lawyer for the corporation, asked that the site be rezoned from M-l industrial to M-2, because the M-l classification is too restrict- ve. Under M-l, the company would be limited to 20-ton punch presses, for example, and about a day's reserve of propane gas. The planning commission staff, however, recommended M-2 for only a 100-acre tract extending west from the railroad to the Monocacy River. The rest should remain M-l, said county planner Lawrence Nelson, except for the area flooded recently, which should be rezoned C-l conservation. Nelson also said that if the commissioners did not take the staffs recommendation, the case should be resubmitted to the county planning and zoning commission.

A. R. Agcvino, group vice president of the Fedders firm, said the less restrictive zoning was "absolutely necessary" for the plant to plan on future operations. "It's not a question of being able to live with the M-l restrictions," he added. "We have to have the M-2 to start." Agovino also promised that the company would not build within 300 feet of the ad joining property now proposed for residential development.

Sydney Bloom, lawyer for the developers of the Toms Farm neighboring the Fedders property, objected that the proposed rezoning would cause "considerable hardship" for his clients. Bloom also said he found it 'rather incredible" that the Fedders representatives had not studied the county's zoning regulations more carefully. "I think that the applicants applied for an M-l thinking they couldn't get an M-2, and figured they'd apply for an M-2 once they had a foothold with the M-l." He also held that once the commissioners permitted the company to manufacture one article, it would be difficult to prevent further diversification and expansion, which would further reduce neighboring residential property values. Weinberg admitted that the company's request for rezoning so soon after it had been granted M-l was "unusual," and said the change in plans was "our mistake." But the additional equipment would be virtually noiseless and completely internal, he said, and would not harm the environment. He added that if the commissioners approve the company's request over the planning resubmit the case to the planning commission as soon as possible.

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