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2 A rnttttPl Saturday, May 22, 1971 New Device Traps Highway Speeder With Law, Also In Some Cases -Wife WASHINGTON (.11 A Texas defense firm Sold Congress Friday of its invention to detect and photograph highway speeders. Sometimes the device detects more than any driver would wish, such as a cozy companion who's not his wife. It's called Orhis II and, to hear the industry people talk, it'll drive radar out of business as a way to scare speeders into slowing down. But at least one congressman had some qualms. REP.

PATRICK T. Caffery, said he was concerned about the balance between the need to promote highway safety and the public right to privacy. "Does anybody feel that in doing this, we're, if not in 1984, at least in 1983?" Caffery asked. He referred to the specter of state spying in George Orwell's novel, "19S4." Tom Vandergriff, mayor of Arlington, which is experimenting with Orbis, said the system does have some critics. "BUT I CAN'T emphasize the fact enough that the overwhelming majority of our citizens are thrilled by the security it gives us," Vandergriff told the House Public Works investigating subcommittee.

"Perhaps some could make the point that this is undue invasion of privacy," the mayor said, "yet to those of us who have watched the slaughter on that highway in my own case three very close friends were killed the cries of privacy seem very hollow." The driver knows his picture has been taken because a dull red flash is emitted by the conspicuous but not very threatening-looking roadside device which houses cameras. IN ARLINGTON, the police department sends out more warnings than tickets to people photographed in the act of speeding. The photographs are kept on computerized files until, or if, a case is to be pursued beyond the warning. "I must say some persons get anxious about that possibility of photos being mailed to them," Vandergriff said. "We got a call from one man who got a notice of a photograph and he had been driving along the highway with a woman he shouldn't have been," the mayor said.

"HE WAS NOT at all happy about the prospect of this picture arriving at his house," Vandergriff said. Richard H. Myers, traffic systems director for Vought Missiles Space a subsidiary of Dallas' LTV Aerospace, said Orbis costs far less and can snare far more speeders than radar manned by traffic patrolmen. Whereas traffic cops can haul in and write tickets for no more than five persons an hour the photographic machine is getting clear shots of up to 900 violators an hour, he said. Everyone who exceeds a pre-set speed limit gets his picture taken, along with his license number and general front view of his car.

SENSORS ARE put in the highway. The camera-hiding "eyes" nearby take pictures of any car exceeding the speed limit. It can also be adjusted to take pictures of dangerously slow-moving cars. Once a day the film is processed and put in a film reader and a keypunch file. Touchdownl coast of Vietnam.

Jet, which was missing a wheel, had its speed slowed by barrier and landed successfully. It had been traveling about 145 m.p.h. when it touched down. (AP) Phantom jet, piloted by Navy Lt. Jerry Pitchford of Carbondale, 111., is snared, by nylon barrier Friday as it makes emergency landing on flight deck of L'SS Ranger, operating in Gulf of Tonkin off Freak Blizzard Dumps Snow On Reno Mother, Infant Killed In Jump From Tower By United Press International A spring blizzard whipped sections of the Far West Friday, dumping seven inches of snow on Reno, and setting a new national record for the season by bringing the total at Mount Rainier to 1,017 inches.

Travelers warnings were posted for western Nevada and the Sierra Nevadas for snow and high winds, a tornado watch was issued for portions of Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and a severe thunderstorm watch was ordered in parts of Kansas and Nebraska. RENO POLICE had to put chains on their tires to patrol the city at the height of the storm, which combined high winds, thunder and lightning with the snowfall and caused numerous power outages. Six inches of snow were on the ground by morning and another inch of snow fell during the day Friday. A weather forecaster said a cold low pressure area moved in "faster than was previously anticipated," dropping temperatures from the 70s to the 40s in the space of one hour. At Paradise Ranger Station, another inch fell at the 5,000 foot level of the south slope of Mount Rainier, moving the total even further ahead of the previous national record of 1,000.3 inches of snow in one season set ahead of the same location in the 1955-1956 season.

A total of 230 inches were still on the ground there. TO THE south and southwest of the Nevada storm, very high winds produced a choking mixture of blowing dust and sand. Winds through the region were gusting up to 50 and 60 miles an hour with a peak gust of 71 miles per hour at Cedar City, Utah. High velocity winds knocked down power lines and uprooted trees in California and in San Francisco, the Outer Mission and Ingleside districts were plunged into darkness for 53 minutes because a power line toppled. At Point Reyes, winds were 82 miles per hour with gusts up to 101 miles.

In southeast Wyoming, 5,000 sandbags were taken to the small town of Saratoga to reinforce the Platte River banks. The river already was flooding at nearby Henry, Neb. MEN WORKED through Thursday night reinforcing levees in the towns of Frontier, Diamondville and Kem-merer against Ham's Fork River in southwest Wyoming. The U.S. Emergency Planning, Disaster and Civil Defense Office said flooding possibilities were critical along the Big Horn River and the North Platte-Laramie River systems in southwest Wyoming.

Fair skies and cool, pleasant weather prevailed from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, but the East Coast also experienced inclement weather with nearly two inches of rain swamping Cape Hatteras, N.C. Fischer Gets Lead In Chess Over Russian VANCOUVER, B. C. (Reuter) American grand master Bobby Fischer defeated Soviet grand master Mark Taimanov twice Friday to take a 3-0 lead in their world chess championship quarter-final match. Both victories came in adjourned games.

In the first game, Taimanov resigned on the 89th move with Fischer about to queen a pawn. The game appeared to be a draw when play started, but Fischer displayed flawless endgame technique for the win. TAIMANOV then resigned without further play the remaining ad QUIXCY. Mass. (UPI) The wife of a high school teacher, holding her year-old daughter tightly in her arms, fotfght off a would-be rescuer Friday and jumped from a 123-foot water tower killing herself and her child.

They were identified as Mrs. Linda Brown, 29, wife of Quincy high school teacher Raymond Brown, and their daughter Emelyn. TWO telephone company employes were working nearby in the squan-tum section when they noticed the woman go over a six-foot fence and begin climbing the structure. While Robert Flaherty, 23, ran to summon police, foreman Peter Wallace, 30, Quake Felt In Alaska PALMER, Alaska UP) A moderate earthquake, with a magnitude reading of 5.7, occurred 170 miles east of Adak Friday. The Palmer Observatory said the magnitude was not sufficient to generate a tidal wave, but the tremor was felt gave chase, motioning to a neighbor for help.

"I snapped my fingers and waved my hands at the neighbor to get his attention," Wallace said. "I didn't want to yell because I was afraid the women would hear and panic. "She almost dropped the baby a couple times. When I reached her she kept fighting, fighting," Wallace said. "The baby was crying all the time." THE woman broke his grip, Wallace said, and crawled out on a vertical I-beam.

"She said a couple of times, 'I love my husband'. At one point she looked at the baby and kissed it. She was moaning and groaning and a couple of times said, 'Oh, my God'," he said. Wallace said the woman kept fighting him and finally "was almost at a 45-degree angle-almost in a swimmer's backflip position. "She kept struggling until I only had one hand clutching her sweater," Wallace said.

"Finally she slipped away." JBT. OPEN journed game. When play was halted in that game Thursday night, Fischer had maneuvered Taimanov into a lost position and was threatening to capture most of the Russian's remaining material. Fischer now is in good position to win the 10-game match and advance in the elimination series for a challenge to world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. SUNDAY lightly at Adak.

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eques at five naval stations. And, Orlando policemen haven't asked for anything like that. All they want is longer sideburns and stylish haircuts. But Orlando police aren't alone in their code dilemma. Other law enforcement agencies also have stringent codes.

The Florida Highway Patrol, for example, also limits sideburns to the center of the ear. And it too requires "clean-cut, close and neat" haircuts. THE SAME holds true in Winter Park where policemen are told long hair "looks ludicrous" under a military-style hat. However, moustaches are allowed, a spokesman said. In Daytona Beach, the same stiff requirements prevail.

In addition, a spokesman said, policemen must be clean shaven no moustaches. Cocoa police have no written rules about grooming, one officer said. But the unwritten rules are well-known only one man has sideburns, and they reach only to the top of the ear lobe. er-length locks. Policemen say they just want to be "treated as adults who possess sufficient maturity to select suitable hair styles for themselves as individuals." THE PETITION daily gathers more signatures.

One spokesman for the rank and file says it will have at least 200 signatures before it is presented to acting Chief Charles Runnels. However, Runnels has already given his answer "no." And it could drive a lot of policemen into the armed service, now that everyone except the Marine Corps has done away with "chicken" regulations such as "sidewall" haircuts. The Army, Navy and Air Force permit sideburns below the middle of the ear. The Navy also allows beards and lor.g moustaches, as long as they are neatly trimmed. IN FACT, the chief of naval operations, Adm.

Elmo Zum-walt, also allows liquor in officer's quarters and beer in senior enlisted quarters not to mention "hard rock" discoth From Pago 1 weeks. But, he added, he is surprised at the number of policemen who signed the petition. But, he said, no one is going to take a ruler to measure hair or moustaches. The grooming codo forbids sideburns below the middle of the ear, moustaches extending beyond the corner of the mouth, ''blocked'' hair Chair cut straight across the back, not tapered), and hair covering the collar. "WE FEEL it is time for us to become part of the society we live in," reads the petition which gathered signatures from 65 of the department's 287 men in 24 hours.

"Years ago, when a policeman was the only person in the crowd who didn't have cuffs on his trousers, he stood out like a sore thumb," it reads. "Today, his hair styles set him apart from the rest of the crowd." The petition doesn't seek the right to wear beards or should I 3 BETWEEN 1-4 AND 17-92 ON HWY. 436 124 SEMORAN BOULEVARD ALTAMONTE SPRINGS TELEPHONE 831-3444 BankAmericaro SUTRA'S OWN P.M. P.M. SUNDAY CONVENIENT CREDIT PLAN.