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Pace 10 Austin, Texas TIip Austin AiTiprican Monday, Mayl, i Perpetual Motion Machine Claimed BUY U.S. SAVINGS B0NDS.S TODAY! Midwest Flooding Won't Raise Food Cost If By DON KENDALL 1 1973, the consumer in the most of a family's grocery AP Farm Writer likely case of a debacle would' dollar. WASHINGTON (AP) Gov- actually get a break. Describing the general outlook simple, but the problem is vast: IMPORTANT. H.

-010 the dictionary defines a perpetual motion machine as one which, "once set in motion, OCCASIONS 1 1 eminent experts predict that' in many cases, would reduce or as of mid-May, government the mid western Corn Belt's sog-' liquidate their livestock herds.j economists on USDA's Outlook would operate indefinitely by gy winter and the recent mas- We would have a Roman! and Situation Board, noted in a sive flooding along the Mis-i feast." special report that the Mississippi flooding had delayed cotton planting in the Deita sissippi River will have little In such an extreme case, Paarllwrg said, food prices might actually drop between now and the end of the year. Impact on food prices. But they admit there is a big "if" involved. Their prediction is based on life 'ff ck. 1 i region and that many farmers are expected to turn to soy- creating its own energy." The dictionary also calls it "a hypothetical device." Webb, a 57-year-old odd-jobs man with a background of auto and airplane mechanics, has been working on the perpetual motion idea for 15 years, and says it is not hypothetical anymore.

Once he hit upon his latest the RIPLEY, Okla. (AP) -Man's search for a perpetual motion machine has been more perpetual than the motion of the machines, but John 0. Webb says he has ended the search. Webb says he not only knows how he has built a working model but he says it is so simple that he is afraid to let anyone see it, because they could build it, too. His price for the machine to revolutionize the world: mil-i lion.

"This motor can be built with a horsepower rating to run all the generators in New York or Los Angeles," he said. "There is no limit to how In the following year, we the belief that, for the most; would get cleaned out," he Thus, the report said, total part, farmers will be able to catch up on spring planting delayed by the excessive added. "But this is not likely, soybean production this year We've got a marvelous cushion; could exceed 1.5 billion bushels, and shock absorber built into! up one-fifth from last year's AP Wtrephoto 'INVENTOR' SAYS MODEL WORKS John O. Webb holds one of his plans this system that works so well ory, he was afraid to build a DOCTOR KILLED Dr. David M.

Hume, 55, a pioneer in the field of kidney transplants and chairman of the surgery department, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, was killed Saturday when the plane he was piloting crashed in Los Angeles. (AP Wirephoto) "I have confidence we hardly know it's they, that I there record. Although it noted that farmers have been delayed by weather in large portions of the Corn Belt, the report said Jack Brown's expert will," says Don Paarlberg, director of economics for the Department of Agriculture. "You I (MOO Basically, that cushion is the expanse of the United States thing and copy it. "The operation is really so simple I don't know why someone hasn't been able to discover it before now," he said.

fabric care for 9 model. "I started to build one three years ago," he said. "I realize that it would start into motion as soon as I completed it, and sii.ee I had no control over it, it cculdn't be stopped, so I halted much horsepower. The motor and "there is still time to reach an- always have some people ready and its differing weather mm to predict disaster. But we are a long way from calamity." farming patterns.

In a pinch, iticipated corn acreage" and what one area fails to producejthat a record crop of six billion Webb is even hesitant about it Speaker Joins Abortion Foes construction and worked out a bushels is possible. "We have had in the last six; another can fulfill. can be built from the size of three inches to the size of a 12-story building." And he says it can be operated for pennies a day for oil for the bearings. plan of controls." months a succession of pre- Weather during the growing The wheat crop, based on ex- revealing its workings enough to apply for a patent. Instead, he wants to sell the idea to someone, let the buyer have the pat 11113 iCdiUII i lUlllldl wear.

Careful hand finishing, close inspection insured. coccWounSS 615 W. 19th 478-4621 went) is a cautious man in BOSTON (AP) John W. dieted disasters, none of which; season is most crucial and is petted plantings this spring and has really reflected soonest for fruits and' the generally good conditions of these hours of possible triumph in a matter which could revolu vegetables. winter wheat planted last fall, "Unless some of the moving parts wear out, it would run Paarlherg said in an interview.

To some extent, Paarlberg tionize the world. In fact, he McCormack, former speaker of the U.S. House, says he has joined the board of directors of But for the long pull, the big: also could be record large en: and spend his remaining years in financial security, watching his invention change the world. forever." more than 1.7 billion bushels. said, the Mississippi River crops such as corn, sorghum dismantled the working model for fear someone would see the Webb's machine may be This isn't to say that there Massachusetts Citizens for Life, flooding could turn out to be a grain, oats and barley are most plus in terms of food prices.

vital to consumers. Along with won't be more increases in the all anti-abortion group The reason: much of the land soybeans, those are planted in price of food. "I welcome the presence of inundated by the river would! the spring, normally over a have been used for cotton. But brief span of a few weeks. It means, assuming that the pro-life movement in Amer-Paarlberg is right and farmers, ica and I wish to become ac- idenlified with he many farmers are being forcedj Those commodities are the 'catch up with their spring plan- lively to consider planting soybeans, raw materials for producing! ting, that the heavy rains of the said.

instead because it will be too, meat, dairy products, poultry late for cotton bv the time their! and eggs. And those items, ac- He called human life "this nation's most precious resource past months will not necessarily add heavily to the woes of the food consumer. cording to the government, and responsibility." IF IT'S DUALITY YOU'RE LOOKING FOR fields dry out. This would mean more feed to produce meat, milk and eggs next winter. But even if the entire 13 million acres flooded by the river are left idle, Paarlberg said, the effect on consumers would be minimal because the area includes only four per cent of the land farmers are expected to cultivate this year.

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