Panama City News-Herald from Panama City, Florida • Page 9

XHWiS -HtiKALI), Panattia City, Friday, May 16,1975 Pagf IB me, tty TERRY wirr 1 Staff Writer A retired machinist living in Panama City claims that he has developed plans for an engine that Uris on ain Walter L. Parrish, 206 2nd Court doesn't have a name fof his dream machine but he figures oil and electric companies along would be willing to pay him $10,000,000 just to keep it off the market. Parrish, who says he could have been a multi-millionaire if his 17 previous inventions hadn't either failed or fell into the wrong hands was hesitant to reveal the workings of this latest device. He did say however, that it involved two modifications on the air turbine engine already in existance. "What I need now is a sponsor," he said in a cautious voice.

"If I can get someone to give me the $2,0001 need to buy an air turbine, I'll give them half interest on these other patents which are worth millions of dollars." Three Patents Parrish has to his credit and one of them is a device called a "positive jawcheck" which would be used in textile mills to prevent malfunctions of looms used to process cotton fabrics. He said the device makes the looms 15 percent more efficient because of the wear and tear it saves on machine parts like the warps and picker sticks. "The device is worth more than $1,000,000 in patent royalties," he noted. It's actually been tested in a textile mill, The Swift Manufac turing according to Parrish at the request of the former company president "Shorty" Williams. But Parrish said Williams didn't buy the device simply because he Was already a rriulti-mliiionaire with at least 30-50 patents paying royalties.

Parrish said the "jawcheck" did everything it was supposed to do during the two test periods of three months each but Williams just didri't jvant to buy it. He said researchers have sought such a "jawcheck" for the past 90 years but it only took him one year to develop the iiiiilliil llSlli liil Could Be $10,000,000 gadget which could revolutionize the textile industry. Invention Tested So sUre was Parrish that his invention would work that he agreed to let a research engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology test the "jawcheck" for one year to see if they could improve on it's efficiency. If not, the engineer further agreed to help in marketing the Parrish said that after a year, the engineer admitted that it couldn't be improved, but said that since he wasn't a "man of means" he wouldn't be very useful in marketing the product. "You need money, by George, to make said Parrish.

It was that lack of money throughout his life which has prevented him from successfully marketing all of his inventions complained Parrish. He said that is the reason for wanting a sponsor for his air powered engine. $1,000,000 L. Parrish could be holding a $1,000,000 invention called a he could sell it. He also claims to-have developed plans for an engine that runs on doesn't have the money to develop his $10,000,000 dream machine.

His other two patents, the "turkey for calling turkeys of course and a special kind of rat trap are also up for sale and he Says the "yapper" is worth a $1,000,000 to him when it's finally sold. New Ideas In his time Parrish has also had ideas for developing a different type of plate for car batteries, has worked on plans for a walkie talkie, once designed a torpedo net for warships and an electro handle for welders that would not ground out. The impr6ved handle has been marketed, he says, recalling his work on the idea during World War II when he was a welding instructor at a Panama City shipyard. "During the war everything was in a rush and I just neglected having it patented, so someone else did," he said. An employee of Golden Foundry at Columbus, Ga.

for 25 years, Parrish has also patented a fishing lure. While angling at a local lake one day, he noticed that fish were feasting on Cicada, a member of the locust family. Reasoning that he could fashion an artificial lure to resemble the Cicada, he did just that and it was patented in 1958. "I got 13 bass with it one he laughed, observing that his artificial bait was snapped up by fish which had rejected live worms. When asked if he thinks people see him as some sort of mad inventor, Parrish giggled saying, "the workers at the foundry used to tell me I could do the most impossible things they ever just that the impossible takes me a little longer." Ranger James Milton Strength Panama City Forest Ranger Educates Children On Woods Port St.

Joe sixth graders listen attentively in photo above while twenty five year Division of Forestry veteran, James Milton Strength explains the values of Florida's forest lands. All Panama District newly employed forest rangers begin their career in forestry with a vigorous six month training period under the watchful eye of Strength. He is not only an accomplished firefighter but an instructor, coordinator and supervisor as well. When not actively engaged in firefighting and forest ranger training, Strength works with Volunteer Fire Departments and the Bay and Gulf CoUhty School Systems in Forestry programs such as seen in the above photo. An active Master Mason, Strength lives with his wife Dorothy in Wewahitchka where both are members of the First Baptist Church there.

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They also are considering widespread domestication of the herds to cultivate the highly prized wool. Tass quoted Sava Uspensky of the Agriculture Ministry as saying that the oxen transfer "was the first major action within the framework of the agreement between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. on cooperation in the field of environmental protection." Chipley Festival Saturday CHIPLEY May Day festivities sponsored by the Chipley Volunteer Fire Department will be held Saturday at Chipley High School Memorial Field at 8 p.m. Highlighting the show will be Jerry Clower.

Clower will be presented the keys to the city by Mayor Bob Deal at 5:30 Saturday afternoon on Railroad Avenue. Open house at the fire station on Railroad Avenue will beheld all day Saturday from 8 until 4. Tickets for the Clower show can be purchased from downtown merchants. The price for advance tickets is $3 for adults and $2 for children. Tickets at the gate are $4 for adults and $2 for children.

Mosley Choristers Honored The Mosley Ensemble attended the Florida Vocal Association's State Festival last Saturday, May 9 and received superior ratings under the directioh of Blondelle Cheeseboro. Soloists Shannon Jackson, Kenneth Knight and Leah Perry received Excellent ratings on their performances. After the festival the group visjted Disney World for a week end of fun and relazation. VD Rate Climbing UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) More people are being hit by venereal diseases because more of them are having more sex in more ways and are less careful, an expert says.

He called for an international effort at control. Statistics showing a rising curve of venereal infection in the last 10 to 15 years probably 1 short of reality, Dr. Georges Causse wrote in "World Health," the monthly magazine of the U.N. World Health Organization. Dr.

Causse, chief of the venereal diseases unit in WHO's Geneva headquarters, noted that while about casts of gonorrhea were reported in the United States in 1973..