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2 THE ARGUS Rock Island 111 Thursday March 14 1985 Weather Inventor tries again to win patent for energy machine The Forecast for 7 am EST Fri March 15 20 I' By Warren Leary AP science writer By The Associated Press Temperatures on left indicate previous high and overnight low to 7 atn forecast temperatures and outlook and forecast temperatures and outlook are in the right columns Yesterday Today Tomorrow as FRONTS: Warm Cold---Occluded Stationary Showers Ram Flumes Snow National Weatner Service NOAA Deot of Commerce Newman demonstrated the operation of his system by very clear evidence and is therefore entitled to a patent if he otherwise satisfies the requirements of the patent IF THE JUDGE RULES against him Newman says he will take the case to the US Supreme Court if necessary Not just for himself he adds but for all inventors who may be stonewalled by the patent office patent office is supposed to stimulate innovation and it's doing the says the inventor hope to change the injustices seen at the US patent office If it's happened to me happened to Patent office spokesman Oscar Mastin said no one at the agency would comment on case or his charges while the matter is in court Part of problem stems from having a machine which if it works as advertised defies established laws of physics He claims the machine somehow uses a mystery fuel which he will not disclose placed in a magnetic field to make more energy than it consumes Patent examiners said the device looks like another proposal for a perpetual motion machine one that would produce more energy than it uses so that it could run forever Such a machine has been the goal of inventors for centuries but conventional science says such a device is do not claim my machine is a perpetual motion Newman says do not claim my machine runs forever only longer than any other motor or generator invented so Newman says the secret of the machine is in the mechanical properties of a mysterious previously unknown particle of that orbits in a magnetic field Gyroscopes typically are things that gain stability by spinning rapidly like toy tops Engineers measure engine efficiency as how much energy comes out compared with what goes in If half the energy going into a process is used for work it is called 50 percent efficient Newman says automobile engines have efficiencies of up to 45 percent and some electric motors approach 90 percent But he says his engine has an efficiency of up to 1000 percent producing many times more energy than it consumes a contention many scientists believe is impossible The inventor has demonstrated his machine to a number of engineers and scientists and some support his claims to some extent BUT THE MACHINE has yet to get a full-blown test before an impartial jury and scientists at the patent office and the National Bureau of Standards remain skeptical Backed by $500000 from an investor group called Energy Resources Limited Newman says he will beat the system and get his patent WASHINGTON (AP) Joseph Westley Newman a self-described country boy working in the back-woods of Mississippi has invented an energy machine that he says could solve all of the energy problems Newman who has worked on the device for 20 of his 48 years was in Washington on Wednesday for what he hopes is the climax of his five-year battle with the US Patent and Trademark Office Over the years travejed from his home in Lucedale Miss to Washington many times sometimes with an 800-pound prototype in back of a pickup He wants a patent and says he will keep coming back until he gets one a very determined person" he told reporters a fighter Ill fight this till hell freezes over" AFTER HEARINGS appeals and numerous rejections from the patent office since 1979 Newman filed a US District Court suit in 1983 to have his ease reviewed and to force the government to issue a patent In his latest court appearance today he expected Judge Thomas Jackson to rule on a summary motion he entered to get the patent based on a court-appointed expert's report that Newman's machine appears to work This examiner a former patent commissioner named William Schuyler said in his report that 68 Cdy 81 55 rn 66 26 clr 50 47 rn 62 56 cdy 73 34 rn 40 31 clr 55 45 cdy 68 38 rn 60 52 cdy 70 C-4 81 08 70 04 48 63 84 25 35 56 68 55 54 72 26 55 57 15 55 85 57 10 42 35 10 57 75 60 64 56 07 67 53 86 55 76 05 35 68 cdy 53 rn 27 dr 45 cdy 51 cdy 34 rn 35 clr 14 cdy 10 clr 50 dr 33 dr 35 cdy 42 cdy 68 cdy 42 cdy 26 dr 25 clr 37 cdy 51 rn 28 dr 34 dr 26 dr 35 cdy 34 clr 58 cdy 25 dr 19 cdy 23 cdy 82 65 78 64 45 33 78 55 82 62 35 33 50 25 66 44 74 45 73 57 47 38 55 25 73 47 75 73 63 45 40 31 41 30 62 44 82 56 55 45 62 51 53 22 54 36 48 31 84 61 60 44 78 60 47 33 Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson Ms Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Us Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Lubbock Memphis Miami Beach Midlnd-Odessa Milwaukee Mpls-StPaul Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk Va North Platte Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh 31 cdy 40 cdy 41 rn 66 clr 43 cdy 21 cdy 37 20 cdy 45 35 rn 55 57 cdy 65 35 cdy 45 42 cdy 54 24 clr 55 38 Cdy 59 28 clr 58 61 clr 81 35 cdy 44 51 cdy 71 27 rn 37 From Page One Pupils push plant High yesterday: City 44: airport 45 year ago at airport 36 record 70 in 1973 Low last night: City 32 airport 30 year ago at airport 28 record -2 in 1960 The average temperature yesterday was 39 5 degrees above normal Wind velocity at 6 a 7 miles per hour Precipitation in the last 24 hours ending at 6 am 13 of an inch Relative humidity at 6 pm yesterday 65 6 am today 78 Mississippi River water temperature 41 at Davenport Water Company Sunset today 6:07 pm sunrise tomorrow 6:14 Mississippi stage at Rock Island at 6 am 108 feet down 5 of a foot in the last 24 hours Rock River stages at 7 am: At Moline bridge 121 feet down 3 of a foot at Joslin 125 feet no change Births Saturn We are the Quad-Cities! We need committees What we do need is Saturn To start a new life pattern We have a unique combination Of air water rail and highway transportation Bring Saturn to the Quad-Cities We have confidence we can make it with EASE! So give us a hand And together we stand The Q-C we boast Is the place LOVE the Mrs 9th-grade drama students at Williams Junior High School Iowa daughter yesterday JARRELL Mr and Mrs Michael Eld-ridge Iowa daughter yesterday CLAUSSEN Mr and Mrs Ronald Bettendorf twin sons today NEITZEL Mr and Mrs Kevin Davenport son today MERCY DAVENPORT SECOY Mr and Mrs Randall Davenport son yesterday son yesterday HEWITT Mr and Mrs Lonnie Rock Island son today NOWAK Mr and Mrs Keith Moline son today ST DAVENPORT SMITH Dr and Mrs Brian Davenport son yesterday CARMODY Mr and Mrs Daniel Rock Island daughter yesterday NIVENS Mr and Mrs Todd LeClaire FRANCISCAN ROBERTS Mr and Mrs Joseph Milan son yesterday MASSEY Mr and Mrs William Milan daughter yesterday TAPIA Mr and Mrs Miguel Rock Island daughter yesterday MOLINE PUBLIC HOFF Mr and Mrs Robert Moline daughter yesterday QUICK Mr and Mrs Lawrence Moline dent Reagan as an animal what would he be and Celeste Owens asked that again now?" Har-kin asked Celeste repeated the question Oh my Harkin said a question never been asked before your name Celeste told him "Well Celeste a good he replied me think about Later at the end of a 15-minute conversation Harkin came back to the question about a nice brown bear?" he asked look cuddly and loveable but when they start moving sometimes a bear steps on things and breaks things down when he quite know what he's doing" He said Reagan is personally popular and persuasive but he seem to have a good grasp of exactly where he's going" Harkin said in addition to writing letters on behalf of efforts to attract the Saturn plant students would do well to contact members of the Iowa Legislature IF THERE ARE any problems in the Iowa tax structure that would prevent them from coming he said Members of Congress from Iowa were told recently that GM considers the sales and use tax on industrial equipment to be a disadvantage Harkin also was asked how Looking back Nicaragua: The United States should stop aiding the rebels think that sends a very bad signal to all of Latin America that we re trying to overthrow a legitimate government that we MX Missiles: Stopping the project affect arms control negotiations the Russians and the United States understand that the MX weapon is not a viable weapon kind of being thrown up as a balloon and the Russians will say Family farms: If the Reagan administration could bail out the Continental Bank in Chicago last year it can bail out the owners of medium-size farms tell you going to be in a lot of Reagan can be persuaded to back away from his opposition to increased loan guarantees and other credit aid to farmers this is a place where you ought to be sending him 700 letters he said a well-drafted letter from a person in school like yourself has more effect than from somebody like HARKIN URGED the students to write letters and he urged them to urge their parents and any community groups they might belong to to write the White House if the Wednesday night bowling league they ought to get that group to write him a he said Harkin fielded a broad range of questions On other topics he said: and a collapsed lung David Sham-baugh the other less injured youth advises them fool around Listen to their Ten Years Ago More than 300 works of art by high school students will be on display tomorrow at Marycrest college during the seventh annual high school art festival there The Rock Island Arsenal Wives Club will have a benefit dessert and bridge party at the mess 125 Years Ago Large quantities of freight await shipment from this place and much complaint is made of a scarcity of boats One Hundred Years Ago Ground is frozen to a depth of six feet according to the superintendent of street excavations Seventy-five Years Ago Rock Island High School cooking classes will prepare dinner for the board of education tonight Fifty Years Ago Freight tonnage handled in Feb ruary by railroads into and out of Rock Island totaled 44437 tons an increase of 12702 over last year 1934 Twenty-five Years Ago Two 14-year-old Davenport youths were hurt in a homemade rocket blast The horrible explosion shattered the Sunday morning calm of Michigan Ave neighborhood Larry Gillaspie is in condition at Mercy Hospital with severe arm and chest injuries including a severed artery five fractured ribs Today in history Salvadoran problems Today is Thursday March 14 the 73rd day of 1985 There are 292 days left in the year highlight in history: On March 14 1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin an invention that revolutionized cotton industry ON THIS DATE: In 1743 the first town meeting in America was held at Faneuil Hall in Boston In 1879 physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm Germany In 1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died In 1923 President Warren In 1974 the Liberal government of Quebec said it would propose legislation to make French the official language of the Canadian province Ten years ago: Actress Susan Hayward died in Beverly Hills Calif Five years ago: A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw killing all 87 people aboard including 22 members of an amateur boxing team from the United States birthdays: Bandleader Les Brown is 73 Cartoonist Hank Ketcham is 65 Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report In 1951 during the Korean War United Nations forces recaptured Seoul In 1964 a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald In 1965 Israel's cabinet formally approved establishment of diplomatic relations with West Germany In 1967 the body of President John Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial at Arlington National Cemetery a privileged life had been told that peasants were lazy dirty he said want to But in working with them he found they were like In his work with them he also heard Archbishop Oscar Romero speak at a town meeting "I like him at first" he said because Romero had had a personal disagreement with conservative uncle who is also a bishop But when Revelo learned of work with the poor he changed his mind was a real life he said Nine priests and many lay workers of the church have been killed by the Army or they have disappeared Revelo said The archbishop himself was assassinated just two days after Revelo was shot while leaving a church WAS JUST LIKE one of your gangster he said blue Chevy truck pulled up to the church and the men in the back opened fire I ran but I was hit in my legs Then they drove away but I could see a truck full of soldiers coming behind them I think I was the only survivor of the attack I kept on running till I got For another two months he lived in a small room and then he left El Salvador He wound up in San Fransisco had no feeling in my leg or he said I wearing a sock or a shoe But I had to put one on there San Francisco is a very cold Revelo has been granted permanent residency in the US but he had been here before He came with his father in 1977 when his father at that time a judge in a juvenile court had been arranging adoptions of Salvadoran children US couples The judge and his son traveled throughout the country checking on the children This time however the younger Revelo applied for political asylum but it was denied Since he now has permanent status he considers himself though political refugee not an HIS FAMILY lives in a west coast city in the US since they arrived in 1982 are a very close he said go back so they came He wants to go back to his country someday when the war is he said to the river where I hid The soldiers came and threw rocks in the water trying to scare me out But seen that movie and I didn't run One shined his light right on me but I was covered with blood and mud and he see me HID THERE for four hours bleeding until a little woman came and tried to help me I told her she could not lift me so she said she would bring help She came back with her four cousins and they took me to the house of my uncle He took me to a private clinic run by a relative of my I know who she was but she saved my Doctors at the clinic told father that he was dying but he They told his mother three days later that they would have to amputate his legs but she let them Revelo stayed at the clinic for three months walking with a cane During that time the National Guard (the Army) came to the clinic looking for him but he hid again He said it is a common practice for the soldiers to go into the hospitals and shoot wounded patiqnts WOTOR RATES PER YEAR 26 Weeks 13 Weeks 1 Week $7900 $41 50 $2080 160 THE ARGUS Published every afternoon except 6 holidays Monday through Saturday and Sunday morning by the JW Potter Company 1724 4th Avenue Rock Island Illinois 61201 Second-class postage paid at Rock Island III 61201 Publication number USPS 468-080 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE ARGUS Box 6 Rock Island IL 61201 CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT ROBERT MORAN Circulation Manager HOWE DELIVERY AND 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