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FRENCH PROVINCIAL TELEPHONE FREE WITH PURCHASE Hetook 660W fit world out of dark WASHINGTON Reuteri The United States is paying tribute in series of exhibitions and other activities to the 100th anniversary of the day young inventor took the modern world out of darkness The tributes to Thomas Alva Edison many of them spanning several months are being staged in places as far apart as Washington and San Francisco and New York and Baton Rouge 11a Apart from exhibi tions they include parades sum isiums and concerts ison onetime tele grapher invented the first ef ficient light bulb 1879 at Menlo Park NJ At 130am that day Edison hooked up electrical wires to fragile glass globe containing piece of ordinary thread The thread had been baked to car bonizeit When current was sent through the thread the bulb glowed brightly and Edison then 32 had shed the first prac tical electrical light on the world STARTED REVOLUTION Although the crude ligiit bulb needed lot of refinement the invention started revolution by taking the world out of the steam age and into the age of electric power and light Edison is given credit for in venting the first practical light bulb but he was not the inventor of electric light Before Oct 21 1879 the Ave nue de IOpera in Paris the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia and the Palace Hotel in San Francisco were illuminated by electric arc lights But the arc lights dis advantages especially its in tense white glare spurred iii ventors like Edison to find more practical alternative The key to Edisons success was the filament and vacuum pump to suck the air from the bulb so the glow would continue wothout burning up the fila inent Some historians consider Edison tireless tinkerer rather than genius Never theless he holds the record for patents in the United States 1093 in lifetime which ended with his death in 1931 at the age of 84 He invented stock ticker in 1870 at the age of 23 Two years before the light bulb he iii vented phonograph which gave birth to the presentday billiondollar record industry The exhibitions and other tributes are being sponsored by centennial committee and the Thomas Alva Edison Founda tion the examiner Wednesday Dec 1m 31 THURS DEC6 FRI DEC7 SAT DEC FREE PHONE YOUR BEST BUYS IN BEDDING BEVERLEY QUILTRESS VIP MATTRESS AND BOX SPRING For those very important people Where ll died COLORS WITHTHE PURCHASE OF ANY BRAND NEW LIVING ROOM SUITE IN OUR STORE AT OUR USUAL LOW PRICE OVER 50 STYLES ND FABRICS TO CHOOSE FROM SUCH FAMOUS MAKES AS HOUSE OF BRAEMORE KRO EHLER STANDARD TROISTER AND MANY MORE 7262900 Restoring rare cars flourishing business CAMPBELLFORD Ont CP man whom older residents still consider young punk rolled out of this town near Peterborough recently with $140000 worth of automotive history in his wake At 41 Murray Sayers may still have as much grease under his fingernails as he did at 16 but now its rare cars hes re storing not ramshackle mo wtcycles His convoy on the way to an auto flea market in Pennsylva nia included 1911 Maxwell with brass lamps and radiator jetblack 1949 Cadillac con vertible sedate 1941 Ford and bevy of sexy mid505 Thun derbirds The prize of the collection stately 1927 PierceArrow with plush upholstery and cherrywood steering wheel Bagbielil Mull would follow its stablemates later Sayers and his two partners in NFS Antique and Classic cars are among growing army of restoration specialists cashing in on the unflaggiiig North American passion for the automobile in all its styles Where most men have workshop in the basement Sa yers has sophisticated twobay bodyshop And the floor of the big adjacent garage is littered with the hulks of elderly cars waiting for his restoration magic Sayers who wont place dollar value on his vocation says he has network of infor mants throughout the United States who track down suitable machines He spends two or three months every year in the US buying and selling autos UIMEDFREIGHTLTD 544 BAYFIEL sr NOTH DSI2H usually many more than the 15 or 20 his company actually re stores At the moment he is eyeing the 70car collection of an American eccentric dating from 1903 to 1950 The airs sit ting undriven in garage could be worth $500000 he says Although many buyers are collectors others are interested in the classics as investments Almost 60 per cent are in vestors Most people with money now are looking for places to put it and these cars are good investments Their qualifications as in vestments are solid they ap preciate quickly look nice in the driveway and are ex tremely portable know lot of divorce cases where the cars involved just disappeared says Sayers CINEMAS 7269944 Hundreds 01 ships and planes lost forever Some say its UFOs Others say its lost civilization You may decide its both CHARLES BERLITZS Police cover the bodies of two people on the iseum Monday night after at least ll people plaza area around Cincinnatis Riverfront Col were killed as crowd surged to get into rock concert in the building AP Laserphoto Theyll be protected against polar bears OROMUCTO NB itPI When 90 Canadian soldiers move into the far North later this week armed sciitries and warning flares that go off at IlEllMllllll III 55 However the intruders they will be guarding against wont be foreign troops but local resident the polar bear it all is part of 10day ex touch will ring their tent colony rcisc called Sovereign Viking MP during the long nights which starts this week on Free Southampton Island in the Because of the fierce cold the somfles will be relieved northwest Ollitl of Hudson In every so minutes 3153310Jui3l8 35 It not why not have it serviced Motors of armored vehicles Company Royal Canadian now and ellmlnate the 5k 0f haVlng will run throughout the night in Regiment from nearby it spoil your Christmas cooking Give long line facmg the wind anadian Forces Base Gage their headlights on mm us all We serVIce Kenmore stoves and microwave ovens Special $1 795 plus parts This otter effective 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