Sate Student Designs, Builds "Tic - Tac - Toe' Machine | f= | MONTREAL (CP)--An invin- cible tic-tac-toe machine, de- signed and built by Leslie Purk- hardt, 16-year-old high school ™ |student, was the first-prize win- 4 iner in a Montreal science fair. The machine, which can be '\tied but never beaten, always makes the first move. Then the opponent chooses his move and turns a knob which activates a drum di- Pail Of Rum For Customers | HALIFAX (CP) -- One hun- dred years ago Halifax stores }|always had a pail of rum and a dipper to treat customers. And after the St. Paul's . Church choir practised every Thursday night they all had a vided into a memory section and a commanding section. The drum rotates while the memory section sets the game pattern. The commanding section of the drum has the solution, which is related by an elevator to a switch that lights up the |machine's move. The pattern continues until the opponent loses, or at best ties. | Leslie's five-month labor cost him little more than $10 and a ready ingenuity to make use of things at hand. The rotating drum is a simple five-gallon oil drum. Parts of a meccano set, flashlight batter- ies, waxed paper and tin foil are among the household items incorporated into his invention. Leslie added some improve- ments to the computer before include a "hitory - cycle teacher" which gives data about several major cities, and ; | a wooden scooter with a gaso-/ The latter led Leslie to the| He says he hopes to enter line engine of the type found police station for driving an un- electrical engineering at McGill in old washing machines. lauthorized vehicle. | University. 'SEPTIC TANKS Bish THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, Mey 26, 1967 3A "Available for immediate delivery in the following capacities" 460 GALLONS 525 GALLONS 600 GALLONS. 700 GALLONS 1000 GALLONS IN SINGLE OR DOUBLE CHAMBER entry in a Canada-wide science fair at Quebec City. BULLDOZERS CLEAR WAY AT NEW OSHAWA SUBDIVISION mug of rum, Other inventions by the boy This and other information s : ge He jot a half-acre or less which|above. These will be confined en hg Flin ggg Aa \collectivized farmers are al-jto the main plan indices: vol-|y; i thor and hu- lowed to work for their own|ume of sales of principal types| Wil. B oie: #y profit, of produce 'to the state, size of) J, those days, he told a serv- The relative productivity of|the general wages fund and to-|i.e club, there were 28 public s s s Soviet Attention To Profit Extend To Farm Program jprivate plots may have helped tal profits, for example. |holidays in one year and the linfluence Soviet leaders to give| The farms themselves will de-| populace was quite liable to) MOSCOW (CP)--The Soviet massive investment in fertilizer|more rein to private initiative|termine the number of workers|take the day off to watch navy | program of economic reform,|and farm machinery. in their approach to farm prob-/on the payroll; level of produc-|yessels come into port. accentuating profit, is to be ex- lems generally. tion costs, labor productivity) One day 24 steam-driven war- tended from the factory to the Though only 'hree per cent/and other plan targets. The|ships of the Royal Navy ar- farm. : ; f all the state farms will be|Sovernment says there is to be|rived at one time and practic- Under a decision of the Com:|the Soviet Union. Employees inyolyed at the start, published|'"0 outside interference" in the/ally the whole population of the munist party's central commit-|work a given number of hours|reports leave no doubt that the/@veryday work of state farms.|cjty trooped down to the harbor | tee and the government, 390 of/and receive regular salaries.|yltimate intention is to bring) The plan envisages a ma-|\to get their first glimpse of the country's 12,000 state farms|Collective farms are operated|them all under the new planning, terial incentives fund to which|steam vessels. will switch this year to a new|more on the principle of pro-| system. "|15 per cent of a farm's planned| Other stories gathered from system of planning. ducer co-ops, with income of} If the example offered by in-\Profit will be allocated, This|the local press of 1867 by Dr. The system embodies the|Members largely dependent on|dustry is any. indication, the|fund, as in the case of indus-|Bird include the information same principles that animatc|@eclared dividends. Last year,|/changeover should be swift, | trial enterprises, is designed to|that it was illegal to have the Soviet industrial reform be-|2 System of minimum salaries|Autharities have said that in| bring out the best in workers | weeds growing in front of your gun two years ago: fewer cen- for collective farmers was intro-| the course of next year all and discourage low-quality pro-|house. If caught, you were lia- tralized controls, more scope|4uced. Soviet industrial. enterprises| duction. 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