Cape Cod Becomes National Seashore Park The Pilgrims, casting anchor in a Cape Cod harbor in 1620, found the country of such “wild and savage heiw” that they sought a more hospitable place to land. Now, nearly three and a half centuries later, Congress has created Cape Cod National Sea shore to preserve unspoiled sec tions of the Cape’s superb beach es, dunes and moors, rivers and ponds. The Cape becomes the only Na tional Seashore outside North Carolina. It lies within a day’s drive of 50 million Americans, most of whom live in metropoli tan areas that become more crow ded every year. The 27,000-acre park extends mostly along the surf-battered eastern side of the Cape. But at two places on the narrow, 65 mile peninsula, it touches the quiter waters of Cape Cod Bay. PONTIAC TEMPEST COMPLETE BODY & PAINT DEPARTMENT GMC Trucks Qr Factory Trained MECHANICS LEWIS GODWIN—SOUTHPORT REPRESENTATIVE Harris Pontiac, Inc. 311 N. 2nd St. Wilmington, N. C. RO 3-8231 The peninsula is steeped in historical significance. Remnants of an ancient ship, perhaps of Hiking original, have been un covered. Hundreds of handsome homes, centuries old, dot the countryside. Glaciers deposited the material for the Cape’s varied scenery in ages past. Winds and waves sculptured it into its present-day form and added the sand tip. The heart of the newly created Seashore is Great Beach, which basks in the Atlantic sun for 39 majectic miles. Glacier-formed cliffs tower over the shores, lend ing an air of wildness to the scene. Children romp and roll down steep sloping dunes. Skiers prac tice in the powdery sand for the winter months ahead. Some dunes are on the move; one road must be cleaned each year where a .neighboring giant is intruding. Behind the dunes and cliffs a narrow strip of forest and mea dow gives some idea of how New England looked in colonial times. Small fresh-water ponds Farm Supplies FEED-SEED-FERTILIZERS PURINA CHOWS J. M. PARKER & SONS SUPPLY. N. C. Patent Office Celebrates 125 Years Of Progress when the United States Patent Office was set up in 1836, the steam locomotive’s lonely whistle was just beginning to be heard across the land. This year, on its 125th anni versary, satellites circle the earth, and scientists test vehicles which they hope will take man to the moon. Between the eras of rail and space, the American patent sys tem has given order and direction to the nation’s inventive talents, says the National Geographic Society. By adding “the fuel of interest to the fire of genius” (Lincoln), it has sparked countr less industries and helped build an unparalleled standard of liv ing. Research System Created A special Government bureau was created to pass on the use fulness and novelty of inventions and processes. For the first time, an official search of “prior arts” was required before granting pa tents. left by retreating ice sheets sparkle in a setting of water liles, rushes, and sweet pepper bushes. To the north, woodlands follow the Herring River, haunt of muskrat and mink. To the west, forests give way to health and marsh where wild geese and ducks feed. Gosnold Found No Gold The Cape reaches out toward Europe like a beckoning arm. In 1602, explorer Bartholomew Gos nold, who wished to “found a colony in some agreeable spot, preferably where gold was abun dant,” dropped anchor in what is now Provincetown Harbor. He discovered no gold but named the Cape for its abundant schools of codfish. The Pilgrims almost settled there. They made their first land ing off the future site of Pro vincetown in 1620, but found the climate too rigorous. The Ply mouth area, sheltered from At lantic storms by the peninsula, appeared more hospitable. The tip of the Cape suggests a clenched first, and it has known war. Not only did it see action during the Revolution; the onlj World War I shells to fall on United States soil exploded on the beach at East Orleans. These shells were the calling cards of a German submarine. But though this method of handling patents was new, they had been issued in America from early Colonial times. In 1641, the Massachusetts General Court ap proved a patent to Samuel Win slow for a new way of making salt. Five years later, a scythe manufacturer, Joseph Jenkes, re ceived the continent’s first ma chine patent, for equipment used in his water-driven mill. The Founding Fathers of the independent nation encouraged inventiveness as an essential aid to development. Benjamin Frank lin and Thomas Jefferson them selves made notable contributions, as Franklin’s lighting rod and stove and Jefferson’s efficient soil-turning plow testify. Written into the Constitution was the provision that “Congress shall have Power-. . to promote the Progress of Science and use ful Arts by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their re spective Writings and Inventions.” Congress passed its first pa tent act in 1790. It gave the United States the distinction of leading all other countries in recognizing an inventor’s legal right to profit from his labor. Grew by Trial and Error To administer the law, the Sec retary of State Attorney Gen eral, and Secretary of War con stituted a three-man board charged with passing on the merit and priority of applications. Nat urally enough, these top Govern ment leaders found little time to devote to the techniealities of individual patents. In 1793 a second act dropped the merit requirement in favor of a “registration” system under which practically anyone with a drawing and a fee could Ob tain a patent. The result was confusion, dup lication, and litigation that ended only in 1836 with the adoption of the present system. The new policy called for numbering, ex amining, and recording applica tions. Appropriately, the first pa tent went to Maine’s Senator John Ruggles, who had led in the reform bill's passage. Senator Ruggles’ invention, de signed to add traction to railway locomotive wheels, was a sign of the times. From then on, as the railroads stitched an expanding country together, the patents filed in Washington recorded America’s drive toward industrial pre eminence. Before 1836, Eli Whitney's cot ton gin and Cyrus McCormick’s grain reaper began pouring gen erous harvests into the maw of a vigorous agricultural economy. Afterward came the scientific dis coveries and tools that made the great modem industries possible. Revolutions in living and work ing followed the introduction of Morse’s telegraph, Bell’s tele phone, Edison’s incandescent lamp, phonograph, and movie projector. Eras was born with the trolley car, horseless carriage, and fly ing machine; with new ways to treat rubber, make celluloid, and shape glass; with the sewing ma chine, typewriter, cash register, linotype, dynamo—and zipper. 3,000,000 Patents Awarded In the 20th century, inventions have grown increasingly -complex and numerous. Few patents grow out of experiments in backyard workshops. Advances in electron ics, atomic energy, medical and industrial chemistry, and (space exploration, require teams of scientists working together in the superbly equipped laboratories of universities, corporations, and the Government. Before 1900, fewer than 70,000 patents were granted. On Sept ember 12, 1961, the 3,000,000th came into being with special cere monies at the Patent Office. Pa tent No. 3,000,000, a magnetic de vice for rapid processing of checks, had been pending for six years. The time lag underscores both the intricacies of modem appli cations (the longest to date was 266 pages of text and 364 draw ings), and the problems that face patent examiners in coping with the flood. For the inventor will go on in venting. “You may- give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has,” said Alex ander Graham Bell before the Patent Congress of 1891. “But he can not more help inventing than he can help thinking or breath ing.” Inhabitants of the island of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides walk in a curious manner supposedly recognizable anywhere in Scot land. The islanders develop a shambling angle of approach by fighting to stay upright against the wild westerly gales that sweep Tiree. State Road Force Completes Projects Highway Commissioner Lauch Faircloth reports the completion of three rDad improvement pro jects in Brunswick- and New Han over Counties during the month of November. In Brunswick County, state forces stabilized these roads: 2.6 miles Dogwood Neck Road, Loop Road from SR 1426 to SR 1426 near Phoenix; and 3.5 miles Bob Stanly Road, from US 17 to SR 402 (Piny Grove Road). State Forces in Brunswick and New Hanover Counties have com pleted the following project: 0.5 mile channelization and improve ment of intersection, alBo widened and resurfaced SR 1442, from US 17-74-76 to entrance to parking areas for USS North Carolina. To maintain their continuing programs to improve company owned forests, the 73 primary pulD and paper mills in the South ■pent a total of $34 million during ltf60. PENNSYLVANIA Seven days a week there is free guide service through the State Capitol at Harrisburg. A feature of most tours is the State Historical Museum. Special tours can be arranged through the Treasury, Education and other buildings of the Capitol group. 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