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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1963
GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST FOR 17 YEARS
N. E. Thomas, Jackson Springs Native,
Invents Voice Communications Device
Numa Eifort Thomas, a govern
ment scientist whose latest inven
tion—a light beam voice com
munication device—has received
wide attention, last week visited
his native Jackson Springs where
his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth C.
Thomas, still lives. He has a
sister, Mrs. Edna Ruth Green,
who lives here and is employed
by United Telephone Company.
With him was his wife, the
former Miss Jean Watkins of New
port News. They have three
children, Andrea, 11; Karla, 8; and
John, 5. Their home is at New
port News.
Mr. Thomas, who is known as
“Eifort” to old friends in this
area, attended West End High
School, joined the Navy in World
War II and, after the war went
to work for the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics at
Hampton, Va. This agency later
became the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and
Mr. Thomas has continued his as
sociation with it as a scientist at
the Langley Research Center,
Langley Station, Hampton.
Spacecraft Work
With a number of patented in
ventions to his credit, he specia
lizes in photographic and optical
instrumentation and is currently
working on space measurements.
He was one of the early Mercury
spacecraft researchers and worked
extensively on optical equipment,
including the periscope that was
aboard the earlier version of the
Mercury craft as well as a little
mirror that went on the front of
the space suit to reflect control
panel operations into a television
camera placed in front of the
astronaut.
The light beam voice communi
cations device is called a retro-
meter. It is a compact unit only
a few inches long (it could be
made even smaller) which con
tains a light source, collecting
lens, and detector-amplifier. ^A
beam of light from the hand
held unit is directed toward a re
mote reflector-microphone which
requires no power, no antenna and
no wiring.
The reflector - microphone,
which is small enough to be held
in the palm of the hand, is de
signed as a comer-reflector and
resembles one of the inside cor
ners of a cube. All three of its
surfaces are mirrors, one made of
thin aluminized mylar, the same
material used in the Echo satel
lites. The mylar film vibrates in
response to sound pressures from
a speaker’s voice, thus modulat
ing the beam of light which is
sent directly back to the point of
origin as a property of the corner
reflector.
A photo-electric cell inside the
unit measures the modulations in
the light beam and its reading is
translated by the detector-am
plifier electronics into sounds re
producible through a speaker.
Communications by the retro-
meter are immune to interception
and jamming and are completely
private. Because the remote
microphone requires no power,
the system offers many possible
applications in industry, at sea,
and in air-sea rescue operations.
Home Loan Plan
Aids Minorities
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Negroes and members of other
minority groups who have dif
ficulty negotiating home loans
can turn to a nation-wide organ
ization established to help in such
cases, according to Elwyn V.
Hopkins of Atlanta, Ga.
Hopkins is executive secretary
in eight southern states for the
Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit
Program, authorized by the Con
gress in the Housing Act of 1954.
The program assists in making
mortgage money available to
members of minority groups who
cannot obtain loans on terms as
favorable as are generally avail
able to others in an area.
The program is a unique part
nership between private indus
try and the Federal Govern
ment. General supervision and
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Robert C. Weaver, administrator
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nance Agency, Washington, D.
C.
Mortgage money is made
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institutions and other home mort
gage facilities.
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V. Hopkins, Executive Secretary,
Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit
Program, Room 645 Peachtree
Seventh Building, Atlanta, Ga.
Deering Painting
In Rockport Show
Roger Deering, the Kennebunk-
port, Maine, artist who has a win
ter studio and gallery on Midland
Road, between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst, is represented
again this year in the 43rd an
nual exhibition of the Rockport
(Mass.) Art Association, showing
1 a painting, “Caribbean Market-
1 place,” done during a visit to the
West Indies last spring.
Last winter, Mr. Deering con
ducted painting classes at the
Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst. He and
, Mrs. Deering operate a studio and
I gallery at Kennebunkport during
the summer.
The Rockport exhibition will
open Monday, to run through
August 6^
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Southern Pines, N. C.
Telephone: Southern Pines OX 5-7311
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A. E. RHINEHART
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Consultations by appointment on Saturdays
Moore Folks Buy
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L. B. Creath of Pinehurst, vol
unteer chairman for the U. S.
Savings Bonds program in Moore
County, announced today that
during May Moore County citi
zens purchased $23,292 of U. S.
Savings Bonds. For the year their
purchases amount to $223,120.
This is 38 per cent of the 1963
goal of $445,280.
Bond sales in the State during
May total $3,875,0076, being prac
tically unchanged from sales of
May a year ago which were $3,
901,384.
Totals for the first five months
of 1963 show cash sales of E and
H Bonds in North Carolina
amounted to $21,912,853. This is
an incnsase of 3.6 per cent over
sales of the comparable five
month’s period of a year ago.
Mr. Creath, in making this re-
iease pointed out that “The Free
dom Bond Drive which is a high
light of the Savings Bonds pro
motion for 1963 began on May 1
and ends on July 4. Its objective
is to sell at least one Savings
Bond to every American family
during these 65 days.”
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