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14, THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, August @) 1965 BRIDGE COMPUTER ... ... WORSE THAN WIFE By BOB LUNDEGAARD Ras gg ev nag ge -I e a com- se ag Wednesday and it was rude, tyrannical, domineer- ing, stubborn, insulting, stood me up for an hour, and played a bad game of bridge. I might as well have played bridge with my wife. Rude, Insulting, Slow Tyrannical, Stubborn "OK. It's your bid again," the machine chattered. TIME TO STARE Franz and I stared at each other, "But I haven't bid yet," I said. "We must have cut in on the middle of some other game," he said apologetically. He pushed another button, five clubs" asked the snide 1440. Rattled, I saat: another "Input error" the machine suggested, 'Try again." ter a few more bad bids, I took the bid for five spades. The computer played East- West hands and I, of course, Collins; to South Africa, has been ap- pointed an assistant undersec.\"°™ Consular retary of state for external af- External Affairs Ambassador OTTAWA (CP) -- Ralph Canada's Mr. Collins, who will be 51 this fall, will succeed Arnold Smith who has been chosen asjcommercial minister with the the Commonwealth's first sec- retary-general. ' Charles Woodsworth, an offi-/York cial in the United States rela-|who is retiring, tions branch and a former) J, Gontran Bisson, 51, newspaper man, has since Appointed External Affairs Post These were: Robert G, C, Smith, 67, now Canadian embassy in Japan, become consul . et general in to Ne New succeeding H. A. Scott Anti-Pollution Fund Formula CLEVELAND (AP)--A form> E.jnomic Co-operation and Devel-jula for nee ae ambassadoriopment and announced four|!essen water was 6ug appointments in hiss ts bg the United States. : Locher then fairs, Minister Morin pancenced Temnedey, (nna core by Mayor Lo taht tee repo: on Erie and its been/consul-general Orleans appointed to replace Mr, Collins! named conul-gee a in Los in South Africa. Angeles, J, C, Britton, 52, who At the same time, Mr. Martininow holds that post, suc- also confirmed a Paris an-lceed Mr, Smith as minister in Tokyo, ? D nouncement that Charles J. Small, 45, has been named Can-| pisrre Asselin, WS an coneul, ada's permanent representative general in San Francisco, He to the Organization for Eco-|succeeds 0. EB. Ault who is re- ; Policeman _|.,% Maca, tm Not Blamd resigned as chairman of the s In Shooting Among the exhibits at thejopened Tuesday, were {Civil Service Commission, as} tp, consul-general in New Orleans, succeeding Mr. Bisson. LONDON, Ont, (CP)---A five-|world dolls and fairy tales halljtatives of water man coroner's j Thursday|in New Delhi, India, is a Jap- night attached no blame to ajanese doll worth $470. city policeman whose warning _-- shot killed a fleeing man at the scene of a store break-in here July 11. The jury commended Const. Brian Postans for his conduct, and termed the shooting of Ron- ald Gordon Drake, gl ac- cident which occured wh Drake was committing 4 serious offence." International Business Ma- chines Corp. was demonstrat- ng a computer that plays idge. "Function error, You have been signed off," the machine retorted. Then an alarm light began flashing, e game finally started after I had been there an hour, '18" (for one spade) I ten- tatively typed. In less than a second, the machine spewed out the three intervening bids (pass, two hearts, four clubs) and blandly replied: "OK. It's your bid again." ; Not a word about my wife's garden, what Dr. Spock says were ready to start. about colic or any of the trivia "Sign on," he typed. that usually precede a bridge "Type. sign on," the ma- bid, chine barked back on its type- "4S" T picked. writer. I had a feeling we In a trice the bid was back were in for a long afternoon. to Franz signed on properly. played the dummy. After losing the first two tricks, 1 tried to trump in high on the third, You must trump," the com- puter scolded, "Did you fol- low input instructions" That was a mistake of the computer's part. "Listen, computer," I said, "who's playing this hand" Finally, I got the message and trumped low. After a few more plays, I cashed the ace of hearts, typing "Ha." But the com- puter may rave misunder- stood nares aa anita abn Jim Franz, en IBM repre- sentative, ushered me into a private office and placed me in front of a typewriter-like contraption hooked up to a ve computer in Yorktown, N. To. my left was an easel with a bridge hand (mine) exposed and the sither three hands covered. After some long - distance telephoning, Franz said we goa of Ohio Governor James . Rhode: "Function error," it said. "You have been signed off." Then it shut up for good. All I can say is, as a bridge computer, it makes a fine dummy. me. "Well, what do you say over No Pound Devaluation § Man, Bowler Both Missing Says Vacationing Wilson TORONTO (CP)--Bowler hat LONDON (AP)--Prime Min-jicy making Britain more com-)at ag jaunt ister Wilson started a three-| petitive," Wilson said, " pedi ge Pape aca week vacation today but left|And having rejected it (deva- » OY, & FO armer behind @ declaration that his|luation) when it would have fromtthe Kenora area, started decision not to devalue thejbeen so readily understood in| out a few weeks ago to do some} shoppe. pound sterling is permanent. political terms, meant a deci-| travelling. Const. Postians, who said he As Wilson arrived a a ve pent pg Fo a and re-| te had spent 70 years of his/fired seven warning egg Fgh cation home on the Seityyest| "I hope that the country and|i building a ploneer farm intolnithmong Street store, said he coast, the battle to protect the|$ome of those in the world out-/one of the finest market gar-|had no intention of hitting Drake pound continued on inter- side who are allowing wild rum-| dens in Ontario. He never hadjand had fired the shots "only national money markets. a died tes ansrochation much time to see the world, in the hopes they'd rag pe i | i was out for n- tet cied 00 tin ot wit venet Oe the great improvement in Bis Rif stop was Wianibes wok Yoeaipane witnesses took ak ow ve - hs ya.| OUF balance of payments this| Where he visited a daughter. Online stand during the hearing. lue of the pound Was main-|¥e@? and our trade terms, will| July 27, he doffed his bowler) About $14,000 worth of cloth- tained only by the Bank of|0¢ i0 no doubt now, hat to his daughter and boarded|ing--half of which has been re- - England's drawing against its|PRICES HIGHER a train to Toronto, wht he|covered--was stolen from the By WILLIAM NEVILLE speech to the Geneva confer-|six-point proposal to guarantee) qepleted reserves of hard cur- Jitters about the future of was to visit Mr. and Mrs, Ax store on the night of the shoot- Press Staff Writer jence by Gen. E. L. M. Burns,|that control of nuclear weapons|rency to buy sterling. Britain's currency PUusheditny webb, old friends of the i Warren, 27, of London A major Canadian disarma-|Canada's chief disarmament ne- | In an interview given to The old prices Thursday to their "i ment initiative may become ajgotiator. will net spread beyond the car Guardian just before his depar- Hehest level in. almost four|{amily. Mr. Webb is a Toronto}... heen charged with breaking t members of the nuclear police detective. . ¢asualty of the Viet Nam war. | He told the conference he had ren ture, Wilson recalled that de- years and sent the pound edg- and entering and theft in connec The two have little direct con-jseen nothing in the opening club. yaluation had been considered|ing downward again. He stepped off the train atition with the theft. He is free nection, but they are being tied/speech of Soviet delegate Sem-| To this end, Ottawa somelyor as a means of combating The price of gold climbed to Toronto's Union Station July 28./on $2000 bail awaiting prelimi- together, to the chagrin of thelyon Tsarapkin to indicate Rus-jtime ago circulated a drafts, nation's heavy trade def-/$35.19125 (U.S.) an ounce, the But he hasn't been seen since.|nary hearing Aug. 26. Canadian government, by the/sia is prepared to negotiate seri-|treaty which offered the basic}; i+ highest since November, 1961.) "'We don't know what hap-| Joseph Serratore, 34, also of Soviet Union and other Commu-jously on either a non-dissemina- pledges by both nuclear and] «we felt that what Britain|The market was not particu-|pened to him," Mr. Webb said|London, has been charged with nist representatives on the 17-/tion treaty or an extension of non-nuclear nations not to dis-|seded was an astringent pol-/larly active, but dealers said| Thursday, "I'm in charge of the}possession of goods stolen from nation Geneva disarmamentithe partial nuclear test baniturb the status quo and added what demand there was camel|investigation afd I've exhausted|the store. He too is free on bail commission. treaty. afew unique elements of its : pending preliminary hearing. That in itself may be enough| Instead, said Gen. Burns, Mr.|own. The two main innovations G artoonist ficials of Canada's external af-|"rather schizophrenic' speech|/powers to come to the defence choice but to devalue. fairs department on a carefully-jwhich concentrated as much onjof any non-nuclear nation at- . The pound was devalued by drafted proposal aimed at en-/hammering United States policy tacked with nuclear weapons $5 000 the last Labor government in suring the non-dissemination of|in Viet Nam as it did on dis-jand a proposed time limit on ins ' 1949 despite pledges to the con- nuclear weapons. armament. the whole package. trary made until the last min- "Tt can't say that we're ex-| By Canadian standards at| The latter stipulation was aj MONTREAL (CP) -- Jacob|ute. It was pegged at $2.80, sition," said one official in Ot-ja hard-hitting one. Canadian|it was thought in Ottawa that,|grand prize and Peter Whalley} The pound closed Thursday tawa. 'The whole international|practice at Geneva and other/by limiting the non-dissemina-jof Morin Heights, Que. ,is one/night at $2.79 1-32 (U.S.), down atmosphere seems poisoned bylinternational conferences hasi|tion agreement to about 10jof two top men in editorial car-jone - eighth from Wednesday. Viet Nam. been, if at all possible, to leavelyears, such a treaty would|toons at the International Salon|The problem was that for a "But that doesn't mean welthe cold war polemics to thejmeet the objections of non-nu-jof Cartoonists here. time practically no one wanted aren't disappointed and eyen|main antagonists and concen-|clear nations reluctant to com-| The salon continues until Aug.|to gamble on buying pounds for at least limited agreement. the same time, it could bring|countries represented. valued in the interim. Finally STRONG BURNS SPEECH pressure on the nuclear Hers Mr. Shiloh won the $5,000\the Bank of England stepped Both the disappointment and,|CANADIAN PROPOSAL to achieve some meaningful pro-|grand award for a cartoonjin to buy pounds for future de- a pons e ueda anger) The major effort in this re-| cress on panne ders ring an attempt to smuggle|livery, boosting the market if were reflected iy in algard at Geneva is centred on @)i1+ period. men through Rome airport, the/not completely reassuring it. "We still hope the Genevajmen concealed in bass-violin| The latest trouble follows by s s Uniform A titude Tests something along these lines,"|of a similar smuggling attempt/ment's sharpest crackdown on L] said the Ottawa official. "Butimade with a trunk at the air-)public spending, welfare proj- I must say there is very little|port last year. ects, consumer credit. These indication at this stage that} Mr. Whalley shared first|tend to set the economy going "Tt would mean a lot of work|draws as Vicky for the New/tion and increase foreign fears TORONTO (CP) -- The Tele-|technique would mark the first| virtually for nothing. But then,|Statesman of London. that devaluation is the only way gram says the provincial pre'|time that Canadian university in the disarmament business,| Both he and Mr. Wertz were|Britain will be able to pay its miers have unanimously agreed|registrars could effectively|hope springs eternal." 'awarded $1,000, debts. to dash months of work by of-|Tsarapkin had offered only ajwere a promise by the nuclear actly surprised at the Soviet po-jleast, Gen. Burns' speech was!particular Canadian initiative.|Shiloh of Israel is winner of the|/(U.S.) its present par value. angry." trate instead on trying to foster|mit themselves indefinitely. At|31, with 131 artists from 26/future delivery lest they be de- conference can accom plishicases. The scene is a take-offjonly a week the Labor govern- A eement Reached: Pa T Moscow is prepared to makelpiace in editorial cartooning|faster, increase demand, men- ® any serious effort. with Britain's Victor Wertz, who|jace the country's credit posi- to recommend that Canada|compare applicants from differ- HIROSHIMA LOOKS DIFFERENT NOW Here are two views of the Japan. Twenty years ago to- month after the explosion. aren around the Sangyo- morrow, an atmoic bomb The same building and area 'Trad P exploded within 100 meters is shown in the bottom photo shoral-kan (Trade Pro- oF this building. The struc- as St stands today. motion Hall) in Hiroshima, ture is shown, top, about a ~AP Wirephoto Disarmament Initiative May Become War Casualty Ontario No, 1 DIXIE RED PEACHES "ger" fae HAMBURG | 3 lbs. 1.00 GLECOFF'S surenmanxer 174 RITSON ROAD SOUTH Soft Drinks CANNED from speculators who appeared|every possible alternative." to be gambling that Britain would finally find itself with no adopt uniform aptitude tests for college entrance examinations. The newspaper says the tests, similar to those used in th United States, will appear in Canada by early 1967. All 10 provincial education ministers have been asked to recommend methods by which the tests can be adopted, The Telegram says. Recommenda- tions will be unveiled in Sep- tember in Fredericton when the ministers and their aides meet as a standing committee of the Canadian Education Associa- tion Most Canadian universities al- ready use aptitude tests but a Canadian version of the U.S Union Denies Involvement MONTREAL (CP)--A spokes- man for the board of maritime unions trustees said Thursday the board has been assured by the Canadian Maritime Union (CLC) that the union is not. par- ticipating in any jurisdictional dispute. The spokesman was com- menting on published reports that jurisdictional disputes are developing between Great Lakes maritime unions. Three dissident members of the Seafarers' International Un- ion of Canada (Ind.) were quoted in the reports as saying' they were leading a "'raid" on the SIU for the Canadian Mari- time Union. The reports said the SIU was moving to expel or suspend the three men for an _ alleged money irregularity. The trustees were investigat- ing the possibility that the ru- mored organizational campaign represented a deliberate at- tempt to frustrate or sabotage) Cause of the fire was not trusteeship. 'known. the work of the ent provinces. MUST TAKE TESTS The U.S, version, available four times each year, requires university - bound high school students to take tests, half of them devoted to verbal skills and the other half to mathe- matics and science skills. Students apply to take the tests through local high schoo! systems, A fee of $7.50 is charged. The results are sent to Princeton University for marking. No student is allowed to re- tain his test paper. The only information returned is his score, which must be forwarded to the desired university. The highest possible mark is 800. 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