The Kaplan Journal from Kaplan, Louisiana • 5

Uay, July 27, 1961 Th Kaplan Journal, Uac Synthesizeu bpeecii From a Machine Fletcher To Address Artificial Breeders' Heeling In Lafayeiie "Artificial insemination has made great progress in Louisiana since its beginning in this state in 1947, Kellgren states. "Approxi LAFAYETTE Dr. Joel riet-) ther. president of the University of Southwestern Louisiana, will be the main speaker at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Artificial cvim? Cooperative Inc. at La- mately 14,000 cows vrr; bred ar tificially in 1947 as compared to 55,000 in 1960.

fayritc Saturday, announced Mur- tUy Veillon county agent with the TSU Agricultural Extension Service. Others slated to take part in rj 1" 4 1 I i i Jr i cuJZ 1 I If Ljpvj r- 'VVji. S'Sy the meeting are Commissioner of during a research experiment at the company laboratories 'n New York for the purpose of obtaining a better understanding o' the nature of speech. About a year ago, Dr. 1'elly said, he and Dr.

Gerstman conceived the idea for a new type of speaking machine. Before actually building It, however, they progTammec' a high-speed, general-purpose computer to simulate the machine. The computer accepts, on a sequence of punched cards, the names of phonetic symbols which make up an English sentence. It processes this Information and synthesizes speech which is intelligible, although "slightly mechanical" to quality With further refinements ot their computer program, Kelly and Gerstman expect to obtain more human-like speech. Eventually they hope to be able to Imitate the voices of specific persons in their simulated speaking machine.

Agriculture Dave Pearce and Dr. John Hall, fieldman for the co-ooerative. Pearce will present Know Your HOSPITAL By Mrs. Ray wood Faulk Ml 3-7112 awards to artificial breeding tech nicians who demonstrated outstan ding achievement during 1360 and Hail will give a progress report op artificial breeding. Scheduled prior to the annual meeting is the LABC board of di rectors meeting Friday 28 at 2:30 n.m.

and a technicians conference at the same time, lhe annual meeting will be held at 10 a.m. the following day followed by a barbeeue at 11: SO. The fourth artificial bred heifer sale KAPLAN. July" 24 Patients admitted the Ahrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital from July 14 to July 21 are the following; Mrs. Emma Broussard.

Claudia Hebert, Mrs. Hazel Marie Duhnn. Marie Wilson, Sidney Gaspard, Mrs. Jane Mire, Mrs. Juanita Nunez.

Gaulfried Schexnider. I.e-roy Istre, Adlar Hebert. Mrs. Theresa Marceaux, Tina Gary, Tammy Gary. Ravis Broussard, Lynn Keith Hebert.

Frank Breaux, Snelia Broussard, Peggy Broussard, Mrs. I-rina Touchet, Mrs. Lena Touchet. Mrs. Ella Hargrae.

Mrs. Evita Abshire, Jean Labry. Airs. Louella will begin at 12:30. All meetings and the sale will be held in the South Louisiana Mid-Winter Fair Livestock Farm on the USL cam pus.

THE MACHINE also sings! Dr. Gerstman played a tape of a baritone voice singing a verse of "Bicycle Built for Two." The song, too, had been generated by the speaking machine iu-lated in the computer. The words were quite Intelligible, and what's more, the notes were exactly on pitch. Actors and entertainers, however, need not fear being super Officers for 1961-62 will be elec ted at the directors meeting. The present officers are president am Jtinrnm-MtwuiriinM Burl Roy of Shreveport, vice pre Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the inflamatory "Uncle Tom's the shipbuilding city of Bath; quaint Wiscasset, with its ancient jsil and museum; Tho-maston's historic church; Rock land, where lobster is king; the flower baskets on lamp posts in Camden; Belfast, noted for its chicken industry; the pastoral beauty of the China Hills lake country.

MAINE'S RUGGED SEACOAST grandeur is the top attraction of a Magic Circle motor four that starts in Augusta at the State Capitol and old Ft. Western. Other highlights: Brunswick, home of Bowdoin College and where sident Albert L. LeMaire of Xew Greene. Mrs.

Gloria Faulk, Mrs. Or. Louis Gerstman (left) and Dr. John Kelly Jr. listen to a tape cording of "synthesized speech." Marilyn Lee, Oscar LeMaire Ernest LeBlanc, Joseph Woods, Mrs.

Lucille Carrie Meaux. Wilmer Hebert, Mrs. Lillie Heberi. Mrs. Lola LeBeouf.

Mrs. Lucille Miller. Ann Katherine Mouton. Merrick Charles Broussard, Preston Gaspard, Sandra Sonnier. Anna Mae Nunez.

Capital, Rugged Maine Seacoast Thrills For Vacationing People Iberia and secretary -treasurer T.i E. Patrick of Baton Rouge. Approximately 40 heifers will be sold at the sale. Animals consigned to the sale, many of them second third generation artificially sired, are due to calve between Aug. 1 and Oct.

31, and all were selected on the basis of size and type with only those meeting the requirements of the sales selection committee to be sold. Those interested in securing a sales catalog are urged to write 'tall. Louisiana Artificial Breeding Cooperative Box 8907, University Station, Baton Rouge. space-age days, expressed amazement at the demonstration which featured a computer which was able to give the immortal words of William Shakespeare a non-mortal "eading. THEY HEARD a tape recording of the computer reciting the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy from 'Hamlet." Of course, as far as the computer was concerned, to be or not to be alive was the question.

It had merely synthesized the speech from Instructions fed to it on punched cards by Drs. John Kelly Jr. and Louis Gerstman of Bell Telephone BY EDWARD COLLIER When the president visits a United States vessel, his fla? is broken out at the main 3nd is kept flying as long as be is aboard. About 212 thousand cubic feet of water a second Tow over Niasar Falls. a nalt centuries.

More than 4,000 ships have been launched from square riggers in the days of sail to today's guided missile des seded by the talents of the computer. For one thing, the hourly cost for use ot a computer is high; and furthermore, it takes up to 25 minutes of computer time to produce one minute of synthetic speech or song. Kelly and say that when they can combine the elements into synthetic speech n-distinguishable from human speech, they will have come a long way toward understanding the nature of speech. So they are continuing to experiment, to modify their computer programs, and to make the computer speak, recite and sing. And since everything which comes out of the computer is specified by the instructions they program into the computer has one advantage over human beings Whan called upon to "say a few words," the computer doesn't worry over what it should talk about.

By JAMES NEVIN MILLER Central Press Association Correspondent PHILADELPHIA ThajiKS to a ncv electronic method, which instructs a digital computer to produce "synthesized speech," a person may, in the near future, be able to sit at a Keyboard and, by typing, operate a talking machine across the country to speak for him. Or a blind person may be able to have a machine read to him from books which previously have been encoded on punched tape. Another possibility is a typing-actuated machine for people who cannot speak. The method, said to Introduce what is virtually a new science of acoustics, was demonstrated -at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Visiting scientists, to whom very Little Is surprising in these troyers.

Next stop is at one of Maine's most quaint and historic villages, Wiscasset. which celebrated its DRINK Who's New 200th birthday last year. Steeped in "Down East" tradition the oldest civic organizations are the 1801 The demonstrators call the Fire Society and the Female Cha ritable Society, active for 155 method "a way to produce synthetic speech in response to the typing of phonetic cards." Dr. AUGUSTA, Me. A little band of Pilgrims from the Mayflower voyaged up the Kennebec River in 1625 and established a post here at "Ye most convenientest place for Later it was to become the site of Maine's only pre-Revolutionary fort, the state's capital city and center of a thriving paper and leather industry.

It is a "fitt" starting point for a Down East Magic Circle auto tour to the rugged grandeur of the sea-coast where hundreds of rocky fingers, gloved with evergreens, stick out lor miles into the blue Atlantic. They tell you that if Maine's dramatic shore line could be "unrolled" it would extend for 2,000 miles. Following the Maine Turnpike from Portland, we began our ex-Dloration here in the capital city at years. Austere white houses are softened by great old shade trees Kelly exhibited several samples and the gay bloom of dahlias and of synthetic speech and ex petunias. A while cupola perches The Eelier Cola" plained that they were produced atop the Lincoln County Co ur t- house, where justice has been meted out since 1824.

Among the valuable documents in its vaults is a July 2, 1625 deed one of the old Also Mesdames Arthur Trahan, est recorded the U. S. con DEBORAH ANN BROUSSARD Mr. and Mrs. Laudres Brous Obray Bertrand, Oscar Frith MILLIE GASPARD IS HONORED AT BRIDAL SHOWER THURSDAY veying land to the white men in ex change for "50 Rene Stelly, Horasia Frith, Jimmy sard of Rt.

1, Box 219, Morse, i Fort Western on the banks of the named their 6 pound 12 ounce ba Crochet, Earl Dartez, Norris Trahan, Augustave Gaspard, Otis The 1S11 Lincoln County Jail and Mueum, bristling with chimneys, In? rhnked Kennebec River by girl Deborah Ann. She was Don't Say Cola DELIAIID BUSTER A Low Calorie Drink Low In Calorie and High In Quality and Energy MUlie given a white carnation corsage COW ISLAND Miss resembles a fine country home. David, A. Hebert, Taylor Sellers, Dewey Suire, and Lloyd Frith, Sr. born July 15 in the Abrom Mrs.

Broussard is the for Inside, the long unused cells are cold and damp, rusty iron doors mer Emma LeBeouf of Kap The weathered shingle, hand-hewn log structure was built in 1754 for supplies awaiting transport by ox cart, and as protection against an expected French invasion and Indian attack. if lan. trimmed with lavender ribbon. Guests included the Misses Glen-da Harrington and Reba Do-mingue, and Mesdames Lurcy Gaspard, Ivan Domingue, Wilmer Har BRENDA GAYLc HEBERT Turbulent Algeria is four times the size of Metropolitan France. Only three per cent of Algeria's 920,000 square miles in North Afri Gaspard, bride elect of Lloyd Frith was guest of honor at a bridal shower Thursday afternoon, July 20, at the home of the prospective bridegrooms parents on the Forked Island Highway.

Hostesses were Miss Deanna Frith and Mrs. John Frith. The honoree, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustave Gaspard of AND LINDA MARIE HEBERT rington, Wilson Lemaire, Minos intact An intricately carved wooden box, presented by an inmate to the jailer and his wife, is displayed in their living quarters' parlor.

Picturesque Harbor A few minutes' ride brings you to Thomaston, called the town that went to sea. for its ships were The 22 rooms are crammed with colonial treasures varying from ship models and Indian relics to rarp newtpr. a wooden balance Brenda Gayle and Linda Marie Gaspard, Ignace David, Eudon ca grows crops: a mere sixth can Gaspard, Boniface Lege, Orelie support livestock. But new oil wells were the proudly-welcomea new arrivals in the family of Mr. and Bottled By Elannhard Boliling Works, Inc.

Kaplan- sralp and a ladder like barrel Hanks, Herbert Gaspard, Clarence and iron deposits in the Sahara and recent finds of diamonds, nic carrier. Particularly intrigu Mrs. Maxie Jerome Hebert of 905 N. Louisiana Kaplan. The kel and copper in the Hoggar give ing were the kitchen's huge circu Richard, Floyd Hebert, Sanford Frith, E.

Landry, David Smith, Adlar Stelly, Eldridge Touchet, and Percy Gaspard. known in every major foreign port in the ISth century. Today the Cow Island, attended the affair in an orchid plaid shirtwaist dress with white accessories. She was promise of important economic Jar fireplace big enough to roast growth. picturesque little harbor is dotted with sails and gaily painted power twin girls were born July 15 in the Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital, at 10:10 and 10:20 a.m.

Brenda Gayle weighed in at 5 pounds 14r2 ounces and Linda boats whost sole business is pleasure. Above on a hill is the 1796 North Parish Meeting House of Marie weighed 5 pounds 51 oun BORDELON HARDWARE'S ABBEVILLE ces. Mrs. Hebert is the former Claudia Guidry. KAPLAN ADJUSTABLE IRQIIIHG TABLE PAUL MELVIN FAULK JUR.

a deer a square irencner trough at which soldiers ate two at a time and never mind table manners. Distinguished Capitol Either of the auto bridges leads to Maine's capitol building of gray granite, designed by noted Boston architect Charles Bulfinch. It has been remodeled, the present conventional dome having replaced the original cupola. The State Museum downstairs, rich in historic mementos, has an unusual feature from New York's World's Fair das a glass enclosed waterfall, covered bridge and pool in which -JOLT SPEEI1L mi cracked window panes and weath-1 ered siding. It is just a shell now, but the 683 lb.

steeple bell cast by Paul Revere is rung once a year. Happy is the motorist who arrives in Pockland at Mealtime. Here lobster is king and special homage is paid to him annually with the three day Maine Seafoods Festival (Aug. 4 6) The fun "BIG BOY" CHARCOAL Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Melvin Faulk Sr. of Rt. 3 Box 89, Kaplan proudly welcomed a little son July 18 at 9:10 p.m., in the Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital. Paul Melvin Jr. weighed 8 pounds lS1 ounces.

He was welcomed by a little sister, Suzanne Rene. Mrs. Faulk is the former Gloria Jean Bertrand of Kaplan. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

Molear Bertrand and Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Rene Faulk of Kaplan. 2.114.1 AUTOCRATIC begins when King Neptune appears to rise from the deep and Davy OTCA17TN-DRY Jones presents him with a live lobster clutching in its claw the name of the" Sea Goddess (Queen). In the WITH meantime tons of the sea delicacy boil in huge pots, sending out a de KIMBERLY ANNE LEE lectable aroma, and everyone heads for Fishermen's Memorial Pier to line up for the feast.

grandpa sized salmon and trout gaily flip their tins, secure from would be fishermen. The Ma sic Circle route out of Augusta is south (U. S. 201 to historic Brunswick. Twin Romanesque chapel spires rise from stands of pine to mark the campus of Bowdoin, which modestly calls itself a salt water, Liberal Arts Founded in 1794, this distinguished independent institution has produced a host of celebrities poets, statesmen, scientists, explorers.

Here Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Franklin Pierce later to become the 14th U. S. President r2zzz-fj $45 Switches from steam to dry ironing almost id ELECTRIC MOTOR ond SPIT REGULAR sUntly. Lightweight, Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Lee of Rt. 3, Box 117, Abbeville announce the birth of a little daughter, Kimberly Anne July 19 in the Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital Kimberly weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces at birth, which was at 4:05 a.m. Mrs. Lee is the former, Miss Marily Morrow. DANNY JOSEPH LEBEOUF Danny Joseph was the name Mr.

Popular adfusUbla Ironing table with Rid-Ji ds The Atlantic is never far away as you turn your wheel north to picture pretty Camden where basketed red geraniums ornament lamp posts and Maine's thriving antiaue business is honored with an annual show (July 25-28). Nearby is Irish settled Belfast, noted for its fine old New England homes Reg. $17.95 93 1 I iy -i- VALUE rtntd optntih top. Adjust to 12 heigh ts. xtremely lightweight.

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The Home Of Fine HARDWARE Zj CiBE wflH yr were classmates; here studied two men famed around the world for a their Arctic explorations Admi ral Robert E. Peary and Admi ral Donald MacMillan. with their cupolas overlooking Penobscot Bay a heritage left from the days of seafaring glory. Today's prosperity comes from its chicken processing plants, heralded by the annual Maine Broiler Festival. Coppertone finish on heavy gauge EteeL Hood confines heat and Complete with electric spit.

(No. 3334). For An Old Fashioned Treai 'Visitnrs arp welcomed With warmth and a f.tudent guide is a-vailable for tours of the elmshad 2 Qt. Hammered Aluminum ICE BUCKET kSTIE3 and Mrs. Wilfred John LeBeouf of 203 Deshotels Kaplan gave their new little son.

He was born July 20 at 2:35 a.m., in the Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital He weighed 8 pounds 14 ounces at birth. Mrs. LeBeouf is the former Lola Marie Landry. NEAL ROY MILLER Mr. and Mrs.

Millard Laurent Miller of 1009 West. Second Kaplan announce the birth of a son July 20 in the Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital at 3:05 a.m. He was named Neal Roy and weighed 9 pounds 2 ounces at birth. Mrs. Miller is the former Lucillia Matt.

PIOO and EL" 7 4-QUART was 1G.35 Pastoral beayty frames your windshield as the Mgic Circle curves back to Augirsta (Maine 3 V. S. 202) along the rolling China Hills. Thousands of feathery evergreens curtain sapphire blue lakes, with glimpses of farms and wood-lots. Lake George State Park offers camping on the sandy shores and fishing for trout, salmon and black ed campus, a pleasant potpourri of changing architectural styles.

Summer is a lively time at Bowdoin. Fichard Theater houses Brunswick's strawhat playhouse, offering top Broadway musicals; masterpieces, from Rembrandt to the works of Robert Feke, the portrait painter, are displayed at the Walker Art Building; and tie fledgling Arctic Museum includes such displays as Admiral Peary's North Pole sledee. ry nn only ij 7) 50 i4 (jllt m44 KM 13 $J88 r-r warn Manual model with triple -action design for faster, easier freetlng-. (No. 25).

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test black nylon cast ing line. Civil War Flames There is a favorite saying that; the Civil War was instigated in: Brunswick. It was here that Harn riet Beecher Stowe wrote the in-, flamatory Tom's Cabin' Some aver that Mrs. Stowe did. much of the anti slavery rnanu-! script in her husband's study on the campus where lie was a pro-i ftssor of religion; others say it was in ber home at 63 Federal Street that sha started it on, brown wrannin2 naper.

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55). clapboard Stowe house, with stable cttached. is now an inn. When you: heed the sign that bids you enter, you leel that you may have wandered into someone's private parlor. The shallow fireplace is ornamented vith hard painted flowers which resemble needlework.

Vow a cocktail lounge, the original Dutch oven kitchen, where little hght filters through liny paned windows, is a conversation piece of exposed ax hewn beams and age-laded maps. As you drive east (U. S. 1) photogenic bays and inlets tatter the shore line. Bath, where the Kennebec imn thp spa.

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