Man walks on water
in plexiglass cylinder
United Press International
AUSTIN — The wheel of fort
une has been spinning since the
time of early man, but Bill Tabor is
hoping for a fortune with a different
type of wheel.
Tabor uses his wheel to walk on
•water—like lakes, rivers, streams,
the Gulf of Mexico and soon, the
English Channel.
Tabor’s yet-to-be named contrap
tion is a large, round, mostly plexig
lass cylinder with aqua blue flotation
caps on both sides. It is about 4 feet
wide and more than 6!6 feet tall.
,11 a person has to do is put the
wheel on water, crawl into one of
the portholes on either side, stand
up and start walking like a squirrel
in a cage. As the wheel turns, pad
dles cut into the water, moving it
forward.
“It’s unsinkable,” Tabor said.
“You can flop it over in the water
and it will float and it’s easy to bring
back upright.”
Tabor, an engineer by trade, said
he got the idea for his water wheel
years ago but only recently had the
time and money — estimated be
tween $50,000 and $60,000 — to
construct a prototype.
Since last winter he has been test
ing and demonstrating the wheel
and says within a couple of weeks he
wants to try to walk across the
English Channel. He already has
taken his wheel into the Gulf of
Mexico and says he drew a crowd of
porpoises.
Although Tabor says the testing
and development of his wheel has
been a lot of fun, he also says it has
had its dangerous side.
Early one morning he said he
took the wheel to a lake and began
walking around, only to come face to
face with a shotgun.
An early morning boater spotted
the strange contraption and at first
thought it was a UFO. After a rapid
bit of explanation by Tabor, the
boater finally lowered the gun and
prepared to drive off.
“Yeah," the boater said. “I know
all about you CIA.”
Writer-actor Shaw
dies in Irish homeland
United Press International
| DUBLIN, Ireland — Actor and
rtmlWriter Robert Shaw, perhaps best
[known for his role as the shark
hunter in “Jaws,’ collapsed by a
[roadside Sunday and died of a heart
attack, police said. He was 52.
Shaw’s square jaw and blond hair
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became famous in movies like “A
Man For All Seasons,” “The
Caretaker” and dozens of others be
fore the film about the massive
shark.
But it was as a writer that he
wanted to be remembered — and
his success as a writer, though less
known, was as extensive as his fame
as an actor.
A police spokesman said Shaw
became ill while driving his car near
his home outside Tourinakeady, Ire
land, 150 miles west of Dublin. He
stopped the car, got out and died on
the roadside, the spokesman said.
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