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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1980
United Press International
Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 65th day of 1980 with 301 to
follow.
The moon is moving toward its last quarter.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces.
Also on this date in history:
In 1770, British colonial troops killed five civilians in the so-called
“Boston Massacre.”
In 1953, the Soviet Union announced Premier Josef Stalin had died
at the age of 73.
In 1966, a British airliner crashed into Japan’s Mount Fuji, killing all
124 people aboard.
In 1977, President Carter discussed his problems and policies in the
course of answering questions from 42 callers from 26 states on a
natiowide radio broadcast from the White House.
A thought for the day: Soviet Communist leader Josef Stalin said, “In
the U. S. S. R., work is the duty of every able-bodied citizen, according
to the principle: he who does not work, neither shall he eat.”
Computer may aid marriages
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — A Universi
ty of Utah sociologist foresees the
day when you’ll turn to your home
computer for help in solving spats
with your spouse.
Gerald W. Smith is presently us
ing a $1 million computer to test a
marriage counselor program. He
predicts that within five years a
cheap version of the program will be
available for inexpensive home com
puters.
“The program will be available on
a cassette for about the price of a
book,” Smith said in an interview.
Home computers now on the mar
ket do not have the memory capacity
to handle the marriage counselor
program, he said, but they will have
in the near future.
Manufacturers of coin-operated
amusement devices could also pro
duce a version that would provide a
quick marriage analysis for 25 cents,
he said. But for most people, getting
a two-bit analysis while shopping for
groceries would not help much, the
sociologist added.
Smith has another idea he thinks
would work well in “a supermarket
atmosphere:” a machine to help you
decide which political candidate to
vote for.
Here’s how it would work: You tell
the machine how you stand on 20 or
so political issues. It matches your
positions against those taken by each
of the candidates in a given race and
tells you which comes closest to your
“ideal” candidate.
An idea similar to the electronic
candidate picker is a program that
would help you find out if you and
your fiancee are compatible.
People need computer help in
such areas because “they make their
decision on the basis of emotions,”
Smith said.
In selecting a marriage partner,
Smith said,“People get totally in
volved in sexuality and forget about
all the other issues.”
It often does not dawn on people
until after they are wed and having
difficulties that they simply can’t
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spouse smoke or eat crackers in bed.
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lessly emotional when it comes to
voting, Smith said.
“Every election I wonder what the
people who go into the voting booths
really know about the candidates.
They probably don’t know any more
than I do, which usually isn’t much.
What’s needed, he said, is “analy
tical thinking,” which computers do.
Computers remember everything
they’re told, while people have a
habit of forgetting details.
Smith said the application of com
puter programs to help people think
analytically and remember details is
“almost unlimited.”
“I see it as a kind of mass produc
tion of intelligence, which will result
in a rational society — a better socie
ty,” he said.
Smith and his colleague, Jerry De-
benham, a professor of education
administration, are using university
and high school students to test a
computer program telling people
whether they would be compatible
marriage partners.
They are also testing the marriage
counselor program and developing
the candidate-picker program.
Sculptor’s
torch turns
metal to art
United Press International
FRESNO, Calif. — Jack Rott’s
acetylene torch, grinder and talent
are turning 125 pounds of sheet met
al and bronze into 50 shiny blue-gray
works of art the entire country can be
proud of.
His spare time over the next six
years will be spent cutting, shaping,
welding and grinding six-foot pieces
of steel into detailed one-foot tall sta
tuettes characteristic of each state’s
history.
The Fresno insurance appraiser’s
goal is to sculpt the collection, tour
the country displaying his art, and,
someday, find a home for it in the
Smithsonian Institution.
Rott’s historical undertaking
zeroes in on the 100-year span be
tween 1750 and 1850. The pieces will
reflect people best depicting each
state during that period.
Maine’s entry will be a fisherman.
A Russian Orthodox Church minis
ter will represent Alaska. North
Carolina suggested a Scottish soldier
from the Revolutionary War era.
The inspiration for Rott’s en
deavor came from his wife, Colleen.
The Rotts are veterans of arts and
crafts shows in western states. Rott
has displayed, and sold, detailed
metal figurines of Indians, cowboys
and animals. But he wanted to try
something different.
“We had never seen anything like
the states collection before, and we
thought it was something Jack and I
could do to preserve a little bit of
history,’ Mrs. Rott said.
She wrote the governors of each
state asking what character best rep
resents their state during the 1750 to
1850 period. All but 12 states re
plied. The Rotts are choosing the
characters for those states.
Two of the 50 figurines stand
finished in Rott’s home outside Fres
no. His first creation is a hoe-
wielding husbandman from Dela
ware. That 90-hour project was fol
lowed by a 115-hour effort sculpting
a Pennsylvania Quaker. The differ
ence in time spent on each piece
reflects the amount of detail in the
figure, Rott explained.
Rott’s next collection piece will be
a New Jersey inventor. Other crea
tions over the next six years will in
clude Green Mountain Boys from
Vermont, a California ranchero, an
Arkansas Ozark Mountain man, an
Oglala Sioux chief from South Dako
ta, a Mormon pioneer from Utah, an
Indiana woodsman, a Seminole Indi
an from Florida, an Idaho Basque
shepherd, an Ohio railroad worker, a
West Virginia frontiersman, a Wichi
ta Indian from Oklahoma, a Kansas
wagon master, a French “coureur du
hois” from Alabama, an Illinois far
mer with a plow, a Virginia tobacco
farmer and a Rhode Island black
smith.
The 18th century Delaware far
mer tills his crop. He is dressed in a
pullover shirt, trousers, a flat brim
med hat and boots. Rott’s hand-held
grinder folded only a few creases into
the garments. The facial detail in
cludes deep-set eyes, bushy eyeb
rows and sideburns.
For the Quaker, Rott spent hours
building up the crude frame by melt
ing welding rod over the 22-gauge
steel. Dozens more hours were
spent grinding it off until the knee-
length cutaway coat, inside waist
coat, shirt, scarf, hat and buckled
shoes appeared.
The models for Rott’s work come
from Mrs. Rott’s research. She
spends one or two days a week in
libraries digging up documentation
and drawings.
Rott, 50, figures it will take him
between 5,500 and 6,000 hours of
eye-straining detailed work to sculpt
all 50 statuettes.
A Rott sculpture usually carries a
$2,500 to $3,000 price tag. But the
states collection will travel as a group
and is not for sale.
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