European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Belated tribute to a to visionary by Mark Warbis associated press fifty years alter commercial television made its flickering debut in the United states at the  York world s fair the  of a jangly Len after who made it possible is Fin affy a cinch requited m s Hirth Lima said Elma Pom Farnsworth who for -14 , was bounding Hoard sweetheart lab assistant and wife to Pluto Taylor Farnsworth. But she  t his first love. Television was Farnsworth when Dicj in 1971. Was 15 years old in 1322 when he diagrammed his idea Lui an electronic to by slim on a High school  in an Eastern Idaho arming town called flight chemistry teacher Justin to Man s memory of that drawing including the  description o an electronic Imago dissector to camera tube helped Farnsworth win the first in a series of Patent Battles with Ria Over Early to technology in Iho 1930s but in Farnsworth won the Battles Ria won Iho War outside Idaho and his native Utah most history and reference books place him on the sidelines among other pioneers in television s development. Most of the glory went to Vladimir Zworykin. The russian american inventor who developed the icon scope and Kin scope during a career primarily with Ria Farnsworth. Who received some 160 patents finally was induced into Iho National inventors Hall of Fame in 1984 seven  alter Zworykin. Blocking rank Calls by Calvin Sims new York times he number of obscene or harassing Telephone co is has alien simply in the firs test of a by slim that allows people to Sec Tho number of Iho phone the Call was dialled on Belore they answer the test in Hudson county  a 49 percent drop in requests to track such Calls after the system was in place. Telephone companies Welcome the results hoping they will increase demand or the caller identification service such systems arc seen As a significant potential source of Telephone Revenue but they have been slow to win acceptance from regulators because of criticism that they invade the privacy of callers Tho caller identification system offered in new Jersey displays the number of the calling party on a Small digital screen attached to the Telephone. Tho Telephone subscriber can also notify the now Jersey Bell Telephone co to make a computer record of where and when a harassing Call originated by dealing a code when the Call is received and by pressing a code Tho phone owner can Block Calls coming in irom a designated number making it impossible Lor a harasser to make repeated Calls torn the same phone the Hudson county test was started in late 1987 and has been widely available since the beginning of this year Tho number of requests the phone company received to Trace Calls has declined sharply there. The 236 requests received in Tho six months that ended april 30, Lor example amounted to a 49 percent decline rom the corresponding six month period two years earlier when no one in the area had caller  according to new Jersey Bell. This technology by its Mere presence is having a chilling elect on the number of Crank phone Calls that people Are reporting said James w. Carnigan a spokesman for new Jersey Bell the word is out people now have the ability to the Call identifier allows customers to preview incoming Calls by identifying the caller s number. See Tho phone number of Tho caller and Many would be obscene callers Are afraid to mess around on Iho Telephone Tho new service May spread rapidly. Phone companies in new York. Pennsyl Varva. California and the several Southern states served by the Southern Ball Telephone and Telegraph co Are planning to introduce the service. The phone companies Are enthusiastic about the Revenue potential. New Jersey Boll which charges $6.50 a month Lor the service said its surveys showed that 42 percent of its customers or 1.2 million people received whal in Calls annoyance Calls in the past year and that 72,000 complaints were tiled. Many phone companies however Are moving More slowly than they originally expected because of Iho privacy issues the technology raises critics contend thai the systems violate the rights of phone users who have unpublished phone numbers or who wish simply to keep their numbers private. The critics also say that caller identification will make Tho Public loss Likely to use confidential social services like aids hotlines or shelters Lor battered women. And Consumers phoning mail order houses or local businesses might Lind their numbers being passed on to Telephone marketing and solicitation concerns without their permission. Several new Jersey residents have used the system to rid themselves of harassing Calls. Some have recognized the phone number of the harassing caller As that of a relative or Riend and asked the known harasser to Stop. Other subscribers who were unfamiliar with the number of the harassing Call that appeared on the display screen informed callers that their phone numbers could to seen Anci the harassers quickly Hung up a family in Middlesex county n a used the computerized Call tracing Lealure o the system to press charges against a Man who called their Home about 20 limes a night for three months. By pressing a code when Tho Calls were received Tho family made in possible for Tho phone company to record the number Date and Lime of the incoming Calls we re going to set ins record straight across the  said Kent , Iho inventor s son. Utah gov. Norm Banger or proclaimed May 2 Philo t Farnsworth Day kicking Olf a fund raising Effort or a Bronze statue of Farnsworth in National statuary Hall in the us Capitol Farnsworth who was born in Iho southwestern Utah town of Beaver was picked for the Honor by the Ulah legislature at Tho urging of a Salt Lake City elementary school class that researched a number of Lamous Utah ans. People kind of like a Guy who s an  said Bruce Barnson principal Al Ridgecrest elementary. In Rigby. The Farnsworth television group is raising Money Lor a to museum to avg height his achievements. There already Are signs on  20 leading into the town of 2.600 proclaiming Rigby Tho Birthplace of television Tho Community Center in a former Bank building has a collection of Farnsworth Memorabilia in whal used to be a vault. Mrs. Farnsworth now 81, recently wrote an essay about her husband for people Magazine criticizing Ria Chio David Sarnoff o Ollor to control the television Industry just like he d controlled  that Iheme is explored further in a Book mrs. Farnsworth Hopes to publish tilled. Distant vision Romance and discovery in an invisible Frontier. She recounts How the financial Strain of Legal disputes with Ria forced Iho Farn Shvorth television & radio corp. To the verge of bankruptcy and finally to sell out to International Telephone & Telegraph in 1949. But Edward w. Harold a former Ria researcher and retired director of Tho electronics research Laboratory Al the David Karnolt research Center in Princeton . Said jabs at Sarnoff Ziv Trykin or Ria Are misplaced. I think Farnsworth got plenty of credit from the historians More than he deserves. He was really a Genius a really Bright Guy Herold said. 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