HAS DOZENS OF INVENTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200540022-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: January 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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CLARION, IA.-The boundless energy of Eugene Allen, who e w in,
will be 84 on Mar. 28, has produced dozens of inventions and 1 at the rail crossroads here.
reams of handwritten manuscripts. I Has IritteF2
And some of Allen's inven- I There are dozens of items 15 Manuscripts
tions, only a few of which on which Allen hasn't sought j Thirty ears ago Allen left
have been patented, have patents: A device to expedite i y
been of inesti- parachute opening; a para- railroading to start his own
mable va 1 u e (i ? chute guiding gadget; a non- roofing business. S ever a I
as he has pur- 4C?tlC skid crutch toe, an apparatus months ago lie reroofed
sued a 30 year' that prevents freezing of auto h o u s e s on which he first
career in. the ~t)idy radiators and b 1 o c k s, of worked almost 30 years ago.
Hess. water meters and of exposed
roofing busi water pipes; an instrument Except for hiring occasional
.LCleoionj
F. o r, i n - Tor holding the human eye assistance, Allen works alone.
L oes MoiNrs, open during examination. -den
stance, he.de Mrs. Allen carries a bit?
signed and he 1 as heavy as her husband's.
built a conveyor that lifts. T Be Cf Since he lost his hearing 11
bundles of material to a roof. Mousetrap years ago, she has been secre-
has made mod tart', bookkeeper, estimator,
It also is used to load and ;, All
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unload materials between i! collector and. human intercom.
l~ els of the better mousetrap, a k
trucks and warehouse. Allen's hobby, it should be
Another device is an ad- vacuum dust mop cleaner, an writing. He has
justable catwalk t h at expo- ' automatic fire extinguisher, a called, is
dites the roofer's -work. And mobile workbench, a record.11 handwritten 15 manuscripts-
there are de- keeping device, and dozens of mostly scientific novels and
fiction
vices to level ~ yt> gadgets of the "household'
imaginative "space"
the planks on hint" v a ri e t v such as.
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ladder jacks;
and to s p when a door is opened, and, thing to a publisher. One o
his manuscripts totals 14
up "v a 1p e y,"~ a light bulb to keep bottles J
t r,i m ming" of milk from freezing in the., million words; ;he knows that
delivery box.
w i t h asphalt . ~` his punctuation and spellinroofing, Born at Stonington, Ill., one lack perfection, but he enjoy
Allen, a vet- of 11 children, Allen was 19 .
Bran railroad I ` 4 when, he went to Eagle Grove the long hours of .writing.
boilerma k or , , :;2 3 * as a boilermaker for the The Allens'have a son, How
who turned to lx `b ~ r North Western Railway. After .ard of Falls Church, Va.,
sh ip y a r d four years he was married to retired Army officer now wit
crane opera-. ALLEN Edith Marie Lalor, moving the Central Intelligence A
Lion in World War I, says: . then to work-for the Milwau envy, and a?-dghtt`EY;`".Mr
"People around here think kee Railroad at Spokane, I Mildred P a y t o n of De
I'm a nut - because Iim al- Wash. ; '.Moines. There are thre
ways working on something '` For three years in World granddaughters a n d t w
and I won't tell what it is. War I, Allen operated cranes great-grandchildren.
They just can't understand and huge hydraulic presses in i ? ? ?
that." shipbuilding at Seattle. In 1919' TOMORROW: Eldora -rats
One of, Allen's devices - an he brought Mrs. Allen to Clar- i te&cher.
electric automatic train con-1 ion, where he became "_.
trol that he says would pre "crew caller" for the Great'
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cgl&t patented iii four countries,