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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 22, 1956 O 0 Unmanned Trucks Weave Way In GSA Warehouse Washington '.U.P.) It's a little eerie at first to watch those un manned flat little trucks, loaded with boxes, weave slowly through a 28-acre room and "know" where to go. This goes. on every hour every work day at a government ware house at nearby Franconia, Va. It is the largest of 12 operated by General Services Adminis tration throughout the country to supply the needs of govern ment departments and agencies. It also is the largest warehouse of its kind in the orld and sup plies everything from sweeping compound to sardines to govern ment agenciss in the capital and nearby areas. A small portion of the 28-acre building is walled off for office space, but the best of the one story structure is warehouse. By comparison, the Pentagon, the world's largest office building, covers 34 acres. On one side of the long build ing, giant trailer trucks unload their goods. A railroad siding on the opposite side brings up freight cars to unload. As the crates and boxes are unloaded they are placed on the flat little trucks of the "tow veyor" system for transportation to the proper section. Church Property . The towveyor is a type of monorail weaving through each aisle of the great room which is divided into seven numbered sections. A worker loads the truck and then sets the section number gauge on the truck. If it's num ber seven, the truck takes off at its standard 81 feet a minute and continues to section seven where it automatically rings a bell. This is the signal for another workman to unload. The bell will not ring at any other sec tion. A GSA official said the tow veyor is laid so that there is no storage space farther than 65 feet from the towveyor line. As a mechanized warehouse, the Franconia structure has 118 employees. Without mechaniza tion it would require 149, a spokesman sad. Other govern ment warehouses also are mechanized. The government leases the huge building, incidentally, from the Park Avenue Metho dist Church of New York. The structure was built by a private builder for government use and then bought for about $5,000, 000 by the church as an investment. Penitentiary Guard Gets Term in Jail Salem (U.R) Charles E. Jones, 32, Oregon state peniten tiary guard charged with taking Benzadrine into the prison for the inmates, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and fined $250 yesterday by Circuit Judge George R. Duncan. Jones was arrested last July 10. Judge Duncan ordered pro bation for Jones upon payment of the fine, after being told that Jones had established himself in the garage business since being discharged from the prison. Use Tribune Want Ads Quick in results! 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