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o Eight American Families Take Up Living in Australia Sydaey, Australia U.P.; Eight Americajfamilies, who migrated here for reasons ranging from complaints about the feather to "McCarthyism," arrived in Syd ney yesterday. Q The 35 men, women and chil dren were brought here by the Australian Immigration Depart ment which arranged their pas sage and lined up jobs for the family bread-winners. They in cluded an electricn from Wash ington, a contractor from Utah, a college prof ftsor from California, a mechanic from Michigan, and a nephew of the famed Ameri can evangelist Billy Sunday. Had Australian Wives Most of the men had Aus tralian wives or had served dur ing the war in Australia or the South Pacific. Edward Sunday, 43, nephew of famed preacher Bill Sunday, wa among those landing yes terday. He said he was a suc cessful building contractor in Willows, Calif., sold his home and brought his wife and three children to Australia because he "just wanted a change." A former Utah prison guard a: contractor, who declined to give his name, said he married an Australian during the war and wanted to return "for a long time as I have been swindled so often in the states I wanted to come some place to make a fresh start." Dr. Gunther Bonnin, 32, Car mel, Calif., said he and his wife and three children were happy in the states but felt there was more opportunity in Australia. Leonard Robins, 36, Bremer ton, Wash., electrician, said he came to Australia just . "to es cape McCarthyism." r WAK ISLA80 Tag S800' ire oo' r is j, 1830' . .. . ...... . ., ... . , , ..... .. (830'N ; ir I ' ' " ' ' j ' f ROBSLAP ATOLL I j . ?WOT,JE ATOLL I j I 1 , ATOLL , T ' V IV - -;- ' ' j AILINGLAPALAr ATOLL - " i ! ! a . . ... m ENIWETOK PROVtNS GROUND DANGER AREA WARNING IS ISSUED to Pacific shipping by Atomic Energy Commission that, effective April 20, H should avoid 375,000 nautical square miles in area of Eniwetok Proving Ground due to nuclear tests. Hydrogen blasts are believed scheduled. (International Soundphoto) Scheme To Bring Television Into Small Areas Tested in Northwest Film Aclor Purdom's Wife Wins Divorce Hollywood U.R) Actor Ed muntCPurdom"s wife has won an interlocutory divorce decree on testimony her husband fell out of love with her and became in volved with, "an actress" when he attaineer success in Holly wood. Mrs. Anita Tita Purdom, 28, also won custody of the couple's two children, Lilian, 3, and Mar ina, 1 12 , when she appeared be fore Superior Judge Edward R. Brand "yesterday in nearby San ta Monica. (Jhe former ballerina testified her 29-year-old husband, after meeting a certain actress at a party, disappeared from home and slipped back in through a window the next morning. In addition to the divorce and custody of the children, Mrs. Purdom won $750 a month ali money until she remarries, $300 support for the two children, $1489 in back support, $6500 at torney's fees and a car. The Purdoms were married in London, Jan. 5, 1951. McLEOD By CAROLINE L. HARDING McLeod Dinner guests at the(me of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton on Feb. 26 were Mr. and Mrs. Claud Garrett and family. Visiting in the after noon were Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cushman and Mrs. Jack -Carlton and daughter, Jacque. Mrs. Walter Hillman and nephew Jackie, who have been the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Darrohn, have left for their bame in Los Angeles, Calif. The Rev. Elcho Redding and family, missionaries from India, who are visiting here, were dinner guests at the Carlton ranch Feb. 29. Bob Darrohn and Maury Jones, who have been stationed at Parks Air Force base in Cali fornia and are now on a fur lough visiting their parents, will leave for West Palm Beach, Fla.. next week where they will be stationed. Dinner guests at "Harding's Paradise" March 3 was Roy Vaughn and Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Hume and family. Lee Merriman, who has been principal at Elk-Trail school, will become principal at Lone Pine school in September. Waking up on Monday morn ing, March 6, we found six inch es of snow all over hills and roads at McLeod-Trail and Shady Cove. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribunt Correspondent Washington A new scheme to bring television into the smaller cities of the mountainous Pacific North west was filed Monday with the Federal C o m m unica tions Commis sion. Its bakers, a Phil adelphia electro nics firm, said that a. Robt smith equipment n developed will permit residents of outlying areas to receive net work TV for an initial outlay of about $75 plus about $1.50 per month upkeep. Jerrold Electronics Corp. filed an application with the FCC to experiment with its idea in Ellensburg, Wash. A company official explained that it is de signed to work in any com munity outside the normal range of regular television broadcast "large Northwest banking stations The company would install on a suitable mountain ridge near the town a large antenna tower which would pick up television programs transmitted by the nearest TV stations in the area. These signals in the VHF range would be converted to different frequencies in the higher UHF range, then transmitted from the mountain tower down to the town in "pea shooter" fashion to a centrally located receiver. Homes Hooked by Cables . Each home that wished to ob tain the services of the system would be hooked to the town's receiver by cables. And each TV set would have to have a UHF converter installed on it to receive the TV broadcasts. ; The entire system, under the plan advanced this week, would be run by local cooperatives org anized by the townspeople on a non-profit basis. The co-op would be financed at the outset by a Tin Can Tourists Start 33rd Convention Session Tampa, Fla. U.R) The Tin tie in one spot. He believes the Can Tourists of the World, who make up the nation's larg est trailer organization, are as informal as their title. Business sessions at the 33rd convention here began yester day, but Royal Chief Carleton H. Andrews said that the main purpose of the group is "organ ized relaxing." Andrews, a 72-year-old retired school superintendent from Hills dale,' Mich., explained the group was organized in 1920 to frater nally unite all auto campers. Clean Up Camps "We got together on a basis of no fees, no dues, no graft," said Andrews. "But together we've helped to clean up trailer camps and provide wholesome enter tainment for all tin-canners." About 1,000 members are at tending the two-week meeting here at the Municipal Trailer CamD. Entertainment includes card games, shuffleboard, pat tern dancing, folk dancing and bingo. ' "But the main thing we dois relax," said . Andrews. "And trailer living is the best way to do it." Andrews and his wife still maintain a permanent home at Hillsdale, but they spend most of their time on the road. He thinks it is the best way an eld erly couple can spend their gold en years. Easy to Move "The ideal part about living in a ' trailer," Andrews added with a wink, "is if you don't like your neighbors you' can hitch up and move." Any camping tourist over 12 years of age can join the act. .He buys a "hall card" for $1 which will admit him to all con vention, activities. All members must agree not to smoke or drink at sessions. Andrews looks down on "squatters," trailerites who set- only way to enjoy trailer living is to keep mobile. And he be lieves a small trailer, "not more than 30 feet long," is best for trailerites on the move. The year 1947 was the post war baby - boom peak in the United States. There were 26.6 babies born for every 1,000 people, marking a new record, according to census bureau reports. One-third of the hogs in the U.S. are raised in Iowa and Illinois. chain," which has expressed con fidence in the financial feasibil ity of the scheme, according to Milton J. Sharp, president of the electronics company. In testimony before the Sen ate Interstate Commerce Com mittee, headed by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) last week, company officials said they were confident it would be cheaper than other systems al ready installed m some cities in which towers outside of town are linked with the town by coaxial cable. Sharp said the "pea-shooter" transmitter on the mountain and the receiver located in the town can be installed for $4500. Concentrating on Northwest This plan is different from the one banned last month by the FCC which was operating at Bridgeport, Wash., without fed eral sanction. ' The FCC ruled mat any scneme to pick up regular TV broadcasts and re transmit them into isolated areas would have to be licensed by the FCC just like any radio or television boadcasting station. - Backers of this proposal claim it would be applicable in any of the 600 towns in the country that do not have their own tele vision stations, but they are con centrating immediately oh the Pacific Northwest because of the special problem created by mountainous terrain. They say it would work equal ly well in the flat lands of the midwest, for example, in towns far from the large city TV sta tions. In these areas, they would set up a series of "pea shooter" transmitters that would pick up and relay the broadcasts after convertaing them to a different frequency approved by the FCC. Tuesday, March 6, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE WhoTl buy the groceries for your family if you're not here ? Plan life insurance that will protect them with a regular income. 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Government employes are as easily shaken by the prospect of losing their jobs to a machine as anyone else. Getting money from the congressional appropri ations committees to finance ex pensive new machines also is a problem. " Played No Part In Cuts Automation does not seem to have played much of a part in the most recent government pay roll cuts down about 40,000 in the last half of 1955 but in dications are that before long mechanization will play a big part in making government smaller. A certain amount of machine work, mostly connected with the use of punch-card equipment, has been a part of the govern ment since World War II. But it is only recently that federal agencies have begun to experi ment with the newest electronic innovations. Many of the ma chines have been developed by the government itself, with most of the big strides in the field of atomic energy. Some Machines Already The Post Office Department also is studying the use of ma chines to help it cut down some of its mounting deficit. Out of this has come the recently an nounced stamp vending machine which sells stamps automatically and "talks" recorded messages. Other examples: 1. A new "super-brain" soon to go into action in the Social Security system's Baltimore rec ords center which will compute retirement benefits for 100 work ers every minute, up to four times faster than the machines now in use. 2. Machines put in use over the past 10 years in the Treasury Departmenfs bureau of public debt to keep track of interest payments. This has allowed that bureau to cut its payroll by al most one-third. 3000 Workers Pared 3. New tabulating machines used to compute insurance prem iums in the Veterans Adminis tration's insurance division. Be cause of these machines the VA has pared more than 3,000 work ers from its rolls since 1953. 4. A Weather Bureau machine into which weather information is fed for daily weather maps of the United States. One man would require 64 years to do what the machine does in eight minutes. Magnuson Demands Marking Explanation Washington (U.P.) Sen. War ren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) has demanded to know why all American goods shipped to for eign countries are not clearly and firmly marked "Made in the United States." Magnuson, head of the Senate Commerce Committee, said he has received several complaints. Congress directed the Com merce Department about two years ago to require all foreign shipments to" be marked "Made! in the United States" in bold i lettering and indelible ink. The order followed testimony that Russian representatives in some foreign ports had changed "Made , in the U.S." marking on U.S.; relief packages to read "Made i in the U.S.S.R." j Magnuson said he will ask j Commerce Department officials! to appear to a public hearing j April 10 to explain why the con- j gressional marking resolution is j not being carried out. ' f5s 1 Turn To Pages 8 and 9 FOR ADRIENNE'S BIG LIQUIDATION SALE ANNOUNCEMENT LAN A TURNER Co-Starring in M.aM.'s "DIANE" In Cinemascope and Color Treat for tired eyes Recipe for tired eyes: luscious Lcma Turner. Recip for appe tites tired of restricted menus: Hollywood Special Formula Bresd. Flavor favorite of epi cures. Yet so sensible: you see, there are only about 46 calories in an 18-gram slice. Treat yourself today. ntt: Hollywood DM ontfCoforfe Cuter. Writ Eleanor Dor. 100 W. 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