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fElCBTVJSlEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. August 1. 1956 w Pacific's New Microwave Relay Stations Commence Operations A simple change over in "patching cords" at the Medford, Eugene, and Portland offices of Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company at midnight last night took television off the coaxial cable and put in into the air on microwaves. The switch marked the begin ning of operations of nine micro wave relay stations constructed within the past year between Ashland and Oregon City. From now on, the three chan nels of network television that are constantly broadcast up and down the coast carrying NBC, CBS and ABC programs, will be beamed through the air on mic rowaves from San Diego to Se attle. Completes Link Last night's switch putting Oakland -to -Portland television on microwave transmission com pleted the last link in Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's west coast microwave television transmission system. What this means to Medford is that there is now a small gray building and steel ribbed tower with four antennas on top of Baldy mountain, about 6.7 air miles southeast of the city. The building and tower with equipment, the grounds, and the road to the structure represents an investment of approximately S500.000. Electrical Equipment Inside the building are rows of gray panels of electrical equipment. The tower outside is a square, squat structure, on top of which are four microwave antennas. The antennas are shaped like oversized television picture tubes. Two face south, and two north, a receiving and transmit ting antenna for each direction. As far as local TV viewers are concerned, there probably CV" NOW 3 On a SPARK OIL HEATER We will give you FRBl this month only a SPARK AIR MOVER! REGULAR PRICE $31.60 This offer ends Aug. 31st. Kennedy Fuel Oil 4th & Front Phone 2-5296 will be no noticeable difference in picture quality, and program scheduling will be unaffected. Instead of being taken off the coaxial cable, KBES-TV pro grams will now be taken off the three microwave channels by a special, smaller fifth antenna at the Baldy mountain station and transmitted to the Medford office of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. Same Route From there they will go the same route presently traveled by video cable to KBES-TV studios on Crater Lake high way, by the television station's own small microwave system to the transmitter on Blackwell hill, and out to all the receiver sets in the valley. Eight other relay stations con structed in Oregon bring the total cost of the overall project to $4,000,000. , The coaxial cables which have transmitted television from Oak land to Portland, or at least two "tubes" of them, will now be put into service as long distance telephone lines. Each one will be a path for a maximum of 600 voices. Operated Unattended . All the Oregon relay stations are operated unattended. Alarm systems allow persons in cen tral offices, for instance the one at Sixth and Bartlett sts. in Medford, to know immediately if something goes wrong at a station. Failure in one of the three channels causes automatic equip ment to switch the TV picture to the single standby channel in 281000 of a second. Should commercial power fail, a diesel generator will be activated, standard equipment at all the stations. Oregon relay stations are lo cated at Siskiyou summit (Ash land), Baldy mountain (Med ford), King mountain (Roseburg), Mt. Nebo (Roseburg), Harness mountain (Cottage Grove), Blan ton Hill (Eugene), Peterson Butte (Albany), Silverton (Salem) and Carver (Oregon City). a (with an assist from X 3 f if J I ' j y - 1 m rk I SCREEN DOOR CLOSER A Powerful, smooth action. Stops slamming; prevents damage. Adjustable-template & screws. -gt ceagBaakSHBo CAR WASHING $079 SCREEN DOOR1 Crf BRUSH 0 HARDWARE VWr For easier car washing. Head is rubber and handle aluminum. 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The switch to the micro wave relay stations relieved a coaxial cable which will be used for additional long dis tance telephone conversations. , (Brainerd's Photo.) A $50,000 project along the coaxial cable route from Eugene south to the California state line is underway by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany, Medford Manager J. H. Creager said today. The project is aimed at pre venting damage to the vital long distance telephone route should next winter be severe. Directing the . preventive op erations against a severe winter is Howard J. Boyd, Eugene dis trict plant superintendent . for Pacific. Telephone. Walk Every Mile During the next two months telephone construction crews Jackson Warns on Russian Strength Washington (U.R) Sen. Henry M. Jackson, firing back at Adm. Arthur W. Radford, said today the United States is in danger of underestimating, ra ther than overestimating, Rus sian military power. The Washington Democrat took issue with a charge by Rad ford that critics of the admini stration's defense policies have been making "an almost hysteri cal assumption" about Soviet military capabilities. Jackson denied that Demo crats have been relying on any "hysterical assumptions" in claiming the United States is in danger of losing air supremacy to Russia. In fact, he said, in an interview, the tendency in the past has been to underesti mate Soviet military develop ments. "We underestimated the Sov iets on the A-bomb, the H-bomb, and the Soviet rate of produc tion of long range bombers," he said. One indication of this, he said, is that the United States recently stepped up B52 inter continental bomber production over original plans. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made his charge in secret testimony be fore the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on air power. The testimony was released Tuesday night Crown Zellerbach Reports on Income - San Francisco U.P.) Crown Zellerbach Corporation has re ported a record net income of S25,000,000 for the first half of 1956, a 21 per cent increase over the same period of last year. The company said the 1956 figure excludes a $24,500,000 net gain of disposition of the firm's Fibreboard investment. The income for the first six months amounted to $1.75 a share on common stock, com pared to $1.45 a share for the same period of 1955- Lions President Sees 'Age of Fast Buck' Charlotte, N.C. (U.PJ John Stickley, president of Lions In ternational, said Tuesday we are living in the "age of the fast buck and mink coat." "Many people have come to view with indifference immor ality in government, business and life," Stockley told a civic club here. He said maintenance of moral ity is a challenge facing all service dubs. will walk every mile of the cable route between Eugene and the summit of the Siskiyous. This will be in addition to regular patrols along the cable. Enroute they will make sure the cable is buried deep enough to protect is from damage. They will also be rebuilding and re pairing small drainage ditches and clearing debris, and watch for signs of slides or erosion. "It is a rehabilitation job,' Boyd said, "to take care of situ ations that developed as a result of last winter's heavy rains, and get ready for this winter." Major Repairs At the same time the telephone crews are checking the cable, Hamilton and Thorns, Eugene contractors, will be working at 14 locations along the route which require major repairs. Crews and equipment will be burying the cable deeper, re routing it around slides and in stalling new drainage systems where they are needed. Locations in which contractors are scheduled to be working in elude Cedar creek on London mountain near Cottage Grove; the North Fork of the Umpqua river south of Sutherlin; on Gaz ley mountain near Myrtle Creek; near Canyonville; on the For tune branch near Azalea; at Gall's creek near Central Point; and in the Siskiyou mountains south of Ashland. Kefauver's Backers Surprised at Action Portland (U.R) Oregon backers of Sen. Estes Kefauv er's bid for the Democratic pres idential nomination today ex pressed surprise at the senator's withdrawal from the race. Head of Kefauver's campaign in Oregon have been County Commission Jack Bain and At torney William L. Josslin. They immediately predicted that Ad- lai Stevenson, the man to whom the Tennessee senator threw this support, would be elected on the first ballot and that Kefauver will be chosen for the vice pres idential slot on the party ticket Bain, an Oregon delegate to the national convention, said he will actively work on the con vention floor to secure the vice presidential nomination for Ke fauver. The Tennessee senator's with drawal will not affect the voting of Oregon's 16 delegates at the Democratic national conven tion. In the Oregon May pri mary, Stevenson's decisive vic tory over Kefauver assured him the state's votes. Artificial dairy breeding as sociation members in North Da kota have produced nearly 50, 000 artificially sired heifers that are or soon will be producing milk. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Two Salem Men Indicted on Sale 01 Obscene Books Salem (U.R) Marion county grand jurors have indicted two Salem men for selling indecent literature in what District Attor ney Kenneth Brown believes is the first such indictment in Ore gon history. -. Indicted after four days of hearings were Claude Cum- mings, 48, operator of the Salem News Agency and Jack H. St. Claime, 34, operator of the American News Agency. The men are the chief dis tributors of magazines and pa per-back books in Marion coun ty. They were released on $500 bail. "We have been greatly shock ed and amazed," the grand jury report said, "by the indecent and obscene publications sold to the youth of our various communi ties over the counters of many news stands throughout the county. The grand jury said the prob lem was also state and national in scope, but that they wanted to make a start by enforcing present laws in the county. 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