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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
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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).
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MICROWAVE ANTENNA Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company's new micro
wave relay station on top of Baldy mountain,
southeast of Medford, was put into operation
at midnight test night. It was the last link
in the comrany's San Diego-to-Seattle system
$50,000 Project Started
On Coaxial Cable in State
for relaying network television programs
along the west coast. The switch to the micro
wave relay stations relieved a coaxial cable
which will be used for additional long dis
tance telephone conversations.
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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
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000 artificially sired heifers that
are or soon will be producing
milk.
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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.
The investigation resulted
from complaints of Salem-area
citizens led by Mrs. John Phei-
fer, a Silverton housewife and
the mother of two sons.
Following the grand jury hear
ing, Mrs. Pheifer announced
plans for the formation of a citi
zens committee to control the
decency of publications sold in
the county.
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