Mondiy. Julr 39, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Magic Box1 Will Warn West Coast Cities To Beware of Coming Enemy Bomber Attack
San Francisco IT An elec
tronic "magic box" invented by
a Californian is the new "voice
of emergency" that will warn
West Coast cities to begin evac
uating before an H-bomb ob
scures them in a monstrous
belch of fire.
Called "Sigalert." it is capable
of flashing the red warnings of
oncoming enemy bombers or
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Mexico City Former United Press Correspondent Colin Mil
ler, on the Mexico earthquake:
"I've been through quakes In Japan, Chile and in California,
but I've never been through anything as bad as this."
Washington FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, defending the role
of confidential informants:
"The very basis of our success is the FBI's assurance to this
country's citizens that the information they give will be main
tained in the strictest confidence in our files."
Ottawa Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, on disarma
ment talks with Canadian Prime Minister John Dicfenbaker:
"These talks were completely informal and on this very ac
count helpful in maintaining genuine understanding on the part
of friendly neighbors."
Rome Dr. Mirko Skofic. on the son born Sunday to his wife.
Italian movie star Gina Lollobrigida:
"He has dark hair and blue eyes and a nose that looks like his
mother's. He should be a handsome boy."
New York Actress Marie (The Body) McDonald, on the latest
reconciliation with her husband, millionaire shoemaker Harry
Karl:
"It just came about naturally."
Paul Hayden Kirk ...
Once again the national spot
light is on a Northwestern archi
tect. One of Paul Hayden Kirk's
houses is the subject of the cover
story in the August issue of
"House and Garden." and anoth
er is featured in a second section
of the magazine.. There are 22
additional pages on the theme,
"The Arts of Living in Seattle."
In essence they reflect family
life in all of Western Washing
ton and Oregon. The contempor
ary house of West Coast lumber
predominates.
The Kirk house on the cover
looks from the top of Cougar
Mountain, over the green of a
second-growth forest, the blue of
Lake Washington, and into the
horizon gray of summer rain
clouds.
Beams and posts of Douglas
fir, hemlock decking, siding,
with paneling and fencing of
western red cedar, crowd the
foreground of the cover scene.
And so the story goes through
the inside pages of pictures of
the Paul Hayden Kirk ' homes.
In home design, he is a West
Coast woodsman as much as
any logger with the bark on.
Glory of the Woods ...
The inventiveness of the young
Seattle architect sparkles even
from the black and white pic-
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tures of his designs. They glorify
our region's bread and butter
lumber in every view, inside or
out. They project a persuasive
appeal to the usual family group
that is studying "House and Gar
den" and related magazines
these days, with home building
in mind.
There is an apt quotation in
the story of how one husband
and wife team made dreams turn
into reality the story of the
second Kirk - designed home
shown in the August issue of
"House and Garden." The own
ers are Mr: and Mrs. C. U. Evans,
and the place is on the Lake
Washington shore of Mercer Is
land, linked to Seattle by the
world-famous "Floating Bridge."
They are quoted this way:
"This house," say Mr. and Mrs.
Evans, "is as close to perfection
as we could ask for in its ease
of entertaining, upkeep and the
beauty of its setting. We had
definite ideas but found difficul
ty in expressing them. When set
out in plan form, however, the
combination of house, cabana,
bath-ouse and workshop was ex
tremely pleasing."
The house is finished outside
in vertical hemlock. All interior
partitions are sliding panels or
hemlock paneling.
Style Center ...
California is today up front
with France as a center of styl
ing in women's apparel. Wash
ington and Oregon hold increas
ing promise of becoming the
major source for American pre
ferences in home styles.
Paul Kirk, like Paul Thiry
and Pietro Belluschi before him.
has specialized in functional
buildings designed for uses of
science, education and business.
As one example, he and his as
sociates have designed 34 med
ical clinics, and Kirk himself
is the author of a book on this
distinctive phase of the expand
ing service of today's American
architecture in meeting modern
public service needs and trends.
Kirk stands out today, how
ever, as an originator who has
has contributed key features to
the contemporary American
style of residential dwelling.
ever growing in national pop
ularity. Recently he has added
exterior exposure of wall posts
to the exposed roof beams and
decking of the modern living
room. In his Cougar Mountain
design a feature is a "children's
wing" that will catch any young
viewer's.
Kirk finds that on wings of
wood there is no limit to the
practical working out of the
architect's inspirations in home
designing. And now his flights
o" creative imagination, in frame
and from modern techniques,
span the continent. New York
sees thorn, so does Texas.
Flattery for the larger figure!
Here's a printed pattern that is
designed especially for waist
sizes through 46 slimming in
your favorite 6-gore skirt. Make
it in crisp cottons, linen!
Printed pattern 9248: women's
waist sizes 30, 32. 34. 36. 38, 41,
43. 46 inches. Size 30 requires
21 1 yards 39-inch fabric.
Printed directions on each
pattern part. Easy, fast, accur
ate. Send THIRTY-FIVE cents
(coins) for this pattern add 5
cents for each pattern for lst
class mailing. Send to Marian
Martin, care of Medford Mail
Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West
18th St., New York 11, N.Y.
Print plainlv NAME, ADDRESS,
SIZE and STYLE NUMBER.
Coal traffic is responsible for
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other attack within seconds to
all citizens with radios or tele
vised sets turned on no matter
what station.
It already is in use in San
Francisco, Los Angeles and 48
other southern California com
munities and some in Nevada
and Arizona as an integral part
of disaster warning networks.
Named for Developer
It is named for Lloyd C. Sig
mon, vice president of radio sta
tion KMPC, Los Angeles, who
developed its revolutionary
transmission and receiving sys
tem which warns of local as
well as national disasters.
Proponents of "Sigalert" say
its values lies in the fact that it
is always operative, every ready
as an inaudible portion of an
active radio signal to spring to
life instantly when tripped by
the proper switch. .
"Sigalert" breaks into any
broadcast or telecast with news ;
of imminent attack, a flash fire,
a tidal wave, hurricane or tor
nado. San Francisco police say that
such a system would have been
invaluable during major earth
quakes; and that had "Sigalert"
been in operation during the
Christmas floods of 1955 the toll
of lives would have been much
smaller.
Immediate Alert
At the police department con
trol center in Los Angeles the
chief dispatcher calls a "Siga
lert" and if the situation is one
of impending national disaster
or if a hurricane is barreling
down on the community, all ra
dio and television programs stop
immediately and the alert is on.
Every person who has his ra
dio or television turned on will
know of the alert seconds after
it is flashed by police or the Air
Defense command at Ent Air
Force base, Colorado, in case
enemy bombers are approach
ing.
He won't wait to pack.
Hearing the warning on his
radio, seeing it flash on his TV
screen, the citizen will believe
it and there will be no compla
cency, officials say.
He'll high tail it out of town
to a safe evacuation area.
The man at home can also get
the warning over his short wave
set if he has a receiver installed
or over a speciall designed "Sig
alert" receiver.
The Method
Here is how the alerting sys
tem works.
On the spectrum of radio fre
quencies there are unused .por
itions inaudible to the human
ear. "Sigalert" takes the unused
portion from 0 to 40 cycles, and
using an extremely low percent
age of modulation, superimposes
them on a radion-frequency car
rier to transmit the bulletin.
The entire "Sigalert" process
can take place without inter
rupting a radio broadcast, and
because the signal is inaudible,
listeners won't hear it unless it
is broadcast to them directly
on purpose.
If the emergency is not serious
enough to warrant an immedi
ate break into all stations, the
chief dispatcher flips a switch
and in every station equipped
with a "Sigalert" receiver, a
light goes on. A tape recorder is
activated and the bulletin re
corded so. it can be relayed over
the radio network during a
break in the program.
"Sigalert" is used in this way
every day in the Los Angeles
area to inform motorists of seri
ous accidents and crowded high
ways. Some of the bulletins are
broadcast in factories in order
to inform commuting employees
of snarled traffio arteries be
tween cities.
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