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Communications Systems of Companies Continue to Grow By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York O0 With American industry spreading out all over the nation with its branch offices and plants a giant system of communica tions is growing and growing. American Telephone and Telegraph company's long lines department sets up 5,863,760 miles of circuits for 5,527 services to industry in teletypewriter service. Also there are 7,259 users of pri vate telephone lines with a total mileage of 2,565,140 miles. Companies using these far flung communications systems keep in touch with all develop ments of their various plants and offices. And the process makes a piece of big business for the telephone company. Some of the systems resem ble the press associations with their busy wire communica tions throughout the nation. Various Industries Largest users of private communication systems in clude General Motors, Gener al Electric, U.S. Steel, West ern Electric, Du Pont, New York Central, Chesapeake and Ohio, Republic Steel, Armour and Swift. Of course, the air lines are linked up with a vast network of wires. One of the new communica tions systems recently install ed with for Swift and com pany. Swift replaced its old communications system with a fully automatic teletype writer system, the first of its kind in the food industry, according to American Tele phone. That company notes that Swift must have speedy com munications because of the keen competition in the meat business where products are perishable, and profit margins very close. Market prices and available product supplies must be kept under constant observation. Data Processed by ATT The system also aids the immediate delivery of prod ucts and permits a quick re sponse to customer inquiries. Mass Funeral Held For Crash Victims Galway, Ireland (UPD Busi ness stopped here today for the mass funeral of 27 uni dentified victims of last Thursday's KLM plane crash which killed. 99 persons. Exact cause of the crash was still unknown. A coro ner's jury found Monday that the victims died as the result of "multiple- injuries caused by violent impact," but said there was "no evidence to show cause of impact." The unidentified bodies were taken to the small ceme tery of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church in downtown Galway for burial in one grave. The bodies of three Ameri cans, two Dutch nationals, a Mexican and a man tentative ly listed as an Iraqi were among the 34 recovered from the Atlantic off Ireland near the spot where the four-engine Super-Constellation hit the water. They will be flown to the victims' homelands later this week. Five denomination, services were organized at the mass grave Roman Catholic, Jew ish, Church of Ireland, Mos lem and Non-Conformist. Cuban Army Patrol Beats Off Ambush Havana (ITD A five-man Cuban army patrol beat off an attempted rebel ambush at Cabana, killing six of the ene my, the army announced Mon day night. 'it said the patrol suffered one casualty. It requires about 45 gallons of water to fill an average do mestic bathtub. Information comes in from all over the country and is processed by ATT processing equipment and facts then are distributed to the Swift sales organization. Swift's new communication system links 55 cities from coast to coast with 16,400 miles of circuits. It can trans mit 90,000 words an hour, more than twice the wordage of the company's old system. It also ties together data processing machines at 20 scattered locations. Nomination Clears Senate Monday Washington (LTD Presi dent Eisenhower's nomination of W. Wilson White to head the Justice Department's new Civil Rights division cleared the Senate Monday night after a two-hour debate over White's role in the Little Rock, Ark., school integration episode. A last-ditch oratorical as sault by southern Democrats failed to keep the Senate from approving White's nomina tion by a 56 to 20 vote. Voting against White were 18 southern Democrats, in cluding Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex) and two Republicans. The GOP votes were cast by Sen. Milton R. Young (N.D.) and John J. Williams (Del.). White's supporters, led by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) said the Senate twice before had confirmed the Philadelphia attorney for high federal posts and that nothing had happened since to destroy his value. Watkins also defended the soundness of the legal work done by White in the Little Rock case, saying that two courts since had upheld the validity of the President's action in using troops to en force federal court decisions. hJ '"o. MS ,.,pr,j.r.1 ; BiB.II Hp! f! ft? Hie, iff fM !?-!i!it ?I . I hi j. jr ' lit' - i! '? HUH I i! i 1 - i? 1 J M V : S l- I i! I I !: i I ill! ii; KM 1 . M -. : I , i. J - You're invited to our IHlAiVaEVadDNIQ) show Sea "MISS AMERICA" at the KIWAIIIS COUNTY FAIR August 21-24 MEDFORD ARMORY Have Miss America autograph her latest Hammond Recording on Decca! See and hear the Hammond Organ so easy to play you don't need lessons. f U 0 j tl Find out why there's more happiness in a home that hat a Hammond Here's what xn&kes it so euy ONE FINGER of your left hand presses a button to play a full, rich chord. The button is numbered ao you don't have to search for it. ONE FINGER of your right hand plays the mel ody in tones so mellow they'll delight you. Use special "Pictors Music' if you don't vsed notes. Bring the family.. .evin the t youngsters can play the ; Hammond Chord Organ. Z Purucker Music House "Your High Fidelity Center" 111 North Central . Phone SP 2-5702 Engineers Claim Man Can Circle Moon in 80 Hours Stanford, Calif. (UPI! Man can go around the moon in 80 hours as early as 1963 if this country wants to spend the money and the time on a crash program for the voyage, two engineers said today. The engineers, Dandridge M. Cole and Donald E. Muir of the Martin company, Den ver, Colo., reported on the possibilities of a Moon voyage in a paper prepared for deliv ery at the American astronau tical Society. - "A program including five test flights and three manned flights around the moon could be carried out for a to tal cost less than that of some current large rocket projects," Cole and Muir said. Required Vehicles "The required vehicles could be assembled from components which, for the most part, are already well along in development." They said the trip from earth to the moon and back could take from three to four days " a good compromise between emphasis on safety and comfort of the passenger on one hand and lowest pos sible costs on the other." The first preparatory step, they said, should be taken be fore 1962. That step would be to send a man in -a sealed space cabin into orbit around the earth. Rocket hardware already under development could be used. "Before 1564, the big step can be made," Cole and Muir said. "A man in a sealed cab in similar to the orbiting ve hicle could be sent in a jour ney around the moon, return ing to the earth. "Trie solutions tojhe major problems involved is such a venture are already under stood in principle, and the re maining problems are primar ily those of money, "time and engineering development. II. 5. Rejects Red Violation Claim Washington (BPD The United States has quietly re jected Russia's latest charge that an American jet plane deliberately violated Soviet air space, it was learned to day. The rejection was dis patched to Moscow during the past few days. The State Department had not made it public and apparently did not intend to do so. It was not clear why the American note was kept se cret after Russia freely aired its charges. There was spec ulation the U. S. did not want to ruffle Soviet feeling while hoping for Soviet cooperation at the United Nations in working out a Middle East solution. The Soviet Union delivered its protest July 30. It charged that an RB47, the reconnais sance version of a four-turbo-pet medium bomber, zipped over Russian territory July 26. Russia said the plane came from Iran, violated the Soviet border over the Cas pian sea and strayed 15 miles inside Russian territory be fore Soviet jets forced it back across the border. The State Department re fused to discuss contents of the reply. From other sources it was learned the Air Force was unable to find a single recent incident of an Ameri can plane violating the Soviet border in the Caspian sea area. The U.S. therefore curtly brushed the Soviet charges aside as having no founda tion, informed sources said. Santa Monica, Calif. (UPD A fastidious burglar oroKe into the Executive Mens Toiletries company here, po lice reported today. Only one item was missing a Dome oi "after six" cologne for men. In addition to carbon bitu minous coal has oxygen, hy drogen, nitrogen, sulphur and inorganic matter. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Tnhnn. Rultnn overload. 530. Max H. P. Siemes, passing on crest, ao. , Bertha E. Guches, no operators license. $10. . Richard Smith, failurs to yield right of way. $10. Donald Hunter, racing. $15. Fred E. WilWns, no motor ve- 1.:.!. liranca C Merrill D. Martin, failure to dim. $7-5. . Evelyn A. Cotton, failure to stop n John W. Ansted, driving with out heaaugnts, so. Raymond J. Carignan, overload Faymond T. Coulter, failure to stop. io. Owen L. Tnggs, no operators li cense. $10. rinrtTiT rni'ifT Margie E. Johnson vs. Douglas Mitchell Johnson, divorce com plaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Donald Dean McLaughlin and Susan Ankeny Barnes, both of Med ford. June Clinton Wall and Joanne Marie Wilcox, both of Ashland, Farm Bill Gets by Final Congressional Barrier Monday Washington (UPD An ad ministration-directed farm bill negotiated its final con gressional hurdle Monday night after weeks of uncer tainty and was sent to Presi dent Eisenhower for signa ture. The Senate by voice vote passed the compromise meas ure which permits Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son to drop minimum price supports to as low as 65 per cent for corn next year and for rice and cotton in 1962. Although bitterly assailed by farm state Democrats and Republicans, Congress passed the bill to forestall heavy cut backs in cotton and rice plant ing allotments next year. The cuts would have occurred au tomatically if Congress ap proved no farm legislation this session. The measure was regarded as a major victory for Ben son, who said the bill "con tains many forward-looking provisions which will give our nation's farmers and ranchers more freedom to plant, to market, to compete and to make their own deci sions." Signature Certain Eisenhower was certain to sign the measure worked out by House Republican and Democratic leaders to break the farm legislation deadlock. The Senate approved the measure after backing down from its original demand for a conference committee to iron out differences between House and Senate versions of farm legislation. Speaker Sam Rayburn had said there would be no farm legislation this session unless it did. The bill retains the present parity concept as a basis for price supports. The Senate version would have replaced that with supports. based on average crop prices in the three preceding years. Benson conceded the bill was" not all the administra tion sought. But he said it was based "on the sound principle that a wider range of price supports will lead to expanded markets for this nation's - abundant agricul tural products." Low Support Levels He said the measure would make cotton more competi tive with synthetic fibres, widen the range of price sup ports for cotton and rice and give corn growers a chance to decide on acreage restrictions. In terms of parity the new bill would permit supports for corn to be cut to the low est level since 1939 and sup ports for cotton to the lowest level since 1940. Parity is a legal yardstick for measuring a "fair" price for farmers, taking into account the prices he pays for the things he buys. ' Cotton this year is pegged at 81 per cent, corn at 77 per cent, and rice at 75 per cent of parity under a flexible scale which allows supports for basic crops to range from 75 to 90 per cent of ' parity, depending on supplies. Soviet Migs Patrol Formosa Straights Taipei, Formosa (UPD So viet built Mig fighter planes roamed the Formosa Straits today but the Nationalist Chi nese Defense Ministry report ed no combat. The Nationalists warned their neighbors to be on guard against Communist subversion and infiltration in East Asia, from Japan in the north to Thailand in the south. Chen Chien-chung, a sec tion chief in the ruling Na tionalist party, predicted that the Communists will step up underground aggression against Japan and Southeast Asia as a result of the Peiping meeting between Soviet .Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev and Chinese Communist President Mao Tse-tung. The aggression will take the form of subversion and infiltration, Chen said. , Small Plane Lands On Expressway Portland (CPD Motorists were startled Monday night as they found a light plane parked along side the Colum bia river expressway near Rooster Rock. The plane, a Piper Tripacer, was enroute to Hillsboro from Boise, Idaho, when the motor sputtered and the pilot de cided it was time to land. . Peter P. Dement, 30, Seat tle, was reluctant to land at the Portland International air port because he had no radio transmitter. Dement was un able to find the Troutdale air field. Although - his calculations showed there should have been plenty of gas left in his tanks, Dement decided a land ing would be the safest thing to do. He and his three passen gers, Shirley Ann, 21, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene J. Brown, of Seattle, took a long look at the beach sand at Rooster Rock park. Then as he swung over the freeway he spotted an open ing in the traffic. Smoothly and quickly De ment settled the plane onto the pavement and1 taxied off the busy highway. The pilot said he hopes to get permission from the Civil Aeronautics administration to take off from the highway today. The Multnomah county sheriff's office promised to block off traffic if the CAA granted takeoff clearance. Teenage Fruit Cake Still Looks Fresh Monongahela, Pa. K Fifteen years ago, the Mon ongahela Businessmen's As sociation mailed a fruit cake to one of its hometown sold iers stationed at Fort Custer, Mich. But the soldier, Leroy Gib son, left for the Pacific before the cake arrived. .The cake followed him to various Pa cific bases but riever quite caught up with him. Recently, the cake arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gomer A. Gibson, the sol dier's parents. Antwerp is one of the world's five greatest ports. MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ. Oregon, Tuesday, August 19, IMS I California Engineer Says Cost of Lining Canal Tremendous San Francisco (LTD A California water engineer says it would cost a tremendous amount of money to line ca nals in the Imperial Irrigation District to prevent seepage of water. " The engineer, M. J. Dowd of El Centro, Calif., testified to this effect Monday in the Colorado river water suit. As a rebuttal witness for California, Dowd was counter ing assertions by Arizona that lining the canals would save 324,000 annual acre feet ,of water. Dowd said it would be "im practicable" to line 1,800 miles of irrigation canals in the Imperial District because it would cost 72 million dol lars. He said lining the canals would not save 324,000 annual acre feet of water as Arizona claims but 212,000 acre feet. He said this amount of water would make possible reclama tion of an extra 50,000 acres of land at a cost of $1,700 an acre. Linings Ineffective O. L. Fudge, general super intendent for the Imperial Ir rigation District, testified that the cement linings would not work: The reason they would not work, he said, is that the soil, swells when wet and causes breaks in the cement joints. He cited his experience with several lined sections' in exist ence in the past 30 years. . Earlier, Arizona lost an at tempt to force California to allow its own experts to watch $40,000 worth of test drillings, at four well sites in the Im perial Irrigation District. Special Master Simon H. Rifkind said he did not have the power to order California to open the tests to Arizona. But he indicated he would at tach" "little or negligible weight" to evidence from tests at which Arizona was barred. Cites Opposite Case California is drilling the test wells to determine the possible existence of under ground water. The state hopes to gather evidence for coun tering Arizona's claims that between 400 000 and 700,000 acre feet of water could be pumped from the ground each year. Northcutt Ely, chief Cali fornia counsel, noted that Arizona had not invited Cali fornia to tests in which elec trical currents were run through the ground in order to find layers of possible water bearing soil. He said he hoped Rifkind would apply the same stand ards to the Arizona tests as he would use in relation to the California drillings. Arizona filed the water suit before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 to quiet title to 2,800,000 annual acre feet of Colorado river plus the flow of the Gila river, representing roughly another one million acre feet. The state is also seeking to amend its pleading to claim still another million acre feet. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for ony worth while purpose on your ' FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY ond repay in monthly In stallments. 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