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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1960)
o f! . i V v ' I SNAKE GETS SHOT Squeczy, a 10 fool, three inch boa con slrictor, is given a penicillin shot at Boston's Museum of Sci ence .by David D. Bonney, education associate, with the aid of a haemostat. Squeezy had been suffering from a cut mouth. . (UPI Telephoto) Revolution in Office Automation Noted Jim Powell, president of the Rogue Valley Data Pro cessing center, Medford, told the Chamber of Commerce roundtable luncheon Monday that a revolution in office au tomation "is quietly going on." , The revolution; Powell said, is enabling small businesses to compete with large busi nesses in the field of office automation. Powell, besides being presi dent, of the recently-opened data processing center here, is also president of the Mult nomah Data .Processing cen ter in Portland. Data processing centers, are now in their "infancy," Pow ell said. He forecast increased use of these centers that they will, iri a few years, be com pared to, "public utilities" and mavpossibly need."sonie sort of regulation.".' The revolution that Powell spoke about has been going on for the last five or six years, he said. During this time, he pointed out, computors have been designed that can be at tached to ordinary adding and bookkeeping machines. "Punch-Paper"- Tap While the usual information is being entered on these ma chines, he explained, the at tachment will record certain parts of it and record it on what is called a "punch-paper" tape. This tape is then sent to a data processing center or sim ilar facility. The tape is then fed into the larger computing machines and is put on punch cards. From these can be gain ed such useful information as "inventory analysis" and "stock status reports,", he noted-. ' :......n.-. This information is made available just a few days after the close of any particular month if needed, in contrast to the wait of some two weeks for less specific information that results from normal ac counting procedures, he point ed out. The speed of these machines is an added advantage, Powell noted, because it is available when needed. A small business has the advantage of "flexibility" over its larger counterparts, Powell contended, but said that the small businesses do not take advantage of this. Unuied Items An example of this, he said, may be found by looking at all the unused items in small business stockrooms. These unused items indicate that there is no longer a market need for them. The failure of small busi ness to take advantage of its greater flexibility is du in large part, Powell said, to guess-making on the part .of management. By contrast large compan ies have plenty of facts and plenty of analysis results available to them through use of their electronic computors, which, until recentlly, small businesses have been unable to afford, according to Powell. Now small businesses may rent these "little machines" for $50-$60 a month and they can be operated quite simply. These machines, he said, can do "quite elaborate sales man agement reports" and compar ison reports. With the aid of these, he said, management can now start pin-pointing what goes out instead of hav ing to rely on "gross over-all figures" that are available only at the end of account ing periods. Office Automation Powell summarized his con tentions by saying: "It is now possible to get into office au tomation if you have a jair voIujm oa a reason able inexpensive basis." He cautioned, however, that "the machines are wonderful, but the biggest part of it is still the person that runs it." There are "lots of pitfalls" in acquiring automation ma chinery, he advised. Some machines- are improperly in stalled, costing companies "tens of thousands of dollars" and others work on "improper systems." Electronic computors are now in their "second gener ation," he said. The first gen eration started in about 1951 and ended within the past year. The second generation was brought about mainly by "transistors," he said. These transistors allow ma chines to be four times as powerful as their predecessors at one-half the cost. This is so, he. said, because they re quire only 5 per cent of the power that the 'former ma chines did. Powell forecast a bright fu- Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1960 PAGES 1 to 8 Shrine Hospital To Benefit From Tickets The Shrine Children's hos pital in San Francisco will be richer by $20 because four members of the Medford Shrine Patrol were cited re cently by state police for not having rear view, mirrors on their motor scooters. The four-Fred Beck, Ernie Kennedy, Pen Chitwood and Norman Spencer - were en route to the White City area with four other patrol mem bers to practice maneuvers when the citations were is sued. After strong arguments by Medford lawyer Robert Boy er, District Court Judge E. Roy Bashaw Monday sus pended the $5 fines on condi tion that the four patrol mem bers contribute equal amounts to the Shrine hospital. Boyer explained that the patrol members each invest heavily in their scooters so they can perform for the bene fit of the children's hospital. Such a minor violation should have brought only a warning, he added. The mirrors are re moved when the scooters are transported to and from spec ial events and the four mem bers forgot to put them on, he argued. Collision of Navy Planes Kills Two Milton, Fla.-IUPD-Two Navy training planes collided in a landing approach at the Navy's Whiting Field here Monday, killing the two Na val cadet pilots. The victims were identified as Terrill C. Bilyeu of Kansas City, Kan., and Kenneth L. Shelly Jr., of Tampa, Fla. A Navy spokesman said one of the propeller-driven T-28 planes burst into flames after the impact. Zurich, Switzerland - IUPII -Gustave A. Trube, 91, who di rected the building of the American hospital in Paris in 1925, died Monday. ture for computors and said that soon there will be a "par tial elimination" of punch cards and tape as the ma chines will be able to work directly from invoices. Man Should Take More Calories as Heat Increases Washington IUPD Ev erybody says you should eat less in hot weather. Or, as an Army research team puts it, "It has been generally accepted that the calorie requirements of man are inversely proportional to the environmental tempera ture." The main trouble with this bit ot common knowledge, the Army researchers say, is that it is the opposite of true. Instead of cutting down on the calories as the temper ature goes up, you should take on more. This conclusion was based on research porformed by sci entists of tahe Army Medical Research and nutrition lab oratory at Fitzsimons General hospital in Denver. Members of the research team were C. Frank Consol azio, chief of the lab's bioen ergetics division, and Ralph Shapiro, John E. Masterson, and Philip S. L. Mc Kinzie. Decrease Suggested Both the National Research Council and the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations had rec ommended cuts in food "con sumption with increases in outdoor temperature. The NRC suggested a five per cent decrease for every 18-dcgree increase above a base temperature of 68 de grees. The FAO recommend ed a cut of five per cent for every 18-degree rise above a base of 50 degrees. "This would mean," the Army team said, "that a man weighing 164 pounds, living at 104 degrees, performing moderate physical activities, would require on the average only 3,03 food calories (NRC) or 2,865 calories (FAO) per day. instead of the 3,341 cal ories per day he would re conditioned at 78 degrees. After studies conducted in the desert heat at Yuma, Ariz., the Army scientists concluded that both the NRC and FAO, were wrong. - "On, the contrary," they re ported, "there is actually an increased food requirement for men living in extreme heat, due primarily to the in creased heat load imposed on the temperature regulating mechanisms of the body." Volunteers Used Eight volunteers were used as test subjects in three 10 day experiments. The first was conducted in the hot sun at 105 degrees. The 'second was in the hot shade at 104 degrees. Third was in the "cool shade" .of a room air conditioned at 8 degrees. The men were kept on an unchanging program of daily physical activity. They were allowed to eat all the food and dring all the water they wanted. The upshot was that the net "intakes" of the subjects were 1,320 calories more per man per day in the hot periods than in the cool period. "In all likelihood," the re port said, "the increased re quirements (of food) result from a combination of in creased action of the blood in heat transport, increased ac tion of the sweat glands, in creased calorie loss due to sweat vaporization, plus the increased metabolic rate due to the elevation in body tem perature." The Army scientists sug gested that the NRC and FAO revise their recommendations. St. Mary's Alumni Invited To Events The senior class of St. Mary's High school has invit ed all St. Mary's alumni to at tend the annual Homecoming events. The bonfire will be held in the lot behind Jackson school on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m Friday, Oct. 28, the Crusaders will play the Malin Mustangs at" 8 p.m. at the Medford High stadium. ' The Homecoming dance will be in the St. Mary's gym right after the game. 1 Six Accidents Investigated By Medford Police A 20-year-old Central Point woman sustained apparently . minor injuries Saturday af ternoon when the car she was operating collided with a city of "'Tedford-owned water de partment pickup truck. It was one of six accidents reported to Medford police during the weekend. Injured was Sharon Lee An derson, 617 Cedar st. Police said she had a small cut on her knee and complained of a headache. She was transport ed to a doctor by her father, police said. Police cited the operator of the pickup truck, Ray Alfred Anderson, 50, of 844- Dakota ave., for failure to yield the right of way. Police said the accident occurred at the in tersection of Fourth st. and North Oakdale ave., and when the city-owned vehicle appar ently turned left in front of the woman's car. Both vehi cles sustained heavy damage. Earl Morgan Swift, 58, Ash land, was cited for no stop at a traffic signal after the vehi cle he was operating collided with a car operated by Car rell George Bayne, 51, Phoe nix, at the intersection of Main and Fir sis., at 7:17 p.m. Clair Frank Varncy, 18, of 113 Rose St., was cited for vio lation of the basic rule after the car he was operating col lided with a parked car near the intersection of 13th st. and Central ave., at 11:22 Sunday. Police cited Lester Pearl Stott, 27, of 1509 East Main st., for operating on the wrong side of the street after a ve hicle he was operating col lided with a pickup truck op erated by Jimmio Donald De Vos, 20 Kenwood ave., at 1:30 p.m., Sunday on East Main si., between Eastwood, and Keeneway drs. Another Saturd.-y afternoon accident occurred when a car operated by Jeanne Edith Gil bert, 30, of 501 Oregon Ter race, collided with a parked car on East Jackson st. be tween Marie and Effie sis. at 3:35 p.m. No citations were is sued. Police did cite James Eaten, 39, of 2143 West Main St., for no operator's license after the vehicle he was operating c0( lided with a car operated by Clare Householder, 48, Port land, at the Intersection at McAndrews rd. and Court St., Sunday at 2:15 p.m.. The whiskey with the zest of the west! AGREEMENT EXPECTED The Hague, Holland - IUPII -U.S. Undersecretary of the Navy Fred A. 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