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o Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 Technical Documentation Now Special Business in Companies Hr UPMBV T vow. - . . . By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UP1 Financial Editor New York tUPIl Technical documentation is one fly in the ointment for equipment manufacturers supplying the U.S. military services. lhese man ufacturers not only have to make their product, but they have to tell how it's Henry Bccutoid made, how to operate it, how to maintain and repair it, how to identify and catalogue it, and anything else that a contract calls for. Of the $41 billion spent on defense last year, some $1 billion or 2.5 per cent is said to have been spent on these accompanying documents. "Hi! I'm Greta Hollowell and I'm inviting you to at tend our Open House Party, January 20th, celebrating the merger of The Rogue Valley State Bank Medford and The Oregon Bank Portland Watch, for your Treasure Chest key in the mail." Rogue Valley Branch 11 09 Court Street East Medford Branch 701 East Jackson The proportion runs higher on some contracts. . It is not uncommon for the technical manuals involved in a $1.5 million bid for hardware to cost from $100,000 to $150, 000, or up to 10 per cent. Closely Regulated Not only are these technical documents expensive to pre pare, but they must be pro duced in accordance with stringent government specifi cations, themselves intricate documents. Many manufacturers whose talents and interests are fo cused on design and manufac ture of the actual product pre fer to farm out these elaborate documentation assignments on a sub-contract basis. One of the happy recipients of these sub-contracts is Arcs Industries, Inc., a technical services organization with fa cilities in New York, Wash ington and Dayton, Ohio. Like 15 to 20 other quali fied service contractors, Arcs is staffed and equipped to ac cept assignments on short notice, usually at less cost than the manufacturer could hire and train personnel for the purpose. ' These experienced special ists can estimate costs in ad vance, a boon to contractors who must allow for this vital element in preparing their original bids. Outside Help Needed Large companies, working regularly under government contract, have special depart ments of their own for the preparation of technical docu ments. But even these firms will be able to handle less than half of the vast volume of 1961 requirements, accord ing to Arcs president Alexan der Kahn. The smaller or middle sized manufacturer finds pro viding technical data a great er burden, and his reliance upon outside specialists is likely to be more complete. Kahn said that a major factor in the decision of many firms to employ specialists is the guarantee they can give of government approval and ac ceptance of the finished product. The greater the standardi zation applied to provisioning procedures throughout the military, he added, the greater the advantage to contractors employing outside specialists who already are familiar with requirements. A substantial increase in this type of technical doeu- mentation is expected in the next few years. It has been predicted that when standard ized provisioning procedures for electronics, aircraft, and ground mobile equipment are put into effect, fully half of the spare parts documentation will be done for government suppliers by specialized serv ice contractors. With an estimated 5,000 new equipment firms to be provisioned annually, Kahn said the proportion handled under sub-contract will prob ably amount to some $25 mil lion a year. Uruguay Orders Cubans Expelled Montevideo, Uruguay (UPD Uruguay has ordered the Cu ban ambassador and the So viet embassy's first secretary to get out of the country in an action which may presage an open break with Castroite Cu ba. The nine-member Presiden tial Council voted 6-2 Thurs day night, with one member absent, to expel Ambassador Mario Garcia Inchaustegui and embassy Secretary Mijail K. Sanmoilov. The official announcement offered no explanation for the order nor did it say whether any deadline had been set for the departure of the two dip lomats. Councilman Cesar Batlle Pachecho, however, described Garcia as the representative of a "government of thieves and bandits" and denounced his "more than notorious in tervention in Uruguay's inter nal affairs." Neither Batlle nor any oth er source would comment im mediately on the expulsion of Sanmoilov. 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Riverside-Medford, SP 2-4534 Flynn Electric Supply, 111 West Main-Medford, SP 3-1841 Taylor Sheet Metal, 837 South Riverside-Medford, SP 2-6341 Graham's Electric Service, 1205 Sage Road-Medford, SP 2-8950 WIRE VOUR HOME FOR MODERN, LOW-COST ELECTRIC HEAT ON COPCO't WRE-ON-TME PLAN... MAKE BUDGET PAYMENTS AT LOW INTEREST RATES. ., ASK YOUR LEAGUE DEALER OR COPCO SERVICE OFFICE. (NOT FIRE) ')'''' CIVIL WAR CANADA: I'tii !, ' " "."ill' " wmw) 'i! y ' w.'.'ijv .. . .;.' .:.':. TEXAS I UIMKjcT A Louisiana yv;;fi,; t I I fur nnNCcfUftir'Y I i FLORIDA I "J THE CONfEtKRACT I SUVE sum i REMAIKINS IN UNION KHKs IHT UNION UH 19,11 D I NORTH CAROLINA SOOTH CAROLmAJ , Udall Nas No Fixed Views on Issie Of Power Development NEW NATION This newsmap, drawn espe cially for the "This Was the Civil War" series, shows the new nation which was forming in the South in January, 1861. Four states joined South Carolina's break from the Union, and the others were to join her shortly thereafter. By Feb. 4, the Confeder ate States of America would be born at Montgomery, Ala., bill in its four years of life the new nation would know only 67 days of peace. Map shows the Confederate States and their dates of secession, the four slave stales which remained in the Union, and West Virginia, which joined the Union in 1863. Four More States Leave Union By MEHTON T. AKERS United Press International A new nation was being born in the Deep South in January, 1861 - a nation des tined to know only 67 days of peace in its four years of life. A hundred years ago, Jan. 20, 1861, four more slates had joined South Carolina in breaking away from the Un ion - Mississippi, Florida, Al abama and Georgia. Shortly thereafter, Louisi ana and Texas tossed their futures in with their sister states. And by Feb. 4 the Con federate States of America would be born in Montgom ery, Ala., attended by a dis tinguished staff of statesmen. Unlike South Carolina, where the Ordinance- of Se cession went whooping through unanimously, the four sister states ran into some op position. Davis Gives Blessing Mississippi finally left the Union on Jan. 9, by an 84 to 15 vote, with the blessing of U. S. Sen. Jefferson Davis, who from Washington kept the mails of the U. S. - a foreign power as far as he was concerned humming with letters of advice and counsel On secession day the state responded by making him a major general, commandin the Army of the Republic of Mississippi. Davis had been a colonel in the Mexican War, wound ed at the Battle of Buena Vis ta and near the end of that war had refused a brigadier- ship in the U. S. Army. Later he served as secretary of war under President Frank 11 n Pierce. Davis decided to remain in the Senate until he was offi cially notified that his state had seceded, hoping, some said, that he would be arrest ed for treason, thereby forc ing a trial in federal courts. On Jan. 10 - the day after Mississippi acted - Florida delegates met in Tallahassee and voted at 12:22 p.m., 62 to 7. to secede. The formal signing was set for the next day at a public ceremony. Secession Formalized Susan Bradford, not quite 15 years old, skipped school at her plantation home where 30 slaves took care of the household tasks and 300 more tilled the land, and went to the ceremony with her father, Dr. Edward Bradford, a de scendant of Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth. That night she wrote in her diary: "Capitol Square was so crowded you could sec noth ing but heads ... as the old town clock struck one . . . the convention . . . walked out on the portico (of the Capitol) . It was impossible for me to tell in .wnai oracr u (the secession ordinance) was signed, the heads were clus tered so closely around the table, but presently I heard He dipped his pen in the ink, and holding it aloft, he said in the saddest of tones, 'When I die I want it inscribed on my tombstone that I was the last to give up the ship. Then he wrote slowly across the sheet before him, 'George T. Ward.' "The stillness could almost be felt. Surface Rights On Claims Will Be Determined Soon Surface rights on mining claims in the Union B area of Douglas county will be de termined in the near future, according to the bureau of land management. A formal notice will be de livered to persons whose names and addresses are de termined as provided In the new multiple-use minors law. Owners of a mining claim located before July 23, 1955, will have 150 days after the first publication to assert sur face rights. The owner of the claim may ignore the notices, thereby waiving his rights to the sur face until the claim goes to patent. He will still maintain his original mining rights. Surface Rights If the claimant desires to assert his surface rights, he should file a verified state ment asserting these rights. His claim will then be ex amined by mineral examiners. If the rights are considered valid, the U.S. forest service will "probably" recognize these rights and not attempt to establish the public's rights to control the surface re sources under the new law, according to the BLM. Claims considered to be questionable will come before a hearing officer of the bureau and he will make the final de cision. Both the claimant and the forest service will be heard at the hearing. BLM points out that "what ever the decision, the claim ant will retain his miricral rights." A map of the Union B area and copies of the multiple-use mining law of July 23, 1955, in addition to the procedure for determining surface rights, are available for in spection in the forest super visor's office in the Medford post office. "When at length the names were all affixed, cheer after cheer rent the air; it was deafening. Our world seemed to have gone mad." Alabama seceded next, 61 to 39. There the opposition centered in the hill country of the Tennessee Valley where the people demanded that the convention submit its ordi nance of secession to a vole of the people. Georgia Meeting Stormy Secession leaders believed that "as goes Georgia, so goas the Soulh." However, the fight there was hard and lasted four days. Alexander Stephens, who would be the Confeder ate vice president, led the op position, which wanted to post pone secession. Howell Cobb, until a month before Presi dent Buchanan's secretary of treasury, plumped for imme diate withdrawal from the Un ion. The convention was stormy Stnnhnns was hnwlpd rinwn by the galleries. Delegates errighls. packed guns to the meetings, and Milledgevillc, the capital of Georgia in those days, was tense. The night before the vote, girls and women were warned to stay away Erom the Capitol - anything might hap pen, The Stephens men tried many parliamentary tactics but at last the ordinance was adopted, 20.8 to 89. Bonfires, roman candles, sa lutes and a parade greeted the vole, yet the rejoicing was not universal. Hcrschel V. Johnson, former governor, not ed, "I never felt so sad be fore." An editor in La Grange, Ga., wrote: "We have been fifed and drummed and voted out of the Union." South Seiies Forts Secession of the four slates consisted of a lot more than mere voting and celebrating for by Jan. 20, the South had seized from bewildered and leaderlcss U. S. authorities a full dozen forts, four arsenals, one Navy yard, a Marine hos pital and a handful of custom houses. The most important were Ft. Pulaski at the mouth of the Savannah, Ga., harbor and the forts and navy yard at Fcnsacola, Fla. But the Floridians let one prize slip through their fin gers, Ft. Pickens. A cosily error that was. For Pickens lay on an island off the mouth of Pensacola harbor. Like Ft. Sumter at Charleston, 3. C. -both corked the harbor bottles. Washington - (UPD - Interior Secretary-designate Stewart L. Udall lias assured inquiring senators thai he has no "fixed view" on tiie controversial is sue of public vs. private pow er development. The Arizona congressman told the Senate Interior com mittee studying his nomina tion thai he would decide such questions on t h e basis "of which is best under the circumstances." 1 don't believe there is a buill-in hostility between the two," Udall said, adding that he saw no reason why both couldn't be used to .expand American water power. However, Udall emphasized t the same time that he strongly believed such re sources should be developed "for the good of the whole nation." Gels Friendly Reception Udall received a warm friendly reception from the committee and Chairman Clin ton P. Anderson(D-N. M.) com mented later that action rec ommending his confirmation probably would be unanimous. Udall was asked a wide range of questions on his pro spective policies during his hour and a half appearance before the Senate group. Anderson called to his at tention a telegram from the Northwest Public Power as sociation at Vancouver, Wash., protesting against the contin ued service of Federal Recla mation Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy. The association said that Dominy was biased against public power. Charge Unwarranted Udall said he thought the charge was unwarranted and that Dominy had assured him that he would "loyally carry out" Udall's policies in the new administration. Udall said the keystone of those policies will be the "fullest possible development of our river basins. Udall also promised sena tors that he would be "color blind" as far as state lines are concerned on regional con troversies over water and pow- In answer to questions by ben. Henry Dworshak (R-Ida no), uaan said he had no plans to eliminate the current post of assistant secretary ol the interior for mineral re sources. Udall said the field was highly important. In addition, he pledged ef forts to find new programs to help the ailing mining indus try and improve the public lands laws. Udall also promised to work out a more "modern" policy dealing with Indian affairs. Hearrell Elected Head of Association Dale Hearrell of Pulver's Motel, Medford, was recently elected presidert of the Jack son County Motor Court asso ciation. Olhcr officers include Walt er McDermott, Palm Motel, Ashland, first vice president; Cecil Watson, Linden Mobila Gardens, Medford. second vlco president; Mrs. Harold Gor don. City Center Motel, Med ford, secretary-treasurer. Board of directors include Mrs. Max Weston, Gird Lev ering, and Norman Wade. Gene Piazza spoke to the group. Eleven and 12 were onca written onctcen and twotcen. Sweetheart of A Price and New Compact Design 1961 DELUXE 11 cu. ft FOOD FREEZER 88 Disease Cases Reported in County A'lotal of 88 cases of com- municable diseases were re ported to the Jackson county health department last week. Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician, reported a total of 37 influenza cases-23 in Central Point, 11 in Med ford, and 3 in Shady Cove. Medford and Ashland both re ported nine cases of mumps, Central Point one case, and Phoenix, two. Olhcr diseases reported in Medford included chicken pox 8; German measles, 3; gonor rhea, 3; measles, 1; pneumo nia, 5; scarlet fever, 2; tuber culosis, 1; and impetigo, 1. Central Point had one case of tetanus, ringworm and whoop ing cough. Jacksonville had one case of pneumonia, and two cases of chicken pox occurred in Shady Cove. CHANNEL HOVERCRAFT London -IUPII- A Hovercraft capable of carrying 200 per sons across the English Chan nel at 90 miles an hour is being designed by the Vickors- Armstrong company, accord ing to the Daily Express. The craft will be powered by air craft turbine engines which will cawy it on a cushion of air several inches above the waves, the newspaper said. St. Mary's, W. Va. - (UPD -Two men were missing and presumed dead In an ex plosion and fire that leveled the filtering plant of the Quaker State Oil Refining company bulk plant here Sat- Col. Ward's familiar voice . . . urday. Mortgage LOANS for Looking for money lo borrow? 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