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Satellites Are Slow Compared To (Editor's not: This it the third in a series oi stories on direct distance dialing, tha new long distance serv ice to be introduced July IS in Medford.) Fast as they are, earth sat ellites are slowpokes in some leagues. For instance, a satel lite is 40 times slower than a long distance call traveling 3,000 miles across the country by new direct distance dial ing. "Figurine that the maxi mum speed of a satellite is 18,000 miles an hour," accord ing to Manager J. H. Creager, "it takes 10 minutes (or one to travel 3.000 miles. ' Completing a call by DDD across the country usually takes 15 seconds or less," he noted. Switching Centers How can these calls to most any place in the nation be handled so quickly? It's made possible primarily by a com bination of a nationwide net work or expressway-type long Reattraction of Suburb Dwellers Planned By City By ALLAN PRIAULX United Press International Buffalo. N.Y. - IUPII - New York State's second largest city has started an attempt to realize the dream of hundreds of American cities - the re capture of thousands of citi zens who have been lured to the suburbs by new shopping plazas, free parking, bright architectural design and plen ty of space. Buffalo has embarked on a 10-ycar, $650 million plan that calls for ripping out slums and turning major downtown streets into parks and malls. Towering shopping plazas and luxury apartments will re place antiquated buildings or vacant slum lots. "We want to develop Buf falo entirely in accord with the type of American city we envision for the late 20th cen tury." said George F. Rand Jr., chairman of the City Planning board. Currently the Lake Erie wa terfront area, the city's front yard and once the heart of Erie canal shipping, is a "de crepit wasteland," Rand said. "The waterfront area has 400 vacant acres of land with water frontage," planning board executive secretary Miss Oregon Semi-Finalist Miami Beach - (UPN - Girls from the Far West dominate . the group of 1 0 brunettes and 5 blondes competing in the Miss Universe pageant tonight for the title of Miss U.S.A. Every section of the nation, including Hawaii, is repre sented, but a bloc of western states provided more than one-third of the semi-finalists chosen Wednesday night from 40 contestants. The semi-finalists were: Miss Arizona, Marilyn Jerri Michclson of Scottsdale; Cal ifornia, Marilyn Ann Tindall of Hollywood; Colorado, Pen ny Jo James of Aurora; Con necticut, Diane Mary Zab icki of Middletown; Hawaii, Maccl Leilani Wilson of Hon olulu; Illinois. Jean Donnelly of Dekalb; Indiana, Susan Ekamp of Mishawaka; Nev ada. Janet Harland of Las Vepas: New Hampshire, San dralce Kay of Plaistow; New York, Sherrylyn Patccell of Flushing: Oregon. Joyce Mor een Collin of Lebanon; Pen sylvania, Margaret M. Line man "f Philadelphia; Tennes see. Gail White of Chatlan ooea; Texas. Jackie Jaye Wil liams of Waxahachie; and Utah, Patricia Elaine Prof aizer of Ogdcn. Potential Coal Uses Forecast In Report Baltimore. Md-HTO-The fu ture of coal looks bright in "many new potentially useful and exciting areas," accord ing to a report made at a recent meeting of the Ameri can Institute of Chemical En gineers. Among new uses for coal, the report forecast: as a solid piopcllant for missiles and rockets; in a package piston pump as a substitute for gas in natural gas production; as an agent to melt ice and snow to produce more fresh water and prevent flooding: as a fertilizer and soil conditioner and as structural material. MOVING DAY Point Arguello. Calif. -Cri-Whencvcr a Thor-Asent mis sile is to be launched, the en tire population of the nearby town of Surf is evaluated by the Navy The civilians. Southern Pacific Railroad maintenance employees and j their families, usually are served a picnic lunch at a ! park a safe distance from j launch fay-ilitips. I I j distance lines connected to switching centers located stra tegically throughout the coun try. Also involved is the au tomatic accounting equipment which records details of the call for billing purposes. To Illustrate, let's suppose Creager was placing a call to some community on the east coast. First he would dial the numeral "1," to connect his phone with the long distance network. Then he would dial the three-numeral code designat ing the state or geographical area in which the community he wants to reach is located. Dial Seven Digits And last he would dial the seven digits of the telephone number he is calling. Immediately, the switching equipment at the company's central office here would rec ognize that this is a long dis tance call going out of Ore gon. The automatic accounting equipment would start collect- James Kavanaugh said. "It's desolate. Elevators are closed and manufacturing has moved out." he said. The city has adopted a pro posal to replace the wasteland with a $200 million complex of 20-story upper and middle class apartment houses with balconies offering views of the city skyline or the lake, ranch style "town houses," and a man-made 30-acre island with shoreside garden, amphithea ter and restaurant. The new apartment com plex, housing 15,000 persons will become virtually a sub urb within the city, accord ing to the architects. It will have schools, shops, parks and garden courts with fountains and sculptures. Milton Milstein, head of a group of designers who sub- j mitted the proposal, predicts the redeveloped area will bring the city annual tax rev enues of $3 million, compared with the present S500.000. In the downtown area, sev eral blocks east of the water front, plans call for closing all 1 radial streets leading into the city's main traffic circle and traffic congester, Niagara Square. Asphalt on six main streets will give way to green malls planted with shrubs and trees. New peripheral streets will be built, others widened to pro vide access to the core. New Plans The planning commission has called for a three-block hieh-risp shnnntn? naya nt least jvc new oftice skysc'rap. ers, municipally financed parking ramps and improve ments in some older buildings. , A $5 million state office building is under construction and the federal and county governments plan new build ings. The city's Convention and Tourist bureau also will get a boost with spacious new ex hibit and assembly facilities to supplement the 15.000-seati Memorial auditorium. These and other plans raise : an all-important question in j the minds of many residents: i "Where will Buffalo get $650 ' million?" A shrinking tax base and a mass move to the suburbs have hurt the city. In the last census. Buffalo dropped from a population of 580.000 to 532,700. and from the nation's sixteenth largest city to its twentieth largest. Rand says he thinks private investors will gamble on the city. And he's in a position to know. He is vice president of Buffalo's largest bank, the Marine Trust, and vice presi dent of the investment-eager Greater Buffalo foundation. Rand said private invest ments will total $500 million, city funds will come to $50 million and the Federal Ur ban Renewal administration will be counted on for $100 million. mmJe naturally... p nhrlly it't Letter ing the details of the call. And at the same time the switching equipment here would send the area code and the desired pnone number on an express way line to the company s sectional long distance switch ing center in Portland. Making their presence known in the Portland center, the digits would announce that they are headed for the east coast. The Portland switching equipment would at once pick out an express route for the call to follow eastward. If the main route for the call were busy, then the Portland equipment would search out an alternate "expressway." Then the call speeds on its way across the country-per-haps passing through as many as four or five more switching centers before it reaches the east coast. There equipment at the last switching center or central office in this vast net work rings the bell of the phone being called and con nects it to the long distance expresway across the country from Medford. That's how a DDD call will travel from Medford to most any place in the nation, 40 times faster than the speed of a satellite. And calls dialed directly to Oregon communities, Creager said, will travel even faster. 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