The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 25

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1963 PACE 23 ill 111: fTH-! fell iYK Iff Mi Ml 1 tTnmr all! kmt wi imium -ffl I UhmmmmuhmbJ Staff Photo! by Jmi N. Kon TESTING part of the $800,000 worth of computer equipment at Snow Mountain is George Hutchison, field engineer with the Burroughs Corporation, which installed the gear. Most of the work at the radar station is devoted to maintenance keeping the complex electronic equipment "on the air" around the clock. Computers became operational at the station last March. WAITING for the go-ahead for maintenance at Snow Mountain Air Force Station at Fort Knox, Airman Second Class Albert J.

Cherry, Kansas City, Kan, talks with headquarters in Madison, Wis. The control-panel monitors the condition of equipment at the station, part of the North American Air Defense Command. LOOKING with unseen eyes is this height-finding radar on Snow Mountain, which helps track aircraft 24 hours a day. COMMANDING officer of the Snow Mountain facility is Maj. John J.

Dunn, who says, "We just work here now." Computers have taken over old jobs. Killer Storm Dull Job Still Vital Degenerates Into Squalls Glory's Gone From Radar Hill Those Barefoot Tracks Roach Powder Beats Love In Bourbon County Jail ly, is now the main job of scramble could bring at any when headquarters needs def-his men. moment, day or night. inite altitude information on The radar station is one of But all that has changed, an aircraft. Airmen, who peer By GEORGE GILL Couritr-Journil Writer Snow Mountain Air Force oa Tho several scattered around the Computers have taken over into radar scopes on 43-min- Station, Sept.

glory is gone from Snow nauon inai Keep consiani wHiLii uum m-ic mu iimniuiuuii uw- over all aircraft flying above in Madison, where all of buttons and turn a knob, the United States. the decisions are made since The computers do the rest Aircraft are tracked by the station officially went and send the answers auto- "We just work here now." ii.i nm. radar and their nnsitions are saut lasi lviarcn. umuwny iiramiuaiius. Miami, Sept.

28 Tropical storm Edith, a killer as a hurricane, degenerated Saturday into a line of squalls in the Atlantic with top winds of 45 miles an hour. The Weather Bureau located Edith about 85 miles southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas Islands, or less than 700 miles southeast of Miami. Reports reaching Paris said at least 10 persons, most of them children, were killed Wednesday when Edith battered the French Island of Martinique. The death count was delayed because Edith, which at one time had winds of 100 miles an hour, smashed most of the Caribbean island's mander of the some 150 offi- compared with their flight Prober Still There Monotonous maintenance is cers and men at this radar plans. If any planes show up the watcnwoid.

site tucked away on the high- that don't belong-and can't The radars are still here, But this maintenance is con- the Fort est hill in Knox be identified by radio contact a "scramble" can re But their information passes quarters at Truax leld in through $800,000 worth of com- Madison must give its per- puting equipment and on to mission by direct telephone Madison over telephone lines line before the smallest job sult. Planes Were Plotted reservation. Officially, the unit is the 784th Radar Squadron (SAGE) of the North American Air Defense Command. The SAGE Paris, Sept. 28 WU-Jailer Joe Kelly turned detective, bought himself a little roach powder and Saturday broke up a romance between a man and woman who were prisoners in different sections of the Bourbon County Jail.

Kelley said he had been suspecting for some time that some mighty strange things have been happening in his jail at night. So, Friday night he set about doing a little detective work and it paid off. Kelly said he had heard muffled noises in the jail corridors late at night on several occasions. His detective work which consisted of sprinkling some roach powder on the corridor floor, uncovered the fact that William Clem, a prisoner in the jail, had been making trips from his cell to the women's detention division on the second floor to visit a young girl who was being held prisoner. Kelly said he decided to sprinkle the roach powder on the floor because he couldn't find out how the then unidentified prisoner was getting out of his ceil.

Saturday morning there were barefoot tracks on the corridor floor, but they stopped at the door which led to the stairs and turned back. Kelly had locked the door. Scraping the bottoms of the feet of two suspects this morning, Kelly found the remnants of roach powder on Clem's feet. He also discovered how Clem was getting out of the cell. It seems he had filed of a section of a bar in the cell, allowing an opening of about 12 inches, through which he managed to squeeze.

Clothing had been hung over that end of the cell and the bar slipped back in place during the day. Kelly said Clem obtained the file, which has been put away by the jailer for safekeeping, from the suitcase of a man who somehow slipped it by officials. Clem, who has been in jail since July 3 sitting out a fine of $300 that was assessed in police court, was moved to a more secure cell ending his love life for the time being, Kelly hopes. A scramble sends Air Force and into more computers. is performed that might af- v.t!n.i nilntc Thp rariin antennas arp still feet the readiness of the sta- ii rwi iiaiiuuai uuaiu ii i wj JS T- off the ground of some nearby here and still bark out mes- tion.

Environment, and Ground base almost instantly. They go sages 10 aircran. aui me Dusting's All Right up and take a look at the voice comes from Madison. therein lies the reason behind glory's exodus. unidentified aircraft.

Thev are We can have a scramble we just ausi on us Drunk Driving Charged To 4 "If we ever go to full prepared to destroy it if nec- right now and not know it," O.K., says Dunn, "but any-automatic, I don't know what essary. says Dunn. thing that affects the status we'll do," says Dunn, who when this station first got The "semi" part of the of i headquarters jokingly says his job is to jntn business about eisrht vears SAGE operation here comes wants to know about right now. a 6ieu ueyiee concerned wiui ag0( ajj planes tracked in its the health and welfare of his area, which extends several Wins Again Electronics System Four men were arrested here yesterday on charges of drunken driving. Police listed them as Lonnie L.

Ritter, 24, of 8605 Minor Lane; Claude Devine, 51, of 3541 Powell; Rupert L. Fritz, 56. of 970 S. First, and Charles Risen, 59, of 5904 Halma Drive. City police issued 79 traffic citations, including 20 for speeding.

One alleged speeder was arrested. cnarges. hundred miles, were plotted One of Several on a giant transparent board. If any intruders were spot-Aside from the men, Dunn's ted, the situation was analyzed charges" include a conglom- and appropriate action taken, eration of radar and related Tms meant the commander electronic gear, some of it couid ordor a scramble, based considered so secret that he on tne judgment of his own holds his garrison cap over crew. part of it as you pass by.

jt was a real "front-line" The health of this equip- outpost, dressed up with all ment, Dunn says more serious- the glory and drama that a Credit Checks Speeded Meanwhile the room that contained the plotting board, where dramatic decisions once were made, is now deserted and empty except for a rack of magazines and a lounge chair or two. It's being converted into a recreation area and a place to hold roll calls. Senior-Citizcn Rates Adopted By 5 Theaters Five outlying theaters have She Can Use Violin For A Second Year Miss Addie Hilda Robinson, an eleventh-grade pupil at Atherton High School, has won the use of the Kristine Beck violin for the second consecutive year. Machinists Accept G.E. Contract Offer Cincinnati, Sept.

28 Wi The members of Lodge 912 of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Interna-t i a 1 Association of Ma Passenger Train 'Catches' Car Moving Along Tracks The expensive instrument was bought last year by friends of Miss Beck, a Louisville violinst who died unexpectedly last year at age 23. Its use is granted each year to the winner of a competition between public-school students. Miss Robinson, 16, was the first winner. Her parents are Dr.

and Mrs. Adam M. Robinson, 2108 W. A passenger train caught up with a 95-year-old motorist who made a wrong turn onto a railroad track here at 9 last night. But the driver, William A.

Meglemry, 2904 i I i Drive, apparently escaped with only bruises, City Patrolmen Melvin Martin and Robert fused by a dual traffic light. He drove a block to Keats before the slow-moving westbound Louisville Nashville Railroad passenger train overtook his car and nudged it from the tracks. Engineer Bernard Huffman, 64, of 1044 Minor Lane, told police he was traveling about 15 or 20 miles per hour when he spotted the car joined six other movie houses in giving special rates to persons 65 or older. They arc the West End, Cozy, Uptown, Vogue, and Bard. Presentation of the "senior citizen" card at the ticket window entitles the holder to the cut rate, usually 50 cents.

The cards may be obtained at any senior-citizens club. Theaters which have been following the special rate practice for several months are the Rialto, Mary Anderson, United Artists, Kentucky, Ohio, and Crescent Art. chinists voted Saturday to accept General Electric Company's final offer for a new three-year contract. The contract covering 1,250 machinists union members at the G.E. plant in suburban Evendale expires next Tuesday.

The new contract provides for a 2.5 percent wage increase with a further 2.5 percent increase in April 1965. The machinists' present pay scale ranges from $2.22 to $3.70 an hour. Purse Theft Reported Mrs. Louise Brinkman, 59, Ramsey said. before The officers said Meglemry and slowed the train of 830 E.

Madison, told police a youth snatched her purse containing $11 at 9:45 last night on Campbell near turned west onto the tracks the impact. at Frankfort and Ewing when Meglemry was not hospital he apparently became con- ized, police said. The age of electronics is zeroing in on deadbeats. Individuals who are poor credit risks will be easier to find and more quickly located when 20,000 pounds of new equipment are put to work at the Credit Bureau of Louisville. The bureau's order for 10 electronic super files arrived Friday in Louisville from Die-bold, Canton, Ohio.

A 120-foot crane lifted the files to the eighth floor of the Marion E. Taylor Building, Fourth at Jefferson, where the bureau offices are located. The new system goes into use tomorrow. Each file unit weighs 2,000 pounds. The 10 cost $35,000, according to Carson L.

Bard, bureau secretary-treasurer and general manager. Files Hold 900,000 Cards "The new files will hold around 900,000 credit-rating cards of persons living in Louisville and trading territory for 75 miles around here," Bard said. The installation, which includes automatic phone equipment, is the only one like it in the United States, Bard said. Southern Bell Telephone Company engineers fitted the files with transmitters and re, ceivers built into each deck (flat surface) of each file. The files will replace the bureau's "turret board." Using it, bureau employees answering inquires first wrote down the callers' data, went over to file cabinets, pulled an individual card, went back to the phone, sat down and gave the report.

Now the selecting will be done with a lever and a button. Telephone and file-card equip Thurmond May Back Goldivater Army Fort Knox. He is an Reserve major general. By DEAN DUNCAN Senator Strom Thurmond flew into town yesterday and, in the softest of magnolia-blossom accents, gave a slight verbal push to the presidential bandwagon of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Asked if he planned to support the re-election bid of President John F.

Kennedy in 1964, the South Carolina Democrat replied: "That remains lo be seen. A lot of things can happen between note and then." Thurmond carefully left unsaid just who among the current crop of unannounced can. didates he might support in next year's race for the White House. But he made it clear Other Thurmond views: Civil rights He fore sees passage of the Kennedy Administration bill to extend the life of the National Civil Rights Commission, but predicts the rest of the Administration's civil-rights proposals will be voted down in thij session of Congress. Cuba He thinks the United States should demand that Russians leave the island.

If they don't clear out. this country impose a naval blockade. As a last resort, the United States should resort to military force. South Vietnam United States policy should be aimed at cooperating with the Dfem Government to remove Communists from South Vietnam, and then strike at the "source of the trouble," in North Vietnam. Otherwise, there will be a stalemate as in Korea, he said.

i ii fl v. SraM Photo UP IT GOES A 120-foot crane Friday night hoisted 20,000 pounds of electronic super files into the Credit Bureau of Louisville office in the Marion E. Taylor Building. ment are all in one. Button Rotates The File "When a customer calls in of her in 3 seconds," Bard here two other agencies sup explained.

ply wholesale-firm information Each of the 10 super files Together with improved cus- about a Mr. Brown, the bureau has 12 drawers of alphabetized tomer service, the new files employee will be able to push cards. will give improved employee a button to rotate the file, The bureau, owned and convenience, and by the time she has jotted operated by merchants, serves Each file has a compartment down Mr. Brown's address, the 1,000 firms in Louisville. It for its operator's purse, lunch, necessary cards will be in front is the only retail-credit bureau and an extra pair of shoes.

that he felt the nation could do far worse than to elect Goldwater. Staff Photo HELLO'S Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, left, was greeted at Standiford Field yesterday by Maj. Gen. J. E.

Bastion, commanding general of Fort Knox, and retired Army Lieutenant General Samuel L. Myers, a former commander of the post. Thurmond flew here to address the Ken-tuckiana chapter of the Association of the United States Army at Fort Knox yesterday afternoon. Courteous Man A solemnly courteous man who ranks as one of the most conservative members of Con In his Fort Knox speech titled "Superiority Or Sur-render." Thurmond was critical of the nuclear-test-ban treaty adopted Tuesday by the Senate. He told an audience of about 1.500 association members that it was based on gress, Thurmond pointed out that his philosophy of govern- a Republican liberal such as had no statement to make now same as Thurmond's in 1948: ment is closer to Goldwater's New York Governor Nelson concerning any candidate.

To prevent either major-party than to Kennedy s. Rockefeller to make inroads in But Thurmond recalled with nominee from eettins an elec- He added tnat the South the South azainst anv Demo- no of reerpt that he him. trtral-t-nllecp mainritv and fnrrp "fallacious rpasonin? that the Editor Appointed New York, Sept. 28 CP-Appointment of John Denson as executive editor of The New York Journal-American, effective in mid-October, was announced Saturday. Denson, formerly editor of The New-York Herald Tribune, has been editor of The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner since January.

The Journal-American and The Herald-Examiner are Hearst newspapers. Russ Convict U.S. Student Moscow, Sept. 28 (UPI) Minsk of striking and killing The United States Embassy re- Leonid Popov as Landerman ported that Peter Landerman, drove a Volkswagen bus full a 22-year-old University of of other tourists along the California student, was sen- Minsk-Moscow highway. Popov tenced Friday to three years was walking his motorcycle in jail for the traffic death along the road, of a Russian citizen.

Landerman testified at his Landerman, Riverside, trial that he was blinded by the was convicted at a trial in lights of an oncoming car. I might benefit from a two-party cratic nominee. cir khh tv, nmr.n iic- nr Pctni.i;,.. Soviets are chancing and can sjstem on the Presidential be trusted." level." ally 10 run as me 10 pick me winner. Th aDDroed thp Thurmond said that "as of Asked if he would consider Dixiecrat nominee for Presi- Thurmond was interviewed treatv bv a 80 to 19 vote now" he felt that Goldwater backing the presidential bid of dent.

In that election, he took at Standiford Field on his wav It bans nuclear explosions anv. could beat Kennedy in a scram- Alabama Governor George four Southern states away from to address the Kentuckiana where except underground, ble for the South's electoral Wallace, an avid states-richter. Harry S. Truman. chapter of the Association of Thurmond and Goldwater were votes.

He sees no chance for Thurmond repeated that he Wallace's current plan is the the United Slates Armv at among those voting against it..