Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1959 — Page 11

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Force would slowly come to a standstill. Located on a b u s y street and looking like any one of hundreds of small office buildings nearby is the Air Force Tranceiver Control Center, the only one like it in the world. Into the center come hundreds of telephone lines from Air Force bases, supply points and commercial manufacturers all over the world. Through it pass an Air Force supply requisitions—from tiny cotter pins to giant aircraft

engines. Watching over this most crucial operation is a civilian—J.D. (Jery) Havnen, 39, a former officer. So Important is the center to the Air Force, however, that Havnen is one of the few civilians to have the title of “offieer-in-charge” and he operates directly under Maj. 'Gen. P. Gerrity, commander of the Oklahoma City Air Material Command. Behind closed doors marked “re stricted” is a battery of complicated IBM machines, each receiving

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coded messages from Air Force 1 bases ordering supplies. i All these messages are reduced > to punched IBM cards. They are r then sorted, classed by priority, s and stacked for re-transmission to : the supply points, warehouses or d manufacturers who can supply the . needs. . . j s The whole operation—from the - remote base that needs an item to the storehouse that can supply if • —need take only a few minutes. - The supply point always sends ; back an acknowledgment, telling

r"" ■ ll ' l I how soon the item win be shipped and where from. ( In an average day, the center will receive, sort and send a quarter of a million cards. The record for one day was 328,000 cards. “It might help to understand our operation if I gave an example,'* . Havnen said. , “Let’s say Henada Air Force Base in Japan needs a monkey i wrench. They’ll radio the request to Hickam Field in Hawaii, where i it’s relayed via the undersea cable ! to Sacramento, Calif. At Sacra-

mento (M cCI ell a n AFB) they punch a card and send the data to us. We automatically punch another card and telegraph the data to Gadsden, Ala., Air Force Depot. “Gadsden looks in its warehouse, finds a monkey wrench, ships it and wires confirmation which goes back the same route it came." Such high-priority requests aS missiles go through in minutes. . The monkey wrench order might have to wait its turn. “You could order everything from lumber to medical supplies

over Ihi» system, and eves Rve animals, but I don’t remember any animals ever being requisitioned,** said Havnen. Why was Tulsa picked for the “cog?" Because ot its central location and also because it is not a prime target area for any potential enemy, Havnen said. Over 2,500 Daily Democrats are each day. sold apd delivered In Decatur

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