Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1948 — Page 3

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Long Distance Confusion Worse Than C Calls Billed ~~ © ZF} o Automatically

Accounting System Already Tested

By Science Service . NEW YORK, Dec. 13—There will be no dispute with the telephone bill when a new automatic accounting system which records all essential data” for billing comes into general use. It notes down” the number of the sending —phone;—the- receiving phone; and the length of the conversation. . This device, already installed in the Philadelphia area, was revealed today by Bell Telephone Laboratories here. It is described as an automatic’ accounting system which can keep track of thousands of dial calls, and not -only record who made them, what numbers wefe called and how! } long conversations lasted, but| also it adds up and prints detailed charge information. In the Philadelphia installation, part of the intricate equipment “is in the city itself, and other necssary apparatus in near‘by Media, where the new servi is being introduced. : It 1s known as AMA, an ab-

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A rookie and his clothing.

Sergeant Breaks Up Their Shut-Eye

And Calls for Four ‘Volunteers’ By IRVING LEIBOWITZ, Times Staff Writer

under the Selective Service Act.

The new batch of 24-year-olds|

peacetime

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Kenneth Wallace of Sheridan . . . Gl fashion plate. . . - Methodist. Hospital Slapner Injured Sets Yule Fete | 5 breviation for automatic message| The third annual Christmas accounting. The equipment in party for all employees of Meth- n avenpo Ir Philadelphia translates coded rec- lodist Hospital and their fami}ies ords made at Media, and per- will begin at 7 p. m. Friday in A North Side man suffered forms the mathematical calcula- the White Cross Service Center. | third-degree burns in one of three tions. Miss Ruth Madsen, chairman, - 8: Stores Up Information will be assisted by Miss Carmen fires yesterday. As explained by Bell scientists, |Sharp, Miss Thelma Hawthorne, Harold Wills, 29, of 2402 N.| the information needed for ac- Miss Ruth Fedde, Mrs. Winona Gale St. was burned about the counting is automatically stored Ballantyne, Miss Mary Brake, j,qy when the davenport on! up, as calls: are made, on reels Dr. H. C.-Ochsnen.Dr. David J... ch 1 toi asleep while smok-| of paper tape with equipment Smith, Richard M. Loughery and p located in the Media telephone/the Rev, Claude M. McClure. |ing a cigaret caught fire. He was exchange. Holes are automatic-| The program will be highlighted reported in fair condition at Genally punched in this tape in a by the appearance or Santa Claus eral Hospital. Coded pattern which can. later be with gifts for all the children, rheated -iawoke at 5 a. m., consclo “oud ah ner v3 secu ANT mex Conan 0 00 SESE KM ORL ALS condone of : achines. {sto y Mrs. Harry 1. Foreman vermont St. caught on fire and] “Brother, they sure put you . _ These reels are taken daily to and community singing led bY caused $1000 damage, Clark Wari mill fast don't they?” an accounting center in Philadel-\J. Russell Paxton. The student praneis. 3040 Winthrop: Ave. said Joel Malicote, a former Clay- naked arms. phia where a battery of machines nurse chorus will present several plant manager said. ’ toh hard driver. 16W 2 $75-a.ductees blood comrades translates, sorts, summarizes and songs and a brass ensemble from | ° Probe C f Fi month recruit ’ pFints the information, thus mak-| Technical High School will fur- robe Cause of fire ‘

parts

NN Ns rsa im Ra ng -regdy-toruse i preparing, ish AR IAROITres iw sas DENI Ake. department inyest 4 atars| The sergeants ho un >this; N Automatic Peelers . subscribers’ telephone bills. This| Robert E. Neff, hospital super- Were probing the cause fire thar’s BY TY YR Se hs jong day of processing

Philadelphia center later will/intendent, has appointed a special discovered early yesterday at 532| service many other installations committee to co-ordinate the W- Michigan St. besides Media. many Christmas projects and Allen Hayes, 27, of 1584 ArThe “electronic brain” of the parties for patients and em- senal Ave. told police he discovcentral office switching system |ployees. Mrs. Gladys Mcliroy is ered the blaze. recognizes, on each local call, [chairman and members . include! Firemen who extinguished the whether the subscriber making it|Miss Hazel ‘Wessel, Miss Haw-|blaze, said they found evidence! has flat-rate or message-rate thorne, Miss Lela Stokes, Miss that a quantity of coal oil had service, and whether the call is|Nelma McClay and Miss Helen been dumped _ on the ground to be billed as a toll call. IMcNerney. |around the house.

mally. No blood was shed and| no casualties were reported. jslers. gained a growing In fact, found their main training “sarge” William Glenn Farmer, a professional soldier who served with

the Hoosier rookies

Army.

HK remained for another ‘old”| The noncoms

Army man with less than

months in service to terrify the is tho : SATIN stri rookies. At the first blare of] . » ” STRAUSS - reveille, this screaming maniac a Bo a i: by TEXTR aE - SAYS: faced through the barracks roofing man ‘said. “As long as \ Faney (fi sayl shouting: ) ’ : % 3 3 - « we're in this Army, we might as : 8 ozen - Hurry, gentleman, hurry! You well act like a ig colors. $2

wanta sleep all day?” -. Drawing clothes and getting processed followed an orientation lecture. A platoon sergeant put in -{an unwelcome appearance. - Clothing Issued “I wart four volunteers—you, you, you and you,” he anhounced and broke up a promising craps game. The volunteers went off to clean the latrines. While the four “volunteers” services. scrubbed latrines: and duck] boards, the remainder of the outfit was put through the quarter|master warehouse assembly line. {In one hour they came out the other end each with $250 worth of clothing and equipment—52 separate items from underwear to overcoats—a total of five tons of

cringing in their seats. The new selectees

public

sion during the late war,

they are best suited. y Lg

Recruit Charles Hunter of Atlanta and 2 " ceed little confsed 8 Hoosiers in New Army Find Out They Are Gents |

CAMP BRECKINRIDGE, Ky., Dec. 13—Eight postwar Hoosler draftees arose before dawn their first morning in the Army to find] themselves members of the famed 101st Airborne Infantry Division jungle brush here. —the outfit that said “nuts” to the Germans at Bastogne. { This was the story of ‘the 24-hour change in the lives of a0 Fospital Indiana draft contingent inducted into the new streamlined “Army

equipment for the company. The new Army embraced the us of Hoosier rookies next in the old “Skilled” technicians, at a given signal, plunged the needles into This made the in-|

to their wartime draftee counter-

and details and the young Hoo-|

{that this Army will continue to |have its yardbirds, its kitchen police, its latrine engineers and its spud peelers. Nowhere on the post

Merrill's Marauders in the South|ls one of the new:fangied autoPacific; to He “quite” a nice guy.” matic potato peelers for -the new

and officers expressed themselves in a nice way, »

Gone from the training program here are the “scare” movies. A “dignified” - motion picture on venereal disease replaces the old Army show that once had rookies

classification and, if they place high enough, may spend the remainder of their Army career in finance, or as a clerk or special

Major James H. Dyson, division information officer, decorated field artillery battery commander’ with the famed 2d Armored “Hell on Wheels" Divi

new Indiana draftees are assured! — of being placed in jobs for which

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~ “Urges State School Chief Be Appointed

Commission Raps | ‘Political’ Office

The Indiana School Study Come mission today recommended that the state superintendent of public {instruction be made an appointive \office instead of an elective one. | The Commission said that, be= lcause under present law the state {superintendent is elected, “the {schools are directly and almost -Hnvariably involved. in. partisan. politics.” - It recommended an amendment ito the State Constitution “as soon lag practicable: : “The superintendent should be |a person with such high quaMfie {cations that he is recognized as the proper teader for the develop« Iment- of the entire program of [public education,” said the report, {one of several issued recently by the special commission. Cites Low Salary “Experience: throughout: the country shows that election by popular. vote gives no assurance that a competent person will be | selected for the position. i The. present_method of selec Five persons were arrested and| tion and salary is very discour.

In 3 Gaming Raids gaming equipment was confiscat- 38ing to those who aspire to

d 0 led in.three police raids yesterday. 5¢TVe in this important position.”

| { report added that since GUAM; Dec. 13 (UP)—A party . Leroy Moore, 41, of 120 W.|yg99 13 different mer elected to

of Philippine Scouts today found 19th St. ig i keep | this office have “served an aver. ng a room for pool 8 8. .| age of less than four years each.” a prey Navy civilian employes police squads under Capt. Harry] ge ol $6000 salary Xe increased Taped and beaten in the heaty yarborough, raided a poolroom in| 45 $00 by the 1947 General Ase 726 N. Senate Ave. . {sembl Authorities at the 22d Army Jour pig Ng Jrrested for) The commission said that “at {visiting a gamin , ’~| present the State Department of said the girl, Ruthi,..; hooks of policy and baseball | Equeation TD {Farnsworth, 27, probably would tickets and a punéh board were| advise and assist local school sys{live despite her injuries. found. tems on various phases of their She was suffering from shock,| In two separate raids on a program, as should be the case.” exposure and loss of blood when Smoke shop at 2648 Northwestern Listed as factors contributing Fhe BebUts” TO UNA “Her “uhEonseIonsTA ve, Police confiscated. policy, Ado girls: were: too. few. eta fl- mom... 200 yards from the jade shop baseball tickets, a rundown sheet, | pers, inadequate funds, salaries - where she worked part-time: a dream book, peas and pea shak-\too low to attract well-trained | } —ters-and several books of baseball] educators.” in arms — Miss Farnsworth became the score hooks. * : iohject of a widespread search| ————————— . . when she failed to return to her | \o/ Hik S ht ‘ Kiwanis Speaker Named quarters Satufday night. i age ike Joug Dr. Thomas B. Noble Jr. will Eber -dsland.. SONATRAT AFAR, . PITTABURGH, Dec. 13 (1/P)-— address a meeting of the Irvinge |all command - officers to look y(n collar ond ee Kiwanis CUB CORESPHOW Tigo: ict for persons with fresh scratches Westinghouse Electric Corp. will meeting will be held at Jones s suspicion, nq abrasions which might have seek -a general wage and salary Restaurant; on U. 8. 40, at 6:30 been received in a fight with the |increase next month. No definite|p. m. Dr. Noble's subject will be attack victim. | figure had been set. “Socialized Medicine.” :

Girl, 1. Found [Police Arrest 5 -

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