The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 31

Tnrrrrrrr Tryy mnnrr ttvtt rrrr u- 'v iTr Computers Solve Problems Big Or Little By Woody Laughnan A computer cannot make a cup of coffee for the bleary-eyed boss in the morning sit on his lap during dictation sessions and may be the sexless flop of the century at the office Christmas party but it can do just about everything else its only limits being the imagination of the human programmer The computer is generally considered to be the darling of the federal government for extending the interest on the national debt and in the race-for-space program by schools as classroom teaching aids or for the rapid counting of votes (most of the time) But the people who know about such things say 90 per cent of the computers in use today are actually at work in -the private sector In the central San Joaquin Valley for instance there are 40 computers and many more less-sophisticated data processing machines and except for a handful they are being used by businesses large and small The computer maintains inventory controls for the big chain store on the Fulton Mall and the little mom and pop grocery store on the corner It compiles a breakdown of gasoline tire battery and grease job sales for the neighborhood service station It figures business payrolls sends out monthly statements and ferrets out tyose who did not pay their bills on time Based on predetermined programming it can tell the businessmen how much gross profit he made yesterday It can tell him what items he bought that did not move last month Kellner ft Son Lumber Co of Fresno has developed a taped program which allows its computer to measure boards and studding saw them fit them into the proper space and nail them together to form interior and exterior walls for homes Ray Kellner general manager said the programmed construction shortcut helps relieve the skilled labor shortage Kellner said computer-guided invention could build an unbroken wall from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three months The use of such prefabricated parts will enable contractors to build more homes than ever before and do it at a lower When the machine has received instructions from the paper tape program it starts constructing the outside frame of a wall using building materials fed into it from hoppers As the frame moves through the conveyor chain supporting devices such as braces and studs automatically are cut to size and nailed into place "Right now we have to nail on the exterior siding when the wall is Kellner said "but we plan eventually to let the machine do that and also to See Data Page 5-D THE FRESNO BEE Chartrand Rites Burial Will Be FoyrrnryTTT Held In Fresno Private funeral services for Richard Chartrand the Lake Tahoe gambling casino owner who was killed Tuesday when a bomb exploded under the floorboard of his car will be held at 2 pm tomorrow in the Chapel of light A service also was held this afternoon in Carson City Nev fbr Chartrand a 42-year-old ex-Fresnan The investigation of death is being continued by Nevada and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials after the arrest and release yesterday of a suspect Donn Lee Cavnar Dealer Fired Cavnar had been a poker dealer and bartender at Club in South Lake Tahoe a casino operated by Chartrand before Chartrand fired him about a month ago Chartrand also was an owner of the South Tahoe Nugget In announcing release Dist Atty Ted said: "A portion of the evidence upon which the warrant was issued was testimony of an informant that Cavnar had on several occasions threatened to kill Chartrand Bomb Planted "He had stated to the inform' ROBOT Programmed by a computer this device measures saws and nails together walls for more than 500 houses a week at the Kellner ft Son Lumber Co of Fresno Minor Gee head of the product engineering department is operating the machine ant that he planned to plant a Goedhard Asks Joint Recreation Session South Angus Bond Payoff Is KITTENS AND CHILDREN are special interests of Marie Downs assistant director for education of the church foundation which owns the West-gate Gardens development Holding a book Mrs Downs uses in tutoring is the Rev' I Owens the foundation's director of community improvement looking on is Bishop A McFall of Oakland president of the Western diocese of die Church of the Living God Mrs Downs holds her kitten Scamper bomb in Chartrand's automobile 'Although such statements were admitted by the suspect the other evidence developed in the case warrant holding Cavnar to answer to a City Manager Neil Goedhard will try to arrange a joint meeting between members of the City Council and the County Board of Supervisors on the subject of recreation in the metropolitan area This developed from a discus VISTA Educator 76 Gets New-Job Honor sion this morning during which Mayor Floyd Hyde was sharply critical of some of the Hyde joined in with the comment: are we wasting time? Burglar Ties Girl To Tree Cuts Off Clothes TttnSTL charge of Cavnar 25 lives in South Lake Tahoe Chartrand lived in Zephyr Cove Nev a neighborhood of expensive homes which were rocked when the bomb exploded as Chartrand started to pull out of his driveway Tuesday afternoon The Lisle Funeral Home is in charge of Local Arrangements By Deane Wylie A 76-year-old former VISTA volunteer who go to a life of middle-class amenities after working with the poor of America is starting a new job as an educator with a West Fresno low-income housing project Marie Downs from Pullman Wash explained some of her philosophy yesterday as she was honored by the Church of the God Foundation on her Living A 14-year-old northwest Fresno girl spent a terrifying hour in the back yard of her home tied to a tree and blindfolded while a burglar rifled through the house Mike Espinoza Allan Kingston executive director-of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fresno today said that it is that the South Angus Redevelopment Project will be a success and the bonds will be paid comments came during an explanation to the council of the need for the city to divert $47170 of its unappropriated surplus in the redevelopment service fund to meet bond payments which are due Sunday and on March I960 Kingston also said that it may be necessary for the city to advance a like amount of money to make the Sept 1 1969 and March 1 1970 bond payments but year following that there will be no The bonds which were issued are redeemable from the increased tax yield from the area and because the South Angus Project did not develop as rapidly as anticipated the higher tax revenues were not forthcoming Kingston said that there are 148 additional residential units Fresnan Is Killed On Viet Patrol was a policy decision on wheth er to support a request by the Madison Elementary School District to be totally excluded from the Metropolitan Area Recreation District which now is under consideration The Board of Supervisors can submit the formation of such a district to the voters by its own action or the proposal can be put before the electorate by the petition process In any event it is too late to get the matter on the November ballot Wills Objects Councilman Ted Wills objected particularly to excluding those parts of the Madison District which are within the Fresno city limits and whose residents would pay the recreation district tax but get no benefit if the school district is excluded from the recreation setup of the state approved a $400 million bond issue for parks and recreation which was to be distributed on the basis of so much per person per head with about $650000 as Fresno Coun share entire amount of every nickel of was taken by our supervisors and put into a park on the Kings River the farthest point away from the metropolitan area population and where it would create a beautiful area for the people of Kings County is time we say some of these things If a resident of this city who also pays his county taxes gets no more consideration than that where can he go? We may as well get this out on the table and discuss the whole issue with them am not prepared to take any action unless there is some showing of good faith on the part of the supervisors that they recognize we live in the affiliation as assistant director Ah' education assigned to the 100-unit Westgate Gardens development at Church and Fig Avenues Go going to this up as long as I can she declared you have lived with and made friends among the so-called you go back to ordinary i 1 e-class living these people a the most charming sc hoi pupils at Lincoln School and teaching adults to read English during her service with VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America the federal Peace Before that she was a volunteer worker in inner-city schools of Detroit Her volunteer career began after long service in Oregon and Washington as a social director of college dormitories and her actual came several years ago when Fveever met so natural so ste P- Mr and Mrs Mike Espinoza of 2312 East Ave have been informed their son Lance Cpl Mike Espinoza Jr 27 was killed in action in Vietnam last Friday Espinoza was a member of Headquarters and Service Co 1st Battalion 5th Marines He was killed by a explosive device" while on patrol in the vicinity of Quang Nam Espinoza enlisted in the Marines in December He had lived in Fresno since 1949 and had attended Roosevelt High School Police reported the girl was not molested but the intruder slashed and removed the night clothing and left her bound in the yard She was not injured The girl told police she was awakened at 4: 30 am yesterday bya man who woreawhite hood over his face and was armed with a knife He forced her to get out of bed she said and took her to the back yard where he gagged her placed the hood over her head and then tired her hands around a tree with some electrical wire Goes Inside The victim said the man cut her clothing off and then went inside to rummage through the house Police said the thief took $84 from a purse belonging to the sister much at ease so Mrs Downs expressed scorn for what die termed middle-class mean our wall-to-wall carpet back-yard-barbecue syndrome these are false values superficial She worked in Hanford for three years tutoring elementary Tractor Pins Grass Cutter in varying stages of construction now and that of the units which have been completed the vacancy ratio is only 1 to 2 per cent Richard Chartrand Drunk Driving Cases ARRESTS John McCoy 4J sf 3171 Mlll-brack Avt at SAM Avenue and North First SI early today Doniot Lucarok 4S at Hamden on Bank Teller In The Next A Policeman? I lilO North Motel Drive early today Joe Jamaa Garcia of MS Allu tion on the staff of the King County Hospital in Seattle She was widowed in 1936 when her husband Dr George A Downs a surgeon died in Spokane Present yesterday for the ceremony honoring Mrs Downs were the Rev I Owens former Fresnan now residing in Los Angeles as directin' of com-m unity improvement of the foundation Bishop A McFall president of the Western diocese of the Church of the Living God Pillar and Ground of the Truth and Delmer McAlister manager of Westgate Gardens Fresno Mayor Pro-T Ted Wills added greetings from ithe city and presented Mrs Downs with the traditional gold key The three-year-old Westgate Gardens development was the first built in Fresno under leg- See Educator Page 5-D HEADQUARTERS Clip me out os a reminder! Paul Deaton 30 of 3124 Swift Ave a tractor operator for the Fresno Irrigation i s-trict was pinned under an overturned tractor for about 30 minutes today in a canal ditch at Brawley and Shaw Avenues Heavy equipment was used to right Hie tractor Deaton who remained conscious during the ordeal suffered an injured leg He was taken to Fresno General Hospital Irrigation District employes said Deaton was mowing grass on the canal bank when the machine overturned That teller cashing your check in a number of Fresno banks could be a policeman The police-teller program has been instituted to prevent and curb holdups and the activities of bogus check passers Deputy Police Chief Kast and William Hunter area administrative assistant for Bank of America worked out the program that has been in effect vial Ave at Church and Cedar Avanuts aarly today Richard Miller Jr II of 10 Polasky Ava Clevis at Show and Barton Avenues last night Juan Barnett 45 of IUZ E- Dorothy Ave at Fid and Vina Avenues last idaht IN COURT Frank Milter of XI Grave: In tail Sentenced by Mumcioal Court Judge Gteraa Huffman Gerald Wilson at 4S4S Santa Ana one year probation and SXf find Sen-fenced by Municipal Court Jamas Feign John Zsfda at 909 Indianapolis two years probation and SIX Una Sentenced by Juaaa Huffman Cecil Manroa at 1901 Willis year probation and SIX fine Sentenced by Judge Huffman Albert Frtndez at XX Butter two veers probation and S3M lino Sentenced by Judga Huffman William Simpson at Geshsn two years probation ana SIX Judga Huffman The girl said the burglar left but she was so frightened she remained tied to the tree until dawn She then managed to free herself The girl went into the house and told her family what had happened The others had slept through the ordeal I UHER-PILOT NORELCO-TANDBERfi WOLLENSAK recording supplies TAPE EMPTY REUS ASSETS MEAD DIMM MEAD CLEANERS PLU6S-MIKES SPUCING TAPE CAILES-ADAPTER BAZAR'S PHILCO CLEARANCE SPECIALS FIE EMOEN VILLAEE Palm and Shaw Our "Dog Days" Furni- turo Sola ends this Sat- I so if you'd like I to savo on the finest quality homo furnish- do hurry in! 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And wo are Since December Fresno has had three bank robberies But from June 1965 to December 1967 not one bank was robbed in the city The police teller became a fixture in Bank of America branches a year ago It is also in operation in Los Angeles Both have had numerous bank robberies in the past Fresno Police Department favors this kind of employment because it is a form of law enforcement that should discourage bank Kast declares will also help the officers develop greater human relation At the same time the bank several months robbers like to pick on women they explain from now on the man in the next window may be a Officers work a regular shift for the police department and as tellers on their time off They do not work in uniforms I taking advantage of this secondary employment have undergone special training and are serving on a rotating Kast says So far only a number of Bank of America branches have police-tellers but other banking institutions have made inquiries about the program The number of officers and what banks they work in is con-j 9 AM 6 PM -FRIDAYS 19 Lon of Fro and tow Porting REG SALE 273" 224 209" 169 209" 169 189" 129 WE WILL as CLOSED SAT AUG 31st ft LABOR OAT-SEPT 24 IB Ft Freezer upright 13 Ft Refrigerator Freezer 1 W-2G3 Automatic Washer 1 D-E 663 Electric Dryer 1 Philco Tilt-Top Oven Deluxe Automatic Electric Range Shotgun Shells Dove loads 12-16-20 gauge OPEN TOMORROW NICHTI ach Scliefe END OF SUMMER SALE! WILD REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS POLAROIDS MODEL 210 REG 4995 SAVINGS A NOW OTHER MODELS $9700 303" 249 lbox er SOUND EQUIPMENT CO 2247 Blockstono JENSEN PILEGARD mputs 1028 No Fulton Tower Dist Ond Hock South of Clinton Fh BA 9-1561 2510 Blackstan 10g Fresno 533 Clovis Ava Clovis SALE ENDS SATURDAY HdentiaL However they are as- has solved a troublesome prob- signed to high risk tanks Kast lem of finding part-time tellers Isaid for its branches" Hunter says nil you iNMiiicn or Asian ha soi cua 'AkJtalhAhAhiftaA dAAAAAAM AM AA A AfcA AA6S tU LI A A A A A-AA AAO A AAA A A a Li.