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Sundoy, Sptmber 17, 1W-3K THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Save dollars on kitchen equipment III, I 4 plug-in electric cook-and-serve appliances is the stay-hot feature. A built-in heating unit holds food at good serving temperature for 30 minutes or more after the cord is removed. according to quality, features and product brand. When you shop for portable appliances or major ones you are always wise to evaluate sizes, prices and extra features which fit your situation. A bonus benefit tov the plugged in at a low setting.

Meals cooked on portable units must, of course, be simplified. But as any hostess knows, this can be the secret to a successful dinner party. And it cuts down on dishwashing, too. Some of ances can these appll-also be left wiBi tetter to" presents A happy blend of polished chrome and vinyl is the basis of this attractive pedestal set. Two fabric-supported vinyls are combined on the trim swivel chairs.

Table top is melamine plastic in suede walnut pattern. Matching buffet, right, is moderately priced. Aim-, three new originals the gap between the present and more affluent days. Many brides, In fact, might even find enough of these small cooking utensils among wedding gifts. A homemaker can cook and serve good meals every day and even be a good hostess when she entertains by using an automatic electric fry pan, a saucepan, an automatic buffet cooker and a portable oven.

With a little careful planning, just about any kind of food can be cooked in these appliances. Compare costs. A SET OF portable items Including fry pan, saucepan, Dutch oven or buffet cooker and oven could run from $60 to $135, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture studies.

Three similar utensils for on-top-of-the-range use, plus the cost of a 30-inch single oven range, might run from $170 to $350. A deluxe two-oven range could cost as much as $400 or more. Prices vary, of course, of future I 1 1 im' 1 i III' 3 V- fmf -74f Ill ROUND TABLE WITH OIL WALNUT FORMICA LAMINITE SUNBURST TOP Vinyl has the grain and feet of the genuine wood By Barbara Kober COOK AN entire meal even for company without a kitchen range? Yes, it can be done. Electrification specialists have studied the situation and found hope for the bride or any homemaker whose budget Just cannot be stretched far enough to include a range. Portable electric cooking appliances can fill in they solve the problems, the telephone people could undercut them by going Into the business themselves and using their own circuits at less cost than their charge to others.

One panelist challenged the idea of the computer as a public utility. "I doubt if it will ever make sense to send your square roots out of town for processing," said Ronald F. Denz of Tele-max East Orange, N. J. "It will be a local service, like dry cleaning.

That's no utility. But a Western Union man In the audience stood up and noted that his company now provides two kinds of com-puterlzed Information services. You can get a machine in your office, he said, that will give you peoples' Job resumes at the touch of a button, and another, for lawyers, that looks up case citations stored in a computer data file. "They are, if you will," he said, "utilities in every sense of the world." IN The Montclair The MONTCLAIR is a departure from boredom! An enticingly different plan with all the ingredients for comfortable living. Featuring: 3 Large Bedrooms Panelled Family Room Slate Foyer Woodburning Fireplace Redwood Deck Two Full Baths Courtyard Entrance Two-Car Garage Full Basement.

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MASTER 0MM9 KITCHEN 8E0BOOM BEDROOM 2 K0DOOM3 1 IIVIHS BOOM i CAMi DOOM merely $23,900 fe mm ELI Sb ts -i a mm mew Computer By Philip Meyer Chicago Dally News Servici ONE OF you'll have terminal in these days, a computer your living room. It will have a screen like a TV set, a device for printing words on paper, and a keyboard. The lady of the house will use it for filing recipes and balancing the family checkbook. It can also serve as an employment agency, travel service, library, and dally newspaper. Your machine will be connected to a central computer complex in some remote location, maybe even In another part of the country.

It will give you access to all kinds of stored Information, plus the facilities for processing data of your own such as check stubs. The computer will have become a public utility. TS A SMALL way, it already has. "An information utility will soon pervade every element of civilized life," said Charles W. Adams of Adams Associates, Cambridge, chairman of a session on computer utilities at the convention of the Association For Computing Machinery.

"The possible applications of this utility are widespread and becoming wider yet." In his inside coat pocket, Adams carries a mock-up of the possible future portable computer terminal It is flat, like a wallet, and when you open it up there is a small keyboard, like a typewriter's. Most computer experts, however, think in terms of a somewhat larger machine for permanent installation at home, like a telephone. They call it the "fireside computer." A couple of little problems stand in the way before you can order yours. Mainly, they are legal problems. If computers are going to become a utility, someone will have to regulate them.

The Federal Communications Commission already has the question under study. SOMEONE WILL have to decide whether a computer utility should be a monopoly or competitive. And it will be necessary to settle some brewing conflicts between the computer people and the owners of the wires that carry the messages the common communications carriers. The communications people like to sell a complete service. You pay just one organization for your telephone or teletype and for the use of the circuits that carry its messages.

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