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The Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 8

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enjoy the automated lite, BtougS jomehwefe else, perhaps 1 cavern tnftflon-rloflar tax bill. 8 Indiana Evening Gaiette, Monday, April 1963. some have reservations about the deep la a mountain. By the time the computer center Is in full operation in 1968, about fully automated lunchroom. All the workers here seem to 500 miles of tat will be stored here; enough to stretch from Martinsburg to Boston.

New Unit Goes Into Operation At Mcrtinsburq. West Vq. Robot Tax Collector On Watch For Any Funny Business Tiny Hearing Aid Worn in tori However, It would do no good for some tax dodger gone berserk to blow this place up to foil the revenue service. A duplicate mast shadow she Is wearing. mated 78 million, Including in- Fed the raw tape, It checks for the first 176 hours a month, er tape Is kept in a "remote" (ttvtduais and businesses.

against a master file to see then the rate drops to 40 per cent. Raw data such as the figures As might be expected, the heart It is not secret that the remote By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) Taxpayers tempted lo fudge on their April 15 federal returns should think again. They may be up against a formidable combination.

Including: These are among the workers in a small, modernistic building here in the Shenandoah Valley apple country. The building houses the national computer center of on your return are punched on whether a taxpayer has filed all returns lawfully due, whether he is up to date on payments and location is, at present, Washing lilt Ing lid we ever math, and It slips in tht tac for cordless hearing. Small aa a dime a diameter, Hght aa nickel. cards In regional offices In Atlanta and Philadelphia. These1 ton.

But nuclear energy being what less revenue service takes advantage of this and keeps the robot going 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Its monthly pay is pretty whether there is anything suspicious about him. the Internal Revenue Service. cards transfer the information to it is, official) plan to move Then the machine produces an-1 woo, inougn aoout isa.ouo. 1.

A robot without any feelings; The robot, or computer. Is 'magnetic tape, The tape about: 2. A bureaucrat who admires the checking millions of tax tax accounts on a reel about logic of Aristotle: 3. A gal whose from the Eastern seaboard. By a foot In diameter la then flown Width of Dmef The human staff is divided Into other tape for shipment back to the field.

This can automatically $30 to eyes change from blue to green'1968, it will be prying into returns to Martinsburg, shifts, so that people keep the computer company even In the write notices that a person owes depending on what color eye If torn all over the nation an estl-l Then the computer goes to work, $3000 U.toUmM. NE JTER tm money, that he must produce his still watches of the night. papers for an audit, or that he is awl ucADihifi a in even with the government. Not that the machine isn't smart in some ways. It has a vast memory, for one thing.

Also there When the computer sends out a AS (1 CIEOII. IMC. (0lo IMC) HAN CONSUME discount co. imi nvm are some things it won't stand. Member, Society at Hearing Aid Audlelexbts Sit Philadelphia Street OFFICE HOURS: nallw Q.I? Nnnn notice requiring an answer, it begins counting the days, and If a taxpayer does not respond In time it fires off a sterner warning.

If a tape is damaged, say bv the imprint oi a numan fingernail, thei macmne rents ana stops. This It can alert revenue agents to i neips prevent some long unem slap a Hen on the old homestead ployed man In Tuscaloosa from or oh yes It can automatically write a refund check if necessary. getting a shock in the form ol In charge of this awesome set up is not a high-domed scientist as you might expect but an English major from Bowdoln College, class of 1940, John E. Stewart by NO MONEY DOWN! Up To 5 Years To Pay ON WELDED STEEL COAL name. He is an unusual bureau-l crat, in that he takes pride In the womEti uinnTED AGES 17-59 for Sparstlm small size of his bureau, 78 per sons in addition to the robot 8 On.

4NNIVIMAItT BRODY'S so ANHNiKMV BRODY'S SO ANNtVtMARf BRODY'S SOi A KM I VI IIS ART BRODY'S SO 4MHWIMAHf BRODY'S 5 On, ANNtVSJttAJtr BRODY'S SOn ANNIVHSAinr BRODY'S SO The machine is important, he says, but far more important are the people attending it. They don't necessarily have to have ad (20 in. Size) vanced university degrees. "But they must have an apti tude: an ability to do some ab stract reasoning like the logic of Aristotle, a master philosopher of ancient Greece. Above all, they wy "HMWt JH'tl'WIM i 1 1 iM iuv i i jnn to 15900 have to be able to get along with other people, because this team lob." One of the youngest members of the team Is a 20-year-old secre tary, a looker named Miss Nao- 22 in 199.00 24 in 238.00 important fashion famous Hoomes.

She does not claim to understand the computer thor oughly, but she is In thorough ac r-ii 1 288.00 27 in. cord with Its philosophy. I think everybody ought to pay TO LEARN PRACTICAL NURSIN6 Wwiim of II flei with sr wttrwut high) Khooi tdircotlon can now nior ttximty, prtrsiig and community impact fkof our raduatM Milny. Thtr ihorlai Practical Nurm hi thh btm. Tow or lMadd at.

doctor! ouittarrti. In ltnic, fnifitvtrMi, print duty, Fri suUh arte with plamnt In yaitr local ana his proper taxes, no more and no less, she said. A newsman with a passion for detail remarked that he had no Five Yr. Pay Plan on P. H.

A. 15 Yrs. Guarantee Free Estimates Phone 463-3524 trouble figuring out that her hair BRODY'S SOm ANNIVfMARV BRODY'S so tNNrVfftSMff BRODY'S so ANHIVIMAIIt BRODY'S so is brown, but was puzzled by the color of her eyes. Bos H-81 'That depends on the dress I GmM, Indiana. P.

am wearing and the eye shadow, she explained. 'Today I am wear ing a beige dress and green MMt CITY STATf OCCUPATION mtfif TFt 4-1 shadow. Therefore the eyes are green. Is it all right with you if Satisfaction guaranteed Q'P or your money back" OJjillVO 627 Phila. Indiana, Pa.

Open Friday and Saturday 8:30 A. M. Til 9:00 P.M. I go back to work now?" It turns out that checking on tax cheaters is not the sole rea son for the computer, though an important one. Even if everybody were 100 per cent honest, Internal Revenue would drown in a sea of paper work as the population expands.

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In your choice of 16" length (sizes 26 to 36) or 18" length (sizes 26 to 38. odd $jQ95 quality of the computer's work depends on the quality of the data fed into it. tin ONLY IN THI ESTOP COMPANY ftlHU IflA Neil Hoke, administrative asst- tant to Stewart, quoted an adage of computer men: "Garbage in, garbage out." The computer Is lightning last, but in some ways is pretty dumb, AHNIYERSAflV BRODY'S SO BRODY'S OOth anmivimart BRODY'S sov Hoke said. To show how dumb It really Is, it does not charge premium pay for overtime as any self-respecting union workman would. In fact its wage rate plummets when it HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED PRICES SLASHED ON ALL REMAINING STOCK! We need (he room for Our New McCreary Tartan-185 Stock.

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