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RIGHT HAND MAN Lane Kirland, left, who has moved up to secretary-treasurer of the AFL- AP Wlrephoto CIO, is pictured with President George Meany, whom, it is speculated, Kirkland may succeed. No. 2 in labor Kirkland rated Meany successor By NEIL GILBRIDE AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON A soft-spoken former merchant ship officer who stepped almost accidentally from a life at sea into a major role in American labor is in the No. 2 spot in the 13.6 million member AFL-CIO. He is 47-year-old Lanke Kirkland, who Is only the second secretary treasurer the 14 year history of the labor federation, and thus over his own protests a major contender to succeed AFL-CIO President George Meany some day.

"I hope there's no vacancy," Kirkland said in brushing off any suggestion that eventually there may have to be a successor to the 74-year-old Meany as the nation's "Mr. Labor." "I confidentially expect to beat him to the boneyard, not that I'm in any hurry," he added with a grin. Meany himself, commenting on speculation that Kirkland's promotion is a first step in his own plans to retire, booms: "Absolutely not!" Nevertheless, many knowledgeable labor sources view Kirkland as a strong contender if the federation presidency opens up. Meany has held the post since the federation was founded in 1955 in the merg- THEARIZONAREPUBIIC Business Sunday, July 6, 1969 (Section F) Page 1 er of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Kirkland, for the past nine years Meany's quietly powerful chief assistant, was Meany's own choice to succeed the retiring 64-year-old William F.

Schnitzler in the $45,000 a year secretary treasurer's, post. There is divided opinion, however, over whether Kirkland is Meany's choice as his successor in the presidency, or even whether Meany will have much influence in the matter. "Meany thinks of himself as living forever," said one union president in arguing there is no plan for a line of succession. But another source believes Meany wants to know who will eventually take over for him. "This is his life, and he's not going to walk away from it leaving it untended," this source said.

Kirkland, widely liked and trusted among the chieftains of the AFL-CIO's 122 labor unions, brings a subtle and potentially significant change to the hierarchy of the AFL-CIO. Noted as an intellectual, he sees labor's problems as not just a battle with management over wages, but as a com- plex mix of bargaining, organizing, lobbying, politicking and education. "They all fit together," he said. "Accommodation" is a key word in Kirkland's lexicon accommodation between the sometimes conflicting factions of the labor movement; accommodation between labor and management in settling disputes; accommodation to solve racial conflict, and accommodation between the young and the not so young to close the generation gap. Kirkland, In many ways is an alter ego to Meany and even Dears some facial resemblance to Meany as a younger man.

Unlike the affable Schnitzler, who stuck largely to his financial job and ceremonial functions, Kirkland expects to assume a share of the power as an alternate to Meany in speechmaking, congressional testimony and other activities. Meany, Kirkland and Schnitzler all denied reports that Schnitzler had been pushed out to pasture to make room for Kirkland. "The only thing significant about the retirement of the secretary-treasurer (Schnitzler) is that he wanted to retire. Nobody pushed him. He reached retire- Continued On Page 4-F Coulter builds new agency $1 million facility to put all cars under roof By this time next year, all Coulter Cadillac facilities will be centralized at 12th Street and Camelback.

Dean Coulter, president and owner, said construction of the $1 million new car showroom and allied facilities will begin soon. Founded 48 years ago, the agency has been located most of the time at 320 N. Central. During 1966, the firm acquired 38,000 square feet at the northeast corner of 12th Street and Camelback where it located its resale car facilities, which were originally at the N. Central address.

In September 1967, Coulter purchased approximately 4Vz acres on the northwest corner of Camelback and 12th Street occupied by the KOY Radio station's transmitter and service building and lot. The KOY facilities have been moved, and Coulter said construction will start as soon as subcontracting bids have been accepted. Raymond C. Qvale, Los Angeles architect who has designed a number of automobile dealership facilities in the Valley, was architect for the new facility Continued On Page 5-F Rendition shows how Coulter Cadillac's new home will escape cluttered look of parking and outdoor car displays computer By A. V.

GULLETTE Associate Business and Financial Motorola's mini-model meant for use by smaller businesses Motorola has set out to move the computer "from the halls of ivy into the areas where it can do the most an $8,000 model. And, believes Raymond A. Zack of Motorola, with cost no longer a problem, the area of greatest good is probably right in your office and in half a dozen other places in your business. The computer that Motorola is building is a little fellow that weighs 30 pounds, and with all-solid state components, it can be mounted inside the walls because it needs no special cooling. A.

Zack, boss of Motorola's Phoenix go over production test of new Motorola control systems division, and Wanda Warren of document reader, Zack, vice president and general manager of Motorola's control systems division, believes a business can make practical use of several small computers before it adopts one of the big ones. He puts it this way: "Our view on the computer is that our hardware cost is so low we don't program and re-program the computer. It simply doesn't cost that much. We program it for a task; then leave it "The cost of our computer is much less than the programming cost of a larger computer." Zack emphasized he wasn't faulting the big computers. "No question exists," he said, "that a large-scale computer might provide additional benefits, but these may appear to be of marginal necessity in the face of costs." Zack said the Motorola computer is the core of Motorola's control and process systems and that as a result it doesn't matter whether any computers as such were sold.

This allows Motorola to pursue Its own Ideas in computer applications to business, he noted. Motorola's experience with computers in control and process systems has been all in actual instances where the computers controlled and ran manufacturing, chemical and other processes. If a process deviated and required correction, the computer had to correct it real time. Action couldn't wait until a batch of cards were taken to the computer for analysis. So Motorola started building the small computer that could be dedicated to a single job and be left there, programmed for instant action.

Motorola is completing fabrication of a system (Veritrak) that will control the Black Mesa coal slurry pipeline to feed coal to the big steam, power generating plant on the Colorado River west of Kingman, This Veritrak process control system will regulate coal grinding at the line head at Black Mesa and pumping stations at Kayenta, Cameron, north of Williams and Seligman. Veritrak systems already are controlling such work in Arizona: grinding prior to smelting at Phelps Dodge Corp. in Morenci. crystal-growing furnaces at Motorola's semiconductor products plant. Other Motorola systems control power distribution for the Arizona Electric LITTLE COMPUTER It'll bring data processing to ordinary businesses Power Coop at Benson, Arizona Public Service Co.

at Four Corners and Phoenix, the Salt River Project at Phoenix, and the Reclamation Bureau at Davis Dam. Water distribution is also handled by Motorola systems for the Salt River Project at Phoenix and for Lake Havasu City. It was for this type of control work and from process systems for refineries, oil companies and manufacturers that Motorola developed its computer. Application of its capabilities to information put Motorola in the computer business. To work with the desk-top or wall computer, Motorola developed a way to Continued On Page 4-F New Diamond's in Mesa Store opening in Tri-City Mall planned July 31 Giant scaled arches which pierce pre- cast decorative screens serve as sun shades for the Diamond's department store which will open on July 31 in CSty Mail, Mesa, Grand-opening ceremonies are scheduled at 9:30 a.ro.

for the OOtMsquare-foot, two-story structure that will bring the total retail space in Tri- City Mall to more than 500,000 square store is Diamond's third in Arizona and becomes the second major tenant in the 40-store shopping center, along with the Penney's store. The new Diamond's, including build- inland inventory but not the land, represents an investment of $5.8 million. It will employ a regular staff of 200. The arebjtteoture of the structure videa a large column-free area in the center of the building, which is served by escalators. Suspended over this area is a huge chandelier.

The store features 12-foot aisles. The screened exteriors create a porch-like atmosphere for the structure and provide a contrast to the salmon- orange brick and plum-colored glassed tile which constitute the main, building material. The interior features textured carpets, bronze accessories and laminated glass. The store has a restaurant designed in a contemporary southwestern motif. The store design was done by Copeland, Novak and Israel of New York.

John Scholars of Phoenix was tural representative here for the New York firm. Dianwnd's is owned by the Hudson Corp, to Minneapolis. Tri-City Mall is owned by Grant Malouf's Tri- City Mall foe, Pre-cast decorative screens with large arches shade the south and west sides of the new Diamond's store.