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Civic Light Opera Sets Last Audition for Show The final audition for the San Bernardino's Civic Light Opera production of "Little Me" will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday at Municipal Auditorium, 6th and Streets. Jack Bunch, director of the musical comedy, said two vaudeville type singing men are needed along with a non-singing woman to play the part of an elegant, snooty woman. The role of "Patrick which Bunch says is an important role, requires a straight actor in his 30s. Singers are needed for chorus parts and must bring their music with them, Bunch added.

"Little starring Dick Gautier, will open March 3 for a nine-day run at the California Theater. Buie They Tell Me (Continued from City Page) I your salary scale was listed on the payroll, no deductions except maybe for those advances we occasionally required to keep the wolf away from our doors until pay day. What a life! If you were paid $25 a week, that's what you got, no more, no less. Quiet, unassuming and with strictly no time for anything but the business at hand, Elizabeth Hatherley would crack only a faint semblance of a smile when we greeted her on payday with the observance that finally the ghost walked or the eagle screamed. But she always had time to clearly explain the benefits to which we were entitled, such as medical or hospitalization when illness struck in our families.

I don't recall she ever made a single mistake in my deductions, although, frankly, Solid Fuel Rocket Test Successful A million pound thrust solidfueled rocket roared to life for (shortly over a minute yesterday what officials called a "successful test in every way." The rocket, a flight configured second stage prototype, is 33 feet tall and 156 inches in diameter. It contained 300,000 tons of solid propellant for its 72 second test, a spokesman said. Last month, Lockheed Propulsion builder of the rocket, also successfully test fired a 75 foot, three million pound thrust first stage prototype at the test facility here. Robert F. Hurt, the firm's president, said after yesterday's test: "This firing has given further evidence that the present state of the art in large solid propellant rocketry is fully ready for harnessing in our nation's space programs for both manned and unmanned missions." The test was made in con- A 21-year-old Fontana man junction with the was killed when he slipped off Force.

a painting scaffold at a con- The test firing was struction project at Kaiser Steel at Potrero Testing Corp. and fell 35 feet to a hard near Beaumont. concrete floor. Brig. Gen.

R. A. Gordon P. Swinging Air Force officer 7879 other ranking Air Dep. Coroner said Robert A.

Burrows, dead on arrival ficers termed the test Laurel was at Kaiser Foundation Hospital at gratifying." 2:50 p.m. Swing said Burrows was working with two other men in a partially completed strip mill building at the plant when the accident occurred. Investigators said the two Robert Beach and James men, Forrest, had just pulled up some wood planks to lay on top of plastic sheets that covered a crane. Burrows apparently fell when he moved over to help the two men place the planks on the plastic, which was billowing due to a wind blowing through the building. The victim is survived by his wife, Sidona and three children.

Inland Speech Unit Names Speaker TEST 80800 ROD MEMORY 3000000 Sun-Telegram photo TESTING May Co. and National Cash Register dent, sales promotion and publicity; and Geoffrey executives inspect NCR 314 RMC computer under- Swaebe, president and general manager, all of May going final system test at NCR's Hawthorne plant. Co. California; and J. M.

Boyle, NCR vice president, From left are Samuel J. Shaffer, vice president, sec- domestic marketing sales. May Co. is installing acretary and treasurer; Cortland Peterson, vice presi- counting system of which this computer is the heart. Something Different for Store: A Cash Register That Can 'Talk' You'll find something different in the May Co.

department store scheduled to open in San Bernardino this fall: a gabby cash register. All cash registers talk to people. They tell how much you paid, cash or charge, date of purchase and other information. But National Cash Register comparatively new "Class 53" register also talks to computers. In addition to what it says to people, it tells the what was sold, to whom it was sold, who sold it and other information.

Make no mistake about it. This is no curiosity piece. Its primary, purpose, as explained by May Co. of California president Geoffrey Swaebe, is to provide better service for May Co. customers.

Swaebe said May Co. will be the first large scale user of NCR Class 53 cash registers on the west coast. The register is a key part of a computerized NCR accounting and stock control system being installed by May Co. California in all its stores. Heart of the system is the NCR 315 computer in downtown, Los Angeles May Co.

headquarters, It digests and processes information fed into it daily from cash register tapes in all the stores. The only time the figures are handled manually is when the salesperson records the sale. From then on it's entirely automatic. This isn't just a technical change that will help May Co. operate more efficiently.

"The net effect," Swaebe said, "will be to give salespeople more time in which to serve customers." Less information will go onto handwritten tickets, more into registers. Amount of time spent in writing sales slips will be greatly reduced. Since inventory counting will be done on computers from information keyed in at cash registers, salespeople will no longer have to spend tedious hours counting stock and processing paper work, giving them more time for customer service. Because sales accounting will be done by computers, salespeople will not be restricted to certain registers or sections, but can wait on customers anywhere in the store. The computer will sort things out and keep records straight.

Some 300,000 "staple" items will always be in stock because the computer will automatically keep track of items sold and reorder whenever necessary. Eventually, said Swaebe, the computers will handle and stock all merchandise handled by the stores more than a million items. May launch the CLASS Closed Loop Accounting for Store Sales system in February with opening of a new store in Costa Mesa. By the end of 1966, San Bernardino, West Los Angeles, Whittier, Buena Park, Topanga Plaza and Arcadia stores will be using the system, and by late 1968 more than 1,000 cash registers are expected to be feeding 700,000 lines of information daily into the computer. The NCR 53 registers also can be adapted to "read" customers' account numbers directly from special credit cards, and to feed this information into the computer.

Swaebe said May Co. opened its first suburban branch at Wilshire and Fairfax, Los Angeles, in 1939. This year, a record three new stores for a total of 15 will be opened. Computer Can 'Read' Tapes If someone were to tell you about a computer which reads handwriting instead of a magnetic tape or a punched card, you probably wouldn't be surprised. But you should be, because there is no such machine.

And after 20 years of trying, computer experts say there isn't much chance of ever inventing one. The computer can solve theorems, play chess, exercise logic and simulate other human tivities with incredible speed. But give it a pattern or form it hasn't "seen" before in that identical shape and it comes back with something like, "Repeat the or "There's no such combination." This is because it lacks a bas1c intellectual skill pattern recognition which babies and even animals learn at an early age. But machines can't learn it because science hasn't been able to determine how it works in the of humans and animals. And until the scientists learn how it's done, the experts can't Swaebe said the computerized system will enable May Co.

to absorb the volume of the new outlets without overburdening accounting and administrative facilities at its headquarters offices. And by its up to the minute inventory control, it will almost literally give shoppers a direct hand in stocking merchandise, he declared. "Our goals are ambitious, but our tactics are conservative. We are working entirely with equipment already available and with systems which have been proven. Our ambition is to match our CLASS program with the magnitude of the Southern California market," he said.

You may not hear the gabby cash register when May Co. opens its store in the Inland Shopping Center this fall. But it will be saying plenty. Fontana Man Dies in Fall Dr. Clement Papazian, pediatrician at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, will be the featured speaker at the Inland Empire Speech and Hearing Association meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Trapp School auditorium, Rialto. Dr. Panazian will discuss the school child with neurological and perceptual learning problems, according to Betty Zelman, of the school's speech and hearing department. For Him, One Slip Could Mean Death (Continued from City Page) along which Berg walks blindfolded is held by 12 pairs of guide wires. It takes four wire assistants to hold the guide wires steady.

Berg said he has never been seriously injured. An assistant was once seriously injured when a tower collapsed, throwing Berg and the motorbike he was riding to the ground. The assistant, riding suspended from wires underneath the bike, was not expected to live. A pin from the suspension assembly 1966 16. SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM-B-5 self.

She knew my exemptions, as she did everybody else's on the payroll. She was efficiency itself. Aside from turning out the weekly payroll for the employes in all departments at the plant, she also handled payrolls for outlying bureaus and offices, along with some 250 carriers, who were paid twice monthly--by check. She was, perhaps the busiest gal in the whole organization. And, somehow.

I was amazed to learn that, on vacation, she was something of a sportswoman. She was awarded a gold button for her salmon fishing at Gold Beach, where she pulled in a 30-pound plus whopper. With her husband, Joseph, she fished the Northwest's salmon streams almost every year. I don't know when she found time to do it, but she was also an expert home gardener. Mrs.

Hatherley had fixed Jan. 1 as her date of retirement. But then there were those year-end reports and she'll be here until the middle of the week. Then she'll go home and pore over her road maps. She and her husband are planning a few trips and perhaps a little fishing and gardening.

But I wonder what she'll do on paydays. It's my guess she will miss handing out those paychecks to newspaper workers. We'll all miss our Mrs. Hatherley. American Aid, India Economy Topics of Talk Dr.

S. Chandrasekhar, for the past year and a half visiting professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside, will speak on "American Aid and India's Economic Development" the Kiwanis Club Bernardino luncheon at noon Wednesday at the National Orange Show Orange Blossom Room. As this will be one of the social scientist's last appearances in the area before returning to India, members have been invited to bring their wives. Dr. Chandrasekhar is director of the Indian Institute for Population Studies at Madras and is a member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament.

He is the author of "Hungry People and Empty Lands," "Population and Planned Parenthood in India," "China's "Infant Mortality and "Red China: An Asian View." Dinner Honors Norman Harris Norman J. Harris, fire prevention officer for the California Division of Forestry, was honored last night with a retirement dinner in Riverside. Harris, who joined the division as an assistant ranger in 1936, was credited with designning the first fire prevention plan still in use by State Forestry. The 56-year-old veteran was also instrumental in preparing the first program for fire control in Southern training, California during his long career. Harris, who resides in Riverside with his wife, Olive, and daughter, Melinda, plans to continue operating a small avocado ranch in the Riverside area.

Cell Technique Tomorrow Dr. Edmund L. Dubois, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and supervisor L. E. Cell Laboratory, Los Angeles County General Hospital, will speak on the subject: The L.

E. Cell Technique and Its Interpretation. This lecture will be sponsored by the San Bernardino Riverside Chapter of the California Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists. The meeting will be held at Riverside Community Hospital, 4445 Magnolia Avenue, at 8 p.m. EDUCATIONALLY zales, left, assistant to state lie instruction discusses nardino's Mexican Chamber dent William C.

Espinosa. installation dinner at Country Club. Sun-Telegram photo SPEAKING Eugene Gonsuperintendent of pubeducation with San Berof Commerce PresiOccasion was chamber's Rialto's El Rancho Verde Quality of Education Stressed At Mexican of Installation (Continued from City Page) teacher-exchange with our friends in Mexicali, Mexico," he added. He deplored the "Anglo-American" attitude of classifying Americans of Mexican descent as lethargic, undependable and inferior. "Too often we are portrayed as lazy enchilada he said, "stereotyped by motion picture interpretations of our real selves." San Bernardino druggist William C.

Espinosa was installed as president of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce. Espinosa, owner of the Mt. Vernon Pharmacy, will head the chamber until Dec. 31. Installed with him by Miss Carmen Gonzales, Mexican Consul in San Bernardino, were Frank Sandoval, owner of Plaza Motors, vice president; Miss Pauline Sanchez, public stenographer, secretary; and Alfredo Enciso of La Esperanza Market, treasurer.

New members of the cham-for ber's board of directors, who will serve for two years, are Manuel Morales, owner of Manuel's Furniture; Charles Loust, pharmacist; and Salvator Rodriguez, owner of Mitla Cafe. Espinosa succeeded Salvador Rodriguez who was the chamber's first president, elected in 1956, and who served again as president in 1960, 1964 and 1965. Rodriguez last night became a member of the organization's executive board. Dance Chairman Leno F. Diaz said last night's observation was the chamber's ninth annual installation dinner dance.

Mayor Jose Maria Rodriguez of Mexicali attended the installation. heading a 25-member delegation from his city. Master of ceremonies was Ro- ger C. Anton, head of the foreign language department at San Bernardino Valley College. San Bernardino Mayor Al C.

Ballard presented awards for outstanding achievement in 1965 to several chamber members. to Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Morales of San Bernardino. He presented ble-based another trophy, a margold pen set, to outgoing president Rodriguez On behalf of the chamber.

Also present to honor the new officers of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce were Mayor Ruben Ayala of Chino and Mrs. Ayala; Assemblyman John P. Quimby; Sheriff and Mrs. Frank Bland of San Bernardino; San Bernardino city councilmen Jess Arias and Robert L. Henley and their wives; Norton Air Force Base Commander Col.

William F. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart; and the Rt. Rev. Msgr.

J. R. Nunez, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Master of Ceremonies Anton said the chamber was an organization formed in 1956 with the assistance of a similar chamber in Los Angeles. It was organized, he said, to determine problems of the Mexican-American community and solve them the betterment of the entire community.

U.S. Air "at conducted facilities Birg, rankattending, Force JOAN ELLIOTT it won't be the same She Helps Turks Help Themselves (Continued from City Page) Western inertia remain influential." Miss Elliott intends to study for her masters degree after her return from Turkey, her mother said. The state school system recognizes Peace Corps service as equaling the final two years toward teaching credentials, Mrs. Elliott said, but Joan wants the masters degree so she can teach in secondary schools. Miss Elliott has three brothers.

One, older, is married. The two younger brothers, identical twins, are in their freshman year at different colleges, Mrs. Elliott said. Melvin is studying at Pacific University in Forest Grove, and Malcolm is at California State College at Fullerton. The boys, said Mrs.

Elliott, are "quite strong individualists. They felt the need to do this." Russian Space Ship Designer Korolev Dies very well teach it to a machine. That's what makes National Cash Register new "Total System" such a breakthrough in the world of business. NCR hasn't discovered how to make computers read a handwritten sales slip, but they've come up with the next best thing a computer system that "reads" cash register tapes just as they come out of the register. Up to now, the best you could do was to punch the informaaction from the cash register tape into a magnetic tape or tabulating card which you fed into a computer.

NCR's Class 52 and 53 cash registers and other original entry accounting and adding machines--produce tapes which can be read by humans as well as by computers, eliminating a costly and time consuming step in computer operation. Information from the cash register slip fed into the NCR 315 computer gives the business owner up-to-the minute information on sales, inventories, profits, losses, taxes, selling performances and accounts receivable. had pierced his throat. Berg received a twisted ankle. "He lived," said Berg, "but he didn't go back to the motorbike any more.

He went back to trapeze walking." Berg's wife, Carol, sometimes rode underneath the bike until their daughter was born recently. Berg met her in Seattle, where she was working as a secretary in the amusement center at the World's Fair. She has also worked AS a clown in the show. "She likes it in order to be With this information, the computer can order goods before stocks are depleted, save time for sales people in writing sales slips and taking inventory, bill customers, allow salespeople to be used with greater flexibility, and perform other services with great speed. Joseph E.

Howard, manager of the San Bernardino Riverside county NCR branch office at Highland Avenue and Street, San Bernardino, said firms may have computers installed in their own plants, or process cash register tapes at data centers operated by NCR at Los Angeles and elsewhere. May Co. California has announced installation of an NCR 315 computer system in the San Bernardino store to be opened next fall, and in its other stores throughout California starting this spring. Howard said White Front Stores are also using NCR cash registers and a "reader" in its San Bernardino store, and Broadway Hale department store has recently placed an order for similar equipment for its San Bernardino store scheduled to open this fall. with me," Berg said.

The troupe has traveled in more than 24 countries on five continents, Berg said. In 1952, one of its members almost became a casualty of the Viet Nam conflict. "It was in Saigon in a cafe," Berg recalled. "A communist passing by on a motorcycle threw a hand grenade into the cafe. "It hit Edgar Fisher, our juggler, on the head.

Then it bounced ed on the floor. A member of the German bassy was sitting there, and he MOSCOW (AP) The man who designed the space ships for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and for Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, died unexpectedly Friday at the age of 59. The death of Prof. Sergei Korolev, a leading designer of Soviet rockets and space systems, was announced yesterday by Tass, the official Soviet news agency. Cause of death was listed as heart failure.

Korolev's precise role in the space program was not spelled out, but apparently he played a key part in it. In the Shadows In the (Editor's note: Information included in the following death notices is provided by the mortuaries. If any details, names, dates or hours are incorrect, this newspaper would appreciate immediate notification.) GEORGE E. PACK George Pack, 50, 4200 Hold Montclair, died Thursday at an Upland hospital. A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, Mr.

Pack lived in the Ontario area 20 years. A glass glazier, he was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin Pack of San Bernardino: a daughter, Mrs. John Collins of Apple Valley; a son, Edwin R. of Apple Valley; four sisters, Mrs. Everett Cisco and Mrs. James Lewis of San Bernardino; Mrs.

Lawrence Ryan of Sherman Oaks; and Mrs. William Pyling of Canada; two brothers, Walter Jones of Pico Rivera, and Roy Pack of North Long Beach; four grandchildren. Services will be at 10:30 Tuesday at Stone Funeral Home, Upland, with the Rev. Charles McMahill officiating. Private burial will be in Ft.

Rosecrans NaItional Cernetery, Point Loma. Friends may call after 3 p.m. today. ERMA R. DEVOLL Mrs.

Erma Rozella Devoll, 63, 438 W. Evans San Bernardino, died Saturday at her home. A native of Kansas, Mrs. Devoll had lived in San Bernardino 18 years and in the state 43 years. Mrs.

Devoll was a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Fleet Reserve Association. Survivors include the husband, Arthur a son Donald N. Hogan of Denver, a daughter. Mrs. Berdene Swan of Elsinore; a sister, Callie Henege of grove, and seven grandchildren, Services are pending at Mark a B.

Shaw Co. MARGARET B. PETERSON kicked it out in the street. It exploded there. "The embassy man was amazed.

He thought it was a rock. Fischer didn't think anything. He was dazed from being struck on the head." The show, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, will be for the benefit of United Cerebral Palsy facilities in Loma Linda, which serve San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Tickets can be obtainfrom area businessmen or by contacting United Cerebral Palsy, 25037 Mound Loma Linda. Mrs. Margaret B. Peterson, 48, 2386 W. Victoria San Bernardino, died Friday at a San Bernardino hospital.

A native of Ohio, Mrs. Peterson had lived in San Bernardino 10 years. Survivors include three daughters, Jacqueline M. Johnson of Washington, Adele M. Dutson and Peggy E.

Peterson of San Bernardino; a sister, Marie B. Rogers of Rialto; a niece, Nancy R. Potter of Rialto, and seven grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m, Tuesday at Mark B. Shaw Chap(Continued on B-7, Column 1).