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THE DAILY SUN 1-5 July 15, 1966 Earl Buie What Computers Can Do Kocfe Pile Jcf4t know mt foot FfccM Wyri ggf fer SU YE ONE JQst 7 It's ffnge (Continued From City Page) dam spectators can watch an endless fleet of giant earthmovers dump the earth and rock atop the dam, followed by bulldozers that spread it into place. Ttien heavy compacting equipment pounds it firmly into the embankment. I should tell you that there are those old timers in the Oroville area who insist that the state should run the earth and rock removed from the river by the dredging operations through some sort of a sluice and try to reclaim gold that the dredgers possibly failed to take out. There are others who con-' tend there will be more gold in the Oroville dam than any other embankment in the world. And how much gold in the upper North, Middle and South Forks of the river above the dam will be lost forever on the floor of the 15.506 acre lake is anybody's pess.

The upper forks of the river have never been worked for gold, so rough are the canyons through which the river flows. And buried under the water impounded behind the dam will be the site of Bidwell's Bar, a settlement established shortly after John Bidwell, John Potter, a man named Northgraves and another named Dickey arrived on the river in 1848 to mine for gold. They found gold and thousands were to fallow them into the mountainous country. Jack H. Pank, former editor and publisher of the Oroville Press and now public information officer fur the State Department of Water Resources at the dam, told me the river was named the Feather by a Lt.

Luis Ar-guello, a Spanish soldier in the 1820s when he saw feathers floating down the river as he made his way through the rugged country. Pank was our escort on the tour of the dam project. He is noted locally as a historian of the Feather River area and the gold mining operations. In our four-hour tour of the Oroville Dam and its allied projects, Pank told me many things. A few: The flow of the North, Middle and South forks of the river will, under normal years of rainfall, fill the lake to the 900 foot level of 3.5 million acre feet in four to five years.

But a flood like that of December 1964 would fill it to overflowing in a single year. The dam at its highest point will be 770 feet above the river's present level. The lake will have a 167-mile shoreline, much of which will be developed for recreation. The hills behind the dam have been skinned of trees and vegetation but in the (Continued From City Page) son to go to the store for a bottle of niiik, all you need say is, "Here is the money. Go buy me a bottle of Not so with the You would have to tell it: "Take the money.

Go to the door. Open the door. Go out. Close the door behind you. Go two blocks east, turn right, go 14 blocks south to Smith Grocery Store.

Enter the store. Pick up hottlt of milk. Place it on the counter. Place money on the counter. You now have two alternatives.

If change is coming, pick it up. Then proceed to next step. II no change is coming, proceed to next step. Now take milk. Retrace steps.

Place milk on table in house. Place change, if any, on table. Is that all? Nq. You still have one piece of instruction to give the computer. That's "End." The program is over." The task of setting up a computer program is that of the programmer.

The job can involve simple programs, such as making out payrolls, or extremely complicated programs involving the solving of lengthy mathematical formulas. Actually, said Horning, there is only one major difference between a computer and a desk calculator. The difference is that the computer can "remember'' a (if operations. "With a desk calculator," he said, "if you want to do the same operation 50 times, you have to press the keys each time. The speed is based on the speed of humans; the accuracy on the accuracy of humans.

"Computer speeds are based on the speed with which 'commands' can bring information from the "Computers aren't very inventive," he said. "They aren't very creative. You have to tell them what to do." There are seven types of problems for which computers are useful, he said. These are: 1. Problems which are too big or too long or too hard to be done any other way such as nuclear reaction computations or problems in quantam mechanics.

2. Another class, much simpler, but one in which the answers are needed very quickly the orbit of a satellite or whether a license number is listed on a stolen car sheet. 3. Compulations that are simple almost trivinl that practically any valleys there are yet vast patches of scrub oaks and digger pines. These were left for what Pank said was "fish enhancement" He couldn't explain the meaning of the term, he said, but conservation experts contend, he said, this will improve trout fishing in the lake.

Maybe the fish will hide in the trees. Water is not jet being impounded behind the dam which now rises more than 300 feet high. Instead, the river is flowing through one of the two 35-foot tubes extending through the base. One has been plugged. In the base of the dam will be an underground power plant.

Water to generate the plant will flow at enormous pressure from the lower depths of the lake but will be diverted against cement buffers to prevent it eating into the sides of the canyon below. The contractors building the dam and the projects below, such as diversionary channels, are ahead of schedule. Work continues around the clock, seven days a week. In all, there are 2.800 men at work. Oroville is booming but anticipates even better times when the dam is finished and the recreation program begins.

Oroville can get plenty of argument from Southern California from its claim that California's oldest orange tree was removed from a ranch abandoned behind the dam. The tree was dug up and transplanted near the State Department of Water Resources project officers. It was imported from Masatland by Joseph Lewis in 1856. In the Oroville area where the winter climate is mild are half a dozen citrus groves. Pank was a member of the Oroville Chamber of Commerce which launched the original movement to build the Feather River dam.

The purpose: to protect Oroville and all communities along the river from floods and to provide water for agriculturists below. But there's plenty of water there for everybody especially when the heavy storms come, he said. Citrus Group to Hear Of Oil Spray Usages The Redlands Citrus Discussion Group Monday will hear experts review the use of oil sprays for citrus pest control. The group will meet at noon at Gris-wold's Restaurant. Redlands.

Packing house managers, county Department of Agriculture representatives and citrus businessmen will lead the discussion. Need for Academic "Green Berets' Seen demic elite is exactly what Goldsmith thinks might provide good results. Like the Green Berets, he feels it might be a great advantage to have a group of students who knew they were good, whom others knew were good, and who were motivated by pride in their status. Good students would have "the pride of getting in, the pride of staying in," he said. Dr.

Goldsmith does not level any blame on educators for the trend toward universal education which points toward a bachelor's degree for everyone. "They are simply reflecting the society," he said. A competitive system, he feels, gets the best effort from the best talent. "There should always be a carrot hung out in front to strive for. For those that are willing there should always be (Continued From City Page) who have proven achievement, he said.

He speculated on whether some of the emotional problems which appear prevalent in young people today might be produced by the shock of entering a competitive society which has protected them from competition during early school years. For the student who has moved up ward through high school somehow, without always achieving the necessary standards, may get a severe emotional shock when he is fired from a job for failure to get the job done, Goldsmith said. To the extent public schools have singled out the gifted student, Dr. Goldsmith indicated, they have done so not to point openly to the gifted child. Pointing him out creating an SAN IFIN1IDIWO.

CAUtOtNfA person can do, but requiring the study of masses of data, such as the arithmetic on all the tax returns this year. 4. Information retrieval; such as finding the one paragraph you need out of a library of books. 5. Making molehills out of mountains as when someone takes the census of the United States and wants a meaningful summary of piles and piles of forms.

6. Other problems tor which you would not consider a computer if you only had to do them once such as the grading of exams, for which it is much easier to write one computer program than to grade exams over and over again. 7. The final category problems that are very, very easy problems that students in a computing course can handle easily. Visits lo Jail Part of Course (Continued From City Page) that it is "too bad it's not at night so we could go." Many taxpayers have never seen the city council or county Board of Supervisors deliberate over how to spend tax money, he observed.

Nor have they any contact with law enforcement or the courts other than possibly to pay a traffic fine. "These students will have had a chance for first hand observations of operating government. "I'm learning a lot myself," the teacher admitted. Dope Problem (Continued From City Page) feet on young people rather than a fear aspect. "Many young people feel it is a thrill to try marijuana or LSD.

The warnings against it just serve to make them try it and places it in their minds," Noon quoted experts as saying. Noon said that the stiff penal code penalties now involved in narcotics do have some effect on holding the line against widespread narcotic use. "But, our chief aim is to take the addict and the pusher off the streets. Our most intense efforts are made at get-' ting the non-user who poddies for a profit," Noon said. "1 Beer ong? S.B.

City Employes Seek New Insurance Coverage LISTEN TO CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMEN'S RADIO BROADCAST Saturday, 8:00 A.M. KIUNO 1240 opportunity for something better." Vhatca nuine ge make Amazing discovery for acid indigestion STOPS AS PAIN AFTER YOU EAT Bmrgie Draft the San Bernardino County and Municipal Employes Local and the Firefighters' Local 891. Eckhardt said that time Is needed to determine exactly what the employes want. Spokesmen from the employes' groups asked to be consulted before specifications are written. The Benefit League had asked that the city bear the cost of the premiums.

But Mayor Al C. Ballard said, "At this stage of the game, it will be paid by employes." even easier to Gas bubbles cause stomach pain. Di NEW ISSUE $1,900,000 Chaffey Union High School District of San Bernardino County 4 and 4Y4cc School Bonds, Election 1964, Series 3 Dated: July 1, 1966 Principal and interest (July 1, 1967, for one year and semi-annually thereafter on January 1 and July 1) payable at the Office of the County Treasurer in San Bernardino County, California. Coupon Bonds in the denomination of $1,000 each, registrable only as to both principal and interest. Because Di-Cel is more than a plain antacid, it does more than blot up excess acid.

It also "untraps" painful gas that makes you feel full, bloated! Based on a formula widely recommended by doctors. Ask for Di-Gel! Gel untraps gas, blots up acid. TABLETS Due: July 1, 1908-1987 Yield to Amount Kate Maturity Mammy $125,000 4 1981 "4.00 125,000 4 1982 4.00 125,000 4 1983 4.00 125,000 4 1984 4.00 125,000 4 1985 4.00 125,000 4 1986" 4.00 200,000 4 1987 4.00 3.90 3.95 3.95 3.95 3.95 4.00 received by us and subject to the approval of Attorneys, Los Angeles, California. OR LIQUID San Bernardino city employ-eSj faced with increased insurance rates and a reduction in benefits, are seeking a new insurance carrier. The Aetna Insurance Co.

has proposed a rate increase, necessary to cover losses incurred during the past fiscal year, according to City Administrative Officer Robert" A. Eckhardt. The excess of claims over premiums in the last fiscal year amounted to $35,000. A representative of the firm's home office said the company is not "breaking even" in its experience with city claims. Directed by the City Council to prepare specifications so that the program can be put to bid, Eckhardt said, "I don't feel we can get better claims services," adding that the bidding process will entail much work and from 30 to 60 days for processing.

He said that employe opinion is evenly divided on the plan's merits. One of the benefit adjustments proposed by Aetna is the elimination of coverage for home and office calls, which Eckhardt said employes' have abused. Lois Goforth, switchboard operator at City Hall, spoke in favor of the current carrier. "We've carried Aetna for 16 years with the city," she said, "And we've had a lot of ill ness. Aetna never, never failed us, and the medical bills would have put us in the poor house." Pressing for putting the service to bid were representatives of the San Bernardino City Employes' Mutual Benefit League, the City Employes Association, If you family has outgrown your present houia, Join th happy pcopl who have used Sun-Tlgram Classified Ads to find their new home.

That dream house It waiting for you. See the best buys listed In today's Real Estate Classified Section. Interest exempt, in the opinion of Bond Counsel, from all present Federal Income Taxes and tax-free in the State of California. Legal investment, in the opinion of Counsel, for savings hanks and trust funds in the State of California. Eligible as security for deposits of public moneys in California.

lLli'" mutt I-" imiiT Mil These Bonds, to be issued for school purposes, in the opinion of Counsel, will be valid and legally binding general obligations of the Chaftey Union High School District, payable Irom ad valorem taxes to be levied against all taxable property therein (except certain intangible personal property, which is taxable at limited rates) without limitation as to rate or amount. AMOUNTS, RATES, MATURITIES AND YIELDS (Accrued interest to be added) Yii Yield to Rate Maturity Maturity Amount $2u700O 20,000 20,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 100,000 Rate Maturity Matunty 4 lHX80' Amount 100,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 434 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 434 4 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 3.80 3.85 3.85 3.85 3.90 3.90 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 These bonds are offered when, as and if issued and legality by Messrs, O'Melveny Myers, i I Wfi 9tr4tfgtxttt ihn to In Umki at jWr th paint iri $Hit totttft) ftrc Mtttt 4atlmw (fu r- lit' i is can. -n unices Th Crocker- Citizens National Bank Phelps, Fenn Co. Salomon Brothers Hutzler New York Ilanseatic Corporation Shelby Cullom Davis Co. Wood, Struthers Winthrop Seattle Trust and Savings Bank Buraham and Company July 11, 1966.