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PALO ALTO TIMES, PALO ALTO. FRIDAY. JUNE 25. 19717 Send rebuttal letter Lockheed workers rap Nader that airlines are knowledgable buyers of airplanes, and several of them contracted to buy large numbers of the L1011 jet transport because of superior design. This is what competition is about, Mr.

Nader, the letter continues. McCormack concluded the letter with a statement that the company's history of success in competition shows that it is the leak likely of all to ask any special favors of Congress in the future." Other expressions of support from the rank and file (nonmanagement) group have come in the form of a march in San Jose, and bumper strips and lapel pins reading Lockheed is Worth Saving. A group of rank and file Lockheed Missiles Space Co. employes staging demonstrations of support for the company this week has fired off a letter to consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Last Monday, Nader testified against an administration proposal to guarantee $250 million in bank loans for the parent Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

Ford McCormack of Cupertino, a member of the Lockheed employes group, said he addressed the letter to Nader in Washington, D.C., as a rebuttal to Naders charges against the company. McCormack is a member of the engineering standards group at the Sunnyvale plant He said the group, which represents half of the plant's 19,000 employes, named him as spokesman to write the letter. CHIDES NADER The letter chides Nader as an avowed champion of free competition who apparently accepts the idea of a decline in the airframe market If you are right about the decline of the airframe market," the letter reads, why does.it follow that there must be fewer companies of the present sin rather than the same number of companies at a lower average level of employment shouldn't survival be based on honest competition for what business there is? McCormack's letter contends that Lockheed received the C5A contract for a military transport plane not because it was Lockheed's turn to get one, but because Lockheed had a better design concept to offer, at a cost not very different from those of its competitors. AIRLINE CONTRACTS The letter also pointed out Interviews, letters no openings Job pickings slim for graduates (Timas photo by Ktn Yimm) New building's little plaza Bay Vww Federal Savings and Loan Association included this landscaped sitting araa in front of Hs Menlo Park office at 620 Santa Cruz which opened this week. By DEAN C.

MILLER UPI Business Editor NEW YORK (UPI) Kevin Batchelor, an industrial engineering major from Narbeth, had 17 job interviews on the Lafayette College campus this year and sent out 12 resumes. I received 29 rejections," said Kevin. They just dont have a place for us. Its a shame on society, because college graduates could pick and choose. FEWER OPENINGS Information gathered to date shows job openings in business down 34 per cent, in engineering 35 per cent, in nonbusiness, non technical jobs 45 per cent and in the sciences and mathematics 25 per cent.

Openings in state and focal governments fell about 26 per cent. One surprise was the market were well prepared. Thats the job boat many June graduates are in today. The College Placement Council at Bethlehem, Pa. reveals that job pickings are slimmer this summer than the 23 per cent decline it had predicted in December.

The number of 1971 graduates hired so far is off at least 26 per cent from 1970, a year which had dropped sharply from the 1969 figure when Los Altos man to head Industrial Advertisers Acquisition enables Itel to enter another market in federal government jobs. It had been expected to drop sharply. Instead, it declined only 1 per cent. Graduates with doctors degrees also are faring better than expected. The December forecast called for a 45 per cent decline but so far it has been only 19 per cent.

Salaries for the graduates continue to inch ahead. Lafayette College statistics show that engineering graduates rate the highest pay. A chemical engineer commands a mechanical engineer around $9,900. Students with bachelor of arts degrees range from $7,800 to $10,000. While not exactly happy about the situation, Elbridge H.

Cummings, Lafayette's director of placement, sees some light at the end of the job tunnel. He feels the job crisis could have a beneficial effect Businesses have trimmed the fat theyve built up the efficiency of operations, he explained. When the slowdown ends, graduates will go into more realistic situations with better career opportunities. los, Allen Dorward, San Francisco, first vice president; Travis Glover, Pacific Pumping Oakland, second vice president; Curtis Wright, Rock Bergthold Wright, San Jose, secretary; Bruce Johnson, Pacific Gas ft Electric San Francisco, treasurer, and Bob French, Potlatch Forests, San Francisco, national representative. Albin joined Chilton Publications in 1945 as editor and subsequently general manager of Hardware World until it was merged with Hardware Age.

He and his wife live in Belmont Milton Alb in, regional representative for Chilton Publications, Los Altos, is the new president of the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Industrial Advertisers. He succeeds Lynn Phillips, marketing services manager oi Intersil, Cupertino. Miss Phillips, who was the first female hold of the organization, will continue as the chapters regional representative. Other officers to be installed at a dinner meeting Monday at the Figaro Restaurant, San Francisco, are: Harry Boden- Memorex target of SEC suit Memorex Santa Clara, has been informed that the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought an action to enjoin the company from using the accounting method employed in interim reports to shareholders in 1970, according to Gordon Sheppard, treasurer. In a statement, the company said it considers the SEC request for an injunction moot point since the firm already voluntarily using the accounting method and format preferred by the SEC.

Memorex published both its annual report and its first quarter 1971 report consistent with the SEC position, the statement continued. The original controversy stemmed from Memorexs reporting of the transactions of ILC Peripheral Leasing an affiliate, as part of Memorexs sales. Negotiations to resume on dock worker pay Itel through its acquisition of Information Storage Systems (ISS) of Cupertino, is entering the market to supply disk drives to users of IBM computer systems, Itel President Peter S. Redfield said Thursday. For Information Storage Systems, the move means a chance to extend distribution of its products through Itels marketing force.

Up to now, Telex Corp. has been responsible for distribution of ISS products, nearly all of which have gone to users of IBM equipment. Although it hadnt marketed disk drives to users of IBM equipment. Information Storage Systems had sold its equipment to users, of other computer equipment. Carter Elliot, public relations manager for Information Storage Systems, noted that distribution is actually mostly leasing, which requires heavy capital investment, and that Itel Appeals due on phone rate hikes SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-Los Angeles and San Francisco plan to join in attempts to get the State Public Utilities Commission to reconsider its approval of a $143 million rate increase to Pacific Telephone it was reported Thursday.

William Bennett, former PUC commissioner and now a consumer advocate and member of the State Board of Equalization, has already sought and filed for a rehearing and sought a stay of the new rate increase which averages about a $1 a month per householders. Los Angeles has announced it will appeal, and San Francisco dans to join it Assemblyman John L. Burton, D-San Francisco, blasted the decision as evidence that the PUC is in the hip pocket of the giant, monopoly utili- tteSg 'Henceforth, the PUC should be known as the Puppets of Unrestrained Capitalism, Burton said. The rate increase, largest ever granted a California utility, was still $52 million below what the company asked for, and the telephone company said it was not enough. Arthur Latno, assistant vice president for northern California, said PTftT was facing a massive construction program and labor costs.

Mark Systems awarded pact by Air Force Mark Systems Inc. of Cupertino has received a $70 ,980 con-tino has received a $705,980 contract from the U.S. Air Force for a stabilized optics viewing device, President Malcolm M. Malcomson said today. The production contract is a follow-on to a development contract awarded the company in 1969 after an evaluation of several image stabilization techniques proposed by various competitors.

The successful completion of the operational test and evaluation phase confirms our belief that the company has pioneered a new technology in its hydrostatic stabilization approach, Malcolmson stated. SAN FRANCISCO AP) -Negotiations between the International Longshoremens and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association will resume Monday after a three-week recess during which a strike-authorization vote was taken. Official tabulation of the union vote was to be. announced today, and a San Francisco ILWU official predicted it would be well over the 85 per cent approval the union traditionally requires for a walkout This port (San Francisco) voted just under 98 per cent for strike authorization, with 2,2 voting yes and 56 no, Jack Hogan, vice president of Local 10, said Thursday. I don't know the exact fig- Diet control film formed in Palo Alto Evelyn Langenwalter, a registered dietician who last year helped set up the General Mills Control Diet Center in Palo Alto, has opened her own diet service at 418 Waverley St, Palo Alto.

General Mills closed down the Control Diet Center last March, after it served for less than a year as a pilot operation for possible other similar operations. Mrs. Langenwalter decided to continue the concept of providing menu planning and food supply for individuals and groups. Food for a seven day period is packaged for. the client and given to him or her at a weekly visit along with menu suggestions.

The dietician works with client's physicians In all cases except those requiring only calorie control. Mrs. Langenwalter is a member of the American Dietetic Association and worked for General Mills prior to establishment of its Palo Alto diet center. Tentative pact averts strike of cab drivers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A tentative agreement between Yellow Cab Co. and the Teamsters Union has halted a walkout by 1,200 drivers planned for today.

After a day of negotiations, Mayor Joseph Alioto announced the settlement late Thursday and said the union agreed to lift a 3 a.m. Friday strike deadline pending a ratification meeting expected next week. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Alioto said negotiators agreed upon major economic issues and difficult management issues, including grievance procedures. Yellow cab drivers operate 500 of the citys 800 cabs, as well as airport limousines. Aide says humans eating horse meat MEXICO CITY (UPI) Three hundred horses and 200 mules are butchered at the Mexico City slaughterhouse every day and then sold at first-class restaurants and self-serve supermarkets as cattle meat, the head at- the Slaughterhouse Workers Union said today.

Manuel Alvarez, the union leader, said the general public cant tell the difference. He said the horsemeat is pounded and chemicals are added to it to make it softer. As for the mule-meat, it has toe same color as veal, he said. nnnnnfnnnnnnnnnnnnnnni SPECIAL OFFER iiniiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiii PETER REDFIELD has been active in leasing computer equipment. Initial products to be marketed will be a new 3100 disk memory system for use on IBM System 360 and 370 computers.

Redfield noted that during the past year more disk drives made by ISS were placed in use on IBM System 360 computers than those of any other independent disk manufacturer. We feel Itel is entering the market at the top in terms of technical reputation and financial strength, he added. Itel completed a $20 million financing last week. The proceeds will be used to support its rental program of the 3100 disk memory and other products. Itel, based in San Francisco, specializes in several areas of the computer, data processing, and office equipment industries.

Redfield lives in Atherton. 2 DINNERS for $2.99 PLUS TAX OFFER GOOD WITH THIS COUPON Any Day Thru Saturday, June 26th SMORGASBORD: Dinner served from 4:00 to 8:30 p.m. end all day Sunday Children's prices .75 and $1.25 under age 2 free REDWOOD CITY, 1185 BROADWAY (WOODSIDE EXIT) NOT VALID ON NOLI DAYS PAT omnium nn.MHlllmniminn,i.nl,n ures from the other points, but in my contact with other union officials up and down the coast, I hear it was substantially more than 90 per cent, Hogan added. A date for a strike of 15,000 workers at West Coast and Hawaiian docks has not been set. The current five-year contract expires June 30, and strike authorization was for after that date if no new agreement has been reached.

Bargaining has bear going on since last November. The ILWU is seeking a guaranteed work week and raises of $1.60 in basic hourly wages of $4.25 over a twoyear contract term, with 85 cents in the first year. Another major union demand is a $500-a-month pension for workers retiring at 62 after 25 years service. Lawsuit filed by Coherent Radiation Coherent Radiation, a Palo Alto developer and manufacturer of lasers, has filed a complaint in Superior Court, Santa Clara County, against Spectra Physics Coherent Optics, and former stockholders of Coherent Optics, it announced Thursday. The complaint arises out of the recent sale of Coherent Radiations minority interest, in Coherent Optics and the immediate acquisition of Coherent Optics by Spectra Physics, a Mountain View laser manufacturer.

Among other things, the complaint asks for an injunction preventing the use of confidential information and the name, Coherent Optics, as well as divestiture of Coherent Optics by Spectra Physics and general and punitive damages of more than $1 million. Perkin-Elmer to acquire METCO Inc. Perkin-Elmer Norwalk, has agreed to acquire METCO Westbury, N.Y. for approximately 980,000 shares of Perkin-Elmer common stock. Perkin-Elmer, which recorded sales of $203 million in its last iscal year ended July 31, 1970, is a major manufacturer of scientific instruments.

It is the parent company of the Ultek Division in Palo Alto. Perkin-Elmer stock closed Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange at $46.50. METCO, founded in 1933, is a manufacturer of sophisticated thermal and electric flame and plasma spray equipment for applying metals and ceramics on metals and other materials. Sales totaled $23 million for the year ended Dec. 31, 1970.

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