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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 14, 1963
Use of Computers Save Paper's Time
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.— (UPI) — A publisher who pioneered in the use of electronic computers in newspapers said today computers have saved time and money. He said it was conceivable that a computer complex could write editorials.
John H. Perry, president of the Perry Publishing Corporation, addressed members of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) technical center seminar visiting the West Palm Beach Post-Times. Perry is publisher of the Post-Times and other newspapers.
HE SAID THE Post-Times was justifying type for several other Perry newspapers "by use of a data speed circuit."
Perry said the Post-Times has been using an electronic computer to hyphenate and justify (make lines even) news copy "and it has resulted in a considerable speed-up in the time it takes to set a column of type."
Perry said there are several experimental-stage typesetting machines "which will set enough straight matter in three minutes to complete a solid newspaper page of type..."
Perry said for the past six months the Post-Times also has been using the computer to set advertising copy.
HE SAID ATTEMPTS were being made to use the electronic computer to evaluate and qualify news in order to provide the editorial content of the newspaper with the proper balance.
"An editor could quickly review the news story from the printed copy and assign each story a category which would be encoded for future computer use." Perry said.
He said additions or corrections also could be encoded, freeing the editor from the task of sorting his own news. All of the original news stories would be translated from the paper tape onto a magnetic tape, which then would act as a memory.
A SECOND TAPE would be prepared listing all the corrections, additions and deletions. Each news item would be prefaced by a category number and a priority rating.
A third tape would then be prepared, carrying the editor's instructions. It would contain the news balance formula the editor is using as well as the size of the "news hole." Inside the computer, all news could be assigned to categories, such as war, diplomacy, business, crime, amusements, human interest, government, disasters and health and
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The House Appropriations Committee today cut almost $80 million from the $1.6 billion military construction program authorized by Congress only two weeks ago.
"It may be a long way off," Perry told the IAPA members, "but it is nonetheless entirely conceivable that a computer complex . . . could actually write your editorials for you."
It said the country could afford new missile facilities but not commissaries, officers' club additions "and the like."
The administration originally proposed a $1.9 billion military construction program but Congress reduced the authorization to $1.6 billion late last month. The authorization measure merely set the ceiling on spending for such purposes. The bill approved today would provide the actual funds.
Committee Cuts Military Funds
THE HOUSE GROUP, headed by Rep. Clarence Cannon, D-Mo., said it also veted paying $5,700 per man for building bachelor officer quarters in Korea for the Air Force when the Army was spending $3,600 per man for the same purpose in the same country.
The Committee said the cut reflected its determination to reject projects "not clearly essential to the military posture of the country at the present time or in the foreseeable future."
The Committee chopped $40 million from the $685 million authorized by Congress for military family housing. However, it left intact all funds emarked for projects designed to bolster U.S. missile warfare capability.
This included $146 million for construction of 150 Minuteman missile silos and additional test and training facilities at Grand Forks, N.D., and $25 million for Nike-Hercules and Hawk missile batteries and other air defense facilities in the southeastern states.
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—A Norwegian freighter and an empty gasoline tanker collided off Cape Cod today and burst into flames.
The ships, identified as the freighter Fernview and the Sun Oil Co. coastal tanked Dynafuel, carried a total of 62 men. Five men were injured.
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THE COAST GUARD evacuated the crews of the ships which were locked together. The tanker was reported settling and in imminent danger of sinking.
Shortly after the collision, crewmen of the 325-foot Dynafuel transferred to the 510-foot Fernview. Fire aboard the Dynafuel was reported burning furiously in the engine room. The smaller blaze on the Fernview was brought under control.
Coast Guard craft battled flames with foam and water. Both crews pitched in to fight the fires but were subsequently removed from the flaming vessels as a precautionary measure.
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THE FERNVIEW'S bow was imbedded 20 feet into the amidshops port side of the Dynafuel. Witnesses said the Fernview almost rode up over the tanker in back of the pilot house.
The Dynafuel only last June was cited by the American Merchant Marine for 12 years service without a lost time accident.
Freighter and Tanker Collide, Burn
SMOKE BILLOWED 250 feet into the air. The Coast Guard fought the fires from cutters and patrol boats. Planes and helicopters hovered overhead.
The collision occurred in overcast skies shortly after daybreak $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ miles south of Smith Neck in Buzzards Bay. The ships were headed in opposite directions.
At one point the Dynafuel's skipper, Capt. Karstan A. Pedersen, said in a radio message to Sun Oil Co. headquarters in Philadelphia;
"All men aboard the Fernview are safe. Fire is in the engine room and Coast Guard is fighting it from the Fernview.
"HAVE SEEN some white smoke which is good, but touch-and-go whether they can save tanker Dyna-fuel."
White smoke, according to the
Coast Guard, meant that enough water was being poured on the fires to control the flames.
The Dynafuel was en route back to Newark, N.J., after unloading cargo at Newington, N.H. It was not known whether the cargo was heating oil or gasoline.
THE FERNVIEW was en route from New York to Boston with a general cargo of goods from Japan and the Philippines. At least part of the cargo was Philippine lumber, according to shipping agents.
The crash was first spotted by a patrol plane from Quonset Point, R.I., Naval Air Station.
Both ships immediately sent out distress calls to ships in the area.
The Coast Guard dispatched four cutters and alerted lifeboat stations along the southern Massachusetts coast to move as many patrol boats as possible into the area. Survivors
were to be taken to New Bedford
were to be taken to New Bedford.
Then the Dynafuel fore and afar tore inside of the vessel. By mid-morning, the Dynafuel had sunk 10 feet
Coast Guard boats made efforts to pull the two ships apart. The big danger appeared to be the threat of explosion from fumes in the Dynafuel.
The collision touched off one of the biggest Coast Guard rescue efforts in recent years.
THE CREWS OF the ships were evacuated over rope ladders to Coast Guard patrol boats waiting below. The abandonment came when it appeared it would take some time to pry the ships apart.
The injured, four of whom suffered minor burns, were transferred to a Coast Guard cutter. One of them was flown to a hospital ashore by helicopter with apparently more extensive injuries.
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