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Show Page Four FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Automation Aids Small Business Official of Electric Firm Contends The intensified automation of small businesses is the most im-portant chapter in the industrial history of the nation, according to Howard A. Oliphant, chair-man of the Salt Lake City Area Management Council of General Electric Co. gant furs are all in competition for customers' dollars." Such a market, he added,, is naturally very attractive to over seas producers whose factories have been built since the war with the most modern produc-tive equipment. It is therefore "Small business, any business, must strive for efficiency and the key to industrial efficiency to-day is automation. Until now, the word 'automation' has been associated with the large indus-trial operations, and it is true that the big mines and mills and power stations have been major initial market for automation equipment," he said. "But the really big, untapped industrial market for electrifica-tion and automation lies in the small businesses that cannot be contacted directly by manufac-turers. "They are the parking lots, the bottling plants, warehouses, pickle factories, and machine shops around the corner that de-pend on their electric utility, electrical contractor, and elec-trical distributor for new money making ideas." The GE spokesman made the statement that "75 per cent of all American companies are little shops and batch producers that turn out what they make in lots of 25 or less." In most job shops like those, he said, "electrified automatic machines can and will replace manual operations, it's the only path to survival for many of these companies." This is an age of abundance, but also one of sharply intensi-fied competition. "It is an age characterized by a fantastic rate of technological change, with essential that the electric indus-try keep its industrial customers particularly small businesses informed and sold on the most up to date equipment and sys-tems so that local industry can meet the new challenge of world wide competition. To emphasize the rate of tech-nological change in this country he noted that "we are spending more money for research and engineering than we are for electrical power, or automobiles or public education." "Half of all the investment in research and engineering that has ever ben made in this coun-try has been made in the last five years. For reasons of po-litical and economic competition the US must accomplish as much in the next five years as has been accomplished in slow evolution in the last 50 years." He noted that GE alone during the past 10 years spent almost $3 billion on research and de-velopment, about half of which was government contract and half the company's own expendi-ture. GE spends 6 per cent of its total income on research. This has been three times the national average. Out of the research- - labora-tories are coming a flood of tech-nological changes and products that could be either a threat or an opportunity to individual businesses, according on how alert they are to new ideas. which all businesses, large and small, must keep up if they are to survive." The GE executive pointed out that the average family, with an income of over $7,000, has more discretionary spending in-come than ever before, and is using it to pick and choose the things that please it. "Families shop around for real value. They expect novelty. The motivations, buying patterns, use patterns and living patterns are changing deeply. They live far beyond the necessities of life. Extra cars and boats, trips to Europe, sequined gowns and ele- - THE SALT LAKE TIMES Utah S Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News fcarlSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah , , Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second Independent class matter August 23, 1923, under the act of Nensnanpr Marchs, 1879. GLENN BJORNN, Publisher I I 711 South West Temple Telephone EM I "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clain, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 42 Number 30 thc--L EASED GRAPEVINE A new assistant superintend-ent of schools was named at the special meeting of the Salt Lake City Board of Education Wed-nesday. He is Dr. Arthur Wis-comb- e, assistant professor of educational administration at the University of Utah. He succeeds Dr. Marion G. Merkley, who re-signed in September to become state , superintendent of public instruction. Mark E. Petersen, a member of the Council of Twelve Apos-tles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, this week nas named to preside over the West European mission of the church. State forester Paul Sjoblom this week said an estimated 25,-00- 0 Christmas trees remained unsold on lots in the state. He said value of the trees would be approximately $4 each or a t""Y of $100,000. He attributed Vj; glut to the mild weather which permitted more people to cut their own trees and to the in-creased number of persons sell-ing trees. Twenty-seve- n present and for-mer members of the Salt Lake City Library Board will wield shovels Friday afternoon when ground is broken for the new central Salt Lake City Library at the corner of 2nd East and 5th South. City Judge Horace C. Beck, scheduled to take over the City Traffic Court on Jan. 2, this week said that "up to 75 per cent of the cases going to traffic court should be handled by d J cers at the scene of the viofa tion. "Our police departments and our Highway Patrol officers are becoming street scavengers," he said. He explained that traffic officers are pouring into the courts minor offenders which he feels could be adequately han-dled by discussions between the officer and motorist in the field. The judge said he could make several changes in the present traffic program when he suc-ceeds Judge Maurice D. Jones. He declined to define them. New Salt Lake City ordinances regulating cosmetology concerns schools and barber shops are now in effect. The ordinances were approved recently by the Salt Lake City Commission. Salt Lake City Police Chief Ralph C. Knudsen this week said the use of policemen on an over time basis to help hold down burglaries and aggravated as-saults has been "highly success-ful." Officers have put in 1,822 hours on overtime basis since mid-Novemb- er, the chief said. Army Specialist Five George R. Drabner, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Drabner, 407 North 7th West, recently was assigned to the 51st Artillery, a Nike-Hercul- es missile unit at Fort Cronk-hit- e, Calif. Drabner, a radar specialist in the artillery Battery B, entered the Army in January 1957. He is a 1956 graduate of West High School. His wife Barbara lives in San Francisco. Too Few Work for Peace (Continued from Page One) nation of 1941. The pursuit of peace is still the focus of our leadership, our energies, and our determination. And disarmament is still the most vital step on the road to a lasting peace. The great question of the 1960's the overriding concern of all Amerilcans and all men is whether, in the coming decade, the world will move toward a secure peace and the survival of mankind or whether we will more toward war and common destruction. If we are to secure peace in the 1960s if we ever hope to negotiate an effective arms control agreement we must act. For as each year passes, the control of increasingly complex, mobile and hidden modern armaments becomes more difficult. At the same time, as we increase our stock piles of nuclear bombs- - and as we develop pushbutton weapons systems the danger of nuclear holocaust by accident or through a mistaken belief that war will bring victory that danger increases. In short, no problem is more vital or more urgent in the struggle for peace than the problem of effective arms control. Yet, in the past eighty years, this problem has been virtually ignored, we have had no real disarmament policy and we have completely failed to provide the effort and the leadership which the pursuit of disarmament de-mands. In the entire United States government we have had fewer than 100 men working on the complex prob-lems of arms control. Even this handful of workers has been scattered through four or five agencies with little coordination or leadership. A recent independent survey concluded, "The only continuous features of our efforts in the disarmament field have been a lack of continuity in top personnel and a paucity of planning and research efforts. New! Gillette beard fflyJ& Blue Blades Castro Cuban Regime Exports Communism to Latin America Though Fidel Castro asserted his Cuban revolution was "olive green," it was "red inside like a melon." While still in the Sierra Maestra in 1958, a communist gave him a draft of the law creating the apparatus which later took over the entire Cuban economy agriculture, industry, commerce. U.S. properties valued at a billion dollars were seized between March and October in 1960. These are among the documented revelations of a new book, "How the Kremlin Took Cuba," by James Monahan and Kenneth Gilmore based on reviews with f hundreds of Cubans, many still living inside the police state only 90 miles from Cuba. As soon as Castro occupied Havana at the start of 1959, the outlawed Communist Party of Cuba opened headquarters. Communist leaders arrived from other countries and infiltrated the army, unions and schools. Communist newspapers were given exclusive access to government news. Others were suppressed. The Castro regime began an open warfare on the Catholic Church after a I960 pastoral letter of the Arch-bishop of Santiago warned against communism. The abortive invasion of April, 1961 was made the excuse for militiamen to raid and loot churches and schools. Altars were profaned, statues and relics smashed and jeweled crucifixes were stolen. Many priests were deported. Father Diego Madrigal, formerly of Our Lady of Charity Church in Havana, says, "Today there are only about 120 priests left in Cuba to minister to some six million Catholics. Much as in the early days of the Roman persecutoin, Christ's church is in the catacombs." Training schools for Latin American revolutoinists were set up in Cuba. Enlarged Cuban embassies and consulates became Soviet style centers for propaganda, espionage and political agitation. Radio Havana's five 100,000 watt transmitters, most powerful in Latin Amer-ica, began to bombard Central and South America with 100 hours a week of propaganda in four languages. Food was short and the population so rebellious by last summer that Castro sent his brother Raul on a mis-sion to Moscow. This mission completed the Soviet take over of Cuba, politically, militarily and economically. The Soviet Union moved in troops and many shiploads of material to preserve Cuba as a base for communist subversion in Latin America. Dr. Jose Rasco, a close student of Russia's plans to "export the Cuban revolution," is convinced the Soviet military buildup was motivated more by contempt for Castro than by sympathy or loyalty. "Castro's regime was shaky, vulnerable and jeopardized by internal up-risings and rebellion. The Kremlin had but one alter-native to take over its Cuban axis-partn- er completely and convert it into a puppet state." |