Show I I k Microfilm Logan Utah Tuesday March II 1969 JJm HersM JowmI- -7 Assists Identity NEW YORK (UPI)—The woman looked like everybody's mom Yet she had just been accosted by a sex offender Her hands trembled as she described the man to the lieutenant at police headquarters “I was waling to the bus stop” she said “He came along in a car and stopped and called me He said 'Pardon me ma'am but can you tell me where the nearest hospital is Guided by the offender's method of operation as well as his physical description the officer turned to a small cabinet selected a 4 x 4 x film magazine holding a 100 'oot roll of 16 mm microfilm and inserted it into a reader printer unit He pushed a few buttons on a keyboard There was a whir of swiftly unwinding microfilm inside and it halted The enlarged image of a man’s head and shoulders appeared on the viewing screen “That’s him! That’s the man" the woman exclaimed In leu than 10 seconds after the verbal description wu given this actual photograph of the suspect was located The speed contrasts sharply with the hours— sometimes da ys— needed to thumb through stacks of conventional photos used in the oldtime “rogue's gallery” Wide Use For lightning quick identifica- - ORIN'DA CALIF— Mrs Richard Wagner and children view threat to their swimming pool as a man of 30969 cubic yards of earth k slowly moves over a layer of underground adobe on Ike hillside below The rear deck of a neighboring home has started la pull away and two homes oa the base of the hill are threatened by those above UPI Telephoto tion— instant retrieval of data Yet individual "mugs” can be amid thousands of files— many singled out at a moment's with the Recordak police departments across the notice nation are adding microfilm Miracode system Major Emory B Morel head Systems to their arsenal of of the Baton Rouge police g weapons At Baton Rouge Louisiana department praises the retriethe city police department has val speed on two counts "It enables the witness to converted mot of its records to microfilm "Mug shots" the make an identification while the head photos of persons booked offender's face is fresh in his for a crime date back to 1958 memory” Morel uys "and it gives us a head atari in learning whom to hunt for saving considerable manhoura expended on individual cases" After identification is made rain-slic- crime-fightin- the same Recordak Lodestar reader-printon which the image is viewed can also provide an paper facsimile Pressing a button er the facsimile in produces seconds for use by detectives ANAHEIM CALIF— British actor Rkkard Bortoa and hla daughter Kate Mated right Beat to her tator Boaaie Badhan cajay a ride threogh Diueylaad’i "Small World" Actress EUuheth Taylor waa admitted to Cedan of Lebaaoo Hoapital far testa la eoaaectioa with a degenerating spinal disc UPI Telephoto WASHINGTON— Hamer H Bodge aew RepoLUcaa chalrmaa af the Securities and Exchaage Osmmiesioo (SEC)showa testifyiag hchre the Senate Securities sabcc umittee endorsed a mutual hmd control hill which President Nlaoo denounced during the fall campaign Sea Thomas McIntyre a committee member ashed “I Uke It that yea do not agree with candidate Nino's comments?" "I would net want to comment on a political issue" Bodge replied UPI Telephoto A Man Who (EDITOR’S NOTE: U S Mines Director John F O'Leary has hern called a "Symbol of hope" for the nation's coal miners During his first four months oa the Job he almost equaled the number of mines closed la the II preceding months for fear of an imminent disaster The whom status in the Nixon Administration is still ap in the air — gives his views lathe fel lowing interview) Takes On Responsibility except for the formal announcement Interior Secretary Walter J Hickel recently acknowledged that O'Leary had “strong support" for the Job The mines bureau is in the Interior Department O'Leary got strong backing after a report that Dr H Beecher Charm bury Pennsylvania Secretary of Mines and Mineral Industries was slated for the post under the Nixon Administration Va Hep Ken Hcchler D-ANDERS MICHAEL a By strong advocate of tougher WASHINGTON (UPD-'Th- ere coal mine health and safety are two kinds of bureaucrats'' legislation quickly organized a says bureaucrat John F O'- support O'Leary campaign Coal Miners Wrote Leary "One is the bureaucrat Coal miners wrote to Washwho wants to duck responsibility The second is a damn fool ington A delegation of women who wanu to take on respons- widowed by the West Virginia disaster flew to Washington to ibility'' “I'm in the secood cate- urge O'Leary's retention Between Jan I and Nov I gory" he says This explains why O'Leary ISM wln-f-l O'Leary took office has been working so hard since there were 17 unannounced he became director of the U mine inspections sandwiched S Bureau of Mines last fall among regular mine checks But between Nov 1 and Feb shortly after the mine explosion which killed 71 near Manning-to- n 19 of 1969 there were 737 of -- Va O'Leary 42 a government employe since 1950 said he could have quit in the last 10 years with a "financial advanW tage" "But 1 want to change things" he said in an interview with UPI Was Reported Pei O'Leary reported a few weeks ago to be on his way out as director after Just four months may be around for some time "If I were a betting man I'd put the odds on Jack” one Interior Department source said "He's the frontrunner" Another source indicated O'Leary's retention as director was all set I O'Leary moved up steadily and in 1963 was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of Mineral Resources He left to become head of the Federal Power Commission's Bureau of Natural Gas He stayed there until President Lyndon B Johnson invited him to become a “damn fool" as head of the Bureau of Mines last fall Almanac For Today Hy United Press International Today is Tuesday March 11 the 70th day of 1969 with 295 to follow The moon is in its last quarter The morning stars are Mercury Mars and Jupiter The evening stars are Venus and Saturn On this day in history: the inspections In 1888 more than 200 persons The number of mines tempodied as a violent snowstorm between down Jan dosed rarily crippled New York City The 1 and Nov 1 was 31S Under O'storm lasted four days 310 totaled the closures Leary In 1930 the body of William in less than four months Howard Taft was buried in the Pushed For Research National Cemetery at Arlington O'Leary pushed for research In 1941 President Franklin D on coal Mine safety and asked Roosevelt signed the controverfor increase million for a $12 e bill giving the methane gas problem alone sial the Axis powers nations fighting most of one is tlx "Mining equipment dangerous occupations" he military In 1959 the Senate approved said “and needlessly so" Hawaii as the 50th state O'Leary attended public school in California and his native A thought for the day: Union Reno Nev He graduated from leader Sidney Hillman said George Washington University the same year he "Politics is the science of how in 150 who gels what when and why” Joined the mines bureau Works like a truck rides like a car Your Ford Dealer has America's Mo1 selling line of trucks y Ford models are the only trucks with fwo front axles for carlike riding smoothness and true truck toughness They're the ones with the biggest roomiest cabs with comfort And with power up to 330 cubes of 8 Even power disc brake and air conditioning options light-dut- door-to-do- or V-- Cruise-O-Mat- ic lend-leas- - WILSON MOTOR COMPANY 328 North Main Logan Utah Phene 752-735- 5 hunting for the suspect In Atlanta the city police department has built a file of more than 240000 records of persons arrested for rimes "We keep these records until the subject dies" says Police With Chief Herbert Jenkins new records being added each day he says "saving storage space by microfilming is a prime advantage” - |