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Show COUNTRY SAGE No Transfers, No Waiting, ' Just Dial A Bus ' And Go 't ie e S is it WASHINGTON (UPI)-Wil-S. Hamilton n and Dana K. Nance have consulted their computer and come up with a new system for moving people around in a metropolitan liam area. r idea They described the,-recent issue of Scientific in American. Suppose you live In the suburbs and go daily to a job in town. After youve shaved, showered, dressed, breakfasted and pecked your wife on the e j, 5.' y - i- forehead, you go to the telephone and dial a bus. The bus, with room for eight to 20 passengers, comes to your door, end picks you up. It is, of course, a computerized bus. The computer tells it the most e s i routes to the nearest transit station serving the various passengers. At the station, you step into an electrically-propelle- d car time-savin- g built to carry two to four persons, punch your destination on a keyboard, and proceed directly there without further action on your part No transfers, no station stops, no waiting, no driving. Hamilton and Nance are staff members of the General Research Corp. in Santa Barbara, Calif. They have built a mathematical model of a personal transit system which they feel may be much better than conventional ones, such as subways, for getting people where they want to go. The small cars would run on an automated network rf tracks called guideways. All stations would be on sidetracks shunted off the thorough line. The system could be designed to carry private automobiles as well as public transit cars. di The system r would provide al-b- door-to-doo- service at a cost substan tially less than that for a the authors said. It taxi, could be used with present suburban railroads but would work best with the proposed personal transit "guidways. By shunting Individual or small-groucars off to their destination stations on the network, there guideways would be no need for repeated slowdowns and stops on the through line. This, Hamilton and Nance said, would make possible travel from starting point to at an average destination speed of 60 miles an hour compared with the present average of 20 miles an hour. A wild dream? the best methods for propuland control. There is little doubt, however, that a system based on the innovations here outlined could be operating within a few years. STATELINE, NEV. (UPI) An Arizona state official p Engineers generally agree, Hamilton and Nance that these inovations said, are already within the realm of feasibility. There are of safety and reliability to be solved, and decisions have to be made as to prob-proble- f Planes Must Land JURBY, ISLE OF MAN There was no air (UPI) controllers strike, so the pilot of a Viscount airliner with 25 vacationers on board became puzzled when he had to circle the airport for 25 minutes without a reply from the con- trol tower. When they returned, the pilot learned the tower staff had been out having afternoon tea. Airport officials an investigation. promised NEWS, Thursday, August 21, 1969 - Migrant Indians Described As Most Neglected Group sion, suspension, Tea Time Or Not, DESERET I've learned to laugh at myself but it isn't as much fun for me as it is for my firends." Gun Accident OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -An Oklahoma City man, arming himself because he feared trouble during a sanitation workers strike, accidentally killed his son Police said the man was instructing his wife on the loading procedure of a shotgun when the gun discharged, killing the boy. Wednesday. said Wednesday the Indians who move off the reservation into the city face a worse than Negroes or plight Mexican-American- Stan Womer, an assistant to Arizona Gov. Jack Williams said, The urban and migrant Indian is the most misunderstood, the most forgotten, the most neglected of all racial groups within our city. He referred to the Phoenix metropolitan area which has 12.000 American Indians. And he said Arizona has some reservation Indians, more than any other state. Womer made his remarks officials to a federal-stat- e meeting here on the plight of the Indians. The conference was called bv Vice President 100.000 Spiro Agnew for federal officials to listen to the problems facing the states. Womer was the first state official to speak after the session had gone 1VJ days. The meeting ends tomorrow. The Arizona official said the Indian on the reservation has never had to demone strate initiative, or motivation, which are essential for survival in the city. se'f-driv- He said the Indians find themselves in a strange and environment in bewildering which they are shunted from one social work agency to another. He said most social programs do not meet the unique needs of the Indian. He learns quickly that these agencies do not offer him help because he is an Indian and an Indian is sup posed to receive all help from the federal government, he said. Womer outlined some of the services that arc- available to Indians in Phoenix. One of the most successful is the Alco- ) holies Anonymous project. Indians are drying out and taking jobs, he told about 80 state and federal officials. The greatest hope and prom- lse is in the young people. He said teachers are train- - j ing both young and old to get , along in urban environment. cases He cited numerous where the program has reformed problem drinkers. Before these young Indians can become successful, they must learn that Monday is just as important as any other day at work, he said. -- y i r- - n s. i- - le is i- - t i t, if a st l t .i I I I I a a 1 V, a v . : t ;e I - a a t t 1 4 i K s |