MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., GEORGE CHRISTO
pher, presents the key to the city to four South American
beauties in his office. The girls are (left to right) Tania Valle
Moreno, Ecuador; Esperanza Moy Ramirez; Peru; Maria
Tania Mara Souza, Brazil and Maria Ruth Lozada, Boliva.
The girls were part of the Miss International Beauty Pageant.
(NEA Telephoto)
The Number Game (2)
Some Americans Have
Waged War On Digits
EDITOR’S NOTE — Americans
live their lives “by the numbers,”
but sometimes the numbers spew
ed out by modem computers go
astray or go too far. The follow
ing dispatch, the second of three,
reports on how some Americans
have revolted against the num
bers game.)
By BARNEY SEIBERT
United Press International
On the Pacific Coast 1962 was
the year of the great telephone
revolt.
In May of last year Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph Co. an
nounced it was converting all its
San Francisco exchanges to all
digit dialing.
American Telephone and Tele
graph Co. said it was running out
of numbers, what with 3.8 million
new phones going in every year
in the nation. With the named ex
changes there were only 540 ex
change combinations possible on
telephone dials. With numbers,
the phone company said, 576 com
binations were possible.
The formation of the Anti-Digit
Dialing League (ADD'D was
sponsored by a group of such ser
ious thinkers as semantioist Dr.
S. I. Hayakawa, whose talents do
not run to remembering seven
digits. They decided “there ought
to be a law.”
Psychologist Jack Block of the
University of California at Berke
ley cited the Wechsler adult in
telligence test, which says that
only the most efficient minds can
remember numbers of more than
six digits.
‘Gone Too Far”
Oarl Mays, executive secretary
of the Great Issues Foundation,
said, “this passive acceptance of
creeping mechanism has gone
far enough.”
Hayakawa charged that the
telephone company is saving it
self trouble by giving it to us.
“We need a little poetry” in
our lives and the end of the
named exchanges will take it
away, the semanticist said.
Five hundred miles to the south
comedian Allan Sherman in Los
Angeles gave the ADDL mor
al support by writing a song
called “Let’s All Call Up AT&T
and Protest to the President,
March.” „
The ADDL earned its fight to
the California Public Utilities
Commission, where it stil is con
tinuing. . ..
To back its stand, ADDL wit
nesses testified that the phone
companies could have multi
plied the possible number com
binations nearly ten - fold with
out reverting to all - digit dialing.
A psychologist testified that
children would be more apt to for
get the all-digit emergency phone
numbers under stress.
Says Switchover Painless
AT?T officials in New York
countered that the switch to all;
digit numbers came with very
little difficulty there and most of
the opposition arose
system was actually installed.
AT&T said research indictated all
digit dialing “would present no
serious memory problem - subse
quent field trails confirmed this
Rut the transition wasn’t quite
that painless for some.
For example, there was toe
fellow who telephoned United
Press International in Chicago
and asked, ‘WI? Where? Good
gosh, I was calling my insurance
company in Pittsburgh.
Such things the scientists point
out, are human-ndt machine-er
ror.
Irma Wyman, engineering con
sultant for the Minneapotos
'Honeywell Regulator Oo., said
the chance of even the most falli
ble electronic computer making
an error is “one ki one mallion
miihcn-mallior.” . _
iRut errors do happen and when
pney occur they may be gigantic,
inhere was the lucky ®oui kx Tex
as who found that a computer
had deposited a whopping sum of
money in his checking account
and he promptly withdrew it.
Late Birthday Card
There was the fellow in Chi
cago who mailed a birthday card
to a suburb, using the new Zip
code. It was delivered more than
a week later after stopovers ac
cording to postmarks in two other
cities.
Warden Ross Randolph of Illi
nois’ Menard State Peniten
tiary said that introduction of the
Post office Zip code has slowed
delivery of newspapers to prison
ers by three or four days.
“We can’t stand much more of
that efficiency,” he said.
The University of Utah, linked
along with six other schools to a
computer in Los Angeles by
means of a telephone line, sent
the same mathematical problem
with slight variations 67 times.
Seventeen times the university
got an answer. On the 10th time,
the computer, apparently tired of
the thing, refused to accept the
problem.
Then there was the magazine
publisher who bought an automat
ed machine to handle his sub
scription list. Something went
wrong with the machine and a
single new subscriber got a truck
load of copies of a single issue.
Most bank errors resulting in
the automated accounting sys
tems come when a deposit is en
tered before tire computer has
been advised that a new account
been opened.
In this situation the computer
wi'l “either credit the deposit to
an account that isn’t here or for
get about it entirely,” Miss Wy
man of Minneapolis - Honeywell
said.
Tomorrow: Is man losing his
identity to numbers?
Tree Seedlings
To Be Available
To Landowners
Orders for tree seedlings to be
planted this season are being
taken in area offices of the
Mississippi Forestry Commission.
R. H. Miller of Pascagoula said
today.
Miller said Oct. IS is the dead
fine for ordering seedlings.
Seedlings to be available in
clude slash pine, loblolly, long
leaf, cypress cottonwood, green
ash, yellow poplar, black locust,
sweet gum, red cedar, Arizona
Cypress and tupelo gum.
Each landowner in Jackson
County is entitled to 1000 seed
lings free on which there is a
delivery charge of 35 cents.
Seedlings in addition to the first
1000 cost $4.50 a thousand plus
the 35 cents delivery charge.
Pine species must be ordered
in 1000 bundles while other species
may be ordered in 500 bundles.
Deliver charge on bundles of 500
is 20 cents.
Orders may be placed with for
ester Miller with county agricul
tural agent M. P. Lewis. Both
have offices in the Courthouse.
Blackleg Hits
At Meadville
MEADVILLE, Miss., (UPI) —
Seven cases of blackleg have
been reported in this southeast
Mississippi County Franklin Coun
ty Agent John Cox said today.
Cox said hot humid days were
conducive to an outbreak of the
cattle disease. He warned that all
calves and cattle up to two years
of age should be vaccinated.
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