PAGE STX THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, OCTOBER , 1953 MIRACULOUS MACHINE! Union Office Uses Mechancal Brain By JOEL BERGER ( 4. * , * Add, subtract, multiply, divide, correct mistakes-all for $5,600. Such operations are child's play for the huge bookeeping machine in the Unioi business office. In operation since last spring, the light gray automaton has already saved the Union countless man- hours.,of work. THE OVERSIZED calculating machine contains between 35,000 and 40,000 parts. The carriage alone is 26 inches long, while the machine is about 18 inches wide and three feet long. Electrically operated, the bookkeeper's dream is mounted on a steel stand before which the operator can perform almost unlimited tasks, including letter writing. With no other machine exactly like it, the mechanical genius can be automatically set to fill out pay- roll forms, the general ledger and accounts payable forms, in addi- tion to writing checks and miscel- laneous bookkeeping operations. This is accomplished by fitting the machine with four different "bars," each contaifing a special grouping of tabulator keys, enabl- ing the roller to travel to different positions for different operations. WITH 10 DIFFERENT totaling operations possible on the' book- keeping device, any additions or subtractions of the 10 totals-is pos- sible. By pressing different regula- tor buttons, the office worker op- erating the contraption can throw the roller back and forth, from one form to a duplicate form. In addition to about 100 num- ber keys, the pastel-colored key- board also includes buttons to automatically total differ e nt combinations.which the machine "remembers." At the bottom of the huge keyboard, a standard typewriter key arrangement en- ables letters to be written, al- though not in duplicate, as in forms with figures. A repairman said the Union's pride and joy is the only machine like it on campus, although the Administration Bldg. has one sim- ilar in function. Although almost entirely hand- made, some assembly-line work went into the finished product, he Powell To Give Adams Talk Lawrence C. Powell, library di- rector of the University of Cali- fornia at Los Angeles will deliver the second annual Randolph G. Adams Memorial Lecture at 8:30 p.m. today in Clements Memorial Library. Sponsoed by the Clements Li- brary Associates, the lectures were named for Adams, first di- rector of the library. University President Harlan H. Hatcher will open the meeting and introduce Powell, who will speak on "Three Loves Have I." Admission to the lecture is by in- vitation. Clements Library Asso- ciates and faculty members will also be among those present. Following the lecture a reception will be held for recently appoint- dd library director Fred H. Wag- mann and Mrs. Wagmann 'and Clements Library director How- ard Peckham and Mrs. Peckham. Calendar Union-League activities cal- endars will be distributed this week. They are now available in thex Union Lobby, Law Library, League Undergraduate Offices, women's and men's residence halls and fraternities and soror- ities Safeerackers Force Entry In Wrarehouse Hammering their way throughG a foot-thick cinder block and brick rear wall, safecrackers broke into two safes in a State St. food ware- house and escaped with an esti- mated $1,000 in equipment, ac- cording to police reports. The thieves opened a wide hole in the rear wall, then pounded out the bottom of one safe and bored through two metal plates to get to its contents. However this safe contained no money. Another safe containing only. five dollars was forced open in the Saturday night escapade. Two other safes could not be opened by the robbers. The Sheriff's Department chief inspector Harold Scoveraldn said he believed the men were profes- sionals and must have worked at least five hours in the effort. They apparently decided to take the ma- chines when the later safes could not be opened, he added. Events Today The University Pre-Medical So- ciety will hold its first meeting of the semester at 7:30 p.m. in Aud. C, Angel1 Hall. Main speaker at the meeting will be Prof. Adam A. Christman of the biological chemistry de- partment. All pre-medical students are in- vited to attend according to Gloria Strutz, '54, president of the gioup. All petitioners for the 1954 Mich- igras central committee are urged by Michigras co-chairman Hal Abrams, '54, to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 3S of the Union. Movies of the 1952 Michiguas will be shown, while Abrams and co-chairman Gretchen Meier, '54, answer questions aboat petition: rg and explain the duti:-7 of the cen tral committee. Petitions for the 21 posts on the central committee arc still avail- able at the League and Union, Ab- rams Caid. - * * * As part of a series of lectures sponsored by the astronomy, aero- nautical engineering, physics and geology departments, Prof.,Sydney Chapman, visiting protessor from Oxford University, will speak at 4 p.m on "The Solar Tide in the Earth's Atmosphere" in Rm. 1400 of the Chemistry Bldg. Roberta Peters To Open Public Health SAnnual Concert Series Talk Given '4 Metropolitan Opera coloratura soprano Roberta Peters will make her local debut when she takes the stage at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hill Auditorium. First performer in the Univers- ity Musical Society Choral Union series, the 23-year-old singer is currently touring the country on her third transcontinental trip. 4 * * * THE DIMINUTIVE soprano first stepped into the international limelight in November, 1950, scor- ing a triumph in "Dan Giovanni" in her Metropolitan debut when she pinch-hit for an ailing prima donna on a few hours' notice. Since then Miss Peters has performed with the company's front-rank singers and has made appearances in London's Royal Opera Houst, where Sir Thomas Beecham starred her in Festival of Britain performances of "The Bohemian Girl." Termed a "top-notch singer" by New York Herald Tribune critic Jay Harrison, the soprano was born and grew up in the Bronx and has spent most of her life pre- paring for a musical career. Since it was necessary for the potential artist to have proper in- struction in languages, ballet and dramatics as well as voice, her; parents provided private tutoring in these arts. Following her initial triumph with the Metropolitan Opera, Miss Peters has piled success upon suc- cess in appearances all over the world and is currently seen in her first film assignment, "Tonight We Sing." Tickets for the program priced at $3, $2.50, $2 and $1.50 are on! sale from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and 1 to 4:45 p.m. daily in the University Musical Society offices in Burton Tower. "A lowering of the death rate. increase in life span, and reduction in the number of cases of commu- nicable disease can all' be traced to the passage of public health laws and the efforts of the public health worker." according to Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, surgeon gen- eral of the U.S. public health serv- ice. In R lecture yesterday before a School of Public Health Assembly, Dr. Scheele, '31, traced the history of the public health movement from its beginning in 1850 to the present day, and explained "What the Modern Public Health Move- ment Is." -Daily-Gerry Van Otteren BRAIN AT WORK - In its new bookkeeping machine, the Union business office has found the answer to many problems. In use since last spring,- the automatic bookkeeper can add, subtract, multiply and divide, in addition to correcting its own mistakes. Duplcate forms are typewritten, checks .are filled out and ledgers completed with a few flicks of a finger. I * * * * * * continued. Its light colors were cycle resembles a sleek sports car, used to eliminate eyestrain. the machine voices a slight hum Resembling a standard adding while in operation. Then, a few machine apout as much as a bi- flicks of a finger, numbers add up, totals are corrected for mistakes,! " and the machine completes its job. tj2XeCtwLUC Atppointments Told by. Herr Appointments to positions open- ed last week on the Student Leg- islature's newly-created Executive Wing were announced yesterday by Wing Coordinator Ron Herr, '55. INCLUDED AMONG those nam- ed as buyers, office managers and assistants, librarians and radio staff workers are Bebe Horiuchi, '54; Robert E. Jardinico, '54; Lar- ry Levine, '56; Helen E. Lusko, '55; Illne Pavlone, '57; Carolyn Ker- ner, '57; Connie Wegner, '55; Ger- aldine May, -'57; Ellen Geideman, '57; Iris Bandman, '57; Adrienne Haigan, '57; Natalie Grodnik, '57, and Carib Wenzel, '57. Others on office and library staffs are Kathy O'Brien, '55; Sally Kodish, '57; Janet'Fildew, '57; Nancy Howe, '56; Eleanor Shaw, '56; Lois Peisachow, '57; Frieda Zale, '57, and Leah David, '57. Students given committee ap- pointments are'Grant Harris, '55; Dick Mackenzie, '55; Bob Spath, '55; Bruce Coleman, '55; Buzz Newton, '55; Cece Coleman, '55; Audrey Newton, '57; Mark Jaffe, '57; Marilyn Spiro, '57; Linda Her- man, '56; Ann Marshall, '57; Ann Sterling, '57 and Margaret Conn, "7., Order your Tickets Now - y Mail Detroit Grand .Opera Association Presents the EW YORK-CITY OPERA CO. AT MASONIC TEMPLE -8 PERFORMANCES Tues. Eve., Nov. 10 Puccini with LICIA ALBANESE,* MADAMA BUTTERFLY in Italian JonlCrain Frances Bible, Lawrence Winters , Richard Torigi; Joseph Rosenstock, Conductor Wed.Eve., Nov. 11 Verdi with LEONARD WARREN,A in Italian Adelaide Bishop, David Poled, Richard Wentworth, RIGOLETTO (allet) Edith Evans; Julius Rudel, Conductor Fri. Eve., Nov. 13 Menotti with PATRICIA NE WAY, in English Gloria Lane, Norman Kelly, Edith Evans, THE CONSUL Ballet) Richard Torigi; Thomas Schippers, Conductor Sat. Mat., Nov. 14 J. Strauss with JACKJRUSSELL, in English Jean Fenn. 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