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Officers Look Over Speedy New Computer
Sgt. Johnny Moreland of the Perry post,
Georgia State Patrol, watches as Senior Radio
Operator Robert M. Burns learns to operate the
Perry State Patrol Post
Gets Super Computer
By Maxine Thompson
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Leigh Casuals
PERRY PLAZA
Terminal just put into ser
vice at the Perry Post of the
station’s new TC-500 Computer Terminal. Andy
Sheahan, Coordinator of Public Safety from the
State office in Atlanta, shows Burns how to
operate the computer.
Georgia State Patrol is
fifteen to twenty times as
fast as the old type con
ventional computer being
used there to send and
receive information.
Tied in to the state com
puter in Atlanta, it “talks” to
the National Crime In
formation Center in
Washington, D.C., and the
information it requests is
obtained in seconds.
A tag check, for example,
takes approximately 10
seconds on the new machine.
Asked how long it took on the
older one, Chief Radio
Operator Robert Burns and
Radio Operator Charles Nutt
first joked, “Well,
sometimes you’re lucky if
you get it back that day.”
But then they admitted that
results were faster than that,
it just seemed that way by
comparison.
Andy Sheahan, Coor
dinator of Public Safety in
State Department of Public
Safety headquarters in
Atlanta, has the task of
training the men here to
operate the computer. All
State Patrolmen assigned to
this post in the six-county
area it covers are required to
learn its operation.
To demonstrate the speed
of the new computer,
Sheahan sat down at the new
machine and Burns at the
old. Each entered an
automobile license plate
number for a check, and in a
few seconds Sheahan had his
Perry Band Boosters
To Sponsor Contest
Perry Band Booster Club
is sponsoring a poster
contest to promote the An
nual Spring Concert which
will be held on May 16.
All students from the
Elementary, Junior High
and Senior High Schools are
eligible to enter. Cash prizes
will be awarded to first,
second and third place
winners in each school
category. Prizes will be
awarded at the Spring
Concert.
The posters must be
turned in to the schools by
May 10. Students must put
their name, grade, school
and homeroom teacher’s
name on the back of each
poster.
complete reply in print.
Burns sat and waited; his
machine became activiated
and he had to wait for an
incoming message that had
been “stacked up’’ waiting
for an open circuit. At it’s
end, the machine picked up
his request, and although his
reply was back shortly,
Sheahan had run his check
twice, received both replies,
and sat with arms crossed
waiting for Burns’ machine
to come through.
“When we get all of these
machines installed, there
should be around 95 of them
in Georgia, including all
State Patrol posts and a
number of police and
Sheriff’s departments,”
Sheahan said.
Sgt. Johnny Moreland of
the Perry Post expressed
delight at having this post
chosen as one of the first to
have the computer installed,
for his post is currently three
men short due to transfers
and this new speedy
checking device should be a
great asset to his men. If a
trooper spots a suspicious
automobile, for example, he
can radio the tag number in
to the operator at the post,
who will place it in the
computer and have a tag
check in seconds to radio
back to the patrol car.
“Traffic has really in
creased on us, especially on
1-75, so we need all of the
help available,” Sgt.
Moreland said.
After the posters have
been judged, they will be
placed in the local stores to
promote the Spring Concert,
which will be presented by
the Junior and Senior High
School bands.
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State, according to a report
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Bureau of the Census, U. S.
Department of Commerce.
Per capita income for the
county amounted to $2,802,
the report shows.
The 1970 census counted
62,924 residents in the
county; 1.1 percent were
foreign born and 3.3 percent
native born with one or both
parents of foreign birth.
Among the county’s 56,836
inhabitants age 5 and over in
1970, 6,049 were living in a
different county within the
State in 1965, and 15,880 in a
different State.
In the population age 16
and over, 87.1 percent of the
men and 44.3 percent of the
women were in the labor
force. Among the employed,
53.8 percent were holding
white collar jobs, and 49.4
percent were government
workers.
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About 43.5 percent of the
married women with
husband present were in the
labor force, and 33.9 percent
of these wives had children
under six.
There were 19,116 persons
3 to 34 years old enrolled in
school. In the 25 and older
population, 64.5 percent of
the men and 55.5 percent of
the women were high school
graduates.
Copies of the report,
“General Social and
Economic Characteristics,
Georgia,” PC(1) -12 C, are
available for $3.25 each from
the Superintendent of
Documents, U S. Govern
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Washington, D. C. 20402, or
from U.S. Department of
Commerce field offices
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HOUSTON COUNTY
AGENT, EMMET
WHELCHEL KEEPS YOU
UP TO DATE WITH LOCAL
FARM NEWS EACH WEEK
IN THE HOME JOURNAL.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1972
For Your I ' M
Candidate HHH
ELECTION 9 MAY 1972
Paul Clements
Clerk , State Court
Os Houston County
PAID POLITICAL AD.