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TUESDAY. JUNE 10. I960
Computer news
concerns execs
United Press International
ATLANTA — Home delivery of news by computer and cable televi
sion is one of the chief concerns of newspaper executives attending the
American Newspaper Publishers Association technology conference.
The AN PA research and management meeting, which has drawn
some 10,000 newspaper officials and closes Wednesday, is aimed at the
introduction of new technology and its application in the newspaper
business.
New developments are being demonstrated in stackers, presses,
strapping machines, computer terminals, satellite concepts and laser
technology that is quickly outpacing cameras in popularity for produc
ing press-ready plates.
While the display booths contain very little data on computer-
available news, the subject is being widely discussed by the conferees,
with a forum on the push button access to news set for Wednesday.
“I don’t think anyone has a clear view of precisely what the potential
for electronic dissemination (of news) is going to be,” said Walter
Mattson, president of the New York Times Co. and chairman of the
ANPA convention.
Newspapers are big business. Daily newspapers last year took in
$14.5 billion from advertising, nearly 30 percent of all the money
spent on ads in the United States, according the ANPA figures.
The threat of technological advances cutting into that healthy chunk
of the advertising revenue pie has some people in the newspaper
industry worried.
Publishers have been concerned about the electronic threat, pre
viously from television and radio, for 60 years, yet the newspaper
industry is flourishing.
“Newspapers have come into the radio-television era healthier than
they were before, ” Matson said. “Newspapers are making huge capital
investments. (ANPA estimates $659 million in 1980). We are all confi
dent newspapers are here and they will stay here.”
The introduction of home mini-computers and the rapid technolo
gical developments in the cable television industry, prompted in part
by the growing use of satellites for information transfer, is making the
retrieval of news from the home a reality.
The largest commercial effort for home information access — va
riously referred to generically as videotex and viewdata — is called
“the Source, ” a service for owners of personal computers offered by the
Telecomputing Corp. in McLean, Va.
The Source provides its 4,000 subscribers with a dial-up capability
from home computers, giving them access to a variety of information
stored in computers, including news from UPI, business and financial
information, real estate listings, classified advertising and other data.
Push a button and the requested information pops up on a screen.
The Source charges subscribers a $100 lifetime membership and
$2.75 per hour of use. A portion of that income goes to the organiza
tions that provide the computer company with information.
Saudis say no to
$2 per barrel hike
United Press International
ALGIERS, Algeria — Saudi Ara
bia rejected an average $2 per barrel
oil price increase Monday as too high
and OPEC oil ministers predicted
their summit meeting would fail to
unify oil prices and end in a free-for-
all.
Other nations, among them both
doves and hawks on the issue of oil
prices, also opposed the $32 proposal
made by Iraq, which sought a com
promise to unify oil prices, currently
ranging from the $28 charged by
Saudi Arabia, largest foreign sup
plier of U.S. oil, to the $38.21
charged by Algeria.
In practical terms, the proposal
would have raised the average price
of OPEC crude by $2 per barrel and
added 2 to 3 cents to the cost of a
gallon of gasoline or home heating oil
in the United States.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates said no, as did Iran, but for
a different reason. It thought the
price increase was “too low.”
Oil ministers said the apparently
unbridgeable differences meant
there would be no progress in uni
fying oil prices this time around.
After concluding their formal
opening session, 13 ministers from
the Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries closeted them
selves in the tightly guarded Aurassi
Hotel for a late evening session to
debate the proposal to raise the ben
chmark price of crude to $32 a barrel.
For the Saudis, OPEC’s largest
producer, it would have meant rais
ing the price of their oil by $4 per
barrel.
But Saudi Arabian Oil Minister
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani said that
was too much and his government
would not agree to it.
Several other OPEC ministers
also expressed reservations about
the plan and said there was litle hope
of unifying prices now.
At OPEC’s last price session in
Venezuela in December, its once-
unified pricing system collapsed in
disagreement, touching off a wave of
increases that sent crude oil prices to
record levels.
Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar
Moinfar, one of the most radical
“hawks” within OPEC, said a $32
marker for OPEC crude was “too
low,” and suggested $35 might be
more acceptable to him.
“We will not come down (in price)
for the sake of price unity,” said
Moinfar. “We don’t have a unified
price for what we buy, so why should
we have a unified price for what we
sell?”
Conference sources said the Saudi
oil minister has come under pressure
from his OPEC colleagues, particu
larly Venezuela and Iraq, to cut back
Saudi oil production by between 1
million and 1.5 million barrels per
day.
Saudi Arabia currently produces
9.5 million barrels per day and some
OPEC members fear that with a
small surplus developing in the mar
ket, the excess Saudi production
could hamper OPEC attempts to
boost prices later in the year.
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Plans to save Yosemite draw debate
United Press International
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Three factions in
the dispute over a $100 million plan to save Yosemite National
Park from the onslaught of man agree on two things:
That the 1,200-square-mile pearl of the national park system
is in jeopardy and that the whole issue may be moot. They
realize Congress and the President are having trouble balanc
ing the budget now without additional spending at Yosemite.
Conservative estimates now put the price tag of the National
Park Service plan, on the drawing boards for 10 years, at $100
million based on 1980 dollars.
The three groups at odds on how to save the park are the
National Park Service which believes it is time to stop talking
and start work, the 30,000-member Wilderness Society, which
claims the plan is too soft and MCA Corp., parent company for
Yosemite Park and Curry Co., the park’s concessionaire,
which thinks the plan is too hard.
At present, traffic into the park’s narrow valley at times
creates the same kind of traffic jam stretching through a haze of
pollution that motorists from the city are trying to escape.
And, in nearly a century of Park Service custodianship,
hotels, motels, fast food restaurants, grocery stores, gift shops,
golf courses, tennis courts and a laundromat have been built
within park boundaries.
The sheer faces of El Capitan and Half Dome stare down on
30 miles of criss-crossing blacktopped roads confined within
the one-mile-wide and seven-mile-long Yosemite Valley —
the place park Superintendent Bob Binnewies calls the “heart
of Yosemite.”
At present, traffic into the park's
narrow valley at times creates a traffic
jam stretching through a haze of
pollution that motorists are trying to
escape.
More than 1,350 structures are spread throughout the park,
and most are confined between the granite valley walls. An
average 2.5 million people visited Yosemite annually during
the last decade. It took 1,700 NPS and Yosemite Park and
Curry Co. employees living and working in the valley to serve
them.
To restore the slipping splendor, planners agree the auto
mobile must go along with many of the buildings.
NPS officials say the plan would get cars out of Yosemite
Valley and Mariposa Grove to the south, redirect development
to the park’s periphery and keep most of the park under a
wilderness designation.
“The result will be that visitors can step into Yosemite and
find nature uncluttered by piecemeal stumbling blocks of com
mercialism, machines and fragments of suburbia,” the plan
says.
The NPS proposed to move more than 1,000 employee,
of the valley. Many services, including park headqu
would be moved to the nearby communities. A
tennis courts and ice rink would be removed. At
percent of the park’s 761,000 acres would be designated
demess.
Overnight visitors would be limited by the number of nv,-,
and campsites available. Day visitors would be controlLtL
the number of available parking spaces.
The Wilderness Society says that’s not enough.
“As long as the hotels and myriad of tourist facilities i
Yosemite will not really change, ” it said in a statement, i
continue to be an urban center inappropriately pushed
what has been called a ‘premier masterwork of the m
world.’”
The Wilderness Society wants to move all motels
gift shops, employee housing, warehouses and maim
facilities to outlying "staging" areas over a 20-year perkd
provide transportation into the park with a non-polluting
tie bus system. It would finance this addition to the plan
tax-exempt bonds and income from concessions.
Ed Hardy, chief operating officer for Yosemite Park
Curry Co., argues that restricting overnight stays to
campers is discriminatory.
“It will become an elitist park if the only way to stay then,
to walk in,” Hardy said.
Binnewies says it is time to stop talking because more
can delay the work.
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