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TMf ARFZONA DAILY STAR SUIDAY. SEPTEMBER 195? PAGE NINE SECTION I Parkview Hotel One Of Few Landmarks Of Cay Nineties While The City Sleeps Joekey Lee's Too Bmy To Feel. Lonely: Tracking Of Missiles Perfected. Army Develops Twin Radio Signal System HUNTSVILLE, Aug. 31 1 Old Building Began Career As Theater i By DAVID SMITH Tucked away upon the very edge of Tucson's fast-expanding business district is one of the city's few remaining landmarks the old Parkview Hotel, formerly the social and cultural center of Problem: How to keep track of M.C.

Of 'Night Beat' Is The Whole Show giant, long-range ballistic missiles from the instant of launching in order to know where they are 1 headed. the Old Pueblo. The Parkview began its long career as the Reid Opera House, showpiece for the top theatricals of the Gay Nineties. The story begins In the early spring of 1886, when the Arizona DailVyStar noted that "Billie Reid, of the Scotia Saloon, is building a new opera house on the site of the hardware store of A. D.

Otis 't i i jil: I i -j. i t'-, mmmmmtmmmmmsir(t tftii i m-tf mm in -fcn iir tow i Co." Solution: The "beat-beat" missile tracking system developed by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. The agency, located at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, conducts test launchings of ballistic missiles at Cape Canaveral, site of the Air Force Missile Test Center. The agency produced the Redstone ballistic missile system and is developing the Jupiter intermediate range bajjistic missile. Karl Sendler, of the agency's missile firing laboratory, perfected "beat-beat" with the assistance of James R.

White, a section chief in the same laboratory. Although relatively simple, the system has proved its dependability many times. It utilizes continuous electronic signals flashed from the missile tn ground receiving stations. Its range extends hundreds of miles. Technically, Sendler defines it as the optical horizon.

The system is based on the doppler effect. For example, when a train blowing its horn approaches an observer, the tone of the signal appears higher. When the train moves away the tone appears lower. The same effect "can be observed if, instead of an audible tone, a radio frequency is radiated. In the same manner the frequen The grand opening of the new Reid Opera House was a gala affair for Tucson.

The theatre was decorated with fine new scenery brought from Chicago, and it featured gas lighting. The house was spacious 700 persons could be seated comfortably, and it could paek in 900 "without danger to the flooring," an advertisement of the day said. Theatre-goers brought their own seats, depending on personal taste or the state of their sacroiliacs; they paid for the space their chairs occupied. Members of the upper crust had private boxes near the stage, which they furnished to suit themselves. Over the next decade, the Reid furnished Tucson with many fine plays, concerts and minstrel shows.

The presentation for the Old House With A Gay Past The Parkview Hotel, at the corner of Pennington and Meyer, was the cultural center of the Old Pueblo when it was the Reid Opera House. All the leading start of the Gay Nine ties played on the stage of this historic land mark. Now there It little left to recall the days of the gas-lit (Jack Sheaffer Photo) opening was Gilbert and Sullivan'so Forest fires consume 14 per cy of a radio source carried on Hong Kong 'Jail' cent of the wood growth In south board the missile will appear low er at a ground station as the Many Tucsonans earn their daily bread while the city slumbershere is another in a series of stories about those who are on the job in the pre -dawn hours. By DALE PARRIS In the middle of the night the iecond floor studio-office of radio station KAIR, at 48 E. Broadway, seems a lonely and deserted spot.

But it's. not quite deserted, and there's little time for loneliness for the studio's sole nocturnal tenant, Disc Jockey Dave Lee. In charge of the station's program, "Night Dave begins his "work day" at midnight with a five-minute broadcast of late world Inews events. From that point on, he's caught up in a relentless cycle of announcing, record-changing, news editing, weather reporting and telephone answering which keeps him on the go straight through the night. Essentially, his Is the job of broadcasting music, news and sports for the listening pleasure of Tucson night owls.

A simple enough task, at first glance. Broken down into the closely-timed schedule he must adhere to, it becomes something less than "a breeze." For, besides the nightlong marathon of record playing, the "Night Beat" D. duties include six five-minute newscasts, six news headline editions, advertising, public service announcements, conduct of listener contests and a constant watch over broadcasting equipment audio' controls a job requiring the combined talents of newsman, elocutionist, engineer and "cool cat" musician. To keep up with the pace, Jockey Lee starts the race from a center position in the slot of a horseshoe-shaped desk, facing a panel of control switches and dials. On the desk directly before him is a microphone, and just above, in easy reach, a rack of the current "top A telephone is anchored at his right knee, and two turntables stand at each elbow.

Directly behind him, a wall of alphabetized bins holds an undetermined number of records and albums. Turntables on his left are used alternately for music selections, and the two on the right are used principally for recorded news openings, station breaks and other special effects. Busiest moment of the night comes with the nightly "Dial a Disc Mystery Tune" contest in which, listeners are invited to name the tune, or band leader, or answer other questions connected with the contest selection. Before the record has run a half-dozen turns, listeners deluge the station With telephone calls. Unfortunately for Dave, the calls don't stop with a winner an endless number of subsequent callers must be given the disappointing news that another listener was faster with the dialing finger.

On the musical side, the first hour of "Night Beat" is devoted ern forests each year, exceeding the total amount which Is cut for pulpwood. rocket moves away, and higher when the missile approaches the station. The signal is then com paired with a standard frequency ana ine result is tne "Deat," an "Mikado." Following after in blurred procession come the old, forgotten name's Ada Rehan, Louis James, Frederick Ward, Blanche Bates, Katheriiiu Kidder, Jeffries-Lewis and William Brady's Fifth Avenue Troupe. The Star, on April 3, 1886, commented, "It is unnecessary for us to do more than refer to Jeffries-Lewis, who has a worldwide reputation." Miss Jeffries-Lewis was then appearing in a play entitled, "Forget Me Not." The building of the new Tucson Opera House by A. V.

Grossetta HEARING SECRET! audible tone. Two receivers are symmetrical ly arranged to a predetermined Reporters Just Waiting It Out Newsmen Get Into Red China But Won't Leave As Peiping May Relent (Russell Brines, of the Copley Newt Service, was the first of the 24 America newsmen, authorized by the U. S. State Department to enter Red China, to reach Hong Kong from the United States. Five newsmen already stationed In the Far East were already in Hong Kong awaiting authorization to enter Red flight line.

As long as the missile travels along the line, the "beat" frequencies at each of the two receivers is exactly the same. But if the missile deviates to right or left, one "beat" increases, the in 1895 sounded the death knell other decreases. The difference for the Reid as'an entertainment palace. Reid was less and less Has Hands Full Could Use Three! Late-hours disc jockey Dave Lee, of radio station KAIR, ha his hands full es the sole occupant of the studios between midnight and 6 a.m. The station's "Night Beat" program keeps him busy with a tight, night-long schedule of record playing, announcing and newscasting.

(Jack Sheaffer Photo) able to attract the big-name performers, while Grossetta drew in China.) between the two frequencies, or the "beat-beat," indicates a lateral velocity and the total number of "beat-beats" Indicates lateral displacement Other electronic equipment car such luminaries as Sarah Bern hardt and Otis Skinner. Global Report In 1902. Reid remodeled his By RUSSELL BRINES HONG KONG, Aug. 31 This is probably the most fascinating jail in which any newsman was ever confined. There is little doubt among the dozen American correspondents, waiting to enter Red China, that booming, tourist-filled Hong Kong will be a form of jail for an indefinite time.

ries the information to a strip chart where a pen traces the exact course. The flight safety officer, watching the ink tracing, knows exactly where the missile is at This man is wearing the smallest Sonotone hearing aid ever IUT WHERE 18 IT? He has a secret ft'i WOM ENTIRELY IN THI EAft. No COrd, nothing worn anywhere else. Sonofone Of Tucson H. F.

SHEPLER, Manager Ph. MA M031 47 E. Jadtaoa They don't expect Communist authorities to permit them into the country very quickly but they are unwilling to leave this port of entry for fear that Peiping may change its mind. As a face-saving gesture Peiping audience by having the newsmen depart in disgust. At present the newsmen can only wait for a favorable sign from Peiping, which now holds the initiative, and make the best of their neon-lighted, gay, bustling jail.

opera house and reopened it as the Park View Hotel. Rooms were built around the sides of the old theatre and a second floor was added. The stage was covered by bathrooms and utility rooms. For a number of years the Elks and Masonic lodges met in quarters upstairs. Under the ownership and management of Mrs.

Rose Zucca, who bought the hotel from Reid in 1923, the building's face was again lifted in 1948. A small wing was added to the east for Blanton-Cole, architects. Attorneys Henry Merchant, Timothy Parkman and all timss. If a deviation indicates that the missile might "escape from a safe course, it can be immediately destroyed. The chart will also tell the safety officer where the missile will impact when cut off.

"Beat-beat" also records the missile's journey in relation to the perpendicular and indicates when it tilts towards the apex of its trajectory. Kuwatly Return Good For West Moderately Rightist President Of Syria Returns To Job In Capital, Damascus By REMBERT JAMES Military Editor The Copley News Service The best news to come out of Syria since pro-Communist officers seized full control of the Syrian army was the return of President Shukri Kuwatly to his capital, Damascus. Kuwatly is no friend of the United States, but he is no Communist either, although he has been a visitor to Moscow and often mouths had been expected to stall under any cfrcumstances before admitting the newsmen authorized by Washington. Otherwise there would anything too wild," Lee says. "In fact," he adds, "the current trend is toward an easier, quieter rock roll and even Presley, the acknowledged king of rock 'n' roll recently is tending toward the quieter, down-tempo tunes." Along about 2 a.m., selections taper off into standards, current "pops" and maybe a few jazz numbers.

Lee, himself, likes music that's bright as well as the softer style and, he says, "after all, our program is not to put people to sleep but to entertain them while they're awake." Despite close scheduling, Lee conducts the program with surprising calm. Quiet-voiced and temperamentally serene, he handles timing and unforeseen bottlenecks with apparent ease. Lee has been in radio station work for six years, most of the time on nighttime programs. He took his first radio job when he was 18, at a small independent station in Beeville, Texas, where his duties ranged from announcing and newscasting to sweeping the floor. Later he worked as D.J.

and newsman at WFOX, in Milwaukee, and as a "personality disc jockey" at WDUZ, in Green Bay, Wis. A brand new Tucsonan, Dave moved here only 10 days ago from Hollywood. Donald Pitt now occupy the old barroom and three rooms on the west. And the exterior of the building was brought up to date, with a whitewashed stucco facade. Hearing Set On Globe Road Jobs pro-Russia views.

to filling record requests and He is an Arab politician with From the outside, the Parkview Hotel looks like any other modern "spinning selections picked from the top 10, the top 30, and a couple of D.J. picks. Tucson building, but to walk down "These selections usually include mm S-NOW AVAILABLE a number of rock 'n' roll tunes, of course, but we don't go into FOR PRIVATE PARTIES The Beautiful Triple Ranch (no the long entryway into the lobby is to walk back to 1890. Little is left to suggest the old theatre of the Gay Nineties; the remodeling has changed a lot. But two long pull-cords still draw your attention to the ceiling, to the two large old skylights.

And In the back of the lobby is a sign proclaiming, "Exit." Council Lists Forty Items On Agenda A 40-item agenda, mainly composed of routine items, will be handled by the City Council at its two meetings on Tuesday. Five hearings on requested zoning changes will be held at the 1:30 p.m. session. One of the hearings is on a be an implication to Asians that Secretary of State Dulles was dictating the terms. Now the question is how seriously Red China intends insisting on the admission of Communist newsmen to the United States? So far this demand Is still unofficial although it doubtless is approved by the highest Red Chinese authorities and there still is a face-saving way to drop it and admit the Americans.

Hong Kong newspapers are suggesting that Peiping is glad to have this excuse to stall or deny the entrance of the Americans at this time, when there are clear signs of stresses and unrest within Red China. On the other hand the Americans now gathering here represent a vast audience which Red China long has been anxious to reach in its quest for world stature. The Communists probably don't want to risk losing this ie STARLIGHT DINNER DANCES UTR I LITE FOOD SUPPLEMENT AGENT HAM KEDDIE 2048 E. Grant Rd. Ph.

EA 54307 PHOENDC, Aug. 31 HV-A public hearing is scheduled Sept. 16 at the American Legion auditorium in Globe on a $3,800,000 highway improvement program. The nine proposed projects would all be in the Globe area. Highway Commissioner L.

F. Quinn from Gila County will preside at the hearing and technical points will be explained by State Highway Engineer William E. Wiliey. Included in the projects is realignment of .7 miles of U. S.

60-70 in the Central Heights area for a four-lane highway with a modified interchange to serve the Heights, Midland City and Miami Gardens. Its estimated cost is $450,000. POOLSIDI PATIO PARTIES BUSINESS AND Cllll lANOUtTS DEALER MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS (OVERNIGHT EXECUTIVE SUITES AVAIlAIll) Pchange in the zoning Taw relating moderate rightist views who is maneuvering to keep his job. Western diplomats cannot tee him as an ally who will throw out the pro-Communists. They do see his return from Egypt to his home country as evidence that there is enough conservative feeling in Syria to make it unlikely there will be any immediate and complete takeover of Syria by leftists taking orders from Moscow.

This gives the West time to plan countermoves and try to put them into effect. For observers who know the' workings of Syrian politics, the return of Kuwatly has still another meaning: Street fighting and assassinations are unlikely or, at least Kuwatly thinks so. The shrewd old president is an expert at dodging violence in a country where fanatics believe any political foe is a proper target for a pistoishot. He served as president twice before the start of his present five-year term In September of 1955. SOCIAL NOTE: Tbt Pirftcl PUci for your ntxt Luncheon party Clest Town tot tn Wilmot fust Ntrtb of Spudway 35E I ill Brown Military Academy The West Coast's Most Distinguished Military Academy High School Grade School Post Graduate Course College Preparatory Sports Band Training Honor R.O.T.C.

Unit REGISTER NOW FOR THE FALL SEMESTER STARTING SEPTEMBER 1. qmfflfjrjmnao to setback requirements in residence zones. A report on cost-of-living indexes in connection with employe salaries is to be made by the city manager. The morning session will start at 10: 30 with street matters making up most of the items. Another would realign part of FBI Chief Warns Of Sex Crimes WASHINGTON, Aug.

31 -With a new school year about to start, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Friday called on all citizens to help protect children from sex' criminals. "A constant vigilance by every citizen and every parent Is the price of protection against this sadistic menace," Hoover wrote in the September issue of the FBI law enforcement bulletin. Of vital importance, Hoover said, is the need for prompt reporting to police of such incidents as indecent advances, "peeping Toms," exhibitionism, and other seemingly minor offenses. 60-70 along Willow to the Southern Pacific Depot to relieve traffic congestion.

Estimated cost is San Deigo Calif. Hudson 8-2821 1800 Garnet Ave. Write for Booklet $750,000. A third would realign U. S.

0 In one area of Peru the humidity is so high that matches will not light unless stored in air-tight boxes. Local Representative Mrs. Walter Hodge 817 North Irving Circle Tucson, Arizona Phone EA 5-5482 from Ash street to Airport Flats, at an estimated cost of $800,000. Another would continue Willow street on a new alignment for al ternate U. S.

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