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872 State Department. After completion of training at AmeR they were detailed to the Dq Moines office for a period of two weeks, with subse- quent assignmeqt,’with one exception, to one of the following stations: KanHaR City, Springfield, Ill., and Misnoula. - DESIGN OF WE FORM 1109 AND WB FORM 1114 To answer questions received at the Central Ofice regarding the design of WB Form 1109, “Radiosonde Data:’ and WR Form 1114, “Cfidrd Pilot Balloon Data:’ a brief explanation follows : The Weather Bureau now uses punch card tabulating machince for adding, multiplying, clamifying, and sorting much of the information used in making summarias of various types. This is a fast, accurate and automatic procedure. Because of wltr needs, the use of tlirse niachines for regular WeatKer Bureau functions has been lirnitod so far, but it is expected that after the war thoy will be put into more general uae. All data originally entered on WH Form 1109 and WB Form 11 14 are tranwribecl thert:frorn to trhulating machine cards in tho form of punched holes in predetermined positions on thr card, and un average operator punches about 1,OOO cards a day. The automatic compilation of these punch card record8 is accomplished electrically by the passago of the perforatrd card under brush contacts which complete olectrical circuits through the card at the position of the punchad hole. Tile closing of these circuitn at definite times and from fixed positions on the card iH the basis upon which these machincv function. The punch cards used by the Weathrr I3urcm contain 80 coluinns correfponding to the colurrins on W13 Form 1109 arid W13 Form 1114. Each digit is amigned one colutnn on thc punch card. The punch card operator punches the colurnns from loft to right beginning at coluinn 1--each obeervation being plnced on a scparutc card, and it is absolutely npcefi- sary that the data be properly arranged and that each entry from surface to rriaxirrium altitude of the obnervation contain the number of digib indieatcJd by the small nurnbrrs at tho hoad of the levcln PO that the operator need not stop to question the data. Freyucntly it is necessary for an obscrver to place a zero preceding a value in order to have the correct number of digits for R level. On some forms, thc same typo of punch card is uaed for ttic lower and upper levels and, consequently, some levels provide for more digits than arc ever required. In such casea zeros are generally printed in thc appropriate columns. The following is cited an exarriple of the efficiency of tabulating machines. When the Weather 13urcau publishod the present WU Form 1048 and WB Form 1043A, “Tables for Computing .Horizontal Distances of Pilot Balloonrr~’ several months were spant in conipiling axid chocking the data, typing and proofreading the copy for thc printcr, arid printing the tables. Recently a request wan received for a set of horizontgl distahce tables based on an mcensional rate different from those reyu- Iarly used by the Bureau. With the aid of tabulating niachincs it was
possible to make and check all computations, tabulate the data, cmd have the finished printed copies available in a period of 6 days. - DISCONTINUANCE OF PIBAL8 AT POINT SUR. CALIF. Owing to the unfavorable weather conditione at Point Sur aa a reeult of fog, low clouds, and strong surface winds, whioh cause the b$- loona to be lost in downdrafts, pibals are being discontinued there. ThiA atation ia operated by Coast Guard Personnel, the Weather B ~mu furnishing the equipment and supplies. RBTABLIBHMENT OF FIRST-ORDER STATION Rffective Septombor 1, 1944, R firat-order station wae established at Siskiyou Summit, Oreg., in lieu of the airway station at that point. The observational program consist8 of hourly eurfaoe reporh with 8- and &hourly additive data. a . \
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298 DEATHS Mr. Phillip W. McDowell,
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