New Orleans – Unless the Federal authorities are to be greatly disappointed, the week beginning today will mark practically the end of the yellow fever visitation.

Wholesale reduction of the health service working forces continue.

General improvement in State conditions continue.

New cases since 6 P.M., Sunday 6; total to date 3,320.

Deaths today 2; total deaths 433.

50 Years Ago, 1955

WASHINGTON – A Ford Motor Co. official said today the new push-button factories will mean easier, safer, better-paying jobs rather than mass unemployment. D. J. Davis, Ford’s vice president in charge of manufacturing, said his company regards the increasing use of electronic and automatic machines, known as automation, as nothing revolutionary but “just another evolutionary phase of our advancing production technology.”

BOSTON – A scientist specializing in “electronic brains” and automation equipment, today regretted that “automation is such a scare word,” and predicted a new industry arising within the computer and automation fields which may employ 12 million in the next 10 years, cut work weeks and raise pay. He hopes those benefiting will use some of the time to better themselves.

25 Years Ago, 1980

You’ve already equipped your home with all kinds of conveniences to make life a little easier. Well, now there’s one that actually makes telephone dialing easier: The Touch-a-matic 12 dialer.

Just add it to any modular non-wall phone, and it remembers up to 12 phone numbers. In an emergency, just press a button and it dials your doctor…the fire department…or any number that you’ve coded in – automatically, children can operate it.

The Touch-a-matic 12 dialer is just one of the conveniences you’ll find at any Bell PhoneCenter Store. And it’s available for a non-recurring charge and a monthly rate. So if anything ever goes wrong, we’ll fix it. At no extra charge. New England Telephone.