Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-02
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORMS A NEW ROCKY
MOUNTAIN CIRCUIT
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

! DENVER, Jan. 30.-With the open
ing of the wires Sunday night, The
Associated Press will inaugurate a
new high speed printer circuit for
the movement of news from Kansas
City to the Pacific coast which is
expected to more than double the
pace of news movement. The new
circuit will serve directly Denver,
Salt Lake City and San Francisco, and
indirectly territory north and south
of these relay points. The new cir
cult was especially constructed for
The Associated Press by the Western
Union Telegraph company. The print
er circuit will move so or more words
a minute, double the amount moved
on past Morse telegraph wires.
At the same time it was announced
the creation of new news division
to be known as The Rocky Mountain
News division, comprising the states
of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico,
wyoming and Montana, which are
separated from the western division,
formerly composed of all tates west
of the eastern Colorado line. The
new UlVISlOn Will ne nSduSO NY
news editor Charles D. Watkins, who
has been in the service of The AS
sociated Press nearly 16 years, the
last eight of which he served in the
New York office of the organization.
He will succeed T. H. Walker, who
for nearly ten years has been corre-
spondent in charge of the Denver
territory. Walker is transferred to
Kansas City as news editor of new
division that is created of states
south of that city which now is the
important relay point between the
east and the west.
In creating the new news divisions,
Kent Cooper, general manager of The
Associated Press, has divided the
large territories of the western and
central divisions into smaller and
more compact news divisions. This
was gone to provide a more compact
and highly organized news gathering
and distributing force in these ter
ritories. BY the change The As
sociated Press expects to speed up
and improve movement of news and
provide for each division a more
comprehensive news service of parti-
cular interest to the territory served.
1t places in charge of such divi-
sion a news editor who has no other
interest than the developing of news
and who is directly responsible to
Cooper. The superintendents who for
merly had charge of news will de-
vote themselves to increased execu-
tive duties.
Charles O'Ha1loran, who has been
traffic department representative in
charge of the Denver territory of the
western division, becomes chief op-
orator in charge of traffic in the
Rocky mountain news division. To
further speed up the movement of
the report to the west The Associated
Press, has under construction by
the Western Union, a new telegraph
circuit from New York to Kansas
City and expects by summer to have
installed on that circuit a high speed
printer similar to the one which
will open from Kansas City to San
Francisco, tomorrow night AS with
the Kansas CitySan Francisco cir
cult, it will be a "a hour service
and will be paralleled by a "a hour
Morse circuit and will pass through
important eastern news centers.
With the completion of the circuit
it is hoped that the news movement
from the east to the west will be
speeded up and more space provided
for news from the east of especial
interest to the Rocky mountain and
Pacific coast states. The new cir
suits are direct wires with no side
lime attached to either.