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New Teletype to Speed Delaware Park Mutuels Calculating Room to Transmit Payoffs to Cashier Locations •STANTON, Del., May 8. — A speeded-up payoff operation will be inaugurated at Delaware Park for the 50-day meeting opening on May 29 through the use of a private line teletype system between the master transmitting point and 13 mutuel department elements. The system, first of its type at a major race course, will result in a saving of two minutes in the cashing of winning tickets. The transmitter teletype will be located in the calculating room, "brain center" of the mutuels department, and payoff prices ■ will be disseminated by one preson. The payoff prices will be received simultaneously at 13 teletype stations and relayed to the appropriate cashiers. The use of the typewritten word and figure in large, gothic typeface reduces to a minimum the margin of error. Heretofore several persons telephoned payoff prices to the various mutuel units resulting in a time loss and also multiplying the human element and risk of misunderstanding the spoken word. An emergency "backup" protective telephone hookup from the master station to the 13 mutuel elements implements the teletype system. In the event of a breakdown of the teletype system the closed telephone circuit is available.
