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MODERNIZING THE SHERIFFS OFFICE 



Baum: Well, when you became sheriff, Sheriff Veale had 

 been in there for forty years. Was it a problem 

 for you to take over? 



Miller: Yes, it was a problem, because this was an office 



run in the horse and buggy days, and it didn't seem 

 to me like it was modern in any way. In the first 

 place, they did all their communication by the old 

 system of telegraph. I immediately junked the 

 telegraph and went into the telephone communications 

 and started right out to go to the state and ask 

 them for a teletype service. So I installed the 

 first teletype service by which we entered into 

 communication with the various sheriffs' offices 

 of the state and police chiefs of the state. This 

 didn't satisfy me either because we were beginning 

 to get some radio service out of the Berkeley office, 

 and we installed immediately a radio connection with 

 the Berkeley office. Unfortunately, the Berkeley 

 office could not always reach us because at that 



