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OUerverLe Grande, Ore., Toet., 0e. 6, 195 ,. Pag I Heads Of Communism Attend Mass Confab Held In Peioina The president of Ikiquary, the Editer's note Rtd China ha reeeted all applications (rem U.S. rport.rs for visas ta covor th 10th anniversary of Rtd China aid th. visit of Soviat Promiar Nik It Khrush chev to Paiping. Tha following UPI dispatch it by special ar. rangement with tha London Daily Express. By CHRISTOPHER DOBSON PEIPING (ITH-I watched the leaders of world Communism gain tr .in a musseJ aiav 3uu strong on the stage of Peking's vast new Hall of t'o.-gress. They had come from all over the world, leaders of governments, men in exile, men who do not own the label of Communist but men who Jointly make up the power of Communism throughout the world. They had come to the loth an niversary of the Chinese Commu nists' defeat of Chiang Ka -shek as to a shrine, a political shrine where they can declare their worldwide solidarity and plan for the future. Party leader Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Kn-lai stood out in their soft- g ey tunic uniforms. Mikhail Suslov, Khrushchev's lean thinking-machine and chief repre sentative here was in the place of honor. So was Ho Chi Minn, once a scullery boy in London, now boss of Viet N'inh. president of Poland, the president of liulgaria, they ware all sitting at I heir desks on the vast stage The Paichen l.ama. In his rich silken robes, sat immediately be hind Chou En lai. They were gath ered together before an. audie ,ce of 10.000 no, I m not mistaken, 10.000 people sitting comlortubly in th s incredible building It is so huge it makes the United Nations Building in New York look like a village meeting hull. It is niixtern and yet the eaves have a delicate tip-tile to suggest a Chinese pagoda. It has two soaring balconies, discreet lighting, and is finished in light oak. And on the ceiling is a gigantic ruby-red star. One after another delegates walked to the rostrum to sing a chorus of pra'se for China and Communism and ex press contempt for the way of life as we know it in the West. There was a Uruguayan dele gate: "Our small country is con fronted with a twofold great his toric task, to combat the aggres sive United States policy in all its opppressive forms and to open up the roail to agrarian reform." STUDENTS POISONED AMMAN, Jordan UPi Po lice investigated today the food poisoning of nearly 100 students at the Amman Industrial School Monday. TELEPHONE NEWS for... LA GRANDE from West Coast Telephone Company On of a aeries of meaaagea about the progress and plana of th West Coast Telephone Company. - We frequently racoiva calls in this office from a Subscriber he ts having problems with someone on his party line. When yew consider that hore in La Grande we have 4,334 telephone and that approximately 23.0CO local calls are placed from the phenes each day, it's not surprising that there Is some frustra tion among people trying to get a line. In this column, I'd like to tell you about party lines in La Grande what the Company is doing about them and what you can do to get better service from them. WHY PARTY LINES? "5 You need only look around this area to find the main reason for parly lines. The reason is growth. Today we have more than twice as many telephones in our system than we did ten years ago. When new people move into the area, our first tusk is to make telephone service available to them. UP-GRADING SERVICE '. In order to keep up with the demands for new service and to "up grade" party lines we must constantly add new lines and ail the complex central office equipment necessary for handl ing them. During the past four years we have spent 807,321 dol lars on new construction in the 1 J Grande exchange alone. We are planning continued expenditures to add still more lines to "up-grade" existing lines to the point where we can fill sub scribers' orders for even better classes of service. CAUSES OF PARTY-LINE PROBLEMS Four things cause a subscriber to call our office about another party on his line. They are, in order of frequency: 1. Prolonged conversations that tie up the line both for in coming and outgoing calls, 2. A phone "off the hook." This usually Is the result of child ren playing with the telephone. 3. Unreasonable demands by one party to use the line when someone else is on it. The most common form of this com plaint is that someone "picks up the phone every few seconds." 4. Abusive language either by a subscriber trying to get the line or by one refusing to give up a line, Fortunetely we have had practically no complaints about any one filing to give up the line when informed that another par ty needed to place an emergency call. This form of party line discourtesy is, of course, a misdemeanor as covered In the crim inal codes of the state. THE CALL THAT COMES THROUGH MAY BE FOR YOU . Many companies in the United States arc confronted with the same or more severe party line problems than those of West Coast. Some have recently installed an automatic cut off svstem that disconnects a party line call after a certain length of' time, Usually 9 minutes. We of West Coast do not believe that this kind of anproarh is the answer to the problem The answer, we think, lies in the course we are taking: to work with every available resource to continually "up-grade" the service, and to make subscribers aware of the basic problems that are inherent in all party lines. As I said earlier, we are working just as fast as money, ma larial auu men ut-vumi uvauuuic 10 no away wiin tne necessity of even one person being on a partv line who doesn't want to be on one. Until we have completed accomplishing this job you will ei intuit pany line service n you reinemoer to keep calls - ae brief and to space your calls so that incoming calls can get through. Remember, "the call that comes through may be for you." ' U you have any questions about party lines or any other phase Of West Coast Telephone smice, please drop nie'a note . Write to: Mr. Ed Watts, Division Manager, West Coast Telei . pnene Co, La Grande, Oregon. Serving th infest grotiing communitiei in tht U.S.A. 'WfistT COAST 71LIFHONI COMPANY Shop and save this week at Wards! , Open tonight 7 p.m. 9 p.m. a- t .1. i '1 v.J j j hh LJ LJ SJUJRI H $ la i am i i J ,. 'una k 4 v.. J oB Where All America Shops and Saves Easy Monthly Terms. SAlfl MEN'S ARGUE SOCKS 49c pr. 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