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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 7. 1927 iLffl THE COAST v50 Per Cent Increase in Ef ficiency of Service Witrr New Equipment" Additional Ions distance tele phone c ircuits have just been pat g operation direct from the Pa ffKl northwest to San Francisco. The "new circuits one from Portland, another from Puget sound provide an increase of 50 p-r ent in facilities for conversa tion dftween Oregon and Wash ington in the north and Califor nia in the south. Improvements and new con si rurtlon carried forward since the middle of last year now make available a total of three talking circuits for regular service from Seattle to San Francisco and three more irum rurtiauu iu siu rrso- ciso. The above announcement by W. II. Dancy. Salem, manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, was accompanied by the statement that in addition to in creasing facilities for connections between north and south, the . quality of speech transmission will be decidedly improved. This im provement results from the new and late equipment installed at various points along the route bringing into operation the latest development in the art of long distance telegraphy. . k Important units of transmission terminal equipment have been in stalled in telephone buildings at Taroma, Portland. and Sacramen to. This work, recently finished, is associated witb the additional circuits an dis essential in making the mservlceable. At Eugene. Oregon, and also at Roseberg other transmission equipment has been provided to contribute to the evenness of the quality of long haul telephone conversation. I New Building, Medford In Medford, Oregon, he new building jii9t finished and dedicat ed a few days ago contains im portant apparatus. At Redding, California a building and equip ment similar to that at Medford were also recently .completed. Extensive outside t work; has been carried on during the past year between Tacoma and the Columbia river in Washington and between Portland and California points. iTM included placing new wirl jksd rearranging other wire already In place so as to con nect and make possible the unifi cation of numerous stretches of heretofore, short distance circuits 1 into unbroken througn cnanneis 0T conversation. I North of Tacoma the three cir I cuits which extend to Seattle are I continued on wire enclosed by Ta I coma-Seattle long distance: "toll" 1 cable completed by the company I in 1925. I From Sacramento south the six 1 circuits terminating in San Fran- tcisco are enclosed in the new San Salem Markets J go- Francisco-Sacramento toll cable completed late last fall. "These added facilities," said Mr. Dancy, "furnish additional significant evidence of the grow ing Pacific coast unity and spirit of closer contacts-Tetween the states and cities of the west." BODIES OF PAIR FOUND IN MAIL PLANE WRECK Coatiae4 tram pig 1.) ' ground beneath the descending machine when the crash came. The pilot was crushed beneath tile engine. His legs were prac tically torn from his body and his chest was crushed. Schaller's face was horribly mutilated, his legs severed at the knee and bones of his body broken. . The bodies were extricated with difficulty from the wreck and re moved to. Merced where an in quest was held. The plane was northbound from Los Angeles and left Fresno early Sunday for San Francisco, where THE CHERRY CO ST RTI1 Official Letter Receivecj by Secretary of the Cherry Growers' Association (The following letter, received tinder date of Washington, March 31, from Oeo. P. Comer, chief in vestigator of ! the United States tariff commission. to O. E. Brooks of the Salem Cherry Grow ers association, is self explana tory:) "The tariff commission has In stituted an investigation for pur poses of section 315 with respect to cherries, in their natural state, sulphured, 'or in brine. This sec tion of the law requires that the president must base changes in rates of duty, if any, upon the dif ference in the cost of producing it was due to land at Crissy field the article in question in the Unit- about daybreak. Schaller was on ed States and in the principal his first inspection trip of the Pa- j competing country. cific Air Transport offices. "Beginning with April 7 repre sentatives of the commission will be on the Pacific coast seeking the necessary costs and other data with respect to cherries for pur poses of this investigation. It will greatly facilitate the work of the commission in this connection if you will have assembled all of the available price and cost data for cherries for the crop of 1926 preparatory to the visit of our agents. "There Is inclosed an orchard j cost schedule which indicates the nature of the information desired. It Is not expected that you will lie! able to fill put this schedule in detail, but rather it is to be used as a guide b the commissions agents in compiling and checking the costs and other data which you have available. "No schedule has been prepared for obtaining the processing cost of cherries. It is assumed that these data are recorded on the books of the processing companies. and may be obtained directly from them. "The commission's representa tives will notify you when they may be expected." BE REPRESENTS ST GO Kimball School President to Prepare Memorial Book of Washington Ir. John Martin f'anse. presi dent of Kimball School of Theol ogy, who returned-from Tacoma yesterday, has been commissioned by the State Historical society of Washington to prepare a memorial book for the Tercentenary anni versary of George Washington. President Canse will correspond with the chief executives of each state In the union to secure per sonal paragraphs relative to the first president. President Canse went tr Tacoma to represent interests of Kimball at the Methodist Ministers Union meeting In that city. Tuesday he spent In Ontralia, where he added three students to the Kimball roll for next year. President Canpe was also auth orized to represent the Washing ton Historical society at the Champoeg anniversary celebration. Highway Commission Willi Consider Bids at Meeting Bids for approximately 37 miles of new road and construction of a comfort station willj.be opened by the state highway commission at a meeting to be held in Port land April 19. ' ' j The several projects, for which proposals will be received follow: Curry county- Construction of 2S.2 miles of broken j stone and crusheid gravel surfacing on Mey ers Creek-Chetco Iliver section of the Roosevelt oast highway. Work to. be contracted in two units. Jackson county Construction Of .36 mile of crushed 'gravel'sur faclng on Cold Hill section of the Pacific, highway. Iake county- Grading of 9.5 miles of Chalk Clirf-Pai.nley . sec tion of Prinevllle-Iikeview high way. . I ' tTjnatilla county Comfort sta tion for . concession purposes at Emigrant Springs Park 'near Meat ham. ; Hit tiding to be 28 by 56 feet In dimensions and two stories high. Electric Sweeper Being v Used at Cooking School A General Electric sweeper, fur nished by the Oiese-Powers fur niture store,, is being used to clean up the crumbs; at the Giese-Powers. Statesman, cooking school. This school is j being held at the Grand theater this week and is well attended. , i. 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