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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1954)
'Voice' Helps Answer Phone At Airlines There's anew "part-time voice at United Air Lines which has been taking over telephone an swering while personnel are on the ramp taking care of incom ing and outgoing aircraft The unit is called an Automa tic Answering Service, provided as a special service by the Pac ific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Officials at United explained that there was quite a drastic Deed for such a unit because when flights stop at Salem every one leaves the office to assist In the past they had, by neces sity, been taking the phone off the hook, but callers had com plained about as much as when no one answered the phone if it was left in its cradle. Elmer Berglund, Salem man ager of PT&T, explained the working of Jhe unit this way: When the user is to be away from the phone for any length of time he throws a switch turn ing on the set, consisting of a small metal box and toggle switch. Should anyone call dur ing that time he is greeted by a prepared message, . made up to suit the business, and requested to leave his name and number at the sound of a bell When the bell sounds a disc recorder then takes down the name, num ber and any message provided by the caller. The unit will take California Berry Prices in Decline PORTLAND (JP) Northwest strawberry prices this year will be under pressure from a lower California price, market sources said here. Stemmed berries delivered to e sjuaa cj ajB sjazdaj euuojm?3 pound, 1 cents less than a year ago. Another factor which might deplete prices is that frozen stocks are heavier than in 1953. up to 25 such messages and the disc can be used over, Berglund explained. Berglund said the units have been available in Salem for about a year and about 15 of them are now In use by business and pro fessional persons. United has had their set for about 10 days. As welL the units are available for personal use, he said. 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