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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1955)
SIX MEDFORD OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thunday. March 31, 1953 P!s La'd for Start of Central Point's New Dial Service at 11 O'clock Toniqht .orv-A31 PhonHthisdistrict,.said J. H. Greater, I Eugene. . , under supervision of fn,,. I ria,. . W 1 1 J I service will be annonnr-H f n pm. tonight by the wail of sirens as the first official dial telephone call is made to Central Fo:nt from Medford. A four-way conference call be tween Mayor Don Faber of Cen tral Point, Mayor Earl M Miller of Medford. the Central Point Fire Dr-partment. and Oregon's Representative Harris Ellsworth at Las Vegas. Nevada, will bf part of a full hour 'cutover" telecast by KBES. Long Preparation The actual cut to dial opera tion for the Central Point office will be the final sten in nvor month's work to bring the latest i pe 01 dial telephone service to this district,. said J. H. Creager, Pacific Telephone manager. Pre paration included construction of a new concrete block build ing, complete rehabilitation of outside lines, and installation of both central office facilities and of customer instruments. A small army of telephone workers, many '"borrowed" from offices in other parts of the state, have contributed a variety of skills to the project. Engineering for this newest addition to the Medford direct dialing area was in the hands of Senior Engineer Jim Hill and Engineer W. C. Judy, assisted by D. M. Anselm. S. D. Fuaua and C. L. Main of Medford. and R. C. Jackson and Joseph Ivanick of Installation of dial equipment in the new building began in November under direction of Western Electric foreman W. D. Mold. Necessary companion equipment in the Medford office was installed by a crew under the supervision of T. D. Killman. Dials Installed ' Supervising construction fore man Frank Little and Charles S. Barry, construction foreman, directed the work of Medford line crews who were joined by construction foreman Henry C. Weise and his three-man crew from Newport; and Don Col- trane, head lineman, and H. R. Bytti, tractor operator from Roseburg. Cable splicing was under supervision of foreman E. C. Spence. Installation of dial telephones in the Central Point area began late in January under direction of plant service foreman W. W. Williams and Earl DeLisle. Girls in the Medford business office, principally Constance Ames and Shirley Deen, have been busy for weeks with serv ice orders and customer records in connection with the change. At the same time Outside Rep resentative Ken McDonald has been busy contacting subscrib ers affected by the service im provement prosram. M. O. Wal ker, senior deskman. has been swamped with paper work. too. in changing and bringing up to date the Central Point customer ! records. Supervising Wire Chief R. F. Rogers, under whose direction the Central Point "cut" is being made tonight, said Merton Lys ter, senior switchman, and Jim Tillery, switchman, will handle the transfer operation in the Medford dial office and Dick Ludwig and Howard Rickman, switchmen, will handle the cut of toll facilities. No Interruption There will be no interruption of service at the time of the cut because all Central Point sub scribers who have had telephone service previously now have two instruments. The new dial ones will be "brought to life" at 11 p.m. when Chief Switchman Car rol Judy, assisted by Harris Ross, Howard Phillips and John Sedey strip threaded "picks" or "blocking tools" from banks of line relays in the new office. The old instruments will be removed in a few days. There may still be a few tele phones in Medford without let tered dials, says Creager. Those customers whose instruments do not have both letters and num bers may obtain the up-to-date dial by calling repair service (114). There is no charge for the change of dial plates. The assignment of 2-letter, 5- digit numbers in Central Point (prefix NOrmandy 4) is a step m the establishment of a uni form nation-wide numbering plan which will permit speedy long distance dialing by opera tors at first and eventually by the customers themselves. Plane Lands Safely After Throwing Prop San Francisco (U.P.) A United Air lines DC-4 carrying 47 passengers and three crew members landed safely here yes terday after losing a propeller "and a few connected parts," on a flight from Seattle. A UAL spokesman said the 1 accident occurred near the coast line near Crescent City, Calif. There was no report on where the parts landed, but the pilot believed they fell into the Pa cific ocean. The airline said the plane had no difficulty flying on three engines. PLANT AND SHRUB SALE SAT., APRIL 2 Starting 8 A.M. Johnston Stores 112 South Riverside IF YOU'RE MOT TRflPIMS AT THE (GROCETERIA YOU'RE PAVING TOO MUCH! 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