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TelepKone Directory, One of Best Known Books, Observes 80th Birthday By DOC QUIGG United Pimi Correspondent New York (W One of the world's best known books has its 80th birthday Friday. The telephone directory was born in New Haven, Conn., on Feb. 21, 1873. And my! How it has grown. The world's first telephone directory was on one sheet of paper, headed: "List of sub scribers. New Haven District NOW AT JOHNSTON STORES 0fPf f1 Month im first FT r LJ Lli 1 FILTER AGITATOR Rt m AitonutJc Bttergeat Dispenser! Sprays fnfly dissolved detergent into task water. No "globs" of half-dissolved detergent e clothes. 2-cup capacity lets oa add water softener if yo live in a "hard" water area. - The aew Maytajt; Alt-fabric Automatics alls include: - i PUSHBUTTON WATER LEVEL CONTROL Saves you up to 2500 gallons of not water a year TWO WASH SPEEDS, TWO SPIN SPEEDS let yoa tailor the action to the type of fabric you put in THREE WATER TEMPERATURES INCLUDING "COLD" Let you wash anything safely AUTOMATIC RINSE CONDITIONER (optional) Rinses your clothes m rain-soft water SAND FREE TUB . . . Perforated inner tub keeps sand & soil away from your clothes. Famous For Long Life QUALITY No other wringer washer washes clothes so clean. No other washer gives so many years of trouble free performance. Telephone Company." At the bottom, it said: "Office open from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. After March 1st, this office will be open all night." Twenty-four days earlier, the world's first commercial telephone exchange opened in New Haven with 21 subscrib ers. By the time the directory came out, business had in creased so that it listed 50 names. AUTOMATIC Ifs an Underwater lint fitter! Works wder water where the fint is. Filters during wash and rinse cycle. Keeps lint from clothes. You never have to re move tint filter to load or load washer! ft Ifs a Built-in Suds Pump! Pumps a steady stream of sudsy water up and through clothes. Gives you a new Kind of gentle, thorough cleaning, loosens and lifts out dirt Never drags your clothes through water. Less than two years previ ously, Alexander Graham Bell had spilled acid on his pants and hollered the first intelligible sentence ever car ried by telephone wire: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." The first directory was also the first classified, listing 11 name3 under "residences," 3 "physicians," 2 "dentists," 8 "miscellaneous," 20 "stores, factories, etc." 4 "meat and fish markets," and 2 "hack and boarding stables." One of the First One of the original custom ers still rolling along is the Yale Daily News (it was listed under miscellaneous), which began publication the day the telephone office opened and claims now to be the oldest college daily. Incidentally, there were no numbers in the directory. The operator didn't need any. The operator knew everybody by name. The idea for the central ex change came from George W. Coy, a telegrapher. He and his partners set it up in one room of a building still stand ing. Before that, if you wanted a phone you generally would lease or buy a couple of sets, string your own wires, and have a closed circuit between, say, your home and office. With Coy's exchange, any phoner could get any other phone. Eighty years later, New Haven phone owners can dial themselves directly into 20 states, as far as California, and the operator can dial Honolulu. The first telephone operator was a 17-year-old redhead named Louis Frost, a sturdy and mischevious lad, a son of one of the founders of the company. His chief qualifica tion for the job was probably the fact that the struggling company wouldn t have to pay him regularly, as a mem ber of the family. On the Cuff In .a long-distance interview with the New Haven office (after all, it doesn't cost any thing to call the phone com pany) this reporter was told that the early phone's signal was called "Coy's chicken" because it clicked or clucked rather than rang. The exchange had boys as its earliest operators. What did they say when they an swered? Probably, "Who do you want?" It's been said that person answering said "Ahoy!" But that report, has been discredited. When did women come in as operators? "When the boys started swearing at the customers and playing tricks on them, which was not very long after they'd been on the job. Indeed, it was the next year, on March 21, that the first female operator in Con necticut, Marjorie M. Gray, started in Bridgeport. The ladies worked out just fine (except that it wasnt de cent for them to work at night and the young men con tinued as night operators). But 10 years later, with 1,200 phones, the New Haven office put in the number system and the customers grumbled to high heaven at the change, Asforian Named To Supreme Court Salem (IP) Gordon Sloan, 46-year-old Astoria at torney, was named to the Ore gon Supreme Court by Gov. Robert D. Holmes late Thurs day. Sloan was three times cir cuit judge pro tern in Mult nomah county and is a former vice president of the board of governors of the Oregon State Bar. He succeeds Ran dall B. Kester, who resigned to become general counsel of the Union Pacific Railroad at Portland effective March 1. The new appointee will take over his duties then. Sloan, who will be the youngest member of the seven-member court; was ap pointed by President Truman in 1950 to the United States section of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. He has continued on under the Eisenhower administration, serving in 1955 as chairman and in 1957 as secretary. EX-GOVERNOR DIES Chicago (IP) -Former Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois died in a Chicago hospital Thurs day night after a long illness. He was 61. Salem (TP) Oregon streets and highways were the scene of 61,864 accidents last year. SIGNAL PREMIUM FUEL OILS m GREEN STAMPS IS Try and -By BENNETT CERF- TWO OLD FRIENDS came to New York for a class dinner, and reserved a hotel room for the night before departing for the festivities. This proved to be a wise precaution. They woke up late the following morning with man-sized headaches also a really impressive collection of bruises and one black eye apiece. They decided to seek out their bartender pal in the convention hall to dis cover what happened. He greeted them jovially, with, "Well, well! I see -you boys .decided to make up!" A magazine on gardening received a request for informa tion from a faithful subscrib er with a signature that insured immediate attention from the editor-in-chief. The letter was signed "Constant Weeder." There's a 2-volume. definitive work about mushrooms. It re tails, believe it or not. at $125 a set That's a lot of money to pay for a little fungi! O 1968. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Futures Syndicate. ' PHOENIX Recovers From Illness By LILLIAN KNIGHT Phoenix Mrs. Bertha Med calf is recovering from an ill ness suffered about three weeks ago which resembled In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Disturbing news: Sir Winston Churchill is sick in bed at his winter home down on the French Riviera, where well-heeled Europeans go to get away from the discomforts of win ter. He came down with what a member of his household describes as "a chill, with probable touches of flu."' Let's hope it is no more than that. At any rate,' he ate his breakfast and then called for a cigar. TOUGH it out, sir as you've always done. And good luck to you. ' The world can't get along without you yet. You're rock of stability in a world that is reaching for the moon and building its hopes on something for nothing. You know there is no such thing as something for nothing and have never hesi tated to say so. The world needs men like that. SPEAKING of good men, the npw 'Reriiihlic of Tunisia. which lies across the Medi terranean from the French Riviera, has one. His name is Habib Bourguiba (pronounc ed, in case you're interested, Ha-BEEB Bour-GEE-ba). He is an African-born Arab educated in French schools He married a French wife Tunisia ' pulled loose from France and set up on its own. Bourgubia, who is the Tunis ian republic's first president, intends to keep his country independent. But he wants to work with , the French and not against them. In the ruckus between Tunisia and Algeria, which is filling the papers with headlines, Bourguiba stays de terminedly tolerant and fair toward France. He is a pa triot of the George Washing ton type. It's too bad the French, haven't leaders like this Arab Bourguiba. NOW a word about France. The common, ordinary, everyday French people are among the most loveable on earth. They aren't very pro gressive especially the peas ants, who make up a large part of the French population. They are inclined to be hard- headed and tight-fisted. Their idea of saving "is to convert their money into gold and bury it in the back yard which is no way to run a modern economy. But, in their way, they are capable and solid. UNFORTUNATELY, in the nearly 2,000 years since for a brief interval gave the Gauls such good government that for more than a century they served . as a shield for Rome gainst the barbarians of the north, France has had probably the worst govern ment in the world. It's a great pity that at this moment in history, when Africa is showing up as one of the most explosive of the world's trouble spots, France hasn't a statesman of the caliber of this man Bourguiba who heads the new Republic of Tunisia. Stop Me 2-11 a heart attack but not diag nosed as such. She is able to be up a little and may have visitors. Danny Wayne is the name chosen for the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Claas son, born Feb. 11. He weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces. Roy Junge is now home from the hospital recuperat ing after undergoing surgery a couple weeks ago. Phoenix Neighbors of Woodcraft met recently at the home of Mrs. Enid Caster for the election of officers Officers elected were guar dian neighbor, Mrs. Delbert Cook; advisor, Mrs. Arthur Boner; banker, Mrs. Enid Cas ter; magician, Mrs. James Overturf ; attendant, Mrs. Mervin Hixson; captain of the guards, Mrs. Lester An derson; musician, Mrs. George Drake; inner sentinel, Mrs. Guy Cobleigh; outer sentinel, Mrs. Walker Caldwell, mana gers, Mrs. George Drake, Mrs. George Bourne, and Mrs. Walker Caldwell; cor respondent, Mrs. Ray Claflin; senior guardian, Mrs. Lillian Coleman; clerk, Mrs. Dorothy Thompson; assistant clerk, Mrs. George Bourne; assistant banker, Mrs. Guy Cobleigh; and installing officer, Mrs. George Bourne. The March meeting will be held at the Grange hall for advance night. Vern Nelson has sold his business in the meat depart ment of the Triangle Market to Mr. and Mrs. Bud Camp bell of the market. Nelson went to work Thursday as a meat cutter in the meat de partment at Matlack's Market in Medford. Mrs. Bob Frame is in Sa cred Heart hospital, Medford, underwent a series of medical tests. REPORT ON FLU VACCINE London (IP) The British Medical Journal reported to day that Asian flu vaccine tested during last year's ma jor epidemic was 66 per cent effective. The Journal ex plained the term "effective" as meaning either preventing the illness or easing its ef fects. About 3,000 persons were treated with the serum at the time, most of them teachers and students. Manila (IP) Antonio Dia mante was being investigated by police today for non-pay ment of a meal check at the Brown Derby restaurant. Dia mante consumed one whole fried chicken, 12 bottles of beer, one order of chicken salad, six sticks of barbecue, one plate of rice, one egg with potatoes ... and har vested $3.15 in coins from the juke box. L 3 SAVE MONEY! 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