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
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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.
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Pumps a steady stream of sudsy
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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.
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-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.
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