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VrtVOnD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY, JULY 10. 1962 First telephone Was Used in 1876 by AEcxznder Graham Bell (Editor's note: On July SO for three minutes. And it might take an hour or more for the operator to put th call through. Improvements came stcad ; i!y. The price of calls was slashed. Calls went through social life. enough buildings for the long distance switchboards; and eventually more operators needed than there were worn i n available for jobs. The only answer to the dilemma was for telephone customers to dial their own long distance calls - direct distance dialing - the service that will be introduced her July 15. 15 Medford telephones will be equipped for direct dis tance dialing. This is tHe first of four article on the conquest of the human voice over distance.) faster and voices became clearer. In a few years, long distance calling changed from an innovation to a common place part of business and But as the nation grew, the number of long riuitu'i calls grew at an even faster pace. Telephone engineers looked ahead and saw trouble .Not i 'l - a BEDECKED WITH FLAGS Last pole on the first transcontinental telephone line near Wendover, Utah, was bedecked with flags and signs for the meeting of wires linking the East and West in 1914. Hatfield, New York Governor Spotlight Civil Rights Issue By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington (Special) - If it House Adjourns lor Election, Ball Geme Washington-TPIi - In defer ence to the Virginia primary election and-or the major league all - star game, the House agreed to take the day off today. Otherwise, the eight Demo cratic lawmakers from Vir ginia who wnntnd In ho in their home districts, and the 1 was tne Purpose of governors scores of non-Virginia mem-1 Nc!son Rockefeller and Mark Vinri who wantoH In ho at fh Hatfield dur- local stadium, would likelv have been, subjected to a series of quorum calls that . could have disrupted their i plans. ! In asking unanimous con-1 sent Monday to adjourn the House until Wednesday, as sistant Democratic leader Carl Albert, of Oklahoma, did not say what prompted the leader-; ship decision to abandon work 1 plans for today. v U o 9 Prnnklin ! i ':-" M L ' I y :.i u ' I : '. I . ' ' Free Parking Free TV V 'J! I '' you'll be a , very special k " -i person in t p Portland - i i ; at the , I Western Hotel '. j j - : 1 Enoy free oaikmg. H j 1 tree TV. excellent food jr. 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He had wanted a civil rights reso lution brought to a vote, but he added, "we usually go home with a civil rights reso lution which won't harm any body." He was right. Hatfield and Rockefeller sought to amend a mild civil rights resolution which, al though it didn't laud mother and home, did the next most popular thing by kicking com munism and praising the re public, but it didn't say any thing about civil rights. Hatfield spoke often during the debate and drew praise from many newsmen as "per forming well" during the whole conference. Rockefeller and Hatfipld's long and eloquent resolution asserted the right of every in dividual to equality of oppor tunity in housing, employ ment, public accommodations and education, and affirmed the right to vote. "This amendment is offered in good faith," Hatfield told the meeting. "We haven't in mind any section of the country to im pose the will of one governor or group of governors on a Counsel With . . . 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At one stage during the afternoon, Hatfield and Hoi lings were in a eyeball to eye- ball debate off the conference floor, with Hollings drawlin at Hatlield that "Y all are ramming this thing down our throats!" and Hatfield force fully yet quietly reminding Hollings that I have been on the minority side (on issues) when we (Republicans) have burned. All we ask for is vote." Hatfield did not get his vote. Instead Gov. David Lawrence of Pennsylvania, seeking to end the filibuster so they could all leave to hear Bob Hope, proposed a motion that would allow any gover nor to sign any resolution with which he agreed. Hatfield told those assem bled that he didn't appreciate the parliamentary maneuver ing that went on. "... At no time have I felt it proper to engaee in parliamentary maneuvers to force a minority position upon the majority or to get out of an impasse. We are capitu lating to a minority on civil rights . . ." He scored the Democrats again in a later interview: "The Democrats once again proved a lack of desire, as in the case of the Federal Con gress and the present adminis tration to pass an adequate, forceful civil rights program. In simple language, they capitulated. They did not have the courage of their con victions." Homeowner Asks Burner Changes An Ashland resident has asked the county court to see that a waste burner is im proved at the Paul Workman mill before the mill goes back into operation. Harry Reed, 171 Wightman St., Ashland, wrote the coun ty court that a burner at the mill had caused air pollution of the area and should be corrected. He said he would back his request by petition of ara residents if necessary. The county court had been asked in June to defer its tax claims against the Paul Work man Lumber company. A group headed by Ashland Con tractor Thomas J. Parker plans to lease the mill, it was reported The group would pay Workman per thousand feet of lumber man ufactured, and B. K. Herndon and company, A?hland certi fied public accountants, would serve as trustees for the funds to be paid creditors. The request is awaiting a legal opinion from the district attorney ! office Alexander Graham P.ell's '. first crude telephone of 1876 was barely capable of trans- ! milling a voice between two ' rooms in the same house. 1 But the same year the in- ! ventor. with the aid ol im proved instruments, was able to make history's first long distance call - talking via wires borrowed from a tele graph company for the experi ment - all of 16 miles from Salem to Boston. Mass. By 1884 regular long dis tance service was available between New York and Bos ton. The network of telephone lines began to spread swiftly. The first line to cross the Ore gon border into another state 1 was the Pendleton-Walla Wal la lead built in 1889. This pre ceded the New York-Chicago link in 1802. The year 1895 was when long distance service out of the Rogue river valley was inaugurated. A line was built from Grants Pass to Crescent City, the first phone line to cross the Siskiyou's. Exchange phone service didn't follow until 189S. when local compa nies started in Ashland, Med ford and Grants Pass. . That same year. 1898, the "world's longest" long dis tance line ran through the valley, en route from Spokane Falls (now Spokane), Wash., to San Diego, Calif. If that long distance line was anything like those else where, calling over it meant shouting to make yourself, heard and strainini for the 1 voice at the distant end. Answer Comes The answer to be' tor long distance soon came from sci entists like Lee DeForrest. in ventor of the vacuum tube. This and other developments led to ways of boosting along the weakening electrical im pulses at rencater points. For the first time transcon tinental calling became a pos sibility, and in 1013 and 1014 lines were built from the East and West, meeting at Wen dover, Utah. The historic first coasl-to-coast long distance call was made by Alexander Graham Bell in New York, talking to Thomas Watson, the labora tory assistant who had heard the first words over a tele phone in 1876, in San Francisco. Long distance was taking its first great strides, but it still had a long way to go. For example, the cost was high. The charge for a call from Medford to New York was MEN DON'T ASK OUR AGS You wouldn't believe us. You wouldn't believe th.n THE VILLAGE GREEN could become so well know n in just two years. Yes, it was just two years ago this month that Governor Hatfield dedicated THE VILLAGE GREEN to the people of Oregon . . . and THE VILLAGE GREEN dedicated a suite to him. (Have you stayed in the luxurious Governor's suite, yet?) 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