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
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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.
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ing the recent
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Conference to
spotlight the
icute embar
rass ment of
the Democrats
over civil
rights, they
s u c c e eded.
During a con-
terence session that was stall
ed by the delaying tactics of
liberal as well as conservative
governors, the conference was
finally permitted to hear reso
lutions late in the afternoon,
only to be hit by a southern
filibuster over civil rights.
There were 29 Democrats
present and 13 Republican
governors.
Gov. Mike DiSalle of Ohio,
the wry wit of the conference,
slvly alluded to the presiden
tial candidates present who
might like to be noticed. 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
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group of stales . . . prejudice
and discrimination exist in
every state."
He spoke of the need in
Oregon in the past which
brought about a fair employ
ment practices law, and legis
lation covering trans porta-
tion, housing, public accom
modations and "blazing a
trail that relates to migrant
labor."
"I do not believe legislation
is the end," he continued. "It
is the means to an end. Legis
lation and executive actions
provide a tutor to help lead
and direct public attitudes or
opinion."
Hatfield and Rockefeller
lost, for lame-duck Gov. Er
nest Hollings of South Caro.
lina began a filibuster which
successfully prevented a vote
on their amendment.
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
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