WEDNESDAY. JULY 11. 1962
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SWITCHING CENTER Medford direct dis
tance dialed calls will be channeled through
the sectional switching center located in this
building in Portland.
range iNews
Bulla Falls
The regular meeting of the
Butte Falls Grange met at the
Community hall on July 2.
R e p r e scntatives of the
Grange, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Fulton, reported on the state
convention held at Grants
Pass, June 18 through 22.
Mrs. Leonard Stralton re
ported on the success of the
X-ray unit in Butte Falls. A
total of 232 persons partici
pated. Mrs. Elga Abbott, chairman
of the Home Economics club,
read a quarterly report to be
submitted to the stale Grange.
Mrs. James Arnold will be
hostess at the next regular
meeting of the Home Eco
nomics club, July 10 in the
park.
Mrs. Roy Green reported on i
fhe "Grabbng" sale held at I
our last regular meeting.
During a portion of the
Lecturer's hour a silent auc
tion was held.
Refreshments were held In
the basement where Ernest
Smith showed the members a
few of his large collection of
slides. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
had just returned from anoth
er visit to Yellowstone and
among the scenic pictures
from the local area were some
from this trip and another
trip ten years ago.
Charge To Be Made
On Public Use Roads
First Step in Direct Distance Dialing Here Started in 1940
(Editor's note: Thii ii lh
second of four articles on
lht conquest of distance by
the human voice. It is the
story behind direct distance
dialing telephone service,
due July IS in Medford,
Grants Pass, Ashland, Cen
tral Point, Gold Hill. Jack
sonville Rogue River,
Phoenix and Talent.)
Thirty-five years ago tele
phone engineers could already
read the handwriting on the
wall. The fast growth of dis
tance calling, plus the coun
try's population explosion,
warned them that a way for
telephone users to make their
own distance calls had to be
developed.
Four steps were necessary:
Charges for improvements I
and repairs will be assessed I
abutting property owners can be dangerous if not prop-
Health Officials
Warn of Summer
Food Poisoning
The advent of summer and
its higher temperatures
brought a warning today from
the Oregon state board of
health.
The board asked picnickers
especially to be aware of the
problem of transmitting food
infections or poisonings. Even
though the Oregon state
board of health receives hun
dreds of food poisoning re
ports a year, hundreds more
are apparently unreported.
Those who become afflicted
suffer from a gastrointestinal
upset and in some cases may
become seriously ill. Symp
toms generally include ab
dominal pain, cramps, diar
rhea, and vomiting.
Most people are aware that
such foods as cream pastries
and ham can cause food in-
tection or poisoning tf im
properly handled, but they
fail to realize that many other
products, such as potato salad,
rice cakes, and poultry also
1. Local dial telephone
service.
2. A national telephone
number system.
3. A network of sectional
switching centers to route the
calls automatically.
4. A means of automatical
ly timing and billing the calls.
First Step Accomplished
The first step, local dial
service, took place in Med
ford in 1940, and has since
been accomplished in most
nearby communities.
At the same time, local call
ing areas have been expanded
to the greatest practical lim
its through extended service
and large exchange areas.
Steps number two and
three, the national phone
numbering system and sec
tional switching centers, came
in the 1950's.
AWARDED WINGS
Second Lt. James K. Korth,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F.
Korth, route 1. Talent, recent
ly was awarded the silver
wings of a United States Air
Force naviga r following
graduation from navigator
training at James Connally
Air Force base, Texas.
Korth attended Phoenix
High school and Stanford uni
versity. He is now being reas
signed to a unit of the Oregon
Air National guard.
The sectional switching cen
ter for Oregon is in Portland.
Almost all long distance calls
in or out of the state are
channeled through this $10
million center. First activated
in 1955, the center has been
expanded almost continuous
ly since that time.
The national telephone
numbering system was intro
duced in Medford in 1957.
How Plan Works
Here, is how the national
number plan works: The U.S.
and Canada are divided into
more than 100 "areas", each
with. Its own three-digit code
number. Medford is in area
503, which coincides with
boundaries of the state of
Oregon. Washington has two
code areas, one on each side
of the Cascades.
Within a code area, each
telephone has a distinct num
ber. A Gold Hill phone num
ber, for example, is different
from any other in Oregon, al
though it is probably dupli
cated many times outside of
area 503.
Gold Hill telephones, like
others in the area, have been
receiving DDD calls for sev
eral years, ever since adopt
ing seven-digit phone num
bers. And starting July 15 Gold
Hill and the other comnv
ties in the valley that h
been receiving DDD calls
"turn the tables' and dial
other way.
FALSE TEET
That Loosen
Need Not Embarrc
Many wearn of falM teeth t
uftered real embairstunent beci
their plat dropped, slipped or i
bled at Just the wrong time. Do
live In fear of thii happening to
Just aprlnkle a little FASTEE
the alkaline (non-acid) powder
your plates. Hold false teeth n
firmly, so they feel more oomf
able. Does not sour. Checks "p
odor breath". Get PASTECTH
drug counters everywhere.
GRAHAM PREACHES
Seattle -IDPH- Evangelist Bil
ly Graham persuaded an esti
mated 1,650 World's Fair vis
itors to make "decisions for
Christ," Sunday following a
sermon he preached at the
fairgrounds.
only for public use roads, or
those roads which do not meet
county standards to be desig
nated as county roads.
The county court has
sicned a resolution declaring
all improvements and repairs
performed by the Jackson
county road department on
public use roads will be
charged to abutting properties
to comply with state law.
Judge Earl Miller said he re
ceived a number of phone
calls from people living along
county roads wondering if
they would be charged for re
pairs on their particular
roads.
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erly prepared and refrigerat
ed.
These poisonings most
often are caused by contami
nation of the food with bac
teria known as "staph." A
person preparing or handling
the food may have an insign
ificant scratch or nick on the
hand which continues to let
out the germs even after cae
f ul washing. The bacteria are
deposited in the food where
they multiply and produce a
toxin which causes the food
poisoning. Refrigeration in
hibits the growth of bacteria
and the development of toxin,
but It will begin again when
the food warms up. Thus, if a
meal is prepared tonight, re-
Ifrigerated until morning, then
put in your hot car until
i you're ready to cat in the
! afternoon, an attack of food
poisoning could well follow.
The three best ways to pre
vent food poisoning or infec
tion are: 1) keep everything
coming In contact with food
as clean as possible; 2) do not
handle food with bare hands
if you have even a small skin
infection; and 3) keep hot
foods hot and cold foods cold
from the time of preparation
to the time of serving.
Prefab Homes
Probe Launched
Anchorage, Alaska - UIPI) -A
team of Federal Housing
Administration engineers and
inspectors are investigating al-1
legedly unsatisfactorily built
homes which were approved
by F11A officials here.
The five-man team was
ordered to Alaska by the
Washington. D. C. FH A office1
following complaints to Al
aska congressmen from buy-'
ers of the prefrabricated
homes. j
The complaints resulted in i
introduction of a bill in the i
Senate recently by Sen. Ern-1
est Gruening (D-Alaska). The
bill would empower the FIIA
to reimburse homeowners for
repairs due to faulty construc
tion of FHA-approved build
ings Gruening has accused
tlie local FHA office of being
remiss in its duties.
A top FHA official. Thomas
A. Gray, lone commissioner
of operations for the western
slates, arrived here last week !
end to take charge of the in-;
vesication. j
About 30 buyers of SO
homes sold here last fall are
suing the distributers. Modern
Homes Inc., a subsidiary of
Centex Corp. The homes are
manufactured by Midwest
Home Manufacturing Corp. j
and Indiana Co.
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