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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1958)
PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGQfl SUNDAY, JtTLY 20. MM? Mobile Telephone Mobile telephone service haf been available in t h e Klamath Falls area for two years. ' Suppose you are driving to Klam ath Falls on Highway 97. At the Crater Lake Junction you look at ydur watch and see you're going to be late , for a dinner engage ment. So you pick up the phone mobile telephone, that is call your hostess and tell her to hold up the steaks for a bit. That is fact, not fiction. It hap pened here a few weeks ago and could conceivably have occurred any lime since Pacific Telephone introduced urban mobile telephone service here in June, 1956. Mobile telephone service is more useful than keeping one out of the social doghouse, according to Thoyne W. Cole, new telephone manager here. It is used to direct legging contracting and building operations and emergency calls for car repairs. The installation in a doctor's car might easily be re sponsible for saving a life. There are in the neighborhood of 20 mobile telephone subscribers registered in the. Klamath Falls area. Included in the number are Klamath Irrigation District, Puck tlt and Schorer snd Lowell N. Jones both logging contractors, Bly Log- RON CLANCY, Pacific Telephone Company representative from Medford who arranges for mobile telephone installa tions in this area, is shown using the push-to-talk handset in a company car. In addition to the handset, mobile tele phone strvice equipment in a car includes a two-way ra dio set with power control switches and an antenna and a small light and bell for signaling that a call is ready to come in. Clancy has been with the telephone company for the last five and one-half years and was transferred from the Portland office to Medford a year ago in March. is. HURRYING HOME This f mother and home. He's frairi dog towns located in Mackeniie Slate Park at Lubbock, Texas. At one time the itfle rodents thrived., by the millions in the Southwest. Service For Basin Provided With tiing Company, Bob Byrne, a Ma lin rancher, Coast Construction Company, general contractors at Kingsley Field housing project, KOTI-TV, Balsiger Motor Compa ny, and Pacific Telephone. Dispatching service, Cole ex plains, involves two-way communi cation between the vehicles and a particular telephone at the d i s patching office. There is a direct private line connecting the dis patcher's telephone with the mo bile telephone operator at the tel ephone central office. This is the type of service used by KID and Balsiger Motors. Another type of mobile telephone service is "general service" and is in more common usage. This is a two-way telephone service between any regular telephone and any mo bile unit. With this type service, motorists driving from Seattle to Mexico, on regular north - south highways, will find only a few areas between towns where phone service is not available from their cars. Urban mobile telephone chan nels are in operation in Oregon at Portland, Salem, Eugene, Rose burg, Grants Pass and Medford, Pendleton, The Dalles, Ontario. Florence, Newport, Coos Bay and Klamath Falls. The first station baby prairie dog is in a hurry a memcer ot tne population or to the south of Klamath Falls is Redding. The effective range of mobile telephone service around Klamath Falls is north to Fort Klamath or Kirk; south to Perez and Grass Lake: west to Parker Mountain in the Grcensprings and east to Bonanza, Malin and Stronghold. The procedure for making a call from a mobile telephone to a regu lar telephone or to another mobile telephone is simple. Pushing the button on the handset sends a sig nal through the air to the receiv ing and transmitting station at Moore Hill. From ;her the signal continues, automatically, by cable to the central office in downtown Klamath Falls, lighting a signal lamp on the switchboard in front of the mobile telephone operator. The operator then completes the con nection to the telephone being called, whether it is a local or a long distance call. The mobile telephone operator also handles calls made from a regular telephone to a telephone equipped vehicle. The incoming call will ring a bell and light a signal light in the driver's com partment. If the driver is away from the vehicle for a time, the, light remains on until his return iiim.j"iiiwi jnu.iam mhhww.-i, ri.i ii wwi.uiuimimi.iiiiiii AT THE CENTRAL OFFICE of Pacific Telephone Company in downtown Klamath Falls Shirley Hill, mobile service op erator, is shown about to plug into a special jack at her section of the switchboard to complete a mobile telephone call. From one to three operators, especially trained in mobile telephone work, are on duty at all times. There are in the neighborhood of 20 mobile telephone service cus tomers registered in the Klamath Falls area. Each installa tion is assigned its own mobile telephone service number. 4 to get back to the safety me nation s tew remaining New Equipment; so he will be told to. check with the operator to permit her to com plete the call. In that way, it act; almost as an answering service. according to Ron Clancy, telephone rcpresenlative who arranges for mobile telephone installations in this area. Equipment used in a vehicle for mobile service includes a two-way radio set with power control switches and an antenna: a push- to-talk telephone handset and a small lamp and bell for signal ing. The handset is the same as ship-to-shore phones which may also be telephone company instal lations. Both the radio transmitting and receiving sets are powered by the vehicle's battery and generator. If heavy use is made of the mobile telephone, a larger than usual Dai tery and generator may be- re quired. .The service can be had for one month which is an advantage on a specific contracting job or arrange ments may be made for an in definite period. Information con cerning installation of service is available through tne local tele phone office. The telephone com pany leases the necessary equip ment for mobile service on a The labor department of Canada reports that most immigrants o! recent years are settling in indus trialized areas rather than on farms. SWAN LAKE 3226 So. 6th Street Many In Use Now monthly basis and provides main tenance of the equipment. Farmers! Ranchers! Stockmen! SEE JUCK lot Your Truck! Juckeland Truck Sales ond Service Your International Deoler 11th & Klamath Ph. 2-2581 BEEF or PORK Our Low Meal Prices Will Moke It Worth Your While To Investigate NOW! BIG Y. MARKET Ph. TU 4-4620 4710 So. ft. 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