HERALD AND NffWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.
Sundav. March R, 1 0R0
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1?59 'Year Of Progress.
Phone Company Reports
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The Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph Company described 1959 as
"A Year of Progress in Us an
Dual report released today.
A gain of 509,000 telephones
made during the past year was
topped only by the 513.000 record
ed in 1958. The company reported
gam of 173.000 extension tele
phones and 550,000 color sets. To
tal telephones in service at year's
end approached 7.5 million.
Long distance calls ran morej
than 12 per cent above 1958. The
expansion of dircw distance dial
ing now makes it possible for
about 50 per cent of Pacific Tele
phone customers to dial their own
long distance calls, according to
the report.-
OvoOill construction new budd
ings and equipment to ?ake cre
of growth, and replScemcnls to
keep service and facilities up-to-date
cost the company 341 mil
lion dollars. The 1953 figure was
S33 million dollars.
Cross plant on the company's
bows averaged $3.1 billion last
year' against $2.8 billion the year
before. Average capital for the
Psychologists
Stypiied By Law
SALT 'LAKE CITY. Utah (API
Udft psychologists have learned
the stal can't register them un
der a law set up to accomplish
this.
The attorney general says the
state can't find anyone qualified
to sit on iff state examining
board which does the registering.
ha, says the next Legislature will
have to amend the 1959 law.
g
two years stock, debentures
short-term borrowings and sur
plustotaled $2.5 billion and $2.3
billing-respectively.
Earnings per share of common
stock were $1.47 compared 'with
$1.28 in 1958. Dividends in 1959
amounted to $1.07 per share com
pared with $1 in 1958. .-Figures re
ported are adjusted to reflect a
7-for-l split of common stock made
lasto August. The per cent return
on gross plant was 5.75 per cent
compared with 5.06 per cent in
1958.
Revenues in 1959 totaled $1,040,-
706,377 compared with $936,843,557
in 1958. But operating expenses
taxes and interest also were high
er in 1959 $896 million compared
with $B25 million the previous
ftar. Taxes showed the largest
increase up 25 per cent over 1958
The company's tax bill of 240
million dolfirs, not counting the
10 per cent excij tax collected
from customers and turned over
lo the federal government.
amounted to $2.54 per common
share. Ihir telephone excise tax,
the rcpoQl stated, is "a discrim
inatory and unjustifiable tax on
either local or long distance yv
ice" and should be eliminated.
Meeting the demand for "a va
riety of coQmunications services
needed for national dtfense" was
described as one of the company's
most important jobs in 1959.
The importance of increased
emphasis on "marketing" was
stressed in the report "because
Pacific Telephone faces more and
more competition for the consum
er's dollar . . . every indusirv
which has something to sell com
petes with us." . I
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DEAN M. FRENCH, center, Navy commander, brother of Mrs. Jacqueline Carter, 1836
Lowell Street, recently rep6rted for duty in the OfficQof Navy Materiel at the Pentagon,
He was welcomed by Rear Admiral R. L. Swart, left, and Vice Admiral E. W, Clexton,
right. French entered the Navy in 1 936. Hj prOiously wm commanding officer of the
U.S.S. Strickland. He was graduated in 1935 fromOKIamaTh Union High Schil. He and
his wife, Geraldine, and two ions, Dean Robert and Dennis jMichael, live in Arlington,
Virginia.
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Mistress Family To Get $36,000 From Italy
ROME (UP1 (-Italy has been
ordered to pay $36,000 to the lam
ily of Benito Mussolini's late mis
tress for damage to $e dictator's
love nest. n
A Rome civil court Thursday
ruled in favor of the family of
Claretta Pctacci, which sued for,
damages to a luxurious villa near
Rome where the dictator hrg se
cret rendezvous with the "faith-ful-unto-death''ciaretta
who was
executed with him by Communist
partisans in 1945. q
The Pctacci family said the
villa was badly damaged when it
was used by Allied military au
thorities frorg 1943 to 1947 and
af?crwards when it was occupied.
by an order c?nuns.
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SHOE REPAIR
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Again New Location
0 709 South Sixth
Com p me, I'm loneom.
Happy Pill Makes Debut On Market
LOS ANGELES (AP)-Mad at
your boss?
Would you like to have a clear
er head and more push to get
things done?
Patrol Sough?
By Alaska Solons
JUNEAU. Alaska (AP)-A res
olution asking that lhe United
States palrol its continental shell
with armed vessels to keep $tus
syn fishing ships away was w
traduced in the Alaska Legisla
ture Thursday.
The memorial by State Sen.
Lester Bronson of Nome would
declare tQ shelf off-limits to all
nations.
Oho .Ct-morial said American
fisheries "are in danger of siti
ous depletion throfth uncontrolled
exploitation hy Soviet high seas
fishing fleeti." 0
What you need is Librium, a
new "happy pill" described at a
University ef Southern California
symposium attended d'flursday by
400 physicians and Specialists in
internal medicine. w
The drug, which has just come
on the market, has been used by
more than 2.000 docOs on 20.000
patirnts in the United States since
its dovcry a year ago.
Dr. S. P. Wise, assistant clini
cal professor of medicine at Bay
lor University, Houston, Tex., told
the symposium the drug helps re
lieve Oe pain of angina pectoris
and prevents epiloptjg seizures.
Dr. Wise Si-.'.A it also keeps pa
tients from gctttQg aniO.' during
their d;Qs work, .improves their
judgmcntOjnd clear thinking and
Otis to their drivg to get more
WUIA UUUI-.
Chemical naift for the drug is
0:Qhaminodiazcpoxff1e. It can be
obtained only on a doctor's pre
scription. 0
Only ill effects noted so far are
a temporary drowsiness and mild
musculan incoordination, the .phy
sician said.
Librium was first toed on ani
mals in the Boston ana San Diego
zoos and showed tgmarkable
quieting effects. At the San iego
Zoo. a wild European lynx which
a'wa5A ,nlcw "sc" asainst the
bars ot its cage when anyone ap
proachedobecame as quiet as a
house cat and could be petted by
its keeper. One capsule took ef
fect in two hours and lasted more
than four hours. '
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