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Show MANAGER CUNDIFF OF TELEPHONE CO., GIVES " VALUABLE INFORMATION A joint committee of representatives of Bell and Independent Inde-pendent Operating Telephone Companies throughout the United States has been formed to advance the nation-wide postwar programs which the various telephone companies have been working on individually to extend and improve farm telephone service. Co-chairmen of the committee are John P. Boylan, President of the United States Independent Telephone Association, the national organization of the thousands thou-sands of independent telephone companies, and Keith S. McHugh, Vice President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, representing the Bell operating companies. com-panies. "Rural telephone service is more highly developed in this country than in any other country," Mr. Boylan and Mr. McHugh said. "However, it is by no means as highly developed as we in the industry want to see it, and the industry intends to do everything in its power to provide more service and better service, at a cost which the farmer can afford. "Since operating telephone companies have been working work-ing on this problem, a representative joint committee has been formed consisting of a number of their most experienced officials. We believe that the application of new facilities and methods which were under development by the industry before the demands of war interrupted our research and construction program will help to bring telephone service to many new farm customers. As soon as war demands are reduced, we propose to resume and expand our research effort and, along with it, thp intensive program for extending extend-ing farm service which was being carried on before the war. "Over one-half million miles of telephone pole lines serving rural areas have already been built so that more than two-thirds of all rural families in the United States can be served from existing lines. Since 1935 more than 500,000 additional families in rural areas have become telephone tele-phone subscribers an increase of 35 per cent. One of the major objectives is to continue this upward trend by making the service over existing lines increasingly valuable and attractive. This the industry intends to do to the limit of its ability. "A second major objective is to extend service at reasonable reason-able cost to families not now reached by existing lines. The telephone industry research in the last several years has successfully developed new construction materials and methods meth-ods which substantially lower the cost of building wire lines to areas not previously reached. In addition, work was started start-ed by the industry in 1938 to develop a practical system of transmitting telephone conversations over electric power lines. A similar system can be used over telephone lines to increase their capacity. , "One practical effect of these developments is to make it physically possible to furnish telephone service wherever there are rural power lines and no telephone lines. "The Telephone Companies also plan to study the possible pos-sible application of microwave radio systems to rural telephone tele-phone service and to make use of this and any other new methods which will be helpful in service to the farmer." The Atlantic Charter is not a new Charter, in a sense. It is virtually a Charter laid down from the beginning of Israel's history and ratified and further bedrocked by the gospel of Jesus. It is the hope of the world. It is a Charter accepted in spirit by all freedom-loving peoples, and was given as an inspired document, an olive branch of peace and security to a suffering world. |