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Show T Corp, Telephones Switch to New System Sunday IE M SERVING THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY NUMBER Published Weekly at Treznonlon. Utah, Thursday. January 27. 1955 Volume 32 Firms B.R. Addition Plans Peddlers. Need License Due This Weekend Plans for a proposed new addition at Bear River High School are due for study by school officials in a special meeting this weekend. Karl Krusmark, architect, was expected to arrive in Salt Lake City at noon Thursday, where he was to be met by Hervin Bunderson, school district building superintendent. A special meeting of the Box Elder County Board of Education will be called to consider the plans. Contractor's bids for construction of the unit have already been invited, and are due Feb. 14. a regular meeting Warren E. Hansen, d board member, of East Garland, took the, oath of office. He succeeds Leonard Bishop of Garland. Permission and transportation was granted by the board for performance tours of the Bear River and Box Elder high school choruses, if students sign waivers of liability. The use of school gymnasiums for wrestling and boxing exhibitions promoted by John Gabel were denied by the board, conditional upon further study. During Monday, newly-electe- Paintings Bought Purchase of $250 worth of paintings from a $1,000 trust fund for that purpose was reported at Box Elder high school. Moral support for continued polio immunization was given by the board in reply to a request from E. Allen Bateman, state superintendent of schools. Architects for a prftposed new school on the east side of Brig-haCity have presented a preliminary sketch of the ground floor plan of the building for the board's approval. A new school bus for Grouse Creek area arrived and was to be delivered this week. r Steps for toilet facilities and showeTs for the activity room at Bothwell school were approved, with Bothwell citizens furnishing labor. A $25,000 bond submitted by the clerk of the board was approved by board members. Board member D. G. Nelson reported thaf a new well for culinary water at Park Valley school has been completed and appears adequate. A committee headed by Warren Hansen was appointed to study recommendations on the districts fire insurance. m Apply for Funds application for federal funds available under public law 874. Henry Ingebrightsen was hired to trim trees, and a new custodian, Kay Carter, was e named to replace Antionio at the Park Valley School. The board made Ola-gu- A change order for $1134.77 was approved for Box Elder high school remodeling work. A total of $101.42. in dues to the Utah School Board Associa- tion was approved. A movement which might be detrimental to the athletic program of Box Elder County was reported to the schools board toy Quig Nielsen. Some mention of transferring Weber, Ben Lomond, and Ogden high schools away from Region One has been heard recently, which would leave only the three schools of Cache county and Box Elder's two high schools in Region One. Members of the board concurred that the movement would be a disadvantage to the local schools' programs. For Local Work A campaign to collect license fees from transient salesmen and peddlers and fiom business firms operating in Tremonton from other cities was announced this week. Solicitors, salesmen and peddlers who conduct sales campaigns in Tremonton will be required to obtain city licenses. Also included will be contractors, work crews and other business firms doing work in the city but located elsewhere. "These people are competing directly against local residents and businessmen who pay annual license fees for operation of their businesses," said Orval Ewer, councilman in charge of city finances. There are no laws prohibiting from working in Tremonton, but they must not expect to operate without first securing city licenses. Residents who are contacted firms which do by not have licenses are asked to report to the city marshall, city office, or councilman Ewer. non-residen- non-reside- nt Dixon Named to Vital Post Road Bids in Mrs. Huston Jenkins, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Fay Jensen and son Kenneth visited briefly with Mr. and Frank Davis during the week, while enroute to Salt Lake City A vigorous and dependable church, civic and business leader has been named winner of the Tremonton Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award for 1954. He is Donald E. Redf ield, manager of M. - H. Kng Co. store in Tremonton, who received the award at a banquet held last Thursday as a feature of National Jaycee Week. Mr. Redfield was nominated in three separate petitions and ranked highest among candidates in this year's contest. Receiving honorable mention for community service were Robert Bennett, and Dennis Miller, local Jaycee heads. "Unassuming, Reliable" Mr. Redfield was selected because of his interest in civic and public welfare. "Though unassuming, - he is always reliable," one nomination said. Mr. Redfield is a member of the Jaycees and Tremonton Businessmen's Association. As a Jaycee, he has served as treasurer, organized a trap shoot, raised funds for the county fair, was chairman of Road-E-contest, and worked on the tree planting, Easter egg hunt, and car wash projects for the local club. He was also a delegate to the national convention Jaycee where he assisted in a campaign which elected a Utah man as national Jaycee president. Business Booster A booster of business progress, Mr. Redfield has headed have been completed, and ser- signal, and subscribers will vice crews have been checking need to dial seven digits to each line under the new system. For telephone users, it will mean a completely different number for their own telephone, possibly a different ringing For Project At Tremonton A low bidder on i ' J, J highway improvement project west of Tremonton was announced Wednesday by the Utah after State Road Commission tabulations were completed. LeGrand Johnson, Logan contractor, submitted the low bid of $325,815, which was $50,863 under the engineers' estimate. The project is for widening and straightening 5.6 miles of new highway on U. S. 30S west from Tremonton City limits. It was the largest of six highway totalling $1,263,337, projects scheduled for construction early this year. should begin Construction soon, as bridges and concrete boxes crossing irrigation canals must be completec before water valley- ! is turned in. The project will provide a new, straighter, Wider highway from western city limits nearly to Blind Springs. all-dig- The Garland switchboard, relic of earliest telephone service, will be disconnected Sunday. Here senior operator Mrs. Fern Huish, puts in final shift. TO END SERVICE BABY TEMPERS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS . . . Machines End Service of Operators, Ancient Board For the first time in nearly the ancient switchboard of the Garland telephone exchange will become silent Sunday morning and its oper ators will be out of a job. When new automatic switching equipment takes over at 12:01 a.m., the old switchboard will be eliminated, and the Garland exchange will cease. Since the early 1900's, the switchboard has been in continuous operation, with operators on duty 24 hours each day. And there is no place in the modernized, automatic dialing system for the eight veteran operators at Garland, some of whom have more than 10 years DONALD REDFIELD of service time. Replaced by Tubes a local committee for establishThe telephone operator, with ment of a Chamber of Com- her pleasant "Number, please," merce, and has been a member unending patience, and unmeasof Tremonton City's recreation ured capacity, will be replaced program. . He has also served on a P.T. A. Teenage canteen committee and participated in Red Cross and March of Dimes drives. A member of the Tremonton The Northern District of Utah Community Methodist Church, he is also a chairman of the Federated Women's Clubs are church's board of directors and seeking nominations for Utah's teaches a Sunday "Mother of the Year" 1955. School class. His efforts have Mrs. Walter A. Kerr, State been instrumental in the grow- Chairman of the American th of the local church. Mother's Committee, Inc., said In his businees, Mr. Redfield anyone may nominate a mother. One mother will be chosen began as a stock boy and has earned the position of manager, from each district and her name which he has held nine years. sent to the State Federation. Nominations Due For Mother Title e by electron tubes, relays, wires and switches. Now the careless telephone user who mistakenly rings a from his tired businessman can't sleep use the excuse, "They've given me the wrong number." The dialer who forgot his number can no longer rely on the operator's unfailing memory, but must seek the directory again. When automatic dialing switches go out, they sit and wait to be repaired, or at best, flash a signal light. Wore Blisters But when the old switchboard failed, operators wore blisters on their hands cranking a hand generator to put calls through. Veteran operators at Garland have performed countless acts of human service which could not be matched by electrons. In times of sickness and death, the telephone operators took charge and called doctors, friends and relatives. When frightened children woke up to find parents gone, telephone operators soothed their feelings and located parents. Telephone operators are by some people to know from basketball everything is Mrs. Jones scores, "Where today?," the temperature, time, and "How long will the power be off?" to how to fix electric day-dreami- stoves. We'll even miss the school-tauge operator, and her "fii-uv- hi J niiun nii-un- " tion of numbers. One of pronuncia- d new patent. Later it was modified for Three hundred and five fathers and sons of the South Bear River stake met for their annual Father's and Son's banquet last Wednesday evening, at the Tremonton Second ward. Master of ceremonies was Reed Giles' speaker of the evening was Patriarch James Walton. Entertainment was furnished by John and Helen Rock of Salt Lake City. Tremonton Third ward had 63 percent of their Aaronic Priesthood members in attendance; Penrose, Thatcher and Tremonton Second ward each had 60 percent. The affair was under the direction of the Stake Aaronic Priesthood committee headed by President Reginald Hunsaker, and chairman Wallace Anderson. County Hit Bv Rash of V Major Crimes A. wave of five burglaries in. Box Elder County last weekend was climaxed by an armed robbery of a Brigham City service station early Monday morning, Sheriff Warren Hyde reports. Last Thursday night, burglars Lumber broke into the Tremonton Store in Company for the second time within Tri-Sta- te thirty days. burglars attempted to the office safe, but into break failed. Missing from the store 0 rifle and were a radio, $49 electric drill. Four other burglaries occured in Tremonton, Corinne and Brigham City Sunday night. At Utah Poultry Producers offices in Tremonton, Coop was nothing apparently stolen after burglars broke in a window. Also entered were the Golden Spike Cafe in Corinne, the Shoe Center in Brigham City, and Lincoln School, Brigham City. Nothing was missing from the Shoe CenteT, but the prowlers got $40 from the principal's office at the school, and $50 in cash from coin machines in the Corinne cafe. Early Monday, a tall bandit e robbed the owner of the Service Station of $300, md escaped in the owner's lutomobile, which was later recovered in Ogden. Sheriff Hyde reports that investigation of the cases is continuing, but there appears to be no break in the crimes. The 30-3- Bee-lin- First The original switchboard, installed in Garland near the 'urn of the century, was one of magneto-operate'he first boards to be issued under a Fathers, Sons Banquet it x. 50 years, teen-ag- place their calls. The new, longer numbers are necessary for future integration into a nation-wid- e customer dialing toll system. When the necessary switching equipment is installed at regional points, subscribers will be able to dial their own long distance calls. Two Exchanges Suffer Two exchanges on the systemp however, will suffer- when the T switchover is made. They are Snowville and Portage, which will be temporarily disconnect ed when the switchover is com. pleted Sunday. Connecting equipment for the two remote exchanges has been delayed by manufacturers, Mr. Chiodo announced. A major change in the -wide telephone system will be the combining of Tremonton and Garland telephones into the same exchange and elimina tion of the Garland switchboard. Unlimited Calls This will permit almost un limited calls between the communities, where presently only six conversations are possible. Service and subscribers on all major exchanges will be increased, with more trunk lines between exchanges. The new telephone numbers are being used in both an and an exchange code system until all present telephones are adapted to use letters as well as numbers. Tremonton numbers, for in usstance, are listed number the letter the code, ing would beALpine 7xxxx. Corresponding codes are list ed in the directory for telephones on the other exchanges. - a major Donald Redf ield Wins Jaycee On Committee Award Congressman Henry Aldous Distinguished Service Dixon of Utah has been placed on the powerful and extremely important Agricultural Committee of the House of Representatives. At the opening of the 84th Congress, there were only two vacancies on the Agricultural Committee in the House. Congressman Dixon, being a member of the minority party in the 84t!h Congress and being a was freshman representative, a to slim have very expected chance of being appointed to one of the powerful committees. "The appointment came to me as a great surprise,' Congressman Dixon said. "An appointment to the important and powerful Agricultural Committee as a freshman when the party only had two appointments to make was beyond my greatest expectations." was Dixon Congressman pleased for several reasons: he can be of greater servic to Congress in the vital post, he will be in a position to support Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, the assignment will utilize his experience in farming, marketing and extension and " experiment station work, and Mr. Dixon will be in a position to assist agricultural education and needs in Utah. 17 All telephones in Bear River Valley will be switched over to a completely new system at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, announced Vincent Ch'odo, manager of Bear River Telephone Co. Months of installation work battery operation. But part of the original switchboard re mains. It is believed to be the oldest switchboard In operation in Utah, and perhaps in the nation. Senior operator at Garland is Mrs. Fern Huish. with continu ous service of ten years. Also boasting a total of nearly ten years Is Mrs. Ida Michaelis. Gladys Bishop has eight years at the board. With more than a ' tinge of nostalgia and regret, the oper ators finish their jobs this week. As Mrs. Huish said. "Well, it's been a lot of fun. EMILY Ii. TUBBS DIES IN TEXAS Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Kay received word Wednesday morning of the death of Emily B, Tubbs, mother of Mrs. Stacey Kay. Funeral services were set for Thursday in San Antonio, Texas. The 35th annual convention of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held in Atlanta, Georgia next June. ' |