Show TODD ODD THINGS HAPPEN TO TELEPHONE LINES LINE Repair Men Sometimes Report Cur Cur- Curious Curious Curious ious Conditions That Interrupt Service Sr If it isn't one thing its it's another At least tel telephone tele Phone repairmen have found such to be the case For ex- ex example example example ample out in New Mexico some rave ravens ravens ens not long lon ago chose to build a nest between two telephone wires The nest interfered with Long Distance calls and anda a repairman had to travel a long distan distance to reme remedy y the difficulty difficulty culty One New v Mexico newspaper humorously su suggests ests that the Mou Moun- Moun Mountain Mountain tain States Stales Telephone and Telegraph Company plant trees for crows and an ravens ra to build their nests in so ns as asto asto to put an n end to this Then there is tumbleweed d Every westerner h knows s what tumbleweed is But up in Montana not so tong long ago linemen who were sent out to find nd out the cause of trouble on a circuit leading to Havre following a ahard ahard ahard hard storm discovered some tumble tumble- tumbleweeds tumbleweeds weeds tumble weeds clinging to a line and short short- short circuiting circuiting the wires vires The tumble weed tumble weed we had picked un a piece of bar bar- barbed barbed bed d wire and had blown up on the telephone wires Nor are all such difficulties con con- confined confined con confined fined to the United States Wh When n nt service stopped be- be between be between t telephone ephone recently tween Melbourne and Albury in Aus- Aus Australia Aus Australia it was found that ma magpie pie had built a nest top of a pole and solid had utilized several pieces of wire which had been left eft on the ground by repairmen One of the pieces was in contact with two of the wires of the line lIno thereby causing causing a short |