Show Roosevelt Phones Go Modern With Dial telephone service in Roosevelt became a reality Saturday morning at 6 am Charles Con Can Bell severed the wires connecting the operators operator's switchboard with the new dial system Other technicians pull ed blocking tools which held the dial switches inactive and placed the new telephone sy- sy system sy 1 stem in service Switches began to click as they obeyed dialing impulses step by step Seven digits were dialed and calls were automat automat- automatically directed to their destina destina- destination tion Speaking at a meeting prior to the Mountain States Stales Telephone Company's Assistant Vice President Frank Sawyer said We mark this step with mixed emotions We can never ne turn our alii backs on the memories ies or the contributions of the past However the most certain I thing in telephony is change I What we begin here today I will be as outdated in years to come ns as the crank telephone The conversion to dial SlI ser ser- service vice in Roosevelt marked the end of a reconstruction and building period of oC more than a year ear In addition to building a new telephone office and a dial switching building the outside plant serving the Roosevelt area was rebuilt and updated The system brings modern servi service e to Roosevelt and an expanded calling area to in in- in include elude clude Altamont Arcadia La La- La Lapoint point Neola Randlett and South ryton Myton exchanges in the local calling zone Roosevelt Neola and Altamont will also have Direct Distance Dialing privileges The other exchanges in the local calling area will be equipped d for direct dialing on long distance calls la later this year |