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Show 'DIALS' PROVE POPULAR WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS Telephone service, took a "giant step" last Saturday midnight mid-night in the . Milford-Miners-ville-Beaver area as telephone subscribers turned their dials to activate one of the most modern mod-ern telephone systems available. avail-able. The new dial system was apparently a thing of delight and amusement to telephone customers, with many of them staying up until after midnight mid-night to dial friends and families. fam-ilies. Approximately 5,000 calls went through Milford's new system during . the 'first day of operation. This is almost twice the number of calls handled daily with the old manual system. The dial system, which had been subjected to several weeks of rigid testing, was able to handle the volume of calls without with-out incident, according to Gerald Ger-ald E. Vickers, local manager-:for manager-:for the Mountain States Tele-, phone Co. The actual dial cutover, which climaxed more than two years of work, took approximately approxi-mately 90 seconds as cables carrying subscribers' lines into the old switchboard were cut. At the same time telephone technicians were pulling several sev-eral hundred blocking tools to activate the new-system. Mr. Vickers stated that the success of the dial conversion wag due to the friendly cooperation coop-eration of Milford residents with telephone company employes. em-ployes. .' |