Show for lunch that day One THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE3A teacher who customarily had 20 OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JULY 22 1956 or more to buy lunch tickets had only 11 that day When she com--j The little town of Ragland has telephones they have just mented upon the unusual situa- - waited a long time but now quired are the most modern and tion she was informed that they mpre than SO years after Alex-- j probably the most appreciated United States had all gone home “to telephone” ander Bell's great invention the m the all on one line an exasperating-Late that afternoon snatches! inefficient of residue old the ly of an overheard conversation be-- ! Floor Senders independent system tween some of the young ma-- : Some- of the younger people trons of the town went some-- : Weed Burners hke this: had grown up in the small townUi1? Furnace Vccuoms' many calls did you get? without ever having used a phone I've‘How Electric Concrtf® had 50” pew indeed were familiar with Not everybody was overjoyed Hammers dial telephones however Mayor W F Adams Skill Saws' For six weeks they had gazed who is also purchasing agent for Tow Ben major industry a ceproudly at the beautiful little Ragland’s ment plant says he has heard Plumbing Tools Frenc instruments and some repairmen threaten to have Point Sprayers tried in vain to keep the chil- - the CSecn Your Rugs and Save With Os tr New Rug telephones” taken out after they have been called 1013 WASHINGTON dren from playing with them UNITED REN7-ALL- S in the middle of the nicht to BOULEVARD JUST LIKE ON TV repair breaks in the machinery Now dial modern colored phones of beautiful ivory ‘just like the ones on TV” adorn the home New Boss of R I j Looks Boyish Has Steel Trap Mind Brilliant Lauris Norstad Was Four-StGeneral at Age 45 RAGLAND Ala (AP)— Most people would be surprised to know that there are still towns in the United States which have no telephones Until recently this was true of Ragland a small town of 1500 about 50 mnes from 1 j i j j ' i " Birmingham' : land have everything this modern world flaunts —television automatic washing machines dishar washers and every gadget known to man they are settling down to enjoy that fantastic invention SUPREME HEADQUARTERS (AP)— Gen Lauris J of almost a century ago — the Norstad boss of Western Europe’s air defenses and soon telephone It was on a Sunday night in to be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe has a favorite this advanced electronic year of sentence for those who fail to measure up on a job 1958 that the inhabitants of the “ town went to bed with a a I i little saw rabbit” almost “Once fluttering excitement Even for The sentence reaches back to (Editor’s Note: He looks like the grown-up- s there was that GEN LAURIS J NORSTAD the movies’ type casting of a his childhood in Red Wing before Christmas night feeling! Doesn’t Condone Failure when he ran out of the handsome Air Force hero but Minn and many an adult awaited the become will who the general vicdawn of Monday with suppressed woods one day shouting the news NATO’s boss this fall is a bril- (Mrs Norstad proudly of her At last the long- to his mother Since then “alliant staff planner He shaped tory over continental plumbing anticipation come when their had been awaited never has most” good Mr Eisenhower's day on The Norstads have a pretty thinking Norsome six a installed Norstad for enough Larry atomic power and originated blonde Kris- telephones son to were daughter be weeks before minister’s Lutheran tuynecF wegian the “piateglass window” conwho managed to learn on tin who became a brigadier general cept of defense strategy) at the age of 36 and a four-sta- r French German and Italian while NEVER REINSTATED general America's youngest at the in her 25 years ago during the schooling Over pursuing - wake of her father's semij reasonable Western Awlav at 45) Norstad with Ms (depression Ragland's small tele-- ! Europe military phone switchboard like many thick wavy hair and boyish good curity with only some 4a NATO grations conveniences had been of other looks typifies the Hollywood idea divisions stacked up against an Two oil paintings by Mr Eisendiscontinued and had necessity of an Air Force here Rut at estimated 115 for Russia adorn the living room of never been reinstated hower outside! It embraces two ideas: SHAPE Headquarters a portrait of Mrs The only phones they had 1 NATO keeping enough their villa One Paris'— nerve center for the! since were a few in some known atomic defense of Free Europe — (troops in western Europe to fight Norstad is inscribed: “To Isa- of the public places such as the Norstad creates an entirely dif- - a holding action in case of belle with apology DDE” station drugstore etc impression on those who sian invasion The Norstads are required to 2 NATO troops guarding the work for and with him a official entertaining jIength of the Iron Curtain 80 the aTi& PRECISION IN STRUM ENT some haggling to taes Russians know that if they move In this hydrogen age Norstad across they would shatter the’ meet all the entertaining geared himself to become “piateglass window” and invite penses on his expense allowance what fellow officers call a Pre' atomic counter-attac- k and salary Base pay and flight and he runs eision instrument RUSSIA HAS POWER his air command the same way pay combined Norstad earns a Russia’s military capabilities salary of $118680 a month President Eisenhower’s nomi-- ! nee Norstad steps this fall from he thinks probably have When needled about his pasDeputy into retiring US creased through new atomic sion for M s punctuality Norstad likes Gruenther’s job weapons rather than lessened Gen Alfred Eua e to tell story about the late Gen cause of the announced 1200000-ropsupreme commander in H He will be the first airman (man reduction in standing forces Henry (Hap) Arnold founder of S?s!bW to head up the North “No one in his right mind the Air Force who took Norstad Atlantic Treaty Organization thinks there is a threat of war to Washington in 1944 as deputy of Air Staff (NATO) that faces the Soviets on (breaking out tomorrow” the a 4000-mil- e defense line from eral said “The (Communist) Norway to Turkey Ilis predeces- - threat has been pushed back A sors — Gruenther Mathew B great factor if not the greatest Ridgwav and Mr Eisenhower — factor in bringing this about has were all Army generals (been NATO's unity and strength Norstad brings to the job ajlf we do what we should do I record as a staff plari- - lieve our deterrent will be effec-ne- r and strategist He is the or- - live The price of war will and planner who sat come too costly for an aggressor” down at a battered desk in a CALM AND MODEST French chateu in 1951 and in five While Norstad is an exacting years starting almost from scratch erected a formidable air man to work for he is calm mod- defense screen around Europe jest and welF liked by his subor- h i He often strolls out of jdinates DETERRED TO RLSMA ijii$ soundproofed SHAPE office He is the airman who shaped to drop in unexpectedly on a: n!1 D the President’s thinking on atom- - French or German general or U H RusNor-siaas a deterrent to n ic air power (some member of the staff a Eiseh-istaMr when aggression pipe in hand will ease his hower served as supreme com-- 6 foot 2 into a chair hoist a leg mander in Europe in the critical (on a desk and engage in easv go-- : years of 1951 and 1952 ing shop talk But he also is: Mr Eisenhower knew him first known as a strict disciplinarian as a young lieutenant colonel at and a stickler for Special purcha keeping his of-- 1 Oran and in his own words “was ficers physically fit ' you lowest price ever on so impressed with his alertness Norstad was born and educated Hoover’s finest cleaner grasp of the problems and per- - jn Red Wing and gave up plans sonality that I determined never for a law career to enter West! still in Brand new to lose sight of him” Point graduating a cavalry offi- And he never did After the cer in 1930 After training factory carton Fall war Mr Eisenhower as Chief of he was assigned to flight Hawaii where e Staff appointed Norstad his met and 'married Isabelle warranty of plans and operations en Jenkins of Honolulu and later as head of NATO They live in an 18th Century made Norstad his leading air formerly $ 12495 stucco villa in commander and also his golfing Garches about 10 minutes from SHAPE by car It has 12 rooms partner on the swank Course outside Faris and nine bathrooms— “all of them ( while they last Roth shot in the 80s occasional in good working order” reports ly breaking into the 70s Norstad Ogden' is a cool calculating player who Furniture Fashion Center analyzes each shot He says Ike is “the kind of a guy who likes u to have you nine down with nine - vp3ps-- : : j j ld j j “dad-blaste- ’ ’ homes of Ragland one of if not the last towns in the United States to acquire telephones All day that bright Monday the buzzers buzzed the clickers clicked and the tongues rejoiced Everybody was happy If the streets of the town that Monday looked a little deserted and the druggist missed the daily visitors about the soft drink tables it was because many of the housewives were reluctant to leave home Somebody might call And somebody did In the first 24 hours 26047 calls involving the 250 new phones were Rus-fere- nt d For Better Vision Have Your EYES EXAMINED NOW i 2470 Washington Blvd DIAL 2-86- 33 CONVENIENT FOR LUNCH And this was when the children were in school Many of the pils found it necessary to go HOME Dr Paul SATISFACTION Nasfell K ASSURED Optometrist pu-railro- CREDIT Optometrist j ( m "w-- ill' £ t I re r j ' mruES in-A- ir be-a- History! 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