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Show PAGE 8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1974 29, Ponderosa State Park , Nice Stop Situated on a penisula on the beautiful Payette Lake near McCall is Ponderosa State Park. The 998 acres included in the main park complex contain one of the largest volupnes per acre stand of ponderosa pine in the state. Excellent facilities provide for an enjoyable weekend stop when traveling to Expo, as well as a worthy vacation spot in itself. A visitor center provides information on highlights of the park including history, geology, trails, and camping information. The 170-un- a 25 per cent discount. Ponderosa State Park is participating in the rent-a- tent program. Five tents are available by reservation or a first come, first serve basis. For $7.50 per night, one can rent a 9 x 12 tent set on the camp site, ground cover, two cots with pads, on lantern, cookstove, ice chest, table, and grill, Each season Ponderosa State Park hosts a variety of activities. ONCE - A - it campground with water and electrical hookups has one-haof its sites available by lf MALE OPERATORS aren't exactly new as can be seen in this sketch of an 1879 telephone central office in New York City. The speed and efficiency of today's electronic switching was unthought of when these young men manually connected telephone calls. When a call came in. one of the men would plug into a horizontal bar line. He then would yell to the operator who handled the customer being called and thatsecond operator would connect to the bar and finish setting up the call. When the call was completed, another operator would yell to all in the room the line was clear again! worth of camping for 100 YEARS AGO Was Born The idea was conceived in a month so one could talk to a mere handful of subscribers. But those pioneer telephone customers perservered, and the baby grew and grew and grew! Idaho's first telephone ex- -' change, Hailey, started with 24 customers in 1883. Today Hailey has over 2,200 telephones, and there are more than 340,000 in Mountain Bells serving area in southern Idaho. Long distance calling in those early days was anything beyond the edge of town. And transcontinental calling didn't begin until the early 1920's, and at a cost of over 20 dollars for just three minutes. Even Professor Bell, a visionary, would have found it very hard, indeed, to believe that the first century of telephone service would find people dialing direct to more than 138,000,000 telephones in this country, and millions more in foreign countries. Satellite telephone calls would have boggled the minds of even the scientists of a short generation ago. Today, with electronic and 50 dollars 1874. The birth occured in June, 1875. And the world hasn't stopped talking since, for Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and speech therapist by profession, believed voice sound could be transmitted by wire. In those early days of telephony, the infant tele- phone needed customers. But skeptics were hard to convince. And besides, the charges for the new fangled talking box" were outrageous, according to many two hundred dollars and more to have a telephone hooked up, then another 25 to $7.50 WHY PAY ELIASON'S Telephone reservation. Camping Coupons are available at Ponderosa Slate Park for Idaho residents. Coupon books permit $10 Top Meat Prices In QUALITY MEAT Super Market When A You Can Get Long Grain Fed Wholesale LOCKER BEEF SAVES YOU MONEY In Halves, Wholes A OA50 MINI Quarters. Z50A MINI TRAIL You Can Even Pick Your Own Beef From CT70 TRAIL Eliason's Feed Lots. Already have your own beef. Gmm To EHuofl'i (or Custom BmtchcrMg. Need Meat? ELMM DEALERS TL125 TRAIL CL450K6 SCRAMBLER $199.95 $329.95 $395.00 $550.00 $1295.00 Idaho Appliance And Sport Shop PACKLVG CO. 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