Show In the ’50S nation wedded to the ideals of field the family rooms are built independence and experienced in conjunction with the kitchen in the practice of it Americans so that the mother can be both with her family while she is Independence Day celebrates made up a rugged company rich in Individual preparing meals Instead of beour birth as a nation What we from them gained on this day in 1778 was resource proud of personal ing separated was in a sort by of — like she walls freedom freedom political independence prision camp from the domination of another The fact that more families government whose colonial pol- July SO 1957 are to is seems me there that “It little going to church rather than showed understanding icy children going alone is the a movement toward definite of Of the problems and interest more family unity — a move- another sign of this return to the remote America In the “old days” the Yet too often the fact is lost ment toward the home rather home lifewas kitchen as from always the center than it many away sight of that we won another persons have commented” the whole family of for activity kind of independence in the went to church and were These words everyone spoken by American Revolutionary War a Utah Mrs Hatfield together Dorothy That historic uprising was a “It was a nice type of relasocial as well as a political State teacher of home and that made for stable said Hatfield Mrs tionship family living revolution move file of this evidences that personalities” said Mrs HatWe fought for more than the are being noticed more and field “I think that the return of interest to religion has had a lot lifting of the yoke of foreign more every day in quite matedomination We wanted rial ways The homes of today to do with bringing the family freedom from all manner of are nearly all being built with back home When peoples We family rooms that are planned thoughts are turned to God economic restrictions wished the liberty to be to fit the needs of each individ- they cannot help being more ourselves completely to devel- ual in the family The rooms are closely united with their famiop as our talents and interest comfortable cheerful and in- lies and I think that the wars and our particular environment viting — the type of place in have done much to turn the gave promise we could which people enjoy relaxing thoughts of people closer both to From that struggle grew a Often according to Mrs Hat home and to God” she said July 4 1952 Editorial self-relia-nt Jim JohnsonHerald Journal Union Pacific station agent James Goodsell still hears clicks in his memory Dots and Dashes Telegraphers used to keep the wires clicking tions the status of work schedules and all other forms of railroad business “When work was being done g In the business of and a lot of were nearby railroading fast accurate around we would begangs real busy communication has always been a necessity Two trains sending information out” Goodsell said “They filed a going different directions on the work report each day and any same track have raised tragic information they needed monuments to inadequate other to send to the main offices that communication went out on the telegraph” Until this century the teleThe railroads built and graph was the fastest most maintained their own telegraph accurate form of and by the time communication the world had system Goodsell entered the business ever known so when the had their own telephone railroads came West in the they as well In the 1940s and system United States the 1950s the phones were reserved telegraph came with them for urgent matters of train When Logan station agent movement and the telegraph James Goodsell 58 went to lines carried all the rest of the work for the Union Pacific railroad’s communications railroad at Cache Junction in Morse code reduces the April 1947 the telegraph still alphabet to two patterns of carried most of the railroad’s clicks dots and dashes The communication and Goodsell telegraph operator listening to first worked as a telegraph those clicks knows the Morse operator alphabet well enough that he He had learned to use in- can transcribe the letters being ternational Morse code while in transmitted on a typewriter or a the US Navy during World piece of scratch paper “just War II He soon picked up about as fast as you can talk” National Morse the railroad's Goodsell said Each railroad station had its preferred version and was transcribing and sending own call letters Out of the messages about track condi endless rattle of the telegraph By Bryan Welch staff writer far-flun- long-distan- 19th-centu- ry key the operator had to pick out his station’s call letters CJ for Cache Junction and spond A response let the sender know that an operator was on hand at Cache Junction so that a message would be transmitted There was no mecha- nism for recording the message so the quickness and accuracy of the operator was critical If a message was coming across too fast the operator could “open his key” Goodsell said and stop the incoming message asking for the sender to start again from a given place in the text “There was this woman who was a relay operator in Salt Lake who would open up and start transmitting like a machine gun” Goodsell remembered “You would have to be on your toes to keep up with her” Goodsell recalled a veteran operator working in the Downey Idaho station who could transcribe Morse code from the telegraph and carry on See TELEGRAPH oo page 5 The Ultimate Typewriter For Growing Businesses! 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