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Show Traffic Cop Cuts '.' Phone Call Time I! Chicago. Thomas F. Zapo- " tockl, a traffic policeman sta- tioned for the last six months at Monroe street and Wahash " .. avenue, makes a routine report " to a police operator every hour. .. His conversations over the pa- trol box phone used to run like " this: j. Zapotocki This is Zapotocki. Operator Who? Zapotocki Zapotocki. . Operator I didn't quite get that. " " Zapotocki Z-a-p-o-t-o-c-k-i, Zapotocki I " One morning Policeman Zapo- " tocki went before Judge William .. J. Lindsay in the Superior court with a petition to change his .. name. In the afternoon he made l his "pulls" as follows: "This is Zapp." "O. K." sang the operator. " -1 |