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Show 1 7hai Keeps Phone Book Together . . . Secret Is Oevealed Have you ever wondered what kept the pages of the Roosevelt and Duchesne telephone direc tory from ripping and the entire en-tire book from falling apart after you have thumbed through it innumerable times finding numbers in a hurry? Axel A. Birch, manager here for the Mountain States Tele-phons Tele-phons and Telegraph Co., said that the answer lies in the manufacture man-ufacture of the paper. Every step in the production of a flawless telephone book must be controlled with precision, and the production of the paper is the first in the long process. He said that directory paper is a very temperamental commodity com-modity which will shrink or stretch of weigh more or less I tomorrow than it does today. , To see that its unpredictable actions are kept under control, the telephone company keens full-time inspectors at the major paper mills supplying the finished fin-ished products. The specifications and requirements re-quirements established for the ! paper in the Roosevelt and Du-j chesne directory were not guess work. They resulted from years I of studying the habits of tele.-1 phone users here, from the de- mands of the printers, and from ! advancements in the art of mak I ing paper. The inspector's job is to mak? j sure that the paper being produced pro-duced fits all the requirements agreed upon. Besides watchin;: for the temperamental conduct j of the paper, the inspector con-stantly con-stantly checks to see that it is i uniform in appearance, weight, ! and quality. He knows that th? printer must get the amount o, paper he has planned for i:i j scheduling production of the I completed directory. This precision in , the making of the paper-first paper-first in the long scries o': I ures which are respond': 3! 1 the produclion of an almo? j less telephone directc'-' I I Roosevelt and Duches" -. j Birch said. " y3' |