HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-06-05, Page 7Dial Telephones
fn The Country
It suddenly occurred to me to-
day 'that the rural telehpone has
again become a worthy subject
of contemplation, although• in
different ways, This came to
mind as the result of asking for
UNiversity 5-2222. The opera-
tor, who has long' since ceased
to be a near neighbor and a
close friend, is a distant voice in
,dome unknown place, and she
asked pleasantly, "And where is
that?"
The ancient rural lines have
been dialized, you see. And as
the dial systems extended them-
selves into the remoter regions,
all .thesesynthetic exchanges
'havebeen thought up and foist-
ed upon us. There is no such
place, ofcourse, 'as UNiversity 5.
But there used to he a pleasant
little community known as Free-
port — about 15 miles from us
and a town we occasionally call.
In its earlier days this may have
been a free port, whereas other
yiaterfront localities charged
wharfage, but the local legend
is that the town was named for
Sir Andrew Freeport in the
Spectator Papers of Addison and
Steele. This is a pretty little le-
gend, and deserves our support.
We should not lightly daily with
a town so charmingly named,
The number we used to call
most of all was Freeport 124-35,
which meant three long rings
and five short - a merry snatch.
of jingling worth the ten cents
the call cost. But what became
of all that?
It says if you look up the
number you will save time, so
we look up the number, dial the
operator, and say, "UNiversity
5-2222."
5-2222." The operator then asks,
'And where is that?"
If I am not in a hurry and de -
:lire to reprimand the telephone
company for compounding an
absurdity, I,say, "I don't know"
This is mean of me and I ought
to be ashamed of myself, for I
know very well it is exactly the
Mme thing as the old number,
Freeport 124-35. I hesitate to
say "I don't know" every time,
because one night I got connect-
ed with a woman in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where there is
also an exchange named UNi-
versity, and I had a time getting
rid of her.
I think there is another UNf-
versity out West, for another
time I talked with a man in Al-
pena, Michigan. "Hello," I said,
'Is this Snookums?" He said it
was not.
Of course, deep in the tele-
phone company is a man who
could explain why UN -5 con-
nects you with Freeport, and
why UN -3 connects you with
Cambridge, and he might even
explain that there really is a
university in Cambridge if you
know whereto look. But there
is no university in Freeport. So
it goes,
Bath is now Hilltop, and Bath
sits on tidewater. Brunswick is..,
now PArk View, although nei-
ther park nor view will entrance
the sight -seer much,
There is a presumption on the
part of the telephone company
when they set up an artificial
exchange for a well-known and
trusty town of long standing, and
then ask the customer to identify
it. I made a call recently to
LOcust something or other, and
the operator said, "Where is
that?" I said, honestly, "I don't
know. LOcust is a name your
company postulated for its own
purposes, and I cannot bound it
or describe its natural assets. I
FRENCH RIOT IN ALGIERS—Rightwing riiters overturn a car during violent demonstrations in
Algiers in protest against any compromise in the struggle with Algerian rebels, A mob of
more than 50,000 French men and wimen gathered in square while young rioters stormed
the U,S, Cultural Center and occupied the French- Civil Government headquarters. '
do not know if it makes shoes
or packs fish. It might be east
of Eggenoggin Beach, and it
might be part of Pripet or Bass
Harbor It is somewhere in
Maine." _
"Do you know what it's near?"
she asked.
I think its near PRospect,'
MYstic, and TRiangle," I said. -
I was immediately connected
witha downtown St. Louis num-
ber and the baby sitter said Mr.,
and Mrs. Foster were out for the
evening and would be home late.
I can explain how tins happens,
"for I am a student of such things.
The operator, not knowing one
UNiversity from another, makes
a buzz and gets connected with
a route specialist. She says,
"Route, please, to HArvest-5."
Then the other operator says,
- "Boston 125, plus 2-L, plus, etc."
The "2-L" means two letters,
which is why they capitalize
twice on all exchanges. It is
just as easy, therefore, to get a
wrong number in Denver as it
is to get a right one in LOcust:
I resent it very .much when
the operator implies that I ought
to know where these exchanges
are. I think SHE ought to know,
or that the man' who made the
things up ought to be kept on -
24 -hour, duty so he can tell her.
True, telephone service has
been much improved and the
rates are healthy and strong. But
when I meet a man on the train
and we begin to talk, and we
find we have common interests,
and he says, "Here is my num-
ber, call me tip when you have
a hen hot, and I'll send you some
goose eggs," I can put his num-
ber in my pocket without having
• any idea where he lives.
When I have a setting hen I
dial the operator and say, "RUst-
free 7-2345!" So she says,
"Where is that " I do not know,
so I say I do not know. This
makes me queer to the operator,
who is a rational person and as-
sumes that anybody making a
call will have some idea as to its
destination. "Is that in Maine?"
she says,
I don't know if it's in Maine
orCostaRica, to tell the truth,
RUstfree is a telephone company
place, and has nothing to do with
me, goose eggs, hot hens, or ra-
tionality. "For all I know, it's in
Tlmbuctoo," I say.
"Where is TImbuctoo " she
says. —by John Gould in The
Christian Science Monitor.
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How Can I?
• By Anne Ashley
Q. How can I remove the col-
ored Letters from empty floor
sacks?
A. Rub pure lard thoroughly
into the letters and figures, soak
in lukewarm water for a few
days, then put in the boiler with
soap flakes and boil. This treat-
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ing.
Q. Row can I soften egg
shells?
A. By putting the eggs in
vinegar for about twenty-four
hours, longer if necessary.
Q. flow can I dry a sweater
properly after washing?
A. Lay the sweater on a fiat
surface, turning from time to
time. • It will not stretch and
will be soft when dry.
Q. How can I prevent the
rusting of mattress springs?
A. Rub the springs occasion-
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melted paraffin, and they will
never rust.
Q. I•Iow can I make a rubber
hot-water bottle last longer?
A. It will last twice as long
if the steam is pressed out be-
fore inserting the stopper, if it
is never filled more than two-
thirds, and never with boiling
water, and when not in use, the.
bag is hung with opening 'down-
wards.
Pilots Bale Out 1111
Sealed Capsules
A pilot of a Super Sabre rip-
ping through the thin atmos-
phere at 42,000 feet hears a shat-
tering explosion behind him. His
machine bucks and pitches like a
mustang, flames lick along the
,fuselage — a jet engine has ex-
ploded and by ordinary stand-
ards this should be the end of
him, him, for an utterly hostile
world awaits him outside the
plastic canopy when he bales out.
The air is only one-sixth the
density at sea -level. Sudden ex-
posure to the reduced pressure
can cause severe internal in- •
jury. And as the oxygen content
is far below the amount neces-
sary to sustain life, unconscious-
ness and death would follow.
The temperature outside his
pressurized cabin is below zero,
cold enough to freeze an un-
protected •person in a few min-
utes. At his speed of 600 m.p.h.,
sudden ` exposure to wind -blast
would almost certainly prove
fatal. Even if he clears the 'plane
and survives the slipstream, his
life will be .endangered by the
tumbling and spinning which
will ofrce the blood away from
the heartas he plummets down.
All the odds are overwhelming-
ly against him.
But thanks to modern science,
he is surrounded by life-saving
aids, Charles Coombs points out
in a fascinating survey of ,up-
to -the -minute flyine techniques,
"Surivval in the Sky". A11 he
has to do is "follow, the drill,'
Almost without thinking. he
has closeu his throttle, shut off
fuel flow, switched off electrical
cirettits, in preparation for auto-
matic ejection;
Raising the armrests of his seat
jettisons the plastic canopy Over
his head. Instantly be is expnsed
to the furies of the outside at-
mosphere. The mask leaps away
from his face as -reduced' pres-
sure causes his lungs to expand,
butquickly settles back. Decom-
pression triggers the mechanism
'of his skin -light nylon flying suit,
high-pressure oxygen shoots
through the limp bladders run-
ning along his aims, legs, sides,
and as they till, the suit squeezes
him with 'anartificial pressure
that the thin atmosphere doesn't
provide.
Now he braces his body and
head against the seat's back rest,
presses a trigger and Toth he and
the seat are shot into the air.
The flaming tail of the 'plane
flashes past beneath him, 'the
slipstreamsmashes against his
helmet and he start tumbling
head -over heels.
.Then the pilot detachee:,him•
self from the seat and for near-
ly two minutes "free -falls" down
through 30,000 feet.
At 12,000 feet, when the denser
air has lessened his descent to
about 130 m.p.h., within the safe-
ty limits for parachute Opening,
a device in his parachute pack,
triggered by the higher pressure,
releases the parachute and he
drifts safely down to earth.
A miracle oflife-saving sci-
ence, indeed, But Coombs re-
cords even more advanced meth-
ods. Future aircraft will operate
at extremely high altitudes, and
the pilot may then have to bale
out at supersonic speeds in a
sealed capsule.
Several have been devised and
tested on dummies dropped from
'planes flying at various speeds
and heights, others are being
prepared. One design is made of
light, strong honeycomb fibre-
glas.s The pilot, wearing a para-
chute and survival gear, sits
partly inside the capsule in his
usual seat. It has clamshell -like
doors which open and close ra-
ther like a parrot's beak.
Apart from baling out, many
other modern wonders are des-
cribed in a book that will parti-
cularly engross all air -minded
youth eager to understand or
play a part in our supersonic
future:
Starlings Taken
For Enemy Planes
New experiments with super-
sonic sound devices inaudible to
the human ear were made re-
cently in vain attempts to break
up enormous flocks of starlings,
often numbering 25,000, which
roost nightly on tall buildings in
London and some midland cities.
The birds have become a serious
nuisance.
Stuffed owls were also used to
try to scare the winged invaders,
The starlings were not deceived;
they knew the owls were faked.
Many showed their contempt by
perching on: them.
The starling population has
been soaring since the end of
the war. The rate of increase
has amazed ornithologists. One
flock which flew over a south
countryvillage was so large that
some villagers at first thought it
was a fleet' of enemy aircraft
and told the local constable.
Massed flights of thousands of
starlings have become one of the
modern "sights" of London. They
settle on the ledges of big build-
ings at, dusk after manoeuvring
inthe sky with extraordinary
precision.
Some experts describe the
cheerful, starling as a roistering
swaggerer among birds. It loves
man's company and can adapt
its habits to life in modern, cities.
The starling is also a clever
mimic, stealing . phrases from
blackbirds, curlews, lapwings
and many others and often imi-
tating mechanical sounds such
as the tinkling of a bell.
CURFEW SHALL NOT TOLL
The Dodger rookie, brought up
in a hurry' to alleviate a pitch-
ing shortage, pulled into town
at three in the morning. Since
his orders were to report im-
mediately to the manager, he
asked the night clerk for Untie
Robbie's rom and went up and
knocked on the manager's door.
After a long interval, Robbie
opened the door. His hair was
tousled, his eyes half-closed,
'Who are you?" he yawned.
"I'm 'the new ball player from
Minneapolis;"
Robbie gasped. But he kept
control. What an oaf, he thought,
but I might as wuli have some
fun with him.
"Look, son," he said, "I want
you to reportto every player.
on the floor. Then come back
and tell .me what they said ;o
you."
The kid left. A, half-hour later,.
he was back.
"Well," Robbie said, "what did
they say ,to you?"
"Nothing," the rookie replied.
"What do you •mean?' snapped
Robbie.
"Mr Robinson, therookie
gulped, "nobody is in yeti"
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The venerable Preacher Roe
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Preach?"
Roe deliberated a moment.
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and, by golly,'I ain't got a thing
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ISSUE 22 — 1958
FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES—Like the ,electric train for Christmas,
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