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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. American 03/29/1956Central Pont it yste arks Fiat Year Steady gmwth has been wit- nessed the post year in Pacific Telephone's newest offspring in the Rogue River Valley, the Central Point exchange. Since sirens loudly hailed birth of this ~ latest communications child at li p.m. the night of April 2, lfl55, it has grown over [00 telephones, from 1,324 to its present 1,934. It is talking- more now, too. During the first month of ite life it had 6,223 originating calls. This last February, when little over 10 months oldt it had 0,790 originating cells. ' Ezect Building Preparations For arrival bP this "telephone tot" were quite ex- tensive. Its parents, Perific Tele- phone. Company in Oregon, built a brand nety 36 x 27 concrete block home, in which tvns in- stalled the latest ~c}ist switching equipment. Even outside .l the home, ex- tensive tgork was done on rear- rangement of wires and cables, and new. dial telephones were were paced in homes of all its friends to apnounce its arrival. Actually, this "telephone tof" was a big child at birth. Take the size of the delivery bill presented its parents-more than $300,000. Toil-free Calls Then, too, its toll-free cnlling area extendgd to some 14,000 telephones in Whtte Cily and Medford. And since tact August, when mobile telephone servtee was In- stituted in the area, [t has been able to talk to mobile telephone vehicles withtn a radius of 30 miles. Sometime early in 1957-about February, its calculated - this CentrelPoint child will have n new companion. That's when Lhe new Phoenix-Talent exchange is "expected' to arrive on the scene. $xeend Area At the same time, according to its godfather (local telephone manager Jack Creagery,~ young Central Point will extend its toll-free area Eo another 1,100 telephones in Ggid HiR and Jacksonville. And with the growth df Creag- er's other telephone children in the Rogue River Valley since Central Painf joined the Pacific Telephone family, that will swell Central Point's tall-tree calling err to 17.200 telephones. As Creager says, "It looks as though this baby of ours is get- tine to 6e a strong, healthy enna.° L,~•.AYY1f .7~A-'KS Y lCW Mr. and Mrs. Larry F. Storks, Freeman road, Central Point, made a business trip to Portland recently where they also attend- ed the Portland Art Museum, which Lectured part of the Walt- er P. Chrysler Jr, collection oP paintings and sculptures. Both felt fhnt this was an out- standing exhibit and would ad- vise anyone who can to attend it. They came home by the epast route as they hod business to at- tend to nt Bandon, their previous Rama. On the tyey to Bandon, they arrived in Delake in time tb attend the Lincoln county Art Center where the traveling ex- hibit of fhe "Amateur Artist As- sociation o[ America" was being shown. Ivirs. Starks is a charter mem- ber f the AAA, which has head- quarters in New York City. -- A good wife is one w•ho~serves as an ally in success and art alibi in failure. ~~ ,~ modem fashiea decrees ~ C.P. American 1956 r f IRST BIRTHDAY-Canteal Point's taleyyhon~ eX~hange buildtnq wtlt peso its ifrai bir}hdsy April 2 when the first year of dial Yeelophona servieq is noted. The building [s operelod I1Y remote control end :ewes more than 1900 PT&T patrons in the Central Painf Diaiziet, The elYUC- [aYe is located on Manaanita alreet between Third end fourth.