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Begin Laying New Telephone Cables From Omaha To Sacramento Wnfl Vine Kf'criin nn twin nnrter' '~* ——■ ■ ■■■■ — - — - - — ■ —■ ■ ... 1 ■■ ■-** ■ ground telephone cables which will ^pan the 1,600 miles between Om aha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California, to link the telephone cable networks on the two sides of the cor.tenent, the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company an nounced1 today. The newt cables -will supplement several existing “open wire” transcontinental lin es- They will increase trancontin ental circuity initially by about 50 percent, supplying a quantity of circuits able to meet practically any future demands of national de fense or other major emergency, and will ultimately almost triple present cross-continent facilities. The project is expected to cost nearly $20,000,000. Construction NORTH 24 th ST\ SHOE REPAIR 1807 N. 24th St. WE. 4240 YOU CANT TELL THEY ARE REPAIRED— BECAUSE OUR INVISIBLE HALF SOLEING METHOD “Leaves No Repair Look” ON YOUR SHOES. 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The work already authorized has been engineered by the A. T- and T- Long Lines Department in co opration with the Northwc3letn Bell Telephone Company and the | Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Long Lines gangs have started laying the cables, moving westward from Omaha and from Grand Island, Nebraska. Those directing the I work expect to get as far a« Lar amie, Wyoming, by the end of this year. l^ater, construction gangs of the Pacifit Telephone and Telegraph Company will start eastward from Sacramento and the two forces are expected to meet and complete the job near Wendover, Utah, scene of the histone finishing splice in the first telephone line to span the united States, completed in 1D14. The route followed will be close to the central transcontinental route of pony express riders, railroads and airlines> touching Denver arid passing through Cheyenne and Salt Lake City. The cables now being installed Will employ equipment whereby twelve talking channels can be set up over a circuit composed of a uair of wires in each cable. Wir es for west-bound channels are in one cable, for past bound in the other. Since carrier circuits re quire more frequent amplification than ordinary telephone circuits, a large number of ‘ repeater points’’ will be established along the route. Work has begun on six such ampli fier stations between Omaha and Grand Island, and there will be nearly 100 of them in all in the 1,600 miles between Omaha and Sacramento. Throughout the entire route only a few miles of cable will be above ground. For practically their en tire length the cables will be plow J in, a method of laying under ground cab I which has recently NOW? 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Under favorable conu' tions it can lay several miles of cable a day- For the most part, the cables are buried to a depth of about 30 inches, except where var iations in the condition of the soil or the character of the route make it necessary or desirable to vary I this depth. When crossing a road for example, the depth of the trench may be increased to as much as 48 inches- Occasionally, if the structure of the soil requir es it, the cable reels are detached from the plow, which goes ahead to dig the trench, then returns to lay the cables during a second trip or another plow may precede the cable-laying train ,which follows the same furrow. To protect the cables further, the route follows a carefully sel ected private right of way, avoid ing highways. In the past 12 years, heavy ice ?toims in the region west of Om aha have given considerable trou ble to telephone lines, producing many a glaze or coating of ice on the wires that was picturesque but bail for communication facilities. Burieu wires escape this trouble, but may face new problems under ground. On the Omaha-Denv^r section, for example, it has been considered desirable to "gopher proof” Ihe cables by winding a steel tape between the lead sheath and the outer covering of asphalt ed jute The number of wires in the two cables will vary in different sec tions of the route, averaging be tween two and three hundred for the two cables together. The 1, 600 miles of twin cables will have a total weight of about 25,000 tons and will contain nearly half a mil lion miles of wire- The cables w.ll provide new facilities for all types of Bell System service—long dis tance telephone service, network, broadcasting channels, teletype, telegraph and telephotograph lin es. THE NEGRO AND NAT’L DEFENSE (continued from page 1) says that no man may come into the Army who is not acceptable to the Army—What good will it do us to take men to an induction place if the Army will not take them—I regret this state, but un fortunately^ the Army gets the final say. What we are doing of course, is simply transferring dis crimination from everyduy life in to the Army. Men who make up the Army staff have the sam" i deas as they had before they went into the Army-’' lleneral Lewis B. He-rsh* y, Selective Service Adm. NATIONAL DEFENSE JOBS— Very little evidence is at hand to prove that Negroes are being giv en jobs either in army arsenals or ir the thousands of industrial plants which have been given large contracts for National Defense. Negro carpenters are being re lused employment on construction projects now going forward at Fort Dix, N. J., Ft. Riley, Kansas, and Ft. Lee^ Va., and Negro skill ed and unskilled labor are barred from working at the United Stat es government air fields now un der construction in three cities in Florida. Very acute is the situation in the Boeing Aircraft Plant in Seat tle, Washington, where it was le ;ently revealed that a large num jer of Nazi Bundists are not only mployed by occupy strategic pos tions in the plant, while Negroes, vhatever their qualifications, are How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the ' trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you arc to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis denied jobs in the plant manage ment. , Westinghouse has government contracts for radio apparatus to taling over eight million dollars. In its Baltimore plant, 800 persons are employedj but of this normally three are Negroes. They are lab orers and porters. No skilled Ne groes are hired. But there is no ban on the employment of Negro es, according to the cmpany. The Virginia Engineering Com pany at Norfolk has contracts for more than thirteen million dollars. It employs 1600 persons, of which perhaps 600 are Negroes. All of them are unskilled laborers Glenn R. Martin & Company in Baltimore, employs more than 10 000 workers, most of them on gov ernment orders, but has never em ployed a Negro. Negroes have been turned away from the Colt Arms Company, of Hartford, Conn% with the assert ion, “We are not hiring any Neg roes today” In Cleveland, neither General Motors nor the White Motor Com pany, both of v/hich are working on government contracts, employs Negroes. These facts can be multiplied many, many times. The Associa tion merely lists here a few ex amples of the more flagrant in stances of discrimination and se gregation in the nation’s defense program. 1 SUBMIT MY THOUGHTS (by Bebe Nannette Walker, ‘2613 Grant St., Love Apts No. 3) Give us this day, our daily bread, Seldom spokenf but well said, The more we work, The less tfe shirk— Another day, another dollar. Read more of this and be a good scholar. I went to school to learn the gold en rule; That’s why I’m no one's fool — lj work hard because I’m inde pendent. As hard as anyone’s d<fccendant. Paid today—tomorrow broke! Got no money, clothes all in soak. Drunk today, tomorrow feel sunk— Feel worn out, Without a doubt. Owe everyone in towm— But that doesn’t keep me down RETURNS Mrs. Laura Eddens of the Key stone Beauty Shop, 1701 North 24th Street has returned from her » wonderful trip to Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, Cali fornia, where she visited relati'-es and friends. She had a very en joyable time in those fair cities. To her many friends and custom erg she wishes to announce ihat you will find her back “down to earth” in the Keystone Beauty Shop at her usual line of duty . THE MODERN ART CLUB The Modern Art Club met on Monday night, January 20, 1941 at the home of the President, Mr3. Dale Riddles, 5241 South 25th St., Eight members wfere present at the meeting. After tl)e business meeting, the member^ took up their needle work. THe club also discussed the various spring activ ities which they are planning- A vote of thanks was extended to the hostess- The next meeting will be on Monday, January 27, at the home of Mrs. Lydia Rogers, 2228 Ohio Street. SLOWLY IMPROVING— Mrs. Maggie Bryant, 2875 Wirt Street, who has been confined to her home for the past week, is now slowly improving. TO WACO, TEXAS Mrs. Fanaie May Ware, 2235 Grant Street, left Wednesday Jan. 22j for Waco, Texas to be at the bedside of her father who is very ill with pnuemonia. Mrs. W’are plans to visit her home in Dallas, Texas before returning. BACK TO WORK Mr. J. C- Carey who has been ill for the past few weeks, is able to be up and has returned to work. FONT FORGET— Lincoln’s big night- Follow the crowd to Lincoln for the Univers ity Collegians dance on Friday night, January 31, 1941 at Lincoln New Spot, the new Crystal Ball room, 219 North 9th St., Lincoln, Nebraska. THE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY (Continued from page 1) Bend are served from our system. Without Nebraska Power Company service such towns probably would have power plants of less than 500 horsepower. “Another more concrete example is the new bomber assembly plant soon to be constructed at Fort Crook,” Mr- Davidson continued. “While this will be a very large plant employing more than 10,000 people, its power requirements aie only about 3 percent of the cap acity of one of our stations “The same conditions of avai? . ability of electric power exist thru out our territory and, in fact, throughout the nation,” Mr- Dav idson said. ‘‘Today it would hard ly be possible to find a location where a national defense activity could not have power available at once or before the activity would be ready to use it. The private electric industry stands ready to do the job of de livering and producing the neces sary power, and with little added ^(instruction, and without handi capping their own efficiency, -lur iransn^ssion systems could deliver the power produced in the hydro electric plants the government has built. A tremendous saving would result as compared with construc tion by the government of new and duplicating transmission lines to do the same job “The nation is prepared electric ally because of the electric utility industryt created and developed under the ‘American Way’ of pri vate ownership and individual init iative, built a .system of power plants and high voltages electric lines which make ample power available anywhere in the United States,” Mr. Davidson continued. ‘This is very important because the success of national defense de pends on the ability of American industry to expand and speed up production and adequate electric power is absolutely essential to this program. The present capacity ot the po wer plant of the Nebraska Power Company is more than six times what it was when our country en tered the first World War. The total power capacity in the United States ig five times what it was in 1917 and far exceeds that of Ger many, France and Great Britain combined ‘‘Privately-owned utilities have constructed almost 90 percent of this great reservoir of electric po wer, and in 1940 they produced and distributed more than 90 per cent of the country's total electric energy. ‘‘Yet, last year,” Mr. Davidson pointed out “the electric plants f •Our Business Is Picking Up- ; , 1 FREE ESTIMATE ON YOUR MOVING JOBS ( < ' LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN MOVING YOUR FURNITURE,1 » AND STORING YOUR HOUSEHOLD GOODS WITH COM- ' ' PETENT, TRAINED MEN TO DO THE JOB. ' ; -ALSO AUTO STORAGE- ' i \ NORTHSIDE TRANSFER : * —PRESTON HIERONYMOUS, PROPRIETOR— ,2414 Grant Street WEbster 5056 * of the United States produced only 40 percnt of the total energy they could have generated if operated at full capacity all of the time. And only about two-thirds of the country’^ total capacity was in use at any one time. This means that the electric industry will be able not only to handle the defense re quirements, but to maintain its regular peace-time services. ‘‘The vast network of electric lines which makes power available throughout the country was built under the holding company syst em of utility ownership, a devel opment of American individual in itiative and private enterprises,” Mr. Davidson said. “It is because of this great system that our na tion is today so adequately prepar ed, electrically, focr national def ense. “In 1908,” he said, “about the time the holding companies came into being, there were only about 2,400 miles of transmision lines of 60,000 volts or more, not enough to reach once across the United States. I refer only to lines of 60,000 volts and above because these can deliver almost any am ount of power an industry needs for any purpose. By 1918, the end of the first World War, some new transmission lines had been added, mainly in California, Washington and Montana to connect water po wer plants with their markets. “In 1928, paralleling the growth of holding companies in the coun try, there was a tremendous in crease in the number of miles of such transmission lines, and) thi« construction went far beyond the tying-in of water power plants with markets. It included inter connection and integration of util ity systems for operating econom ies and cheapening the cost of ser vice to the customer. ‘Today, a vast nation-wide net work of more than 82,000 miles of lines of 60,000 volts and over — enough to reach from coast to coast 200,000 miles more of lower voltag etransmission lines reach all the populated areas of the na tion. It is this great interconnec ted system that is now so import ant to our national defense. Of all this great system, beter than 90 percent has been built by privately owned companies under holding company ownership. ‘‘These facts indicate clearly,* Mr. Davidson concluded, “that the basic principles of the electric hold ng companies have been to extend adequate electric power to the en tire areas they served and to pto vide ample reserves for future needs of any kind. It is these prin ciples that, have been directly res ponsible for the preparedness of the electric industry to furnish power wherever it may be needed. Nothing should be done in this crit ical period,” he urged, “to destroy, disrupt or handicap the ability cf the private electric industry, or any other industry( to do its p8rt in national defense.’’ « THOMAS 1 j FUNERAL | | HOME | U2022 Lake St. WE. 2022 MntiimuHUUiiiitiiiiiiuiinii:iiiiiiuuiiiuuiiuuiiiiiiU!HJimiiiuiiunuuiwiiHnfflsiuiuiUk WAVAW.WJV.Vi'J’/MW MAGIC DISC HEATS WA IN $0 SECONDS Million* need Speed King —-give* you hot water fast and cheep. 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