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    Begin Laying New Telephone Cables From Omaha To Sacramento
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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
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permits have been issued for the
Omaha-Denver section and applic
ations for the remainder of the
work will be submitted to the Fed
eral Communications Commission
in the near future.
Buried underground, the new
cables are expected to prove an
important link in the nation’s com
munication system, further insur
ing contact during emergencies be
tween the vital centers of industry
railheads, seaports and troop con
centration points on either coast.
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
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and two cable-reel trailers plow up
the ground, plant the two cables in
it ana cover them with earth--all
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''train” can travel pretty much as
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terrain except solid rock or soft
swamp. 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
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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.
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Give us this day, our daily bread,
Seldom spokenf but well said,
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RETURNS
Mrs. Laura Eddens of the Key
stone Beauty Shop, 1701 North
24th Street has returned from her
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Oakland and San Francisco, Cali
fornia, where she visited relati'-es
and friends. She had a very en
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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
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night, January 31, 1941 at Lincoln
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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
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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.’’
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