Telephone Company To Spend $20,000,000 Each Year ■ We wish to Announce ■} I! THE OPENING OF THE ‘ i: G & J Smoke Shoo \ |; 2118 NORTH 24th Street * i Everything in the Line of !; CIGARS, CIGARETTES, & < SOFT DRINKS \'r Jackson & Gocibey, Prii: ' KECHEATIO.X MAKE Victory Bowling Alley 2410 I.AKE ST. Your Headquarters After Working Hours. T Mosley, Proprietor TELEPHONE JA-9175 * i Compliments of Labor Day § CROUNSE; ; BOOTERY; ! 1514 North 24th St. | / Complimentari expressions of a glor ious labor day. VARETTAS— VARIETY STORE 1803 North 24th St. *-/ u ** »*» ! Johnson Drug Co. | 2G0G North 24th i —I'REi: DELIVERY— £ WE 0998 g * nr-is amam.m am limimmiiimmnmicimmiiurmii u I HIGHEST PRICES PAID 1 | for FURNITURE, RUGS, STOVES | | “Call Us First” | f NATIONAL RIRNITURE | | Company | 1 —AT 1725— | FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS The Northwestern Bell Telephone I Company's construction program I provides for an expenditure of a bout $20,000^000 each year for the j next five years for replacements de j ferred during the war and for ser j vice improvements and extensions, according to C, D. Gietzen, District Manager of the Company here. The Company operate* in the states of Iowa, Minnesota^ Nebraska, and ! North and oSuth Dakota. The Company's first aim will be s# provide facilities to serve those who are waiting for telephone ser vice. During the war it was not possible to add enough t elephone facilities to meet all non-military service needs. However, now tbat | the w'ar is over, the Company' is I acting as promptly as conditions permit not only to meet the backed up demand for telephone service but also to resume service improve ments> restore margins in its plants | catch-up on maintenance work, and make deferred replacements. Manufacturers of telephone equip I ment for several years have been producing specialized equipment for military purposes almost exclus ively. Telephone factories are now being converted to meet the tre mendous civilian telephone needs which have accumulated. Switch boards, wire, cable and telephone instruments will be produced rap idly as possible and installation work will be rushed to the limit. However, telephone equipment is complex and the task of manufact uring and installing it is time-con suming. Hence, a considerable per iod will be required to bring tele service back to prewar standards. | The more important projects thej Company will undertake in the post j war period are: tl) Provide the e-j quipment and lines necessary to, take care of the unfilled orders for | telephone service. There are about 55,000 applicants for telephone ser vice in communities where the North western Company operates, and a bout 2,000,000 throughout the Bell System, who have been unable to obtain service due to shortages of telephone facilities of various kinds In order to stretch the existing fac ilities. many people are being serv ed on party lines whose require ments are not fully met by this type of service. There is also a large number of residence customers who desire extension telephones which cannot be provided now. (3) Improve rural telephone ser vice and make it available in areas not now being served. The present rural lines of the Company are so placed. that, taking the localities where the Company operates as a whole, 80 percent of all rural fam ilies can be provided telephone ser vice at the ordinary charges. In many districts> nearly all of the rural families now have telephone service available to them over these lines. It is the Company's inten tion insofar as reasonably and prac ticable to make telephone service a vailable to every farm in the territ ory, it serves> and every practicable step is being taken to accomplish this as rapidly as conditions permit. 1 The Company’s farm service pro gram may require expenditures as high as $8 000 000. (3) Enlarge the telephone plant generally so as to restore the mar gins required to provide promptly the class of service desired and to furnish long distance service gener ally on a no-delay basis, as was done in prewar days, i (4) Catch up on the maintenance ' work which had to be deferred dur Men and| Women Needed For Genera! Work Must Pass Physical Exams—dt-aft exempt. GOOD WAGES—STEADY EMPLOYMENT 1114 Douglas Street C. A. Swanson & Sons WHAT? YOU DON’T WANT IT? We Pay Cash For It! We pay cash for that old piece of furni ture and cooking utensils that you don’t want. We call for and deliver. We pay cash right on the spot. • The three J. & J. Bargain Stores. Num bers 1 and 2,1604-6 N. 24th St., Ja. 9452; Number 3, 2405 Cuming St., Ja. 9354. Mr. Andrew Johnson, Proprietor. ing the war. (5) Resume the program of serv ice improvement which wag inter rupted by the war. These improve ments will result largely from changes in central office equipment/ and outside plant and, for the most, part, will be noticeable in the cus-i tomer's use of the service. One out of six men who were with the Company at the beginning of the war went into military service. The Company’s personnel is looking forward to the day when demobiliz ation will permit all the men and women who have been in uniform to return. The anticipated program of activities will provide work for all of them. The Bell System as a whole has a two billion dollar postwar construe- | tion program. It calls for an esti mated expenditure of a billion dol lars very shortly and another bil lion dollars within a few years. At the peak, it is likely that expendit ures f°r construction will be as great as $650,000,000 a year, which is 50 percent higher than the high est year immediately preceding the war. Just when this peak will be reached depends upon how fast man power, materials, and manufactur ing facilities become available. One very important thing in the program is money necessary to car ry it out. In order to make these immense expenditures for new con struction, very large sums of addi tional capital must be obtained from investors in competition with everyone else in the market for it. It, therefore, is vital that the tele phone company's credit position be sustained through adequate earnings; _ I FDR LIBRARY REVEALS PAPERS' ON KRI >1 ELBOW INCIDENT Hyde Park, N. Y (CNS) Of the I 2,000 cubic feet of manuscripts per taining to the Roosevelt AdminiB-, tration that have so far arrived here for the Roosevelt Library from Washington, papers have been discovered which reveal ‘.he story of the late I resident's dispute with his distant cousin and cross.river neighbor, He wland Spencer. Spen e.ii < wned the es-ate. Krum j.loow, which was later sold to Fatl.tr : >e v no the le-igious leader. It seems both I.oe&ivelt and Spencer rrgu e„ over which one had the right to call liis estate Krum Elbow. When 'Spencer refused to give up .he n one, though offering to share it, Ro ff-velt referred the diaout*o the 1 . S. Board of Geographical Names a division of the department of interior, with the result that the national geographical survey re charied Ni um Elbow on the Tc-oso veltian side of the Hudson. Spen ei.r angry and dismayed, o'*ld his piece to the “Father” as a supt r heaven for his followers. COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIM INATION MAKING HEADW AY ON BIASED BASEBALL New York (CNS) Elmer Carter and Julian S. Reiss, members of the New York State Commission A gainst Discrimination, assigned to probe jim crow baseball, is report ed to be making some headway. Tlie two members of the Commis sion are planning to confer with manager of upstate organized base ball teams. Carter has revealed that he and Reiss have held “preliminary and informal meetings” with Larry Me | Phail. Y’ankee’ i president and j Branch Rickey. 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