Baytown Ends Manual System With New Dial Exchange Tonight
Baytown moves to automatic dial telephone service tonight in a $500000 upgrade as Mayor Ward initiates the first dial and the Southwestern Associated Telephone Company hosts ceremonies at San Jacinto Inn. The six million dollar modernization brings 6500 listings to dial and signals the end of operator assisted calls with a brief service interruption and a midnight rollout.
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J. A. Ward
Baytown
San Jacinto Inn
Moany
Southwestern Associated Telephone Company
Beytown
Ward
Opera
East Flarts County
Southwestern Associated
Crosby,Highlands
Mont Bemvieu
Distone
New Inventions to Improve Phone Service Across Companies
New developments in telephone technology are soon to reach subscribers through Southwestern Associated Telephone Company. Direct dialing by long distance operators and automatic toll-recording enhance efficiency, with more phones in cars, boats, and moving trains. Some innovations are experimental, others widespread, all promising steady gains in usefulness and value. W. W. Hunt notes the telephone, 73 years old, remains a modern miracle and future progress will surpass the past.
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Southwestern Associated Telephone Company
Hst
W. W. Hunt
Tocall Mamager
America
3000 Phones At Refinery Communications Plays Big Part
Telephone network at the Baytown Refinery features 900 lines expanding to 1200, about 3000 dial telephones and 2500 directory listings. Operators handle calls 24 hours via trunk lines to Baytown and Houston, with telegraph, teletype, radio links and mail delivery forming a wide internal system.
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Baytown
Refinery
Baytown City
Southwestern Telephone Company
Houston
Humbie Company
Far
Iloution
Taxes and taxes in telephone service urged to end
A local telephone service tax discussion highlights 15 percent on local calls, 25 percent on tolls over five cents, and telegram taxes. W W Hunte, manager, argues excise taxes on communications burden users, urging abolition or removal from local service and tolls. Alexander, division plant superintendent, details career and role in Southwestern Associated Telephone Company.
Carbon’s Voice to Current Transforming Telephones
A description explains how carbon granules in telephone transmitters convert sound into electrical current for transmission. It notes that one thirtieth of an ounce per unit across more than 86 million phones sums to roughly 88 tons of coal usage, illustrating energy consumption.
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United States
Early Promoters of Telephones Termed Crooks
A New York City paper cites a 1865 release from the Telephone Advertising Institute calling a man named Joshua Coppersmith a crook for trying to raise funds by touting a device called a telephone. It argues the human voice cannot be transmitted over wires and praises authorities for arresting the promoter.
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Telephone Advertising Institute
New York City
Joshua Coppersmith
More And More Phones For Baytown
Baytown’s telephone service expands rapidly with a 43 percent rise in two years. From 4639 phones in early 1938 to over 6500 today, with about 800 more subscribers waiting and a plan to add 203 to 300 phones soon as the dial conversion completes. Future growth could reach 17,000 subscribers. Walter A. Legion, district plant superintendent for South Company, details his career from 1941 through 1949 in Baytown.
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Baytown
Té Baytown
Walter A. Legion
Southwestern Associated _ Telephone Company
Walnut Springs
Texas
Hineman
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Af Refinery Communications
U. S. Mail
W.W. Hunté
PB. V. Alexander
Guthrie Center
Iowa
Iowa State
Cal Tern
Guthrie Center -Telephone Company
Texas Associated, Telephone Company
Southwestern-Associated ”Telephone Company
Jin
Imé de Wismae
Hag
H. Kress & CO
Home Lumber CO
Texas Ave
Dial
Associated Telephone Company
Office
Houston Natural Gas Corp
Southwestern Associated Telephone CO
Robson
Corner
Texas and Gaillard
the Telephone CO
Peter
Ree
San Jacinto St
Houston, Texas
Pfeiffer Electric Company
LA Porte
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