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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1943
Page
34
Wartime Cedar Rapids telephones face higher demands as toll calls surge over 25 percent and Sundays reach double, with 125000 local calls daily and 14 technical staff sent to armed forces. Marion Morrison notes restrictions limit details while urging public cooperation to ease overload.
A plaque honoring Capt Freddie Anderson will be given to Kenwood Park Methodist Church by his widow during an 11 a.m. dedication service. The Rev M B Green is pastor. The plaque will list 23 current armed service members and future enlistees with Anderson’s name noted. He died in a Missouri hospital on November 21 1942.
The main distribution frame routes calls via line finder groups on an intermediate frame. When a receiver is lifted the finder jumps to the correct disc and completes the circuit, then the dial tone signals connection to a first selector switch. A sequence of switches is engaged as the caller dials, balancing loads across 64 line finder groups to speed service.
Two WAAC recruiters at Cedar Rapids are reassigned to Des Moines state headquarters. Third Officer Candace B. Arsers will take over Cedar Rapids duties for about three weeks. Auxiliary Genevieve Butler replaces Edna Harps, who leaves after a brief stay, while Auxiliary Blanche M. Erea remains at the Cedar Rapids recruiting station.
Henry Schumann-Heink son of the famed singer, now a shipyard worker in Sausalito, meets George Rogovoy former cellist for Madame Schumann-Heink. They had not seen each other in 24 years.
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