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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1954
Page
12
A veteran operator describes the city’s last hours with the aging switchboard before a modern system takes over. He recalls familiar lights, neighbors, and routines as the room empties and the cable is cut, ending a lifetime of calls and human connections.
A June 3 dispatch quotes wry humor from behind the Iron Curtain. Jokes target Red rulers, parrot sales at Budapest shops, a laborer who loves to work for the Communists as a grave-digger, and a red satellite office telephony quip. Also anecdotes on Czech elections and Prague family woes relate to economic conditions and state slander.
Buffalo New York railsman John J. Sullivan an New York Central conductor has devised a wheeled crate that holds 50 to 100 mail sacks and can be piggybacked to a baggage truck. The device reduces handling of mail sacks four to five times per trainload and is now being patented.
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