Voice of America Operator to Dial Phones in Ottawa
Jack Morrisey recalls the evolution from crank phones to dial telephones at Southwestern Bell. The Ottawa retiree reflects on 1949 local data, 1951 flood clippings, and a basement museum of telecoms history including a 1991 Yankees baseball and memories of the Kennedy era.
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Jack Morrisey
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Jack
St. Mary's College
Wellington
California
Nixon
San Clemente
Southwestern Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Mr. Watson
Telephone Company
Ottawa
Hudsons
Studebakers
Main
Herald
Kennedy
All the
Yankees
Lou McElroy
Williamsburg
Ice Age Returns Across East and Midwest
Blizzard conditions and record cold froze roads and flights, with 80 below wind chill in northern Illinois and 100 below in Minnesota. National Guard deployed in several states as cities dig out. thousands stranded, hundreds of cars abandoned, and Amtrak canceled trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Lokken
Associated Press
East
Midwest
National Guard
National Weather Service
Illinois
Minnesota
Buffalo
N.Y
Hugh Carey
Transportation Department
President Carter
Congress
House
Senate
Carter
James Schlesinger
Chicago
Interstate 55
Pontiac
Amtrak
Midwestern
Northwestern
Northern Plains
Rail Passenger Corporation
St. Louis
Western
Mary
Inherent Evils In Gas Plan Debate Over Energy Bill
Washington faced gas shortages as Congress debated Carter emergency energy bill. Senators Stevenson and Pearson criticized the plan as ineffective and urged deeper cuts and removal of price controls. Crisis spread through Midwest and East with 8,900 plants closed and 648,000 workers idled. Washington Gas Light Co ordered commercial and industrial users to cut gas use to minimal levels until Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Carter
Adlai Stevenson
D-Ill
Senate
James Pearson
R-Kan
Midwest
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
Federal Power Commission
James Schlesinger
Kansas Legislature Tackles Finance Death Penalty Tax Reform
Kansas lawmakers push early on major issues in 1977 session with school finance reform proposing a 12 million dollar state aid increase and 46.5 million dollar property tax rise. Death penalty bills face Senate hearings, while tax revisions, drug exemptions, and court budget scrutiny dominate committee action.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
House Education Committee
Robert F. Bennett
Bennett
House
John Carlin
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Senate
Secretary of Revenue
Kent Kalb
Kalb
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Ways and Means
Legislative Research Department
State Chill Thaws as Kansas Sees Warmer Weekend
Bright sun and lighter winds eased the day’s bitter cold across Kansas with wind chills 15 to 30 degrees warmer than Friday morning. Overnight lows ranged from 6 below at Belleville to above freezing in Dodge City and Goodland, with forecasts calling for a weekend warming trend and a chance of precip midweek. Governor Bennett urged expanding overseas wheat markets amid a 10 to 15 percent drop in farm income in 1978, predicting a billion bushel wheat surplus and a slowdown in growth but unemployment dropping to 3.4 percent in 1977. Personal wages and income were expected to rise in the year.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Belleville
Mercury
Dodge City
Goodland
National Weather Service
Lawrence
Robert Bennett Friday
Bennett
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Dorian Fred Dry Goods
Ede“ston’s
Prager
Lola
Maia
Specializing
Patteurisey
Fiarrah Beauty Shop
Mary Alice Hintz
Don Lambert
America
Cedar Streets
Pittsburg
Garnett
Kansas City
Wichita
Great Bend
Hutchinson
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Fostoria
Fostoria City Hospital
Erie County
Ottawa Herald
Mike Slifer
Russell Mundy
Tina McArdle
S. Locust
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