Wartime telecommunication orders reveal urgent calls protocol
Mary Harrison Neuman worked as a telephone operator at Elyria from 1934 to 1979. A niece found 1942 directives by James Lawrence Fly on urgent war calls prioritizing the president, Congress, military and civil defense. Operators must interrupt ongoing calls for Priority 1. Monthly reports tech records required.
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Mary Harrison Neuman
Elyria Telephone Company
Elyria High School
Mary
Carol Edwards Greentree
Carol
James Lawrence Fly
Board of War Communications
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fly
United States
Congress
Army
Navy
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
Neuman
Carol Greentree
Marge Young
Audrey Sukey
Gertrude Heinz
Angie Smith
Ruth Hycell
Lucy Coen
Elmira Patton Baldauf
Echoes of Elyria phone era and the rise of direct dialing
The 1950s Elyria Telephone Directory reveals female operators guiding long distance calls while introducing direct distance dialing. Stories recall the shift from operator dialing to numbered exchanges, new lettered prefixes, and the move to area codes under the Two-Five system, shaping local and regional communication.
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Elyria
Direct Distance Dialing Comes to Elyria in 1958 Rise
A retrospective on Elyria Telephone Company history traces the launch of Direct Distance Dialing enabling local residents to call any U S number without an operator. It covers leadership changes from Weldon Case to Alltel, mergers creating Windstream, and the enduring building at West Avenue and Third Street now used for Windstream operations. The piece recalls memorabilia, lobby displays, and the evolution from rural 100 subscribers to 842000 lines.
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Elyria
Akron
Aunt Helen
Paulette Tomasheski Baglyes
Tomasheski
Paulette
Baglyes
The
Chronicle
Elyria Telephone Company
Third St
West Avenue
Roy Ammel
Weldon Case
Hudson
Case
J. Grant Keys
Otto B. Shoepfle
Lorain County Publishing Company
Connie Conry Brent
North Ridgeville
Phone Company
Elyria Catholic High School
Brent
Second Street
Third
the Chronicle
Telephone Company
Elyrians
Botamer Florist
Fairfax
New Jersey
New York Times
Englewood
Leslie Denning
Frank Osborne
Alameda
Calif
N.J
United States
New York City
Cleveland 216
Chronicle-Telegram
Third Street
Continental United States
Weldon
Baxter
Mid- Continent
Nelson
Ohio
Mid-Continent
Allied Telephone Company
Little Rock
Ark
Alltel
Saul Hansell
Wireless
Hardwire Communications
Valor Communications Group
Windstream Corp
Mike Fenik
Windstream
Alltel Corporation
Cleveland
Newcomen Society
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Marci Rich
Marci
Gmail.com
Emerson
Fairfax Exchange
Endicott
Glendale
Grafton Road
U.S
Mergers and Acquisitions
Mid-Continent Telephone
Joyce Kaiser
DDD
Gmail
Leto
Continental
MARCI RICH / CHRONICLE
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