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PHONE "TRUCK" in the South was le for the above vehicle by Will operated an independent telephone company in Raleigh. Wynne bought the truck from a circus which was passing through the city in 1903. luthern Bell Telephone IMark 75th Anniversary I Southern Ball Telephone Lnv which serves Waynes ClijMO other exchanges in L Carolina and eight other Ls states, today observes Its 75th anniversary of service to the South. The company was founded on De cember 20, 1879, just three years after Alexander Graham Bell had obtained a patent for the telephone he invented. Southern Bell President Fred J. Turner of Atlanta noted the occa sion as an opportunity to express gratitude to both telephone people and the public for their part in making telephone service what it is today. In a message to local telephone i people, Mr, Turner said: "Southern Bell marks this mile 1 stone as a tribute to the dynamic j spirit of the South and the region's i magnificent growth. Through the years the South has turned to the telephone more and more as an in dispensable instrument of progress ? and We are proud to have a part in the region's growth and develop ment. "We salute the people who pion eered telephone communications here, those who have provided and improved them over three quarters of a century, and those whose con fidence in our company and reli ance upon its service have made possible the ever-widening scope of its usefulness." Southern Bell began operations with 1,246 telephones in II cities, including Wilmington and Raleigh, N. C\, Charleston, S. ?., Augusta and Savannah, Ga., and Mobile, Ala. The other five were in Vir ginia, not served now by Southern Bell. In 1926, Southern Bell acquired the properties of the Cumberland Telephone Company which served j exchanges in Louisiana. Mississip pi. Kentucky and Tennessee. South ern Bell now serves those four states in additon to North Caro lina. South Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida and Alabama. By 1929 ? its 50th birthday ? Southern Bell had 1.000.000 tele phones in operation. This was in ? sharp contrast to the situation in pioneer telephone days when some : small exchanges were closed for a period of time because "the novel ty of the telephone had worn off." At the end of World War II, Southern Bell had 1,800.000 tele , phones in service. To meet the tre mendous demand for service after the war, Southern Bell launched a far - reaching expansion program that has involved every exchange it serves. It took 67 years to reach the first two million Southern Bell telephones. But in the past eight years, 2Vj million more have been I added. Today Southern Bell has 4,500. 000 telephones in 1,041 exchanges in the cities, towns and rural areas surrounding them. Also there are | 565 independent or non-Bell com panies, which operate more than a million telephones in 1,239 other Southern communities, joined with Southern Bell in serving the South. "In no other section of the na tion has telephone demand been heavier since the war than in the South," said C. T. McCuiston, Manager of Southern Bell, "and telephone people have responded by bringing telephone growtii to the South that has out-stripped any other section of the nation. The growth in Waynesville has been an important part of the economic development of this area and we are grateful for the confi dence expressed in our company by telephone users here," he said. faynesville RIVE - IN IHEATRE ? Children Under 12 Admitted FREE Show Starts at 7:00 MONDAY, DEC. 20 L-fctod low feed! HOIETTA young ?ILLIAM HOLDEN ?NUT MITCHUM TUES. & WED., DEC. 21 & 22 Ip^OtWN ? ptWIn Re Wo ted T>xw Unit?d Art.it* Pterror behind the PP IWES IN KOREA! r*?enonything like it! L>?* twtiwsi mritoni Pigs, RECKLESS! I v'+* ' * T I My fas r \ t ssr /Hg *T?? A, Of COI.OK CARTOONS Strand Theatre Mon. - Tues. Dec. 20 - 21 Tte fcJtwj In) wmm X ftUltl.J fwiii' mwolllHIKA ?*moi NNM< Tin ttglH tot* M ? Wed. - Thurs. Dec. 22 ? 23 SEE ALEC GUINNESS JACK HAWKINS I ,N "THE MALTA STORY" ? Friday, Dec. 24 "Half While . . . Half Indian. Half Crazed With Jealousy!" SEE "THE HALF BREED" Starring ROBERT YOUNG JANIS CARTER Also Remember Free lee Cream To All Children and Six Color Cartoons -?zzz; Employees Of A & P To Share $2,300,000 Employees of the Great Atlan j tic & Pacific Tea Co. throughout the country will share more than $2,300,000 in pre-holiday compensa tion this year, it was announced to day by Ralph W. Burger, president of the food chain. Every employee with as much as six months' service will receive a j part of the annual fund voted by the company's board of directors. Distribution is scheduled for De cember 17. PARK Theatre Program LAST TIME TODAY MONDAY. DEC. 20 The Rig Rroadway Musical Comes Dancing And Romancing To The Screen! DON'T MISS IT! "BRIGADOON" ?CINEMASCOPE? (In Color) Starring GENE KELLY VAN JOHNSON CYD CHARISSE ELAINE STEWART ? 3 GREAT DAYS! TCES., WED. & THURS., DEC. 21, 22 & 2.1 "HIGHWAY DRAGNET" Starring RICHARD CONTE JOAN DENNETT WANDA HENDRIX % ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S Instrument through which speech sounds were first transmitted was only four years old when North Carolina's first telephone company began operations in Raleigh on September 20, 1879. SOME OF THE FIRST EXCHANGES operated by Southern Bell looked like the above. Today modern electronic equipment helps to speed calls throughout the state and the nation. LAW ABIDING TEXAN S FORT DAVIS, Tex. lAf) ? Twelve men marched from the dis trict courtroom to the grand jury room. Three minutes later they returned and told Judge Louis Reed, in effect, "No crime, no business," and were discharged. The San Angelo Standard-Times reported it the shortest grand jury term on record in Jeff Davis County. The first practical steel writing pen was produced in England in the 18th Century. 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