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TELEPHONE BUILDING OF BYGONE DATS ?
Some of the first North Carolina exchanges oper
ated by Southern Bell looked like the above. To
day. modem electronic equipment helps to
call* throughout the state and the nation.
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Southern Bell Has 75th Birthday;
Service Began Here Around 1900
The Southern Bell Telephone
Company, which serves Kings
Mountain and 1,040 other ex
changes in North Carolina and
eight other southern states
?Monday observed its '75th anni
versary of service to the South.
The Company was founded on
December 20, 1879, three years
after Alexander Graham Bell
had obtained a patent for the
telephone he Invented.
According to the best inform
ation available, the first tele
"tone installation in Kings
Mountain was around the turn
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of the century. The growth in
stations since that time has been
gradual. In 1938, 397 telephones
were in service and the growth
had increased to 897 in 1947 and
at .the present time . there are
2375 toeing served out of . the
Kings Mountain exchattge.
Kings Mountain's first tele
phone company was a locally
owned corporation. It was ac
quired by Southern Bell nine or
ten years after its formation and,
)ne original stockholder reports,
resulted in a profit for the stock
holders.
Southern Bell President Fred
J. Turner of Atlanta noted the
occasion as an opportunity to
express gratitude to .both tele
phone people ?nd the public for
their part in making telephone
service what it is today.
Mr. Turner said: . "Southern
Bell marks this milestone as a
tribute to the dynamic Spirit of
the South and the region's mag
nificent growth. Through the
years the South has turned to
the telephone more and more as
an Indispensable instrument of
progress and we are proud to
have a part In the region's grow,
th and development. We salute
the people who pioneered tele
phone communications here,
those who have .provided and Im
proved them over three quarters
of a century, and those whose
confidence in our Company and
reliance upon its service have
made possible the ever-widen
lng scope of Its usefulness."
Southern Bell began opera
tions with 1,246 telephones In 11
cities, including Wilmington and
Raleigh, Charleston, S. C., Au
gusta and Savannah, Ga., and
Mcfoile, Ala. The' other five were
in Virginia, not served now iby
Southern Bell.
In ld26, Southern Bell aicqulr
ed the properties of the Cumber
land Telephone Company which
served exchanges in Louisiana,
Mississippi, Kentucky and Ten
nessee. Southern Bell now serves
those four states in addition to
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida 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 days when some
small exchanges were closed fox
a period of time because "the
novelty of the telephone had
worn off."
At the end of World War Two,
: Southern Bell had 1,800,000 tele,
j phones In service. To meet the
Good Will
Toward
All Men.
tremendous demand for service j
after the war, Southern Bell
launched a far-reaching expan
sion program that has involved
every exchange it serves. It took
67 years to reach th .first two
million Southern Bell Telephon
es. But in the past eight years.
2tt million more have been
added. . '
Today Southern Bell had 4,
500,000 telephones in 1,041 ex
changes in the cities, towns and
rural areas surrounding them.
Also there are 565 Independent
or non-Bell companies, which
operate more than a million
telephones In 1,239 other South
ern communities, < Joined with
Southern BeU in serving the
South.
"In no other section of the na
tion* has telephone demand ibeen
heavier since the war than In the
South," said E. P. Farrls, mana
ger of Southern Bell, "and tele
phone people have responded by
bringing telephone growth to the
South that has out stripped any
other section of the nation. The
growth In Kings Mountain has
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We join the clear-vetoed
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our vrtehee /or a Hapvv
Holiday to Mow friends.
New Tern Begins
At Gaston Tech
0nlanuary3xd
J. I. Mason, director of Gaston
Technical Institute, has announc
ed that winter term registrations
will begin January 3rd. At that
time students in automotive tech*
been an important part of the
economic development of this a
rea and we are grateful for the
confidence expressed in our com.
pany 'by telephone users here,"
he said. .
nology, electrical technology, and
radio - TV technology will begin
their winter term's studies.
Mr. Mason also announced that
anyone interested in entering ml
school for the first time should
register at tills time. Wot new
students, the school is offering
(expanding industries of North
Carolina. The demand for Tech
yMaiftir far exceeds the Available
supply, and a successful graduate
will have no difficulties obtaining
# jMsition. The technician jMwfO
work engineering principles and
practices. He maintains and MP*
vices the various types of equip
ment pertaining Held and
serves as laboratory assistant for
research and , test engineers.
Young men who are thinking of
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dents entering th ewinter tferm
wilt complete their work at the
end of the summer term.
May Santa fulfill
? all your hopes.
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