From telecom-request@delta.eecs.nwu.edu Wed Sep 6 06:53:28 1995 by 1995 06:53:28 -0400 telecomlist-outbound; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 14:15:44 -0500 1995 14:15:42 -0500 To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu TELECOM Digest Tue, 5 Sep 95 14:15:30 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 371 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Boston Area Telephone Exchange Name History (Jim Jacobs) Digital Broadcasting In Japan (Telecom Tribune) Get Busy and Forward to Yourself (Les Reeves) Q.931 (I.451) Series Recommendation Required Urgently (chana1@und.ac.za) Names For That Key Under the 9 (Martin D. Kealey) Voting by Phone in the Netherlands (Alex van Es) Power Line Phones and Modems (Thomas Hinders) Beyond V.34, V.34bis and Rockwell's 33.6 (Matthew A. Earley) Employment: Head of Telecommunications (Luc Nicolai) Employment: Western Union, Senior Account Executive (Nigel Allen) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. 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In 1948, exchange names went from three letters to two letters and one number. For example CAPitol became CApitol 7. This allowed New England Telephone to use the same exchange name with several suffix numbers. Some Boston exchange names came from the history of the area which is also the story of the beginnings of the United States. Since Boston was the birthplace of the telephone (and the original headquarters city of AT&T), some exchanges were named after telephone pioneers. It is also interesting to know that sections of the City of Boston, have a seperate telephone identity. A long distance call made to the Roxbury section of the city (only three miles from downtown) will be billed as a call to Roxbury, not to Boston. This is also true for calls made to Dorchester, West Roxbury, Hyde Park, Brighton, Charlestown, South Boston, and East Boston. BOSTON TELEPHONE EXCHANGES - 1959 LOCATION REASON FOR NAME COMMENTS OR NAME BEFORE 1948 DOWNTOWN - 185 Franklin St. Office ** CApitol 3 State Capitol Building Federal Govt. offices only CApitol 7 State Capitol Building CAPitol LAfayette 3 Revolutionary War Hero LAFayette MEridian 7 Time-of-day information MEridian 7-1234 (only) RIchmond 2 Richmond Street RIChmond SHerwin 3 Telephone Pioneer N.E. Telephone Co. offices only WEather 6 Weather information WEather 6-1234 (only) DOWNTOWN - 8 Harrison Ave. Office ** DEvonshire 8 Devonshire Street Only Boston Police (DE 8- 1212) and pay phones had this prefix HAncock 1 Revolutionary War Hero Only for John Hancock Ins. Co. HAncock 6 Revolutionary War Hero HANcock HUbbard 2 Telephone Pioneer HUBbard LIberty 2 Patriotic word LIBerty DOWNTOWN - BACK BAY ** CIrcle 7 Name origin unknown Only pay phones on this exchange COngress 2 Not a local name Created in 1950s COmmonwealth 6 Commonwealth Ave. COMmonwealth COpley 7 Copley Square COPley KEnmore 6 Kenmore Square KENmore ** Denotes CENTRAL EXCHANGE OFFICE. Residential customers in other areas had the option of unlimited calling plans for calls made outside these areas, however ALL calls made to these areas were message unit calls. Also, residences within these areas were offered only message unit calling plans. ARLINGTON MIssion 3 / 8 Not a local name Replaced manual office in 1950s HUnter 3 / 8 Not a local name {Served customers of ARlington manual {exchange located in W. Medford. BELMONT IVanhoe 4 / 9 Not a local name Replaced manual office in 1950s. BRIGHTON / ALLSTON ALgonquin 4 Name origin unknown ALGonquin STadium 2 Harvard Stadium STAdium BROOKLINE BEacon 2 Beacon Street BEAcon ASpinwall 7 Aspinwall Avenue ASPinwall LOngwood 6 Longwood Avenue LONgwood REgent 4 Not a local name Created in 1950s CAMBRIDGE ELiot 4 Eliot Street ELIot KIrkland 7 Kirkland Street KIRkland Trowbridge 6 Trowbridge Street TROwbridge UNiversity 4 Harvard University UNIversity UNiversity 8 Harvard University UNIversity CHARLESTOWN CHarlestown 2 Name of area served CHArlestown CHELSEA TUrner 4 / 9 Not a local name Replaced CHelsea 3 manual office 1957 DORCHESTER BAyside 9 Dorchester Bay Created in 1950s COlumbia 5 Columbia Road COLumbia AVenue 2 / 8 Dorchester Avenue? Created in 1948 GEneva 6 Geneva Avenue GENeva TAlbot 5 Talbot Avenue TALbot EAST BOSTON Logan 7 / 9 Logan Airport {Replaced EAstboston 7 manual office {approx 1957 HYDE PARK --------- EMpire 1 / 4 Not a local name {Replaced HYdepark 3 manual office {approx 1955 EDgewater 3 Not a local name [Served customers formerly in [HYdepark 3 located in Milton JAMAICA PLAIN JAmaica 2 / 4 Name of community JAMaica LEXINGTON VOlunteer 1/3 Patriotic name Replaced manual office in 1950s (Minute Man) MALDEN DAvenport 2 /4 Not a local name Replaced manual office in 1950s. MEDFORD EXport 5 / 6 Not a local name Replaced manual office in 1950s. MILTON / MATTAPAN BLuehills 8 Blue Hills Reservation Split in 1959 CUnningham 6 Cunningham Park Split in 1959 CYpress 6 Not a local name Mattapan customers prev. on CU6 CYpress 8 Not a local name Mattapan customers prev. on BL8 OXford 6 Not a local name Milton customers prev. on CU6 OXford 8 Not a local name Milton cistomers prev. on BL8 NOTE: BLuehills and CUnningham customers had dial service long before 1959. After the 1959 split, Mattapan and Milton customers were still served from a central office located in Milton. Throughout the 1960's, I lived in Mattapan and my number was CYpress 6-5356. However, calls dialed as OXford 6-5356 still went through to my phone. NEEDHAM HIllcrest 4 Not a local name Replaced NEedham 3 manual office NEWTON BIgelow 4 Name origin unknown BIGelow DEcatur 2 Name origin unknown DECatur LAsalle 7 LaSalle Junior College LASalle WOodward 9 Not a local name Created in 1950s QUINCY GRanite 2 / 9 Local granite quarry GRAnite MAyflower 9 Pilgrims' ship MAYflower PResident 3 Quincy is birthplace of Presidents John Adams & J.Q.Adams REVERE ATlantic 4 /9 Revere located on ocean {Replaced REvere 8 manual office {approx 1957 ROXBURY GArrison 7 William Lloyd Garrison GARrison (Abolitionist) HIghlands 2 /5 Roxbury Highlands HIGhlands SOMERVILLE MOnument 6 Name origin unknown Replaced manual office in 1950's PRospect 6 Name origin unknown Replaced manual office in 1950's SOUTH BOSTON ANdrew 8 / 9 Andrew Square {Replaced SOuthboston 8 manual {office in early 1950's WALTHAM TWinbrook 3 /9 Not a local name Replaced manual office in 1950's WATERTOWN WAlker 4 / 6 Not a local name {Replaced WAtertown 3 manual office {in 1950's Note: WAlker was used as the new prefix even though Watertown began with WA WEST ROXBURY FAirview 3/5/7 Not a local name Replaced manual office approx 1954 HOmestead 9 Not a local name {Used for Brookline customers served (by W. Roxbury central office WINTHROP VIking 6 Not a local name Replaced manual office in 1950s Compiled by Jim Jacobs, Senior Communications Consultant with LDDS / WorldCom, Tampa Florida. Office voice +1-813-276-5155 Office fax +1-813-229-6373 E-mail jim.jacobs@pchelp.com Voice mail +1-813-330-2500 ------------------------------ Following is a story which we ran in our August issue of The Telecom Tribune. We are a trade journal covering Japan's high-tech and telecommunications industry in English. We hope you find this story interesting and useful and you can send comments and questions regarding this or any of TT's stories to Kevin Scherrer at ttribune@shrine.cyber.ad.jp You can view our newly revamped online edition at http://www.tokio.co.jp/ ---- Begin Story ---- Satellite Digital Broadcasting to Launch in Japan By Noriko Takezaki On August 29, a satellite is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral, in the U.S., bearing the hopes of the Japanese for the country's first satellite digital broadcasting, the much anticipated ISDB (integrated services digital broadcasting) which will help realizing the convergence of communications and broadcasting. A subsidiary of Japan Satellite Systems Inc. (JSAT), DMC Corp., is to inaugurate satellite digital broadcasting next year via the eight transponders of JSAT's satellite, JCSAT-3. The broadcasting with about 50 channels is scheduled to start in April, with full-scale broadcasting service commencing in Autumn next year. "Japan is just about to catch up with the world's trend toward digital broadcasting," said Mr. Ken Churiki, vice president of DMC. "Our objective is to realize digital broadcasting services with much higher quality than our forerunners elsewhere in the world." DMC, originally established in 1994 as DMC Planning Co., Ltd. in preparation of the digital broadcasting business, decided to move to an operating company last July to become a service provider of satellite digital broadcasting. In accordance with its shift to being a service provider, DMC increased its operating capital to =B41 billion, and plans to further increase this to about =B410 billion by the next year. DMC's stocks are commonly shared with five companies, each holding 20%: JSAT and four major general trading companies including Itochu Corp., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Nissho Iwai Corp., and Sumitomo Corp. While the uplink service of the satellite is handled by JSAT, DMC will offer satellite digital broadcasting with about 50 channels of programming initially. These services include scrambling and its key control, billing and production of electronic program guide (EPG) and promotion channel. DMC plans to increase the number of channels up to 100 in the future, upon consideration of market needs. For possible competition with other broadcasting services, DMC aims at "coexistence with cable TV for the realization of multichannel and multimedia services with entirely new concepts," according to Mr. Churiki. Targeting mainly non-cable TV home-passed households, DMC expects to acquire nearly two million subscribers, about 7% of non-cable TV home-passed households, by the year 2000. Regarding another possible competitor, BS (Broadcasting Satellite) services, DMC itself doesn't feel menaced by it. "Because we think digital broadcasting is an entirely new service beyond the conventional concept of broadcasting," said Mr. Churiki. "This is a means of multichannel and multimedia services." For the realization of satellite digital broadcasting, MPT's advisory body, the Telecommunications Technology Council (TTC), took action in late July to facilitate the production of satellite digital broadcasting systems. TTC submitted to the MPT minister a partial report on technical requirements for the systems, such as for information coding systems (encoding of video and sound programs), ·_ channel coding, modulation, framing structure and scrambling system. In the TTC's recommendation, the information coding systems are to adopt MPEG-2 which was standardized by the ITU. Scrambling systems are unified so as to secure compatibility among receiving equipment, while key control system for scrambling is open. Channel coding, modulation and framing are to adopt the QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) system used by the European DVB. In accordance with the TTC's recommendation, MPT has started working on for establishment of related ministerial ordinances to allow commercialization of the satellite digital broadcasting in April next year. And major consumer electronics companies, like Sony, Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., have started development of receiving terminals and other required equipment for satellite digital broadcasting to be in time for the service start. Satellite digital broadcasting is, therefore, almost ready to launch here technically. However, there is still a concern: whether there are sufficient number of programs to attract many people. Toward this concern, DMC is optimistic. "Possibility (of producing good quality programs) itself is quite strong," says Mr. Churiki. "The point is to make specified, segmented, and well-targeted programs. Like magazines, if the contents are interesting, there is always room for new stuff." For the concern regarding contents production and application development, MPT also offers help. MPT is scheduled to establish the Digital Broadcasting Center (tentative name) within this fiscal year to help potential service providers acquire knowledge and expertise of digital broadcasting technology, and to encourage more people to enter this field. "This is the field people in the industries expect much," says Mr. Tomofumi Yasunari, MPT's Director of Digital Broadcasting Systems Development Div. "Since digital broadcasting can be directly connected with PCs, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), storage media and ATM communications, it can realize multimedia services with convergence of communications and broadcasting." Securing a 1 billion yen budget in total for two years, the Center provides facilities to the service providers for such technologies as digital compression and multiplexing, and monitoring of digital broadcasting. MPT anticipates the participation of the broadcasters, entrusted broadcasters and communications service providers in the Center's activities. "Through utilization of digital technologies, we anticipate further growth of the media industry as a whole," said Mr. Yasunari. --- end story --- The Telecom Tribune is a monthly English language newspaper about the Japanese telecommunications industry. Send email to ttribune@shrine.cyber.ad.jp for more information. A sample of Telecom Tribune stories can be viewed via WWW at http://www.tokio.co.jp/tel-trib/TTindex.html ------------------------------ For the first time since 1975, it is now possible to set up call forwarding to you own number. This may sound like a "so what?" kind of thing, but from the standpoint of 1ESS/1AESS sanity it is significant. I should point out that this has become possible in Atlanta because of the upcoming split of the 404 NPA into 404/770. And from the CO's standpoint your are not forwarding to your own seven digit number (that is still not possible), but rather to 404 + your seven digit number. I can call another number in my CO with seven digits, and the call stays in my CO. If I prepend a 404 to it, it goes out to the LATA tandem and comes back. The net result is that you make your line busy, and you get a reminder ring every time someone calls your number. This can be handy. Now for the folklore. In 1974 it *was* possible to set up call forwarding to your own seven digit number in a 1ESS. Back then generics went by the designation "Centrex 2" as opposed to the current "1AE12" type of designation. I have no idea what generic my CO was running in 1974. So after you set up forwarding to yourself, you were able to have some real fun. At least to a nineteen-year-old phone nut it was fun . If you called your number during the day, you got a *long* audit. No doubt a bunch of stuff spewed out of the model 33 maintenance terminal at the CO, and the poor CO tech probably said something like "oh s**t, its him again". I think at times this may have caused a phase, but I can't prove it. After 6 PM, when you called your number you got sent off to AIS. The remarkable thing is that the number AIS read back was the number of the last call processed by the 1ESS! So you could amuse yourself for hours by getting some *serious* SMDR from your serving CO. I am told this bug had something to do with pointers to route index zero. Perhaps David G. can shed some light on why this happened. BTW, this same generic allowed *free* IDDD calls from payphones. I made lots of friends in England that year :-) Les lreeves@crl.com Atlanta,GA 404.874.7806 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The early ESS we had in Chicago back in the middle 1970's also had bugs, but I don't think it ever allowed you to forward to yourself; I can't remember. I do know one thing back then disallowed was 'chain forwarding'. A could forward to B and B could in turn forward to C; no matter, persons calling A *always* stopped at B regardless of what B was doing. At the same time, calls to B would always be forwarded to C. The theory was that B has the right to have his calls forwarded to C if desired, however he has no right to speak for what A wants done with his. Now this is assuming all three parties A, B, and C were on the same switch of course. The switch definitly knew how B came to receive the call in question (whether to forward it per B's instructions or drop it on B regardless). On calls that left the switch however, things were different. Our first ESS here was on the 'near north side' in 1972. The first ESS downtown came in 1973 with the cutover of a very antiquated stepping switch. They got rid of it first and left the crossbar (which was still in reasonably good condition) for later. Opening day of the first ESS for downtown: I had WEbster-9-4600 in my office; the nearby Sears, Roebuck store with the national Sears credit card office in the same building on State Street had WAbash-2-4600. I had a mere two line installation with a single phone with a turn button for the two lines; Sears had a five position manual cordboard which rocked around the clock literally; thousands of calls daily to the credit office, etc. Guess what? In the conversion process, someone got their translations wrong, with calls to 922-anything actually winding up on 939-the-same. For two days running, my phone rang continuously with people trying to get Sears. I would hang up on one wrong number and the phone would ring again instantly. I must have gotten a couple thousand calls, and no doubt Sears did not notice anything wrong at all. Once I got through to repair service they promised to look into it right away and they did fix it. A lot of 939 customers were affected, especially those with numbers which related to *large* subscribers on 922 including the Hilton Hotel (4400), the Chicago Police Administrative Offices (4747) and Western Union (4321 for general offices, 7111 for message taking operators). After moving out of that office downtown, I went several years with crossbar service until about 1983 when Chicago-Rogers Park finally got cut over. PAT] ------------------------------ I am working on an ISDN project to build an interface for a PABX. I don't need any of the fancy features that can be implemented with other ISDN protocols. I need the Q.931 (or I.451) series recommendation which is the ISDN user- network interface layer 3 specification. The ITU has a server with the Q and I series recommendations on it but I can't seem to find the Q.931. I got the listserver to send me a Road Map which is a couple months old and has Q.931 on it. But when I request the file from the server it says that it can't fint it. I then e-mail it for a listing of the Q-series directory but the Q.931 does not have any file associated with it or a file reference number. I have also not received any replies that I asked the listserver to forward to the staff. Could someone who possibly has the Q.931 specification or downloaded it previously please e-mail to me. Thanks, I appreciate any help that can be provided. e-mail to: chana1@elaine.ee.und.ac.za ------------------------------ I have two questions: (1) how many different names are used for the octothorpe key; so far I've heard: cross-hash key cross-hatch key enter key hash key noughts-and-crosses key number-sign key octothorpe key pound key pound-sign key Anyone add to this list? (2) what is the derivation for the term "pound key", since the symbol on telephones bears no similarity to that used for British currency. I would hazard to guess that the answer to this derives from confusion over the standard computer character set used in the UK, which differs from ASCII by only one character, decimal 35. Then when asked "what is the symbol `#' called in the UK"... (Of course, this is merely speculation on my part; maybe there's a better answer.) # # # # # # # ######### ## # # # # # ##### ######### # # # # # # ######## Octothorpe Pound Sign Martin D Kealey 36.88888S/174.72116E ## Science Fiction Modellers' Club of ## New Zealand voice +64-9-8150460 fax +64-9-8150529 ## all SF catered for; email for info [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We covered this in excruciating, exhaustive detail here once before, but I don't fault you if you can't remember it, since it was several years ago. Volume 8, issue 190 of this Digest, dated December 1, 1988 was devoted entirely to theories about the naming of #. This followed an inquiry just like yours in mid-November of that year, and a number of reply messages which ran from then through the end of the month and culminated in the special issue of December 1. And no, I am not like Ann Slanders or her sister Scabby Van Buren. I do not re-run letters I got years ago on days when the mail is a little light, which it never is around here anyway. Mr. Kealey did write and ask the question just recently. Anyone interested in 'How the Octothorpe Got its Name' as that issue was called, can pull it from the Archives. Look in the dusty old volume 8 stuff. Maybe I *should* re-run it. Opinions? PAT] ------------------------------ Every four year there are elections in the Netherlands, and because of different reasons (bad weather or having to work) many people never even bother to go to the polling booth. In order to make voting easier the Dutch government made it possible last year for people who live in the city of Utrecht to vote at the railway station, so they would be able to do it on their way to work. Yet, many people don't travel by train to work, and even if they do, they might not have the time at the railway station to stand in line. Therefor the government is currently considering the option of voting by phone. People who decide to vote by phone will have to call a special access number. The number will be one of a 06 (900 type) kind, leading to the call factory in Rotterdam. The call factory is a special exchange for handling up to 1,6 million phone calls an hour. At this moment most time is invested in making sure the system is safe, and fraud will not be possible. If this system is going to be used in the future, the Netherlands will be the first country to make televoting for parliamentary elections possible. Alex van Es Alex@Worldaccess.NL, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Phone:+31-55-421184 Pager:+31-6-59333551 (CT-2 Greenpoint) Voicemail: +31-6-59958458 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Suggestions -- and for that matter, full- bodied, substantial proposals -- regarding 'vote by phone' have been made here in the USA also, but nothing has come of it. All the usual excuses ('there would be too much fraud', etc) have been tossed out as reasons it would not work, even though fraud prevention techniques have been provided. Then there were the privacy freaks who insisted that the tighter the fraud controls, the more likely there would be massive invasions of privacy in the 'voting booth' if controls were established identifying the phone number being used and some other personal identifier such as social security number, etc. They can't seem to understand that there *are* ways to identify the user and validate his *right to vote* without necessarily examining the vote being cast. Nor can they seem to understand that there are competent programmers who share a love for their country and a sense of patriotism which would develop the needed software in an instant -- as fraud-proof and fool-proof as the present manual system if not more so -- if it meant that more Americans would participate in the process. They would do so with a sense of integrity and ethics which would *never* willfully violate anyone's privacy. Even starting on a small scale for 'beta testing' purposes seems to be out of the question. The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners (an independent government agency responsible for administering elections of all sorts within the city) has been shown how telephone voting, either with modem and computer or by touch tone buttons alone) would work quite well. They have been shown how, with the cooperation of the banking network, voting could be done at any ATM machine. Of course *not everyone* has an ATM card, and of course *not everyone* has a computer and modem, but these would be two additional ways of 'getting out the vote'. They have been shown how even in conventional voting booth arrangements, a terminal hooked to their central computer could be used to eliminate a huge amount of manual tabulating required, and the fraud that can accompany same, to say nothing of being able to eliminate many of the 'middle-man' election judges found at each polling place. They'll hear none of it ... which is odd, considering how desparate they are getting to find voters these days. They do registrations now at all sorts of places -- even at the Cook County Jail where they always get *thousands* of voters each year for selected candidates -- just to round up anyone they can who is willing and wants to bother to vote. They keep harping on the fraud problem using phone voting, but believe me you, nothing compares to the fraud we have here now with the crooked election judges and the low-level Democratic politicians who hang around the polling places on election day, bringing in voters by the bus load from old-people's homes, etc. We could have had tele-voting here years ago had they wanted it. As they say in Chicago, 'vote early and often!' PAT] ------------------------------ I've seen one or two products that provide additional phone connections via AC wiring. Will these devices provide enough bandwidth to service a 14.4 laptop modem? Thanks in advance, Tom H IBM/Lotus/Soft-Switch ------------------------------ Is anyone aware of a new or proposed standard that enhances the capabilities of ITU's V.34? I beleive there may be a V.34bis in the works. I recently upgraded my USR V.Everything to 33.6 but have been unable to connect to the USR BBS at a rate above 21.6. Is the 33.6 a proprietary USR standard or is it part of the proposed V.34bis? Any insight, information or comments to the topic would be appreciated. Matthew A. Earley SUNYAB, Buffalo NY ------------------------------ Searching for Senior-level telecommunications expert for a highly confidential Head of Telecommunications position. The company is a MAJOR national transaction-based teleservicing organization. Position issues include: massive upgrade of the current system to include or improve on digital switching system, intraflowing/loadsharing, Automated Voice Response and front-end messaging. Requirements: technical telecommunications expertise in integrated phone systems, digital switches, DID trunk lines, Sentrex lines, order fulfillment and computer printout of transactions. Travel among 16 phone centers around the country. MUST be confident of technical expertise and leadership skills to handle strong internal personalities. Salary open. Send confidential replies/resumes to my private mail box for consideration. I will respond to all inquiries. Heavily experienced only. LRN ------------------------------ I saw the following help wanted ad in the {Globe and Mail}, Toronto, today, and thought that some Telecom readers might be intrigued by the ·_ possibility of working for Western Union. Senior Account Executive Do you have the proven success record to develop new business and increase market share? Then set your sights on Western Union. We're the recognized leader in money transfer and a dynamically evolving company where innovative changes are occurring. In this challenging position, you'll sell Commercial Money Transfer prospects, coordinate/implement marketing programs, and assume overall responsibility for meeting sales objectives. To qualify, you must have at least five years' related business-to- business sales experience. A Bachelor's degree in a business-related field is preferred. Candidate must have a proven record in selling and developing new business; some key account experience is preferred. We provide a competitive sakary, comprehensive benefits package and strong growth potential. To arrange for an immediate interview, fax/mail your resume with salary requirements to: Fax: (303) 449-3159 Western Union 2500 Pearl Street, Suite 310 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Western Union Money Transfer The fastest way to send money worldwide forwarded to the TELECOM Digest by Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ndallen@io.org http://www.io.org/~ndallen [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Memories .... memories. A typewritten notice on the bulletin board in the high school cafeteria in 1956 offering employment: "Good job for a responsible boy or girl at least sixteen years old. Good knowledge of geography is essential, along with accurate and fast typing skills, good penmanship and ability to correctly count money and make change. You'll learn to operate a telegraph machine in an exciting new career with Western Union. Apply to the agent on duty at the telegraph office, northeast corner of the bus terminal building downtown. Bring a note of reference from your teacher or principal. Work about ten or fifteen hours per week evenings and weekends. Starting salary will be 95 cents per hour with a ten cent per hour raise in two months if your work is satisfactory." A friend of mine back then applied for the job and got it. He was very pleased and proud of his position which was, in the pecking order of things in those times, a much better job than working for example as a movie theatre cashier (which was above being a movie theatre usher) a dishwasher in a restaurant or a grocery bagger. PAT] ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #371 ******************************