July 13, 1960 (12 pages)

oY ic ol le re e, at kk Pe mn d Pe . NUGGET "ADVERTISER . BD chp at a BEY cm ee hh athterntes ns ae be ashe peat + rs roa 3 rarer emptor Lt gee A Pacific Telephone line patrol crew around the turn of the century, is Back in 1913 this Brush truck was the pride of Pacific Telephone's fleet. This chain drive installation truck with its solid tires was not noted for a "floating ride." Padiic Telephone, Lately, — Own Biggest User 4 location unknown. PUTT — . cial directories which will list the new dial numbers. During the call subscribbe ers will be reminded that extended dialing will also come into-effect on Sunday, ° July 17, so that subscribers in Grass Valley and Nevada City can dial each other just like a local call, without toll charge. Those with party line service will: learn how to call other parties on their line, This information will also The purpose-of the calls appear ina pamphlet which ‘ is to acquaint subscribers Hutchins will send to» all with the use of the new telephone users just before dials as well as~with other the-changeover_date. details of local phone service which will be involved after the change. The instructing operators are calling night and day in order to catch working subseribers and those who have not been able to answer. initial calls. The operators 2 a dial instruction machine Which permits the subscriber to dial a_ test number, The machine rePacific Telephone lately has been its own biggest a user of its phone service in ig Grass Valley and Nevada ' City as it goes about phoning every sub&criber.in the tg two exchanges, Phone company manager George Hutchins announced that specially assigned central office. operators have been making the calls in connecticn with the changeover to local dial service and nationwide Direct Distanee Dialing on July 17. sons Wallace. 4 ceives the dialed call as a code on a paper tape from which the operator can. tell the dialing accuracy. Large commercial subscribers with complex: installations are being visited instead of phoned. a In addition to basic dialing, the instruction calls cover Direct Distance Dialing and the Area Codes required to reach distant points. The operators also discuss the ‘exchangewide number change and the speBe Happy Go Pappy’ PAPPY’S TAXI PHONE 273-2228 Jim Dolan, first telephone wire chief for Grass ValleyNevada City. m7 The transportation was not very glamorous but it got the job done for Jim Dolan, first telephone wire chief in this region. He is shown on his wav to shoot trouble along the open wire line, accompanied by an unidentified Passenger. Dolan came } to Nevada City in 1899. Gets MORE Business At LESS Cost! Reach YOUR potential customers easily and at low cost with direct mail advertising that SELLS. We help you plan it, write it, we print it and mail it for you. We'll be glad to show you samples and tell you some "success stories”. © Direct Mail Advertising ® Office Printing e Letterpress Printing _. © Offset Printing PLP EF Seer, . Nugget Printers : 265-2471 2 t The Grass Valley central office switghboard -about 1937. Left to right: Marie Williford, Chief Operator; Grace Foster, Mildred Stoner Stevens, Billy Bennetts. Foote and Mary ParNUGGET Nature isn’t man’s oldest and fungi and wood deand volcanic dust W.G. Lord, first telephone agent in Grass Valley, became first manager of Grass Valley and Nevada City when SunsetTele phone Company merged with Pacific Tele. phone. Is your telephone anima], . vegetable or mineral? The answer: all three, are included in the raw materia! enemy, the fce of almost all stroying insects have rehe creates. Under the onmoved the wreckage. Today, slaughts of ice, heat, water facing up to the weather nd entire and attack from biological civilizations have collapsed sources continues to be a challenge, particularly for Pacific Telephone and other Bell System companies. For example, how well a telephone pole, a_ simple thing, can withstand nature’s ravages may affect the success cf a large area of communications. The-Bell System has more than 22 million poles in line linking telephones to central offices and between cities. And 700,000 new “poles” are put up each year as replacements or part of the present plany expansion. The 22 millier’ poles and their “hardware” represent an investment of more than $1.2 billion. The new poles, ranging in length from 16 to 75 feet, can cost anywhere from $3 to $160 depending on point of origin, length and circumference. How to prolong the life of a pole to 35 years or more is the problem of Bell Telephone Laboratories, whose engineers use a pole “farm” at Chester, N.J., to carry out their studies. The Chester “farm,” and_ similar sites in Mississippi and Florida chosen for different environmental conditions, are laboratories using nature for the testing agent. Pole stubs (some inthe ground since the Chester Lab was opened about 30 years ago) are exposed continuously to the elements and tested with various preservatives. Now almost 2,000 poles, including cedar, from which Bell System telephones are made, used in Bell solar batteries originally came from sand—. one of earth's most abundant substances. southern pine and Douglas } fir are under study. Spacislly prepared ‘silicon! The laboratories’ timber products engineer tests. the preservatives against the worst danger to all poles— om EMERGENCY CALLS =——_ Cc A L L i N Y Oo U & POLICE EMERGENCY PHONES: . Life Span of Phone gi; Poles Studied decay at the ground line. Creosote and penta-petroleum have both performed very well, but recent studies show that a combination of creosote and pentachlorophenol will even more effectively combat fungi, termites and carpenter ants. These measures are studied by boring a pole. This extracts a section of pole— called an increment core— from the surface right in to the heartwood by using an ingenious boring ~instrument perfected in Sweden. The core, or “plug,” is then examined in the laboratory. “Laminated crossarms are also being investigated. A crossarm may, at times. be expected to bear more than 250 pounds on each of its 10 “pins.” Sometimes a minor flaw in the wood may cause’ trouble. So the laboratory group has tested laminated crossarms containing near-perfect slabs of wood held together by strong adhesive. Results thus far show that the laminated -arm is. at least as strong as solid wood arms, An important development in treatment of poles already in place is receiving exhaustive tests. Some poles now in plant are “hospital cases.” Instead of junking such a pole, a remedy is given at the scene by applying a preservative, genrally in paste form. The prepreservative is held in place by wrapping the pole’s affected area with a “bandage” of polyethylene or tough kraft paper. _ Even man-made fiber glass poles are being tested. This greenish colored structure is of extremely light weight but tests show that it cannot compete with Mother Nature’s own model, for a number of reasons, including cost. Grass Valley Police... 273-3321 Nevada City Police. ce eecee 200-2626 Nevada County Sheriff..265-4545 (If no answer at Grass Valley ~ or Nevada City, Call Sheriff 265-4545) FIRE EMERGENCY PHONES: Grass Valley Fire Dept.. 273-2241 Nevada City Fire Dept. e+ 265-2414 ALL RURAL Depts. seecees 265-45]] _California Forestry Division. 265-245] CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL (Emergency Only) Ask Operator for...+. Zenith 12000 HOSPITALS: . Jones Memorial...2++ .273-6101 Nevada County. eevee Miner's. eeeeeeceoevn eevee eeaees 265-2426 Sierra-Nevada Memorial.. 273-7 oeeeees 269-456.

oY ic ol le re e, at kk Pe mn d Pe . NUGGET "ADVERTISER . BD chp at a BEY cm ee hh athterntes ns ae be ashe peat + rs roa 3 rarer emptor Lt gee A Pacific Telephone line patrol crew around the turn of the century, is Back in 1913 this Brush truck was the pride of Pacific Telephone's fleet. This chain drive installation truck with its solid tires was not noted for a "floating ride." Padiic Telephone, Lately, — Own Biggest User 4 location unknown. PUTT — . cial directories which will list the new dial numbers. During the call subscribbe ers will be reminded that extended dialing will also come into-effect on Sunday, ° July 17, so that subscribers in Grass Valley and Nevada City can dial each other just like a local call, without toll charge. Those with party line service will: learn how to call other parties on their line, This information will also The purpose-of the calls appear ina pamphlet which ‘ is to acquaint subscribers Hutchins will send to» all with the use of the new telephone users just before dials as well as~with other the-changeover_date. details of local phone service which will be involved after the change. The instructing operators are calling night and day in order to catch working subseribers and those who have not been able to answer. initial calls. The operators 2 a dial instruction machine Which permits the subscriber to dial a_ test number, The machine rePacific Telephone lately has been its own biggest a user of its phone service in ig Grass Valley and Nevada ' City as it goes about phoning every sub&criber.in the tg two exchanges, Phone company manager George Hutchins announced that specially assigned central office. operators have been making the calls in connecticn with the changeover to local dial service and nationwide Direct Distanee Dialing on July 17. sons Wallace. 4 ceives the dialed call as a code on a paper tape from which the operator can. tell the dialing accuracy. Large commercial subscribers with complex: installations are being visited instead of phoned. a In addition to basic dialing, the instruction calls cover Direct Distance Dialing and the Area Codes required to reach distant points. The operators also discuss the ‘exchangewide number change and the speBe Happy Go Pappy’ PAPPY’S TAXI PHONE 273-2228 Jim Dolan, first telephone wire chief for Grass ValleyNevada City. m7 The transportation was not very glamorous but it got the job done for Jim Dolan, first telephone wire chief in this region. He is shown on his wav to shoot trouble along the open wire line, accompanied by an unidentified Passenger. Dolan came } to Nevada City in 1899. Gets MORE Business At LESS Cost! Reach YOUR potential customers easily and at low cost with direct mail advertising that SELLS. We help you plan it, write it, we print it and mail it for you. We'll be glad to show you samples and tell you some "success stories”. © Direct Mail Advertising ® Office Printing e Letterpress Printing _. © Offset Printing PLP EF Seer, . Nugget Printers : 265-2471 2 t The Grass Valley central office switghboard -about 1937. Left to right: Marie Williford, Chief Operator; Grace Foster, Mildred Stoner Stevens, Billy Bennetts. Foote and Mary ParNUGGET Nature isn’t man’s oldest and fungi and wood deand volcanic dust W.G. Lord, first telephone agent in Grass Valley, became first manager of Grass Valley and Nevada City when SunsetTele phone Company merged with Pacific Tele. phone. Is your telephone anima], . vegetable or mineral? The

answer: all three, are included in the raw materia! enemy, the fce of almost all stroying insects have rehe creates. Under the onmoved the wreckage. Today, slaughts of ice, heat, water facing up to the weather nd entire and attack from biological civilizations have collapsed sources continues to be a challenge, particularly for Pacific Telephone and other Bell System companies. For example, how well a telephone pole, a_ simple thing, can withstand nature’s ravages may affect the success cf a large area of communications. The-Bell System has more than 22 million poles in line linking telephones to central offices and between cities. And 700,000 new “poles” are put up each year as replacements or part of the present plany expansion. The 22 millier’ poles and their “hardware” represent an investment of more than $1.2 billion. The new poles, ranging in length from 16 to 75 feet, can cost anywhere from $3 to $160 depending on point of origin, length and circumference. How to prolong the life of a pole to 35 years or more is the problem of Bell Telephone Laboratories, whose engineers use a pole “farm” at Chester, N.J., to carry out their studies. The Chester “farm,” and_ similar sites in Mississippi and Florida chosen for different environmental conditions, are laboratories using nature for the testing agent. Pole stubs (some inthe ground since the Chester Lab was opened about 30 years ago) are exposed continuously to the elements and tested with various preservatives. Now almost 2,000 poles, including cedar, from which Bell System telephones are made, used in Bell solar batteries originally came from sand—. one of earth's most abundant substances. southern pine and Douglas } fir are under study. Spacislly prepared ‘silicon! The laboratories’ timber products engineer tests. the preservatives against the worst danger to all poles— om EMERGENCY CALLS =——_ Cc A L L i N Y Oo U & POLICE EMERGENCY PHONES: . Life Span of Phone gi; Poles Studied decay at the ground line. Creosote and penta-petroleum have both performed very well, but recent studies show that a combination of creosote and pentachlorophenol will even more effectively combat fungi, termites and carpenter ants. These measures are studied by boring a pole. This extracts a section of pole— called an increment core— from the surface right in to the heartwood by using an ingenious boring ~instrument perfected in Sweden. The core, or “plug,” is then examined in the laboratory. “Laminated crossarms are also being investigated. A crossarm may, at times. be expected to bear more than 250 pounds on each of its 10 “pins.” Sometimes a minor flaw in the wood may cause’ trouble. So the laboratory group has tested laminated crossarms containing near-perfect slabs of wood held together by strong adhesive. Results thus far show that the laminated -arm is. at least as strong as solid wood arms, An important development in treatment of poles already in place is receiving exhaustive tests. Some poles now in plant are “hospital cases.” Instead of junking such a pole, a remedy is given at the scene by applying a preservative, genrally in paste form. The prepreservative is held in place by wrapping the pole’s affected area with a “bandage” of polyethylene or tough kraft paper. _ Even man-made fiber glass poles are being tested. This greenish colored structure is of extremely light weight but tests show that it cannot compete with Mother Nature’s own model, for a number of reasons, including cost. Grass Valley Police..... 273-3321 Nevada City Police. ce eecee 200-2626 Nevada County Sheriff....265-4545 (If no answer at Grass Valley ~ or Nevada City, Call Sheriff 265-4545) FIRE EMERGENCY PHONES: Grass Valley Fire Dept... 273-2241 Nevada City Fire Dept.. e+ 265-2414 ALL RURAL Depts.. seecees 265-45]] _California Forestry Division. 265-245] CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL (Emergency Only) Ask Operator for.....+. Zenith 12000 HOSPITALS: . Jones Memorial.....2++ .273-6101 Nevada County. eevee Miner's. eeeeeeceoevn eevee eeaees 265-2426 Sierra-Nevada Memorial... 273-7 oeeeees 269-456.