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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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verswere engaged in watching for air-planes. Securing these civilian observerswas a task which the American Legionhandled in excellent style. Throughthe Department Commanders and theDistrict Commanders, county chiefswere selected, and they in turn chosethe observers. Many of the observ-ers, incidentally, were women. American Legion representatives,usually the county chiefs, had the full cooperation of the telephone companymanagers in selecting telephones atexisting locations for use as observa-tion posts. This cooperation includedthe Southwestern Bell TelephoneCompany representatives in Arkansas,the Southern Bell people in the re-maining states, and the many inde-pendent telephone company represen-tatives throughout the entire WarningArea. One of the benefits of the warningnetwork was the experience givencivilians in watching for and report-ing plane flights, while their enthusi-asm in devoting their time to this ac-tivity brought satisfaction to army 168 Bell Telephone Quarterly JULY
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TYPING THE ARMYS MESSAGES BY WIRE Teletypewriters and circuits were furnished by the Southern Bell Telephone and TelegraphCompany: the operators shown here were provided by the Western Union Telegraph Co. executive officers. The United StatesCoast Guard assisted in the networkby operating inshore patrol vessels,and by operating observer posts at ornear their Shore Stations. At somemore inaccessible points, federal andstate forestry employes acted asobservers. Identification of observation postswas effected by giving each post acombination of a number and a name.The names ran vertically, for each 16-mile layer on the master map of theWarning Area, while the numbers ranacross. The point of origin was thesouthwest, or lower left, corner of themap. A section of the Master Mapwas furnished each observation post, showing its identification. A MasterMap, showing the available telephonecentral offices, was prepared by South-ern Bell and supplied to each DistrictChief of the observer network.

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