Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1937 — Page 9
THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1937
PHONE SYSTEM TO BE REBUILT ~ INFLOOD ZONE
New Equipment To Replace Units Damaged by Water.
Reconstruction forces of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. are repairing and plants along the entire 250-mile flood front as fast as waters recede from inundated areas About 3000 of 19.500 telephones in Evansville, the largest city affected in the territory served by the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. out of service. Most of these will have to be replaced. Flood water did not enter the telephone building in Evansville, and the distributing plant is not thought to be greatly damaged. Telephone engineers and construetion crews are on hand ready to re- | pair and replace any damaged equipment as quickly as it becomes accessible New Albany Office Dry
The New Albany telephone office, in which there was five feet of wa-
ter on the first floor a week ago, |
is now dry. The furnace has been
started to help drive out the damp- |
ness.
the second floor at New Albany, was not damaged. Ringing and power
machines on the first floor were!
trucked to Indianapolis where they were dried out and reconditioned The machines were returned to New Albany for temporary installation until replacing units can be secured
Six miles of new trunk cable be- | Albany and Jefferson- |
tween New ville will replace the cable that was submerged and lost. A complete new switchboard and all associated cen-
tral office equipment was procured
from the Western Electric Cos
plant at Kearny, N. J. and is now in | Indianapolis aw aiting shipment to | A magneto switeh- |
Jeffersonville, boat d is bel ng in Stall ed in the office |
BEDROOM SUITES $29 to $34 Values—Your Choice
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new, or dresser,
Ordered |
rehabilitating telephone |
still are |
The telephone switchboard, on
Se to give partial service during | the reconstruction period.
Distributing Plant Destroyed
The outside distributing plant has | been almost completely destroyed by { drifting debris and the flood water, and will be replaced. About 90 per | cent of all subscribers’ equipment | will have to be replaced.
[ At Tell City, where there was | phone office last Monday, | switchboard and associated central office equipment will be replaced
completely.
[It is hoped that most of the dis- | tributing plant equipméht, except
for certain underground cables, can |
be put back in service. The telephone company’s offices at Utica and Grand View still are under water. Restoration of tele-
phone service will be effected as!
soon as possible after the waters | recede.
LINC ov N PIL GRIM AGE SET Harry W. Colmery, American Legion National Commander, is to {be one of the principal speakers at
| the Legion's third annual pilgrim« |age to the tomb of Abraham Din- |
coln on the 128th anniversary of | Lincoln's birth, Feb. 12. Mrs. Oscar | W. Hahn, National Auxiliary presi- | dren, also is to speak.
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About 60 per cent of | | the telephones there were destroyed. |
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GRISWOLD ASKS | CONTRACT CURB
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Wants Bidders on Projects To Name Auxiliary Firms |
In Advance. | Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. — Rep. |
(enn Griswold has secured a fa- | vorable committee report on his
measure requiring ali contractors bidding on Government projects to name subcontractors in advance.
Last session he got a similar bill to the floor, but it lacked five votes of passage. He explains that it is aimed at “briefcase contractors,” who have nothing but estimates from subcon« tractors for their bids, and force down these estimates after they have received the award “so that the subcontractor must cut labor costs or lose, while the general con« tract holder makes a handsome profit.” As a member of the Committee on Executive Expenditures, Mr. Gris(wold will head a subcommittee to | hold hearings next week on repeal-
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By United Press VINCENNES, Ind, Feb. 4-Dou-! ble funeral services were planned | today for Yvonne Neighbor, 6, and her sister, Mildred, 5, drowned late Tuesday when they broke through thin ice while playing on a pond near their home, four miles west of Vineennes, The mother, Mrs. Clarence Neighbor, witnessed the tragedy. The father recovered ‘the bodies.
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