Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1949 — Page 11

SUNDAY, OCT. 16, 1949

Hoosier Town Builds

Men All Pitch In

On Summer's Job

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer TAMPICO, Ind, Oct. 15— The womenfolk down Tampico way shut their eyes and held their tongues this summer if husbands pald scant attention to household chores. Not a lip flipped when the screens weren't put up, the back porch sagged, the clothespoles left atilt. They bided their time for they knew they could catch up coversationwise this fall. Right now the last of 104 streamlined cradle telephones are being installed along the 100. miles of wire that is the Tampico Telephone System. And the code rings, all 10 of them on the party lines, echo through farm houses. For some it has been years since the tinkle of a phone bell called -anyone’s attention. For others it means the very first contact with the outside world. The Tampico Telephone Sysfem resulted from a down-to-earth determination of farmers and small-town residents to have a network of copper wire linking them in an efficient communication service. os " ” AND SO, all this summer the men left the fields and their jobs in town to set the poles, string the gleaming wire and run spurs into homes so the area no longer would be an {sland surrounded by a sea of phones. Some 40 years ago a similar farmer venture, also on a coop basis, brought telephones to part of the countryside about Tampico. But it was a limited pervice and maintenance was more to be ravoided than encouraged. The elements gnawed relentlessly. Lines drooped poles leaned over the dusty back roads. With each new evidence of disintegration, subscribers raised their voices another tone pitch, In time they screamed into the mouthpiece. Maybe they could be heard, maybe they couldn't. And then came the death blow. The powerfully charged lines of the Rural Electrification Administration began to stretch over the farmlands of Jackson County. The telephone system couldn't ‘take it. Static made conversation impossible, Mockingly the hand crank telephones clung uselessly to the walls, no one bothered twisting handles or waiting for bells to ring. ” # » AT THE CLOSE of the war residents asked for lines of the Indiana Telephone Corp. be extended from the firm’s hub at Seymour. Shortages of manpower, equipment and previous commitments made it impossible then and even this spring when a new drive for service was initiated. A. H. Mitschke, a Grassy Fork landowner, sparked the homemade Tampico Telephone Sys-

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Furniture Company.

BUDGET DEGREE HOME, 2613 E. 58th St., South Drive—Two bedrooms down and a large finished room upstairs are in this home built by Albert E. Thompson Co. Rainier Furniture Company did the decorations and furnishings.

JDEAL DEGREE HOME, 1154 E. 57th St.— There m and bath on first floor, and two bedrooms and bath upstairs, in this home built by Meridian Construction Company. Decorations and furnishings by L. S. Ayres & Co.

DELUXE DEGREE HOME, 480 W. Hampton Drive—An "Activity Room,” adjacent to both living room and kitchen feature this 3-bedroom home by Robert L. Mason. The Home Advisory Service Bureau of L. S. Ayres & Co. planned the decorations and furnishings.

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tem. His handlebar mustache quivered as he spoke. “Months ago I drove out along the old lines. Poles were hanging and falling into the road. I decided it was time to make a change,” he said. Meeting with Marion Empson, Lawrence™ Lambring, Walter Wischeier, Marion Garriott and Hugh Bryan, the six organized and incorporated the Tampico Telephone System. Current officers are Mr. Wischmeier, president; Mr. Garriott, vice president; John Cunningham, secretary and Leonard Kuehn, treasurer. Then it was a matter of selling the service. This was easy. The hookup with the Indiana Telephone Corp. was the important factor. Details of this were effected in meetings with

E. 8. Welch, operating ‘vice president. The 104 subscribers were

tapped for $50 each to start the wire unrolling, and a loan was effected for the balance of the $10,000 investment. Then men pitched in to do the unfamiliar work. Some, like Mr, Garriott, donated as much as 250 man hours to the project. All told, it is estimated $25,000 was saved in labor costs. » = ~

NOW THE HOPE is to wipe the indebtedness by asking subscribers to dip into pocketbooks again and pay in accordance with the length of the line reaching out from the junction with ITC. , There are no exchanges in the new system, all calls funnel through the various switch-

boards of the Indiana Telephone Corporation. Bills will be paid to the larger system but at a rate reduced about a dollar over normal rural charges,

Officers of the TTS, however, plan to add their own nominal charge which will go into a general kitty for maintenance of the 11 lines. Two men will be named to service the system twisting through the back country about Tampico. Come rain or shine, sleet or snow, wind or plain mechanical failure the Tampico Telephone system trouble shooters will be ready. There is going to be no delay for the subscribers along the lines of Starve Hollow, Buhner, Waskom, Stahl, Wegan, Shaver, Star, Tampico, Hackman, Steinkamp and Sidney.

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SEYMOUR, Oct. 15—Plans for {development of a new industrial the deal. area In Seymour were revealed today in the purchase of a 60-acre Seymour Industrial Association,

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{through the General Services Administration, formerly the War| association Assets Administration. Officials said all lands and im-| provements of {have Seymour.

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WASHDAY DRUDGERY HAS BEEN

Freeman Fieldistorage, etc.

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THRIFT DEGREE HOME, 6404 Evanston Ave. —A 3-bedroom home built by W. L. Bridges & Son. Decorations and furnishings by Rainier

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|cock Mutual Life Insurance Co. mins Co. showed a net operating sale of Plant 2 and a small part new 26-story prof 782 of its equi he r s H. F. White, president of the|building in the Back Bay. (Prost of $522,881 on 39.561, equipment, the report Said.

Built at a cost of $20 million, Met sales for the fiscal year end-| [site adjoining Freeman Field by said a highly developed industrial it’s the tallest skyscraper in New! ing July 31.

(was released yesterday. Louis Schwitzer, board chair- mon.

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Gold Star Cub Pans Meeting

Statewide Session Scheduled Today

The newly organized Indiana Department, American Gold Star Mothers, will hold its first state. wide meeting at 10 a. m. today in the World War Memorial. Mrs. Leoma Yarling of Indian apolis is president of the department which comprises nine chapters. Other officers include: Mrs. Mary Smith, South Bend, first vice pr 3 rs. h, Mishawaka, second vice president; Mrs. Hagel Thursb: Elkhart, third vice president? Mrs Bihel Ward, Peru, fourth vice presMri. Alice Duncan. Indianapolis, rers. Ruth You

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ay Albert and Mrs. Genevieve Redmon, both of Peru; color bearers; Mrs | Goldie Wenrick, South Bend, custodian of |the records: Mrs. Belvi Coil, Mishawaka, |sergeant-at-arms, and Mrs. Lorena Crome

The company distributed Jeo = Indianapolis, chaplain The annual report417, or $1.10 per share on prePo |ferred stock and $1.50 on com- Heads N. D. Group

Times Siate Service NOTRE DAME, Oct. 15—Brad-

sition with a bal-|ley Dewey, president of Dewey & as of July 31. |Almy Chemical Co. Cambridge, Louis Schwitzer Jr. is president) can be demonstrated Wednesday eve- come taxes, or $2.48 per share on/of the company which suppliesithe advisory council for science ing in the Southport Masonic 159,500 common shares outstand- about 50 industries in the auto-|and engineering of the University

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