Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1952 — Page 10

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WHO IS your annoying telephone neighbor onthe party line? Chances are, you haven't the slightest idea who'Mr. Two Short Rings or®Mrs. One Long Ring might be. You only know that he or she probdhly is one of the following: :

The monopolizer--always on

the line. The eavesdropper— loves to get an earful. The stinker—breaks in on you with a whining reéquest for the phone. The gun - jumper starts to dial while you're talking, The clicker-—tries to irritate .you into hanging up. Et cetera. Et cetera. Here's your opportunity to

meet the man or woman you've been promising to look up and speak a few words to. Indiana Bell Telephone officlals want you to get acquainted. It's their contention that telephone neighbors who know one another will be more considerate than they would be to strangers. = » 5 THIS SOLUTION is the only - practical one, because your chances of getting a: private line are rapidly becoming no better. » Before World War II, 35 of every 100 families in Indianapolis wanted (or could afford) telephones. After the war, the number jumped to 85 in 100. The equipment margin was

not equal to the post-war load. | efforts to |

In spite of frantic catch up, the utility was forced to handle new customers on a catch-as-catch-can basis. That's why nearly threefourths of the 180,000 numbers listed today are on two-party, four-party or eight-party connections. Six of the city’s 22 exchanges are so full new telephone subscribers must wait their turn, | or secure priority. In another, | only four-party connections are | available. The seven downtown exchanges and some of the newer | outlying ones are not jammed | yet. But one-party lines still | are hard to come by. i " ~ u IF YOU CAN'T stand your phone neighbors you might follow the example of one middle- |

by applying for a single line and | waiting, patiently, until one is | available. But you probably won't bother to do what he did He began keeping a methodi- | cal record of the “wrong number” calls he received. Each time the phone rang | and it wasn't for him, he noted | the time of the call, his greet- | ing, the answer he got, the con-

versation which developed (if §irty man arrested for hoboing

any), and the sex and probable | age of the caller. He Hasn't | figured out a practical use for | the record, but it certainly | makes an unusual set of notes.

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children often cause ficulty. EMERGENCY CALLS — Be sure it's an emergency. Explain the sityation briefly to whoever is talking and they'll co-operate by hanging up. SUPERVISE YOUNG FOLKS Discourage long study sessions by phone in the evening. Teach your children telephone courtesy

this dif-

If you follow these rules and your party-line neighbors refuse ‘tp do likewise, you have two alternatives. s . Dial ‘114, give the operator your phone number and ask for your service representative.

Indiana Bell employs 70 young

women trained to smooth out differences of this kind. Or find out the name and address of your irritating neighbor and send a copy of this article, with a penciled ring around the offense you object to. Putting a- return address on the envelope may lead to a fascinating correspond- , ence—or a punch in the nose.

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HI, SON—=Capt. John J. Swiff sees his |0-week-old son, David aged widower in Indianapolis | Richard, for the first time after arriving in Glens Falls, N.Y., Capt.

Swift, who was returned to the U. | Reds, has been at the bedside of his father, who died Friday.

We Never Thought About Private Eye's Nose Before

S. from custody of the Hungarian

explained he boarded the manure car at West Palm Beach to make a routine inspection and was unable to get off because the train gained too much speed.

SEBRING, Fla, Jan. 5A Gets It Both Ways

NEWMARKET, N.H., (UP)—

a ride on a boxcar loaded with pre. Clifton P. MacDougall, a 19-

manure finally proved he was a

law-abiding job holder.

He finally

year-old infantryman in Korea,

convinced ® police Wrote to his parents here that he after his arrest here yesterday had been trapped between the Most of us, however, are go- te he was Lt. W. V. Eddy, plain| 4 ing to be party-liners for a |. thes detective from West Palm

{American and Chinese lines and

long time. So Indiana Bell has Beach, Fla. His job—arresting| W28 Wounded by both sides be-

worked up 10 rules to improve tempers and grease the wheels of sociability, Here they are:

ANSWER PROMPTLY =x Your ring may be disturbing “the neighbors on your line. " AVOID SERIES OF CALLS —If you must call a number of people, wait a little between each call. Don't. monopolize. ANSWER ONLY YOUR RING—It's a mistaken courtesy to answer another's ring. No one appreciates it, DON'T INTERRUPT-If someone is talking when you pick up the receiver, hang up gently, Don’t speak, and don’t jiggle the receiver. DON'T LISTEN IN—Chances are, other: conversations are as dull as most of yours. Don't be nosy. REPLACE THE RECEIVER °

—One receiver off the hook on |

a party line takes the whole line out of service. Small

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They Said Indiana - n Killed Babies

By RONNY HOWARD

IN A SHOP WINDOW lay two blue-eyed babies, two chubby charmers who once. startled America. At their

side a notice-board reminded

citizens of Hammond, Ind,

that these were relics of America's strangest murder

trial, extraordinary exhibits from an affair that set. the world guessing, gasping and . laughing just 30 years ago. , For it was in 1921 that blushing Hazel McNally told her 69-year-old husband, Frank, that she was anticipating a happy event. He hugged her gladly; for he had always wanted a child . . . and 23-year-old Hazel badly wanted to make her elderly husband happy. Soon she went away to stay with a midwife and friend—and then came the happy -announcement, It was twins! As they were sickly and susceptible to germs-—or so Hazel

| said—the proud father however

was never permitted to see his little Loren: and Lorene, No christening was held and he had to satisfy himself that they existed by listening to their crying spells. ‘Though muffled hy the door, he told his friends that he could easily distinguish the wails of one from the other. Then one_evening he returned home from work to a house of silence. His frightened wife told him that the twins were crit: ically ill and had been rushed to hospital in Chicago for special treatment. She was following, she explained, by the

= ” J FOR A WEEK Frank McNally waited in suspense. When his wifé returned alone, with a . garbled story that the babies had died in- Chicago and had been buried there, hisssuspicions

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