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STE TAPE SEVERAL BRE EAU AS EUR 4 AER AERA i DIAL CHANGE OVER EDITION, JULY, 1958 The power plant in the new dial exchange building in Port Perry gets a final check from Peter Filipchuk, installer. The banks of batteries on the right of the above picture can, if necessary, supply emergency power {$I SANT AR EN to keep this community's telephones operating for at least eight hours should anything happen to the normal power supply. THY. TRAY Fh a ANA Ya MAT f Emergency ~ Reporting System Port Perry's new emergency re- porting system will go into operation on Sunday, July 6th, co-incident with the cutover of all telephones here to dial service. ' teh system consists of seven spec- ial telephones installed in the homes of members of the volunteer fire bri- gade. To report a fire, the person involved simply dials the number assigned to the emergency reporting system YUkon 5--23845. This causes all seven of the special telephones to ring simutaneously. The first fire- man to answer obtains the details of the mishap and, by means of a key associated with his telephone, can start the siren wailing. None of seven telephones on the special emergency line can be used to originate calls. But other members of the brigade can listen in on the fire report. Siren codes can be used to let volunteers know the approx- Port Perry Goes Dial Sunday About 3 a.m., more than 1,200 tel- ephone will be converted to dial op- The changeover will take less than two minutes to complete. First, a signal will be given in the old manual exchange and crews of men will pull out heat coils, cutting the local switchboards oyt of oper- ation, . eration, Then a verbal signal will go. out over a direct line to the new dial office and another crew of men will pull out plastic pics, freeing the switches for operation, Immediately, they will go into use connecting local telephone calls. With the opening of the new tele- phone exchange all telephone num- bers will change. The new numbers will consist of the exchange name and numeral, YUkon 6 and four fig- ures. These numbers are included in a special Port Perry supplement to imate location of the blaze, the Oshawa directory. OUR PORT PERRY YUkon 5-7331 PEEL'S POULTRY FARM LIMITED ONTARIO Public Telephones | Public telephones here will operate differently after the new dial exchan- ge goes into operation. on Sunday, according to J. W. Lowery, Bell Telephone Manager for this region. Briefly, he said, here's how to use public telephones under the dial sys- tem: First, take the receiver off-the hook before depositing any money - just as you do now. Then deposit a dime or two nickles in the appropriate slot. You will then hear the dial tone, and you may proceed to dial your number as you would on your own telephone. If there is no answer or if the line is busy, you will get your money back when you hang up, Mr. Lowery said. An ingenious device in the pub- lic telephone returns the coins in these circumstanec the moment you replace the receiver. Here's what happens: When you put your. coin in the slot, it falls down a runway. On its way down, it trips a lever which closes a circuit to the exchange, causing the dial tone to be heard on the line. While the number is being dialed, the money remains in the coin trap where it fell at the end of the runway. The coin trap, a type of miniature platform, retains the toin in suspen-] sion until the receiver is replaced. If the line is busy or there is no answer, the coin trap is tipped by a magnet toward the "return" chute where the caller recovers this money. If the call was completed, the magnet tips the trap to the opposite side releasing the coin into the "collect" chute which leads to the coin box. In the case of a long distance call, the operator has-at her disposal "re- turn" and "collect" keys which en- able her to operate the coin collector relay at the particular public tele- phone where the customer has placed his call. When money is to be refund- ed she operates the "return" key. If money is to be collected, the "collect" key is operated in the same way and the money drops into the coin box. When you call long distance from a public telephone, the operator knows AYE SN LAA Br A HR ¥ Hida fs RAs immediately you are calling from a public telephone, These lines are con- fined to a certain groups, and are handled at special positions on the switchboards where they light up on a particular panel and the operator there can spot them at a glance. The operator can also identify the various coins. you may deposit be- cause the: runways are so arranged that each coin of a different denom- ination gives her a different signal, Much Knowledge Is Essential to Operate Bell's Mechanical Devices Human skill, knowledge and a high degree of efficiency are needed to operate and maintain even the most ingenious mechanical devices. The dial telephone is no exception. Although' local telephone calls in Port Perry will be connected without the aid of an operator starting July 6, many human hands and eyes will be at work behind the scefies to provide smooth and efficient service under the new system. Switchmen, frame-men and power- men, always on the look-out for trouble - will inspect the equipment regularly. Their duty consists of checking, testing, cleaning, repairing or replacing parts, When trouble occurs, an 'alarm signal is flashed automatically to the repairman who will rush to the spot and clear the trouble, usually within a few minutes. The first and most deadly enemy of dial equipment is dirt. Even a small speck of dust will interfere with a connection causing noise or poor reception or even preventing a call from going through, For this reason a dial equipment room is al- ways air-conditioned to keep dust away from the delicate mechanisms. As a further precaution, the floor is never swept. Any house-wife knows how much dust a broom can raise. The caretaker at the exchange knows it too, and he will mop the floor with damp cloths to avoid raising dust that might cause serious telephone troubles. : The switchman goes through the aisles between the rows of switches, testing for possible trouble. Before each switch, he pauses, makes a-con- nection and dials a number, A flash- ing light on his testing device tells him if his switch is responding prop- erly to the dial. If it isn't, the trouble is quickly sought and put right, Other tests ensure that the dial tone, the singing tone and busy signal are functioning properly. . In another section of the building, frame-men- will service the thousands of soldered terminals that connect the dial apparatus and the telephone lines. Power-men who check and service storage batteries, charging equip- ment and the power board ensure a constant and correct distribution of the vital electrical current. The changing equipment goes into action automatically when the volume of telephone calls increases and switches off only when a small amount of electricity is being used. Dial works like magic, but it is the human touch behind it that makes it do so. : a? = A QUEEN STREET 0 ~ YUkon 5-2331 Printers and -b OUR NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER IS: PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY LTD. Publishers . PORT PERRY > ' . A EE ROO OSOS00ROROSOROROR0CEOROR0 Life Richer, Fuller In the first, twenty years of tele- phone service in Canada, the stand- ard telephone was simply a board attached to the wall. Three boxes were mounted on it, one above the other, The box in the middle contain- ed the transmitter, and the: mouth- piece was just a hole in the box. The receiver resembled the modern wall or desk telephoné-¥eceiver in appear- ance, In the bottom box was the batt- ery which supplied the "taking curr. ent" and the box on top housed the magneto generator which supplied the current for ringing. This was the era of the magneto or "crank tele- phone" system, Calling by numbers was unknown until 1884, and in the early exchanges the boys who were employed as oper- ators needed long memories. When a subscriber cranked his ringing gener- ator, a small shutter associated with his line on the switchboard came down with a noise like'a chunk of lead fall- ing on 'the floor, The opérator plugg- ed in on the caller's line and said, "Well?" The caller of those days simply said, "I want to talk to John Jones", and the operator was suppos- ed to know from memory the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all subscribers in his community. Canada's first multiple switchboard was installed in Toronto in 1884. By means of this switchboard, which gets its name from the fact that each subscriber line terminating at the switchboard is duplicated or "mult- iplied" at intervals along the board, each operator could reach the lines of all other subscribers in the exchan- ge area without trunking to another operator, § oy By the turn of the century, long, distance service had so improved that subscribers equipped 'with' the new long distance transmitter could tele- phone anywhere in Ontario or Quebec and to principal cities in the United States within a range of 1,000 miles. Then, with the new century, came a 'new era'in telephone, The common battery system was introduced. It was discovered that, by central- izing the batteries in the exchange instead of housing them in each set, the company could introduce smaller and neater telephones which operated more efficiently with no batteries to run down. A common battery system was first installed by the Bell Tele- phone Company at Ottawa in 1900. Instead of turning the crank to signal the operator, the caller merely lifted the wneceiver. This caused a small- lamp to glow on the switch- board, The operator, by this time girls: were almost universally employ- éd - then plugged in her set on his line and said, "Nunmber?" As local service improved techni- cally, so did the range of transmiss- ion for long distance. By 1920 people could telephone anywhere in the Unit- ed States or Canada, The dial era was then on the hor- izon. 'Actually, dial telephones had been conceived much earlier and sev- eral systems had been tried out, but gan to be introduced widely in Can- ada in the early 1920's, Toronto's GRover exchange, open- ed in 1924, was the Bell's first dial system office, Since then, the dial system has been gradually replacing the manual system in most large cen- tres, and by 1933 small dial systems had been developed for rural comm-- unities, : "Improvement followed, in trans- mission and in equipment. The hand telephone was introduced in 1927, and Progress of Telephone Made Nation's as a definite period in telephone de- | velopment the dial system really be- | later the modern combined set embod- ying in the base of the telephone it- self all the equipment that formerly was contained in a separate bell-box, Meanwhile, the telephone industry had been employing many more thou. sands of Canadians. By its very pro- gress it had affected the business and social life of the country, making it] richer and fuller than before. - All Telephone : Number Changed All Port Perry telephone numbers, including those for police: and fire calls -- will be changed coincident with the cutover of the local exchange to the dial system shortly after 8a,m. Sunday, July 6th, J. W. Lowery, Bell Telephone manager for this region, reminded teephone users today. The new police number will be YUkon b5--2121; the fire number, YUkon 5--2846. 1 "If you have any doubt about a particular number, the new supple- mentary directory is your best guide," Mr. Lowery said. "All the new num- bers as well as special instructions, are included." NE 'Customers served by the Port Perry exchange will receive tele- phone numbers consisting of the ex- change name and numeral YUkon b and four figures, For local calls it will be only necessary to dial the last four digits. Since the exchange name and numeral are part of the on long distance calls, they should be included on stationery and adver- tising. : Mr, Lowery urged all telephone users in Port Perry, to check the Port Perry supplementary 'directory for the numbers of business firms and friends they call frequently and enter them in their Blue Book of Telephone Numbers, = Additional copies of the Blue Book are available in two sizes at the Bell Telephone buiness office. " Telephone service numbers are also listed in the directory. After the cut- over, telephone users should dial "0" for "Operator" to place long distance calls; for assistance in making a call; to reach "Information" and to report a telephone out of order or to locate cables before digging. To call a Blackstock number, simply dial "6" and give thé operator there the num- ber to be called. No long distance charge applies on calls between Port Perry and Blackstock, Are You Looking for A GIFT Well then drop into * McEachern's HAT and GIFT SHOPPE See our-- E CORAL JEWELLERY CUPS and SAUCERS and of course the - Hats Queen St. Port Perry telephone number and will be needed TELEPHONE NUMBER IS YUkon 52451 --Day 1+ YUkon 52627 -- Night "REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES OF CARS TOWING -- 24 HOUR SERVICE DAVID BROWN TRACTOR Sales and Service RAY HOBBS' GARAGE MANCHESTER ONTARIO 7 YUkon 5-929272 ER JACKSON AUCTIONEER - APPLIANCES FARM EQUIPMENT OUR New Telephone Wino is IE BOR DARA SBR BOI HOBART ra aos sm, oe ra Queen Stree 2030000 OROPORORTROROROROROPOSOROPOPOPOROPCRORORORORORORORORORCROPOROROROPOROPORO + +" PORDAS BOBOILAITAOIOBOBO 3 2 SOROS A N BRIENALL TAXI Servicing this community Better ~ 24Hour Ambulance Tt TT. 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