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ft 4 the stouftviui tr1wne thursday june 16 1955 eavesdropping not peculiar to the independent telephone companies no i of series by mr a i bruc there 5 very stale till afloat regarding eaves dropping on rural part te phore lines when th job res operating i-z-i- of party lines for every one that wasbeing operated by the beii company this preponderance of independent telephone sub scribers on rtrai party lines established in the tninda of un informed joke editors the be lief that independent telephone subscribers on rural parly lines were confirmed eaves droppers of course the possi bility and the probabilit aavesdropping is just ss great on a beii telephone co line as on an independent telephone company line when telephone service was first established it was like a new toy to a child and some people who were not born eavesdroppers succumbed to the temptation but as the nov elty faded so also did eaves dropping karly in our history we adopted a bylaw imposing a penalty for this offence th bylaw became obsolete when provincial legislation imposed 11 penalty for the offence how ever eavesdroppers are not an extinct species and doubtless will remain with us a very annoying but com paratiyely rare offence has been that of malicious provoca tion over the telephone at one time we had a sub scriber who was notorious for his fits of iilwill towards some of his neighbors when the fits were on him he would go to great trouble to be grossly pro vocative at one time he con ceived a hatred towards a neighbor on the next farm and he pestered that neighbor and his family in various ways among other methods of con ducting his persecution was liberal misuse of the telephone end he developed a remarkable array of methods of making a nuisance of himself his victim made complaint to ur company when the offen der was informed of the com plaint and of the name of the complainant he declared that the charge was groundless itf the complaint had any effect it was to intensify the hatred and increase the activity of the disturber of the peace the suffering neighbor could en dure no longer and informed us that if nothing could be done to remedy matters he would older the removal of his telephone the writer decided to do a little experimenting and instructed our une superin tendent mr miller to make a midnight visit to the vicinity of the offending subscriber and to make certain that that particular telephone would be out of commission moreover tt was suggested that when that telephone appeared on the trouble sheet he should not make haste to remedy the trou ble but should delay as long as managed o keep that telephone it of commission foi seve 1 mmed- pre edit g be 1 millers search for the rouble i call ed the subscriber who had been she object of his neighbors persecution and inquired how his neighbor had been behav ing i was informed that for several days there had been no trouble that apparently his persecutor had experienced a change of heart a couple of lays inter 1 repeated the in quiry and was informed that the annoyance was as bad as it had ever been we removed the telephone without further parley let us now turn to the em ployees of the company the people who have kept the sys tem in operation first let us look at our switchboard oper ator- contrary to an opinion sometimes expressed by thou- ghtley persons telephone op erators as a class have a highly developed sense of their re sponsibilities as servants ofthe public we sometimes read in the newspapers of some not able service rendered to the public by some telephone oper ator sometimes at a risk to her own safety in our local experience i recall how our op erators remained at their post while the building known as daleys hall was burning our exchange was on the second floor of the ratcliff building and only a narrow street lay between it and the daley build ing which was large and be ing built entirely of wood it bunted fiercely the heat was intense all the glass on the west side of ratcliffs hall soon vanished the sash and the window frames were burning and live coals were falling on the floor in ratcliffs hall but our operators in the next room continued to service the switch board while a gang of men kept the floor in the hall wet and doused the burning frag ments that hurtled through the unprotected windows our line superintendent bert miller reassured the girls by standing as watchman ready to warn them if the fire got be yond control concluding that the danger of the interior of ratcliffs halll suddenly burst ing into flame was imminent bert miller called to the girls to vacate their chairs and not until that moment did they falter in their service twenty minutes later the girls return ed to their duty the danger having subsided there are other causes than fire which sometimes make the work of an operator nerve- wracking among these are dis satisfaction and annoyance ex pressed and directed at the op erator because of delay caused by the two words line busy in short the operator is the buffer that has to lake all the knocks and is expected to j never mace any repy on one occasion i was called from bed about 3 am by the night operator she told me that a man had been trying to force his way into the office she was certain that he was drurric and when he found that he could not force the door he told her that he had brought hs telephone with him and that he was leaving it on the doorstep and was going to see me she said he had gone to the westward and warned me to expect a visit from him within a few minutes i returned to my bed but not to sleep i lav- awake expecting to hear the approaching truck when morning came i call- led the operator and told her j that my expected visitor did not arrive she told me that he had returned to stouffviile about half an hour after she had called me and had stopped his truck in front of the office and she had feared that he was about to renew his attempt to force his way into the office knowing that men were at work in the bakery across the street she called the bakery and explained her predicament and mr stover came out to the man and persuaded him to go home before dismissing the oper ators let me record that on oc casion the provincial police have taken the trouble to trans mit to our night operator thanks for valuable assistance in solving a burglary and thus bringing a gang of burglars to justice xext to our switchboard op erators stand our maintenance men as the persons who estab lish or injure our reputation with the public in 1907 we hired bert smith as our first fulltime lineman as other men were engaged he became our first line su perintendent in the early sum mer of 1914 bert became rest less and tendered his resigna tion he had been with us for more than seven years and had taken no holidays our directors believed that bert was anxious to visit his mother in england and offered to give him one months leave of absence with full pay and to buy for him a ticket to liv- erpool and return if he would withdraw his resignation he accepted and sailed for eng land during the first week in july he was about to sail for home when the first world war bust like a bolt from the blue no ships were allowed to sail from british ports for sev eral days while convoy service was being organized so his return was delayed in the end of the summer of 1916 bert smith resigned and we engaged bert miller as line superintendent he con tinued with us until january 1926 and was succeeded as su perintendent by thomas jen nings who is still with us and was line superintendent un til 19m when a complete re organization of our mainten ance staff was necessitated by d local team at dairy day the 1935 provincial dairj day is being held a the agri cultural college kemptviue this week one of the high lights of this dav will be the junior farmer quality milk corapetiti 1 w ill be to tie profi iency in litj m pro junior farmers for he provin cial awards for dairy maid and dairy man for 1955 the ontario county junior farmers will be represented by ron neale and ron werry both boys have been members of the brooklin junior farm ers for the past number of years and this year ron werry is secretary of that organiza tion both boys have been very active in 4h club work ron werry completing 9 1h club projects and ron eae com pleting 1- h club projects ron werry was assistant club leader in the oshawa 4h dai ry calf club for it and if assistant again in this club this year ron xeaie has been an assistant leader for the pick ering dairy calf club in 1954 and at the present time is assistant leader for the broug ham 4h dairv and beef calf club each team will be required to demonstrate the correct pro cedure with regard to produc ing quality milk this will in clude the care of milkhouse anil the proper cooling and sto rage of milk the out county team is scheduled to appear on the programme at 915 am on thursday june 16 and we wish them every success in the competition civitan day held at gormley farm barns or o betz and eva to their friends- made this day possible the farm consists of 200 aw wti swimming poolpn t which was ready j for the event the stalled by k w it construction stouffviile and measures 23 by 50 feet it holds about 63000 gallons of water a young on douglas show ed us around the farm and pointed out a large bell used to announce the meal hours it was learned thai the bell was from a locomotive and was presented by donald gordon president of the cnr and a friend of the family on a pre vious visit he had missed hav ing lunch when he failed to hear a small bell on his next visit he took steps to make sure this would not happen again when he provided a larger bell twines jtake care of your baler 13d biader twine requirements by kmriltk knot less twine at our special ner low prices see this tv our showroons jones milling equipment stoadvillo 2s3w3 ont try to beat the traffic light jl ii jl j s you may save 30 seconds and you may lose your life remember your signal light is green remember the red will be against you for only 30 seconds jl jnl jl tm b arc 30 seconds worth saving al ihc risk of killing yourself your passenger another motorist a pedestrian who is moving on his green think slow down and stay alive ontario department of highways hon jot n alhn mmivtr r the growth of the system thomas jennings has had an unusual record of service com mencing as one of our line men in 1d0s he remained with lis until 1012 when he went west and worked as a lineman with the alberta governmentowned telephone system and later with the cpr telegraph in 1917 he came east to visit his parents we had just suffered from the most devastating ice storm in our history because of war conditions it was next to impossible tot hire extra men and we appealed to thom as to assist us while he was visiting his parents he has continued with us to this day again and again he has been in hospital under the cave of the workmens compensation board one of his injuries was extremely dangerous but he always comes up again ready for work with the installation of the new switchboard in stouffviile in 191s we engaged mr gray- don raines as our switchboard superintendent and he contin ued with us for more than 3 years when he resigned we engaged mr c d woolvene who is still with us and is in charge of plant maintenance with del jennings as foreman those who have been named are the men who have been re sponsible for the maintenance of our system and in this they have been assisted by a host of men who have almost with out exception been good men and true the work of a lineman is not easy and frequently demands sacrifice here again a good lineman develops a high sense of his responsibility as a serv ant of the community wea ther conditions may he bad frost may be intense roads may be next to impassable a tangle of e coated and broken wire may be an uninviting mess but service must be restored as quickly as possible in the early days bert smith and charlie xendiek set forth to repair broken wires in the neighborhood of the 6th con line the thermometer was far below zero arriving at the neighborhood they found so many wires broken that they stabled their horse in ratcliffs warm stable and set to work exposed to the keen north wind charlie xendiek suffered frozen feet although he was not conscious of the fact until he went home for his dinner in the warmth of his own home his feet began to tingle many weeks passed ere he was able to climb poles again having regard to the nature of their work our men have been fortunate there have been some serious accidents even near fatalities one brok en back and a near electrocu tion were very serious acci dents important contributions were made by ratcliff co at stou ffviile and by the shirk family at ciaremoni ratcliff co gave central office accommoda tion and switchboard service from august 1 ifii to jan uary 1906 a period of 17 months without compensation on april 1 if we paid to them st000 for 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