Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-06-10
PHgyE. COMPANY
HAS FULL FORCE
TWENTY OPERATORS BROUGHT
HERE FROM OTHER TENAs
EXCHANGES.

4 full complement ~ telephone cpcr'i.
tors has been secured bv the - II eX-
change ~ the Southwestern Telephone
and Telegraph Company and Gll poi.
iionS have been filled George a. Ilill.
district manager. said yesterday. More
than twenty operators have been
brought here by the company from 9TH
cr points. including Clcbinnc sherman.
Fort Worth. Wichita Falls and llnus.
ton, ana viii remain here until n sur
ficiont number nc operators can he EN-.
plugged and trained locally to handle
the local situation.
The company paid the railway fares
81 Tho impaired operators and II pay.
ing their actual expenses while In Am
nrillo as well ns fun salary This il be-.
inv done at great expenses to the com.
pany hat viii be- continued until local
girls chn be- trained Tor the work in
order that the present standard ~ ser.
vice can De- maintained. Mr.. IIill de-.
olarcd. Al of the operators brought
here have Ind M least five years cXpo.
fience each.
In addition a. the number ~ opera.
tors now being employed - the com.
paHV. ,e' otaYses ul ftudcnts 30, rving
irpinri to NVoik on the local rAcrtnsc
and aiu".; enough .:is have br,r 90.
cured t. 'cmploto thid class. AZ *
pcIitn cd telephone up .atuf has recn
'rrai'l ~ huus, g. Iuusp can, 49, e.
Nmar.if fug romo iiUlr ~ The in.crc.'
of arcutng Dtiid'ri operators anu lv
this mc,hol some good results ad, d"
hrn ao wup!ishcd. Mr. n,ll said.
\ modern rest rOnis iH The oprii,'g9
viii be- provided On the second flnor ~
the telephone building when the off.ncs
are novel ~ the ground flour. which
will DO within about q week In addition
90 thD rcst roum tn"rr Wi' De- % fi'"h''u
fbr tho women employees who d"Gr' 90
'oo' th"ir own meals Nothing ,1r ne
convenience AM ,ciDtur; VI ~ kris
viii be- lc.t Lndonc. Mr.. HI 5sil
iur work 81 ',moi'lirg l.5 ~ 1ia
ir1. the into, II ~, z. 4 fln,. %
Tho buildirg IL now IN progress.
\ construction force of about sixty
men IN the employ ~ the Southwestern
TELEGRAPH 4 Telephone Conp1rt viii
army, in Amarillo from Wirhi 70 ialls
sfnin few days 10 lcgin IN Nmk
of o. rtVinr telephone p,l.g frIu the
riree,s ard plucirg them M The alleys
AMI ~ putting IN ar underground cable
IN the business section ~ the city. a''
rordiug Ia Mr.. lin.
IN addition 49, the force IN Ice imrnr'
TED. others will be- hired locally. maxi
Ing q crew ~ about eighty men Ia hc
used on the work. Al poles are to DO
placed IN the alleys from the Fort
Worth and Denver tracks o. Sixteenth
street and from Washington street 20
the Santa ~ tracks. Some ~ The I'M
d-reround work ALREADY has been star.
ted. tut on q small scale, and addition
~ men will be- put an this work within
Tho next ten DAYS.
Air. Hill explained Yesterday that the
removal ~ Tho poles from thu streets
VIII decrease the fire hazard In ANN.
fllln as well as assist In the h"au'ifica.
tlnn ~ tho streets. saying that when
the work H. completed there viii be- no
poles 10 Interfere with the planting ~
shade trees az uniform distances and
the growing of pnrkwnys between tho
curb and sidewalk The rcmova. ~.
the unsghtly wires and cross arms from
the strcsis also viii have tendency
10 Increase possibilities Tor bcauiifica.
lion. Al telephone lines will hc chan.
gcd to enter residences from the rear.