The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11

outline their plans for the next Ave years.
 Their first task will be to all ap- proximately i60,000 unnlled orderi for telephone - Q Job which will take many months to complete due to lack of materials end supplies.
 Once this iS accomplished, the companies plan to swing into pro- grams of improvement, expansion and replacement designed to add new plants and rebuild old ones which will incorporate the newest In telephone developments. This will take an estimated i've or six years and cost approximately ele0,- 100000. Of this amount, about Si00,- 100000 is to be spent by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company which covers all New Eng land states except Connecticut, and Se0,00o,000 will be spent by the Southern New England Telephone Company which serves Connecticut.
 There will he no lay.offs dW ing the reconversion period in the tol ephone husiEesS. The New England Telephone Company today employs 23,b00 and plans to take back lts i700 former employees now in the armed forces. Its total of 26,2 eal. ployeS then, will be 4,eO0 more than in io40. The Southern, New Eng land Telephone Company now has 5000 employees and in one year ex- poets to increase this number to G.. 800 with the return Of It's men from the armed forces.
 In it's aims for improvements in plan and service, the New England Telephone and Telegraph plans to increase dial telephones by 100000 within five years, from Si per cent of it's total telephones to 7B per cent The Southern New Englandf Tele- phone expects to have dial Serv- ice on o6 per cent of ConnectIcut's telephones in the Scame period as compared with 70 per cent today.
 In addition to thb, both com- paaieS have planned c service of spe- cial projects. Thess include:
 l. To protect lines from extremes of weather and other damage which halt service, open-wire lines will be replaced with cable. Present cabls lines will Do supplemented. The New England Telepnone and Telegraph plans to build 5000 miles Of this cable.
 ?. Improving rural telephone ia. cilitieS, including elimination of the
 nagneto type of equipment used Tn many rural areas today where ccranks must Do turned to signal operators.
 3. Long distance dlaling. Toward this end, some of the early steps In New England will be to install In Springfield and Worcester, Masb,, the equipment necessary to permit long distance diaiing by operators to Philadelphia and beyond. This long distance dialing by operators and the present inter exchange uses Of the dial for distances as far aS 50 miles are the forerunnerS of eventual long distance dlaiing by telephone users to any point in the 
 {. Extension of telephone service 10 coaStwiSe vessels, motor vehicles, airplanes and railroad trains. Ex. tension of wire facilities to link televiSion StationS Into regional or networks. The first Bell System installation Of a radlo.relay system to supplement existing long distance wire facilities will be built between New York and Boston, con- struction beginning this year, Five of the relay points will Dc located on hilltops in New England-three h Connecticut and two in MaSSa. ,husettS.
 The companies announce, how. ,ver, that television which would permit telephone subscribers to see me another aS they talk, is not in. | 'luded in their present plans.