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From: neg@nrc.com (Neal Goldsmith)
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Subject: Re: Magneto Telephones
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In article <9986@accuvax.nwu.edu> joe@icjapan.info.com (Joe Talbot)
writes:

>Ludlow - Baker numbers (out of service all the time, the whole town
>dies for days at a time. The service comes from a van parked near town
>with a dish on the roof and a fence around it. Odd.)

If I remember correctly, this Van is/was used because all of the
copper wire feeding the town was stolen on SEVERAL occasions, this
took the town out for extended periods of time. They finally put in a
Microwave arrangment to eliminate the wire all together.

It seems that the remote locations of the poles made the wire easy to
steal.


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