50 YEARS AGO

May 17, 1973 – Editorial: Ma Bell’s gone around the bend again, to the point where there’s no living with her. The decline has become too severe. Every week there’s a new aberration. A few weeks ago you couldn’t telephone Ridgway without having to go through the long distance operator each time. Then you had to cope with sounds of frying bacon, blats, bleeps, and roars that overpowered voices of would-be communicators. More regularly, it is impossible to reach an operat...