Part 4

REMAIN NEAR TELEPHONE—After you have placed your call, if it cannot be completed at once, please stay nearby so you can be located quickly.

PLEASE BE BRIEF—Give the other fellow a break. All over the country, men in service are placing long distance calls. If conversations are brief, more men can get their calls through.

DON’T LOSE YOUR NICKEL—Public telephones here are operated on a “post-payment” basis; that is, the coin is not deposited until after the operator completes the connection for you. Give the operator the number first, and do not insert the coin until she asks you to.

CALLS TO ORDERLY ROOMS—To call a squadron orderly room from off the Post, ask the Sioux Falls information operator for the number of the public telephone there and call that number, as use of Post telephones in orderly rooms is restricted.

TELEPHONE CALLS FOR YOU—If you expect relatives or friends to call you, please make sure that they have your complete mailing address, including your barracks building number, the telephone number at which you can be reached, and any other information which will be helpful in reaching you. Generally, however, it works best if you place the call instead of having them call you because changes in the schedules of camp life often make it difficult to get in touch with you promptly when attempting to complete a call to you.

TELEGRAMS—To send a telegram over a telephone, just call “Western Union”, give the message to be sent and deposit the telegraph charges in the coin box as requested.

ADDRESSES

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Please Be Brief—Give Others a Chance to Call

NOTES

VISITOR’S PASS PROCEDURE—The issuance of passes to visitors is under the direction of the Provost Marshal who maintains a Pass House for this purpose at Gate No. 2 (Soldier’s Gate). If possible, the soldier and visitor must be present at the Pass House when the pass is issued. However, if it is impossible for the soldier to be present he can make arrangements with one of the Service Club hostesses to get a pass for his visitor. The pass must be retained by the visitor and returned to the Pass House at the completion of his visit, after being signed by one of the Service Club hostesses.

Persons desiring to stay at the Guest House are issued a three-day pass upon request of a Service Club Hostess. This pass is also returned to Pass House upon completion of visit.

The following charges are for three minutes, including tax, on Station-to-Station calls from Sioux Falls between 6 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. or on Sunday. Rates for Person-to-Person calls and Day Station-to-Station calls are somewhat higher.

Rates and taxes are those in effect May 1, 1944

Inc. Tax Albuquerque, N. M. $1.69 Augusta, Me. 2.44 Atlanta, Ga. 1.81 Baltimore, Md. 2.00 Biloxi, Miss. 1.94 Birmingham, Ala. 1.75 Bismarck, N. D. .81 Boise, Ida. 1.94 Boston, Mass. 2.31 Carson City, Nev. 2.31 Charleston, S. C. 2.19 Charleston, W. V. 1.75 Chattanooga, Tenn. 1.69 Cheyenne, Wyo. 1.13 Chicago, Ill. 1.13 Cleveland, Ohio 1.63 Dallas, Tex. 1.56 Denver, Colo. 1.19 Des Moines, Ia. .63 Detroit, Mich. 1.56 Hartford, Conn. 2.25 Helena, Mont. 1.69 Houston, Tex. 1.81 Indianapolis, Ind. 1.44 Jackson, Miss. 1.75 Jacksonville, Fla. 2.25 Kansas City, Mo. .88 Little Rock, Ark. 1.44 Los Angeles, Calif. 2.44 Louisville, Ky. 1.50 Madison, Wis. .94 Miami, Fla. 2.81 Minneapolis, Minn. .63 New Orleans, La. 1.94 New York, N. Y. 2.19 Oklahoma City, Okla. 1.31 Omaha, Nebr. .56 Phoenix, Ariz. 2.06 Pittsburgh, Pa. 1.75 Raleigh, N. C. 2.06 San Francisco, Calif. 2.50 Salt Lake City, Utah 1.75 Santa Fe, N. M. 1.58 Seattle, Wash. 2.31 Spokane, Wash. 2.00 St. Louis, Mo. 1.19 Trenton, N. J. 2.19 Wichita, Kansas 1.00

NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO. BELL SYSTEM SERVICE

Transcriber’s Notes

—Silently corrected a few typos.

—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by underscores.