Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on February 15, 1956.
Wheeler Dial Phone Conversion Is Completed
GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY of Indiana Inc., officials presided at a tie-in ceremony in the new dial equipment building at Wheeler at 7 o’clock this morning, when the Union township community was officially converted to the new dial telephone system. Only a few minor service disruptions were reported, but were quickly cleared.
Left to right in photo: P.E. Platt, district manager; Jack Lorditch, commercial manager; and Joe Randolph, division equipment superintendent.
(Bill Brooks Photo)
