April 1947 76 Years Ago Tec 5 Robert C. Beverly of Jackson returned home from being stationed in Alaska. He served there with the Army Ground Forces Arctic Testing Unit, Task Fore “FRIGID.” “His friends will probably hear tales of climbing out of a sleeping bag and dressing in temperatures of 60 to 70 degrees below.” A story on Southern Bell revealed that telephone operators in Jackson made anywhere from to a week. Installers/repairmen made to a week, very good wages in 1947. There was a union push to raise those wages to to ...

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