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Famously Harris

...he lived until he moved to Anchorage in the 1970s.Dorothy Harris moved to Juneau in 1943 where she worked as a telephone operator for a few years. After getting married to Frederick B. Harris, Dorothy became a stay at home mom. In 1972 she...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-10-26/famously-harris
Outdoors
Betty Lou Nordling

...substituting during some evening hours for City Librarian Ann Coleman. At fourteen she began after school work as a telephone operator, and always remembered the Hurley phone company family fondly. A member of the Photo Club, Rifle Club, and the...

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Shaping Alaska myth

...wilderness lodge, and became the first woman radio telephone operator in the territory and one of the few women of that...her guests, Joyce became the first female radio telephone operator in Alaska when Pacific Alaska Airways needed a communications...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112702/nei_joyce.shtml
Neighbors
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...for." Martin, 78, is a Tlingit elder, born in Kake. She moved to Juneau in 1959 and worked for 13 years as a telephone operator, including a stint during the hectic aftermath of the 1964 earthquake. "I started as long distance operator and...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032201/Loc_HonoredWoman.shtml
DJ Don Drew draws country fans to the radio

...1965. "I remember hearing Del Reeves and the Good Time Charlies singing about the Southern belles, watching the telephone operator walk down the street," Drew said. "I listened a little bit more, and there were all these songs that had stories...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031206/loc_20060311004.shtml
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So long, Slim

...kick pedals with screwdrivers attached that pound out rhythm on metal garbage can and bucket drums, and an old telephone operator's headset from the 1930s that he uses to bellow out crackling country verses. "It's old country blues, but...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070209/ent_458201983.shtml
Phone breaks elude state?

...senior vice president for legal and regulatory affairs. Access rates will not be reduced in Alaska, because local telephone operators were not part of the deal that was struck, Tindall said. That means access charges will be seven times higher...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060200/Loc_phone.html
Local
Obituaries

...accounting in 1961. She worked as an accountant at Alaska Pulp Corp mill for 26 years. She also worked as the telephone operator for the Sitka telephone company and was a straw boss at fish camps. She and Gene Craig were married Oct. 2, 1942...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080599/Com_obits.html
Comm
Tragedy at Sea

...com/dawson/sssophia.htm An attorney suggested that such orders may have been transmitted but not logged. A telephone operator testified she heard many such messages from a Canadian Pacific agent on Oct. 24. When Capt. James Lloyd, a veteran...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060803/sta_sophia.shtml
News
This Day in History

...former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. In 1878, Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the United States, for the Telephone Despatch Co. of Boston. In 1932, New York City Mayor James J. "Gentleman...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090105/sta_20050901007.shtml
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