A dial telephone
system costing $18,000 will be installed at Angleton by
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Plans of the company for
the system were approved last week by the Angleton city council.
Angleton is making a
big advance from crank to the dial telephone system and no doubt
will be among the smallest towns, if not the smallest, in the
state to obtain such modern service.
When the new system
is placed in service, it is said that Angleton residents will
have the same type of service now in use in Fort Worth, Dallas,
Houston, and other large cities.
The new service will
necessitate a higher rate amounting to 50c per month more for
business phones and 25c a month additional for residence phones.
Coming almost at the
same time is the announcement that the crank telephone system at
Alvin will be replaced by the more modern flash-light system--a
system which has been in use in Freeport for a number of years.
