European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                This town residence will become the Eisenhower Home boo klined study is one of the rooms being refurbished ikes new House workmen Are renovating Columbia sity presidents quarters for june occupancy when former finishes his Ter Minal he will move into the onetime residence of Nicholas Murray late famed president of Columbia University in the in y As the Home of Butler for almost forty because the three Story Home at the Corner of 116th Street and Morningside drive goes with die position of president of the and Are not facing the housing problem confronting Many of the former service men with whom he was according to present plans the Eisenhower May moving Day will be june in preparation for this workmen Are now renovating the inside and soon Eisenhower will Start selecting rugs and furniture and lighting effects As the renovators slowly Retreat before the on Slaught of the decorators who will support her Interior workers on die project apparently have been briefed to maintain secrecy As to the exact nature of the final most of them have been noncommittal about the plans although one Foreman venture that the House was being modernized Yand those United s Washington it wont be Long now until stateside Telephone users will be hearing strange noises when they pick up their and it wont be just the at the other the strange noises will sound More like beep of the Horn on some Model a Ford about two blocks Down the though the beeps willbe alarming at it int expected that anyone will Rush out to see the nearest the Horn sounds will merely mean that the Telephone conversation is being for from March 1 on the Federal communications commission Rule is that recorders May be attached to telephones Only if the warning tone Gadget is the beep will recur every twelve to fifteen seconds while everything being said is memorized word for a Dictaphone on the other end of the the mechanical re cording of Telephone conversations dates Back to word War but the idea finally will sprout Long pants when the Federal communications commission order author izing the use of recorders with a tone warning system becomes effective the first Day of preliminary estimates place the number of potential users at fifty thousand but the idea is expected to catch on quickly and attract countless others in a Short chances Are that clerks and Little men wont be using one or the conversations of friends and cording equipment but the Tele phone company has a monopoly on installing and maintaining the equipment after who else is going to connect them with the Telephone lines the main purpose of the corders will actually be for Tran scribing such things As sales reports of breakdowns and delays in Railroad and air Calls to news credit information by weather reports by steam ship and airline companies and big business deals betwee i exec doctors also May find the recordings helpful in keeping diagnoses and Laboratory in it is believed that some Nineteen thousand Telephone re corders already Are in use illegally along these a third by the Navy and air their is usually in violation of one or More Tariff regulations of the not until the first of March will a person be Able to attach one of the corders to his Telephone line with a Clear after that Date its unless the acc boys change their they did change their minds once before on the same it happened shortly after new when the commission decided to postpone Day from january the reason for the delay was a dispute Between the Telephone companies and the manufacturers of recording they just cup Kurt come to terms Over who was going to furnish the tone As things now anyone company or dicta phone furnish the tone warning Gadget and be what the Telephone companies also is to be made exclusive agents for providing the tone warning the acc delayed the effective Date of its order to give the consideration Jilong with petitions which claim that the Concession would give the Telephone a virtual monopoly the new if anyone decides that he wants to Hook a set of up to he heres what he will have to first 6f arrangements have to made with a dicta phone or recording company to tent or buy a far no one has said who wants to install recorder has to prove its business Soi if anyone wante to have a Little unsportsmanlike and probably lose his last he can get one just to play Cylinder Dictaphone can be bought for Between four and eight Hundred dollars or can be rented r on a considerably cheaper in Case the fun wears it wont at monetary they use Wax composition cylinders which Cost about sixty five cents these cylinders transcribe about ten minutes with out but the More expensive models have a method which permits continuous Tran by scraping the surface of the it can be used from eighty to a Hundred times without discarding it also theres a Belt Model which takes a conversation unto thirty minutes Long on a plastic Belt the Belt Model is More expensive but the conversation can be filed away for reference the Belt can be used Only and finally theres a cheaper device which talk on a celluloid disk much like a phonograph after one has decided which he he then has to get a tone warning device from the Telephone company or the dicta phone then its Only a matter of getting fhe Tele phone company to come out and make the necessary the old gag about if a Man hang up5 will have to be revised a from now on it will run something like this if hear a just say youre the grocer and youre sorry but youre fresh out of Druckenbrod fun Milky