From our files: Television phones predicted in 1951

100 years ago, March 26, 1926

The Cowley Progress

Word was flashed over the radio at the Cowley Motor Company receiving station Saturday afternoon from the Wyoming University broadcasting station that Miss Ola Dickson has captured first place in the reading contest at the state university that day.

Miss Dickson is a reader of much more than common ability, and her winning of this contest once more puts the Cowley High School on the map and at the same time bringing honor to herself. It causes a great and glorious feeling among the patrons of our high school to have the school thus honored, even though we did not send our basketball team down to the state tourney this year.

75 years ago, March 29, 1951

The Lovell Chronicle

A television research specialist has predicted we will have television-telephones within 20 years. Philo Farnsworth, vice president of the Capehart-Farnsworth Radio Corporation, told a meeting of electrical and radio engineers that persons talking on the phone will be able to see each other, and, in addition, the visual pick-up tube on the phone will be moveable so that objects elsewhere in the room can be seen, too.

50 years ago, April 1, 1976

The Lovell Chronicle

Tracing the telephone by Anna Parks: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts. The first phone was installed in a home May 4, 1877. The cost was $20 a year. The first telephone operator was a man, not a woman. There were 21 listings in the first telephone book published in February 1878.

On March 10, 1891, an undertaker named Almon Strowger of Topeka, Kansas, invented the first automatic switchboard. Strowger claimed local operators were listening in on his calls and sending customers to other morticians. He made a fortune on his invention. Just think, it hasn’t been so very long ago that we heard “number please” when we picked up the receiver.

25 years ago, March 29, 2001

The Lovell Chronicle

It was an impressive first track and field meet for the Grizzlies and Lady Grizzlies of Rocky Mountain High School with head coach John Bernhisel now looking at the teams’ chances of winning a trophy at the regional meet in May. Senior Ben Roberts won the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:00.05. He won the 3,200-meter run at 11:32.40 and the 800-meter run at 2:15.33.

Charlie Cordova jumped to first place in the long jump at 19-3½. David Hessenthaler brought home two first-place finishes. He won the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.02 and the 200-meter dash at 25.20.

Senior Jessica Campbell took second in the 3,200-meter run, edged out in a photo finish by Janis Beal of Lovell. Beal ran a time of 14:52.77, and Campbell ran 14:52.78.

10 years ago, March 24, 2016

The Lovell Chronicle

Big Horn County residents who attended the Big Horn Mountain Coalition’s public discussion last week do not want the U.S. Forest Service telling them where they can camp in the Big Horn Mountains. Approximately 40 people attended the March 16 discussion. 

They discussed if campers, ATVs and other vehicles were an eyesore when camping in the Big Horns and whether the length of time a person can camp should be adjusted.  Most residents agreed a 14- or 16-day camping period is an appropriate amount of time to camp at one location before moving to a new one.