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from persons who cheated the telephone company, an increase front $830,000 in 1957. The Independent Telephone Association of ! America, of which the Virginia company is a member, estimates that it lost $100,000 last year as a result of phone cheating. The Association has 2,850 phone company members.
Mr. Cole said, that to curb ini creasing losses from dishonesty. phone companies have been strengthening their security systems for developing safe guards ' for their coin boxes. They are contending not only with inveterate criminals, he said, but also people who would not normally steal 50 cents. He quotes Floyd H. Brown, chief special agent of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. as saying that pay telephone burglars have even gone so far as to hold small national conventions to exchange techniques and tips on the latest tele
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