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Los Angeles Times
Thursday, 15 March, 1928

         Honors Sought for Heroines
         
         Telephone Operators Who Braved Flood
          Perils May Get Medals
          
         A number of telephone operators are being considered
       for citation as recipients of Theodore N. Vail medal
       awards and honors for their heroism in warning resi-
       dents of Santa Clara River valley of the flood let
       loose when St. Francis dam gave away Monday night.
       
         Prominent among these are LUCILLE ZAHNISER, agent of
       the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company at Newhall,
       and AGNES ARMSTRONG an operator of the same town.
       
         At Fillmore MRS. CARRIE JOHNSON stayed at the switch-
       board at the time of the flood and at Santa Paula the
       operator who received and passed along the first calls
       is MISS LOUISE GIPE.
       
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