The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 74, No. 102, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1975 Page: 3 of 56
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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Thursday, December 25, 1975 3A
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I he (ity of Lawton reserves the right to accept or reject any
and/or all bids or portions thereof, or to waive any informal-
ities in the bidding
TI>1 BUYS teletypewriters,and re-
ceives donated ones. TDI and Apcom
work together to place teletypewriters
and Phonetypes in homes of the deaf
It costs a deaf person $100 to have
the teletypewriters brought to lop
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Staticians claim that a typical home
maker walks 3,186 miles a year just
within her home — an average of 8 7
miles per day
working condition. delivered and in
stalled and $155 for the Phonetype
The deaf person becomes sole owner
of the equipment
Across the nation 110 deaf people
serve as agents for Apcom and TDI
They pick up the used teletypewriters,
and the Phonetype devices
There is a great need for additional
machines
As companies convert over from
Teletypes to computers, often the old
Teletype machines are scrapped.
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sold to surplus dealers who resell
them for fancy prices overseas where
the Teletypes are still very much in
demand
"It would be so much better for the
deaf if the used machines were do
nated or sold to Teletypewriters for
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the Deaf They are needed so badly
Prices for new Teletypes are out of
reach of most deaf people
Neither Marsters nor Andrew Saks,
operating vice president of Apcom and
a member of the Saks 5th Avenue
family, has ever received any corn
pensation from tne firm they head
Saks is also deaf
Teletypewriters for the Deaf pub
lished its first directory of people with
teletypes and Phonetypes in 1968
There were 174 listings
Bids may be held by the City of Law ton for a period not to
exceed thirty (30) davs from the date of the opening of bids
for the purpose of reviewing the bids and investigating bid
items prior to award of bids
Jean McGavic
City Clerk
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INVITATION TOR BIDS
The (ity of Lawton will receive bids until 9 30 A M , on the
7th day of January 1976, at the office of the City Clerk. Law
ton, Oklahoma, at which time and place the below listed
bids will be publicly opened and read separately aloud for
equipment and supplies as follows
Business Office Supplies
Service Van with Mounted Aerial Bucket Lift
170 CF M Air Compressor
All bids shall be in compliance with Bid Documents Bid
Documents, including Instructions to Bidders Bid Proposal,
and Equipment Specifications are on file at the office of the
City Clerk. Lawton, Oklahoma
THEN A message from the caller be
gins to appear on the receiver’s tele-
typewriter The message is punched
out by the caller
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The person receiving the message
responds by punching out his message
on his teletype teletypewriter
keyboard And the conversation goes
back and forth throughout the length
of the call
in 1968 the Marsters-Weitbrecht
project was given a boost when Amen
can Telephone and Telegraph Co
agreed to donate surplus tele-
typewriter machines to deaf people
through the Alexander Graham Bell
Assn for the Deaf, Inc (Alexander
Graham Bell’s wife was deaf )
That same year Marsters and
Weitbrecht along with others from the
National Assn of the Deaf and the Al-
exander Graham Bell Assn for the
Deaf formed Teletypewriters for the
Deaf. Inc. (TDI). a nonprofit organiza-
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THE TWO men formed an all-deaf
owned and operated company. Applied
( ommunications (orp (Apcom), head
quartered in Belmont in the San Fran
cisco Bay area Marsters is president
and Weitbrecht is vice president of re-
search and development Out of their
research came the Phonetype, a device
that converts telephone signals into
teletypewriter signals and vice versa
When the phone rings in the home or
office of a deaf person with a tele
typewriter machine and Phonetype,
lights go on and off
if the person is both blind and deaf,
fans go on The deaf-blind person uses
a Braille teletypewriter
When the phone is lifted off its
cradle and placed on a recess in the
Phonetype — a small black box — the
teletypewriter is activated
IN 1963, Marsters sought out Robert
Weitbrecht, a deaf astronomer and
electronics engineer
"I was so frustrated trying to use
the telephone," recalled the dentist I
had heard of Bob Weitbrecht s ex
pertise in electronics So I flew up to
San Francisco to talk with him and see
if we could come up with a telephone
for the deaf
We worked together for months and
finally came up with the equipment we
now have after researching many dif
ferent ways of accomplishing what we
set out to do
Teletype machines were being
phased out by the telephone com
panies. Western l mon and other firms
and being replaced with computers
We found a way to put the Teletype
machines to work (or the deaf
Combining the Teletype machine
and the telephone seemed to be the
most practical and economic way to
enable the deaf to use the normal tele-
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Pasadena office — one to communicate
with the deaf the other to commu
nicate with his hearing patients
When a hearing person rails his
secretary Gloria Jacobson, listens to
the caller on an auxiliary receiver con
nected to the phone She repeats the
patient’s message to the dentist
The dentist reads his secretary s
lips and responds by speaking to the
caller
Profoundly deaf persons who live
in their invisible world of silence ran
become almost anything they want to
in life if they have the ability Mar
sters insists
Our biggest handicap is being told
what we cannot do
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A I ASADENA, Calif , dentist who
has never heard a spoken word has
made it possible for 14,000 deaf people
to carry on conversations over the tele
phone
Dr lames C Marsters inspired the
elopment of a communications svs
lem that combines the telephone with
the teletypewriter machine
Deaf persons talk" to one another
by punching teletypewriter keys Their
messages are carried back and forth
from one teletypewriter to another via
the telephone
An orthodontist. Marsters, 51, is but
one of three totally deaf persons in this
country ever to become a dentist
• birth he has lived in a world of
ki many born
without hearing, he has learned to
master speech, using in daily conver-
sation. words he has never heard him
self or others utter He "hears" others
by lipreading
A telephone for those deprived of
hearing is often a matter of life and
death Marsters explains
Imagine waking up at 2 in the
morning and finding your wife having
a heart attack You are deaf You run
to a neighbor and start pounding on
his door
The neighbor has no idea who’s at
the door He shouts out — Who is it?
Who is it?’ You can't hear him, you
don t answer He doesn’t open the
door He doesn’t know who it is
What do you do’’ You are stuck
Multiply that by 1 000 times I gets
serious You can’t reach out when
there’s a need to reach out
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TODAY THE directory carries more
than 14,000 listings including an in
lernational network of telephones for
the deaf with teletype and Phonetype
equipment now in use in South Africa
Canada, Sweden the Philippines New
Zealand, Australia Switzerland and
England
Marsters has two telephones in his
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