GLADWIN
Anew day dawned in Gladwin County on March 4, 1954. It was a major step into the future when Gladwin County joined the growing trend of the day by introducing a concept called “self-dialing” of telephone calls.
Before that day, one would pick up the phone, and if it was one of the older style phones, might crank a magneto to ring an operator, or the somewhat more modern phones, would automat…