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Show Meter Headers To Be Added To Aid Billing Utah Power & Light Co. has .announced that it has employed 56 additional meter readers and, as soon as they are trained, the company will discontinue estimating bills every other month, "We've been trying many things in an effort to hold our expenses to a minimum," said J. C. Taylor, vice president. "One way to do this was substituting computer estimates for actual meter readings every other month. "However," he said, "This has brought about a great deal of misunderstanding among our customers concerning these estimates." "No customer has paid, or will pay, for more electricity than he used," Mr. Taylor explained, "but it is now obvious that estimated bills are not acceptable to our customers, and that's the reason we are changing." Every month meter reading will be in effect In every area served by UP&L Co. by the end of July of this year. |