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Show TELEPHONE COMPANY SETS $800,000 AS UTAH CONSTRUCTION FUND C. A. Alston, Utah state manager man-ager for the Mountain States Telephone Tel-ephone and Telegraph company, gave the report last week that hla company had set $800,000 for construction con-struction in Utah in the 1938 budget. Thirty-eight individual projects are provided for in the budget, which allows nearly $200,000 for rearrangements and changes in plants and $600,000 for usual routine rou-tine work, as installation, removal and maintenance of telephones. A large bart of the construction work will be the removal and relaying of toll ltnes on highways where this work is made necessary by widening on other improvements. An application for a reduction In the rate on telephone hand sets was presented to the public service ser-vice commission last week. This reduction is to become effective April 1st. It is estimated by the state manager that the reduction will save Utah ratepayers around $21,000 a year. At the present time the rate on hand sets is 25 cents a month more than on desk sets, this amount to be paid for a period of 36 months, mon-ths, and under the proposed schedule sched-ule the change would be reduced to 15 cents a month extra for a period of 18 months. "' -. The company also proposes to eliminate the charge, which has ranged from $1 to $1.50, for making the change from desk sets to hand sets. |