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Show .... ' uniiiihim i I,--- N av . ' 's of. - , V ! - O , . . . t , , i - . . ." : . i w . . . n. , ' . r .-,. p- . . - - I t? -. - - lo . - - ir. Employees of the Mountain States Telephone r0 using the new Telsta Lift to install Bbie in the telephone improvement pro ject at Mapleton, are Chris Gray, Bert Sullivan, Sul-livan, supervisor and Jack Greenland. New project to add many one and two party lines. Considerable construction by Mountain States Telephone at Mapleton, in prepara- tion for making that area a suburban rate area has been completed, it was announced an-nounced this week by local manager, Ross B. Jensen. Also additional central office equipment equip-ment has been added to the Springville office as part of the project. The change to the new rate area will mean lower service charges to some customers at Mapleton who have been paying pay-ing extra to have urban service. ser-vice. It will mean also that one and two party telephone service will be provided to apr proximately 300 families in that community in the near future. Approximate cost of the improvements im-provements to the telephone company is $33,000, Mr. Jensen Jen-sen stated. Facilitating the work, the company has put into use a new and unique piece of equipment equip-ment called a Telsta Lift to aid in the addition of cable, The equipment enables a man to be carried along in a bucket buc-ket type structure at telephone line level while working on the cable, thus saving many hours previously spent ascending and descending telephone poles. |