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Show I 1 i THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1975 Page Three Mountain Bell Rolls New Film Instructing School-Ag- e Children in Use of Telephone When your son or daughter and when and how to make emercomes home from school alphabetizgency calls are among the many such names as Hexy Witch, topics taught and sung to in a ing Fester Ghoul and Brute Dooling-ton- , splendid combination of fun and youll probably want to know learning. Included with the what hes been up to. color If you ask, you may get the film are cassette tapes, filmstrips, answer that he took a trip to charts and learning games. Theres a specialized kit for each of five age Telezonia with his class. Telezonia? Thats the name of a groups from kindergarten to sixth e city featured in a new grade. film produced for. the Bell System. ' Teletrainers are the mainstay of the learning experience. These are Its all part of a school to remote control telephone units used instruct program geared children in the proper use of the by classroom instructors which provide dial tone, ringing sounds and a telephone. How to answer and dial the busy signal. They are also equipped phone, how to use the directory with loud speakers so that the class 27-minu- make-believ- newly-revise- d Price Controls Cause Domestic Oil Prices Rise Continued price controls have kept down domestic oil prodiction and- led to higher prices for consumers, according to the executive vice president of the American Petroleum Institute. Addressing a panel of the American Society of Public Administrators in Washington, D.C., Charles J. DiBona said that a continuation of controls could cause future oil production to drop by as much as a million barrels per day, an amount, he said, that can hardly be called trivial. As well, DiBona said, controls intended to lower costs to consumers will eventually make them pay two additional costs. DiBona said that in the long run the consumer pays all increases in petroleum costs that would occur under normal market conditions. But, the consumer also pays the additional costs brought on by the inefficiencies" of controls, plus the cost of supporting the huge bureaucracies and special information systems needed to make controls work, he said. One oil company figures it is sending 400 reports per year totaling 24,000 pages to the Federal government and 400 more reports to the various states, DiBona said. Another company calculates that it has 115 technical people working on federal reports, while a third estimates that the preparation of official forms accounts for s 280,000 of its annually. A small refiner tells us that out of his 135 total employees, three or e on Federal four work A i - a t full-tim- e man-hour- full-tim- Energy Administration reports. The consumer ultimately pays for all of this, DiBona said. DiBona said that controls may mean some short-tergains for consumers. But in the long run, her said, they lead to fewer domestic petroleum reserves and less production, producing "higher petroleum prices and imports. m i i t Redbadge of courage. V X 4 te sitcan observe actual uations. The materials were prepared by AT&T with the assistnace of two UCLA education professors and are provided free of charge through Mountain Bell. Educating our future customers will benefit everyone as network facilities are used to their best advantage. The program is not designed, however, to merely teach the art of courteous communication, but also to assist in developing the complementary skills of directory use and elementary problem solving, according to Earl M. Wallace, local exchange manager. role-playin- f i g Four school-ager- s stare in amazement at the entrance to the kaleidoscopic tunnel which leads to Telezonia, a would-b- e city in Mountain Bells new film for school children. elementary training |