Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 9 | Useless Telephone Calls under Ban

fully supervise the use of your telephone." tele-phone." A measured service has been inaugurated, inaugu-rated, with a minimum of forty calls per month on a four-party line, or forty-five on a two-party line, with a nickel charge per call over those numbers. Subscribers Subscrib-ers may have the privilege, however, of any number of calls on individual residence resi-dence lines, at $3.75 per month, or $3.23 for a two-party line; and service on extension ex-tension telephones with unlimited residence resi-dence service. 50 cents. The rule aitects not only residences, but small stores having a party service. It is believed that the restrictions indicated will lighten the pressure at the central switchboard materially, and expedite necessary service. USELESS TELEPHONE CALLS UNDER BAN A circular of notification is being sent by the management of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company to its city subscribers, in which it is stated: "If you have a 'message-rate' residence telephone, either one-party, two-party or four-party, or a 'message-rate' business telephone, it will pay you to eliminate all unnecessary calls. "It costs just as much to make a needless need-less call as it does to make an important call. Under the 'message-rate plan the amount of your bill is entirely within your control. "In your own interest you should care- 1