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Show Dial Telephones Planned Soon For Springville Plans for construction of three new telephone buildings in Provo, Orem and Springville were announced an-nounced today by Mr. John W. Snell Provo District Manager for the Mountain State Telephone and Telegraph Company. In the near future specifications for the Provo and Orem buildings will be issued to contractors for the purpose of receiving bids, and actual construction con-struction will begin as early this year as weather will permit, he said. Specifications for the Springville Spring-ville building will be completed at a later date at which time information infor-mation will be furnished concerning concern-ing its construction and location. The company owns property at the northwest corner of the intersection inter-section of 1st East and 1st North streets as the site for the new Provo building. The Orem building will be erected on company owned property at 325 South State Street. These new buildings will house completely new automatic dial systems sys-tems and are a part of a three million dollar service improvement and expansion program for these communities. It is estimated the entire project will require approximately approx-imately 18 months to complete. The Provo building will be a two story structure and a full basement. base-ment. Adequate space will be provided pro-vided on the first floor for Business Busi-ness Office quarters and the intricate intri-cate dial equipment. Long distance operator switchboards will be located lo-cated on the second floor as well as some office space. Equipment to operate the dial system will be located in tne uasemeni.. building will be constructed of steel reinforced concrete with brick facing. The on-3 story with iull basement base-ment building at Orem will also be of steel reinforced concrete construction, con-struction, with brick facing, and will contain space for the dial equipment and maintenance personnel. per-sonnel. The new dial systems planned for Provo and Orem are the very latest type known as "cross bar" and will be the first equipment of this type to be installed in Utah and two of the first five such equipped offices ,in the Mountain States Company territory. Long range company plans call for Provo to serve as a key office point in the nation-wide toll dialing dial-ing system network and will establish es-tablish Provo as an important communications center for southern south-ern Utah, Mr. Snell said. In addition to the new buildings, considerable out side line expansion expan-sion is planned in all three exchanges ex-changes so that more facilities will be available to furnish telephone service to cusiomers, tne district manager stated. Upon the completion of the projects, pro-jects, telephone users in the three communities will be able to dial each other directly without the assistance as-sistance of an operator. In connection con-nection with the change from manual man-ual to dial service all customers will have new telephone numbers. This improvement and expansion program planned for completion in 1955 is the largest single project to be undertaken by the Telephone Company in the State of Utah since the 1939 Salt Lake City dial conversion. "The Company is extremely pleased to proceed with these three projects, Mr. Snell said, because it is recognized that telephone service ser-vice is vital to future progress and growth of these areas and the state as well." Utah county's first telephone system was opened in Provo in June of 1883. Today there are over 14,000 telephones in service here tib.dou in provo, orem and Springville) Spring-ville) which establishes Provo as the 3rd largest exchange in Utah. It is interesting to note that the Provo exchange has almost tripled trip-led its number of telephones in the 8 post war years from 5,200 in service at the end of World War II. Associated with Mr. Snell in directing di-recting the plans and completion of these three projects are Mr. Arthur Brown, Provo District Plant Superintendent and Mr. Victor Vic-tor Lee, Provo District Traffic Superintendent. |