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Show JOINT COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE PHONE SERVICE A joint committe of representatives representa-tives of Bell and Independent Operating) Op-erating) Telephone Companies throughout the United States has been formed to advance the nation-wide postwar programs that the various telephone companies have been working on individually to extend and improve farm telephone tele-phone service, it was announced today. Co-chairmen of the committee are John P. Boylan, president of the United States Independent Telephone Association, the national nation-al organization of the thousands of independent telephone companies, compa-nies, and Keith S. McHugh, vice-president vice-president of the American Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph Company, representing the Bell operating companies. "Rural telephone service is more highly developed in this country, under the American system of private enterprise than in any other oth-er country in the world," Mr. Roy-land Roy-land and Mr. McHugh said today in a statement issued by them for the committee. "However, it is by no means as highly developed as we in the industry want to see it, and the industry intends to do everything in its power to provide more service and better service, at a cost which the farmer can afford.' |