Show F. F h f 9 4 I F I J I i r f I I ff IL I v. v v I Four of 51 Who Want Phone Service We want telephones is the chant of oC these four Jo el lovely S who attended a public service ser commission hearing hearing- on the matter Thc They are Mrs I George Batten left Mrs Airs corgo corgi Mrs rr I Lester Johnson and amI Mrs Irs Max X Cro Crosland There were cre 51 residents lio rho petitioned for telephones I Capitol Protest Suburban Air T e Needs I H Housewives from suburban Sat Salt I Lake Lae and some of their husbands told of their telephone needs at ata ata a n hearing Thursday afternoon at atthe n nth th the Ii h house o 0 u use s e of representatives' representatives lounge in the thc capitol conducted by Donald Hacking member public public pub pub- lic service commission After going g over the problem for three hours houis Franklin D D. D Sawyer Saw- Saw yer yei Utah ULah manager Mountain States Slates Telephone and Telegraph Co Co said his company would be beable beable beable able to lay sufficient type of new I cable to provide telephone service about April 1951 1051 I The hearing was an out outgrowth of a petition signed by bv 51 residents of of Canyon Rim subdivision No 3 1 in the vicinity of 2900 South and 2900 East Fast The petition charged that the telephone company promIsed promised prom prom- i ed to provide service in June 1950 1050 then in September and that nothing had so far been done George E E. End Bridwell well an attorney who ho lives in m the area acted as main spokesman for the group and told of the dire din need for foi telephone telephone tele tele- phone sen seT service ico in the area He said saul I that many per persons ons living in the area depend on nn telephones in their business and said they had lawall to la wall a n block to use a pa pay telephone tele tele- phone Some of the residents are salesI salesmen salesmen sales sales- men and depend on a telephone in I their business he said Some of the housewives explained explained explained ex ex- the inconvenience to which they have been put without ade ade- adequate adequate quate telephone service Mr Sawyer explained that unforeseen unforeseen unforeseen un un- un- un foreseen conditions prevented the company from bringing adequate telephone service to the new area I and assured them the company was vas bending every effort to get geta a cable laid to bring in new service ice ice He said vital cable had been taken up for defense purposes Mr Ir Hacking said Friday that all the commission can do is to help all it can to lo push the he project along along- so it can be completed next April I |