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Show Direct Distance Dialing Comes To Juab, Sanpete Areas On Saturday tain States Telephone Company will be extended to include both communities without a long dis. tance charge. Calls between these the-se communities will be complj ted merely by dialing the local number of either exchange. New dial telephone offices have been erected in Mt. Piea. sant and Nephi. The installation installa-tion of the dial switching eq-uipment eq-uipment was completed several weeks ago. In the interval, telephone tele-phone technicians have been testing every circuit in the equipment eq-uipment to assure top efficiency efficien-cy Saturday evening, Mr. Dal-ton Dal-ton said. well for many years, is being replaced by new mechanical dial plants. In Ephraim and Manti, present dial systems are being modified to permit direct long distance dialing. With the change to Direct Distance Dialing, the calling privileges of customers living in j Manti and served by the Mantij Telephone Company and those in Ephraim served by the Moun- Direct distance dialing (DDD) will come to Juab and Sanpete San-pete counties, Saturday at midnight. mid-night. New dial systems will make it possible for customers in Nephi, Manti, Ephraim and Mt. Pleasant, Plea-sant, to dial their own long distance dis-tance calls to over 60 million telephones throughout the United Uni-ted States and Canada. Howard Casey, Richfield Exchange manager for the Mountain States Sta-tes Telephone, said this week. Two complete telephone systems sys-tems are now in place in Mt. Pleasant and Nephi. The outdated out-dated manual equipment which has served these communities . . . |