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Show For BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, March 21, 1974 BE family Gas big chunk of energy bill Request to PSC Mt'n Bell seeks for per household, went the report the car, gasoline for as a states. For the local area $2,922,000. to came it whole, exThe second biggest was for the last year penditure energy used for space heating It and for water heating household. $214 per averaged of $345 How much have Box Elder new rate hike Mountain Bell recently filed new tariffs with the Utah Public Service commission requesting an increase in telephone rates. The proposed changes will increase monthly basic service revenues by approximately ten percent; there will be an upin long ward adjustment distance calls within the state, increases in service connection charges and other selected items. This is the first requested increase since 1969. John E. Lattin, vice president and general manager for Mountain Bell, cited inflation during a time of unprecedented growth as the reason for seeking higher telephone rates. Our construction program has been stepped up in recent years to meet the demands of new customers and to continue high quality service for existing customers. We have invested $176 million for construction of new telephone facilities in Utah during the past four years and an additional $70 million will be spent during 1974. Due to Higher Costs Although part of the budget increase can be attributed to a number record of new customers during the past five years, most of it is due to higher costs. Since 1968, the price of copper has risen 84 percent. During the same period the investment per average telephone has increased from $445 to $545 at the end of 1973. pverall wage costs have risen 78 percent which includes the wages of 998 additional employes needed to keep up with Utah requirements. Everything we need and use costs more," Lattin said. He explained that has company telephone the expense controls to avoid repricing telephone rates before now. We have absorbed much of the effect inflation has had on our purchasing power by get- through To Continue Service The requested increase totaling $15 million annually is required to assure continuance of the companys ability to provide outstanding telephone service throughout the state, he said. If approved by the commission, the cost of home telephone service in Brigham City would increase 45 cents per month. Two-partservice would be raised 35 cents per month while the charge for a single business telephone would increase 99 cents per month. The proposed long distance rates within Utah would give telephone users the choice of one-part- y y direct-dialed- , y HAPPINESS Elementary Must Screen Calls operators and their supervisors are obliged to provide secretarial service for these customers by screening their calls. This has become very expensive and we feel the additional costs should be paid by those using the service, Our Lattin concluded. Mountain Bell proposed to increase the coin telephone rate to 20 cents. When the 10 cent charge was set in 1954, a coin phone cost $90. Today it costs $250. Labor costs for installation, maintenance and collection of pay phones has more than doubled, it was noted. The utility has requested the elimination of certain, nonrecurring charges of $5 or less. Some of the other items scheduled for increases include mobile phone rates, foreign exchange service, connecting PBX trunk arrangements, charges, extension rates and WATS service. tion of Mrs. Venice Maughan, present a program for residents of Pioneer Memorial Nursing home recently. Would deny drink tax break Congressman has which Gunn would McKay legislation disallow liquor advertising as a tax deduction. The Utah congressman said he hoped that such legislation would make it more difficult for the liquor industry to portray drinking as an attractive social habit. Advertising for alcohol creates a distorted impression of the dangers of drinking, said Representative McKay. The liquor industry spent $247 million in 1972 to convince the that drinking is public associated with the good life, friendship, the great outdoors, and a number of other desirable activities. nearly quarter of a billion dollars spent by the liquor industry, McKay said. Total cost for alcoholism in this country may be as high as $15 billion. McKay cited some of the reasons why he felt alcohol abuse should be curbed. Alcohol was a factor in over 25,000 of the J used-natu- equivalent amounts of the survey finds that gasoline, the average family consumed 2,270 gallons of gasoline, or its equivalent, in the past year. In Box Elder county, on that basis, home fuel consumption represented some 19,227,000 gallons of gasoline. "A Fashion fabrics' Hardly Compares The $75 million the government spent on alcohol abuse education programs hardly compares 74 last year with the Local Naval Reserve seeks ex-servicem- Reserve program. The local weekend sailors will be assigned to specific jobs aboard Navy ships and will man these ships in time of national emergency. Former members of all military services having experience in some 70 rating specialties will be needed by July of 1975 to help complete the rosters of the ships that will be assigned to the Ogden units in the next 18 months. Urgently Needed Urgently needed at this time are boatswain mates and ship servicemen to serve as crew members of a landing ship to which Surface (dock) is currently Division assigned. The Surface division crew will serve aboard the ship during and designated weekends period of during a 1 two-wee- k active duty for training once a year. The operational readiness of this ship will be the goal of the Reservists. Many advantages exist now for affiliation in the Naval Reserve. Most of them are economic. For Example, a retirement is worth approximately $50,000 to the Reservist and his family in extra pay checks and post exchange privileges while participating, and in retirement travel, commissary pay, privileges, medical care, and other benefits when they retire. ran ots ti Printed on one side the other 100 cotton 45 wide Natural grounds Reg. 1.79 to 2.29 solid on Reg. Qualified specialists interested in participating are urged to call chief petty officer George Mamanakis immediately at the Ogden Naval Reserve center, Chief Mamanakis reminds all with the right qualifying skills that, It pays to be a Naval Reservist. ..in more ways than one. 294i Washington Blvd. Ogden, Utah Dick Olsen Manager or Full Bolts 3.49 60 wide Reg. 3.98 1 88 Call Center Bankers Investment Corporation 399-551- 8 8 REVERSIBLE en An exciting new assignment for the local Naval Reserve has resulted from recent realignment of the Navy's national e day-tim- Translating the various kinds ral are coal-in- to gas, electricity, oil and of energy that one-hal- rancm yd. a ymm MIDI wide 100 Arnel Silver glitter on Faded Deni 50 Polyester 50 Cotton 45 wide SPORTSWEAR CANVAS PRINTS ill n person-to-perso- Other operating outlays listed include $76 for major electrical for air appliances and $46 conditioning in homes so were equipped. The other costs for cooking and miscellaneous. Assuming that the energy rates in Box Elder county are similar to those in most other the 8,470 parts of the country, local families had bills of approximately $6,293,000 to meet in the year. of line. Now, however, they are doing the figuring. Because of the energy shortage and the resultant surge in the prices agreed that the student production was exceptional. charged for gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas and the like, their budgets have been thrown out of whack. Some help in determining professional or managerial workers. what the average family spends "This legislation is a modest per year for the energy to run effort to offset the distorted its home and operate its car is image presented by the liquor provided by the Citizens AdMcKay said. producers," visory committee on En50,000 fatal auto accidents last It would simply deny the tax vironmental Quality, a federal year, he said, and figured in break for advertising alcohol agency. of all homicides f about In Box Elder county, on the products that was previously and a third of all suicides. the basis of its general findings, enjoyed, eliminating possibility of claiming these these bills amounted to apNot Confined as legitimate proximately $743 per family in expenditures The problems arent confined business expenses. Hopefully, it the past fiscal year. For some to any economic strata, McKay will make it more difficult to families it was more than this continued, noting that 45 perinstill in peoples minds the and for others, less. cent of all alcoholics are desirability of using alcohol. Nearly half of it, an average newly-establishe- non-liste- d 171! The theme of the event was, Happiness is a Poetry Festival. Residents and officials at the nursing home POETRY Students from North Park school in Tremonton, here under the direcIS d operator-assiste- rates. In addition, night rates for between 11 calls dialed-direc- t p.m. and 8 a.m. would feature rates, rather than the customary three-minutminimum charges. For example, the proposed daycharge for a direct-dialetime call between Salt Lake and St. George would be 90 cents for the first three minutes, up 5 cents over present rates. However, the charge for a Salt Lake to Heber City direct-dialee call would remain the same. Direct-dialecalls of less than 32 miles would not The be increased. e maximum increase for a or multi-kefor installing would be higher telephones according to the capacity of the set. The tariffs also include a $1 charge for and 50 cents for phone service. I. em- new technology, better operating procedures and tight ployed ting more done mechanization. Service connection charges for business customers would be $30 to process, assign and connt :t the telephone line to the switching equipment and $5 for each phone installed. Charges county residents been spending annually for the energy needed to keep the house warm, the lights lit and the car running? Very few of them ever bothered to figure up the total. They were aware that these costs kept going up each year, as did everything else, but felt that the increases were not out 45 Reg. 1.98 Reg. 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