Show 1 TELEPHONE COMPANY r KICKS OVER TRACES TRACE t. t Refuses to 10 Connect With Proposed Loca local r. r Municipal System Plans for the municipal pal t telephone system are moving movin under higher tension ten ten- i sion since the appearance at council i c meeting Tuesday evening of Mr a Jennings division superintendent of the Mountain States Telephone Telegraph Tel r 4 com company pan j and the announcement announce i ment by him that his company would j positively refuse to connect with the t. t proposed s system stem The fhe meeting was held for the purpose of hearing the telephone committees committee's report on the bids which had been received from independent telephone supply houses Councilman J. J P. P Christensen moved that the committee be authorized to f f- prepare new plans plan and specifications to tobe be approved by the council at its next meeting and that the recorder I advertise for bids in accordance with i the new plans r BELL PEOPLE P OPLE OBJECT At this point Mr Jennings asked permission perm to address the council He asked the council to postpone action on the telephone question until next c spring saying that the political parties parties parties par par- ties had all included a plank in their platforms favoring a public utilities commission for this state which commission commission commission com com- mission he said would have power over telephone companies He said f the commission would probably r establish telephone rates that i would be satisfactory Referring 4 to the matter of long distance connections Lions Mr Jennin Jennings s stated that he had been instructed by the president of his hia company to inform the city cl coun count un uncil cil that the Mountain States company will not connect with the proposed i municipal system at any time I r. r Another objection to the municipal system that was advanced by Mr Jennings was based on the grounds that the city has already exceeded F the debt ie t limit permitted by law He said that his company had known kI this for some souie time but made no protest protest prote pro pro- te test lt so eo lo long longas gas as the money was expended expended expended ex ex- for improvements such as waterworks electric lights etc but that conditions were now coming toa to toa a point poin where his company would I have to intercede as a taxpayer |