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Show Enterprise Review, March 24, 1976 Rage 4b Threat of Economic Penalty Works for Ma Bell Have you found yourself using the telephone directory more often and calling for directory assistance less? If so, you are not alone. Mountain Bell discovered that soon after they announced a request to the PSC to charge for directory assistance demand for the service dropped significantly. Although the number of calls gradually approval for the charging plan was announced, the number decreased dramatically again. Royce 4 LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES FORMS & NCR FORMS BUSINESS CARDS Most reasonable rates on stock prospectuses discount with this coupon for orders over $25.00 84101 10 Stilson, spokes- person .for Mountain. Bell, explained the activity as January to July, 1974 and 1975, the number of directory assistance calls slowly increased. In July, a new directory was issued, and the number decreased. It decreased more in 1975 because we advertised the directory quite heavily that year. In September, we.filed for Directory Assostance charging, and the volume remained down. In November, 1975, the volume started to go up again. On January 19, 1976, the Commission approved the charging plan, and the volume went down again. It has stayed down through February. The net result of the request for permission to charge has been a 24 percent decrease in directory assistance volume. QUICK PRINTING FredS. Ball is the Executive Vice President Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce began to increase, after follows: 363-029- Ball Speaks From 179 W. 400 So. SLC, Utah Salt Lake Valley and Growth brings to mind many different images. To some, it means urban sprawl, congestion, pollution, high undesirable. crime, poverty and everything else ' To others, growth is equated with jobs, improvement, end results. prosperity, beautification and positive Both can be right. Growth can be bad, but growt- h- planned also be very good. and controlled-c- an Growth in Utah is no longer an option. We are going to grow. Its inevitable. The Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce believes in not exist status quo in a growth. We feel that there does You cant stand still, community anymore than in an individual. the old saying goes, If you dont progress, you retrogress, is applicable to cities. Growth has come to the Salt Lake Valley. It s going to continue. Our job is to plan, encourage, coordinate and make certain the growth is positive. Look around at whats happening right now. The new high addition to the Little America motel is very positive. This first class propertys new addition will compliment and enhance our rapidly improving image as a tourist, vacation, convention destination location. Growth in our hotelmotel facilities is good, positive growth. It wasnt many years ago, we had a could accommodate Salt Palace-th- at convention facility-T- he 15,000 convention delegates, and we had 4,000 hotel beds in the entire valley. Now, since that time, we have added the Royal Inn with 200 h rooms; Howard Johnson with 226 rooms, Travelodge with 215 rooms, Salt Lake Hilton with 300 rooms, Rodeway In with 250 rooms, 160 new rooms under construction at the Hotel Utah, 87 rooms that were added to the Airport Holiday Inn, 178 new rooms recently completed at Little America and now the new tower under construction with 367 hotel rooms. These additions, combined with our previously existing properties now make us competitive with other major vacation and convention sites. The properties also provided needed jobs and broaden our tax base. Additionally, most are located on sites that previously housed blight. Thats good growth! Other growth in our valley comes from new businesses and industry coming to the area. Again, new industrial growth causes some to think of pollution, minority problems and other negatives. But, one of our biggest needs is yet more jobs. Every year we export from Utah our most valuable product-o- ur young people! not to earn a fortune; theyre leaving simply to .Theyre leaving get a job. We still lack opportunity. We need growth in jobs and ' . opportunity. Growth Tri-Arc- Id like to handle your investment account in 1976. . . Prince, Langheinrich & Greer is looking for three more good men. Each will have a private office. Telephone John Prince, Phone All k So.. .all growth isnt bad. Its good! Its positive! Its needed!.. .and it is going to occur, so lets plan and coordinate-GROWT- H. 532-382- 5. , inquiries confidential, of course. t John Prince Tiffanys Attic Slates Opening in Arrow Press Tiffanys Attic Theatre Restaurant, to be located in Arrow Press Square, expects to open this spring. Started four years ago in Kansas City, Tiffanys Attic was an imme- Prince, Langheinrich INCORPORATED 350 South Fourth East Suite 204 & Greer Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 diate success. Tiffany's combines dinner service with theatre performances by professional actors from New York and Hollywood. On May. 15, 1974, The Wall Street Journal ran a front page article analyzing the success of the phenomenon known as dinner theatre, and cited Tiffanys as the most successful, artistically and finanof all dinner theatre cially operations. The article caught the attention of Howard Clark, Salt Lake resident and developer of Arrow Press Square. He made immediate inquiry to the Kansas City producers, Richard Carrothers and Dennis Hennessy as to the possibility of Tiffanys coming to Salt Lake. Two years of negotiations, research and planning have culminated in the planned May opening of Tiffanys Attic Theatre Restaurant in Arrow Press Square. HSMA Calls Meeting Members and prospective members of the Hotel Sales Management Association will meet March 31 at Salt Lake Hilton, 4:00 p.m. to elect officers. Larry Jackstien of Hotel Utah has been spearheading the effort to organize a local chapter of the international organization for about two months. |