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Show The Enterprise Review, December 8, 1976 Page 5b Opponents Argue the Principle of the Thing Continued from page lb competition has necessitated changes by Mountain Bell regarding pricing." He countered that private suppliers also offer lease contracts to customers, taking customers out of the marketplace for Bell equipment. "We are concerned about the ordinary rate payers," he said. "The decisions in this case will have an effect on monopoly services offered by Mountain Bell." unfair" for unregulated companies to compete with a regulated utility. Gerald R. Dean, district marketing manager for Mountain Bell, said the utilitys proposed rate and pricing structure for its new business telephone equipment is a response to changing demand from Utah businesspeople. Business is Changing Customers Subsidizing Rates "Utah businesses arc growing, moving and exerting greater economic controls. The business customer is extremely interested in communications," he said. He described the present competitive marketplace, saying customers are looking for innovations, evaluating services, and concerning themselves mainly with features and costs. "We are trying to be flexible with the customer," Dean said. He speculated customers lost to Bell have elected to purchase their telephone equipment from private suppliers for cost reasons. Glenn H. Brown, corporate rate and tariff supervisor for Mountain Bell in Denver, told the commissioners, "We are trying to convert from package services to a structure allowing customers to specify the Steve Randle, assistant attorney general, representing the Division of Public Utilities, told commissioners he thought the major focus of the hearings is "whether the subscriber is subsidizing a too-lorate" for w Bell equipment. But Joe Shaw, salesman with Business Communications Systems, likened Bells rental of telephone equipment with the former practice of Utah Power and Light He told the selling electric appliances. Commission the utility should get out of the telephone equipment business entirely, and simply operate the cables, lines and waves carrying voices. In an earlier hearing. Mountain Bell took the position that private equipment suppliers should be regulated, saying "its We re Winborg end Winborg And we do it alt logos, brochures, point of purchase materials, annual reports, catalogs, company magazines, posters, billboards, newspaper ads. calendars, magazine ads. t v commercials and package designs wT More than an advertising agency Pierpont Avenue 141 r T services they want." Salt Lake City. Utah 84101 (801) 364-770- 1 Covey Gets Special Treatment from City City commissioners have changed a city ordinance to grant A1 Covey preliminary approval to operate The Collector Club. On November 24 the commissioners amended an ordinance passed in June. The modification allows nine taverns or private clubs per square block, when the block contains an interior street. The original ordinance allowed only eight liquor outlets per block. The modification was suggested by the commissioners after they had granted Covey approval under the condition that the Veterans of Foreign Wars club license would be repealed. The condition was founded on the belief the Veterans club was operating illegally. But, according to John Wheat of the Business Lic- ense Department, the Veterans club was legal, and it could not be forced out of its location on 4th South Street. Faced with the alternatives of denying Covey approval or changing the ordinance, commissioners chose the latter solution. Covey expected to open his club, on the second floor of the Commercial Club Building, on December 3. Le Fleur de Lys Under New Ownership After four years of operating one of Utah's most UNIVERSITY 230 So. 13th E. talked-abo- 583-101- 3 HOLLADAY University Fashion Show 2340 E. 4800 S. Thursday 272-106- 1 PHASE III 1504 S. 486-479- State St. Hoiladay Fashion Show Monday a 1 Phase III Fashion Show Tuesdays 12:30-1:1- 5 '00 do ogg) (jqcdockd Q OOX!(?0(D0 GQA&) sod Ob QQocdcdCBo IQO restaurants, ut Marcel Oberlin has sold Le Fleur de Lys for $245,000. Operating a gourmet restaurant was not compatible with my lifestyle," Oberlin explained, identifying the new owners as Eugene Wagner and and Marinette Ady and Marguerite Gales. "A gourmet restaurant requires the owners constant presence," he continued, "and I'm accustomed to traveling and carrying on other activities. It has been difficult enough to establish a restaurant like this in Salt Lake City, and I did not want it to suffer because of my absence. "The new owners will always be around to take care of it," he said. Oberlin stated he anticipates no changes in management. "The ncwr owners will maintain the name, the menu and the standard of quality." he said. |