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Show Pare Friday, March 21, 1958 THE UTAH STATESMAN 4 j Ktevj TTelopHion Utahs new automatic toll switching equipment, located in the Main telephone building in Salt Lake City, was placed in service Sunday, March 16, according to H. K. Richmond, Dist, Manager of the Telephone Company. This marked the completion of a five million dollar construction and service improvement project that began in 1956. It is the sec ond system of its kind to be installed in the Mountain States area. The new equipment is part of a nationwide toll dialing network that makes possible more efficient use of long distance circuits and a faster routing of long distance calls. Customers 'will continue to place their long distance calls as usual with an operator. It is anticipated that approximately 75 per cent of the 33,000 long distance calls originating daily in Utah will pass through the equipment as well as most of the long distance calls terminating in exchanges throughout the state. This will provide improved long distance telephone service in the entire intermountain area. The new equipment will serve both incoming and outgoing calls as well as calls routed through Salt Lake City to other communities in Utah and adjacent states. For the past eight months up to 125 telephone technicians have been busy installing, the intricate equipment. Approximately 125,000 electrical relays and 38,000 miles of wire were used in the various switching units. Twelve additional operator switchboard positions have been added in order to provide personalized operator assistance whenever required on calls term 4-- A inter-connectin- g inating in Utah exchanges. To assure equal distribution of calls through the equipment, automatic cameras keep a constant record of the flow of traffic over the various long distance circuits. If the cameras show a particular group of circuits to be overloaded an adjustment in the routing of calls is made to obtain a maximum of efficiency. Operators placing calls through the new equipment no longer use the conventional dial. They use a key pulse unit! that resembles the keys on a small 10 key adding machine. As the keys are depressed signals are transmitted to the equipment on a musical tone. .The Telephone Company has learned that with musical tones information is transmitted faster, more accurately and over greater distances. . Notice of folio win f person (i) to. bo owners of nbnndoneS property (8ee Salt Lake Tribune or Deseret News, IXarch 12 and 19 for list of names.) Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed. Utah Code AnProperty Act notated 1953, as amended. Information concerning the amount of description of the property and'the name and address of the holder may be obtained by any persons possessing an Interest In the property by addressing an Inquiry to SHERMAN J. PREECE, STATE TREASURER OP UTAH, Room 215, State Capitol Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. For complete list throughout Utah see Balt Lake Tribune or Deseret News, March 12 and 19. 78-44-- 1, mm and Sociably Mild. Heres a whiskey so is agreeable, sipping a pleasure a whiskey so luxurious, it compares ftniy with the finest of champagne. You may have tasted bourbon in your time youve never tasted bourbon like this. Enjoy it tonight! Eight Years Rich Code No. 245 45 qT. Code No. 246 PINT Melrose Straight Bourbon Whiskey 8 Years Old. 80 Proof. Melrose Distillers Co., N. Y. On Wednesday, March, 26, taxpaying Salt Lake City voters will ballot on a bond issue to build an $8,000,000 water purification plant at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. ' If the bond issue is approved, construction is planned immediately on this complete plant to handle Deer Creek Reservior and Little Cottonwood water through filtration, sedimentation and chemical treatment. , , . Federal and state health authorities, backed by the S. L. County Medical Society, report it is. absolutely essential to build this plant for the protection of our drinking water. No new tax is believed necessary to build the plant since District revenues are good. The bond market is favorable, the construction picture is good. There will be a multi-millio- dollar saving in interest charges, construction and a major saving of n water by building now. If you f are a taxpaying voter of Salt Lake City, and favor this; construction program, BE SURE TO ' CAST YOUR BALLOT. FOR BETTER WATER VOTE !N fkW OF THE PROPOSITION WED., MARCH 26 i Polls open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in schools throughout Salt Lake City Metropolitan Water District Of Salt Lake City 703 TRIBUNE BUILDING For Voters Information Phone DA 2-12- 32, 4-55- 78 . |