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Show Dial Phone System For Cedar Omits Direct Distance Aspect Direct distance dialing by customers cus-tomers has come a long way since it debut in Englewood, N. J. in 1951, according to Dean Williams, Wil-liams, local manager for the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company. Today some 5,000,000 customers custom-ers can dial direct to as many as 30,000,000 other telephones from coast to coast. In addition to these cross country calls, another an-other 10,000,000 telephone customers cus-tomers can dial direct to nearby towns and cities. The question has arisen, however, how-ever, as to the status of the Cedar Ce-dar City office at the changeover to the dial system. Mr. Williams points out that we will not, at the present time, be a part of the direct long distance dialing system. The first installation of this equipment in our area was made in Phoenix in December of 1956. enabled customers in 20 exchanges exchan-ges serving some 135,000 telephone tele-phone to dial direct. It it planned that the second such installation installa-tion in our territory will be at the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo, in July of this year. Although direct distance dialing dial-ing is still relatively new the ground work for this advance was actually laid some 15 years ago with the Installation of No. 4 automatic switching systems. The first of these, enabling operators op-erators to dial distant communities communi-ties direct, was placed in service ser-vice in Philadelphia in 1913. Since that time 52 No. 4 type systems Have been Installed at other locations in the U. S. and Canada. |