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Show GROUND BREAKING ceremonies were held today, Thursday, for the beginning of work on this building the Mountain Moun-tain State Tel. and Tel. Company's. The two story building will house dialing network net-work for the southern Utah area. It is located lo-cated on the corner of Center and 100 West Streets. Telephone Company Initiates Bldg. Program in Cedar City and St George Ground was broken Thursday in Cedar City and St. George by the Mountain States Telephone Company for the construction of new dial telephone buildings in each community. "The new buildings together with other service ser-vice improvement and expansion programs under way in Southern Utah will cost an estimated $1,500,000," Dean Williams, manager of the telephone company, said today. The Cedar City building to be erected by the Olson Construction Company as general contractor, will be located lo-cated on the southwest corner of 100 West and Center Streets on the property recently purchased by the telephone company. com-pany. It will -be a two-story with full basement structure, 90 feet long and 62 feet wide, of steel reinforced concrete with a nor-man nor-man brick facing. Space has been allocated on the main floor for a business office and dial equipment equip-ment rooms. The second floor will be used for long distance operating quarters, and the basement base-ment will contain the power equipment essential In the operation opera-tion of a dial telephone system A one story building, 107 feet long and 42 feet wide, will be constructed by D. B. Wade Construction Con-struction Comnany as general contractor in St.-Ceorpe. It will be located on the southeast corner cor-ner of Tabernacle and 100 East Streets, and wPl be of steel reln-l forced concrete with a norman' brick facing. I Special Interior I The? Interior walls of the dial equipment rooms will be lined with salt g'azed tile, which Is helpful in keeping the equipment equip-ment clean and free from du.it.! reducing telephone troub'e and' maintenance costs. Zone control-' csnditioning equipment will b? installed In the buildings. "Con- stant temperatures and control-led control-led humidity prolongs the life of dial equipment and assures a more economical and trouble-free telephone service, Williams said. In addition to the new building build-ing and the associated dial central cen-tral office equipment, new long distance lines to Salt Lake City, Kanab, and St. George and other frequently called places will be Installed. Local telephone cables will be enlarged In each exchange. ex-change. 'Other outside facilities are being rebuilt and expanded to provide service to all who request re-quest It and to make Individual lines available to those desiring the best in telephone service. Dial System Prevails All the telephones In the area s-rved from the Cedar City and St George exchanges will be equipped with dial mcchanlr.m. If the same trend ho'ds true that his prevailed in other communities commu-nities converted to dial ooeri- tion, the majority of customers will request a higher class of service with one and two family lines, extension telephones and telephones In color being the With the conversion of all telephones tele-phones to dial operation, new telephone numbers will be assigned as-signed consisting of a prefix -ne and nmW followed bv four numerals. Cedar City will " enrrv the prefix of JUniper 6 ind St George number will be tdin-tifled tdin-tifled by ORchard 3. "PM service coming to south em Utah wi'l not eiim'-"" the in for operators," Mr. Williams mid. Cedar City will remain the telephone operation center for the are. Lon distance operators., operat-ors., and operators to give asslsa-ance asslsa-ance on local calls will still be on hand 24 hours a day to nli te'ephone users as they have In the past. |