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Show Telephone Co. Moves Tovard Direct Dialing in Cedar City Pearce Shelton, manager of the Cedar City Telephone Exchange of the Mountain States Telephone Co., announced this week that plans are moving forward for a conversion to direct dialing system sys-tem in Cedar City end Kanab in May. Target date for the cutover has been set for May 23 in the two southern Utah communities, Shel. ton stated. Nine Western Electric installers are currently in Cedar City working work-ing on Installation of equipment necessary for the Direct Dialing system. When cut-over is effected residents resi-dents of these two communities will be able to make long-distance station to station calls without benefit of operators simply by dialing the necessary area code and locally listed telephone tele-phone numbers. Shelton, in commenting on the 'direct dialing system, stated that , it had become a matter of necessity. neces-sity. Without direct dialing the j increase in long distance calls would necessitate utilization of large blocks of space for Installation Installa-tion of operator manned switchboard switch-board units. |