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Show H War Tax Begins BB New- I.ii)r-'Tnliir Telephone I'-cr-.. K (Special to Alpine 1'ub. Co ) HB Unver, November 30. The -far BBS -teaching effects or thu European Wat iSKk ,-wllI bo folt in n amnll wny by tele- HH phono users, according tq the an- M nouuecmout made hero today b tin H United States Intonial Iluveiiuo Do- purtmcut. The ur,w federal ruvenui BB tux on tdephouo and telegraph mes- HH nfcB. goes into effect December 1st BBS nil pver the country, and n govern- BB inunUtax or one cent will bo collect- BB ed ,tor uvory message amounting to B fifteen cents or over Otnclals of tho Mountain States BB Telephone and Telegraph compan BB operating in thu Biwen mountain BB states, have been busy for the past BB month notifying exchanges In all parts BE or the system or tho manner In which BB this tax Is to be collected mid turned BB over to the government Notices bine BB been sent to each or the 250 000 sub BB Bcrlburs In the sstem and placards HI containing the provisions of the new Wk law are to bo posted In ever) pa Hj station Attoidlng t0 tho law ah Hj long distance messages amounting to flfteon cents oi over are taxed one HJ cent, whether rrom private telephones J or from public or pay stations Toll J : calls rrom private telephones will he BBW counted by the compaii) nnd taxed BBm in u lump sum on the motithl) hill . H Pay Btntlon customeis will be ieiuir BBB ed. to drop a penny In the coin box or! BBpj tho.itelophone when their call is miuU I bHH nruwlll be no tax on local nies- BBff wflr where no toll chargo is made BBBJ !K?'10 offects or tho new law will Ik BBb Iffcre8tlng In this western couutt) BHB whero the, number or pennies In clr- BB culntlon s pioportlonately small i. HH cording to olllclals or the Fulled BB States Mint in Denver, nil pennies an BJKB coined in Philadelphia ami shipped BBB through the local mint ami sub-1 BBS treasury for distribution No short-1 BH uko of pennies is anticipated, as the , M banks throughout tho country liae' BBB been uippllud in thu lust few vveeKk lii some asts, uccoidlng to ofllcluls of thu telephone tompati), tho tost of collating the tax fiom public pay stations will exceed the tax Itself, but the new law Is trlnguit and re-uulres re-uulres the eolleetlon to be made on every call |