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Show THE 1U N-AKOI ND? We were favored on Wednesday of this week by a visit from Mr. Richard Alston, who replaced the well-liked Monzies Benson as Beaver Beav-er County manager for the Moun tain States Telephone & Telegraph Company. We passed on to Mr. Al .ton several sev-eral questions relating to telephone service, which had been "bothering" us for some time, and which were discussed at last week's meeting of the Milford Lions Club Mr. Alston explained the reasons for the inadequate toll service our town is receiving. Of course, the explanation was inability to obtain materials. That explanation could not have satisfied us any more than any other Milfordite would have been satisfied, but it might have "appeased" us temporarily, had we not gone further into the matter and learned that plans are ! approved and in process of motor- I ialization for new, extra lines' from Richfield to Salt Lake, from Cedar City to Salt Lake, and a direct line is "in line" for Beaver. I We pointed out to Mr. Alston j that running through the outskirts of Milford is a network of direct wires to Salt Lake and Los Angeles, An-geles, which the American Tel. r Tel. Co. (which concern we are also told owns a goodly share of the Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.) would be glad to lease to the Moun- , tain States. Mr. Alston told us that Mountain States plans to con-nect con-nect with these direct wires. . ( But here's the rub: The connection connec-tion will be made through Cedar City and Lund. Milford is an orphan, or-phan, so far as Mountain States is concerned. To make a 'phone call anywhere in the state or anywhere in the U. S. ' we have' to have our call relayed through half a dozen other towns, over a single wire that starts out thru Beaver. There are two wires to Beaver, but one must also serve Minersviiie, Greenville and Adams-ville Adams-ville as a party line with all the subscribers along the route listening listen-ing in if they feel the urge to your confidential conversations. And another thing: With the planned hook-up thru Cedar City and Lund, Milford will be no better bet-ter off. If we get to use it, we'd have to go the "circle route," from Milford to Minersville to Beaver to Cedar City to Lund and back thru our own back yard to Salt Lake. Brother, that's economy! Milford deserves better toll service. serv-ice. As long as we accept their explanations that shortage of material ma-terial is to blame for the downright down-right lousy long distance service, we will have lousy service. If we believe their promises of better service, we will get better service - AFTiaIR Beaver and Richfield j and Cedar City have been taken care of. With adequate wires in I our back yard, going right where j we want to go, why should we con- ! Iinue to wait upon the pleasure of j the toll operators in Beaver and Richfield, especially when their lines already are so crowded they (a n't begin to care for the calls. A. T. & T. stock is quoted at the highest figure in its history 198. i They pay dividends as regularly as a dividend period rolls around. Why shouldn't they spend a few bucks through their Mountain States subsidiary sub-sidiary to give Milford adequate service. Mr. Alston appears to be a very likeable person, anxious to ( improve the Milford and Beaver County service. And he seems to really know the telephone business. About the only thing he can do for ! us, tho, in the way of getting more satisfactory toll and local service, is make recommendations to the company officials. Frankly, we don't think recommendations will get the job done.' It'll take demandsfrom de-mandsfrom the people in Milford who pay the bills and don't get adequate service. We haven't mentioned the local service, which isn't too hot itself, because we believe that the local operators do as swell a job as they can with what they have to work with. We can understand that it might be impossible at the present time to replace the local equipment. But all that's necessary to give us adequate toll service is to hook into some wires that run thru our back yard. V . Milford .was promised dial service. serv-ice. In the new telephone directory issued recently, Hurricane and Par-owan Par-owan subscribers were instructed in the operation of their new dial phones. Hurricane's subscribers occupy 2Vs pages in the directory, Pa rowan 1 pages, and Milford 3'i pages as many subscribers as in the other two communities combined. com-bined. We always thought the wealthy A. T. & T. moved equipment equip-ment from progressive towns to smaller communities or new territories, terri-tories, and replaced the antiquated equipment 'with more modern circuits. cir-cuits. Why was Milford skipped? Is our equipment too dilapidated to be used elsewhere, or did the more southerly towns sqawk loud enough to be heard upstate? We who live in Milford should get tired of being treated like orphans. |