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Show Mountain Bell Is Responding lo Request for teervafion gallons of fuel last year. Mountain Bell has recorded record-ed an increase in gasoline mileage through the use of many smaller cars in their motor pool. In addition, each car and truck has been given more frequent tune-ups and timing checks. The result has been an average increase of two miles per gallon for the entire fleet. "Even a 5 to 10 percent savings in fuel would be a significant amount," :Lattin said. Earlier this year the telephone tele-phone company initiated a series of energy saving policies including; elimination elimina-tion of morning vehicle "warm ups" before starting the day's work; not idling to keep 'vehicles warm daring bad weather; elimiuatingfast starts and stops and not idling vehicles to charge batteries. Mountain Bell announced today that it is responding to the Federal Government's Govern-ment's request to conserve energy. John E. Latlin, Vice President Pres-ident for Mountain Bell said his company would begin an energy conservation program pro-gram in Utali immediately. The plan includes: Reducing maximum vehicle ve-hicle speeds to 50 miles per hour. Lowering thermostat temperatures in all heated offices to a maximum of 68 degrees. (Air conditioned offices of-fices will not be cooled lower low-er than 78 degrees in the summer.) Maintaining a normal temperature of no more than 50 degrees in garage buildings build-ings during the heating season. sea-son. Cutting off heat supplies to seldom used rooms maintaining main-taining a minimum temperature temp-erature of 40 degrees. Checking gas and oil burners burn-ers for maximum operating efficiency. Turning out lights in all . unoccupied areas and conserving con-serving all other usage of electricity wherever possible. pos-sible. The Mountain Bell motor fleet numbers more than 960 vehicles in Utah and consumed con-sumed more than 800,000 |