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Show ted against a sunset. The photograph was taken the Rocky Mountain Region with warm gold being the basic color of the directory. "Those who do not receive a directory by Nov. 14 should contact their local business office,"Hymas said. 94,000 . . . Telephone Directories Delivery Set VMore than 94,000 Provo area telephone directories will be delivered beginning Nov. 8 according to Merrill Hymas, Provo district manager for Mountain Bell Of special interest to Utah County residents will be the inclusion of two unique "Call Guide" pages which explain telephone service before and after Extended Area Service (EAS) becomes effective on Feb. 6. EAS will greatly expand ex-pand the toll free calling range of most county communities. com-munities. Number changes in Lehi and Goshen will be included in the new directory. All Lehi customers with numbers beginning 768-2 have new numbers effective Nov. 8 and the Goshen prefix will be changed from 274 to 667 on Nov 6. The area covered by the new book ranges from Lehi on the north to Nephi on the south and includes more than 50,000 customer listings, an increase of approximately 4,200 from the 1975 directory. direc-tory. While there are more names in the newest directory, the book itself will contain fewer white pages. The Provo directory direc-tory is the latest in the eight state Mountain Bell area to be converted from a three to a four column format in an effort ef-fort to conserve paper and curtail rapidly escalating production costs. "We are continually seeking ways to improve efficiency ef-ficiency in an effort to keep rates as low as possible," Hymas explained. The change was made possible because of a new photo modification process which reduces the width of a line of type while maintaining exactly the same height. "We feel that the type is every bit as easy to read and is actually cleaner than the old style," Hymas said. "Because there will be more listings on each page, the search time is reduced," he added. "Conversion to four columns colum-ns is expected to save nearly 200 tons of paper this year alone, " he pointed out. "In our new Provo dicectory, almost one half million pages will be saved because of this change. "This is significant from an environmental standpoint and the fact that we expect to see dramatic increases in the price of paper this year," he continued. This year a scenic cover features a large tree silhouet- |