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Show NEW LONG DISTANCE SCHEDULE Important Changes Mean Better f-trvice and $3,000,0(10 Annual Saving to Public Important changes involving a s'oneral readjustment in long distance dis-tance rates, and in the evening aud ni.ght period during which reduced ratf. apply, are announced by The Mountain States Telephone and Tvie-?;rapu Tvie-?;rapu Company. The changes are efieciive oa a!,l calls from points in il".e Mountain states territory to any other associated company. Th'-y are made, by the company statns, i'cr the benefit of users of long dis-rance dis-rance servioe and to eliminate service ser-vice diffloiilties which the present sihedule hais brought a;bout. The net result of the readjusaient n rates will be a saving to the tele ihnae users of the country of approximately ap-proximately three million dollars. rioiits outside the territory of the ir.untain States Company and lfO n''!s or more distant the ratea are ulisfa-ntially reduiced. The greater he diance, the greater the redui-ion redui-ion Fo.r example, from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, the basic stahion to da ;:m irm e will be $2.70 instead of "?..fb: to Portland, $305 instead of H I a to 'Mmaha, $4.00 instead of r,.55; Kansas City, $4.35 instead ti J6.10; New York. $8.80 instead 01' $3 2.75. Loag distance canles, ..urier systems, vacuum tutie repeats ln;ic;;rv- co'ils and other improved de-i-ic-3s and oneithods, rei-ulting from ?onl.tnnoui3 scientific research and 'levolopment appiliod to the telepho.-.e Tidu".'rv, "have effected economies on 'he ln-iTCTT circuits, and have a share in :;iaking these .e''a-ctions possible. i'e .v rates foT stances between 24 and 110 mile3 will be adjusted-to 'nake the- srhedWe coasi-itend lirourhout but in these cases the ic-ease ic-ease of the haic station" to station ale w.iW he only five cents-. One of the interetimg changes 'mi 'he :public's view point is that hy which one and one haflf hours have haen added to the Ted-need race aeriod. Deduced rates on station to tation call-, will begin at 7 p. m. nlea.rl of 8:30 p. m. as formerly, between 7 p. m. and 8:30 p. m the liscoui win.i (be approximately 25 '"r cent of the .day station to station rates, and from 8:30 p. m. the day stalion to station rates and from 8-30 u ni. to 4:30 a. m., about 50 per sent of the day rates. These discounts dis-counts willl apply where the day s!u:'on 'to itation rate is 40 cents or 1:01 e, with a minimum .reduced rate of 35 cents. Because of th,e unsatisfactory unsatis-factory service conditions which If '.rour-ht about the existing midnight t'McniiTit is discontinued. T,owcst KjHos at Right thirty Tt:v'ot 'he new S'Clieclmle staion-to -station caMa may he made a: sub-'antinl sub-'antinl i-fdnctinns as early s 7 .. m. md r-r'-song wishing to take advan-:'.e advan-:'.e of the .lower rates of ths 24 'lours may m-ake their calls any time after 8:30 p. m. Thus, although the midnight discount is 'discontinued, he longer reduced rate period and lie sirhitantial redtiiotions applying ' rat'? to dW'ant points mean lh' elwire w:Hl make little dif-rpnee dif-rpnee in the co-t of night calls. thii move (he company expects 0 improve sem'ce by eliminatin.g im;'l cationn at midnight which 'lave resulted in delays and pat a '"3' y hnrden on i''s facilities and em-llo- pc-i. At the mo,re important cen-'ers cen-'ers il hm meant retaining a lar?e 'T.-e of your-- women operator? to are for suldei and shont lived ur' 0 l.'aff'c. Purin.g nnuch of vhe 'pic the operators kept on duty in iitic-mat'on of this temporary rush ''avp had little to do, then a short period in which they have been en-irelv en-irelv too bui-y "to itrive the best ervic.e. and fot!owing thait a srvirp incring off la huisness at an early moining hour when few of the girls onl.l return to their homes. With this condition growing a:ore Done 1, need the company has been baci.g a diff'crnt and serious repon-ihiply. repon-ihiply. It hai become necessary to mainlain dormitories in tho larger imtial offices In which many oper-Mor--,. required only for a short per-od per-od vmve been housed for the rcrt of lie v.ghit. These hons of duty hs e -f coarse, heen undersirable and hard (:II. The -preading of the 1 ,ne listrinre traffic over the lengthened -educed rate period will relievo -ituation. .Vnefher charge that will be w.;i--nmoi is the extension of the pri'-I, 'egf rf ren-m'ng chartres to Include nat'on to station calls weather pli-d dur'ng the day. evening or right vheie the rate is 25 cents or mo-e ;n the 'ast few years the msp. of long distance service has been increasing in-creasing constantly and many sltua- lo.'is now a.rise v.i r; the reversal; -i tUares is of advatae o the cus-j on;er who en"-, for a certain number! Hoi.ia 'this pr.i'Mege is an. added fou-j lenience and saving to the pubiic. |