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Show Sends Letter . . RE A Phone Project Awaits Oivner Funds A letter was being formulated this week by E. Floyd Roas, chairman of . the Uintah Basin Rural Telephone ..Committee, to all prospective telephone owners own-ers in the area, advising them that when they signed the application, ap-plication, and made an initial payment of $10.00, it was agreed that as soon as the R E A was ready to begin the project another an-other $40 would be due and payable. pay-able. According to Mr. Ross' letter, the new organization that will be known as the Uintah Basin Telephone Association, has been incorporated under the laws of the State of Utah, and at present has 760 members who have paid their $10 membership and who are now subject to the additional ad-ditional $40 payment. R E A has allocated $449,000 for construction and purchase 'of telephone equipment, and within the very near future advertisements ad-vertisements for bids will be j made and contracts let for com-; pletion of the project that will 'give most outlying communities and farms of the Basin telephone tele-phone service. The newly formed association has submitted its area coverage I plan which includes a map of the. area showing the location of every home to be served by the telephone system, whether the owner has paid the initial $10 or not. By-laws and articles of incorporation are iff Washington Wash-ington at the present time seek ing approval of R E A. One paragraph in Mr. Ross' letter gives R' E A's point of view: "R E A has said that the people peo-ple will have to have the full $50 equity in the project. This is less than the telephone, wire and connections will cost foi. your home. However, this is your TOTAL COST to receive telephone service. R E A feels that if it is going to help us i to the extent of $449,000, we should at least have $40,000 of our own money invested." Area meetings will be held i throughout the Basin, and those living in communities to be serv-I serv-I ed are expected to attend and assist in completing the last ipftase of the project. Payments I will be accepted at that time. |