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Show Magna Joins S. L Tel. System ! X. Lf :X' Mountain States Tel. & Tel. v I v - f man works on cable linking Magna i KlL .l;,..w'.l.. . and Salt Lake City. The Magna Telephone exchange will become a part of the Salt Lake Metropolitan system at 12:01 a.m. June 5, 1960 according to William J. Twelves, local manager of the Mountain States Telephone Company. At the present time. Magna customers may call any of 3,500 telephones without a long distance charge. This will be increased to 133, 000 when the exchange is connected into the metropolitan system. At a cost of nearly half a million dollars, larger telephone cables are being installed between Magna and Kearns and Magna and Salt Lake City. Dial equipment is being added in the Magna, Kearns and Salt Lake City telephone buildings to handle the increased number of calls that will result when the long distance charges are eliminated between these exchanges. Calls between Magna and Bountiful numbers designated with an AXtel prefix, Holladay with a CRestwood number and the Murray-Midvale Murray-Midvale zones with an AMherst prefix will be assessed a zone calling charge. The zone change will be the same as the present long distance dis-tance rate, -however the minimum period which is now 3 minutes will be increased to 5 minutes with no corresponding increase in rate. In the Salt Lake Metropolitan area, customers in any zone may call within that zone or to an adjoining zone on a local basis. To call telephones in other zones, it is necessary to dial '0" operator and give the number of the desired telephone. A charge will apply to operator handled calls to non-adjoining zones within the metropolitan area. Magna is adjacent to Kearns and Salt Lake zones, so no charge will apply for calls between these communities after midnight June 4. Coincident with the service improvement all telephone numbers in Magna will be changed to include a prefix of BYron 7. Telephone number plates will also include the Utah area number of 801 immediately preceeding the BYron 7 exchange number. Utah customers will never be required to dial the 801 prefix. The area number will be used only when out of State long distance calls are being placed to telephones in Utah. The telephone company plans to show this area number on all dial telephones within the State. New Salt Lake metropolitan telephone directories reflecting the number changes and including Magna listings alphabetically with other metropolitan customers, will be delivered prior to June 5. Customers wishing a change in their listings, other than that involved in-volved in the planned number change, should contact the telephone business office prior to April 14, when the new directory will go to press Twelves said. |