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Show Magna Goes JVletropoliton Metropolitan telephone service for Magna was approved September 7 when the Public Service Commission granted a petition of the Mountain States Telephone Co. to extend the Salt Lake calling area. A standing-room -only crowd of nearly 200 supporters and only one dissenter of the petition from Magna, attended the hearing which was held in the Governor's board room at the State Capitol. When the new system is placed in service the present 10 cent toll charge on calls to Kearns and the 15 cent charge on calls to Salt Lake will be eliminated. On calls to Bountiful, Murray-Midvale Murray-Midvale and Holladay numbers, a message unit charge will apply to Magna customers. This policy is consistent with present charges for calls to non-adjacent central offices within the metropolitan service area. The number of telephones that may be called on a local basis will be increased to 128,00,0 from 2, 900 approximately. approximate-ly. Rates for local service in Magna will be changed to correspond corres-pond with local rates paid in other communities now receiving metropolitan met-ropolitan service. Ray Critchell, Utah Commercial Com-mercial Engineer for the Telephone Tele-phone Company, pointed out the extension of metropolitan service to Magna would cost in excess of $400,000. It is anticipated the project will be completed by the latter part of June in 1960. |