The Lucknow Sentinel, 1958-12-17, Page 28Q'VG' 3EN' �'
PAGE,FOUitTEEI!l ;. THE 1611 LUCKNOW, , .
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tmeWer hide erode ystems,,' Mor
Sm� Lim Asam'ancc Co.
'I LLIAM KI NAHAN'
ay, the radiance that
shone 'round the Christ child' brighten the
way for each and all of our friends at Christmas.
'Fifth
•T ^ . , : andf its :ele-
nvetion come : condition of ,plat the . public ' thinks o T
The. i leo Annual o n
• s are phone company, its la►ersoiior�l,� its,'
of the C�.eorgian Bay Telephone what their :;immediate 'plans f� end. its costs. ,Also ?er�o�#,*'
Association was.. held ' at the when . 'the increase ' is ' granted.
In charge A discussion period followed nel ' should•; the well informed asp
+giueens•Hc1teT', Hanover, :. l '".
of the meeting -were Mr. Ray and the questions were caps"bY to new Progressthe system is
Wightman, ':Cli#ord , President, answered try liadous members ; of planning to carry out so that the
Mr, Clayton Nicholson,
Secretary- ; the U.T.A.' public will not 'become confused
Treasurer, and Director, Mr. Ross Mr.: Jack Kelly of the Bell Tele- or, xnit or P ved s e etGw
i Taylor,Lions Head
Don phone Company gave a brief exinw
; ;,
talk and; thanked" all for their Mr. Wes Taylor, Past President
ephorie
'Young, Blyth; Mr. Jack . Kellar, _ _-
ler
Seaforth; and 1Vir. Art Wepp # co-operation in ..ilia ;past " as he of ",the Georgian ..all for' 'their
'would ' be retiring at .the end of • Association thanked
I Elmwpod. this year. • , �,, dle . attendance and support•
1 Despite_ • 11 Ir. • M. W Rid of the Bell fine The present office to and direc-
.the unpleasant weather ,,officers and
conditions the attendance was lar ... $ . spoke on torn. � were returned e with
ger than in previous bears, Many Telephone'Company po
_ in Mr„ Jac#. Kellar Telephone Systems ,good, : pylic V latiarn �`aits iin7 nterest �`r. Sg am Wprkananr Bru of
Sea-
were. represented. from South. Po figures on auirvrey on vu�hat, forth,, .
and the Geon -t $u r giving
•
western oc tarso
gian .Bay covering an area from
Tdbermory and ' Lions Head on atot +'t #afl is$014 rignativoa ass iti01 401aFtaoliver"4'4"1" ;
'the north to Aylmer in the south. Y
Also 'present were represents. �, �� �
Lives of the Ontario Telephone
Authority, Bell Telephone,/Cori
pany and Telephone Supply Com-
panies.
:Mr. Spence.` ,McConnell of Ayl
mer and Malaliaide Telephone
Company and Past President of
the Canadian. Indenpendent•,Tele-
phone Aociation.gave a, Very
• informative address 'on • amaiga
station of smaller Telephone Sy-'
steams pointing :but 'the •import
soca of 'improved modern' ser
vice and stressing the point .that;
telephone differs from most • oth
Li er (businesses . because all they
1 have to sell is service.Therefore,
the' public ' appreciates and sup-
ports their ;local systems that of-
fer such up-to-date service..
He aLso'" stated .'that , the 'num- r
fiber ' of . independent ; systems . op=
erating' today have'dropped 50%
in number` .'in ,the last ten years
.but the ntin bar of customers ser-
viced today hos increased by over.
10,000 ` bringing the count to ,174;
000 customers: • This increase has'(
come :as a result of small sytemms
amalgamating, " or being purchas-
i
ed by neighbouring systems, mo- NN
i dernization and ' expansion by lo- 1
cal systems to .fill the increasing I:"
' demand " for service. • - 1
111r, Guy Turner of People
:FINLAY- DECORATORS
AND' GIFT SHOP
+t'elephone Company, Forest, and a ,t aenataante4� a i'la '" i des i�ai
Secretary • of C;LT.A eatplamed ..
how . , CIT A' had negotiated
with `'the, Be:II Telephone;'; Com
pany and that new Toll. Compen-
sation will "benefit most Indepen-
dent Telephone. Systemsfinan-
cially with the average system
fbenefitinig ' by two of three hund-
red dollars increase in revenue
per month:
e MurdieB ` I • Lwnclieoni guest speaker
Hardware:. L crt
24th, ,1958.,..
SOn'
was ]fir. Ross. McEwing of New
a!w Union Telephone„ Company„ .Dray-'
#.+ tai`.' looa tk+it�t3�t ` 'tone and •President of C.LT.A. who
, - � _ ..
outlined speed and methods
that' all industries„ especially in
To write this Tiiktide message'
to.OUr many friend's, in
Sppreciatianof theirtoyalty,
g osour greatest
pleasure at this happy
i,n opt the year.
Ron Forster;
Ontarib, were progressing- Her `..
also spoke on ` education and re- •
sea a,'Iea ting .the question in
everyone's
' 'where' are
Stone , . • antmd; i
of these things going to end
and ' are they to benefit this could-
try
then; way we ti ink' r take
for .granted' they are?"
1111.r.' V. W .Glynn,` s
Chairman' of •
the Ontario Telephone Authority
de ENTRAL. G�p►RAGE, •
spoke on the reduction of
pendent Telephone Combo op- I CHAS. MASON and. JACK COOK
erattng today and' the increase in
that the lade- wto a�aa?fret#a►ea 't n► +drn iteral t �s#�
customeic�. proving _ euta
pendent Telephone Company! are `,°
doing ,' a ' good job, emphasizing
• that improved service is . all • w .
have to sell. and that adequate
rates Were ' essential:.to do .this. ,
The - problems of borroWiaig
money's he' stated, is not any, more /
I difficult than . any other. Industry •
if jyou a e providing good see ice
and program in 'your area. ' Also,
the public sboulld he well inform-
ed'. whit .your intentions are it .:
you . are granted an increase in
rates} or need to borrow money.
He dealt ,briefly with Joint -,use14: ,
agreements and. plant moving I
on Highways stating that if the
Systems inIaoived in highway !{fork I'.'.
felt it .was going to be a major
job financially that the O.T.A.
would be only to glad to investi-
gate the. situation and they would
pi*Seiit the prdblemn►. to the De-
partment of Highways. If a Tele-
,phoaie :System'Wishes a' raise in.
rates it would" be a great: help
anef "speed things, up if the appli
tants ° of the Sstem ruesting
. i
an increase would give a detail
ed outlAne of reasons; present in -
Ar cevingelist'reOritly annotm- who thought they were missing
ced that there ore 110 diffekent something.
Sins. lie • received thousands of
rteuests for theist from people Ys yob pf
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