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■g^- 's* r‘ 'J •'. s:;'iExtehded.:%ballingFriday*May^liT^jWil] ailoyif ^oy phbn#tijsears to make - unlimited; fO ;' E^axdayille, ^fiinswh|e,i': Itnd /iSIeii ‘OuribMJii, ;• lsscheduled ■to \ begin -t®.t 12:6l; .kjrtf? te-phone manager Don --IC- Glover said*- At that moment, Illinois BeilwiU iput into .elation the:special central OflSee■equipment Olid additional telephone cables It has been Installing ilnce last May, When the company assumed operation of the Troy telephone system. The equipment will be necessary to han-d lh a ■-gwatiy\;-|ncreas^•£ volume jpt calling .v^tweeh rekcJwpges,;eacpected^;- result. ftmnthe; hewHere is how the; hew Service will:;' workiv: .v'.::-.; For T*hy thlefihorie',customers toUcharges' ofj-10e-^li.-;b^;-;e-‘Iminated oh all vcalls.' to Collinsville, Edwardsyille and Gleh Carbon. This .will expand Troy’s 'local calling area to includemom than; 11,000 telephoned inthe four communities and . their surrounding; areha,Basle monthly rates for Troycustomers' will be adjusted effective tomorrow to the 'level of 1'monthly rates paid, by GlenForms Mailed; Pick-up This SundayThe Community Problem purvey Committee of the Troy Community. Development Pro? gram, placed the last survey form ih the mail: early Tuesday morning. '7/This ‘questionnaire, which hasbeen mailed to every family ih Troy. . is designed to provide mdny of the .-.answers' necessary, tor the Intelligent planning of 'the'*’; toramunity-wide . improvement program being, started here under tfteV guidance ofSouthern Ulin'ois; University’sDepartment1 of Community Development. . • . .■ C. Ai Henning, chairman of-the Survey Committee, emphasized the tremendous amount of hard work which 7 had been done to get the. questionnaiire into the hands-/ of the people who will answer it. He Also stressed how important it was for everyone, in the community toanswer 8$L the questiesa -;On thelquegtiOiiretd^Geh^^p^' aa®essed1ittS'Southern■-7:S»mbls7 'University, whonwill tabulate the answers. Someone . Win call / at yoiir house on Sunday MhyjlS^stpme-time after one ■ O’clock to pficfe up your form. If you're not going to be home, leave the sealed envelope containing your form in some obvious place where the pick-up crewlwiil find it No one in Troy will see the completed forms. 'Henning said, ,fWe are not Interested ’ in who angers what, but only'in whatthe; answers :;are.'',The Fablicity . Qhriniittee re-ported at a meepng held Thursday, May 8, . that everyone • in the Troy area who has a phone Would be called and urged to cooperate Xby answering the questionnaire. X. ' .X'X;-'■: Plans. are being made to get a large number of people to;attend the next meeting which has- been called for.. 8 p.m. Thursday (tonight) at the Lions 'Theater. \This meeting has been called to make final arrangemerits' for the pick-up ^Operation on: Sunday-; Anyone who Is willing to help;-;br^iwho^ •' is intei^ed m ,this'#:in^raB7/ Hbttor. V£?5X5:--’to call' Troy mBBheiS'.,; from. a Troy pbcMitwill Ba ai MHiy to dial tha lmt five fiyuratoflocal:-:/‘; In all caaoa tho £^i munbor to bOvdial /d is aovaia* than dial; the. last tobx ■ smmftiau*Carbon customers.:.V••Ih turn, telephone cpShanem in/ Collinsville, V7 and Glen Carbon atoasviM:be able to ball Trpyr telephones ;wi the local/ toll-free basis. X Glover, said thatsta^pg: tomorrow a-new methj^ win .beused to call from Troy to • the,other'' three. communities In-stead i; of dialing *the operator, as is nowf done, phone users - wtll; use the. following methods:. All Troy numbers now haveNGrmandy. 7 before the lastfour-numbers;When calling a Troy-number on a Troy, phone, it is necessary to dial the spven and the • last four numbers, but hot theNO. :• ; - v: •.lb call Coilinsyiile ; or Glen -Carbori, dialSP'; and then the bvp; letteto. and flye; figures of the number. v/y’t :VTb call. Edwa^vil^;dial 81?'. theii give ^thb huihbbr you wanttb'thd-:. The company,//|Glwdb;;: said, has sent ?‘hoW to jci^Tpeards tr all customers' ; affe^ed by the new extended area balling plan,, This card should., be; kept near the.: telephone until the navr, methods are learned/1 fii addj -: tion,. Illinois Beli. is;deliverint new telephone diretiories to aH customers cpnts^injg ’ ■ /tions on the^ ne^ v’:-OOS. Civ:- 1. ■:■We .-'tSi^'!iCSHbs5ih£-T»v.:rara.^-x5 -are open to the public,' , ; ^ The Community Development Program has receive $25Q,. of Which $100 Wjas, donated by the Lions Chib and $50 from the City of Troy.'ttttortewkexten^lover-;a-, -mbdemized^plandaslghed to fit loca.1 tejephbniiig needs.’ftThe interior Bank is being Completely remodeled.'-. '• ' V
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Troy Tribune
Troy, Illinois, US
Thu, May 15, 1958
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