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(1) W1111am Beamett's seesties to U.S. Gewernment adoptime A
of dialing system.
The latter easts some light se nemmett's willingeoes to critisine Federst operations, especially his dragging the Revy Eerd situaties inte digit-dialling per the third from last p
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- 1. Clip, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 2/9/M
- 2. Clip, S.F. Chresiste, 2/12/M se: mereld Pries REG, 30, w/ettesha.
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PCEs Dodega Bay power read so much about their city j
piant 1a.3 become a littic ridic-being a prime tartet for nu-f clear destruction and scent u'ous in m.c ways than one.
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- u. a litue away from war, selves, only.o produce a gross few Yorkers still accept the idea that New York will be injustice to the people of So-noma County by stopping good one of the first to go. So what progressive efforts and by cre-have u-c < ut here? Earthquake athig a general lable of stu-scarcs and clam beds being I.
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J AMES C. Di PIETRO, tion and water contammation.
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PAGE6 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Wednesday,Feb. 12,1964 FMS
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The Digits No Reprieve for Klondike
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U.S. Sticks to :ts Digits abaadon lis goal of con-2L verting 5000 of Its San F*rancisco telephone ex-tensions to one all. digit number, 55G 9000-a n d
,g in the process dropping On the dial,556 is exactly' the Klondike prefix.
1"It would be pretty difficult he same as KLondike 6--;
The go it alone decision #
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b tha I ndi flouts California Pubilc.
like instead of 55)."
avoids the cold, bureaucratic' Utilities Commisston poh-OTilERS sound of the three impersonal cy and sentiments in the, Similir Centrex systems-.
numbers. The fact that city to keep the tradition-but without the alldigit gim "KLondike" antedates Utzel-al exchange names. '
mick - also have been in man, and even the General stalled here by four othes Services Administration i
i Wilham M. Bennett, pres.
I venerable San Franeisco in which he proudly heads in i
l stitutions: The Wells-Fargt this area, carried no weight ident of the commission,said the State is " powerless" to Bank, the Sixth Army, the with the executive.
intervene, lie described the Bank of America and the Pc The Californla commis-Federals as " intruders."
lice Department.
sion's order left holes through Officials of these institu-which any customer could The decision was made by tions said yesterday, how-move ahead with allnumber R. C. Utzelman, r e g io n a1 em, yw ang onto systems. But sometime this communications chief for the the name prefixes, indeft-spring, the commissioners Grneral Services Administra-nitely.
will hand down a final ruling See Pope 6, Co!. 2.
awe.re a pioneering firm,"
on the controversial issue, said IIal R. Strass of Wells-and this could force the tele.
From Page 1 Fargo, "but here's a field in phone company and the Fed-which we didn't care to pio-erals to put the old-fashioned neer. We choose to stay with telephone n u m b e r s back tion, the Federal housekeep-
. EXbrook as long as we can."
again.
ing agency.
"The commission publish.
CONFUSION ERRORS ed a (temporary restrain-
"At present," said Police Utzelman said all the other j
ingi order which allowed the Chief Thomas Cahill. "weY Federal Centrex switchboards i
subscribers to take allnum-rather hang onto KLondike in the Nation would be all-l ber calling if they so desire,"
because any change would digit, so "I think it would be cause confusion,and our busi-less confusing if San Francis.
J ness is such that we can't af-co is the same.
l Utzelm,an said, "and we so ford to have confusion.
Bennett, president of the Spokesmen for the Sixth c o m mi s sio n, asked drily:
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The Federals are applying Army (J0rdan) and the Bank "Does this mean that Uncle
,j ' the all. digit systems to phones of America (MArkett said Sam will now be known as ey,
,an ng @
862 5M26? He conds our hich uts e caller a Centrex allows you to dial shipyardt, and closes them as 4
extensions in the office di,
directly to the extension you he w,shes and now he has in-i
' rectly by varying the combi.
want, if you have the num, truded into our rommunica-nationt in the last four digits.
ber. If you want to talk to tions system.
Utzelman at General S<.rvices "This is a sneaking thing The switchboard operator ist Administration, for instance, they've done," s aid Hiram
>y passed. This Centrex sys ;
you don't dial 556 9000 and Johnson III, president of the tem, by July 1, will connect ask the operator for him. You AntkDigit Diallag League.
with like systems in 355 other dial 556 and add his four digit "They have done this in thp
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tension number.
face of a State holdup order.
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..This has all been planned I1981!,s doesn't sound like If thi months ahead," said Ralph
- Decde, acting regional di-rector of the administration.
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