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gE PRR TOS capamemen + 'Code Numbers Save THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, March 19, 1964 1] 'Phone Pocketbook MONTREAL (CP)--Gone for most are the days when you ci pick up your tele- phone, say Hello Nellie, and, after a few pleasantries, have A prime factor in the switch to sibauiber calling--ANC Bell calls it--was the simple fact that North American telephone companies were running out of operator Nellie t you to your party. Going are the days when you could tell your friends your phone number of Victor-some- thing or Mohawk - something else. Now you have to say it's 1234567, or whatever. The changeover to all-number calling--some say it's not as convenient as an exchange name--is essentially a money- sa move with overtones of the electronic age. Marcel Vincent, president of Bell Telephone Company of Can- ada said at the company's an- nual meeting March 12 that the pocketbook of every telephone user would suffer eventually for lack of all-number calling, and serious technical difficul- ties would bedevil telephone or- oo Bell says there now are more than 80,000,000 telephones in use in North America and the fig- ute is expcted to double in 15 ears, ANC provides more avai- lable numbers than the ex- change name, the basis of this theory being that it's difficult to work certain combinations of One solution might have been to use four digits instead of three for area codes and create more areas, But, says Bell, that would create the need for more automatic switchitig cegtres. Each of these centres costs several million dollars, Bell says, and telephone users ulti- mately would have to foot the bill. All-number calling was first introduced to Canada in May, 1960. Bell says about 67 per cent of its 4,100,000 telephones in letters into the first two letters of an exchange name. FEWER USABLE CODES The letters provide only 540 usable codes. There are 800 with ANC, Direct distance dialing -- the system whereby the caller dials a series of numbers on long dis- tance calls and does not have to go through the operator--also was a factor in switching to ANC. The supply of area code ganizations around the world. numbers began to run out. STOCK MARKET Takeove r Offer Ups Burns Firm TORONTO (C)--A_ takeover bid and a strong showing among} among selected issues, Bank: of) water western oils were the highlights on the stock market Wednes- day. Burns, a Calgary-based pack- ing company, rose 1% to' close at 11 with a turnover of 32,092 shares following an offer of $11.25 a share for 300,000 shares --40 per cent of the company's stock--by an anonymous Cana- dian group. Early in the after- noon the issue traded at 1%. Dome Petroleum rose '4 to 15% and Calgary and Edmonton Corp. % to 22% among senior western oils, Central Del Rio advanced 20 cents to $8 among juniors. Permo Gas has made a for- mal offer to purchase all out- standing shares of Consolidated East Crest at $1.11% a share, but there was little reaction on the boards, Permo closed un- changed at 35 cents on 1,060 shares and Consolidated East Crest four cents. to $1.10 On the industria } board |Quebec and Ontario have seven- \figure numbers. now. | ANC is also being introduced gradually in the United States and more than 100 other coun- tries alrady have it. Bell says | North Pole Trip Ousts Women VANCOUVER (CP) -- Sorry, ladies, the answer is no. | There is no place for you on| board the 107+foot Northern/ Princess during an attempt this | summer to navigate the North-| west Passage. | Since it was revealed recently | that Win McKinnon of ort St. John, B.C., applied for a job on the yacht women from all! walks of life have been making| inquiries. Says Al Fotheringham, Van-) couver Sun reporter who wrote | the article on Miss McKinnon: | "T've got . . . enough women deckhands, women cooks and women adventurers to "| 'man' | overseas dialing will be avail-\the Queen Mary." able within a few years. High Court Reserves Rule. Ottawa Bylaw | OTTAWA (CP) -- Judgment |was reserved Wednesday by the |Supreme. Court of Canada on the validity of a controversial Ottawa bylaw. The bylaw, upheld by the Su- }reme Court of Ontario but de- clared invalid by the Ontario Appeal. Court, levies special jcapital charges for sewer and services provided for | | Nova Scotia was up 1% to 68%,|high-rise buildings in Ottawa. |Home A 1% to 14 and Home | It provides a special charge of $125 per dwelling unit in new Northland Navigation Com-| pany, owners of the ship, said | Wednesday it has received thou-| sands of inquiries. Many were from single Canadian girls, free of responsibilities and just) dying to swap city life for ad-| venture. | President Capt. Harry Terry of Northland said no women are, wanted and addeq neither are any more letters or phone calls. | "The expedition is full. We have our .crew. The scientists, and technicians have been plan- | ning this for some time. No more requests please.' The Northland Princess will sail from here at the end of July and return within two months. It is hoped it will be) |the first vessel to navigate the |Northwest Passage both ways |B one point to 16% while Inter-|\high-rise apartments and 17| a single season. |provincial Pipe Line fell one ;point to 81. Imperial Life jumped 29 points to 225 on 919 shares-- heavy trading for the issue. In junior industrials,; Mid- West Gas closed even at $3.30 on 130,410 shares, including a special size block of 84,896 shares at $3.32 a share. Calvert was the most active speculative stock with a turn- over of 408,000 shares, up five cents to 72 cents. Bunker Hill gained two cents to 29 cents on 157,490 shares. base metals .03 to 66.65. Volume for the day was 4,446,000 shares compared with 4,598,000 Tues- on 3,472 shares.- day. cents a square foot for high-rise commercial buildings, At stake is more than $3,000,- |000 in charges which have ac- |cumulated since the bylaw went jinto effect and an estimated $500,000 a year from future con- struction. The case is of major interest to other municipalities looking for new fields in which to col- lect taxes. The City of Ottawa is appeal- ing the Cntario Appeal Court decision and asking for restora- tion of the trial court decision. The exchange index advanced|This appeal is being opposed by .20 to 142.33, industrials .22 to|the Royal Trust Company and 133.53, western oils 1.63 to 85.26, |a number of other construction) golds deilined .74 to 133.73 andjand investment companies. The case was the last one of the winter assizes. The next} term of the Supreme Court opens April 28. DIVIDENDS | By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Anglo Canadian Pulp. and Pa- iper Mills Ltd., pfd. 70 cents, April 20, record March 31. 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