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Row Brewing Over Bell Tel. Profits By BEN WARD line of the arguments it intends OTTAWA (CP)--Battle lines|to present at the public hear- are taking shape for the clash|ing. Then the other parties get between the Bell Telephone Co.;a month to reply. Later, te of Canada and its major cus-|board itself may ask both sides tomers over how 'much money|for additional information. a -- utility should) Jt likely will be mid-Febra- 0 earn. _,,jary before all these prelimin- So far 20 "interested parties"'| aries can be cleared away. No --mainly big municipalities--|qate has been set for the start have filed notice with the board] of the public hearing, expected id ee eet beet to last several weeks. ey intend to appear at the pub- Nc 'hearing the boant proposes This will be the first time Bell ..-|has been on the defensive be- to hold early next year into Bell's financial . aituation end fore the board. Previous tele- profit picture. phone hearings have stemmed The board announced Sept. 22 hog he eng 5, epplicsizon i cir 0 full- 3 that it had decided on a full Ws Anal wait ale Seis le study of Bell's wishing to take part yor le. ster of| 1958, resulting in a rate increase h intention by the end of Oc-| Oct. 10 of that year. During that 'oral r . set of -- the board set a $2.43 per share as a reasonavie scape dherds 9 gs rn ciggetcd ar annual profit for Bell, which has Montreal, Quebec City, Hamil- ee ae mig aededge pte ton, 'St. Catharines and 'Trois-|{% Ontario and Quebec, the only "|Rivieres, Que. Others are rep- provinces in which i operates. resented by such bodies as the) HEADS FOR BIG YEAR Association of Ontario Mayors} 'his year Bell is heading for and Reeves, the Ontario Muni-|its most profitable year on rec- cipal Association and the Cana-| ord. In the first nine months it| dian Federation of Mayors and/had net income of $56,364,738 Municipalities. or $1.98 per, share, compared Others filing notice include|with $50,550,424 or $1.92 per the Canadian Labor Congress, |share in the same period of| the CNR, Consumers' Gas Co.| 1963. and Industrial Wire and Cable} yoy the full year 1963 it re-| Co. |ported net income of Los \EXPECTS MORE lor $2.58 a share, compared wit | Even though the filing dead-|$65,284,002 or $2.66 per share in| lline is past, more groups are . | nouncement at a press Con- |expected to join this list within] Bell is expected to argue be-| ference in Quebec today. See |the next couple of weeks. The|fore the board that its rising | wire story, (CP Wirephoto) |hoard, a federal agency with|profits are reasonable in view of |wide regulatory powers in thejits invested capital and the SUBMITS LOW BID ment's Queen's Park project.| DEAD SQUARE transport and communications|need to attract additional capi- TORONTO (CP) -- _ Perini| Public Works Minister Ray Con-| Ben Jonson jokingly told King fields, has indicated it will not|tal for future growth. Limited of Toronto was low bid-|nell said it will take about two}James I he would like a square| reject latecomers. | It almost certainly will cite der Thursday at $28,337,000 for|weeks to check the eight bids|foot in Westminster Abbey--j| By the end of this month Bell| changed conditions since 1958 as the contract to build the first|submitted and award the con-|where he was eventually buried|must file with the board and| justifying an upward revision of phase of the Ontario govern-/tract, \standing up. 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