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Company stated that the increased rates would result In about #1*40,000 annually to the company. The application stated that the present, rates were not sufficient to meet the demands of subscribers for additional telephone service and improved service.
The authorized present rates •were in effect before World War II, and since that time wages and materials have constantly grown larger with no increase in charges, the telephone company stated. The company found this increase imperative and so stated to the State Corporation Commission.
In addition to the phones at Washington and Huntly in Rappahannock county, the following cities are also affected by this rate increase: Altavista, Btaeksrtone, Brookneal, Brodnax, Buckingham, Burkeville, Crozet, Charlottesville, Crewe, Dillwyn, Fork Union, Front Royal, Halifax, Kenbridge, Hampden-Sydney, Luray, Palmyra, Rustburg, Scottsville, Shenandoah, South Boston, South Hill, Stanardsville, and Victoria.
London is a vast congeries of ' isolated municipalities which have coalesced by acretirn.—This sentence was once given a fifth grader; Hmemorize it and learn its meaning; then you may go.”
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