February 9, 1972 (12 pages)

4 The Nevada County Nugget, February 9, 1972 Phone company to spend George Futchins, Pacific Telephone manager for Nevada City, today said his company expects to spend $176,000 for construction projects and new equipment in Nevada City during 1972, Hutchins said of the total, $80,000 will go for a building addition atthe central: office at 305 Spring St., $21,000 for central office equipment, $50,000 for telephone sets and allied equipment such as PBXs and $25,000 for outside plant facilities as telephone poles, cables, conduit and the like. These funds comprise part of the record $123.4-million construction budget allocated for the company's northern counties area which takes in 35 counties ranging from the Oregon border -to—a-—point—just—south of Madera. Statewide, Pacific Telephone will spend some $888-million, the largest amount ever for PT&T or. any other utility in California during a single year. "Granted, this is a staggering amount of money to spend," Hutchins said. "The proposed construction program is about $77million more than that spent last year, and the 1973 budget is expected to top the billion dollar mark for the first time. "Some people can't understand why so much’ money is needed every year to finance the company's construction program,” he continued. 'But communications demands are at unprecedented high levels, both here and throughout California. And in order to continue providing good, reliable telephone service, large amounts of money are required on an ongoing basis to meet these demands." Hutchins said the number of telephones in the northern counties area has almost doubled in-the-past-10-years. —In 1960, he said, the Area had 767,589. phones. Today there are nearly 1.5 million. Hutchins pointed out that the massive 1972 construction program will be carried out despite the fact Facific Telephone's earnings have not kept pace with increased costs of doing business. "A program of this magnitude is necessary for continued good service,’ he said. ‘We made the decision to move ahead with it in the hope that economic problems facing us at present will be resolved in the near future and our earnings picture improved." To carry out the program, he added, it will be necessary for PT2T to raise about $500million in new capital. Hutchins noted that PT&T expects its intrastate rate of return to be about 6.5 per cent for 1971. In a decision announced last June the California Public Utilities Commission determined 7.85 per cent to be a proper earnings level for the company. . “Notes off the Cuff” By P. L. Smith There's an article in "Pacific Business" that will make a lot of working women feel that a real champion of their "cause" has arisen in the editorial ranks. Vicki. Moller, the assistant editor of PB, an excellent magazine published by the California Chamber of Commerce, has done her beautiful bit in an article entitled "The Majority That Doesn't Rule." Vicki bores right into the nitty-gritty of sex discrimination in employment practices, wages, salaries, etc., in a way that no man can ever hope to refute. . .and which should give many employers cause for deep chagrin. Every fact~ and figure is: backed to the hilt with undeniable statistics. egal thoroughly documented by Ms. Moller; and calculated to make the “average working woman" feel a little better about the situation in one respect.''someone is in there pitching for us Clothes dryer Statistics for women whose husbands . , arent swayed by tears. == ag Tell him a dryer would save you the 160 hours a year you spend hanging out the wash. That it would take the lifting and luggin the clothesline. would make:a great bonfire. tons of wet wash off your hands. That it would cut out 40 miles of extra steps to and from g of roughly two That the 10,000 clothespins you pin and unpin every year = ite at long last!" We so enjoyed and agreed with Vicki's assessment of the discrimination bit, that we called her and requested per mission to quote some bits and pieces from her notable article. So, if you've not yet seen a copy of the January-February issue of ''Pacific Business". .here Mate 6 he despite the fact that 38 per cent of the women in the United States work, only TWO. PERCENT of them make more than -$10,000 per year." "The earnings gap between median wages or salaries of . men and women is wide and widening (refers to those working full-time, year-around) . . in 1969 women's median earnings of $4,977 were 60% of the $8,277 received by men. ." "The question of whether women should or should not work is beside the point. The fact is if management does not end sex discrimination, government will impose its own solutions. Despite the vast amounts of legislation with which businessmen already need to be familiar, ignorance, in the unfluttering eyes of the law, is still no excuse," Making the point of the entire article, Ms. Moller's opening story should be.a real eyeopener: "While serving as U.S, Treasurer, Ivy Baker Priest had to travel through bad weather in a small plane to meet a speaking engagement. After a rough ride and a safe landing, she congratulated the pilot — a woman — on her skill in handling the plane. Asked later if she were worried when she discovered that the pilot was a woman, she said ''On the contrary, that was most reassuring. Because, you see, I happen to know that a woman has to be twice as good as a man to earn half as much pay.'' Amen, sister. ‘ * kK * "pet peeve'’ time again. . . .don't you hate drivers who dash thru mud and slush so fast that the resulting spray hits persons walking quite legally on sidewalks? You'd think that any idiot would have. sense enough. to slow down during the aftermath of a storm. . . .and give the pedestrian half a chance at least! A friend and I, enroute to a luncheon engagement in Grass Valley the other day, were smeared with muddy slush from head to foot as we stood at the curb waiting to cross the street. Needless to say, we had to return home and effect an almost total change of attire before we went on to lunch, The offending driver was trying to beat a signal change, and roared thru the intersection at well Vm w nV That you could dry clothes 365 days a year, with no more rain checks on T-shirts and sox. That permanent-press clothes and synthetic double-knit fabrics would come out looking better—without ironing. PGuvE be over a reasonable speed for conditions, > ose 2 aw enema a ae , ] Join the Ray « Star-Spangled Savings Plan 78 ‘ae eee eae Buy US Savings Bonds 42PCE WI167 REV

4 The Nevada County Nugget, February 9, 1972 Phone company to spend George Futchins, Pacific Telephone manager for Nevada City, today said his company expects to spend $176,000 for construction projects and new equipment in Nevada City during 1972, Hutchins said of the total, $80,000 will go for a building addition atthe central: office at 305 Spring St., $21,000 for central office equipment, $50,000 for telephone sets and allied equipment such as PBXs and $25,000 for outside plant facilities as telephone poles, cables, conduit and the like. These funds comprise part of the record $123.4-million construction budget allocated for the company's northern counties area which takes in 35 counties ranging from the Oregon border -to—a-—point—just—south of Madera. Statewide, Pacific Telephone will spend some $888-million, the largest amount ever for PT&T or. any other utility in California during a single year. "Granted, this is a staggering amount of money to spend," Hutchins said. "The proposed construction program is about $77million more than that spent last year, and the 1973 budget is expected to top the billion dollar mark for the first time. "Some people can't understand why so much’ money is needed every year to finance the company's construction program,” he continued. 'But communications demands are at unprecedented high levels, both here and throughout California. And in order to continue providing good, reliable telephone service, large amounts of money are required on an ongoing basis to meet these demands." Hutchins said the number of telephones in the northern counties area has almost doubled in-the-past-10-years. —In 1960, he said, the Area had 767,589. phones. Today there are nearly 1.5 million. Hutchins pointed out that the massive 1972 construction program will be carried out despite the fact Facific Telephone's earnings have not kept pace with increased costs of doing business. "A program of this magnitude is necessary for continued good service,’ he said. ‘We made the decision to move ahead with it in the hope that economic problems facing us at present will be resolved in the near future and our earnings picture improved." To carry out the program, he added, it will be necessary for PT2T to raise about $500million in new capital. Hutchins noted that PT&T expects its intrastate rate of return to be about 6.5 per cent for 1971. In a decision announced last June the California Public Utilities Commission determined 7.85 per cent to be a proper earnings level for the company. . “Notes off the Cuff” By P. L. Smith There's an article in "Pacific Business" that will make a lot of working women feel that a real champion of their "cause" has arisen in the editorial ranks. Vicki. Moller, the assistant editor of PB, an excellent magazine published by the California Chamber of Commerce, has done her beautiful bit in an article entitled "The Majority That Doesn't Rule." Vicki bores right into the nitty-gritty of sex discrimination in employment practices, wages, salaries, etc., in a way that no man can ever hope to refute. . .and which should give many employers cause for deep chagrin. Every fact~ and figure is: backed to the hilt with undeniable statistics. egal thoroughly documented by Ms. Moller; and calculated to make the “average working woman" feel a little better about the situation in one respect..''someone is in there pitching for us Clothes dryer Statistics for women whose husbands . , arent swayed by tears. == ag

Tell him a dryer would save you the 160 hours a year you spend hanging out the wash. That it would take the lifting and luggin the clothesline. would make:a great bonfire. tons of wet wash off your hands. That it would cut out 40 miles of extra steps to and from g of roughly two That the 10,000 clothespins you pin and unpin every year = ite at long last!" We so enjoyed and agreed with Vicki's assessment of the discrimination bit, that we called her and requested per mission to quote some bits and pieces from her notable article. So, if you've not yet seen a copy of the January-February issue of ''Pacific Business".. .here Mate 6 he despite the fact that 38 per cent of the women in the United States work, only TWO. PERCENT of them make more than -$10,000 per year." "The earnings gap between median wages or salaries of . men and women is wide and widening (refers to those working full-time, year-around) . .. in 1969 women's median earnings of $4,977 were 60% of the $8,277 received by men.. ." "The question of whether women should or should not work is beside the point. The fact is if management does not end sex discrimination, government will impose its own solutions. Despite the vast amounts of legislation with which businessmen already need to be familiar, ignorance, in the unfluttering eyes of the law, is still no excuse," Making the point of the entire article, Ms. Moller's opening story should be.a real eyeopener: "While serving as U.S, Treasurer, Ivy Baker Priest had to travel through bad weather in a small plane to meet a speaking engagement. After a rough ride and a safe landing, she congratulated the pilot — a woman — on her skill in handling the plane. Asked later if she were worried when she discovered that the pilot was a woman, she said ''On the contrary, that was most reassuring. Because, you see, I happen to know that a woman has to be twice as good as a man to earn half as much pay.'' Amen, sister. ‘ * kK * "pet peeve'’ time again. . . .don't you hate drivers who dash thru mud and slush so fast that the resulting spray hits persons walking quite legally on sidewalks? You'd think that any idiot would have. sense enough. to slow down during the aftermath of a storm. . . .and give the pedestrian half a chance at least! A friend and I, enroute to a luncheon engagement in Grass Valley the other day, were smeared with muddy slush from head to foot as we stood at the curb waiting to cross the street. Needless to say, we had to return home and effect an almost total change of attire before we went on to lunch, The offending driver was trying to beat a signal change, and roared thru the intersection at well Vm w nV That you could dry clothes 365 days a year, with no more rain checks on T-shirts and sox. That permanent-press clothes and synthetic double-knit fabrics would come out looking better—without ironing. PGuvE be over a reasonable speed for conditions, > ose 2 aw enema a ae , ] Join the Ray « Star-Spangled Savings Plan 78 ‘ae eee eae Buy US Savings Bonds 42PCE WI167 REV