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RESOLUTION NO. 64-20
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA PROTESTING THE BREAKING UP OF THE ORANGE
COUNTY DIRECTORY OF THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE COMPANY
INTO FIVE SECTIONS.
WHEREAS, the Pacific Telephone Company proposes to divide its
Orange County Directory into five sections; and
WHEREAS, the proposed subdivision would force the General Telephone
Company to further divide the County by publishing four additional sectional
directories; and
WHEREAS, the unity of communications of Orange County, recently
declared to be a metropolitan area, would be destroyed by the proposed
issuance of sectional directories, and the growth and progress of the County
impeded; and
WHEREAS, direct and unnecessarily expensive inconvenience to
telephone subscribers would result from sectionalization of the directory,
requiring calls to the "Information" operator to obtain numbers within the
County but outside of the section placing the call; and
WHEREAS, additional and unjustifiable costs to advertisers in the
"Yellow Pages" would result from the proposed sectionalization, requiring
advertisers engaged in a County -wide business to place their advertisements
in five directories instead of one; and
WHEREAS, confusion hazardous to the health, safety and welfare of
residents of Orange County would result from overlapping jurisdictions
created by the proposed division of the directory; requiring, for instance,
referral and consequent delay in emergency calls for fire, police and similar
public agencies; and
WHEREAS, an alternative procedure exists and is immediately avail-
able in the division of the present Orange County Telephone Directory into
two volumes comprising (a) the "white" pages, and (b) the "yellow" pages; and
WHEREAS, such division of the directory into two volumes would not
only serve the purpose of the Pacific Telephone Company in reducing size and
binding problems of the present Directory, but would also protect the unity
of communications within Orange County and preserve the best interests of
both subscribers and advertisers:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Costa
Mesa, that the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California be,
and the same is hereby urged and requested to deny the petition of the Pacific
Telephone Company for the division of the Orange County Telephone Directory
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into five sectional directories; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that each and every City in the County of
Orange, together with the Board of Supervisors of the County, is hereby
urged to immediately file protest with the Public Utilities Commission
against said proposed breaking up of the Orange County Telephone Directory;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa is
hereby directed and instructed to transmit copies of this Resolution, together
with such pertinent factual information as is available, to the Mayors and
City Councils of the cities of Orange County, and to the Board of Supervisors
of the County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 2nd day of March, 1964.
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Mayor of the City of osta Mesa
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 64-20 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 2nd day of March, 1964.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the City of Costa Mesa, this 3rd day of March, 1964.
City Clerk And ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa