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-p. -- - �6_F I i -Z9-67l <br />6626 Bradshaw Quarry Rd. <br />Efland, N. C. 27243 <br />November 19, 1991 <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />c/o Clerk to the Board <br />Court Street Annex <br />109 Court Street <br />Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 <br />Dear Members of the Board of Commissioners: <br />We are writing to strongly support the petition to poll <br />Orange County subscribers of the Mebane Home Telephone Company <br />on their willingness to become a part of a county -wide toll <br />free telephone system. Our home is within the Mebane telephone <br />system, and the long distance cost to us for telephone calls <br />within Orange County exceeds $20 monthly. For the past 10 <br />months, these charges totaled $211. We pay long distance charges <br />for calls to Hillsborough, to Chapel Hill, and even for calls <br />to our own postoffice in Efland. We would be glad to bear the <br />monthly charge of $3.61 if these calls were part of our basic <br />service. <br />Because Mebane is not considered to be a part of Orange <br />County in the telephone listings available to directory <br />assistance operators, persons who attempt to get our telephone <br />number through directory assistance are regularly told that <br />they have no listing for our name. This occurs because the <br />Mebane Home Telephone subscribers are listed under Alamance <br />County, including those subscribers whose post office address <br />is Efland. A few years ago, someone tried to reach a visitor <br />in our home to inform him of his grandmother's death, and even <br />though the caller knew that our mailing address was Efland in <br />Orange County, they were told that our number was not listed. <br />Our visitor received a letter from his father telling of <br />the grandmother's death and burial and the attempt made to call <br />him at our home. The young man was extremely upset and we were <br />furious with the telephone non - service. We sent a letter to <br />the Utilities Commission who sent us a copy of a letter sent <br />to the Mebane Home Telephone Company directing it to correct <br />the situation. We received a call from the phone company telling <br />us that we would be listed in the Hillsborough directory. We <br />still aren't. <br />Recently, we learned that a friend from France tried to <br />call us. She stated that we lived in Efland when she was asked <br />what city she was calling. She was told there was no listing <br />for us. <br />We dialed information ourselves and asked for our number <br />only to be told we weren't listed. When we asked that the <br />