BELL CONTRIBUTES $60,000 TO LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL

Forty high schools in east-central and Southeast Missouri are sharing $60,000 equally to help meet educational needs.

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and its local customers made the donations possible.

Donations of $1,500 were presented to school boards at the conclusion of an eight-month program connected to sales of four new Southwestern Bell residential telephone services.

The company requested that the local high schools spend the money on educational programs, equipment or capital improvements.

The contributions were generated by local customers $2 at a time. Every time a customer bought a new Southwestern Bell Call Forwarding, Call Waiting, Three-Way Calling or Speed Calling-8 service, Southwestern Bell agreed to donate $2 to the schools.

The program ran from Oct. 17, 1994, through May 31. Statewide, 82 schools are receiving a total of $123,000.

A wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc., Southwestern Bell provides voice, video and data communications through 13.2 million access lines in Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas.