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Show One of Each Three People Have Phone 000,000 telephones in service, nearly near-ly one for each person. J. W. Snell, LMstrict Manager for The Mountain plates Telephone and Telegraph Company, said here today. At a ceremony held in the White House today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisen-hower received the milestone telephone. tele-phone. The rapid growth experienced throughought the country has been even more prounced here Springvillc. In 1946 there were 1J7 telephones here) Today, there are 2211 telephones serving the city, which is an increase of more than 70 per cent. On a everage day these telephone s are used more thane 13, 500 times. Telephone service has grown frome its humble beginning in 1876 to an essential part of the coumm-unity. coumm-unity. Few, if any, inventions have meant so much to so many people. In' no other country in the world has the telephone been developed so well as to make it availble to practically all the people. |