Show hew new phone system in operation soon over Is being spent by the bell telephone system to make connections with booming moab utah deer deep in the heart of 0 the colorado plateau abeau uranium country of midland telephone co report their bill for the cost of meeting bell at thompsons Thomp sons may run as high as a at least long distance calls a day go out of the swamped moab exchange and more Ahan JOO JW are continually awaiting in incoming coming line clearance for 16 hours a day three operators handle nothing but toll calls the new connections which will be in operation by june will provide eight more toll circuits to t provo and two to price added to the present circuits they will make 17 lines connecting with the th bell system suffering under a burden of a per cent yearly increase ia in telephone service requests the midland co is just completing work on a dial system unlike the old system carrying a capacity load the new equipment Is capable of expansion as mor more telephones are hooked booked up to homes and businesses at present as many as eight and ten connections are served on party lines in moab six south african uranium ore or processing plants along with three canadian one australian and one benglian Bel glian congo plant are now no shipping uranium to the U S |