Washington County News | 1942-12-17 | Page 6 | People Asked to not Make 'Christmas Calls'

People Asked To Not Make 'Christmas Calls' "This Christmas, war needs the telephone wires, which will make it increasingly difficult to handle the volume of Christmas and New Year's greetings to distant cities. War never takes a holiday! Since lines already are carrying a heavy volume of war calls, it will not be possible to complete as many holiday long distance calls." This statement was made by S. T. Jones, manager of The Mountain States Tel. and Tel. company, who added that persons who do not make their usual holiday holi-day long distance calls this year will be making a real contribution to the war effort. "Speeding war calls through without delay is the first order of business for the telephone company," com-pany," Mr. Jones says, "and for the past six months the company has urged telephone users to make only those long distance calls that are essential and urgent."