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Show UTAH NOW HAS 400,000 TELEPHONES Utah's 400,0000th telephone was installed today at the new Browning Arms Co. Research and Development Center located lo-cated in Weber Canyon southeast south-east of Ogden, according to Eric C. Aaberg, vice president and general manager of Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone. The installation was inaugurated inaug-urated by a call between John Val Browning, president of the Utah-based company, and Oth-on Oth-on Drechsel, director general of Browning's manufacturing plant in Leige, Belgium. In announcing the installation installa-tion of the 400,000th telephone, it was pointed out that John M. Browning's first gun and Utah's first telephone exchange were born the same year in the same city Ogden in 1880. Since then, both companies have continually grown and improved their products. |