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Show UTAHN'S ARE CHAMP GOSSIPERS Utahns continued their talking ways in 1968 by averaging aver-aging 992 calls per person. That's 325 more calls than people make in Canada, the callingest nation in the world. Gerald Vickers, local Mountain S.tates manager, said there were approximately 1,041,718,400 total calls placed by Utahns during the year over the state's half-million telephones. i Canada narrowly edged the l U. S. as the callingest nation. The U. S. averaged 667.0 calls per person, compared with 667.7 for the Canadians. Residents Resi-dents of Iceland are third on the talking list, averaging 606.3 calls per person. Next in line is Sweden with 598.9 and the Bahama Islands round out the top five with 433.9. Burmese Bur-mese use telephones the least, averaging only 0.7 calls per person. Mr. Vickers said that the Salt Lake City area, with about 274,000 telephones, has approximately the same number num-ber of phones as the nations of Chili, Puerto Rico or Ireland. Ire-land. Latest figures show the U. S. has a total of 104 million telephones .nearly six times as many as Japan, which is second. sec-ond. There are some 222 million phones in the entire world. Ninety-six percent of those can be called by U. E. telephone users. |