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Show Mn. Bell, Santa, Work Christmas, Bringing Happiness Santa works on Christmas and so do many Mountain Bell employees. But, while he Is bringing presents, they are bringing people together by long distance. Christmas Is the busiest calling day of the year for the phone company and this year Americans will prove It 'by making over 14 million long distance calls on December De-cember 25th. To help you make those long distance calls faster and easier, the people at Mountain Bell offer this holiday holi-day recipe: F-st, If you don'thavethe number you need, call Universal Uni-versal Directory Assistance before Dec. 25th when circuits cir-cuits are less busy. In Utah call 1-555-1212 or for numbers num-bers throughout the United States, call 1 (area code) 555- 1212. It's toll free. Please call before Christmas for overseas numbers. In some countries, Directory Assistance Assist-ance operators do not work on Christmas Day. Second, place your call on Christmas Eve or Christmas Christ-mas afternoon. Circuits are less busy on Dec. 24th or between be-tween 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Christmas Day. Third, dial the call yourself. your-self. Dialing direct gets your call through faster and is less expensive than going through an operator. (Reduced (Re-duced DDD rates are in effect ef-fect Christmas Day on inter -State, direct dialed calls for all Mountain Bell customers In Utah.) Fourth, if you encounter busy circuits, wait a few minutes and try your call again. . To meet the increased holiday calling load, the Bell System will be adding 3,000 circuits to its domestic and international telephone net- t .. v , i ( v - -f i ihHd ' r . 4.- H - ' J .... j v r w I .- r , - t - . s l ' ' . I I ' kit " cr hi AS I 4 ' ! " 4 ' ' . V "i f -r ' f .ijim r4iic I 9 nS ( a , , . . . CI .' s ' J f , ' S s ' 4 work. In addition, thousands of Bell employees throughout through-out the nation will work Dec. 25th bringing people together. commissioner from District 4 following her nomination by Governor Ramp ton. The district encompasses Summit, Sum-mit, Wasatch and Utah counties. coun-ties. And Dr. Lowell Durham of Salt Lake City was named as a member of the Festival Committee, one of the three . major committees planning Bicentennial activities. The applications of the town of Beaver and Levan were approved by the commission com-mission for nomination as national Bicentennial Communities. Com-munities. In the closing vote of the meeting, the commission endorsed en-dorsed the Bicentennial Town Meeting in Vernal. The meeting, proposed by Mrs. Marguerite Colton, chairman chair-man of District 6, will feature fea-ture a forum discussion of the district's plans for the 1976 Bicentennial celebration. celebra-tion. 1 Stephen Dirks, who presented present-ed the proposal to the commission, com-mission, noted. Ogden City will provide the rest of the funds. The plans call for contin- , ued use of the building as a depot as well as possible rennovation to include a railroad rail-road museum, restaurant and cultural center. The building will be owned by the city which will lease space to Amtrak, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific for passenger pas-senger service. Other expenditures approved ap-proved were $5,000 for the Fort Douglas Military Museum Mu-seum in Salt Lake City; $500 for biographical sketches to be bound into a book, "Twentieth "Twen-tieth Century Women of We -ber County"; $7,000 for the North Summit Senior Citizens Citi-zens in Coalville; $3,000 for the St. George Senior Citizens Citi-zens Center; $2550 for the restoration of the old school -house in Boulder as a town meeting hall; and $2550 for the rennovation of the Henrieville Hen-rieville Schoolhouse as a town meeting hall. The town of Antimony also received $2550 for improvements for their city park. Also during the monthly commission meeting, Mrs. Sara (Gary) Jense of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove was ratified as a |