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Show Juniors hard on utilities In Southern Utah, several transmission lines were severed by a shotgun blast on a steel cable that serves Loa and Bicknell. Many phones in these towns were out for more than five hours from the time they were reported until they could be repaired. This fall, hunters will again fill the countryside and Mt. Bell repairmen will be close behind to restore aerial aer-ial telephone lines damaged I by misplaced gunshot. "Hunters should be careful care-ful of utility service when in the field," said Kenneth O. Hill, Mt. Bells' Utah public pub-lic relations manager. "A stray bullet could isolate a community's telephone service and deprive them of emergency service." Hunters should not shoot at game on or near telephone tele-phone lines or equipment; a missed shot could mean a dead telephone line for a long time. Shotgun pellets, .22 caliber cali-ber bullets and hig powered rifle lead can easily penetrate pene-trate the plastic sheathing of telephone cable. Glass insulators will also shatter from gunshot. If the damage is inaccessible inac-cessible to vehicles, especially es-pecially in winter weather, days could pass before repairmen re-pairmen locate the downed lines. This could mean lengthy interruption of critical cri-tical emergency assistance which many hunters also depend de-pend on in case of accident. |