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Show Co : t ' 1 t Mountain Bell telephone worker repairs phone lines shot during last year's deer hunt. Company officials have asked hunters this year to be extremely ex-tremely careful. Hunters cautioned Hunters, if not careful this fall, can isolate entire communities by firing carelessly in the direction of aerial telephone lines, warned Kenneth O. Hill, Mountain Moun-tain Bell's Utah Public Relations manager. Unfortunately, accidents ac-cidents of this nature frequently occur where the telephone is most critical in rural areas. Hunters, too, sometimes rely on the phone line to get help in emergencies. Shotgun pellets, .22 caliber bullets and high-power high-power rifle lead can easily penetrate the plastic sheathing of a telephone cable, rupturing rup-turing the transmission lines inside, Hill cautioned. According to Dan Gomez, Mountain Bell security agent, hunters can help prevent the negligence of a very few. "The best pair of eyes in helping to prevent line damage is other hunters, game wardens, . and forest service per sonnel," Gomez pointed out. "They can help prevent the damage of phone services caused by others." If the damage is inaccessible to vehicles, especially in winter weather, days could pass before repairmen locate the downed line. If hunters can be a little more cautious this fall, Mountain Bell repairmen won't have to be close behind to restore aerial telephone lines damaged by misplaced gunshot. |