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Show V I SUN CHRONICLE, Sept. 30, 1 976, Page 1 6 Six millionth phone installed Mountain Bell has announced the installation of its six millionth telephone. A commemorative special ceremony was held Sept. 29 in the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research Laboratory at the University of Utah Medical Center. The six millionth telephone, a dataphone set, will be used ing to transmit formation about the heart from nearby hospitals to the Medical Center over phone lines. This special event is another milestone in the history of Mountain Bell. It is most appropriate that Utah was selected as the location of the installation, explained Vice President and Utah General Manager John E. Lattin. Utah has been the site of many historical happenings, many of which involved the telephone industry. The first telephones were reported in service in Utah only two years after the instrument was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. In 1914, at Wendover, Utah the final splice was made in the trannations first scontinental cable. Although it took Mountain Bell over 70 years to reach its one millionth phone in 1948, it required only a three year span to go from five million telephones in 1973 to the six millionth phone in 1976. Everyone is aware of the rapid growth here in Utah, one compelling goal: to make available, to the entire public, telephone service that is low in cost and high in quality. This is more than just a business goal; it is written into the law of the land in the Communications Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1934. Contained therein is a mandate "... to make available ... to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with at facilities reasonable charges ... to Lattin, According adequate Mountain Bell has met those obligations over the years. Today the U.S. enjoys the finest telephone service in the world at the most reasonable prices. Over 94 percent of the households in this country have telephone service. In Utah the figure is almost 98 percent. Its true that rates have gone up in recent years but less so than the prices of most other goods and services. Interstate toll charges are lower today than they were 20 years ago. In 1900 a private line residential phone cost Salt Lake customers $5 specialized FUN (CASINOS G actiis common carriers are free to choose their service routes, they naturally avoid the less profitable areas. This does not represent complete Q0DSQOCKD o service to all. If such practices are allowed to continue, one likely result is that rates will rise considerably. At present more than All AIM (MINIM PLAN TO ATTEND 4th Annual 150 Diamondflekl Jack members of Congress have per month. Today local voiced support of the Conresidents have private line sumer Communications Act residential service for about of 1976. The object of the Act $7.72. Thats an increase of is to insure continued wide less than $3 per month in 76 availability of high telephone service at reasonable rates, years. Such consistent good Lattin said. Meanwhile, pur service and reasonable rates basic aim at Mountain feell are now threatened by will be to continue to provide competition high quality communications unregulated which has caused the service as we move ahead to h seven-milliontduplication of existing our facilities 'and services. While telephone. 54 MILE CROSS COUNTRY HORSE RACE Saturday, Oct. 2, 1976 Meet, Dave Grover, author of book, Jack Meet, Frank Fara, Composer "Saga of Diamondfield Jack "Dia-mondfie- ld JO1 especially the telephone company employees, he 14 said. Utah now has over 800,000 phones in service and will handle over one billion calls in the state this year alone. Lattin also noted that with such tremendous growth the cost of doing business is also to be dealt with. In 1965, when the three millionth 3 12 16 13 r phone was installed, our investment for each company telephone was 474. Today that figure is $764, an increase of almost $300 per phone over an eleven-yea- r period. 11 c? Our il construction expenditures in Utah this year alone will amount to more than $71 million that figures out to almost $H million per week, he explained. From its beginning, the telephone industry has had r 5 Wis 7 o i.1 Doctor 9 attends at Ogden First Federal school Ralph C. Petersen, M.D., UJESTBEND; has completed continuing education requirements to retain active membership in the American Academy of Family Physicians, the was called the American Academy of General Practice. The requirements call for members to complete a customer, please. merly minimum of 150 hours of accredited continuing medical study every three years. 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