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Show I Demand Great For Telephone Service 1 I "Many people who are wilting! for telephone s rvice have asked whether we will be Mile to servoj them soon now that tiie European war Is fiivsh d." W. Earl Oadd. manager of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegrap'.i Company said today. "In the first plac there are more than 53,000 people in our seven states and 110 in Ced.r City alone waiting for srrvlc," said Mr. Gadd 'We havp been installing service when facilities b came available, In the order of application. "The end f the war in Europe means that th day Ls nearer, of course, when it will be possible to manufacture all kinds of telephone nu'pment But now all of cur country's coun-try's energies mast be turned im-j im-j mediately to the swiftest possiblr j-'tfeat of Japan. ; "When manpower and material j u come available for the unlimited manufacture of t lphone instru nents, until the wires betwe n the subsmrlber's premises and the tele ihone off ce, and the central office quipment Itself are available, ob-vloi'.sly ob-vloi'.sly the telephone instrument can ie of no use. ''After fin.il victory reeonvrslon :f our manufacturing plants will br possible and it will be a different tory. But net a short one. "First the t lephone factories wll' have to be reconverted to civilian voduetlon f.nd then they must turn out huge nuantltl s of telephone equipment After that, all the needed need-ed tel phons. central office equipment equip-ment and outside plant equipment must be installed for the p oplr vaitlng for service. It will be the 'nicest prac time .lob thit the tel- il.one company has ever faced. "It will take many months bit ve'll do it as fast as humanly pus ible. for w don't like to keep people vaitlng for service." |