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Show Funds provided to improve South Utah telephone service The Rural Electrification Administration this week approve ap-prove a $197,000 loan to a Utah-based Utah-based firm to help Improve telephone service in southern Utah and one northern Arizona county, according to Sen. Wallace Wal-lace F. Bennett. K-Utah. The loan went to the South Central Utah Telephone Co., Inc., Escalante. The firm services ser-vices Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier, Iron and Washington Counties in Utah and Mohave County in Arizona. All but $3,000 of the loan funds will be used to improve facilities in Utah. "Included under the loan terms will he the financing of facilities to serve 98 new sub- i scribers," Sen. Bennett said. ! "Improvements will include adding Boulder, Escalante, and Orderville to the dial central system; installing direct di-rect distant dialing in the Antimony and Cannonville exchanges, and construction of 2-1 miles of new telephone' lines," he said. I |