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Show Mother's Day Ma Bell advises on Phone Calls weekend rates if they dial their own interstate calls anytime Saturday or before 5 p.m. on Sunday. These rates are 60 precent lower than day rates. Interstate evening rates, which are 35 percent below day rates, apply from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday and on weekdays. Mother's Day is this Sunday and Mountain Bell employes are making preparations for the second busiest long distance culling day of the year. On May 14, the telephone network will be carrying a heavy load of love and affection af-fection for mothers across the nation. Jim Kearns, Operations Manager - Network, said approximately 682,000 interstate in-terstate long distance calls are expected to be placed from Utah on this special day. "This figure is eight percent higher than the number of calls placed last year," he commented. Throughout the nation, an estimated 15.4 million interstate in-terstate long distance calls are expected to be completed com-pleted on Mother's Day. This compares with more than 14 million calls completed between states a year ago, Kearns said. He pointed out that the number of calls placed on Mother's Day isn't any higher than the number of calls placed on any normal business day. "The increased in-creased calling load is created because customers change their calling patterns on this day and also talk much longer," he explained. Kearns suggested that when a call fails to go through on the first attempt, the customer wait a few minutes rather than try again immediately. Customers can save time and money by dialing their own calls and by placing them during one of the less busy periods. This would be all day Saturday, early Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon before 5 p.m. Customers can take advantage ad-vantage of night and |