Show Hunters Please Dont Don't Shoot Telephone Lines Doves pheasants and deer deerhead deerhead deerhead head for the hills during the hunting season And so do Mountain Bell cable repairmen repairmen- to replace aerial cable and In Insulators Insulators insulators In- In shot up by hunters And while a hunter may miss his bird or animal he often hits telephone cables leaving a dead line for scores of families Mountain Bell repairmen re replace replace replace re- re place about 30 sections of telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone cable and open wire in Sanpete and Sevier Counties each ach year during the hunting season Shotgun pellets 22 caliber bullets and high power rifle rUle le lead d can easily pierce the heavy plastic sheathing and aluminum undercoating of telephone cable tearing through copper trans trans- mission wires Inside Even a near miss that Just cuts the plastic protective sheathing can interrupt telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone service Rain and snow get Into the cable shorting out several lines at a time Damage often occurs In areas that are inaccessible to vehicles B Bin In winter weather It sometimes takes days for repair crews to locate the damaged lines by snow cat A broken or cracked Insulator insulator insulator lator allows the open wire to touch the pole causing buzzing and poor voice transmission of telephone conversations Mountain Bell officials say they will prosecute offenders inan inan in inan an effort to protect the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone service of customers The telephone company Is asking asking asking ask ask- ing people to report offenders to the nearest Mountain Bell office or to law enforcement y people The willful Injury or ob obstruction obstruction ob- ob of ot transmission lines is a violation of Utah Statutes punishable by a fine of ot up to or and/or six months in Jail jan |