| Show telephone users mirror modern times the percentage pei of 0 families with telephone service in morgan is a rood good mirror ot of the times according to R W grant mountain states telephone company manager lie points to the last ten years as an example in 1940 employment rolls were loner loer many workers were part pail time anti and life flie tor for almost everyone seemed seemed slower lower there were only telephones in service here and then friends had the time so they visited each other frequently housewives shopped x before they bought then came the war employment went up everyone it seems has been busy since there Is is less time for visiting arid and less incentive for shopping A servant to do the family chores to make quick visits it and to generally save time was needed the telephone was chosen today there are tole phones in service here a per cent increase over 1910 1940 some of the additional telephones were installed tor for families new to the co but mr air grant says many of the new telephones were installed for the families who had lived here many years without having service today a higher percentage of 0 morgan fi families tu milies have a telephone than at any other time in history he believes the pressure of time an improved financial position and a growing realization that telephone service Is more than a convenience or a luxury have been responsible tor for tills this development predicting the population changes in any community under tinder normal circumstances can be done rather accurately acura tely the manager said bald predicting family demand tor for telephone service Is difficult and projecting future telephone requirements in that community depends on oil them both since the savings of more than a million stockholders rests on those predictions th the most careful judgment must be exercised the telephone co must keep in mind always that an investment unwisely made cannot be recovered sometimes growth surges outstrip engineering estimates lie he said it did here when this happens both the telephone company and the equipment manufacturers are hard pressed to make up tip the deficiency when certain materials become short in an supply P ply the pressure is worse the objective of the telephone company is still to give service whenever arid and wherever Ahe rever it is needed the efforts of the company are directed to that end the manager concluded conclude |
