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Show Many Citizens Attend Telephone Open House People of American Fork were permitted to go behind" the scenes of a telephone switchboard when I "open house" was held by the local office of the Mountain States Tele- phone and Telegraph Company Co. i Those who took advantage of this ( opportunity were shown the intrl-casies intrl-casies of a telephone call, the many different materials and their source of supply, that go to make up the telephone equipment and who are the owners of the Bell system. According to Mr. A. W. Troth, who acted as host, the housewives are the largest stockholders in the telephone tele-phone company. This is probably 1 due, he said, to the company's poli-I poli-I cy of permitting its operators to 'purchase stock through small monthly deductments from their salaries. They later marry and be-corne be-corne housewives. He also stated that long distance calls can be made as far as Australia. All visitors at the "open house" were presented with a pencil and paper tab, compliments of the Mt. States Telephone and Telegraph Co. I - |