Show telephone co holds open house how little telephone patrons know of the marvelous invention that brings them closer to each other through telephone service was brought clearly home to those who took advantage of the invitation extended by the mt states tel tel office to visit their office and plant here wednesday of last week alfred W troth provo district traffic chief for the company had arranged in the office a group of charts an explanation of which the visitors found very instructive the progress in long distance telephone service was illustrated by a chart showing that it required 8 minutes to complete arrangements for the average long dist j ance can call in 1920 whereas the same service is now completed in less es s than two minutes transoceanic calls are malli making ang rapid gains reports indicated records taken monthly indicate that telephone p h one operators in utah handle around telephone calls in a year another chart showed the hours of the day when calls were most numerous s showing owing h that in the local office each girl handles as big high h as calls an hour in the busiest part of the day miss lael nielson chief operator explained the operation of the switchboard and how the telephone operator puts in a fire alarm which especially interested the younger visitors J leroy bickmore manager of the local office took the visitors through the plant itself explaining in the language of the layman the highly technical mechanical equipment wiring and the batteries which stand back of the girl at the switchboard it was surprising to many that this thie equipment in the 10 local 1 pla plant nt is valued at around As favors the visitors were given an especially designed pencil memo pads pad and books telling of the history of the telephone |