Show Record expected In Christmas Calls over phone out last Telephone Bells will sound like Christmas Bells in many Duchesne and Roosevelt homes as they announce a happy greeting of Hello Merry Christmas loved ones far seven million people will be placing long distance calls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to Mother or Aunt sisters or Axel A. manager here for the Mountain States Telephone said Long distance telephone lines are always busy on not because of the lage number of calls placed but rather because of the places More seven million calls are completed without delay almost every business day throughout the Bell but most of these are from one metropolitan area to On most calls go to small communities throughout the While there are hundreds of lines from Salt and Provo to larger cities of the there arc relatively few from there to the smaller rural where Dad and Mother still There may be many unused circuits between the larger but the few lines out to the small become overloaded and calls must wait their would be impractical for the Telephone Companies to install hundreds of new lines to be used only one or two days of each Birch we do the best we can by temporary re-arrangements of circuits to complete as many calls as possible without a Birch said that holiday calls can be completed more quickly if the persons placing them would call by number and call It takes extra time for the information operator in a distant to look up the number or complete a person-to-person long distance rates will go into effect at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve and last throughout Christmas Day and until a.m. on December While everyone likes to take advantage of reduced one of the surest ways of getting a call through during this busy time is to place it Christmas Eve before even though it costs a little A call on reduced rates December might be given Birch |