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Show Phone Company Asks (light To Increase Rates The Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph Company filed an application with the Utah Public Service Commission Saturday, March 17, for increases increas-es in telephone rates. The application appli-cation explained that increased costs of doing business have substantially sub-stantially reduced the company's earnings, which are now too low to attract the money required to expand and improve service to meet Utah's communications requirements. The application stated: That if the company is to meet its responsibility for providing pro-viding adequate and efficient communications to meet military aru defense req uirements as well as continuing civilian needs, it must provide considerably consider-ably more communications facilities fa-cilities despite the fact that the last ten years have seen the greatest growth In Utah's telephone tele-phone history. In 1940 the company was serv- |