Boone Phones More
Than In Arecibo
Boone dow hu more than fif
teen hundred telephones, which,
strange to say is more than are in
use in Aneciho, Puerto Kico, which
has a population of HMO. Noith
Carolina use more telephones than
India and Red China {Hit together.
H H. Inabinet. Southern Bell
Telephone manager in Boone, re
leased the information today in
connection with publication of the
Bell System's Telephone Statistics
of the World, which comes out
every year about December.
The telephone manager delved
into the same statistics to come up
with the fact that here are now
some M, 900,000 talking instruments
in the world. As of Jan. X, 1999,
that is; since it takes nearly a
year to collect all the figures and
get them into print.
People in the United States use
close to 93,000,000 out of the above
94,000,000 phones, the statistics
show. And, no surprise, they use
those instruments to talk than
W
most suyWy
Americans on. an average made
well over 390 calls apiece darin#
the year covered by the report.
That puis us if second place, right
behind Canada, which had over
400 calls per capita far the same
period. 1
North Carolina ha* over 800.
000 telephone*. 490,000 ot which
are Southern Bell and the re*t in
territory served by the state'* 91
independent companies. Chin*,
with 244,028 telephone*, and In
dia, with 249.790. together trail
behind the number ot phone* in
the Old North State
Winston-Salem and Greensboro
each have more telephone* than
Pakistan. Charlotte 'ha* more than
the Philippine*. Asheville more
than Alaska and Wilmington more
than Panama.
But in spite of rockets. *un bat
teries and automatic brain*, it's
still possible to get away from it
all, Telephone Statistic* reveal.
In places like the Comoro I*
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Virgin islands or Grtnnlapg,
there'll aot ? telephone to he
found for that nutter they don't
even have MM in Bhutan, where
ever that to.
M'l hard U* uy, thwigh. just
vhat tto ipn situation
is at the /remlin Back in ISM
the U S g. R ohii?inciy told the
world it had 881,1*1 telephones.
Since then, the telephone itilir
tki situation, MlHuthe Com
munisis we concerned, ha* deteri
orated just like nil the other situa
tions And since 1996 official Rus
sian telephone fin urea have been
in the deep freeze None have bean
released
On Trucial Oman, In contrast,
they make a clean breast of the
situation mhi
any. Likewise, on Pitcsirn Island
in the Pacific, where the Victori
ans mutineers (real HilS Bounty
took it on the lav, the lint tale
phoae haaat baas instiWad
,1a tropical Bruil. where the cot
fee comas from, they get by with
749,(17 telephones, also (ewer
than the number used la North
Carolina
In tiny Liechtenstein, on the
other hand, where 10,000 hardy
moiiatainoers have maintained a
fiercely Alpine independence over
their 60 square miles through two
world wars sad a raft At "police
actions", they make out with soma
2.MW phones.
London has 1.900.000 telephones;
Chicago. 1,800.000; New York, 3.
Shearing Team
Again Does Well
North Carolina's sheep shearing
team has always done well ia the
Natioaal Skewing Contest at CU
cafe. A. V. Allan, extension ani
mal husbandry specialist at StaU
College, potato out
This year's team was no except
ion The teen made up of Ray Lee
Ma be and Emmett Atwood, coach
700,000.
Doha, largeet city la Qatar,
manages to get by with only 30.
Shows what you caa get by with If
you live la Qatar.
#d by County A|Mt It B. Black
ol Alleghaay County, finished w?U
a moo | tkc leaders
U the final*, ltabe finished
third Is the nation with an aver
age ictrt ol as.a, and Atwood
placed seventh with a score of tt.
The winning scm* wai M ?
Coach Black It well-pleaaed with
the showing his boys made. Each
woo a *90 Savings Bond. In addi
tion, Kabe received a hsadsams
belt with a sterling silver buckle.
Alien say* that the record mad*
by North Carolina boys is even
more outstanding considering the
fact that many of the boys com
peting in the contest are from
counties which have more sheep
than can be found in the entire
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