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Va. Tel. & Tel.
Gives ’68 Report
The Virginia Telephone & Telegraph Company announced today that a summary of the company’s activities for 1968 in Northern Virginia District which serves the communities of Front Royal, Luray, Shenandoah, Stanley, and Washington, Virginia, showed an increase in telephones served of more than 6.2% as opposed to a 5.5% increase in 1967, according to J. B. Compton, District Manager. J. B. Compton pointed out that over 35,144,698 telephone calls had been placed through the local exchanges, and that 1,073,315 long distance calls had been made during the year to other parts of
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