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Show -- . - -- - - . 5-' N ! : ferrmc easterly wind tears frees, does other damage around town Sunday evening t-rinfrville trees tooklGene Pnif, " w " gpringville trees took many were uprooted uproot-ed considerable other dam-Suited dam-Suited from the terrific A which struck this vicin- '' Sunday night. D - least two large plate ?! windows in down-town !'f endows, one at Jack's 'rv and another at 'Ss' were broken during the "? i house trailer at the jtn etT ofPa'eyman -sidence, east of town, was wound and over on its side-shingles side-shingles on a new home belonging be-longing to Wilford Manwarinsr the northeast section of town, were torn off and a car-Port car-Port at the Jesse Barton residence resi-dence at Mapleton was blown over to the neighbors. Trees were uprooted at thg Whitney, the Arnold Barney and other homes about town. Garbage cans were blown from one home to another, tubs and buckets, tree limbs, and numerous other items were being be-ing gathered up Monday by townspeople. The city trucks were busy throughout the day hauling limbs from trees blown over the sidewalks and streets throughout town. At least one electric light pole in the Mapleton Map-leton area was blown over. The wind storm was described describ-ed by one man who had been in a cyclone in Florida, as being be-ing of similar proportions. Plain followed the wind but by Tuesday the weather was back on its good behavior. The weatherman reported however, that the area is in for another storm this weekend. The people of this area, however how-ever are thankful that the winds which visit this part of the country are tame compared with the hurricanes which have wrecked havoc in the southern south-ern and eastern parts of the United States recently. It is interesting to note that the chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau Bu-reau ' said Tuesday that man stands on "the threshold of possible control" of one of nature's na-ture's most powerful and destructive des-tructive phenomenon the hurricane. Among the possible methods meth-ods of control under study, said Dr. Francis W. Reichel-derfer, Reichel-derfer, are seeding clouds with dry ice to sap the tremendous energy of a hurricane or blasting blast-ing the whirling tropical winds apart with atomic or conven tional explosions. Dr. Reichelderfer's suggestion sugges-tion that hurricane control might become possible marked a significant change in Weather Weath-er Bureau thinking. Until now, as he put it, the idea of such large-scale weather weath-er control was a taboo subject or one "only discussed in whispers" whis-pers" among meteorologists. With satellites, he said, it should become possible to catch the hurricanes when they are j "young and we have the best chance of spoiling them." ; I Among the methods of con- trol which the Weather Bur- j eau plans to start studying j soon, he said, is ripping the ! storm's circulation apart with j conventional or nuclear explo- ' sives a suggestion frequently ; . made but dismissed in the past. j |