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Show Cold weather brings high damage rate A comparison of the property prop-erty damage resulting from reportable accidents in Spring-ville Spring-ville during January 1962 and January of last year shows what can happen in bad weather. wea-ther. With sub-zero w e at h e r, slick roads and fog, there has been a total of $5,645 damage to automobiles in Springville accidents during ths month compared to $970 damage during dur-ing January 1961, according to a report from Police chief Ashley Graham. Total accidents this month in which property damage resulted re-sulted numbered 25 compared to four in January 1961, when the roads were clear and there was no snow, ice or fog. Extra work The current cold spell has not only added to the work of city police officers, but other city employees have put in day and night shifts on calls to frozen water pipes and damaged dam-aged water lines, City Recorder Re-corder Lloyd Ashcraft reported this week. |