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Show LIGHTNING STRIKES "Y" FLAGPOLE Brigham Young university may not have its flagpole sitters, but it does have a flagpole on which a ball of fire "sat" when it was struck by a bolt of lightning Friday Fri-day evening. Three students, Reese E. Fau-cette Fau-cette of Sanford, Colo., Wynne Kunz of Montpelier, Idaho, and Er-mel Er-mel J. Morton of Mapleton, who were standing on the steps of the Maeser building on University hill, were startled when they saw a Jagged bolt of lightning streak out of the sky toward the flagpole a few yards in front of them on the wow of the hill. As the lightning struck, a huge oall of fire encircled the knob on J"e top of the pole and a bolt of wemendoua force went down the P'e and into the ground, making Z aeafening clap of thunder. The Pie quivered and seemed to smoke. Following the clap of thunder, ne trio hastened out to the pole Nf? the effects of the lightning, "othmg was visible except gQme whiTu Urrows about ten feet long men had been plowgd .n grasg strait ,!'ghtning goinS out in flaSe frm the ba3e of the |