Show storm lashes valley rips up trees poles rains lashed by 65 in p h gusts broke a summer long drought monday night and caused extensive damage throughout the valley ripping up trees disrupting util aties and breaking windows A total of 50 59 inch of rain fell in about I 1 vi fi hours in a torrential downpour to allevi ate drought conditions and reduce fire hazards on range and forest lands IN THE SOUTHWEST part of the city trees were split down the middle and large limbs tossed on roofs and into gardens at the wayne D martinsen residence west ath so a tree crashed on to the roc roof f pushing holes in the roof an and cracking the stucco outside and plaster inside the home mrs martinsen was in the house at the time with her children 1 I heard a dreadful noise and the whole house shivered and shook and I 1 thought we had been struck str u ck by lightning she bommen commented ted afterwards I 1 was surprised that the house was still stand ing she said observers estimated tt that at the house was hit by a tree weighing about tons tt continued on page 0 storm continued from pa pace 1 A TREE THEE IN front of mrs dorothy McCarr mccarrell McC arrela elg residence at so let west was wa split I 1 right down the trunk and the major part dumped right in the middle of the roadway at the phil watkins home so lot west linies and branches were piled high in the yard and trees damaged the roof and thim chimney ney at least two cars car received extensive damage from flying tree limbs and sheared off trees one parked near popes store suffered a smashed trunk and another parked on a nearby street had tile the top damaged the gusts left a trail of damaged trees right to the airport and there the wind tipped a plane on an to its nose causing minor damage A TOTAL OF 40 telephone lines were put out of corn com mission east blast of town wires were blown down and either gusts or a car ran into the wires ripping up a cable which affected service to 20 customers two poles were si ti heared off at ath east and ath south and tipped into the road read tel ephone service was compact ely cly restored by tuesday noon power lines were blown down and two poles polea had to be replaced the service was out temporarily in the maeser area part of ath nouh east of town and the naples davis area mainly due to limbs being blown across thie lines A SPECIAL crew was in town at the time doing distribution work and they were diverted to help restore the service |