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Show lV ; i M " . t - of public affairs, said this type of vandalism is not only thoughtless and costly, but dangerous. "The vandals forget or ignore the fact that thousands of people are inconvenienced, in-convenienced, some of whom may be seriously ill, or dependent de-pendent upon an iron lung or other life-saving apparatus that requires electricity." Under Utah statutes, persons per-sons convicted of shooting power lines and related facilities fa-cilities can be charged with criminal offense and subject to both fine and imprisonment. imprison-ment. Shoemaker said that Friday's act of vandalism cost the company and its customers many thousands of dollars -- "certainly an avoidable expens3 affecting the cost of electricity," he said. I 1j.jluwiw iwir inrmr UP&L OFFERS $1000 REWARD FOR VANDALS Utah Power & Light Co. Tuesday offered a$l,000 reward re-ward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible re-sponsible for the shooting of a high-voltage power line conductor that caused widespread wide-spread power outages in central Utah' late Friday. UP&L officials reported the shooting Incident occured just north of the city of Sprlngville and caused the severance of a 138,000 -volt power line which fell Into a 44,000 -volt line, cutting power to parts of Utah, north Juab and San Pete Counties for several hours. Speaking for the utility, J. L. Shoemaker, manager I |