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Show i DAILY HERALD f FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17; 1954 Utah County, Utah ? 1 Jarring Quake Rocks San Francisco Bay A rea With Up and Down Motion AN FRANCISCO TUP) 7 f . A of 10. Yesterday's earlier quake earthquake locked the San measured between 6.75 and 7. Francisco Bay Area last night yesterday's quake apparently oc with an up and down motion that curred more than 200 miles from center in Sacramento, Calif. rattled dishes and wakened thou- - the The shock caused an estimated sands from sleep. $20 000 damage to a 9,500,000-The quake, centered in South- gallon underground water tank ern Alameda County on the east- at the city's filtration plant. when ern shore of San Francisco Bay, columns snapped and was felt at 11:09 p.m. PST. It was supporting the roof settled to the water surfollowed five minutes later by a face. ..second shock. No major damage Sacramento's city engineer said was reported. it will be impossible to determine W. C. Marion, assistant seismol- damage more accurately5 until an ogist at the University of Califor- inspection of the tank can be nia, said .it was probably centered made in a boat. He said it would on the old Hayward Fault near not affect the city's water supply. San Lorenzo. He' said it was prob Don Sperry, who works in the ably not connected with the quake control tower at Oakthat shook Nevada, California and land Airport, said the tower three other Western states early "seemed to bounce up and, down" yesterday. in last night's temblor. Tower Bounces The switchboard operator at Oak Airport Marion estimated the quake had land City Hall said she thought the a force of 3.8 on the Richter scale building was 'going to fall down. jar-rin- g ' 114-foot-t- all Twice as Many Little Boys as Little Girls Left-Hand- ed i Congress, who, refused to learn By HARM AN W. NICHOLS d meUnited Press Staff Correspondent how to use , the WASHINGTON 'UP) It may chanical stenotype machines, still right interest you to know that there uses a dip pen , and d does shortwith his it at good litare twice as many ' . Y hand. d tle -- boys as there are If your young'un is little girls. n Jer-lyMiss Madison has a few little sug That is according to Miss " hand-writin- g exgestions. Madison, a pert, who has been running "He has to learn an entirely difaround the country and writing ferent technique," she told me. letters to school teachers looking "When he is very .young leave into the question of who is port-side- d him alone. If he picks up his and who isn't. spoon with the left hand it,'s all a for works who pen Jerlyn, right. But give him all the help what learned everybody you can." company, else knew before the pen people And when ne goes to school spent all that money on research talk with the teacher and let her nobody knows what makes a know his problem." "There is no reason why he person ' . Great Painters can't live a fine normal life," she But," she added, "if you have said.;:.. d child you have nothAfter all, as my pen pal points kids ' the Point about. to out: worry ing up to a hero. Leonardo da Vinci "Maybe he will grow up to be and Michelangelo," two of the President. President Garfield was greatest painters of all times, a lefty." And" how about were Babe Ruth and Robert Moses (Lefty) Grove. ' A But, Miss Madison said, a mild a does have child problem. ... he lives in a world where an awful lot of things are designed with only right-handenew-fangle- left-han- left-hand- ed left-hande- left-hande- v d, . left-hande-d! i ...'.. left-hande- left-hande- .. ...:.:'.-:.:-;- ' " Hi ry? If. I $ If TJ' Ml T VL Cr'i;-- ; T ry. Y t! The geologist, Gladstone Mardh- an of San Bruno,' Calif.,! said the appearance! of the region around Fallon "indicates .a long history of faulting." reasonable- to. assume that can expect movement along these faults in future years," he said. The latest! series of shocks began at 3:09 a.mi. PST yesterday, shak ing California, Nevada and parts of Oregon, Idaho and Utah. In Pasadena, Dr. Charles F. Richter, head of the seismological laboratory bf the California Insti tute of Technology, said after shocks from yesterday's quake "will be practically a dime a doz i en." Marchand said the shocks were caused by a four-fodrop of mil lions of tons of earth and rock on the east side of, the Clan Alpine mountain range, 47 miles east of Fallon. He said the major zone in volved was! about a mile wide. He said cracks in the earth, some several feet wide, extend direc for miles In a north-sout- h "It's - we New Dodge Custom J La D n u ot Here's the car America has named "the big one9. . . and for a lot of very good reasons! This new '55 Dodge is the Big Orw in size longer and jlarger than other cars in its price range. It's the Big One in styling with jpeauty that sets the trend for tomorrow. It's the d Big One in power and handling ease with a Super Red Ram V-- 8 engine that delivers a surging 193 horsepower. Come in and size up the '55 Dodge.. Discover for yourself how little it costs to stepp to the Big One and step out in style! tion. "I feel sure that Thursday's dis- placement iwas more severe than that of last July," he said. flair-fashion- However,! yesterday's quake caused only minor, damage be cause the earth rolled rather than jarred. Seismographs measured it at between 6.75 and slightly more! than 7 on Qie Richter scale of 10. It- caused plaster to fall from ceilings and walls, toppled chinf neys, caused highways to drop and tumbled boulders on to roads. BOBGE ed Super-Powere- FLASHES AHEAD IN STYLE - New Dodge Custom Royal Sedan 4-D- oor for the Future. Flair-Fashion- ed -- MM rs EASY TERMS: Now if a kid writes with his left hand, they let him. And the pen people are trying to help. Out fountain comes now a the othis slanted The point pen. er way for. the southpaw who writes; straight up and down. There -- is complicated who those practically for, point stand on their heads when ! they sign their names. , Shorthand Problem Some children hen they get to high school have trouble with shorthand if they are Some seem to get along fine. One of the old - time stenographers in and B.OX Jx- . . $9.95 and SAM&DAY SERVICE ON REBUILDING . up on Full Size Mattresses. - L-t-C) : ''. ' t " KING AND QUEEN SIZE MATTRESS ORTHOPEDIC TYPE MATTRESSES (A Rea. 64.50 ..... 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The Fallon; area has been jolted three times this year by quakes, the last one being yesterday's. ed mind-I- n dent. , 1 i rs i Wf.VVvW v ; , In ' s d. left-hand- n 4 She said she received 75 caHs within minutes after the quake. The temblor was felt as far south as San Jose and as far north as Hamilton field and Vallejo An Alameda housewife said the violent snaking was preceded by a rum bling noise, as if a bomb went off beneath her house. More Jolts Expected ' Meanwhile, in Fallon, Nev., a Navy geologist warned residents , s Jir W to 145 West 3rd ' South 7 drunken tiriving. motProvo, Utah e Phone 476 (o)3) O ' (buyo tilfoe K peirffecft GDFY... model straight-stitc- h NOW you can make anything BC be- cause the AUTOMATIC NCCHI does everything. From first seam to final trim the AUTOMATIC NECCHI does every stitch of the work. ..without attachments. AU YOU HAVE TO DO in its class y - in the punishing 1 908 Mile Mexican Road Race IS WATCH. 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