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Show Sunday. March 27, nwy By MARA CALLISTER : Herald SUff Writer Heavy, wet snow, falling much ; faster than usual for this season, ; spurred city street crews to action Uor 18 hours Thursday. Friday, and left some homes without electricity until late Friday night. ', V Mayor James Fergusen said it I took 100 tons of salt to clear Provo I roads covered by 12 to 16 inches of "very, very wet snow," 1983 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Slurp 100 Toms The Parks Department used mett, executive assistant to the "virtually the same number of mayor. "There were literally hundreds people," Gamett says, to clear of outages. Four people stayed on fallen limbs and branches from 1 the phones taking addresses all a.m. Thursday through Friday evening. day Friday." Most of the calls were reporting Thursday's snowstorm broke spot outages, which Gamett says are the most difficult kind to fix more limbs and trees than usual because crews have to trace main because of its heavy consistency has started flowpower lines from the transformer and because sap trees into the again, making all the way to the home to locate ing said Ga breakable, more them lines. the snapped Nine equipment units worked 18 hours straight to clear the streets. Another 10 crews of 28 people worked from 7 p.m. Thursday until nearly 10 p.m. Friday to restore power cut off in various community: neighborhoods in "As far as we know, all services are back but some are only temporary because we have to rebuild mainlines going all the way back to the homes," said Leland Ga- - ers busy in Utah County. Thursday and Friday, troppers reported 21 accidents on Utah none fatal. County highway During good weather, the Highway Patrol may not get one accident call, says Johnson. Provo Police handled 14 accidents in the city Thursday and y Friday. During a normal period, the police station say they respond up to 10 accidents. The mayor blames the wet, fast snowfall for keeping Provoans without heat or light for many hours. Next week, crews will have to replace the temporary power lines they put iu place Friday with permanent ones. two sepa- Besides contributing rate fatalities on temporary Interstate 15 in Juab County, the snowstorm kept Highway Patrol troop two-da- ffr Treasury lauds IMF (Continued from Page 1.) 'department declared that our 'economy functions with an increasingly interdependent world economy. "Exports of American goods land services, as a share of the ;U.S. Gross National Product, do- ubled between 1970 and 1979, and account for about 12 percent GNP. I At present, roughly 20 percent of ; all goods produced in the U.S. and 40 percent of our agricultural goes into export." J "We no longer live in a world ; where adversity in the economy of a foreign country will not affect J the United States," the report ' stated, noting that more than five percent of our labor force is jobs. employed in export-relate- d I To explain the interaction of the Treasury I world economies, this cited example: Department "This year, if lenders were to pull back sharply in the absence of any interest or action on the part of the major industrial countries, new lending could begin to dry up. !And what would happen then? ; Trade would have to be reduced to match the new lower ' sharply level of external financing." '. "For the U.S., growth would be about one percentage point less than we're expecting, and our trade deficit would grow very rapidly due to the loss of $12 billion or so in exports to the developing world. Lost jobs in vital export sectors would make I recovery that much more diffi-- ; Sale prices effective through Monday April 4th ON ; cult." "Furthermore, if debtor nations I cannot service their debts and 'interest payments to U.S. banks ;are more than 90 days late, the banks stop accruing them on their I books. They suffer reduced profits I and bear the costs of continued ; funding of the loan. Provisions may have to be made for loss, and t as loans are actually written off, 1 the capital of the bank is re-- l duced." ; "In that case the capital-asse- t I ratios of the creditor banks would 'ratios would shrink. American ; banks would then have to take measures to restore their ratios ; and banks wuld be forced to make fewer loans to all borrowers, do- Jnestic and foreign. And this is not city' problem. just a 'big bank-bi- g Banks in most states are involved. Auto loans in Cincinnati, housing Joans in Dallas, capital expansion loans in California would all be New Spring Styles ,000 Suits to choose from Most vested, some Wool and wool blends nt Polyester Woven Distinguished names like Botany "500", James Edmond and others Free alteration? $1 50 to s245 13 OFF OUR ENTIRE STOCK H BOYS CLOTHING Boys' Suits and Shirts Sizes 10-2- 0 cubt ei ceic 9 sj5 OkU off if fa) Irar I affected." The Treasury Department em- phasizes that a sound world economy is crucially important to recovery and growth, and de-- ; clared that support for the IMF is key part of the overall effort to Reg. 16.00 achieve a healthy U.S. economy. Okelberry Aid Tops $17,000 I SfmcMm E Fmmfjp im Ji Jl PX?! n jji 3 " fM'&sL mnTT- - MEN'S iti&lS&r I XT i ' JTI III 1 Kt OFF off J& l MEN'S ' SPORT SHOES Our entire stock of over 200 Sport Coats on sale! Hurry for best , lf 85057. '. 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