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Show e y '&! $, DESERET NEWS, 'K Friday, February 12, 1971 A3 v V' 'A'i I K- - . V V 3 t?.. 1' 4 i y ff : A 4v ; ' - t 4 , g ( jNantfdM 'r ' J 1 is!f ' ? - nli 'V' WJ ' r A k,' ?$ .Tgyja - 0 ?; , & , lahfif V jf ?4 'JtwSR. ' Z. Ja r5sM v.v. "V isaegfSL 1 X0&5 & '' ' . t At 'A V. (m ,r- j$ x - v'V , - &' , Deseret News photo by Steve Gibson Members of Dee Christensen family, Sylmar, were forced to move into yard of their $60,000 home after quake damaged it. 16 SPENT THE NIGHT Church Aide's Home Haven To Members EDITOR'S NOTE. Sieve Gibson, Deson eret News staff the scene in the San Fernando Valley, aftermath writes of the earthquake among members of The Church of Saints. Jesus Christ of Latter-da- More people were wandering in and out of the house all Wednesday morning getting food. There was some food in the house from the food storage program, but Jim Easton brought more food, water and sleeping bags up from El Monte about 40 miles away. Among those who spent the were night at the Eastons William A. Jones, bishop of the San Fernando Ward, and his family, plus the family of his first counselor, Rudolph P. Kuhn. Church Another member from Salt Lake City who was By STEVE GIBSON Deseret News Staff Writer SAN FERNANDO, CALIF. Sixteen persons, most of them Church members, who had been evacuated from their homes spent Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Alex Easton, president of the San Fernando Stake Relief Society, even though the home was without lights, water or utilities. L.A. Quake Victim Continued from First Page and friends or in hotels. However, with several streets and highways closed due to the mass return was expected to be hectic. In addition, the four-daweekend was sure to produce monumental traffic in area freeways and California Highway patrolmen were expectalmost horrendous, ing a unbelievable traffic pam. The massive temblor ripped scores of thoroughfares and three interstate freeways and two state highways in the valley were closed. Patrol Information Office-- J. D. Tripodo said the average California motorist, is used to heavy traffic as he is. just isnt going to believe the mess well have . . The CHP asked motorists not to travel north out of the Los Angeles basin this weekend. if at all possible. We realize that no one will pay attention to us. Tripodo but were said, asking alive from the rubble since Tuesday afternoon. were Five other persons missing in the wreckage. Damage caused by the 6.5 quake was still magnitude but county offireported being cials said it would top $1 billion. Buildings in a area sustained some sort of quake-damag- y damagp. Abuut four miles away from the hospital, the lake behind Van Norman Dam was being lowered three inchps an hour, steadily easing the threat of another catastrophe should an aftershock jolt the earthen levee. Some 120,000 residents of an mite area below the quaxe-cracke- d dam prepared to rpturn to their homes this afternoon as the danger of the dam burst- ing subsided. The residents were ordered to leave their homes, most in the $25,000 to $.50,000 ebss, after it w'as determii.ed that thp dam holding more than three billion gallons of water would not be safe until it was lowered. were provided Thousands shelter at Red Cross centers set up at five schools and the others stayed with relatives anyway." As the displaced persons returned to their homes, water and power department workers worked around the clock to restore w'ater to some 17,000 persons in San Fernando. Be the first to choose from this selection of decoroior the Kuhns, Henry Quince St., Spitzbardt, also spent the night at the Eastons. Another overnight guest, not a Church member, Axel Ditlevson, San Francisco, said he had also been through th 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. There were about 50 students in two seminary classes at the San Fernando Ward House, 13680 Sayre St., when the earthquake hit Tuesday. They all ran outside and the teachers told them to lie down on the ground away from the building. The chapel, which is shared with Sylmar Ward, has quite a few cracks in the w'alLs and the steeple is out of line about veiling sofas Spanish, Modern, Traditional and Contemporary designs in choice fabrics and colors! Save as much as 50 and even more! These will sell fast . . . don't miss the gigantic savings. Be here when the doors 264 fot at SAT. ONLY 400 the price 33V3! The suite Is highlighted by a rich Oak trestle table with an inlaid top and two 18" leaves plus 1 arm and 3 side chairs with comfortable foam seats and handsome high backs! 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Three in coordinated tables Spanish oak finish including coffee table, corner table, square or hexagonal commode with much needed store space. Final touch, three velveteen Ottomans top.-Kuh- ors. Wednesday the two men went to the bishop's storehouse in Sylmar to get juice, food and blankets. I saw sidewalks and roads in the buckled noticeably area. In one place the side- w'alk was buckled up in four places, with the slabs raised about two feet. There have been 100 or more tremors since the first one at 6 a.m. Tuesday, including two rather severe ones Tuesday at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. I was in a home wdiere the walls were shaking for about 10 seconds. They called it a tremor, but I called it an . . . onen! and the his son spent the night at the chapel because there are a lot of prowlers around. 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