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Show APRIL 13, 198 Sunset Plans For City-wid- e Cleanup Gem And Mineral Show - No one SYRACUSE would believe that polished stones as beautiful as these come from around here, says Alan Kaiser as he admires a piece of limb wood that he polished in his basement lapidary shop. MR. KAISER is the vice president of the Golden Spike Gem and Mineral Society, one of the largest rock hound clubs in the state. This weekend the Golden Wind-relate- d KAYSVILLE TRAIN DERAILMENT nothing new this picture Grande and about 1930 leaning light train derailments are to Davis County, as of a Denver, Rio Western accident shows. Notice the pole in the Spike Gem and Mineral Society will be holding their annual show in Ogden. The show will move from its traditional location in the Weber State College Union Building to new quarters in the restored Union Station We will have more room for the show in the Union Station. There area available for displays is more convenient, Mr. Kaiser explains. limb wood are included in the display. Trilobites and fire agate are other good collectors choices. THE END of the pieces of limb wood have been cut and polished to expose the tree rings and the color. Outside coating of the limb wood that are left in place show the bark, worm holes and places where branches once grew out of these ancient but well preserved pieces of trees. I like this display because it shows people that there are still gem and minerals that can be collected. The big pieces probably have all been collected but these smaller samples are just as fun to find and just as beautiful as the large pieces, Mr. Kaiser believes. MR. KAISER has a very compact and efficient working area. His equipment is a com- . ville. About two years ago she By DONETA GATHERUM One simple sentence from the book East of Antelope Island" sums up nicely nearly 150 years of East Wind history. East winds have come from time to time ever since the people here can remember, doing much damage to trees and roofs." EAST WINDS originate in the mouths of the canyons along the Wasatch Front from Bountiful to Ogden when the barometric pressure becomes very high over Wyoming or very low over Nevada or Western Utah. Natives know the first sign of an East wind is a low hanging white cloud against the mountains. MARGARET Steed Hess in the book, My Farmington tells of one of the first East winds experienced by the In the fall of 1848 pioneers. The Daniel A. Miller said, first night we arrived there was a heavy east wind! To secure property, the settlers would put stout poles across their roofs; then fasten log chains to each end of the poles and to these chains, they attached large barrels of molasses, boxes and tubs filled with stones. In Mrs. Hess continues, February 1864 John Rigby of South Farmington lost his wife, Elizabeth and a small old son, John when they were blown up against a fence and frozen to death by the east wind. ONE OF the fiercest winds toppled bams, overturned a train and lifted the roof from the Farmington Elementary' school house that had just been built in 1911. The debris from the schoolhouse roof damaged Ruel Steed's new home just west of it. A two block strip of poplar trees were also uprooted by that wind. School teachers walking up the hill to the elementary school from the Bamberger Depot in Farmington during the early 1930s recall holding onto telephone poles to keep from being blown away. After school, the teachers would escort the smaller children home because the winds were so strong the children could not walk safely. CAROL IVINS Collett in her book, Kaysville Our Town, says, When the John Hooper family moved to Kays Ward (17 April 1855), they built a dugout home in the late fall. It was a poor home. The First night the east wind blew the roof off. On Nov. 16. 1864. the Deseret News reported, Davis County was visited by a terrific hurricane which damaged houses and property to an alarming extent. The south side of the Bountiful meeting house was blown off." MRS. COLLETT records, "After one east wind, the Tuttle brothers of Bountiful put a note in the paper asking if those who lived on Antelope Island found any hats, to please return them. When Joseph Egbert was y adobe building his home in Kaysville, who had lived in the two-stor- community for nearly 10 years, warned him that a struc- ture that high could never withstand an east wind. The year was about 1860. JOHN R. Barnes is said to have built well against the East winds. Mrs. Collett reports, He insisted the east walls be four bricks thick and he had shutters made for all the east windows of his homes and store." The Clipper dated Oct. 26, 1906 reported, By far the most disastrous calamity in the history of Davis County was the East wind we had Saturday and Sunday night. The damage it did in the county can never be estimated. It swept things before it almost like a tornado. It destroyed the new packing plant and did terrible damage to telephone and telegraph lines especially to the Bell Company. IDA SMITH White was one of the Tirst Hello Girls or telephone operators in Kays mother got him to kill a chicken. She cooked it and fixed some other things she had in the house so the family would have Christmas dinner. recalled one experience she had with an East wind. The storm came up early in the evening and the day operator decided not to try to make it home. The wind broke off an awning in front of the Sheffields store which housed the THE DAY after Christmas, Bill Firth and three other neighbors hooked some horses telephone office. Hanging to a sleigh and headed for pieces of metal hit into the Ogden to get coal and other supplies for several families who had run out. We had to walk more than half the way into Ogden to keep warm," Mr. Firth recalls. W'hen the East wind blew hard, animals would refuse to leave the barn to go for food or glass windows. The two young telephone operators wrapped themselves in quilts and stood behind a counter in the store all night to protect themselves from flying glass. The phone lines were down so they couldn't call for help. water. BY MORNING, the wind had stopped enough to allow the girls to open the door. They three-corner- vary from the usual pink. Bright red, yellow-orangbrown and other shades of e, piece on top blew Elder Matthew J. Denhal-te- r, son of John and Karen of West Point, has been called to the Massachusetts er of a mile away from where the barn stood. store and ate cheese and crackers, the first food they had had for many hours. The store front was boarded up and no one knew the girls were inside. They tried to get someones attention by yelling through the cracks in the boards. Finally, two men who were walking by the store heard their cries and helped them. supplies will all be part of this outstanding show. Mr. Kaiser will display his limb wood. Most of the pieces have come from the Texas Spring, Nev. area, a region known for pink limb wood. While some of Mr. Kaisers specimans are pink in color there are many pieces that LDS Mission ONE YEAR the Firths hay barn blew over. The went down into Sheffields EXHIBITS, displays, demonstrations and tables for dealers in rocks and lapidary After the East winds stopped, children would play on the 10 to 12 foot deep snow drifts. I guess we thought sliding down the drifts was fun, Mr. Firth says in a laughing manner. Boston Mission. HIS FAREWELL will be held Sunday, April 17 at 2 p.m. at the West Point Stake Center, 550 N. 2300 W West Point. ROCK HOUNDING as a hobby started for Alan Kaiser in 1977 when the national gem and mineral show was held in Ogden. A friend at Hill Field got him started. At first, Alan and his family just went on a few field trips. "It gave us a chance to get out in a quiet place. The trips were close to home. We could go as a family for the weekend, says Alan. Mrs. Kaiser likes collecting. She hasnt done much with the slabbing and polishing end of the process. The Kaisers old son is rapidly becoming interested in this hobby that is so easily adapted to families. LAPIDARY is a skill that is best learned through doing. I have watched others and read about the processes. Mostly, I have just experimented until I got it right. Some stones have been ruined. Im not brave enough to try cutting some rocks yet. I havent started working obsiddian. Its a soft rock that shatters easily, Mr. Kaiser states. Gathering topaz and geodes are among the favorite activities the Kaiser family enjoys. ar - SUNSET The Sunset City Council have set up the e clean-u- p week of May as time. Citizens should prepare now to have their yard spring clean-utrimmings ready for pickup. 6 p bination saw, grinder and polisher. Well-organize- city-wid- THE CITY has been divided into sections so the pickup work can be done systematically. The area from 800 to 1300 North will be serviced on May 2. Crews will work in the 1300North to 1800 North area on May 3. May4is clean up time for 1800 North to 2300 North. On May 5 the residents living from 2300 North to the limits will be worked. Crews will go back through the city on May d drawers and slots have been designed into a cabinet above the main power equipment unit so they can house rock specimans and supplies. Mr. Kaiser's collection is large. He could spend the rest of his life working on the rocks he has gathered. Many items in the lapidary work area have been carefully designed by Mr. Kaiser. An inexpensive rack made from a clothes hanger holder holds a gravity-flobottle containing water which drops onto the saw blade, cooling it. This apparatus resembles an I.V. hook-u- p in a hospital. THE LENGTH OF time it takes to turn a piece of rock into a cut, shaped and polished gem stone depends on the hardness of the rock, the degree of polish desired and the durability of the craftsman, Mr. Kaiser says. Some stones can be worked up in an hour. city-coun- ty 6. More information on the dmg clean-u- will be given later, p Insurance Is Topic At Layton Kiwanis The Layton Kiwanis Club meeting at the Valley View Golf Club for their regular Saturday breakfast meeting on April 9, heard Scott Deru, Layton insurance man speak on the insurance business. INSURANCE, at its inception in England, was a form of tavern patrons wager betw-eeon the lives of seafarers. Later it was organized as a form of risk sharing among contracting parties. Today it is a highly sophisticated business by which risks are shared and profits made for investors. Many people today fail to read their policies and, accordingly, they do not know what their coverage is and fail to make claims for their legitimate losses. This is particularly true of home owners policies. Casualty loss policies come in many forms. Some only provide coverage of original cost. Others will pay replacement costs. Only about one out of every five legitimate claims actually is filed with the Others take longer. Some seem to never get finished. In addition to the limb wood display that Alan Kaiser has planned for the gem and mineral show, he w ill be demonstrating the cabbing and polishing process. Everyone is invited to observe him working and using equipment that is affoidable. THE BEST thing about lapidary for a hobby is that you never get bored. After you start you find plenty of rocks to collect and polish. You get out and see parts of Utah that few people visit. You can involve your family. The hobby is relaxing. The end product is beautiful, Mr. Kaiser says in a very convincing manner, dmg insurers. IT IS A good idea to check on the rating of an insurance company before buying a policy from its agent. Ratings are published by Bests and are available through most insurance brokers. Mr. Deru re- commends that home owners only deal with companies rated as A or A plus by Bests. Ser- vice or coverage is too restricted when you deal with lower rated companies. State law requires 10 automobile liability cover- -' age. This means $20,000 personal injury coverage per individual per occupant, $40,000 total personal injury coverage per occurance and $10,000 property damage per occurance. This coverage is much too low to provide adequate protection. Higher limits are advisable. In addition, coverage for losses to the insured himself is available. This cov- erage is called collision and comprehensive. Many combinations of coverage are available. mers Union building and - fa aa -- ,, George Morgan and Mr. Adams got Mr. Morgans truck and they worked through the hay stack feeling to find the horses with their hands. They pulled two of the animals out of the jumbled hay by hooking onto the animals with a log chain and then attaching the 90-DA- SAME AS PAYMENT TILL JULY 19S3 soachoicespecia chain to the truck. Three ONL horses died. I GUESS most of the hay ended up in the lake, Mr. Adams states. Mrs. Marge Adams says in the 1920s while she was attending Davis High School the East wind blew over a blue spruce tree belonging to Ollie Layton. SHE SAYS when she was a child growing up in Clearfield PLUSUHIS Center. South Weber can be called the Wind Capital of Davis County. Each morning a breeze blows out of the mouth of the canyon. East winds strike this community with great force, drifting snow and closing roads. BILL FIRTH grew up in South Weber. He says a real East wind lasts three days. When there is a foot or snow or more on the ground, drifts pile so high on fences that animals were able to leave the corrals and walk across fields on top of the drifts. One year when Mr. Firth was a young man an East wind started about three days before Christmas. A family that lived near the Firth home couldnt get anything for their five children for Christmas. The man worked for wages and he hadnt been paid. Snow drifts were so deep that it was impossible to get out of the yard even with a team of horses. Bills Kaysville Radene Raymond of Weber State College, Brian Raymond of Brigham Young University were Easter weekend guests of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks and daughter Susie and husband Gary and son David of Pennsylvania were house-guest- s for four days of Mr. and Mrs. Keith G. 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