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Show r. Snenccr, mivcrsl 141 J Microfilm Pierpent Avenue Utah City. 01 vs,v CIRCULATION 278 2860 If you your Ratio Tkonday Mipkt, ACTION ADS 278 4142 No- - by picoM coll and a paper will be tokco to your komo by 10 A.M. Friday momma NEWS. ADVERTISING 278 2866 Vol.X fail to racaita copy of t k c gs ; 28 Southeast Sail Lake 2263 Eat 1800 South Community 'S - August 5, 1965 10 Weekly Newspaper WHAT NEXT ' Commission chairman M.irv m G Jenson climaxed three tough days and nights supervising road crews in clean up operations witti a meeting Monday night, August 2. at Midvale llirary before a capacity crowd of liose homes were damaged. residents Sharing the platform, above, is flood control engineer David Gardner and Commissioner William G I arson. 1 Patch Up Will Cost 1156,455 .Water Sweeps Path Of Destruction It was a hot summer morning Children were outside playing and the usual daily chores were taking place in Holladay F as storm clouds began to gather and darken overhead. Then the rain came, virtually descednmg in sheets over the Wasatch foothills, running down streets and through yards in small rivers After about an hour, with the storm still growing in intensity, a roaring wall of water rushed down the canyon, sweeping a grotesque, path of destruction The Stan Jones' family at4979Namloa Drive, described the experience as it There was a flash happened to them: of lightening followed almost immediately with a crack of thunder In the next instant we hear a roaring sound, the house shook, and then the basement window broke and water began to fill the house like a muddy swimming pool." The home was like dotens of others hit in the freak path of the flash flood Friday that wiped out yards and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to homes as they were hit by rushing water on each block generally in threes, leaving homes on either side virtually untouched by comparison. The heaviest damage was reported above and below Wasatch Blvd. in the ri-d- ay area erf 4430 South. Some of the residents interviewed in these areas Friday as the storm began to subside expressed shock and disIt happened so suddenly, everybelief, thing was normal,, but look!" were typical comments of the stunned home owners as they beheld devastated beautiful, finished yeards and basements filled with four to five feet of mud and water. Above the boulevard, a trailer house was reported to have washed down the hill, and at the home of J E Carlson, 3416 Bernada Drive, a 60 foot width of a seven-focinder block wall crumbled under the pressure of the water that backed up against it The wall narrowly missed hitting Stephen C. Pickering, 4575 Bernada Circle, who was standing in his back yard at the time The two men said this is the third time they have had to fill m dirt after a storm, but this is by far the worst As they hauled dirt several blocks in wheelbarrows, aided by wives, children and neighbors who all worked together to repair the damage late into the night they pointed out areas where gardens, huge rocks and soil had washed away. "These lousy gutters won't carry the water off, they said, gesturing toward the round gutters and showing how the water washed up over their property instead of running down the streets Rumors began spreading about a tennis court in the neighbor ot hood that was completely filled with mud so that only three inches of net was visable, a home nearby that had been seriously flooded, and others. Mr. and Mrs C. C. Bonner, 4566 Deer Creek Road were also among those who worked through the night The couple was not at home when the storm hit, but came home to find basement windows el broken out on both sides of the home after water had forced through a back window, filled the basement with water and finally escaped when it broke front windows Evidence of its destructive force could be seen m the twisted walls and furnaces that had literally been uprooted by the water. ' Several homes were hard hit on Wallace Lane, one of the streets that was buried with mud and damaged from the storm. One home was evacuated shortly after the flood when water broke abasement window and snapped a gas pipe Ted Bushman, 4721 Ichabod Street, reported heavy damage in his area Several of the residents formed a group and were represented at the Ufiod control meeting Monday evening by Attorney Earl Tanner. Mr Bushman said drainage on Wasatch Blvd has not been adequate "The path of the water as it flowed over the boulevard can be traced down the hill; one house would be ruined while one next door would not be hit It's surprising what must be thrown out as a result Many yards are still saturated, he (Continued on Page 4) two-lev- Ml. Olympus Fire Station $156,455 - Flood Control $450,000 PI AN David I Gardner outlines pipeline system to prevent future flooding before Monday night meeting of The cost of clean-u- p crew alone, mostly Neighborhood Yoilh Corp personnel, amounted to $13,716 through August 3 The estimated cost of curb and gutter repair and replacement as well as repairing or replacing roadways and shoulders damaged was $142,739. I NEVER WANT TO SEE ANOTHER MUD PIE " Mrs. Sam Kichas. 4711 - Ichabod Street, has seen enough mud to last a lifetime Members of the Neighborhood Youth Corps shoveled over three feet of mud from the basement of her home Tuesday, left by Friday's flash flood. School Pay Decision Awaits Mass Meeting Maybe they will and maybe they won't teach next year Whatever happens, all 2,000 members of the Granite Education Association will participate in making the decision Moves Ahead Book Tycoon Improve fire protection for the Mount ' area moved another step toward reality Tuesday afternoon, August 3 The Salt Lake Library Board, meeting with fire department officials and county John Preston Creer, commissioner agreed to sell a portion o f property owned by the board near 39th South and Wasatch Boulevard The fire department will begin immediately planning a fire station for the site. On July 20, Commissioner Creer proposed double --duty for the Mount Olympus site suggesting that a library-fir- e station complex be built. He pointed out that fire insurance rates in Salt Lake County are high Added fire protection would serve to reduce insurance rates At the same time, the new station would greatly reduce time required for equipment to reach the Mount Olympus area, thereby reducing dancer to lives and property Mr. Creer said a real estate appraiser will establish the price to be paid for the portion of the property to be used by the fire department Liquidates Olympus DIGGING OUT Sherman Nielson and Greg Sachs plow through water, mud and floating debris in the basement of Stan Jones, 4379 Naniloa Drive, after flood waters ravaged the Holladay area While homeowners continued to pump basements and shovel mud, county officials sat down to tally the cost of the weekends torrential rainfall. Although damage to homes in the flood path is incalculable, Salt Lake County Commission chairman Marvin G Jerfton reported Wednesday morning that the cost to taxpayers for cleanup operations, street and gutter repares and replacement would total at least Huge Stock Commerce at any level moves more smoothly via Pocky Mountain Review want ads A Federal Heights woman reports when her sou was ordered to liquidate tus extensive comic book holdings, he promptly picked the fastest selling medium around little Review "A ctioo Ad" sold over 300 of them at five cents each Figure it out Neat little Ac-tio- o" O' profit on a $1 investment-i- . . nothing fanadvertising ny about that Whatever you want to sell and tell simply dial the girl you want A ctioo" 278-41- to accept pay terms offered by the school board for 1965-6- 6 br whether to try again for a more generous con- tract GEA faculty representatives last Thursday, July 29, voted to call a mass teacher's meeting for August 19. The location has not been announced Salary bargaining between a GEA negotiating team and the Granite School Board has been dragging along for nearly a year. The latest breakdown occured when the school board agreed to several conditions asked by the teacher's organ nation but refused to consider revising the salary schedule for the coming year. The changes Involved would result in per month increases at certain salary levels. There would be no increase in pay at the beginning level or at the highest steps in the salary scale. Granite Superintendent Elmer J. Hart-vigssaid the requested revisions, however, would cost the district an estimated $5,000 which, he said is simply anticinot possible out of the 1965-6- 6 pated tax revenue Teachers evidently believe othereconomies in wise and have other portions of the school district budget In the meantime, Kenneth C, Johnson, GEA president, reminded all members that contracts for next year, should they be mailed, are to be returned to the GEA office unsigned. The district, Mr Hartvigsen said, is preparing a letter which win be mailed to all classroom teachers explaining the board's position in the roam mum $4 en r'gsd 4 .. THE WALL CAME TUMBLING DOWN-Howinstead of the biart of a trumpet as in the Battle of Jericho, the wall (ell after several feet of water backed up against it Friday. Surveying the damage is Stephen C. Pickering, 4575 Bernada Circle, who narrowly missed being hit when a 60 foot width of the seven foot wall fell ever, |