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Show Car Leaves Highway Careens Into Clef ford Evans Home Extensive damages were sustained sus-tained by the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clefford Evans in Parowan early Monday morning, about an hour after the advent of the new year, when a 1959 Ford Station wagon, owned and driven by Caudell Orton, also of this city, went out of control on the turn at the south end of Parowan's Main Street and crashed Into the living room of the home. The car which clipped off sev-oral sev-oral guard posts north of the bridge on the turn, left the highway, high-way, went between lilac bushes on the Evans lawn and clipped off a small ornamental tree at the edge of the house entrance porch before hitting the home, also sustained heavy damage. Fortunately no one received any injuries in the accident with Mr. Orton and Worth L. Orton who was with him in the car. being uninjured. Mrs. Evans, who with her husband were asleep in the room Just north of the living room where the car came to rest, and who was rudely awakened by the crash, is suffering from severe shock and Is still being kept under sedatives at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Evans. This is the second time in the past two weeks that a car has taken out the guard pests north of the bridge and gone out of control on this turn-Called turn-Called In co Investigate the accident ac-cident were Gordon Farnsworth of the State Highway Patrol and Spencer W. Lemmon, Iron County deputy sheriff. They reported that estimates of damage to the home and its furnishings amount to approximately $3,000, while the front, right fender and side of the station wagon were crushed. The driver of the car was held in the local Jail until the next morning before being released, according to deputy sheriff Lemon Lem-on who states that Mr. Orton has been given a citation for driving a car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was taken before Precinct Justice of the Peace Warren Pendleton and was released under a bond of $150 to await his appearance in Justice court on the charge. |