Show V V V v v v v v v v v v v J f JLong fA A LUCKY l MISHAP SHAP AT THAT I Long dista distance ce telephone service for Southern Utah cut cutoff cutoff nearly all of was Ii off for several hours Dec 16 when a truck driven by Curtis Armstrong of I Ephraim went out of control and 9 sheared off a telephone pole near the Shand sheds between Manti and Eph- Eph raim laim Mr Armstrong had just started for forthe forthe l. l the deseret with a heavy load of bucks hay and grain and was traveling traveling traveling travel- travel ing south when the steering mechanism median median- ism broke and the truck headed off 2 the road and l into the telephone pole t later tipping over In the few seconds between the time the steering wheel i became entirely useless and the time of the crash and tip over Mr Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Arm- Arm strong says he had three thoughts o turn off the ignition get out from behind the steering wheel so as not t I to be pinned Finned there and get out of the truck before it would have time to toca ca catch on fire When he crawled from the overturned overturned overturned over- over turned truck he found his hurts to be V. V 3 4 one bruised elbow The bucks were J thrown clear and none of them was I. I J F hurt The truck was badly damaged and now the Armstrongs have a new one a Telephone Company repairmen were on the job in short order and had the thelong thelong long distance service restored within a few hours i 1 |