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