| Show Community Brother rohrs Help Wind Wend Hat family Once Once awhile in awhile an 10 incident brings to light the fact that people do realize that they are arc their brothers brother's keeper This t- t picture is a prime example of this truth A week ago Monday l when I the wind whistled through Davis County at the rate of more than 60 miles per hour it left many mam ill effects This was the first reaU really severe wind ind storm since the state stale T road department had finished their improvements at the Farmington junction of US U.S. t Highway 89 and Utah WELL THEY TIlEY had made a abig abig abig big cut in a sand hill at the junction During the storm torm tons of this loose sand sana san blew around the corner to the west Across the road from this sand hill sits the Ule home of B. B Grant Johnson and his family When When whon the sand began drifting around their home and i in n through every 1 I e crevice they had to evacuate e to Mrs Johnsons Johnson's mothers' mothers THREE DAYS later when they v began egan moving back barl in m. m the they faced a terrific up clean-up job There was sand as deep as four inches on some of the beds and deeper than that on the window windowsills After the inside cleaning job was started they contacted the state road department for assistance in clearing dearing the sand from Crom their yard But Mr Johnson w was s afraid his lawn tawn and shrubs would be ruined before beCore the assistance was provided provided provided pro pro- vided and he voiced this opinion to one of his neighbors neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors Grant Lloyd SATURDAY Y morning four tractors six trucks and almost an army of young oung boys and men from the North Farmington Farming- Farming ton ward Priesthood quorums arrived armed with shovels shovel rakes and brooms to tack tackle the mammoth up clean-up I task Two of the tractors began began be be- began gan gently scraping the sand I into piles The other two scooped it up into the trucks Then the workers shoveled raked and swept it out of the places the tractors couldn't get jet to By Bj 3 pm p.m. they had hauled approximately 20 yards ards of sand and from the front and side lawns awns and cleaned out the Johnsons Johnson's raspberry patch Theres still a big pile pite left in inthe inthe the he back yard ard but were we're hoping hoping hop- hop ing ng the state road will take care of that Mr Johnson said But well we'll never be able to o repay all aU these men and boys for the wonderful Job they did here so willingly and so uncomplainingly he add ad ad- d ded d. d HE liE SAID that although they i have a wind wind damage damage insurance insurance I ance ante policy it has a clause in it that says no payment will wilt willbe willbe be made for any damage caused b by the wind unless a window or door is broken in a wall knocked down or a roof blown off by the wind bf I |
