Show Dont Don't Shoo Insulators Wanton shooting of insulators by frustrated marksmen marksmen marksmen marks marks- men is an old story to electric utilities but this type of thoughtless vandalism is becoming becoming becoming be be- coming Increasingly serious EARLY T TillS IS week Blanding Blanding Bland Bland- ing and the extreme southeastern southeast em ern comer corner of Utah was without electricity for some three hours all all because it was necessary to cut service to repair two high voltage air brake switches riddled by bullets And in another part of the country sometime ago a mother moth moth- er and daughter were burned to death in a horrible sickening manner maMer as a direct result of insulator in insulator insulator in- in damage by marksmen who failed tailed to find anything more interesting to shoot SHOOTING of Insulators and other facilities is not a new experience experience experience ex ex- ex- ex with Utah Power Light Light- who in a typical year is plagued with hun hundreds of Incidents Incidents' incidents incidents incidents' inci inci- dents dents' of ridden bullet-ridden tors Just recently crewmen patrolling a high high- voltage line counted 50 insulators 1 shot and broken on two structures alone o On the ground below lay discarded discarded discarded dis dis- carded ammunition boxes and shell cases Often such damage goes undetected undetected un un- detected until storms and wet weather cause the partially unprotected unprotected unprotected un un- un- un protected lines t to flash over The result line outage and emergency repairs under the most unfavorable conditions AND IT IS a good bet that the perpetrators of such uch trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble would yell the loudest when their power went off |