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Show $1,000 Reward Is Offered by UP&L Vandal Information Utah Power & Light Co. on Tuesday offered a $1,000 reward re-ward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsbile for the shooting of a high-voltage power line conductor that caused widespread power outages out-ages in Central Utah late Friday. Fri-day. UP&L officials reported the shooting incident occurred just north of the city of Springville and caused the severance of a 138,000 volt power line which fell into a 44,000 volt line, causing cau-sing power loss to parts of Utah and north Juab and Sanpete counties for several hours. Speaking for the utility, J. L. Shoemaker, manager of public pub-lic affairs, said this type of vandalism is not only thoughtless thought-less and costly, but dangerous. "The vandals forget or ignore the fact that thousands of people are inconvenienced, some of whom may be seriously serious-ly ill, or dependent upon an iron lung or other life-saving apparatus that requires electricity." elec-tricity." Under Utah statuteqs, persons per-sons convicted ox shooting any power line or related facilities can be charged with criminal offense and subject to both fine and imprisonment. Shoemaker said that Friday's act of vandalism van-dalism cost the company and its customers many thousands of dollars "certainly an avoidable expense affecting the cost of electricity," he said. |