38 A The Salt Lake | Tribune, Monday, Dee. L.A. Water Utility’s Insurance: $14,800,000/¢r said it isn’t certain it can LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (AP) Baldwin Hills Reservoir? Pos-|b€ held liable. However, the —To whom can you turn for fi- 16, 1963. LA, Panelto Seek Answers sibly Los Angeles City, which | utility is protected by. $14, 800, 000 jnancial help if your. home was| built and owns the reservoir. But|. destroyed or heavily damaged |officials of the Los Angeles City ne Hsurance, placed with 12 | by Seen Break hys’=i ‘of Dam | To ©@Los‘WAngelesTimes = elvis speculated on by aul # ¢ # e e LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 — Alties and other experts in ‘dam| complete investigation was or-|construction, “dered Sunday ‘by Mayor Samuel movements. soil and earth ae -W. Yorty to find out why the Water and Power. Department & ‘Baldwin Hills’ Reservoir | dam engineers were at the scene “collapsed. _ : po to discover evident ' Members of. he Boark: of » Water and Power Commission> ers met Sunday afternoon to:| ' form a ae board. of ee ay gquiry, _ While they met, — ares 0 workers swarmed j “to clean up. the thick Aad and tthenow i of its “debris left when millions of 300 million gallons of w gallons of water roared out of -a breach in the dam ¢at 3:38 p.m. of ragged “Saturday. holes in the rc {top surface of the earth-fi | ‘SOME ‘OBSERVERS crack and then break was ae, | WHAT CAUSED. the da |subsidence caused from¢ jing removed from the area. | Others have raised the Pos ssi-| -|pility of earth movement responsible for a weakening g ih: could not withstand the© pressure from the water iif | rosy ik LEADING soil sue pert No painful rabbing Ont Heiss | asked not to be identified in tube and bottle at sour diuggist’s. there has been significant ¢ ing and stretching of the in the Baldwin Hills since Ro rR re d | in Los Angeles Sz homes when the Baldwin Hills Reservoir broke | on front porch | reservoir. hm CUTS. oy , Flidwaters sweeping down this rowy oF canyon r) ae ie <— i farea: af ee city. in ‘periods of | stru {peak demand. axis. The bottom and et wit hae asphalt ‘More than a- million cubic : yards ‘of ‘compacted earth fill| cq . went into the eee enchaniment ei a P ‘wasee love in service oT destined to last a lifetime. diss. traditionally. expressed. in fine diamonds. and precious tax. m : $222.50 aM BSS <So eravcrion OF. the as- | yhaltic concrete-lined reservoir ‘Ajdesigned to contain 292,442,000 jgallons of drinking water—897 acre-feet—was begun in JanIiuary, 1947. The City Department of Waer and Power describes the 20acre reservoir as “‘one of the most important water works projects in the postwar period.” wT HAD A DUAL purpose of | providing close-in storage and |maintaining adequate water Jada 68 in the southwestern BERS ZP a met als such as this sophisticated © solitaire, designed by master craftsmen. Price pada is HS ® Se Sh RSE ‘ SNORE eft unusual “visitor” at left — an auto. p ae | The me OES SRE ne dam |a sides and flood water from bs burst Department of Water and Pow- companies.