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<br />page 43 <br /> <br />VOLUNTEEH LAUDED <br />Sheriff I s officers and postle police, civil defense, <br />Red Cross personnel and volunteers coordinated efforts to <br />prevent personal tragedies, Getz said. <br />Red Cross personnel, alerted by ~~s. S. L. Fredregill, <br />gave aid to families taken to Long-Berg Hall. They provided <br />sheets and pillow cases, coffee and doughnuts. <br />Posse members, equipped with two-way radios, 4-wheel <br />drive vehicles and a boat, help evacuate families on Franklin <br />and Cleveland street and No. 7th Ave. <br />They went in relays to trouble spots in Charmony and <br />Whitcomb addition where sandbagging operations continued <br />thru much of the night. <br />Roy Cullip, operator of an ambulance service, used his <br />ambulance to help evacuate people. <br />CROP DAMAGE <br />County agent Jim Read said it has not been possible to <br />assess crop damage. <br />"Irrigated crops around Sterling were damaged, but crops <br />not flooded will benefit," Read said. <br />"Standing water will hurt, but we don't know to what <br />extent," Read said. "There was a lot of silt. <br />Read, who lives two miles north of Sterling on Sidney <br />Avenue, evacuated his home last night. His family moved <br />into a motel. <br />The Troy Greenwood home nearby had a foot of water, <br />Read said. <br />"The water came in fast when the ditches broke," Read <br />said. <br />4 FEET DEEP <br />Mike Kerker told the J -A water was 4 feet deep at the <br />Shell warehouse west of Sterling this morning. He said it <br />had dropped only 2 inches by 11:30 a.m. <br />Littler said ther is no danger of' river floods from <br />yesterday's rain. <br />Prewitt reservoir is low and will take water from the <br />South Platte River if it rises. <br />Jake Artzer reported about 3 inches of rain between <br />Stoneham and New Raymer and said water was flowing in <br />Pawnee Creek. <br />However, Littler checked Pawnee and highway 14 this <br />morning and found only a trickle. <br />NUMEROUS OUTAGES <br />Public Service Company reported numerous outages in <br />Sterling, Peetz, Willard and Stoneham. <br />"Our biggest problem was inability to reach trouble <br />spots," Ken Levengood, PSC manager here said. <br />Outages were reported at the Joe Oliverius farm and a <br />neighbor east of Peetz. PSC crews finally reached them this <br />morning. <br />Several outages in the Willard-Stoneham area were repaired <br />after crews got to them at 11 p.m. <br />There were many outages in north Sterling, with lightning <br />blamed for most of them. <br />