Short Drought Broken by Heavy Rainfall Moab Valley Vally emerged merged damply damp damp- ly Iv from short lived a drought Sunday with another tremendous tremendous dous rainfall that guaranteed a third successive month of over average precipitation The Inches of rain re registered re- re Sunday topped In one day the average for the entire month of October a generous Inches Inch It pushed the total for the year to 1156 Inches Twenty ty year averages show only 29 Inches Inch and the past two years have hay yielded only and nd respectively The past two months month August Aug vat and September were wre more than double figures water August normally registering 90 of an Inch had Inches September one on of the dryer months of the year yar at 84 of an Inch totalled to tailed In 1961 Inches Inch Projecting the remaining months of the th year yar onto the totals for the year to date Indicates a 1288 1281 Inches Inch p. p pre pr precipitation year That's exclusive ex cx dusTy of any more rain In October With only average moll moh- ture tur the years year's total should double that of 1959 or 1960 with sonic some to spare spar Unto there Is II no local provision for saving the ex- ex c. c cess celL June Jun H If on one cans canse clearly the deluge dlug that followed furnished no norain norain i rain whatsoever Th The Th watershed east t of Moab i Valley Vally has hal received even more tabs fain ar that the valley and ac according ac cording to reports report U Is now beginning be be- beginning ginning the th accumulation of 0 ofa a snow Inow pack at higher 1 ele elevation