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Show Children Saved By Quick Action During Snow Slide Quick thinking of a woman bus driver saved five children from possible death during a series of three snowslides near the power plant in Hobble Creek Canyon Monday. The woman, Mrs. Carmen Hol-ley, Hol-ley, who with her husband has been driving a bus for the Nebo School District for the past sixteen and a half years backed her bus out. of the path of a large slide, seconds before it came crashing down off the steep Hobble Creek cliffs drove down the canyon that morning. morn-ing. About 10 a.m. she- encountered the first slide just below the old power plant. Utility poles and lines had been knocked down and the road closed. After she had stopped the bus, a second slide came down some distance behind the vehicle. After Mrs. Holley had sent her son and two other students over the first slide for help, she saw the third and biggest slide coming com-ing down the mountain, directlj toward the bus. She was able tc back up in time to avoid getting hit. Otherwise the bus might have been swept off the road on dowr the embankment. The bus had been stopped between be-tween two other slides when Mrs. Holley saw the biggest slide of the three come roaring down the mountain. She was barely able to get the vehicle out of the way. Five children were in the bus at the time. Three of the original eight school children in the bus had left shortly before, hiking over one of the slides to get aid. The trio, which included Mrs. Holley's son, Robert, hiked down the canyon to Bartholomew's and phoned for aid from the Spring- t ville road department. I Mrs. Holley, who also hiked over a slide with the five remaining children on the advice of the crew, related that her bus was slowed down by the heavy drifts! as she |