Show Storm Sidelights Stork Ignores Warnings Flies as Usual Mr Stork doesn't heed Utah weather warnings Bob Bogg Bog 1625 Blair st. st advised police at am arn Monday his car was stalled at Emery street and South by a snowdrift Passengers Passengers Pas Pas- Included his wife wiCe Norma 22 a momentarily expectant mother and another child Police Officers J. J C. C and T. T V. W. Stroud rescued the group took the child to a relatives relative's I home and Mrs Bogg to Holy Cross hospital where a daughter was born at 4 40 10 am a.m. Lightning s struck t r ii 1 c k a Utah Power and Light Co transformer transformer trans trans- former at 60 Milton ave n at 6 15 am a.m. Many workers were unable due I to storm-blocked storm roads and streets to get to the Bingham mine of the Copper Corp which re reopened reopened re- re opened Monday after being strikebound strikebound strikebound strike strike- bound days It was easy to travel to and from Salt Lake Cit City by air Monday Mon Mom day day but but there was some trouble on the ground getting from the city to the airport After being blocked for hours U. U S. S 40 was opened to slow way one-way traffic at midmorning The police pollee radio blared constantly constantly con con- l Monday morning a as squad cars railed called in to report stalled autos throughout th the city A car registered to Hans C. C Thomsen Thomson 5 11 S. S Redwood rd was w-as stalled for several hours at Vest West and 1st South All vest east t roads road in south south- See Page 2 Column 4 Stock Industry Near Disaster Continued front from Page rag One eludes all aU of western Utah includIng includIng including ing Box Elder county the Arizona strip the Kanab and Escalante sectors of or Southern Utah Carbon and Emery counties Situation Grave It is II a very grave situation now Mr Seely said as he reported reported re reported re- re ported the B L M has snow snow- plow equipped tractors In the fight to open roads to marooned snOW 1 sheep and cattle I If the winds dont don't die I dont don't know what the result might be be- be Under present conditions he said snowplows must open a road every time a stockman is ready to haul feed and the winds drift I the road closed again immedi ate I I The anI only bright spot in the dreary picture he said is the fact that we B L M have ha our equipment in the trouble spots and dont don't have to wait to bring it in before tackling the drifts drills Winds Hit lilt 4 45 I Winds U up to 45 miles an hour have closed with snow V drifts nearly every country back road in the I Cedar City district Jess Guymon I Parowan sheep and cattle man reported after flying over the ranges Tractor crews Monday morning commenced anew the task of clearing trails over which feed could be hauled to stockLand stockY stock Land management and state road rond commission crews were working around the clock In efforts ef- ef torts orts to open and keep open traffic traffic traffic fic arteries In many cases the battle was a losing one as winds whipped drifts right back into I roads as soon as the snowplows got through James A. A Hooper executive secretary secretary secretary sec sec- Utah Wool Growers' Growers said in the Tremonton area eastern Box Elder county reported Monday morning they had been able with great difficulties to haul feed to flocks Uintah basin northeast Utah also told Mr Hooper Monday morning that they had been able to reach flocks locks Drop Cattle Feed Capt Frank Cox and Lt Ray Jardine Fardine flying lying from Hill field dropped 50 bales of hay to a 8 herd of cattle near mountain on the Utah-Nevada Utah line Sunday afternoon the field reported A survey surveyor of the states state's livestock area by Telegram correspondents Monday indicated losses when counted in the spring will be heavy It still is much too early to accurately e est estimate s t i m mat a t e livestock losses said Morris H H. Taylor extension livestock marketing specialist specialist specialist at Utah State Agricultural college Logan Livestock exposed to severe weather and without feed for a a. along long ong time do not all die when it itIs itis its is s coldest or when the blizzard is at its height he warned The animals by being weakened may maydie maydie maydie die weeks later Ma May Cut Business Mr Taylor said the serious plight slight of Utah's range livestock operators may be reflected in re reduced reduced reduced re- re business in most agricultural agricultural tural ural towns of the thc state He said livestock men will ill suffer from a squeeze between the effect of the severe winter and a combination of declining price levels and rising operation costs As a result of the deep snow and physical weakness in sheep there will vill be fewer sheep to shear and less ess lambs to market next fall faU Mr Taylor warned adding that winter vinter conditions will take a similar similar simi- simi lar ar toll of cattle resulting in fewer cattle to market A. A Esplin U US USA S A AC C extension sheep and wool specialist said that emergency measures in sheep feeding and management will be necessary for some weeks to save sheep from starvation and to assure assure assure as as- sure all possible production He advised ad supplementing normal feed with pellets containing high protein protein protein pro pro- tein feeds along with corn barley wheat and alfalfa Delta Estimate From Delta Millard county one of the main targets of the winter assault on sheep came word that weakening effects effect of or the hard winter will cause an undetermined number of deaths Sheep losses so far have not been great stockmen stockmen stockmen stock stock- men explained but an estimate will be available after shearing and lambing in April The lamb crop is expected to be small The feeding problem in the Delta area now is the same as it has been Seen during the past three weeks Week end storms and high winds winds' have blocked roads again and all available equipment was pressed into service Monday londay to open routes Trucks loaded with feed were moving to some flocks near Delta Monday Feeding is costing between and a day for an average flock lock of sheep stockmen estimated ed adding they have to feed the sheep three times as much as during an average winter Sheep in Jn the region are arc weak and cattle are bony Some cattle have havo been found as much as 40 miles from their home ranges apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap having wandered in search of 1 feed teed J. J D D. D Dillard San Rafael Ratael district district district dis dis- dis- dis grazier reported conditions cased eased in that area but warned that sheep and cattle are in extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex weakened condition because because because be be- cause of cold and lack of feed The real dang danger r here will come with the thaw Mr Dillard warned because then the ground will vIll become soft and it will be almost impossible to get feed to cattle cattie and sheep beep 4 |