Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-21 | Page 9 | Dry Sunday Forecast is Heartening to S. L.

Dry Sunday Forecast Is Heartening to S. S SL L. L I By James Quigley That no rain was expected Sunday Sunday Sun- Sun day was good news to Salt Lakers but especially to those west side residents who built sand bag di dikes es esto to restrain heavy rain ram tion After nine days of Intermittent showers sho and storms the weatherman weather weather- man predicted cloudy weather weather- but no rain rain for for the Sabbath Going a step further and with I his fingers crossed he indicated warmer weather for the city and state with temperatures ranging between 65 and 76 degrees Pouring rains continued on from late Friday into early Saturday morning to bring total rain fall during May IDY to close to three inches as ns compared with the thc monthly normal of Water Vater of row-boat row depth was flooding streets aJon along 2nd nd West between and Sou South th police reported Saturday W. W M M. Bickmore spent a portion portion portion por por- tion of the morning building a asand asand asand sand bag dike in front of his grocery grocery grocery gro gro- cery store to prevent water vater from seeping Into the store Incident to Fridays Friday's storm was wasa a heavy percentage tage Increase in automobile accidents in Salt Lake City according to L. L A. A Bleyl police dispatcher He pointed out 22 accidents had occurred between 1201 am a.m. Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day and early Saturday morning I The normal average a is eight accidents accidents acci acci- I dents in a hour 21 period he said Although some rise In river levels throughout Utah were noted Saturday state officials agreed there appeared little danger of floods However isolated instances instance throughout the state were noted in ut which minor damage was done to property as heavy rains built up fair sized pools At West Vest Jordan a six-foot six wall wali of water swept down what was once Bingham creek knocked out outa a small dam and ripped across the farm of James M. M Atwood Mr fr Atwood said aid he saw the flood coming down the creek bed bedI I while he was milking cows It ItI I finally spread and dispersed In a n near by canal Debris including Including- old automobile bodies fences and a foot 20 long platform made of planks were en loft left in the wake as the water swept byThe by The low Jow pressure area which was over Utah Friday had shifted eastward and although moist air remained over the intermountain west Saturday dryer air was moving in from the west coast Hourly temperatures reported at the Salt Lake City airport weather bureau station were 5 30 a am a.m. m. m 47 1030 am a.m. 55 am a.m. 46 46 11 1130 30 am a.m. 57 57 7 30 am a.m. 48 30 12 pm p.m. 58 8 30 am a.m. 49 1 30 pm p.m. 59 9 30 am 51 2 30 pm p.m. 69 59 w