Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-19 | Page 19 | City Jail Inmates Aid Flood Control Work

City Jail Inmates Aid Flood Control Work Volunteers Fill Sandbags for or Emergency Use se Inmates of Salt Lake City Jail toting shovels and p pac packed a c k ked e d lunches got their first taste of 1 fresh air labor Wednesday I when they volunteered to assist I in the police department flood control program I A crew of city jail inmates were dispatched to the Salt Lake I I City shops about 10 am a.m. where i I they were to fill 1000 bags with sand The sandbags then are to be hauled to the police and fire lire de- de departments departments radio transmitter terminal terminal terminal ter ter- ter- ter minal at West Vest near 13 h South There the jail inmates will pile the sandbags around the terminals terminal's vital communications equipment situated in an area classified as a critical flood area The inmates who for the past several weeks have been assigned assigned as as- I as-I signed to volunteer labor inside public safety department buildings buildings build build- build I ings were given their first open air project as part of Police Chief F. F Clark Sanfords Sanford's program of prisoner rehabilitation and health Better food and clothing is the prisoners' prisoners reward for the volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer labor