Show FETTERS OF ICE ICET IG BIND SAlT T lAKE lAKEIN IN FRIGID GRIP GAir Coldest Weather Veather Experienced Experienced in Utah in Recent I Years Is Officially Recorded Recorded Re Re- corded 68 Below Zero Salt Lake experienced the coldest I weather in recent years when the government gov gov- thermometer registered 68 I gOV de degrees degrees degrees de- de grees below belov zero at 8 a. a m. m today At noon the mercury had climbed I up 14 degrees At this hour it was 8 I degrees above zero with Indications of a greater rise to be followed by a drop that would bring weather of or the I sort experienced last night There may be some comfort in the fact that It may not be as cold tonight as last night and that there are Indications of ot a gradual return to warm warmer r weather Salt Lakers have the consolation that the severe cold weather Is prevalent preval preval- ent throughout the Rocky Mountain states and even along the Pacific coast and northwestern section Even Cali Call i fornia was in the grip of the cold spell which was rapidly moving eastward eastward east east- ward at last reports In San Francisco Fran Fran- east I deco cisco ice formed on the park lakes and for the first time In history sawdust had to be spread on the decks of ot the ferryboats to prevent passengers slip ping on the Icy coating of the deck planking A Twin lwin Falls Idaho the ter tel registered 30 degrees below zero breaking all low temperature records for tor that district A recession of 49 degrees was recorded there in twenty- twenty four hours At Idaho Falls FaUs Idaho the mercury dropped to to 34 degrees grees below zero the lowest in several years The Thelow Thelow Thelow low record in Twin Falls was 20 below zero established on January 10 1910 Denver was the coldest point in Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado today with a low record of 10 below below below be be- low zero registered at an early hour At 9 a. a m. m today the government reading reading reading read read- ing there was 4 degrees below The lowest reached at Omaha Neb was 3 degrees below at 8 30 a. a m. m today al although although although al- al though some unofficial readings placed J i the temperature at 11 and 5 below in various parts of the city 1 Texas points suffered severely from the cold snap At Amarillo the temperature temperature tem tern l fell to 2 degrees es above zero At Fort Worth it dropped to 19 degrees above the coldest weather of the win win- ter At Oklahoma City the mercury registered but 10 above zero with prospects prospects pros pros- pacts of ofa a further drop today Lakes never before known to be frozen over oer In Washington had a coating of ot Ice toda today At Ogden the thermometer registered 3 i degrees below zero officially at a. a m. m In some parts of Salt Lake valley valley val val- ley Icy the mercury registered as low as 14 degrees below Clear weather is forecasted for to tonight tonight to to- night and tomorrow throughout Utah |