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Show Mercury Rises in North Utah; Cold Still Grips Southern Area Fears Intensified for Livestock Herds Trapped by Snow Barriers By BUFORD SOMMERS Utah broke in two on the weather map Monday, temperatures in the north rising from subzero marks while in the south continued cold intensified fears felt for nearly a million head of sheep marooned ma-rooned on ranges behind frozen snow barricades. still bucking froxen snowdrifts In an sf fort to reach 18 sbeepherders marooned ma-rooned at the Sweeney ranch, about TEMPERATUBES 2 p. m. Sunday IS 4 p.m. Sunday-... 14 p. m. Sunday. 13 8 p. m.' Sunday. 12 II p. m. Sunday... .11 Midnight Sunday .'. 10 2 a. m. Monday 10 4 a. m. Monday a. m. Monday 7 a. m. Monday 4 8 a. m. Monday 6 10 a. m. Monday 13 Noon Monday ..' ..17 Although Salt Lake City's Monday' minimum of four degrees above sere was three degrees higher than Sunday's minimum, many other points In the state reported subzero temperatures. The airport, however, how-ever, reported -4, a drop of two degrees de-grees from Sunday's low. Slightly higher temperatures (or ths Sslt Lake villey are prsdicted for Monday night and Tuesday, sero to IS above recordings being forecast, fore-cast, whils ths mercury is expected to rsngs from sero to IS below over the stats generally. . Forecast Usawttled Unsettled conditions are predicted pre-dicted as a result sf a low barometric barome-tric pressure system off the British Columbia coast, which Monday brought rain and snow over Washington, Wash-ington, Montana aad Oregon. Southern Utah and Nevada were the scene of s rebuilding high pressure pres-sure area, which was expected to bring fair .weather and continued cold. la Nevada a highway crew was 1 50 miles south of Wlnnemucca. Noi fear was felt for the aafety of the tOenttnoed en rmee Flve ACmiima Ones ( MERCURY RISES III NORTH UTAH (CoatlnaaS treat Pas Ooe) men, but 11,000 head of sheep were In need" of feed and suffering from the eold. With about SO tractor units oper- atrng- state ntgnway crews and forest for-est officials were rating into drift en four fronts in efforts to open routes to ranges that starving sheep might be brought feed. About a million head were believed be-lieved la distress on the Arizona strip, la Wayne county, out of Mo-dena, Mo-dena, and in the Milford grazing district. The W P A has appropriated appropri-ated $25400 for these expenses, with promise of more money if needed. AU main state highways were reported re-ported open, although drifting on a ' county road between Tooele and Baaer caused trouble Sunday. About 40 men on the "graveyard" shift at the Bauer workings were delayed until noon la their return to homes at Tooele, while about 60 men on the morning shift were held up at Tooele. Stockton pass, along that seven-mil stretch of road. Is scene f continual drifting, and the county has kept graders at work night and day. Schools at GrantsvlUe, closed because be-cause of sicknsas among the students, stu-dents, resumed Monday. Light Snow Falls The fine, light snow that fell over several sections of northsrnTJtah Sunday- brought" Salt Lake City nearly a half-inch covering with .02 of an Inch precipitation, making the total since October 1 .S4 inches, compared with a normal of 6.23. The Utah Power A Light company substation at Ogden reported an inch of snow; Bingham, Cutler and Salt Lake terminal, one-half Inch, and Provo canyon, one-quarter Inch. No snow fell on ths Salt Lake City watersheds. Minimum temperatures at Brighton were -IS; Mountain Dell, 4, and City creek hlghline, 4 above. Sunday's average temperature in Salt Lake City of eight degrees was 12 below normal. BUZZARD STRANDS SHIP LONDON, Jan. 25 UPt The steamer steam-er Kxmoor of the American Export lines was reported stranded in a violent blizsard today near Smyrna, a Turkish port on the Aegean sea. |