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Show :i ffl T SK RflESI TRAVEL IlilLTS Highway Blocked 2 Hours; All-Night -"Fall Likely As the snowsllde season opened in Utah, blocking one main highway about two hours, a new snowstorm hit the state Friday, bringing a white mantle to most of the region, with indications the snowfall would last all night and increasing the danger of avalanches. . A slide eat aft traffic V. 8. highway Ne. M half a mite east ef the mwith ef Spanish Fork canyon, can-yon, main route for coal track era ant ef Carbon county and ana af the arterlale lnte CoJorade from the Bait Lake Teller. The atata read commission Immediately pot 75-ton tractor and two tracks te work, clearing the route to oneway one-way traffic by about l:M a. ra. ' Moisture-laden mow roared down the north (lope of the cayon about five miles east of Spanish Fork, oeiaying cranio aooui two noura. After one-way traf fio was resumed, travel waa delayed for 20-minute intervals while the plows pushed the snow off the highway down the slope In an effort ta restore two way traffic. The fill was about M feet ktng and 10 feet dees. Storm Begins - - -Shortly after the route was) opened the new snowstorm began, adding to difficulties of clearing the route. In Salt Lake City 2 Inches of new snow had fallen by 1 p. m, bringing 4 of an inch precipitation. The storm affected nearly all ef Utah, making motor travel hasard-ous hasard-ous and adding to difficulties of opening roads into ahsep ranges. Outgoing airplanes were departing depart-ing on schedule up to late afternoon, though some incoming planee were delayed about an hour, one having been held at Rock Spring, Wyo, that long. Aa the near record cold wave became be-came weather history, Salt Lake City's return to normal temperatures gave the impression of being unseasonably unsea-sonably warm, although the Stf-de-aree averaao Thursday was 1 degree below normal The minimum Friday Fri-day of M degrees, recorded at 1:45 a. m, was the highest minimum since December 28. ' Geaerally MJld Only higher points continue ta report subsera readings, 11 at Bear Lake and 4 at Soldier Summit. Sum-mit. Eisewhsre temperatures were well above aero, Ogden reporting S, Hslper 0, Logan SO, Bingham and Oialvilla Z4. Modana 14. liilford Sz. 'Wendover 20, Bait Lake airport 14, Eureka 20, Salt Lake terminal 10, Provo canyon 25. Opening of roads to livestock snowbound in southern Utah and in the Arizona strip was nearly com- pleted Friday, with losses held to be not more than usual. Loss of 200 sheep was reported from the west era end ef the Arisona strip, a band having gone over a precipice when a snowbank gave way. 40 Maraened The highway out of Tooele waa blocked by a high wind that arose about 11 p. nL, marooning about 40 Tooele men at the Bauer reduction plant and preventing about 60 men from going to work from Tooele Friday Fri-day morning. The school bus from the south was unable to get into Tooele from Bauer, Stockton. St John, Vernon, Clover and Ophir, so the students were returned to ineir nomas. New snow began falling heavily at Tooele Friday morning, adding to the labors of county road crews, which are kept constantly at work in the Stockton pass, where wind whips drifts across the road. |