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Show Tarrying Winter Spreads New Blanket 01 Snow in Utah; Travelers Stalled Winter, tnsking s belstrd resppesr- snce. held parts of Utah firmly In Its grip Friday, tying up traffic in some sections snd sdding considerably to ths precipitation in various parts of the slate. Thirteen persons suffered from cold for five hours when a motor bus wss stalled by snow on s mountain road near Cove Fort in Millard county. Friday. Fri-day. None experienced any ill effects, however, and all continued on their way to Los Angeles. Ths passengers were Don Blending of Hawaii, vagabond poet writer and lecturer; ft. J. Pounds of ths Chicago Tribuns; Ells Boehme of Berlin, Germany, Ger-many, traveler en routs to Ssn Francisco, Fran-cisco, and Gladys Brooks, Long Beach, Cel., newspaper writer, wife of Don Crimea of ths Des Moines Register, i Eighteen Inches of new snow wss reported st Cove Fort where the ststc road commission reported U. S. hlgh-wsy hlgh-wsy It impssssbls. The rood was tied up between Cove Fort snd Bes-i Bes-i ver, th commission reported. v Snow fell most nf the night In the. vicinity ol Cove Fort snd wst frnil falling Friday. Rain and anow, which fell In and near Salt Lake from midnight to 110 a. m. added Jl of an inch of precipitation. precipi-tation. J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge ot the weather bureau, announced. an-nounced. Sis Inches of new tnow fell on the Brighton Watershed Thursday night, water department officials ssid. snd three Inches of new snow wss reported re-ported st both ths City Creek snd Mountain Dell observstion ststions. Total depth of anow at Brighton Is TT Inches, four inches lets thsn st ths corresponding tims Isst yesr. Ths wster content touting M l Inches, Is one-tenth of sn Inch mors this ysar than it was on Msrch IT. 132, wster department officials ssid. Mr. Alter predicted continued unsettled un-settled westhsr for Frldsy night with possibls rain or anow. Ths prediction for Saturday and Sunday Is fsir snd wsrmcr. |