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Show 40Tx ' ' V s I . 4 : ' , f-v- - ; u hi fad It. f 1 . 6 ' . - - -v J- I : Frank, 10, left and Jimmy Maury, 12, aon of Mr. I akatlnf at Liberty park after the roldest night and Mrs, James Maury, 840 Chase avr., try out the of the year yielded a surface of excellent Ice. 'BRRRR . . .' Brisk Vcalher Adds Skating To Sports List Skstlng took Its place beside skiing as a winter sport in Utah Tuesday, as clear skies and temperatures tem-peratures plummeting toward zero froze thing up throughout the state without any Interfering snow cover. The thermometer dropped to 4 degrees at Salt Lake airport at 2:30 a. m. Tuesdsy. to register th lowest reading since last Jan. 15. Marian Steinaget. 18, a visitor at the home of Mrs, George Jarvls, 1237 Laird ave., waa Injured In-jured seriously about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday when the sled on which he was riding crashed Into a tree In front of the Charles F. Coles residence, 1206 Laird ave, Mrs. Coles, first to reach the Injured girl, found her lying unconscious un-conscious In the .street. She was taken to Salt Lake general hospital for treatment. Similar low readings were recorded re-corded throughout the state, with Logan reporting 1, Ogden and Pro-vo Pro-vo 8. Bryce canyon, with 15 below zero, was the lowest In Utah. Even this was well above the minus 30 reported from Duluth, Minn., and minus 22 at both Big Piney. Wyo., and West Yellowstone, Mont The weatherman predicted continued con-tinued fair weather, and more low temperatures. Tuesday afternoon, he said, would warm all th way up to about 23, and the mercury will drop to 6 again Wednesdsy morning. City and county recreation officials of-ficials announced that public skating skat-ing ponds sre open at: Liberty, Fairmont and Memory parks in the city; Evergreen park near 33rd South and 22nd East 4600 South State, Granite junior high school, near 33rd South and 5th East and Midval baseball park. Joe L. Christensen, county recreation rec-reation supervisor, said ponds will be flooded at other school playgrounds play-grounds in the county. Joseph L. Sloan, city park supervisor, su-pervisor, said 16 akatera were pulled from Liberty park pond Monday when they tried to skate there before the Ice was thick enough to hold them. He warned akatera to make certain of Ice conditions con-ditions before venturing upon a pond, and requested them to refrain re-frain from sksting and ruining th ice when the aun haa softened It |
