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Show ROAD CLEARING CREVSADVANCE Tooele Fuel Shortage Is Averted By BLTOBD SOMMERS Dying winds Wednesday aided highway crews partly to remove snowclots from traffic aad Industrial Indus-trial arteries, thus averting a threatened threat-ened fuel shortage in Tooele, allowing allow-ing a smelter to resums operations and restoring a snowbound CCC camp at Clover creek to communication communi-cation with the outside world. Forty men at a reduction plant at Bauer, however, were still marooned, ma-rooned, "camping out" while they kept the mill operating; livestock in the SL John region were still in distress, and buses were unable to bring students into Tooele from the north and south. David F. Smith, state commissioner commis-sioner of sgriculture, Wednesday requested that Governor Henry H. Blood declare an emergency and ask railroads to grant emergency rates on movement of bay to hungry livestock and livestock to hay supplies. sup-plies. The governor's office reported re-ported a conference was being arranged ar-ranged between railroad officials and Mr. Smith. . Althourh six Salt Lake county roads still were blocked, officials (Coatlmled on Pain Foot) I (Column Cn I Snowplow Bucks Heavy Drifts, Stalled Cars i ' .-.-, . . if ' ':- 4 t . . J HIGH WINDS, DRIVING SNOW, CAUSED THIS TROUBLE Cars were stalled when the Bi ngham highway was clogged. ROAD CLEARING GREWSADVANCE (CatlaoM tnm Fit Om) hoped to bsve them open by nightfall night-fall while two-way traffic was restored re-stored on U. a highway Pi at the pelnt of the mountain. Unsettled weather, with possibility possibil-ity of snow Wednesday night and Thursday, was forecast for the Salt Lake City vicinity, with Little changs In temperature, which for the first time In nearly a month averaged above normal. Although the minimum of 13 degreee Wednesday Wednes-day waa 4 degrees lower than Tuesday's Tues-day's minimum, the it-degree average aver-age was above normal and the highest average since December XI, when a mean of M was recorded. Coal was delivered at Tooele, where dealers had met difficulties in filling orders, after a Union Pacific Pa-cific plow opened the Tooele Valley railroad from Warner, through Tooele Too-ele and to the International Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining plant, four miles east of the city. Clearing of the track allowed smelter workers to report to work Wednesday after their train had been stalled In drifts since Monday midnight Some men had hiked through the anow, but many remained with the train. Persistent wind in the Bauer district dis-trict thwarted efforts to open the highway south of Tooele, where equipment wss creeping along at the rats of only mile tn 11 hours. The crew was operating the Combined Com-bined Metals company reduction plant and pumping out the mine. The same heavy anow prevented school buses from getting through from Bauer, Clover, St John and Ophtr, this routs having been tied up sines a week ago Monday, Blocking Block-ing of routes to the main highway prevented the Erda school bus from reaching Tooele. CCC enrol tees were getting milk and mail from fit. John again as the route to the Clover creek camp Was opened. Several thousand head of sheep and cattle were still In distress from lack of feed in the St John district Bah Lake county crews worked all night to open roads, aided by settling of enow and dying wind, although efforts to open the Little Cottonwood canyon road, In cooperation cooper-ation with the forest service, were thwarted. Roads still closed were the Mill creek canyon route, 104th South east of Seventh East street Uth South. 100th Bouth and MtUh South west of Redwood road, and Fourth South on SOth West street Highway Opened Traffic waa resumed on ths Bingham Bing-ham highway, whsrs Tuesday two-mile-long drifts trapped cara and a bus In ths vicinity of the Lark-Bingham Lark-Bingham highway junction. Main stats highways were reported re-ported free of drifts. Snow Wednesday night In the Salt Lake valley, according ta federal fed-eral obssrvsrs, depended on movement move-ment of a high barometric pressure system ever Nevada and Utah, which was blocking a low pressure area In the northwest, which brought precipitation to the north-weet north-weet Idaho, Montana and northern Wyoming. Generally fair conditions condi-tions were forecast for southern Utah. Below Zero Only one point In Utah, Soldier Summit reported subsero tampera-aure, tampera-aure, t below being recorded Wednesday Wed-nesday morning. Other minimum readings were: Wendover and Coalville Coal-ville 10. Modena 4. Milford and Brighton 1. . " i i i. i i " ' -trrrv-rfr ". ' ; .? , ' -', ".,"" , . , ' . i '.,'.. 4 ..'..j . .;. .. . tA , 0 ? -;.:", .""I '""' ' 'I jr .,V 'V: ! '.-'( S J T l i " !!.!Ji ; frfSi . , ':. ';.-. . r . - - - ft N e. . " . - ' - - , g ' (' . "v-- ' - " -V T . : ..' .., W-,'. ! BINGHAM HIGHWAY NEWEST STRETCH TO BE HIT BY STORMS Photo (hows snowplow at work, smashing through drifts. |
