Show 1 II J O t. t r K- K r 1 A r. r 1 j f t Jl j i. i it H i 1 f 1 u ura i i 1 r 11 n. n ra t I rS m 1 p W W. V V. V ROBINSON of Salt lake City digs dig's his camp out from beneath a white blanket Note the snow depth on top of the car Flaming Gorge Area Experiences Snows Daggett County Sheriff Ken Reed and Forest Service Recreation Forester Terry Ter ry Hopson were busy directing relief operations operations op op- op in Daggett County last week The recent early winter snow dumped 30 to 40 inches of white while powder over the county trapping deer hunters and livestock livestock live live- stock in the mountains SNOW FELL for 48 continuous hours starting Wednesday evening October 27 Old timers in the county said this was the worst single storm they could re re- re member By Dy Thursday morning Forest Service and county officers were contacting deer hunters to check on food and fuel sup plies Late Thursday night three parties parties par par- ties were helped out of the Antelope area by Paul Williams and the Forest Service road grader FRIDAY THE snows continued A boating party stranded by engine failure and heavy snow was towed into Cedar Springs boat ramp Schools in the county were closed by snow blocked roads Pro pane was taken to stranded campers at Lucerne As the storm eased cased early Saturday efforts efforts ef ef- ef forts began to open major roads State county and Forest Service road plows began clearing highways and campground roads Over Saturday Sunday and Monday Forest Service crews helped 45 snowbound snowbound snowbound snow snow- bound hunting parties get their outfits out onto main highways County and Forest Service equipment also opened a section of the Antelope Flat road to assist stockmen moving cattle out of the snow country SHERIFF KEN REED and Cloyd Reed flew the one ona 5 stranded hunter party in the Three Corners Cor Car ners area The same day Bureau Dureau of Reclamation personnel from Dutch John and members of the Uintah County Search and Rescue unit worked their way into Little Hole and assisted three stranded vehicles on the south side of the Green River The river had to be lowered at Flaming Gorge Dam for four hours so that the stranded vehicles could be towed across the river to a road BY TUESDAY Fish and Game Conservation Conservation Con Con- officer Steve and Uintah County Sheriff Arden Stewart had called on air rescue help from Hill Air Force Base Dase to assist the stranded Three Corners hunters A total of six d hunters were picked up from four sep sep- crate camps and the Clay Basin gas field Sheriff Stewart said Air Force personnel personnel person person- nel did an outstanding job jab with their theil Jolly Green Giant helicopter in making the rescues Though help was on its way for stranded people relief for snowbound livestock in the Three Corners Corners Corners Cor Cor- ners area and Browns Brown's Park was much slower in coming Miles l of mountain road had to be cleared with cats and graders to reach the herds |