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Show Beware of Flood Danger From Delayed Snow Melt Mormon Youth Spring Concert Spectacular Utah for 1982. She also with organ and brass. The He stressed, "We should be alert to the danger. Now is the time for our county planners, our city fathers and others responsible to take a look at areas near streams to see what is there that could cause problems of debris getting caught, building up and causing swollen streams to flood over the banks. In some areas it may be wise to get equipped with sandbags to help contain streams and avert flood waters. The climatologist pointed to record precipitation and snow-pack above normal in the mountain areas as cause for concern. "Precipitation in some areas is already past the normal amounts we get for the entire water year October 1 to October 1. Also we have record to near record snow-pack in critical areas," he said. Soil moisture is another factor. It is up to field capacity in the northern areas of the state. Consequently, gs. J p a Richardson explained, the soil Can J 0 tQ C El 0 TS 3 0 C fcU II f Provide very little more water storage. Tf thp snnw mplts slnwlv thf ivatpr will infiltrate to the underground aquifers. If the snow melts rapidly, the infiltration in-filtration will be slower in the soil already nearly saturated and flooding will more likely occur. "The flooding hazard has been hightened by people building closer to streams and down on the flood plains. They believe that flood danger no longer exists because years have passed without serious flooding," the climatologist added. '. Weather conditions prevailing this year are posing a real flood threat to many places in Utah. "As snow continues' con-tinues' to fall and the early season temperatures remain below normal, the potential f or serious conditions later on increases," warned State Climatologist E. Arlo Richardson at Utah State University. He admitted that the situation won't be too critical if the cool spring temperatures persist until late. "However, if we get a sudden warming during late April or May, we can have some flooding on all of the streams where we have no reservoirs to smooth out the peak runoff and serve as flood control. The flood situation could be very critical if we should get rain falling on the heavy snow-pack to melt it more rapidly," Richardson said. The Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus, joined by the BYU International In-ternational High School Festival Chorus, will . present its annual Spring concert Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m. in the Mormon Tabernacle on Salt' Lake City's Temple Square. The orchestra, directed by Robert C. Bbwden, will begin the concert with Tchaikovsky's "Symphony "Sym-phony No'. 2" followed by the chorus performing Gabrieli's "Jubilate Deo" chorus will then join the orhcestra to perform Howard Hanson's moving "Lament for Beowulf," and Mormon composer A. Lawrence Lyons' stirring cantata, "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" featuring guest soloists Patricia Farr and John Prather. Soprano soloist Patricia Farr was recently najned Outstanding Out-standing Young Women of America for the state of has received many scholarships including one to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where she had the lead soprano role in the 1980 production of 'II Tabarro." The BYU In-.ernational In-.ernational High School Festival Chorus is in its , first year. It is comprised com-prised of choirs auditioned by tape and chosen by the BYU Music Department to participate par-ticipate in a week-long iseminar. Aid Selecting s Are you experiencing difficulty selecting vegetable varieties for your garden this year? You may be surprised to learn that there are over 50 retail companies with seed catalogs in the United States. They offer thousands of varieties for sale. Dr. Alvin R. Hamson, extension horticulturist, UtaTi State University, cautions that some company catalogs indicate in-dicate performance capability beyond the capacity of the vareity described. Fortunately, however, many are careful to give only factual descriptions. "Realize in selecting-vegetables selecting-vegetables that you must limit your selection to varieties which require reasonably short or moderate seasons for maturing. Our In-termountain In-termountain area with harsh, dry climate and extremes of temperature make this necessary. This area is sufficiently different dif-ferent from most other areas of the United States that varieties and hybrids adapted for growth there likely will not do well here," Hamson said. As examples, he mentioned varieties of broccoli and cauliflower adapted to growing in California. They simply would not form heads if you were to grow them in Utah. Similarly, tomatoes adapted to the southern areas of the United States mature most of their fruit later than when Utah has experienced fall frosts. Hamson advises that fliHUUDflllBB nfmYi MiTITi liYiYil OR .1 OOODD 9 OFFER EXTEXSID TO APRIL 30th CUE TO PAT RESPONSE' I Stcrm i7ir.dsvs Any 8 Only ! 5 Anodized aluminum frame Reg. 780.00 ft l-..LI. L 1 A H uium meaiurea rg m your norm ijfj ivyn iHAHKlVun; M M. M -wm mi pqt i Offtf Good 713 K -U a V"3 Off.r Good U La i InlihriMi J10.M nek fl Thru Apr. 30 I Thru Apr. 30 f you seek information on how vegetable varieties and hybrids perform in the Intermountain area including Utah, Southern Idaho, Western Wyoming, Eastern Nevada, and Colorado. Watch for valid comparisons made between a number of varieties grown at a given location under uniform conditions as possible. Also, since varieties respond differently to different weather patterns pat-terns and extremes encountered en-countered in successive seasons, Hamson says you should also look for comparisons for more than one year. Such comparisons are being made each year in vegetable trials at the USU Horticultural Farm at Farmington. Hamson said, "It is exciting to see the many new garden varieties . being developed and available for our evaluation. Companies expressing an interest in providing new quality varieties for gardeners in this area include both those which nave traditionally provided retail seeds for our area and large wholesale companies which have traditionally provided seeds for commercial growers for canning." 324 East State Rd. American Fork 756-2231 Onlk Garden eed Beans Corn Peas Bests Carrots Onion Squash S . o (Quantity " 'jj Small Fruits Grapes $2.25 Raspberries .30 -1 yr Raspberries .50 2 yr Blackberries $1.75 2 yr Rhubarb $1.00 each Asparagus $1.75 doz. Strawberries $3.50-$4.00 25pack Fruit Trees $8.50 Dwf. Fruit Trees $12.50 |