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Show Las Vegas family spends I i trying to push their car back on the road, just a few miles up Parowan Canyon. Apparently, Schoppmann said, the boys had turned back to ! Parowan but spent the night t sleeping in their car. Upon trying ; the canyon in the morning, they , had slipped off the road. j "Everything turned out all I right and we were sure glad," I Sheriff said. "That 17 year old has a good head on his shoulders. 1 He did the right thing." m hi in iiiihi m 1 1 i night in storm A potentially critical situation, and a seemingly fatal one, had a happy ending for the Iron County Sheriff's department this past week. Sheriff Ira Schoppmann said a Las Vegas family, traveling in two cars, were enroute to Brian Head via Parowan Wednesday night when the storm worsened. The headlights of the second car, driven by 17 year old son Jeff Moore, soon were lost from the rear view mirror of the car driven by his mother. Mrs. Moore later said she opted to go on to Brian Head, rather than stop or turn around, figuring that if she stopped, she would never be able to start up the grade again. Upon arriving at Brian Head, Sheriff Schoppmann said, a call was made to the highway patrol, acquainting them with the problem. A slow run up the canyon by a road grader snowed no trace of the car or the two youngsters, Jeff and his 11 year old brother. Parowan City Police could find no sign of the boys in local motels. Sheriff Schoppmann said members of the Iron County Jeep Patrol were alerted and at 6:00 a.m. Thursday they began their search. "I was afraid we were going to find a couple of dead kids," Schoppmann said, "but they were located the next morning |