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Show VCC Men Man Cat To Plow Snows Walter Wilson and Rial Berry, heavy duty mechanics from Western West-ern Chemical Center, Tooele county, coun-ty, were in the Chronicle office in Delta Monday, where they drew a vivid word picture of where and how they work. It was their first day of rest since Jan. 15, when they headed west to open roads. They were 2 days ahead of the all-out drive that opened Jan. 17. In the days and nights out there plowing snow, they had had their clothes off but three nights. That was when they were lucky enough piled up. To get that, and new pants for Wilson, and to make re-i re-i ports to Col. Powers on their work ihave been the only times they were not plowing snow, i Tuesday morning they left Delta headed west again, and at the (chalk mine west of Hinckley found a herder who had been out all night. His truck was dead, and he J was blue with cold, and speechless. Leaving Berry by arbonfire, Wilson brought the man back to Delta, and agan headed west. A. K. Hansen, Han-sen, of the Bureau of Land Management, Man-agement, says that the two men are doing heroic work, under most adverse circumstances. to share a bed in a sheep camp. It was their tractor that plowed a road and made detours that en- j abled Harold Parker and his wife j and two sick children to finally get to Delta, after four days trying, j from their ranch in Pleasant Valley. Val-ley. When they couldn't make a go 'on the road, the army equip- i ment plowed a detour alongside the highway, mowing down snow J so cars could travel. The WCC men plowed that day from 2 a. m. to the next day at 3 a. m., plowing plow-ing a road for Parker, and other trucks,- then going back jto aid the state road men. The heavy cat knowked down icy drifts for the rotary plow to handle. The article from Western Chem- ical Center in this issue, told of their first week's operations. The I second week followed much the same pattern. Since Jan. 19 they have made headquarters at the Theodore Madsen sheep camp west of Sevier Lake. Mr. Madsen, who was down to provisions for two meals when they plowed into him, keeps thm filled with good food and good cheer, the men report. Last Friday night, Jan. 28, was the coldest yet, at 30 blow. Six men were in the wagon, sitting up in hats land coats around the fire. That day the WCC men had rescued rescu-ed George Coates, from where his truck was stalled with the fuel pump out. He had 20 sheep on his truck about half of them frozen to death the next morning. They plowed up to Highway 6 Saturday morning, pulling Mr. Coates. Co-ates. They left camp at 7 la. m., and got to' Delta at 2:15 Sunday morning. While in Delta Wilson and Berry stayed at the Irvin W. Jeffery home. Mr. Wilson is a brother-in-law of Mrs. Jeffery. Both men are from Cedar Fort. This past ten days they have used a weapons carrier, from WCC for quick travel and to carry diesel fuel for the tractor. They find it handier than the first heavier equipment they brought down, as the wide wheel base on that ran out on the snow banks the cat |