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Show Chronicle Vill Again Give Frost Warning Service This year the Chronicle will again handle the frost warning service, and will relay the daily forecasts to all telephone calls. The forecasts will come from the United States Department of Commerce weather bureau, Salt Lake City. J. C. Eberhardt, meteorologist meteor-ologist in charge, wrote Tuesday stating that they Intend to start the forecast as soon as conditions become critical (temperatures around ar-ound 40 or lower. Thereafter forecasts will be sent daily. Observations will be sent to the weather bureau daily from Deseret and Sutherland starting this week. Mr. Greene, of the Salt Lake office, of-fice, was in Delta last Wednesday, and checked the thermometers at Deseret and Sutherland for ac -curacy. That particular day the temperature was 97 degees, with a minimum of 59. A number of 'farmers are hoping for no frost throughout September, as they need the time to ripen the alfalfa seed. Some who had cut were wrathy Tuesday when high winds prevented hauling and threshing, and windrows of alfalfa seed were being blown and rolled across fields. |