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Show 1 inter's Impact ;ws Activity Uintah Basin UINTAH Basin towns along Highway 40 were virtually iso-u iso-u tj Wednesday night by drifting drift-ing snow over mountain passes Sh east and west. And as snow Snued to fall, highway of-cials of-cials were not certain that orroal travel could be resumed Ihursday. flje highway west of Duchesne closed early Wednesday to snnit road crews to tackle the Cfting snow over the Straw-:rjl Straw-:rjl where passenger cars and atcr-state busses were stranded. 1 foe Burlington Trailways bus, arrying 16 passengers, was manned ma-nned in the Strawberry area ! eight hours before crews : tfoke through drifts to reach it. The last bus to reach Roosevelt jmved Wednesday evening at 4 p. m. from the east 5 hours lite. Passengers were discharged an overnight stay here, after bus had worked its way ever the 30 miles between Roos-;Yelt Roos-;Yelt and Vernal in about two iiours. Although temperatures moved jp slowly in the Roosevelt area daring the week, a generally exacted ex-acted break in the cold wave ailed to materialize. The ther nometer at the Roosevelt wcath t station failed to come any ': ihere near going above the ; icezlng1 point, and residents ; ' ;ere putting on a concentrated ; irive to keep roofs free of ice. . 1 CATTLE and sheepmen were j ' iperiencing more than their !re of difficulty in getting i ;td to their stock. The snow I) '.01? out of Ft Duchesne was in j! Constant use keeping the road I '"-en to the sheep wintering J pounds in the Hill Cretk ares.c I Game men, after issuing an 1 ppeal a week ago for aid ,in . :ding snowbound game birds, !' Tere beginning to show anxiety 7T how much longer the big 1 low and freeze might last. At '; je end of this week pheasants iere reported in a serious con-jtion. con-jtion. ! From the Roosevelt weather n lation the following tempera-j tempera-j i.ures were reported: Jan. 7 p-iximum, .06, minimum, -15; in. 8 maximum, 12, minimum, 14; Jan. 9 maximum, 24. minium, min-ium, -13; Jan. 10 maximum, 4, minimum,-12; Jan. 11 max-lum, max-lum, 24, minimum, .08; Jan. J maximum, 21, minimum, , i.Jan. 13 maximum. 15, minimum, min-imum, 10. j Late Wednesday neht total povfall measured 20 inches, !ilh an estimated inch falling fa top of this Wednesday night. |