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Show 4 U::. Is h Imgh Elghl By Thelnia D. Nye TABIONA (Special) One cf the woist blizzards of the entire winter Sunday left roads, people peo-ple and livestock in this area in a critical condition. In fact, even mo. e so since the six months of deep snow and extra .oid wea;her had already depleted de-pleted the resistance of livestock live-stock and people alike. This is contrary to the opinions of Gov. Lee and David Whittenburg cut they have not had to take it as we have. Highway 208. the "Golden Stairs" road, has been snowed in completely ' for most of the past ten days, although road crews have been working valiantly vali-antly day and night with the meager equipment allotted them to iry to open this life line to the upper Duchesne River Country. Coun-try. It was reported Saturday evening eve-ning that they lacked three miles of having the thirteen miles of road involved open for one way travel. The Sunday blizzard undid all this work. A week ago', many cars and trucks, including the state road (Continued on back page) Upper Duchesne . . (Continued from page 1) trucks and a gasoline tanker bound for Tabiona, were completely com-pletely snow-bound on this road for several hours and in some cases for two or three days. All roads which had not previously pre-viously snowbound for the past several weeks, were completely blocked Monday morning. No school buses were able to travel trav-el at all, although it was reported re-ported to me late yesterday that school was : held for the few town children able to attend. Several cars were caught m drifting snow between Hanna and Tabiona, including a brand new Hudson belonging to County Coun-ty Commissioner Marvin R. Michie, which was so completely complete-ly covered with snow that, it was reported, a man on horseback horse-back rode over the top of it. At 5 a. m. Monday morning a small state road caterpillar (sent in recently as emergency equipment) equip-ment) hit into the rear end of Mr. Michie's car before the driver at the "cat" even knew there was a car there. The small cat worked all day and night trying to clear the road between Tabiona and Hanna. Han-na. What is really needed, and badly, in this area is a rotary plow to clear the snow which has been accumulating for the last six months. In many , cases a "cat" cannot even work because be-cause there is no place to push the snow; , but a rotary could mud. Reports reflect that the change in the type of mud was accomplished at a cost in excess ex-cess of $25,000, indicating that Gulf Oil is taking no chances on sealing off the apparent productive pro-ductive zone in the fractured basal Green River formation. throw the. snow over the fences and out of the way. Many ranchers are running" low on hay and huge losses are expected if a break does not come soon. Some ranchers are already hauling hay in from Ogden. Salt Lake City, Delta and Provo areas. Some who are short on money as well as hay are rationing their livestock a straw or two at a time and hoping it will do. |