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NATIONAL MWS-mgM AROUND THf COUNTRY Cold wave freezes ships to harbors, endangers crops, causes 80 deaths ■ WEATHER: Much of the South is without electricity and running water Arctic cold spread misery in the East and the deep South on Monday. shaiierinu l»w lomner sture records that had Mood for mart* than a century, imperiling Florida oranges, bursting pipes in Now OH nans and freezing fish ing boats to their moorings in North Carolina. Temperatures dropped into tbs single digits as far south as Huntsville, Ala., at 4 degrees Chattanooga, Tenn . at 2. and Meridian. Miss., at tt Thousands of people still had no electricity to help keep them warm after weekend ice storms snapped power lines. Seven peo pie died at Newton. Mis*., in a house fire believed caused by a kerosene heater that was fired up because the electricity failed That made a total of 80 deaths blamed on the weather across the nation since the cold wave burst onto the northern Plains last week and dropped temperatures as low as 60 below zero in Tow er, Minn The Plains and upper Midwest began to warm slightly, but the morning tows in the South rewrote cold weather records that iwd been an (bn book* line* IMS. including 20 dagnm in New Orleans end minus JO in Lynchburg. V*. Allan!# posted a non record tow of just fi degree* S#vswish, on (he Georgia shore. shivered al I#. Hatnn Rouge, U, hit a record IS degree*. Hollywood. Fin . reached 14, also a record. Capa Matter** was North Car olina's warmo*l apot overnight — and it had a low of 14 On* fisherman at Wanches*. N C, wna wren u*lng a crowbar to chip hi* boat free of (he Ice (ha! formed along Croatan Sound “Ice *(orm» are dHa*trim* for *otne folk* in the north, but here we've never learned culturally how to deal with them became it'* only been in our experience about every 10 year*." *aid Orville Cunningham, sociology professor at Mississippi's lack •on State University Pipe* burst in New Orleans, where houses are mounted on Siers to protect them egainsl muling, a design that exposes the plumbing to the«old South enters let water trii kle bom the tap to keep the pipes bom freer ing. Debbie Janssen said she remembered to often all her spig n*a except for those in a Iwthroont where the pipes buret , The real problem ws* trying In get a plumber "They *aid they had 23 to 30 rail* prior to mine, ami that was at a quarter till night thu rooming," *h» *aid Temperature* Ml a* low aa 23 dogma in Florida's citrus glim, farmer* rushed to *pray a pro native layer of water ami toa, and ticked juice orange* imperiled y ke crystal* Even fwese dam awd orange* tan be used ha juke it ihev get to the pnweasing plant before they spoil Citrus grower* *aid it will be several day* before they know how much damage occurred But they believe tamperslurea did not May low enough long enough to cause wtiout loaaea to an indus try that brings grower* an esti mated fast million and con tributes is billion to the Male economy Among the victim* of the weather, two boy*. 8 and 11. died at hospitals in Tulsa. Okla. Get ar McClure and Brandon lames had been pul let! front the Arkansas River after falling through thin ice on Sunday Cold, Ice and mow delayed funerals in Chattanooga Fami lies couldn't reach the Lane Funeral Home, graves could not lie dug, suppliers were unable to deliver vaults and it was too cold for gra v wsj da aerv ice* Former employee sues tobacco company ■ LAWSUIT: An ex-Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp worker is charging the company invaded his privacy LOUISVILLE. Ky (AH) — A tobacco Industry whistleblower filed <i lawsuit Monday against Brown * Williamson Tobacco Corp.. accusing his former employer of invading hi* privacy by compiling and distributing reports on his past SAW, the nation's third-iargest tobacco turn pa ny. has sued former research chief Jeffrey Wigand for alleged I v violating a confidentiality agreement Wigand * lawyer, Frank tluheny, said B*W* com psign to discredit his chant includes pulling his credit card bill* and interviewing relatives from a previous marriage "That's an invasion of privacy, and that1* some thing no one should be subject to simply few festi tying about the effect* of tobacco or nicotine." Dofae ny said. The BA W materials say Wigand was uni« *rre*t »d fur shoplifting. has l**m accused of *pou»ol abuse and falsified his resume The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages hum HAW for subjecting Wigand to a "cruel and unjust hard •hip " It w« fll«wl the day after IBS broadest * "fiO Minute*" interview with Wigand The network hud held the program »im* November. fearing • law suit. On ihe program. VVtgand said former company chairman Thomas Sandefur had to Congress when he testified that he heheved nicuttne la not addle five Wigand also said Sandefur refected making safer cigarette* because it would put the company at "extrema exposure" with its other tobacco prod uct* fie said he began carrying a handgun after nsreitr* tug threatening telephone calls that warned. Leave UMMK c»> alone, or else you'll find your kids hurt ** B*W denied any involvement It's absurd to suggest that Brown A Williamson had anything to do with purported threats/' Mid B*W lawyer Gordon Smith, who said II*W was considering filing a lawsuit against CBS over the broadcast Sunday. Smith, speaking at a news conference in Louisville. Ky , where the company is based, called Wigand's siatements "unsubstantiated allegations" ana said Wigand testified under oath in fanuary 1*84 lhai he knew of no criminal or fraudulent behavior by B*W Inmates’ escape foiled by fellow prisoner's razor ■ PRISON: Escapees braided sheets were cut by prisoner left behind DALLAS CAP) - Three killer* had cut through • toot thick jall house wall and were climbing dawn a rope made front braided bedsheets when a fellow inmate ~ possibly angry about being left behind — *iit their rope with a razor blade, and they tumbled to the ground One convict suffered broken vertebrae and was hospitalized The others were treated for rope burn* or nits and returned to the Lew Sterrett Justice Center "We found the razor blade near where they anchored the bed sheet. It was a clean cut." sher iffs spokesman )im Ewell said Inmates are allowed to have the blade* to shave Investigator* speculated that other prisoners were angry about nut l>»ing included In Sunday's breakout or thought they would be blamed lor the escape Investigators questioned in* mate* and guards Monday for dues about who cut the neatly braided sheets and why Pour other inmates shared the con victs' tel (block on the fifth floor One prisoner was near the top of the rope, one at the middle and one near the bottom He said it was a miracle that the two high est on the rope survived. The injured men, Russell Nichols. Ralph Hernandez and Michael Contreras, were discov ered Sundav night, by a woman arriving at the jail to post bail few a prisoner. The temperature was in the 20s. The men were wearing while coveralls and were yelling for help. One was **j tn|ured he could n't *«aml up We think they could have Molly frozen to death with in minute* if the hadn't teen them." 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