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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. dA mon., mar. 21, i55 Winter Exits Boisterously In Midlands Area Hit by Snow, Tornadoes, Wind By ASSOCIATED PHESS Spring came cold and soggy to the nation's midlands Monday jfter winter's boisterous exit Sun day amid tornadoes, torrestial rains, widespread snowfall and flood. Sunday, officially the last day of winter, brought 3 to 5 inches of snow ui Colorado, Western Ne braska and Western Kansas, with near blizzard conditions around Loveland, Colo.; a series of tor nadoes along the Missouri-Arkan sas border; a windstorm so vio lent it blew down a circus tent at Uvalde, Tex., and a 4-inch rain that flooded Piedmont, Mo. 6PRING FREEZE Monday, the first day of spring, aw temperatures drop below freezing as far south as Texas as snow sprinkled the southwest ern and central great plains and upper Mississippi Valley. It driz zled in Chicago. The drizzle froze at Oklahoma City. The rain belt stretched from central Oklahoma northeastward through the central Mississippi Valley and eastward through the southern and central Great Lakes region, northern Ohio Valley and into the central Appalachians. Thunderstorms were bunched from northern Louisiana to cen tral Kentucky. v Precipitation generally ranged from an inch to an inch and a half, but Tupelo, Miss., got 2.43 inches in 4 hours. Snowfall to the west of the rain area varied from a trace to 2 inches. FAMILY MISSING The tornadoes leveled several farm buildings but did not strike heavily populated areas. Only 1 person was reported injured, al though a family of 4 was reported missing. The 400 persons watching the circus at Uvalde escaped without serious injury when the big top collapsed. Many of the spectators were children. Circus Tent Collapses on Crowd of 400 Dog Gets Bird MILLER, S. D. W A novel au topsy proved a, St. Lawrence farmer, Herman Laccy, innocent of a hunting violation. The autopsy vas performed on a pheasant that a game warden claimed Lacey- had shot illegally Lacey claimed the pheasant had been killed by his dog. An autopsy confirmed the bird bad not been shot. UVALDE, Tex. I Mothers screamed, frightened children cried but no one was seriputly hurt Sunday when a windstorm collapsed a circus tent on 400 persons. Soggy and heavy from lashing rains which accompanied the storm, the big Hagen Bros. Cir cus tent fell just before the lion and tiger act began and just after other circus animals par aded around the arena. WELL TIMED Had the thunderstorm-spawned wind struck a moment earlier or later, the animals might have been freed among the spectators "I might have been scared if I had had time," said J. W. Stew art, Uvalde grocer who brought his 2 sons and a neighbor s girls to the Jaycee - sponsored show on Uvalde s northern outskirts. The children, among several hundred youngsters in the tent were Jimmie, 12, and Ronnie Stewart, 4, and Deborah, 5, and Gail, 4, daughters of Robert Hicks. "I told Jimmie to get Ronnie, Stewart said. "Then I picked up Deborah and Gail, 1 under each arm. Just after we got down from the- bleachers, they col lapsed. Something hit me. Jimmie told me afterward it was a tent pole. I'm sore all over." BOY SCOUT TRAINING Jimmie credited his Boy Scout training for an act which may have saved Deborah's life. "The Boy Scout manual says you should always keep your head when there's a bad fire or some thing," the slight, brown-haired boy said. "Well, when that tent started coming down I saw 1 of the big poles was falling. It was going to hit Deborah. I pulled her out of the way fast." Spectators who crawled under bleachers and other paraphernalia .holding the canvas off the floor were met by a blast of wind out side. Police Officer George O'Neal said the supporting poles, attach ed to the tent's roof, bobbed dan gerously up and down among spectators as the wind began bil lowing the tent. The final col lapse, he said, was gradual and took about 13 minutes. A number of children wore scratched and bruised, said Po lice Chief Joe Newcomer, but no one was hurt enough to need i medical attention. Smithsonian Problem Gets Cold Shoulder NEWPORT, R. I. OR ..Tie Smithsonian Institute has a prob lem and the Newport's city coun sel doesn't care. A former councilman told the body that the Smithsonian has trouble cataloguing Newport's famed Old Stone Mill because the ancient structure doesn't have an official name. And he proposed it be called Newport Tower. The councilmen shrugged and went on to other business. . Nervousness and Headaches Lumbago, Bheumatism, Neuritis and Arthritis. 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