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.
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KEARNEY, Neb. OB The
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in the city's new trash cans.
The city placed 16 of the new
cans on Central Avenue to help
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