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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Thurs.. Mar. 21, 1983 Pig IA Termed 'Calamitous Blow Coldest on Record in Many Areas Winter Yields to Spring Bj ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter, 1962-63, whose wal loping of the Northern Hemis phere long will be remembered, yielded to spring at 3:20 a.m. Thursday. U.S. weathermen said the winter was among the most severe in the past 100 years. England reported the months from December to February were the coldest in 223 years. In Japan, record - breaking now caved in 1,700 roofs in Tokyo alone. Meteorologists said the win ter was the coldest or near the coldest on record for Chatta nooga, Birmingham, Cleveland, Atlanta, New Orleans and Pitts burgh. But in Alaska, many areas - had much warmer weather than usual. The cost in lives from weather-linked accidents was high. Crop losses, particularly in the South, ran into the millions of dollars. The South also had tor nadoes and some of the worst floods in its history. But this excess of moisture didn't carry over to much of the West, where some states reported the driest winter in years, and fear there might be a water shortage later. Many ski resorts suffered from a lack of snow. Generally business wasn't hurt as much as it sometimes is during a hard winter, a sur vey by The Associated Press showed. Retail sales were up two per centage points from a year ago. Industrial production held steady, with steel and auto out put climbing. The winter was, in the words of a Tennessee weather prophet Helen Lane of Crab Orchard a "humdinger." She predicted as much last fall after noticing that hornets' nests were close to the ground near her home in the Cumberland Mountains. At Kingston Springs, in a pocket on the Harpeth River near Nashville, the mercury plummeted to 30 degrees below zero on Jan. 24. Nashville re corded an all-time low of 15.4 degrees below zero. Deeper in the South, New Or leans had its coldest winter since 1905. Fifteen days of freezing or below left a seasonal mean temperature of 51.7 de grees. The 1905 mean was 51.1. The record is 50.9 set in 1886. Crops Damaged The city's royal palms, fami liar to thousands of tourists, were killed by the freeze for the second straight year. They had been replanted. The winter was the coldest in South Carolina since 1901. Tern- Rare Type Traced to DETROIT Ml A tuna can from which two Detroit women ate and then died contained a rare type of seafood poisoning, but health authorities said Thursday indications are that it was the only tainted one among thousands of pure tins. George T. Daughters, Detroit chief of the U. S. Food and chief of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said "there teems little doubt that Type E (Clostridium Botulisum) is the type organism involved," and added: "It was isolated from the lid of the can in question and from the intestinal content of the first victim." Dr. Robert J. Solomon, who treated the second victim, said he attributed her death to "botulism, and everything points to Type E." Daughters said tests of many other cans from a suspected West Coast shipment to Detroit urea A&P supermarkets proved pure. So. did. those taken from ' other shipments. There have been no other re ports of botulism food poisoning in the Detroit or other areas of the country. Daughters said FDA officials (re unable to explain, how only of Food Poisoning Single Can of Tuna one can was contaminated, but told newsmen: "The chances of finding another contaminated can appear to be slight. It may be that we'll never know how only one can was involved." . Ralph Johnson, the FDA's bacteriologist at Detroit, said the toxic organism found was 'positively identified" as Type E, a rare type generally associ ated with marine life from ex tremely cold waters. Daughters said earliep that if it were finally proved tuna was responsible for the Detroit deaths, they would be the first in his more than 40 years of ex perience that botulism had been traced to a commercially canned product. The last known occur rence was in ripe olives in the mid-1920's, he said. Margaret McCarthy, 39, died in Detroit Tuesday, three days after her neighbor, Collctte Brown, 37, with whom she had shared a tuna fish snack late last week. Both developed symp toms resembling Type-E botul ism. The tin from which they ate was traced to a consignment of 120 cases to Detroit area A&P food stores. The 6t4-ounce cans bore the A&P label and were from a coded shipment with markings of WY3Y2 over 118X. When health authorities first voiced suspicion, A&P withdrew all the WY3Y2110X shipment. Wednesday it ordered all A&P brand tuna withdrawn tempo rarily from its 4,400 supermar kets across the country. On Jan. 8, the day the A&P consignment was canned, an of ficial said, the Washington Can ning Corp. of San Francisco processed a total of 550 cases or 26,400 cans. Washington packs under its own brand name and under the labels of several chains. California public health offi cials said the A&P tuna was cooked for a longer time and at a higher temperature than re quired by state regulations. Daughters said m Detroit Cali fornia's inspection is one of the best and he would be surprised if anything got by it. New Car Unveiled MOSCOW Wl Soviet auto engineers Thursday exhibited a 15-horsepower ' economy car called Sputnik. Powered by a two-cylinder engine, it can hit speeds of up to 45 miles an hour, Tass said, and goes nearly 30 miles to the gallon of gaso line. peratures along the coast fell to 10 degrees or lower in Decem ber for the lowest reading there in memory. In Florida, a mid-December freeze sent temperatures down to 10 degrees in the northern portion. As a result, the state's citrus crop was cut from an es timated 161.7 million to 110.7 million boxes. Citrus experts said it will cost growers more than $300 million to replace trees and rehabilitate groves during the next three to five years. Millions of dollars worth of shrubs and palm trees had to be replaced. Nevertheless, the state en joyed a boom tourist year, with northerners flocking there in hopes of finding a bit of sun shine. The winter was described as the coldest of the century for North Carolina, although there was less snow than usual, par ticularly in mountainous west ern North Carolina. On Jan. 24, the lowest unofficial tempera ture on record 24 below was reported at Ml. Pisgah. The combination of December, January and February was the coldest on record for the Cleve land, Ohio area. Snow at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport to taled 68.4 inches, compared to J6.6 inches in a normal winter. The record snow measurement for Cleveland was 80.9 inches in the 1909 10 winter. The winter was ' the third coldest in history for Chicago, with 24 days of zero or below temperatures. 50 Below Zero In Indiana, a record 22 days of subzero temperatures was recorded in Indianapolis from December through February. Laport measured 105 inches of snow during the season. Iowa's winter was the coldest since 1935-36. In the past half century, only the winter of 1917 18 also was colder. There was an unofficial 50 below zero reading at Dccorah in northeast Iowa. In some parts of the slate the temperature sank below zero every night for as long as three weeks. Michigan reported the fourth coldest winter on record, with an average temperature of 20.7 degrees, 7.3 degrees below nor mal. ' Ice on the Great Lakes was reported the thickest in 50 years. Lake Superior, never known to have frozen complete ly over, came close this year. ., few-' ' 1 IN ( '" - 1AP Wlrephoto) Hope Cooke, 22, New York socialite, tj stands with her husband Maharajkumar IxOyal Thondup Namgyal, the crown prince of y Sikkim, at their wedding in Gangtok, rvltfi Sikkim, Wednesday. The crown prince is a 39-year-old widower with three children. Eugene Youth to Be Held At Skipworth Juvenile Home William Fulbright, 13, will be kept in detention at Skipworth Juvenile Home while an inves tigation into the fatal shooting of his mother is completed. That decision was reached Thursday morning in a special hearing at the Lane County Juvenile Dept. The youth admitted to Eu gene police Wednesday that he fired a rifle shot which killed his nrathor, Mrs. Ralph Ful bright, 54, at the Fulbrlght's south Eugene home, 190 E. 46th Ave., Wednesday morning. Juvenile Director Jewel God- dard said all involved in the case, including the boy's family, agreed he should be detained while investigations are . being made. Goddard said these in clude police investigations of the shooting and complete psy chological and social investiga tion by the juvenile depart ment. He estimated it would take about two weeks for these to be rnmnlctnd. Then another hear ing will be held to determine what disposition will be made of the case. The hearing will decide whe ther formal charges should be placed against the boy, or if some other action should be taken. Police said William, who will be 14 in May, admitted shooting his mother at the door to his bedroom as she started into the room. A sister who was in the home at the time told police there had been tension building between William and Mrs. Ful bright for some time. Timber Sales Tax Proposal Opposed WASHINGTON Ml Presi dent Kennedy's proposed new tax rules on timber sales were denounced Thursday as a ca lamity for the industry and dis astrous for good forestry practices. An industry group and two House members from Washing ton State criticized the admin istration proposal to curtail the present treatment of timber sales receipts as capital gains, subject to a lower tax rate than regular income. Their testimony was prepared for the House Ways and Means Committee. The Treasury says its pro posal, which would continue capital gains treatment for the first $5,000 of timber income received by individuals, would mean no additional tax for more than 99 per cent of forest land owners. Ordinary tax rates would apply to higher individ ual income and to all corpora tion income. The administration has also proposed more liberal treat- Springfield Man Given Second Term Stevenson in Paris PARIS Wl Adlal E. Steven son, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, arrived in Paris Thursday at the start of a European tour. Stevenson said he will give a lecture at the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza. A Springfield man judged re sponsible for the death of two women in a fiery automobile ac cident last year was sentenced in Lane County Circuit Court Wednesday to a second 18-month term in the Oregon State peni tentiary for negligent homicide. . The man is Russell Irving Connolly, 29, of 155 Nova St. Wednesday's sentence followed his conviction on the second of two negligent homicide charges included in a grand jury indict ment. The latest sentence will run concurrently with the first. Separate counts accused Con nolly of driving in "reckless dis regard of human life" while in toxicated on Oct. 27, 1962. One count accused him of causing the crash on Highway 99 south of Goshen resulting In the death of Mildred Ann Etch 20. Another count accused him of causing the death of her com panion, Sharon Anne Kilian, 19, merit of reforestation expensei by allowing them to be deducted from current income. G. Kenneth Crowell, executive vice president of Kimberley Clark Corp., Neenah, Wis., said passage of the proposals "would be a calamitous blow to the timber industry, to all allied manufacturing and distributing businesses, to reforestation and forest management, and to the jobs of countless thousands of employes dependent upon the timber industry." Crowell spoke for the Forest Industries Committee on Tim ber Valuation and Taxation. Rep. Catherine May, R-Wash., said the present taxing system has resulted in such good tim ber practices that, for the first time, growth is well ahead ot removal. The change, she said, would destroy "sound conserva tion practices and advances." She argued, moreover, it would tend to raise U.S. tim ber prices and so encourage in creased competition from Canada. She said the industry ac counts for a $300 million pay roll in Washington, about 24 per cent of the total industrial payroll in the state. Rep. Thomas Pelly, It-Wash- said the change would increase costs and "further deteriorate the situation and our employ ment level." He said "all the best forest management practices" have been possible under the present tax system and "much logged over land previously abandoned has been restored to the tax rolls and productivity." Mahoney to Seek Senate Presidency SALEM Wt Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, D - Portland, an nounced Thursday he will seek the presidency of the 1965state Senate. Mahoney, who la serving In his Sth session, Is dean of the Legislature. He is a lawyer, and chairman of the Senate Judic iary Committee. Mahoney said he would seek votes in both parties. 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