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.
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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.
Bid Opening Set
SALEM HV-The State High
way Commission will open bids
tion defense college and confer J Both were former Springfield J April 23 on steel superstructure
with French and American of-1 residents traveling from Call-1 for the bridge being built across
ficials. 'fornia. the Columbia River at Astoria.
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