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THURSDAY. JANUARY li. lfc) CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN. CENTRAL POrNT. OREGON PAGE TWO Charlie said that, after recovering,! Old Moose Creek Charlie is goj able to record the temperature He logs were to be used in all the loco- that Charile sp >ke of them with Charlie saia s . anot.ier now, but never a winter passes tn* . “All of a sudden " both men refuse * |ing j don’t think of him and the tru, great emotion. THF CEN'-l-'Al PO I N T said that the temperature dropped motives as long as the supply lasted Aurora Borealis froze drink, and neither wen p I he said, “the --------- --------- ---------- »’■■>«» -Qiiirlr Freeze Win. — » story of the ‘Quick Freeze Winter.' SO rapidly that the momentum of Each engine was to have a small motionless in t e star-studded sky, again. the mercury falling in the glass pilot fire with sufficient heat to many of the spangled curtains j Reestablished, SapUmber 13. lit* pulled all the thermometers from thaw out the frozen steam. Cau touching the ground. People scram- 1 their fastenings and dashed them tion was to be displayed in putting Bateied as »eoond class matter at to the frozen ground. steam logs in the boilers as t..ey bled to break off pieces of the lights, the post »if ice, Central Point, Ore and almost every home in Fairbanks Charlie didn’t mention the exact logs were explosive in their c-n had Christmas trees decorated with gon, under the Act of Mareh I, 1879. densed form. However, in spite <. year of the quick freeze, but it must Published weekly at Centr il caution displayed in using stea. Northern Lights which required no Point, Jackson County, Oregon and have been after the railroad was logs, fourteen locomotives blew the i electric current." devoted to the beat interests of the built from Seward to Fairbanks Up on Second Avenue, a few min city and vicinity. Charlie told how the Alaska Rail tops. utes after the cold wave hit, all IN STOCK Although the railroad benefitt road saved thousands of dollars in SUBSCRIPTION RATES neon signs burst and the gases of all in some ways from the extreme Six Months )i 23 coal bills during the eighteen days One Year $2 ) i that the cold wave hung over Cen cold, it also caused many headac e„ colors froze as t1 ey sprayed above the sidewalk, making a fairyland of Payable in advance. * Two rails snapped simultaneous, Second Avenue. Every electric light Advertising rates on application tral Alaska. This is how it happen in Healy Canyon, pinning an entü ed. Office—North Second Street bulb outside froze solid instantly, We are equipped to cut and thread When the cold wave hit Fair train to the side of the gorge. It and switches became useless. The ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL banks. the Alaska Railroad heating was there for twenty-four hour lights burned day and night for Fditor an i Proprietor pipe to your measurement at rea plant had full steam up In thirty until a wrecking crew could g eighteen days. The manager, assist seconds every steam pipe on the through from Curry. ant manager and two stock boys of sonable prices! Between Fairbanks and Nenan the Northern Commerical Company line was frozen tighter than a Nen NCW the ice fog lay so thick and heavy ana swack on New Year s Eve. At Following Is the prize-winning retired on the revenue taken in on story in t e recent New Navada first, railroad officials were horri that snowplows had to precede e the excessive light bills. Sourdough Yarn contest for 1948. fied; then, gratified when they dis- ery train to clear frozen fog iron, Two well-oiled prospectors who The winner was Berman M. Rinear, covered a rare bit of good fortune. the right-of-way. were wandering down Cushman at present a baggage checker with Bulletins were flashed from head One tragedy happened on t Street grew thirsty and attempted the Alaskan Railroad at Fairbanks. quarters in Anchorage to all sta first trip after the cold wave hi: to take a swig of one hundred and The prize was a round trip to Holly tions in the cold belt advising yard A passenger tram was en route fr~. ninety-proof whiskey from a bottle. wood, with $5 J0 expense money. masters to use all frozen steam on Anchorage, so Moose Creek Char., Both men were rushed to St. Jo Phone 521 . Central Point f nd, and everything was progres., seph’s Hospital with punctured ton Moose Creek Charlie, who actual hand in the following manner: ly lived on Moose Creek, told me of They were to open taps on all j lg on schedule until the train came sils, for the whiskey had become a 'I to the first tunnel north of Heal. t eir a winter in Alaska when it was so pipes, breaking the frozen steam off cold that not one thermometer was in six foot lengths. These steam 1 The nose of the engine had just en tered the tunnel when everythin, came to a screeching halt. The seven coaches and baggage car crashed off the rails, pulling the engine into the gorge after them. The top of the tunnel had been torn FREE TlET.IVERV completely off. Officials who witnessed the scene afterwards said that the trail of smoke left by the engine had frozen so solid that when it hookel f top of the tunnel it simply dragge things to an abrupt halt. The coach es had so much momentum that t ey swerved into a sweeping dive int the canyon. After this wreck, the railroad was forved to hire smoke cutters who drew four dollars an hour and did nothing but cut the smoke from the stack juts before a train entered a tunnel, capping the stack until the engine emerged on the other side. In Fairbanks, the cold wave BEST FOODS MAYONNAISE caused near panic. On one night alone, fifty-tree persons with slow "REALLY FRESH" circulation dropped dead as they out of the Empress theatre, Family Size Qts. 89c ’ tepped rozen solid before they hit the ’ey sidewalk. In many instances, r’ed dogs froze into statues and had to be cut from the traces and left uWiiT’ING SHORTENING $£.05 standing as mute testimony of the cold. These silent forms that were 3-lb. Can ........................ left standing beside so many trials often caused passing teams to get sunshine or N.B.C. so entangled that some drivers CRACKERS - - - 2-lb. Box spent as much as three days separa ting dogs from snarled harnesses. BLISS COFFEE During the cold wave there was 1 -lb. Can - - - - an acute shortage of fresh milk. In fact, there was no fresh milk at all. FRESH Both Creamers and Bentley’s had to resort to an emergency measure. CARROTS - - 2 lge. Bunches Feeding their cows four different PORK ROASTS flavors of syrup, and labeling the four spigots vanilla, strawberry, Pound . - ■ . . chocolate and burnt almond, they were able to supply the town with CI ICED BACON © This week grocers all over town more ice cream than it could con Pound sume. However, production diffi are helping housewives to balance culties resulted from causes un their budgets by featuring low cost known—and the labels had to be NEW STORE HOURS: foods. You’ll find economical items nulled off. The chocolate spigot t irned out Tutti Fruitti. The Burnt 8 A M to S:3D P M. W»"k Days -— 8 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. Saturdays like macaroni, noodles, spaghetti, Almond tap, orange sherbet, The fish, baked beans, corned beef hash, trawberry faucet produced little minnows, and the vanilla outlet soups, and of course nutritious i give off ice cold Rainier Beer. Nucoa margarine! I Charlie said that there was such a great difference between the out side temperature and that of Fair banks cold storage boxes that meat t lawed as it hung on the racks in t e freezers, hamburgers relaxed in- t > mush, and cube steaks sagged like 1 ver on a hot day. Old Moose Creek Charlie was twed by the Northern Lights during CABINETS, WINDOWS, DOORS this cold wave. He asid that the lights were at their best on the night. FRAMES and SCREENS the temperature dropped so rapidly It’» a nutritious »pread for bread. the sky was curtained with huge Phono 1361 Central Point. banners of colored lights that dan So good for all kitchen and table ced across the sky in such splendor uses! 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