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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.
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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.
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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
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Central Point.
banners of colored lights that dan
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ced across the sky in such splendor
uses!
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