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6 B THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON 4 , " ?. ROUGH TAKEOFF Drifts of wind-blown snow make New York's Idlewild Airport look like Antarctica as a plane bucks gale winds on a takeoff during the storm which claimed the lives of 286 person in Its six- day rampage from Kansas to the lip of New England. The storm, born over Ari zona, sneaked into Texas and passed through Maine, affecting the lives of more than 100 million persons in 25 states. (UP! Telephoto) Story of a Storm Big December Snow-Blow Hit At Lives of 100 Million Persons By JACK V. FOX UPI Correspondent The storm was born over Arizona, a mixture of Cana dian cold air and warm Pa cific Ocean moisture. It wasn't named Donna or Caroline. In fact, it had no name at all. Jt was known wherever it went simply as "the storm." But from the time it sneak ed into Texas the late after noon of Thursday, Dec. 8, un- til it passed through Caribou, Maine, the next Tuesday the big snow-blow of December, 1960, touched the lives of more than 100 million per sona in 25 states. It left many with exper iences they would never for get. It left death in its trail, too. Bernie Mosior, 63, of Gary, Indiana, was one of its victims. So was Brian Eaton of Boston, who was only 4. In all, 286 victims were claimed by the storm in its six-day rampage from Kansas to the tip of New England. Grew and Grew Officially, this storm was . over and gone when Dorothy Miner, 27, a Chicago nurse, was killed. But had it not been for the storm, she never would have been aboard the big jet aircraft that was to be involved in the worst disaster in aviation history a week later. The storm was only a couple hundred miles across as it started its march cast and north. But it grew and grew until it stretched 2,200 miles across the nation. The most surprised man In El Paso, Tex., was Jim Evans of the Ascarate Auto Supply Co. Evans spent his winters in East Alton, 111., as a youth. When he opened his store in El Paso 10 years ago, he stock ed it with 144 sleds. "A kid should have a sled for Christ mas," he said. It took Evans nine years to sell 100 of those sleds. Most of them went to people head ing for the New Mexico mountains for week ends. Oh, It docs snow occasional ly and in a light dusting man ner in the southwest corner of Texas. But the entire year ly precipitation averages only eight inches and the chamber of commerce calls El Puso "Sunland." Not Much Attention So nobody paid much at tention when the first flakes sifted down around 4:30 p.m on Thursday, Dec. 8. Next morning there was six Inches of snow on the ground, lhe city was marooned. Highways were too risky to travel, an schools were closed, airports weathered i n. A $250,000 blaze destroyed a furniture store. But Jim Evans was in bus! ness. That Friday and Satur day he sold 43 sleds for $11 $15 depending on whether they were the 47 or 51 inch size. The price was the same as 10 years ago. Evans kept one sled for a sentimental gesture. He put it in the window and declined all bids. Unmiilakabl Signals Shortly after midnight Monday, following Evans' sellout and 1,800 miles to the northeast in the picture-postcard Pennsylvania Dutch country around Lancaster, Nancy Ross, 27, turned to her husband in bed and shook him. The baby was not due until late January but the pains were unmistakable signals. Mrs. Ross had lost one pre mature baby and had three miscarriages. She and her husband, Harry, wanted a child born sound and well. The flat farm country out side their small home on County Route 3 was glisten ing with snow that had whip ped into four-foot drifts. It was 10 miles to the little com munity of Ephrata and its hospital. Ordinarily the trip could be made in 15 minutes. I quickly and hurried out to put chains on the 11)33 Hud son. Mrs. Ross called her mother, Mrs. Viola Unstrung, in Ephrata. The older woman was frightened. She called the hospital and set out for her daughter's home in a con voy led by a garage truck, fol lowed by a civil defense truck and a hospital ambulance. Mrs. Ross, a pretty, light- haired woman of 128 pounds, dressed warmly. Her husband carried a bedspread to the car, helped his wife to the front seat. They started down the "S ' shaped-lane leading to the county road. At the corner the Hudson wedged in drift. Ross went into the corner home of his neighbor, Paul Graduate Student Training Grant Is Received by OSC Corvallis-A $119,000 Brad uale student training grant has been received by Oregon Stale college from the U.S public health service for work in molecular and cellular bi ology. The five-year training grant will be for master's and doc tor's degree candidates and also for persons with their master's and doctor's degree who desire specialized train ing or research background in cell biology. Oregon Stale college is an acknowledged national leader for studies in cellular and molecular biology, President A. L. Strand noted in an nouncing receipt of lhe train ing grant. Such studies are the key to understanding the structures and processes of life In bolh plants and ani mals, he added. More than 25 graduate stu dents are currently enrolled in various phases of the pro gram at OSC and several graduate students Horn tu- rope and Asia have come to the campus for the special training. Research projects are un der way on pathways of car bohydrate and amino acid metabolism in bacteria, molds, and the cells of higher plants and animals; the Isolation and characterization of enzymes; the chemistry and physiology of cell division; and cellular ultrastructure. Dr. Vernon H. Cheldelin, director of the Science Re search Institute, and Dr Ernst J. Dornfeld, chairman of the department of zoology, will be directors of the pro gram. The Institute and the department of zoology will cooperate In providing staff and facilities. The training Krant will begin July, 19(11. It will provide fellowships for some of the graduate students. In awarding the grant In OSC, the public health serv ice pointed not only lo ine excellence of the staff and research program, but also to the new teaching and researcn facilities that will permit ex pansion of work. The Science Hosearc-h institute is nouseu in the new physics-chemistry building. Burkhart. Burkhart got up, called Earl Root across the road and got out his tractor. They pulled the car free, then the traclor ran out of gas. The battery in the Ross car -which had kept the heater going - failed. Burkhart re placed it wilh one from his car. Bravest Woman The car moved yards at a time, then stuck. The three men dug constantly. They had one snow shovel and two coal shovels. At 2:30 a.m. they had moved only a quar ter mile. Mrs. Ross called to her husband that the baby was coming. Ross got in the front seat wilh her while the other men shovelled. "My wife was the bravest woman I ever saw," he said. "She didn't even whimper. When the baby arrived, she held it up, smacked it on the rear and it began to cry., I never felt so helpless in my life. All I could do was pray and try to keep her warm. "When the baby cried, she ripped the fringe from the bedspread wilh her teeth and tied lhe cord. I gave her my jacket and wrapped her and the baby in the bedspread and went back shoveling." Impossible Drifts The three - vehicle rescue convoy penetrated to a school house not far from the Boss home. It encountered impass able drifts and had to turn back. Ross, Burkhart and Root worked frantically. They shovelled, pushed and spun down one road, then had to turn back. Shortly before 5 a.m., they reached the Reams- town Road, five and one-half miles from the home. Snow plows had been through and it was smooth sailing to the hospital. Nurses put the Infant, a boy weighing just under three pounds, in an Incubator. Mrs. Ross and her husband decided to name it right -away: Joseph Tcunis Ross - Joseph for Mrs. Ross' father and Teunls for Tcunis Ross, his grandfather from Holland. Rosst 34, a welder, dressed formation, Minute Information Storage Device Found Kingston, N. Y. (Science Service) - A device, the size of a postage stamp, for stor ing Information has boon de veloped and duplicated for the first time by automatic control techniques by scien tists at International Business Machines corporation. The device, a "cryogenic thin film memory plane," con sists of a 19-lnycr "sandwich" that can store 40 different bits of information In cells or compartments. These Informa tion cells can be searched simultaneously, p r o v i d Ing quick access to any stored in- Pesticides Raise Farm Productivity San Diego, Calif. - IDPD -Pesticide chemicals are as important to farming as trac tors, certified seed and pure bred animals, according to one agricultural scientist. Dr. A. M. Boyce, director of the University of Cali fornia's Citrus Experiment Station, said that pesticide chemicals have contributed about half of the 35 to 50 per cent Increase in farm pro ductiveness in recent decades. Boyce said that lhe federal government has been protect ing the safety of the American food supply for over 50 years, a fact he said should be used to attack "irresponsible state ments and many half-truths" about the use of chemicals on food crops. Geologist to Study Distribution of Ore In Oregon Mines Corvallis - An Oregon State college geologist has received a $23,000 grant from the Na tional Science Foundation for a unique three-year study on distribution of ore in mine veins. High speed data proc essing machines will play a supporting role in the study. The findings will be valu able in predicting anticipated ore deposits and distribution in mines. Such information is almost nonexistent now. Project leader is Dr. George S. Koch Jr., geology depart ment. Cooperating with him is Dr. Richard F. Link, statistics department, They will do basic research into the distribution or "zon ing" of ore in the veins of two large mixed-metal mines in Mexico. Extensive mine workings during the past 50 years have exposed large blocks of ground to geological inspection and. hundreds of thousands of mine assays are available. High Speed Computers By processing the mine as says on the high speed com puters, Koch and Link hope to Mr. Adams Leading Ozark Girl Scouts Ozark, Ark.-IUPD-Mrs. Bob Adams was too busy with her troop of Brownies-a junior Girl Scout organization - to take over the leadership of the Girl Scouts. When no other woman The mid-Atlantic resort of Bermuda is fed by the world, with more than 90 per cent of its foodstuffs being import ed. could be found to do the job, Mre. Adam's husband agreed to add the chore lo his duties as agricultural teacher at the high school here. The head line in the weekly Ozark Spectator read: "Heroic Ozark Man Takes Over Girl Scouts." ' The Federation of Nigeria in British West Africa, mov ing toward self-government in the Commonwealth, has 34 million people. come up with answers to some important questions on ore deposits. These include: In what di rections and at what rates do the percentages and contents of the various metals change? Which metals are zoned in a statistically significant sense Fish Swim Slower Than Most Think Boothbay Harbor, Maine -(UPI) - Scientists at the Booth bay Harbor Laboratories say fish swim a lot slower than most people think. They have learned that sardines swimming under controlled conditions can at tain a maximum speed of up to 3 miles an hour. They say the fastest known fish is the barracuda which can only do 20 miles an hour. Tests conducted by marine biologists in Scotland and Canada show maximum speeds of 4.7 miles an hour for cod and haddock, and 6.7 miles for 12-inch mackerel. and how? Does mineralogical bottoming in a single vein in dicate bottoming of the en tire ore deposit at that eleva tion? Were metals in different parts of a vein or one deposit emplaced at different times or by different processes? The job of processing such assay data was impractical be fnrp thp HevelnDment of the high speed data processing ma chines. 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