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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Biogrophy of the Storms High Pressure Area Over Atlantic Blamed For Storms on Two Continents Editop'i note: Europe and the eastern United Statss till are tufiering from tome of the wont winter tormi of the century. To investigate their cautei and effects. UPI atiigned a team ef reporters: Daniel F. Gil more, for London and Europe; Jiraei W. Ryan and Jack O'Brien, for Maine and the East Coait; Norman Runnion, for the weather bureau meteorological e x perti in Washington. A UPI TEAM REPORT Al 18,000 feet above the cold blue-grey waters of the North Atlantic in the days Just before Christmas, a mass of air formed into what weathermen call a "blocking high." Circulating there between Greenland and Iceland, un seen by human eyes but marked on the charts of meteorologists, this wind pat tern helped forge a vicious machine of nature that has now clobbered two conti nents. Nearly 600 persons died in Europe for reasons attributed directly to the storm, either from auto accidents, drown ings, asphyxiations or freez ing. In the United States, the death toll was scattered and much smaller, but the prop erty damage from wind and cold was huge. Joseph D. Panaro, of May book, N.Y., who had seen and survived a great many storms in the 65 years of his life, died when the car in which he was riding was involved in an ac cident caused by blowing snow. Arthur Barber and his wife, Daisy, of Robert's Place, Dorchester, England, froze to death on the back seat of a Vauxhall sedan which was stalled in a giant snowdrift on the A353 road three miles north of Weymouth, England. Conference Slated At Phoenix Church Phoenix - First Baptist church, Phoenix, will be host for a conference on evange lism Friday, Jan. 4, sponsor ed by the Siskiyou Southern Baptist association. The Rev. Lewis S. Sleed, Portland, director of evange lism for the Oregon-Washington Southern Baptist conven tion, will speak at the clinic. Sessions will begin at 2 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. An evening meal will be served at 6:30 p.m. Among those taking part in the program will be the Rev. A. L. Craig, Phoenix; the Rev. Kenneth Hollnsead, Crescent City; the Rev. James Brockus, Grants Pass, and the Rev. Gil bert Skaar, Medford. Spring arrives variously from March 19 to March 21. London, which has fogs, found itself covered in snow. At times it was too cold to ski in the fabled winter sports j grounds of the Austrian Alps. j Fourteen inches of snow fell I on Marseilles, on the Medi terranean coast of normally I sunny southern France. It was the most in 61 years. I Spawned by a combination J of weather factors around the globe, timed almost with the precision of a rocket count down, the great winter storms that blew out 1962 and slid in 1963 were among the most severe of the century. They were still around to day, and the "blocking high" that helped cause them still is hovering above the Atlan tic at latitude 64 north and longitude 31 west. This huge pressure area that was born before Christ mas week end pulled in Arc tic blasts from Siberia that now have swept across Europe. But at the same time it disturbed wind patterns in the Western Hemisphere and caused the big East Coast storm to crunch up the Atlan tic seaboard and bury parts of New England. Europe took the first blow. "It's been the worst cold wave since 1947," said Gor don H. Robbins, deputy sen ior meteorological officer in the British Air Ministry. "The worst snow blizzards, accord ing to our records, since 1927." The high pressure area that had built up between Green land and Iceland blocked off comparatively warm winds from the Atlantic. These winds, and the Gulf stream, provide England with its usual damp but temperate winters. But with the "blocking high" in place, there was nothing to stop the windy invasion from Siberia. While Europe moaned, and Rome newspapers reported "the coldest Christmas of the century;" while snow coated the crater of Mt. Etna in Sicily and avalanches cut off millionaires and the young set in ski resorts throughout Switzerland, a storm began moving up the eastern sea board of the United States. At weather bureau head quarters In Suitland, Md., out side of Washington, the ex perts consulted the prevailing patterns, examined data from the computers, made their own calculations, and agreed that an onslaught was en route, Last Saturday, at Suitland, experts such as Harlan Say lor, chief of the analysis and forecast branch of the Nation al Meteorological Center, de cided to alert weather bureaus around the coast that a big storm, then located near Cape Hatteras, N.C., was building up. Their notice moved about 1:30 p.m. (EST). By then it was snowing. and later raining, in Wash ington itself. New York City was soon to be hit, and the Giants and ' the Green Bay Packers would play for the National Football league championship in Arctic cold. Storm Moved North The storm pressure area continued to move north. It attracted bitterly cold air from Canada. The "blocking" area over the Atlantic pre vented it from sweeping out to sea. And the storm turned toward Maine. The highest weather bureau in the northeastern United States is atop 6.228 foot Mt. Washington, in New H a m p s h i r e's magnificent White Mountains not far from the Maine border. In 1!)34 the temperature there fell to 47 below. The record almost was broken Sunday night. At 10:30 p.m. Guy Gosselin, 28, a 8-foot, 180-pound mem ber of the observatory staff, struggled along a 20-foot long walk and found the thermom eter reading 41 below. The storm was in full force. At Bangor. Maine, the snow began at 4:10 p.m. (EST) on Saturday. When it ended at 3:23 a.m. Monday, 29, inches were on the ground which al ready had been covered with 10 inches from a previous snow. In Washington, the weather bureau was grim. A 30-day forecast Issued Monday said that temperatures should con tinue "below season normals" over the eastern third of the nation. The same is in store for Europe. Jerome Namias, chief U. S. long-range weather forecaster, foresaw it this way: "Our neighbors influ ence us, and we influence them." THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1963 You Can Count on Us . . . Quality Costs No More at Sears . ... , - -i ' , i -A r. ... - I 'ft ' "... " 1 t . . ' (,- . .',-. " . i 11 feM ,5, ft ... ft;'iJ'yj ;2- v'lr is DON'T MISS THIS GREAT EVENT . . . big, big savings . . . tremendous selection of top-notch coat styles . , . spectacularly low pricesi Now, in mid season, every coat price slashed, every coat a buyl Only a Sears will you find such values! 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JACKSON PHONE 773-6661 Open Monday and Friday Til 9 P.M. 17 Injured in Ordnance Blast Riverside, Calif. -HOT- Sev enteen workers were injured, two seriously, in an explosion Wednesday at a munitions building at a classified Aero jet General ordnance installa tion west of here. Explosive primers for mis siles and "destruct devices" which automatically explode a missile when it goes off course are manufactured in the building. A company spokesman said there was little structural damage caused to the building which is isolated for safety purposes. Two workmen reported In .lerious condition at Riverside Community hospital were identified as Carl Brown, proj ect supervisor, A r 1 1 n g ton. uanr., and Roy Hill, a stock handler, also of Arlington. Brown suffered extensive burns and Hill was severely cut by flying debris. The other workers were treated for shock and minor burns. A police officer seeking to enter the plant to investigate reports of the explosion was not permitted to enter be cause of security regulations. Can Hardly Wait B , 3 Nugget or Two of Information Found in Weekly Magazine Feature By DICK WEST Washington - IUPII - Just about my favorite feature in the periodical field is a ques tion - and -answer col umn appear ing in one of the weekly magazines GIANT RADISH St. Genevieve, Mo. - UPD - Andre Oberle grew a radish weighing over nine pounds. Readers who "w ant to know the truth about pro rr. i n e n t wtsi personalities" are invited to write in and ask about it and the magazine will undertake to straighten them out. The answers invariably sup ply a nugget or two of Infor mation that I find gratifying. In a recent issue, for instance, I learned that there is no law against sa Zsa Gabor giving her age as 37 when she gels married What mainly intrigues me, however, are not the answers but the questions. I find my self simply dying to know what caused them to come up In the first place. Th imni lttu. that ab solved Miss Gabor of onious conduct in the list ing of her agt contained this question submitted by man living In Washing- torn "Is it trua that Harry Truman is th only non millionaire to hav occu pied th Whit Houi in th last 40 yaart?" I couldn't help but wonder what sparked his curiosity on tnal point and why he speci fied 40 years rather than, say, 511 years. My guess is that it stemmed from an argument with his wife. Another question was "who is richer - Lucille Ball or Loretta Young?" For the rec ord, Loretta is, but neither ever occupied the White House. The question that really tied me in knots came from a person in Northridge, Calif., identified only by the initials "FT." "Three years ago Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote the lyrics for 'My Fair Lady,' wrote a situation comedy series for TV called 'Harry's Girls,'" he observed. "What happened to it." 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