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."
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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
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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
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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
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Th imni lttu. that ab
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onious conduct in the list
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this question submitted by
man living In Washing-
torn
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Truman is th only non
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with his wife.
Another question was "who
is richer - Lucille Ball or
Loretta Young?" For the rec
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ever occupied the White
House.
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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."
I'd give a prttty to knor
who "F. T." is. Why should
h or sh b concrnd
about a TV show that has
been gathering dust for
Ihre yaars?
The only conclusion I can
reach is that "FT." Is Ler-
ner's manager, or his press
agent, or maybe his wife or
mother.
The magazine answered the
question thusly: "MGM was
unable to sell it for years.
Recently, however, there's
been talk that Colgate has
bought the series for airing
next year."
That could mean that
"F.T." is an MGM president
who is sending up a trial bal
loon. Or it could mean that
he is a member of the adver
tising agency handling the
Colgate account.
At any rate, as 'I'm sure
you'll agree, Q.&A. of this
type Is stimulating reading.
I can harly wait for the next
issue to come out.
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