The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 176, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1962 Page: 3 of 72
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3.A THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
” a Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, December 8, 1882
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AFTER SNOWSTORM
Winds Hamper
Road Clearing
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Dorado
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brisk, cold winds blew snow
along the shores of the Great
Lakes Saturday, complicating the
tremendous task of clearing drift-
ed streets and roads.
The winds churned up snow that
had fallen since Thursday in the
northeastern quarter of the nation
Dorado
d been
side a
Christmas
The big fall was ended but flurries
and squalls persisted near Lakes
Erie and Ontario and higher eleva-
tions in the Appalachians. ,
The count of dead in the storm
rose to 48, including 17 in Michi
gam It in Ohio, 5 in Pennsylvania.
3 in New York and 4 in West Vir-
ginia.
Plows chugged and charged into
drifts, freeing thousands of motor-
ists who had been marooned by
snowfall that measured up to three
feet in depth
Mass of Canadian
Air Strikes Texas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A great mass of cold Canadian
air tumbled down into Texas Sat-
urday from the eastern slopes of
the Rockies
The Weather Bureau said the
cold air should bring a freeze dur-
ing the night to most of North and
West Texas. The Panhandle was
due for a hard freeze with snow
flurries in the north.
The whole state should be cooler
Sunday and clear to partly cloudy,
the forecasts said. High tempera-
tures in the 40s and 50s were pre-
dicted. I
High level clouds moved across 1
northern sections of Texas in ad- *
vance of the norther. Forecasts
WEATHER ELSEWHERE
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I Atlanta, clear
High Low Pr.
.. 47 a ..
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Trees, Dolls
Are Stolen
The joy may be in giving but
some Christmas shoppers should
give a little consideration to get-
ting—that is, where they get what
they're giving.
Christmas tree lots in at least
two sections of the city have com-
plained to police that the number
of trees they find in the morning
is fewer than what they left the
night before.
Some little girl in Abilene may
be thrilled Christmas morning
when she finds beneath the tree
five beautiful do'ls, each eight
inches tall and representing dif-
A plane landed at Cleveland’s
Hopkins Airport, the first to touch
down there in more than 32 hours
That signalled the resumption of
operations there
The Cleveland Electric illumi-
nating Co. labored to restore pow-
er to thousands of homes that had
been blacked out by fallen lines.
A fire broke out in the New Ohio
Hotel in Fostiria, Ohio, early Sat-
urday. It drove 100 persons—25 or
more of them stranded travelers
—out into freezing weather. Only
one injury was reported
A 160-mile stretch of the Penn-
sylvania Turnpike through the
state's mountain backbone was re-
opened to normal traffic at 6 a.m.
That gave the go sign to 2.000 per-
sons who had taken temporary
shelter in six service areas
The sun came out in Garrett
County, Md., where the snow
measured 18 inches and drifts
ferent countries. The giver might raned up to 10 or 12 feet,
not share the joy if the police
catch him or her because the dolls
The snow continued in some sec-
tions of New York State Saturday
were stolen from a car Friday Boonville reported almost a foot of
night.
Mrs. S. J. Barron of 1445 Tan-
new snow
The big dig-out was under way
glewood told police the dolls, in southwestern New York, where
valued at 545 were taken from the blanket measured two feet in
her car while it was parked on Little Valley in Cattaraugus Coun-
the lot at Westgate Shopping ty.
Capital. A fresh surge of polar air moved
--into the Midwest. At Duluth,
Citizens League
Women to Meet
Minn., where the night's coldest
mark was 18, the mercury dipped
to 7 by midmorning.
Women's auxiliary of the Citi-' Freezing weather covered most
zens League will hold its month- of the North, with lows reaching
ly meeting Sunday at 5 p.m. in down to 13 above zero in Devils
the home of Mrs. L. Waynewood. Lake, N.D., 17 in Columbus, Ohio.
773 Nelson. Among items to be and 19 in Cincinnati. Battle Moun-
discussed is officer nomination tain. Nev., had 11 above
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FORECAST
For Deytime Sunday
Bismarck, clear .....26 17 ..
Boise, clear ..........44 25 ..
Boston, clear .......44 M ..
I Buffalo, cloudy .......3318..
' Chicago, cloudy .....28 23 T
, Cincinnati, cloudy.... 39 19 ..
Cleveland, cloudy .... M 26 ..
Denver, clear .......SI 20 ..
Des Moines, cloudy .. 29 18 ..
Detroit, cloudy .......MM..
Fairbanks, clear -33 41
Fort Worth, cloudy ... 59 33 ..
Honolulu, cloudy .....81 63 .
Indianapolis, clear .. 35 23 ..
called for temperatures down to m. wink Temesran
22 degrees in the upper Pan- 1.9*21.1
handle. FORECAST FOR TODAY
Jacksonville, cloudy 64 43 .15
Juneau, snow ........21 17 .68
Kansas City, clear .. 40 32 ..
CAP Wirepkete) Los Angeles, clear 64 48
Memphis, cloudy .... so 39-
Miami, cloudy .......a a JB
Milwaukee, cloudy .. 3 22 ..
Mpls.-St Paul, cloudy a 17 !
New Orleans, clear .. 59 43 50
New York, cloudy .. 41 33 ..
Omaha, clear ........33 23. 1
Philadelphia, cloudy. 4 31 ..
Phoenix, clear ...... 75 40 .-
Pittsburgh, cloudy ... 29 a ..
Portland, Me., cloudy 43 a .. .
Portland, Ore., clear . 46 35
Richmond, cloudy ... 53 31
St. Louis, clear ......44 30
San Diego, clear .... «4 45
San Francisco, clear . 61 50
Seattle, cloudy.......40 43 ..
Tampa, cloudy ......68 45.. “
Washington, cloudy .. 46 32
Winnipeg, snow .....50 45 .
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PURE FLATTERY for those fes-
tive evenings right now and on
into spring. Complimentary as
moonbeams, marvelous new
looks ... for you at Minter's.
Sketched, just two from our great
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silk crepe sheath, handsomely
beaded with gold bugle beads,
149.95. Right, holly red cut vel-
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