Record snow depth exceeds 1959 on same date in Oswego area
Overnight snowfall totals about 39 inches in Oswego with an additional inch in the morning bringing ground cover to roughly 20 inches. Meteorologist E F Loveridge notes the snow on the ground is unusually high for this time of year while roads remain passable and schools stay open.
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Oswego
E. F. Loveridge
Oswego County
Sheriff's Office
Minello Barracks
Pulaski
Mayor Urges Snow Shoveling After Heavy Storms
Mayor Ralph Shapiro urged property owners to clear sidewalks amid complaints of stalled cars. If not done, the city will order the Department of Works to clear walks and charge owners. Snow totals varied, with Pulaski area reporting up to an inch. State and county plows operated through the night as New York faced a major blizzard with up to two feet of snow, causing multiple deaths and widespread travel disruption.
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Ralph Shapiro
City Hall
Department of Works
Copter Searches Out Marooned Navajo Families
A U R A helicopter from Kirtland Air Force Base combs the 16 million acre Navajo Reservation for families cut off by 36 inches of snow in the northeast Arizona portion and parts of New Mexico and Utah. More than 70 families lack supplies. crews hover as Navajo members descend rope ladders to assess needs and drop aid. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is noted as England’s Westminster Abbey’s first American poet commemorated.
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Window Rock
Ariz. UR
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
John McPhee
Kirtland Air Force Base
Albuquerque
N. M
White Cone
Crystal
McPhee
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
England
Westminster Abbey
Big Ten Ends Rose Bowl Contracts On Team Basis
The Big Ten votes 5 to 5 to sever contract ties with the Rose Bowl on a conference level and votes to strike the individual clause allowing a school to go to Pasadena if invited. The move prompts a return to institutional voting, with no expected formal change in stance.
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Columbus
Ohio
Big Ten
Indiana
Pasadena
Two Children Die in Buffalo Apartment Fire
A South Side Buffalo blaze killed four year old Steven Jackson and one year old Cynthia Jackson and left their mother Mary Jackson in critical condition at Mercy Hospital. Firemen fought the flames as the father was at work and details remained scarce.
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Mert Mahaney
Martville
Crockett
Crockett-Martiile Rad
Oswego Hospital
Mahaney
Frank Patane
James McDermott
Cayuga County
Hastings
Brewerton
Lawrence R. Jennings, Jr
Lancaster Ave
Syracuse
Sebastian L. Hammatt
RD 1
Parish
Jennings
Hammatt
Arthur Revoir
Buffalo
Buffalos South Side
Steven
Cynthia Jackson
Mary Jackson
Mercy Hospital
Storm brings heavy snow and cold to Northeast
A brutal storm paralyzed air travel at Idlewild and New York City transit faced disruption while Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire faced 6 to 12 inch accumulations. Four deaths were attributed to heart attacks linked to the weather, with Boston's Logan Airport shuttered and New Jersey blanketed by up to two feet of snow. Cold grip spread from Montana to the Deep South, with record lows in places like Philip, South Dakota, and subfreezing to near freezing temperatures across Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida markets.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
City College
Weather Bureau
New York
Lake Ontario
New Jersey
Connecticut
Syracuse
Buffalo
Massena
Watertown
Rochester
Harriman
New Paltz
Canajoharie
John J. Maher
Oakdale
Suffolk County
Ins
Red Hook
Dutchess County
Joseph Jones
Rhinebeck
Route 9
Philadelphia
Idlewild
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Vermont
New Hampshire
Boston
Logan
South
Midwest
Montana
Deep South
Canada
Plains
Mississippi Valey
Philip
Louisville
Jacksonville
Fla
Kentucky
Tennessee
Florida
Miami
Tallahassee
Daytona Beach
Tampa
State employment up in New York for January
New York State total employment reached 6 086 000 in January a record for the month but fell 196 000 from December the State Labor Department reported non farm employment rose 178 000 from January 1959 Industrial Commissioner Martin P Catherwood attributed the December lull to winter construction slowdowns and post Christmas retail layoffs plus postal cuts automobile and other durable goods plants expanded their work force last month
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Albany
New York State
State Labor Department
Martin P. Catherwood
Albany Teachers College to Award Doctor of Education Degree
The College of Education at Albany, part of the State University, has been authorized by the Board of Regents to award the Doctor of Education degree. It would be the first teachers college in the state to grant the advanced credential. Formal approval must come from the State University's board of trustees before the degree is awarded.
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Albany UP
College of Education At
Albany
The
State University
Board of Regents
Teachers’ College
State Education Department
Board of Trustees
Girl Scout Week Opens with Church Services Citywide
Girl Scouts will begin Girl Scout Week March 6 in churches and synagogues across the city. Leaders from Neighborhoods 1 2 and 3 will join services at St Pauls Lutheran Trinity Methodist Congregational First Baptist Church of the Evangelists St Louis St Peters St Josephs St Stephens Minetto Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St Marys with times ranging from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.
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Cir
Times Illustrated
St Paul's
Lutheran
William Penrod
Trinity Methodist
Milton Decker
Walter Gaffin
James Hutchison
First Baptist
June Sawyer
Church of the Evangelists
Richard Tompkins
St. Paul's
Lawrence Fink
Frank Riley
St. Louis
Joseph Beauchamp
St. Peter's
Harold Kline
St. Joseph's
George Manfre
First Methodist
Harold Young
Stephen Pasco
Presbyterian
Clark
West Baptist
Richard Batchelor
St. Stephen's
Stanley Kubis
St. John's
Stanley Coniski
Minetto
William White
Richard Boardway
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Minette
John Ranous
St. Mary's
Neil Forsyth
Peter Raby
Theodore Roosevelt
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