Weather Blocking High Frosts Europe and U S in Severe Winter
A UPI report details a blocking high 18 000 feet above the North Atlantic that helped drive a brutal winter storm series across Europe and the United States. Deaths and extensive frost and snow damage reported in Europe with heavy snowfall and cold in Britain France and Italy while U S damage and ferrying cold continue with alerts from Suitland and Mt Washington observers.
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Jack O’brien
Maine Century
Oe Na F. Ciimere
London
Atlantic
Continents
North Atlantic
Greenland
Iceland
Europe
United States
Joseph D. Panaro
May
Book
N.Y
Arthur Barber
Daisy
Roberts Place
Dorchester
England
Weymouth
Austrian Alps
Marseilles
Mediterranean
France
Arctic
Siberia
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Gordon H. Robbins
British Air Ministry
Gulf
Rome
Mt. Etna
Sicily
Switzerland
Weather Bureau
Suitland
Washington
Harlan Saylor
National Meteorological Center
Cape Hatteras
N.C
New York City
Giants
Green Bay Packers
Canada
Maine
Mt. Washington
New Hampshire
White Mountains
Guy Gosselin
Observatory
Bangor
Jerome Namias
U.S
Widow receives road gifted to her in Fauquier County
In Warrenton Virginia Mrs Alma Bridge a Fauquier County widow finally gets a road after a radio broadcast spurred help from a quarry owner and a Middleburg contractor. The dirt mile long path will join the state highway system though a landowner held back the necessary right of way.
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Warrenton
UPI
Alma Bridge
Fauquier County
Bernie Mahoney
WKCW
West Virginia Economy Seen Growing in 1962 63
Business Week estimates West Virginia personal income at 3.27 billion in 1962, up 4.5 percent from 1961 and short of the 1963 forecast. The magazine cites 1962 federal public works aid and 1963 hopes pinned on a Morgantown power plant and Wheeling Steel expansion in the upper Ohio Valley.
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New York
UPI
Business Week
West Virginia
Morgantown
W. Va
Wheeling Steel
Upper
Ohio Valeys
Conviction Upheld for Embasy Secrets to Red Agents
The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Irving C. Scarbeck’s conviction for passing embassy secrets to Red agents in Poland and urged reducing his 30 year sentence to 10 years. The former Warsaw embassy second secretary was praised for cooperation with authorities during the investigation.
Illness Tied to School Turkey Meal Contaminants
Mason County school children at Central Elementary in Pt. Pleasant fell ill after a December lunch of surplus government food. The State Hygienic Laboratory found millions of germs on turkey with similar bacteria on dressing and vegetables, suggesting spoiled or poorly handled food caused the illness affecting 26 students, mostly fourth and fifth graders.
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South Charleston
Upt
Masons County
J. Roy Monroe
Monroe
Dan Glassman
Terry Barron
Central
Pt. Pleasant
Mason County
Paul Powell
WVU Receives 22000 Grant for Math Research
WVU president Paul A. Miller announced the U S Air Force awarded twenty two thousand dollars to support two years of basic mathematical research. Director William Squire said the project aims to simplify determining the area bounded by a curved line reducing calculations and computer time for space and military applications.
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Morgantown
UPI
West Virginia University
Paul A. Miller
Moniday
U. S. Air Force
WVU
William Squire
Squire
Parkersburg IRS director notes two centennials
Parkersburg UPI reports Nathaniel Looker, district director of the Internal Revenue Service, jokes that West Virginia marks two centennials on New Year’s Day. The 35th state’s birthday and the 100th federal income tax filing are noted, with a quip about early returns and no birthday cards.
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Parkersburg
UPI
Nathaniel Look
Internal Revenue ‘Service
West
Caesar Augustus
Looker
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