Show Summer Weather Melts Ice Snow I At Lake Placid S SLAKE I LAKE PLACID N. N Y Jan 15 15 iPA P iP- iP A plea for snow and md cold welled up from this winter sports center today as an almost unprecedented thaw hampered preparations for the winter winter winter win win- ter section of the Olympic games February 4 to 13 Already the warm sun and balmy air had stripped the Adirondack mountainsides about Lake Placid of the snow that at this time of the year usually stands feet deep Lake Mirror Mirror Mirror Mir Mir- and Lake Placid were bare of ice There were green spots on brown fields and lawns No date for the preliminaries preliminaries preliminaries originally scheduled for today and Saturday can be set definite definitely until cold and snow return The ice layer on the bob run painstakingly frozen on with sprayer streams of water to depths as great as ten inches has wilted away except on the upper reaches of the slide the fastest and most spectacular run ever built It is estimated that at least four days das of freezing weather will be needed to put the slide back in con con- |