Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-27 | Page 5 | Winter Retains Grip upon East

WINTER RETAINS GRIP CHIP UPON EAST While winters winter's front line assaulted eastern states temperate weather started to obliterate a snow blanket and frigid temperatures toot that gripped the west vest and large sections ns of the south j I Temperatures raced downward along the 4 eastern seaboard as snowstorms snowstorms snow snow- storms swirled in from the west vest mu mt-if- fling New York Pennsylvania and other states In a few hours the mercury mer mer- cury fell from 53 degrees to 15 In New Now York City Storm warnings were posted pasted to all eastern shipping More than nine inches of 0 snow gripped the panhandle of West Vir Vim ginia and spring weather was routed by ay snow from the nations nation's capital Eastern highway transportation tion was tampered hampered and air traffic all but hal halted ted Plains and midwestern states slates cleared drifted highways as tempera tempera- lures tures abated from rom the subzero depths that reached 20 degrees below at Bemidji Minn yesterday Rocky mountain states reported melting snows and clearing skies Spring weather the thermometer at 54 54 was Puget Sounds Sound's boast with Pacific coast rains forecast oreca t today Southern Californians again built smudges to protect citrus fruit from below freezing temperatures and fruit ranchers of ot the Rio Grande Grende valley feared low temperatures Two weather deaths were reported from Texas As wintry weather retired from Oklahoma and other western states farmers hoped for rain to repair damage by recent dust storms to the wheat crop Weather forecasters held ou out hopes for m moderate weather for central centra sections of 0 the nation Wednesday day and the east cast by Thursday V