Salt Lake Telegram | 1945-04-05 | Page 5 | Freeze Hits Crops in Midwest Belt

Freeze reeze Hils Nils Crops In n Midwest t Belt t. t l By Associated Press I I Winter swung a wallop at the nations nation's breadbasket in the form If f f whistling winds rain snow food and heavy frosts that nipped fruit trees and gardens gardens- d the forecast was for more of ot otc c e same at least until Friday The Chicago weather bureau officially officially of of- reported a narrow belt of oC now ow fringing the upper P pi valley and Great lakes region I n depths ranging between 4 andI and I 12 2 inches Unofficial reports said if 6 to inch 17 blanket blockaded most ost ost of southern Minnesota Mason City Iowa Iown reported 12 Inches Rochester Minn 9 inches the weather bureau aid id ranged from 15 to 20 in the Dakotas and Nebraska in the mid- mid Os in Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin d in m Michigan's upper peninsula low loss freezing in Illinois and lightly above freezing in Indiana I The cold extended as far south is s Texas and New Mexico Texas' Texas I panhandle reported 12 above New I 8 to 10 above Some snow snows 3 as s recorded in Texas Missouri nd d throughout the Ohio valle valley I Floods bedeviled central and Vest Virginia with the Red river to crest a at t Shreveport day The lower Mississippi i e ces were reported In good con- con I and engineers expected the i pening of the Morganza floodway I bout miles mUes from New Orleans Or Or- leans cans eans some time within the next ight light days would materially aid Thousands were home home- ess There was no estimate of the damage to fruit trees and any arly gardens which had been parked by an arm spell Kansas and Missouri watched their fruit tree buds wilt in temperatures inthe in ine I the e mid and the story was the thes s same me through most of the rest of the e fertile midwest Winds in the thc 60 50 mile per hour I bracket racket buffeted a good share of the storm area while the weather bureau at Sault Ste. Ste Marie Mich reported d gusts of 74 m. m p p. p h. h Falling FallIng Fall- Fall Ing log trees in the Grand Rapids area I Decommissioned long d distance I 1st s t a n nee c e phones and at Grandville a barn demolished by the wind also broke telephone lines