| Show Severe Freeze Keeps Hold HoldOver HoldOver Over Midwest By ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESSA A severe cold wave following the pattern of last weeks week's Icy blast whipped across across the country from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic seaboard Friday and crept tow toward rd the Gulf coast and the Carolinas The north central region bore the brunt of ot the biting cold Temperatures Tem Tem- Temperatures in some parts of ot the frigid belt tumbled to n near ar 40 degrees below zer zero The mercury failed to rise above the zero mark markall markall markall all day Thursday in in parts of oC Minnesota and the Dakotas There were widespread reports of ot fuel shortages as the cold intensified The Y IO lowest t readings In th the area area engulfed by zero sub-zero weather from Nebraska to northern Missouri and and northern Illinois J were In the Red River valley vancy of the north The thermometer in that Minne Minne- sota-North sota Dakota region plummeted plummeted plummeted plum plum- meted to from 30 to 40 degrees below It ranged from 20 to 30 below in the Dakotas and northeastern northeastern northeastern north north- eastern Nebraska and 10 to 20 below in northern Iowa and Wis Wis- Columbia Mo reported a minus two early Friday and In Rockford the low was minus four Chicago's minimum was a a predicted predicted predicted pre pre- minus five and a low of minus 10 lO I Saturday morning The sweeping cold air is producing producing producing pro pro- snow along the eastern slopes of the andin parts of Tennessee Kentucky and Vir Vir- ginia Falls in middle and western west west- western west I ern Tennessee measured from two to three thre inches Seven inches of or snow fell feU in Flat FlatTop FlatTop FlatTop Top W. W Va five Inches in Bowling Bowling Bowling Bowl Bowl- ing Green Ky four inches in St. St Louis and two inches In Nashville While the steady southward flow low the of of the cold air across the Great Lakes piled snow along the south shores of ot the lakes heavy snow fell tell in a narrow band in northern Indiana extending from ne near Gary to Michigan City The weather bureau reported an unofficial unofficial unofficial un un- un- un official fall faU of ot 14 Inches of ot n new snow |
