Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-02-03 | Page 5 | Gas Shortage Chills Toledo

Gas Shortage Chills Toledo TOLEDO Ohio Feb 3 UT At ltD At least persons were driven from their homes here Saturday by a shortage of heating gas for furnaces As pressure In mains dropped families amUles who had heated their homes with gas moved mo in with those who had other kinds of heating heating heat heat- ing Friday night nig-hL Hotels were jammed and several hundred persons were cared for forby forby forby by the Red Cross at a n recreation center and a high school I Second army headquarters Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- urda started moving mo cots from Ft FL Hayes at Columbus Ohio and from near by Camp Perr Perry They will ili be set up in other recreation recreation recreation tion centers and schools The city declared a state of or emergency Firemen and police I closed bars barg theaters and other nonessential businesses which used gas g-as heat Worst hit was the Point Place section of the city near Lake Erie where some persons live Distribution mains there were the smallest and authorities said possibly possibly possibly bly 1775 families who ho use gas there would have to be evacuated At a Point Place check point where the pressure in mains is normally 30 pounds it had dropped to half a pound City Manager Arnold Finch said he feared a complete collapse of the pressure unless each individual consumer reduced gas g-as demands to the barest possible minimum Gas supplies were perilously er low lowin I in Cincinnati Springfield Columbus Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- I bus Parma Farina and Dayton States I of emergency also were proclaimed by the mayors of Columbus and Parma Parm a. a Early in mol morning o r n i n g temperatures around Ohio were below zero in inmost inmost inmost most areas areas The Ohio storm death toll toU was 25