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Show It snows other places also . . . If snow gets deep here this winter and the snow shovel has to be used, remember it also snows in other places. For instance, back in 1921, 76 inches of snow fell at Silver Lake, Colo,, in just 24 hours. And at Tahoe, Calif,, 198 inches in-ches of snow came down between be-tween January 12 and 15, 1952. The record snowfall for a calendar month occurred at Tamarack, Calif,, which got 390 inches during January, 1911, according to World Book Encyclopedia. In the same year a record depth of snow accumulated accu-mulated at Tamarack, where 454 inches covered the ground. The all-time U.S. record for snowfall in one season was set from July, 1955, to June, 1956, when 1,000.3 inches of snow fell at the 5,500-foot level of Mount Rainier, Wash. Be glad you don't live there. All these figures are records, and therefore unusual. But individual in-dividual snowfalls of 30 inches are not unusual at all. In the hills southeast of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario the average winter snowfall is more than 150 inches. Erie, Pa., on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, was buried by a 27-iinch snowfall snow-fall on Thanksgiving Day, 1956. Be glad you don't live there, either But no matter where you live, there are few spots in the United States which never get snow. For instance, snow fell as far south as Lakeland, Fla., near St. Petersburg, in January, Janu-ary, 1958. Raymond Moley writes in Newsweek: "... I suggest a means of recruiting good college col-lege teachers which is not stressed in educational literature. litera-ture. The Berlin wall between high school teachers and college col-lege teaching should be broken down. Younger and qualified high school teachers who either have their higher degrees or are on the way to them should have the opportunity oppor-tunity to move into higher education ed-ucation . . . And the need in the years to come for college teachers will be greater than the need for high school teachers." tea-chers." It is estimated that recreational recrea-tional vehicles which include travel trailers, pick-up coaches, and canvas camping trailers will account for the consumption consump-tion of more than 1.1 billions of gallons of gasoline in 1965, an increase of more than 250 million gallons over the 1964 figure. |