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Maurie D. Levme Cincinnati...
Still, it is the brutal and unrelenting cold-the Big Freeze -that has transformed the inevitable grousing about the weather into personal agony and national hardship. The furies of January have been unrelenting. Alltime low temperatures were recorded last week in Cincinnati (-25), Miami Beach ( + 32), Palm Beach ( + 27). Single-day records for the date were set in New York City (-1); Dayton (-21); and Lynchburg, Va. ( - 8). At -19, Chicago experienced its coldest day in this century. Peoria, Ill. ( - 25), had not been so cold since 1884. In Rice Lake, Wis., the temperature plunged...
...freeze of the waterways aggravated the region's fuel crisis. For a time, Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co. had 3 million gal. of fuel oil stalled on the Mississippi, 400,000 gal. blocked on the Ohio near Aurora, Ind., and another 400,000 gal. stuck in the river near Paducah, Ky. Electric utilities sent out crews armed with hammers and iron bars to smash the frozen coal loose from rail cars. "It's absolutely miserable work," said Detroit Edison Co. Vice President Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Strapped for fuel, his firm at one point was turning out only...
...Kentucky Wildcats, despite a 9-1 slate, moved up a notch into second place above undefeated Cincinnati and Alabama. The three squads received eight, five, and one first place votes, respectively...
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