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...southern Louisiana, Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks stiffened into icicles for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. In Pasadena, the palms were loaded with four inches of white stuff which the residents recognized as snow. San Diego, one jump from the Mexican border, had a little snow too, the first since the earliest weather records (1850). Waco, Tex. had the coldest day (5° below zero) since 1899; Pocatello, Idaho, had the coldest day (31° below) ever recorded...
Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...press gave the impression that he had committed the U.S. to political support of a coalition government in China, that the Chiang government was already written off. In Honolulu, on his way home, Hoffman explained that he had been talking about "dealing with the people, not governments." In Pasadena, Calif., he pointed out, with mild irritation, that it was 'the State Department's prerogative to give or withhold political support. Before that, the State Department had commented coolly that Mr. Hoffman had merely expressed his "personal opinions" in the Shanghai interview...
ELEANOR C. WATERHOUSE Pasadena, Calif...
When the mirror left the optical shop in Pasadena, observatory authorities knew that its edge was "high," but they counted on the supports to correct the fault. The bulge turned out to be too big for the supports to handle...