BLIZZARD IN U.S.

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28748, 20 November 1958, Page 15

BLIZZARD IN U.S.

14 Dead And 16

Missing

‘Rec. 9 p.m.) CHIC/ GO. November 19. A paralysing blizzard crossed the border into Canada yesterday. leaving vast areas in the United States buried under heavy snows or scarred by tornadoes. The great storm claimed 14 lives in the snow and cold and the tornado-force winds which flanked the blizzard. There wore three dead in both Utah and Oklahoma, two dead m both Texas and New Mexico, and one dead in South Dakota. Wisconsin. Colorado and Missouri. At least 16 persons are missing in the snowbound mountains of Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Hope was al] but forsaken for four of the missing—three Boy Scouts lost, in the hip-deep snow of Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains, and the last of eight airmen who parachuted into the freezing Magpie Flat area near Huntsville, Utah. Cold, howling winds—measured at 100 miles per hour over Lake Superior—provided the last lash of the storm across northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan yesterday. But the blizzard was not over. The worst November snowstorm on record dumped up to 20 inches of snow on Manitoba’s Red River valley, practically bringing life to a standstill. A companion tornado smashed the Port Arthur, Ontario, region. N.Z. Trade With West Germany (Rec. 9 p.m.i BONN, November 18. New Zealand’s acting High Commissioner in London. Mr E. R. Laking, today had talks with West German economic and agricultural experts on possibilities of increasing trade between the two countries. Mr Laking said the talks, which included nearly an hour’s meeting with the West German Agricultural Minister. Dr. Heinrich Luebke. covered imports of agricultural products.