U.S. COLD SPELL
More Than 100 Dead (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. A cold wave covered the United States from the Canadian border to Florida today. More than 100 deaths have been attributed to the cold weather, according to United Press International. The creek in Hell (Michigan) froze over. Hundreds of schools were closed, travellers marooned, and water supplies disrupted as scores of communities shivered in record low temperatures for this time of the year. Winter officially is still 10 days away. Three children were burned to death near Gainesville, Georgia, when fire destroyed their home in near zero weather. An elderly man froze to death in an unheated room in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A 75-year-old woman was found frozen to death in the front yard of her St. Louis home Doctors rode tanks to make their rounds in parts of Ohio, where snow was up to 50 inches deep. Dignitaries opened a section of an inter-State highway near Lansing, Michigan, with snow shovels instead of the traditional ribbon-cutting scissors.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 30005, 14 December 1962, Page 13
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