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Home My WebLink About1964 Record Breaking Snowale y had moved small up to the border as lence appeared to spatch reporting that wever, also said that n the zone itself was semblance of normal- WITH THE an- nt of the shift of con - entagon relayed word ara and Flemming are g Friday, Jan. 17, as a rayer throughout the ie in memory of the lost their lives "in the ce of their duty dur- vents that transpired rsday, Jan. 9." American servicemen anamanians were re- illed in the disorders lowed a dispute over f Canal Zone high dents to fly the Stars es alone at their school nder a U. S.- Panama t the Panamanian flag flown alongside the er in public displays. Group s New t Rule (1P1 — The 13- nation mmit conference has set up a joint mili- mand in an effort to Israel's diversion of iver waters. emarkable display of e often feuding lead - 0 million Arabs voted y night to establish a committee with "ad- BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1964 Record reaking Snow Hits _Many 'Texas Cities = 44 _ = ' .- • • • Eighteen Pages in Two Sections AND IT LOOKS IT ! The street sign says Winter Street — and it sure looks it ! This picture was made in Bryan this morning near the College Avenue South "Y" shortly after snow bean standing on the ground. The snowfall began at 9:50 a.m. and was still coming down in large, wet flakes at presstime this afternoon. (Eagle Photo by Gene Dennis) PRICE 5 CENTS Traffic Slowed In B -CS Vicinity By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Record breaking snow dipping as far into the state as Bryan - College Station snarled traffic caused deaths and brought damage today to a wide area of Texas. Virtually all schools closed in the heavy snow area in Northeast Texas around Dallas and Fort Worth. Dallas measured 7.2 inches at 9:23 a.m. — the heaviest fall ever officially recorded there. Although no records of snow fall are kept in Brazos County, long -time residents say today's snow in 33- degree weather was the most seen here since a storm in the late 1940s. Precipitation since 6 a.m. mea- sured .45. In Dallas at least 200 auto- mobiles were stacked up and unable to move on one highway. Another 100 were blocked on another stretch. MANY WORKERS were late by hours at their offices and stores. Buses scrapped their schedules. Moisture froze in the brakes on many buses making them useless. Fort Worth police tried to un- snarl traffic. A few For Worth power lines snapped under the weight of the unusually water- City Manager Fred Sandlin heavy snow. said the commisson met in spe- At least two persons died in cial session last night to name traffic during the snow. the auditorium, authorize tak- HOMER NEW, 39, was found ing of bids on three school pro - dead in a doorway in Fort jects and to award contracts Worth. A justice of the peace on electrical sub - station erec- said exposure could have been. a contributing factor. All three items were on the iri 4 . fh.• It's Official -- `Bryan Civic Auditorium' "Bryan Civic Auditorium" will be the name of the com- munity's proposed city - school auditorum to be constructed on Stephen F. Austin High School grounds by 1965. r 1 Snow __ (Continued From Page 2) der into Louisiana and on east ward. On the north - south line, th snow stretched from south o Austin deep in Central Texa northward into Oklahoma. The Weather Bureau issued hazardous driving warnings for all the snow area, including por- tions of Oklahoma, southern Arkansas and Louisiana east- ward. The State Highway De partment added its warning. AT AUSTIN, where snow i rare, the white mantle baffl drivers. Thirteen collisions oc curred during the first hour snowfall. The snow, heavy with wate and falling with little wind t blow r' - g tightly. oofs and tree limb' rings, r broke and fell under the nea mantle. The snow's weight collapsed a roof at the Hunt Planing Mill in Fort Worth's Riverside sec- tion. A PORTION of a roof at a Fort Worth Coca -Cola bottling plant collapsed over a dock with an estimated $30,000 loss. At the planing mill, an em- ploye, Archie Singletery, 37, said he arrived early to start fires and heard the roof creak- ing and cracking. Then a 25x25 foot section at the rear crashed down. Temperatures in the snow area were only moderately be- low freezing, but a hard freeze was forecast for most areas by early Friday. The 14 inches of snow was re- ported unofficially between Fort Worth and Weatherford. OTHER SNOW measurements included: Athens 2.5, Llano 2, Waxaha- chie 6 to 7, Hico 12, Burleson 10, Aquilla 6, Chalk Mountain 11, Pidcoke 7, Lipan 9, Denton 7.5, Frisco 5, Krum 7.5, Argyle 6.5, Tioga 8, McKinney 7, San- ger 7, Decatur 7, Prosper 7, Val- ley View 7.5, Lake Dallas 6.5, Pilot Point 7, Lewisville 8. Also Richland 4, Trinidad 2.5, Boyd 9, Kaufman 7, Little Elm 7, Winkler 3.5, Greenville 6.5, Wolfe City 3, Edgewood 7, Car- thage sleet, Marble Falls 2, Tay- lor 1, Waco 1, Dallas 7.2, Arling- ton 6, Abilene 2, Wichita Falls 1, Mineral Wells 6, Carrollton 6, Gunter 6, Sherman 7. Also Richland 4, Crandall 7, Gainesville 7, West 1.5, Frost 6, Tyler 5, west of Brownwood up to '7.5, Stephenville 9. Cleburne 7, Grapevine 6 to 7, Fort Worth better than 6. In midmorning, the Weather Bureau radar showed a broken bank of snow 80 to 120 miles wide falling from 25 miles southeast of Hamilton to Green- ville and a band 10 miles south- west of Eastland to 20 miles south - southwest of Wichita Falls.