Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-06
COOLEST WEATHER
OF WINTER STRIKES
+. SOUTHERN STATES
Freeze and Snow Expected
to Prove Benefit to AgricuI-
ture but to Have No Effect
on Boil WeeviI

VII DUH WGGVtI
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-While the
northwest and central west had re.
lief today from the cold wave that
sent thermometers to new low levels
for the season, the southern states
were suffering from the coolest
weather in several years, attended
in some districts by snow. sleet or
rain. Unusual cold penetrated as far
as the central portion of Florida.
where freezing temperatures or frost
were forecast for Monday night and
Tuesday morning.
Vicksburg, Miss, was covered with
seven inches of snow and sleet to-
day. Street car service and tele
phone communication were demon
allied.
Louisiana and Arkansas were al
most an unbroken blanket of snow
and sleet in the northeastern and
southern sections, respectively. The
mercury dropped to 20 degrees above
zero in some districts.
None of the southern states was
to be sighted by the cold wave, it
appeared, the forecasters report
warning Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida.
Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana
of probable rain, sleet or snow, az
companied by dropping tempera-
lures Monday. Relief for the ma
jority tomorrow was predicted.
Weather reports indicated the
breaking of the cold wave before its
arrival at the eastern seaboard
states.
In California sunshine yesterday
routed the fear of citrus growers
that their crops would be ruined. al
thought today's forecast predicted
light TO heavy frosts in the interior.
Today, the forecasters said, was to-
bring forth rising temperatures in
the upper lake region, the upper Mis-
sissippi valley westward to the
Rocky mountains, with a like reac-
sicn starting tomorrow in the Ohio
ALLEY and the east gulf states.
General precipitation was slated
or the Atlantic and east gulf states
s51iig.lt and tomorrow. continuing
during Tuesday in the middle and
north Atlantic states.
Early today Chicago temperature
registered 10 degrees above zero. a
rise of nearly 16 degrees in a TWEEN
sy-four-hour period.
HELPS FARMER, BUT WILL
NOT FREEZE BOIL WEEVIL
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 5.-Al-
though the snow and sleet which Wis
tied Memphis and adjacent territory
during the last two days will not
have any effect on the boil weevil, it
will be beneficial to the farmers in
many ways, according to opinions
expressed here today by agricultural
experts, and will exterminate some
insects which do harm to crops.
Small grain, in particular, will be
benefited. they said.
According to c. w. Watson, OF
the farm development bureau,
temperature of 16 degrees which pre-
vailed in Memphis throughout the
morning Sunday and which is the
lowest recorded here since February
IS, 1920, is not sufficiently cold to
freeze out the boil weevil. To be
effective against the weevil a tent
perature of to 8 degrees over a Pc
Rod of several days is necessary.
For a while Sunday it seemed as
though Memphis would have a sec
ond snow within a day when, flakes
began to fall about noon, but the
amount was negligible. The mer-
curry rose from r. to 20 degrees at
noon yesterday and remained at that
point late into the night. The en-
tire snowfall here amounted to four
and one-haIf inches, according to
the weather bureau.
COLD WEATHER TAKES
VICTIM AT BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 5. =
Cold weather took its first victim
in Birmingham for the winter. Sun
day morning, when Will Kyser, ne.
gro fruit peddler, of Green Springs,
a suburb. died at his residence after
severe exposure.
Kyser was found unconscious In
front of the local Juvenile Court
building, and with his body partially
covered over by sleet and snow. He
was removed to his home. and died
within forty-five minutes.
Policemen, who Investigated, said
Kyser evidently had fallen from his
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