The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-14
ALL STATE POINTS
REPORT READINGS !.
! BELOW zero MARK
Lower Middle West and East
Prepare For Sharp Drop
i. in Temperature
CAPITAL MINIMUM IS ia
Snowplows Work to Open High
ways In Minot and Dick
inson Districts
CAPITAL MINIMUM is ia

WeaC0er men IN the lOWeT mlQUAe
west and east took look at reports
from the Northwest Thursday and adj
vised their neighbors to get ready for
some real winter.
North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming
and the Canadian provinces had proof
that the Old Man Of the North had
not entirely lost his grip Wednesday
night when the mercury Skidded below
zero. Lander, Wyo.. was the coolest
spot reporting to the local weather
bureau, the temperature there being
"a below.
The minimum in Bismarck was ia
below zero, reached at $3.50 Thursday
morning. A brilliant sun then began
to make itself felt and the mercury
began to rise, approaching the zero
mark at noon. The coolest spot in the
state was Minot with -l6, but nowhere
in the state was 1t above zero. The
forecast was mot so cold" Friday.
Snowplows were working In the
Minot and Dickinson areas, showed In
Wednesday. with prospects that most
Of the main roads would be open by
Thursday night. The highway de-
partment forecast was that U. s. No.
10 would be opened from Fargo to
Beach and U. s. No. 2 was expected to
be opened from Minot to Michigan by
3 p. m. A pillow was working from
Williston toward Stanley but there
was small prospect that the road from
Stanley to Minot would be opened be-
fore Friday. U. s. No. 50 from Bis
marck to Minot was to be opened BY
noon. It was badly drifted south Of
Minot.
Open In East
Roads southeast of Minot were be-
lieved to be open to motorists who
didn't mind bit of shoveling now and
then.
In the lower middle west, Winter
was paving the spring flowers out Of
his whiskers and preparing TO- get
tough.
All season he has acted like q hot
house geranium In that district In.
stead Of q fierce fellow with hair on
his chest. Grass has sprouted where
snow should fall. zephrys have sung
where billiards. should howl. Rain
bows have sparkled In skies that
should be choked with dead gray
clouds. The plough has slid through
soft soil that should be frozen rock.
But Thursday winter sounded, Oft
that he was about to take the upstart
spring for ride.
In the midwest, where the old
blusterer is usually up to hts hips IN
snow at this time Of year. the world
was around to put an extra shot OF
anti freeze in the radiator and take
the comforter out Of the mothballs.
It will be colder, winter Missed, add
ing soto voge, but not terribly cold.
In eastern America where spring
romped Wednesday Is winter SLEPT
there was talk Of colder days ahead.
starting by Friday.
Athletes disappointed
Winters derelictton was felt keenly
at Lake Placid, N. Y. where hterna-
tional athletes, specialists In winter
sports, watched q 60-degree breeze
wipe away the Adirondack SHOWS and
whip mountain streams, usually froz-
en- to narrow rivulets, into flood wa
tiers. When winter pays strict atten-
ton to business he generally lays
down zero cold there. at this season.
In western New York, plough horses
were at work two months early. and
honey bees hummed saily, as though
they might know something.
Exceeding Washington's Is degrees,
HagerstoYn, Nd. took off its coat and
went around In . par -Shattering 70.
Floods and wicked winds broueh:
trouble and death to parts Of the
south where the death list Of Tues
days twister reached II. The New
Mexico Indian country worried over
the consequences Of q new sonwstorm
which blocked roads and threatened
losses among Navajo herds.
Although Haunted in the east, the
midwest and south. winter cut capers
in California where, according 70 the
records, he shouldn't. At Santa
Maria, north Of Los Angeles, snow
fell for the first time III half, q cen
tury. In the California citrus belt the
thermometers read g low q, - above.
Angry storms whipped Ari1ona, cut
ting Prescott and Flagstaff OFT nom
outside traffic..
winter WIS In top form II Drum
heller, Alberta, where he wrote 2
minus 81 IA the Thermometers ana
made the Drumhellers Ike II.