All Hill freezes over
By DAVE BROYLES
Kansan Staff Writer
Cars stalled, furnaces failed, pipes froze and nearly everybody shivered as Lawrence experienced bitterly cold temperatures this week.
Early Thursday morning the Lawrence temperature fell to a low of six degrees below zero, the lowest temperature so far this winter. The record low for the date is 12 below zero set in 1912.
Gas stations and service departments said they were swamped with calls from owners whose cars wouldn't start. Most service managers blamed the problem on owners who had failed to prepare their cars for winter.
"I would say it is primarily those who procrastinated in having their cars winterized. Those who were prepared didn't seem to have been inconvenienced by the weather," Charles Routh, service manager at Allen Motors, said.
Routh estimated between seven and 10 per cent of the cars in Lawrence wouldn't start Thursday morning. He and other service managers said summer weight oil, weak batteries, and poor tune-up were the main reasons.
Lawrence police reported no unusual problems caused by the weather. They said stalled cars haven't slowed traffic.
"The cold temperatures don't seem to be a factor in auto accidents. We haven't had as many as usual. If people can't get their cars started, they can't run into each other," police Lt. Verner Newman said.
Officials of the Kansas Public Service Co. said several furnaces failed as temperatures fell below zero.
"When the temperature falls to zero everyone starts calling us at
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once. We've had a devil of a lot of calls," L. C. DeMoss, Lawrence manager for the gas company, said.
"Our nine trucks have been really busy. At times customers have had long delays between their calls and the repairs," he said.
He said the gas company has had few calls from the neighborhoods near the KU campus. He said the major problem around campus was inadequate heating in older houses rather than furnace failure.
DeMoss advised students having furnace problems to contact their apartment manager or landlord. The landlord can then call the gas company who will repair furnaces charging only for the materials used.
An official of the City Water Department said they have had some minor problems with frozen water meters and pipes, but problems have not reached major proportions.
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