University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 7. 1989
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Missouri struggles as snow falls fast
The Associated Press
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder Global Weather
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
A vast weather system dumping up to 16 inches of snow virtually shut down eastern Missouri yesterday in one of that area's worst March storms. The snow blew snow all the way to the Northeast and caused flooding in Appalachia.
Hundreds of schools were closed because of snow or high water in 10 states and travelers were snowbound sports and in towns along highways.
The weather was blamed for at least 12 deaths, including one person killed by what the National Weather Service said was high wind in Georgia on Sunday when thunderstorms battered the Southeast.
It also was blamed for millions of dollars in losses for poultry farmers in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, where birds were killed when the weight of snow collapsed their buildings.
The heaviest snowfall was in Oklahoma, where 16 inches fell in the Pauls Valley area south of Oklahoma City. Pauls Valley Police Chief Robert Nichols said the snow had "drifted halfway up the door," and drifts up to 6 feet high were reported on some roads around the state.
Eastern Missouri got up to 14 inches of snow. Weather Service meteorologist John Feldt said the 11 inches in the St. Louis area was the third-heavy accumulation for 24 weeks since record-keeping began in 1874.
The Missouri State Senate and House canceled yesterday's and this
Central Illinois got up to 10 inches of snow and lesser amounts extended eastward through Ohio into Pennsylvania. New Jersey and New York
morning's sessions.
icy pavement and blowing snow made travel nearly impossible in many areas.
In Ardmore, Okla., 328 travelers spent the night in the National Guard Armry and the national auditorium, said Civil Defense director James said. 75 people took refuge at a church in Davis in southern Oklahoma.
Hard future predicted for Jackson
CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson fended for three days because he hungered for the defeat of Democratic mayoral nominee Richard M. Daley, but some Democrats saidJackson's efforts were straining the two-time Democratic presidential contender's party credentials.
The Associated Press
"What kind of credibility does that give Jackson nationwide with other Democrats?" asked Illinois party Chairman Vince Demuziu. "This is certainly not going to work." He has any future ambitions, which I'm sure he does."
Jackson backed Mayor Eugene Sawyer in the Democratic primary won last week by Daley, but that was
because his candidate of choice — Democratic Alderman Timothy Evans — sat out the primary in favor of a third party bid in the April 4 general election.
The attack on Jackson's party credentials was only the latest event in what has become an imbrogio in the politics of Chicago's black community since Harold Washington's mayor, died near the start of his second term in 1987.
Jackson has tried to be a peacemaker, but his plea for unity among supporters of Sawyer and Evans during the primary went unheeded. Now his position is at odds with the Democratic National Committee.
News Briefs
POLLUTION RULING: The Supreme Court, in a defeat for Northeastern states, refused yesterday to require air pollutants to crack down on interstate air polluters.
DEMOCRAT SUPPORTS TOWER:
Dem. Howell Fittl of Alabama yesterday became the first Democrat to swing behind John Tower's confirmation as defense secretary, delivering a boost to the troubled nomination of Gov. Robert R. Buckle, urged lawmakers to put aside relationships in the struggle.
JURY NOT NECESSARY: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that people accused of drunken driving usually had no right to a jury trial if they face a jail term of no more than six months.
Despite mounting national concern about the seriousness of intoxicated motorists, the court said unanimously that it did not violate fair-trial rights by treating drunken driving as a petty offense not warranting trial by jury.
The court's action involves a longrunning controversy between the Northeast and the industrial Midwest when it comes to rain, which is caused by pollutants.
SOLAR ECLIPSE VISIBLE: The sun will be partly obscured this morning in an eclipse visible in the western portions of the United States and Canada, the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., reports.
SHUTTLE LAUNCH DELAYED: Failure of an electronic part forced NASA officials at Cape Canaveral, Fla., yesterday to postpone for at least two days Saturday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery.
The eclipse will begin at 8:17 a.m.
PST, will reach its greatest extent at
10:07 a.m. and end at 11:58 a.m., the
observatory officials reported.
Liftoff was delayed at least until Monday, space agency spokewoman Lisa Malone said. She said a firm agreement would not be set until tomorrow.
KANSAS UNEMPLOYMENT UP: Kansas' unemployment rate jumped to 5.2 percent in January, up from 4.8 percent in December, the State Department of Human Resources in Topeka reported yesterday.
The monthly report indicates that 66,313 people were unemployed in January; 60,958 people were without jobs in December.
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