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Yes, winter '77-'78 has been one of the worst on record By L. DEAN BARK For many people the winter just concluded has been the worst in memory. Was it or have we been influenced by lowered thermostats and the simple fact that all of us are a year order and more susceptible to cold weather? It is difficult to determine "Worst Winter We could compare lowest temperatures, most snow, greatest depth of snow, most days with snow on the ground, or perhaps days with high temperatures below freezing. Although it would be difficult, we could develop an index that combined all of these winter features. Unfortunately, such an index would not have Crossword By Eugene Sheffer ACROSS 1 Unconscious state 5 British air arm 8 Merganser 12 Inland sea 13 Wrath 14 Be concerned 15 The May apple 17 Sicilian city 18 Weather word 19 Temper (colloq.) 21 Tear 24 Greenland Eskimo 25 Beaver structures 28Dry 30 Asian festival 33 Wood sorrel 34 Goddess of peace 35 Sooner than 36 Denary 37 Jewish month 38 Being 39 Droop 41 Fate 43 Spanish friends- 46 To question 50 Musical instrument 51 Sea cows 54 British queen 55 Indian 56 Actress Raines 57 For fear that 58 Social gathering 59 To scorch DOWN 1 Machine parts 2 Kind of exam 3 Lion's pride 4 Trees for turners 5 Narrow inlet 6 Clumsy boat 7 Nourish 8 Fragrance 9 Injunctions 10 Sea bird 11 To display, as a smile Avg.

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Solution is accomplished by trial and error. THE ACES ON BRIDGE by IRA G. CORN JR TEAM CAPTAIN "Necessity never made a good bargain." Benjamin Franklin, A most reasonable philosophy for mopt of the routine affairs of life but, obviously. Franklin never had the experience of being far behind in a World Championship with time about to run out. Look over today's aggressive bargain as Billy Eisenberg of Los Angeles ventured a slam when a big score was sorely needed.

With a decent trump break, the slam needs good fortune. With the existing trump layout, there were even more problems. The first test came on opening lead. There was nothing to do but take the heart finesse and the first hurMle was crossed declarer won the first trick with his heart eight. The king and ace of spades came next and declarer ruffed a spade in dummy.

Two rounds of trumps exposed East's dagger, but there was still hope. The heart queen was led to dummy's ace and a heart was ruffed by declarer; East discarding a spade. A diamond was led to dummy's ace and the last heart was ruffed by declarer, East discarding another spade. Declarer was now left with three cards, his loging diamond and the Q-9 of trumps. Gratefully, he relinquished his diamond loser whomever wanted to take he claimed the last two tricks via a marked trump finesse against East.

NORTH 4 K2 A in 2 4 A 10 4 2 in 7 WKST in it (i .1 it 5 4 4 .1 fi 2 SOUTH A .1 5 O8 87 A KAST 8 7 4 7 (i () .1 fi 4 Vulnerable: None. Dealer: East. The bidding: F.asl I'nss 1'llNS I'ass I'uss South 3 NT Opening hearts. West I'ass 1'ass I'tISS All pass lead: Fivt North 44 of Necessity doesn't always make good bargains. But when one just has to make a good score, there is really very little choice.

Bid with Corn South holds: A in 2 4 A 10 9 4 2 North IT South Answer: Three hearts. Four good trumps and 1316 support points make the jump raise the most descriptive bid. Send bridge questions to The Aces. P.O. Box Pallas.

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universal acceptance and could be calculated so that it would simply prove the point of the calculator. The winter of 1977 and '78 is competitive ih many areas. The first snow did not arrive until January 16th but it remained on the ground until the end of February an unusually long period for snow to last. There have been longer periods, however. The amount of snow was not particularly heavy this winter, so the reason it remained on the ground must have been related to the temperatures.

The maximum temperature exceeded 32 degrees on only 3 days between January 8 and February 21. Looking further at temperatures, we can compare the recent winter with those of the past. The average temper- for each of the winter months and the seasonal average for the 10 coldest winters in Manhattan since 1880 are listed below. Year 1880-81 1882-83 1884-85 1886-87 1887-88 1892-93 1898-99 1904-05 1935-36 1977-78 Dec. 24.4 29.6 22.7 24.3 26.1 24.0 26.3 29.7 33.0 32.6 Jan.

19.5 18.00 16.3 22.2 15.4 23.0 29.2 20.1 22.4 18.2 Feb. 22.2 25.8 21.6 28.0 32.1 26.7 17.8 19.0 19.4 21.4 Wntr. Seas. 22.0 24.4 20.2 24.7 24.3 24.5 24.7 24.3 24.8 24.2 Comparisons of the individual monthly average temperatures in the 10 "Worst Winters" shows a great deal of variation. In some seasons all three months had temperatures about the same.

In there were one or two fairly warm months combined with a very cold month. This past winter, December was relatively warm and January and February very cold. It might be hard to decide which combination listed in the table actually produced the worst conditions. It is a surprise to no one and perhaps satisfying to some to know that the winter we have just gone through is "One Of The Worst" on record. We have heard stories of winters in the "Eighties" from our grandparents.

Now we know what they were talking about. Some climatologists think that our climate is changing back to the weather experienced prior to 1900. They could well be right a very unpleasant prospect based on this year's experience. Although winter is over from a climatological viewpoint, we should note thaLspring is a transition period with alternate winter and summer weather. There can still be some winter-like weather in store for us.

Many remember the snows of 1960 that peaked with a record depth of 22 inches on March 17. In fact March is often a snowy month so don't be surprised if you have to shovel the walk before you start the Easter parade. In Salina, the average of the daily highs and lows came to 32.2 degrees in December, 19.0 degrees in January, and 21.0 degrees in February, for a winter season average of 24.1 degrees. We are just completing one of the coldest winters on record and, al- J. though it may not have been the most." savage, it becomes a significant light in weather history for Kansas" I and, as we have heard our parents talk of past severe 1 provides us with some first-hand personal information that we can pass a.

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