Outside today Inside today Goudlnf up tonight with lowi 20 to Area t-2B Editorial «A 25. Goudy Ttietduy with chance of oc- Gauilied 4-7B Family cailonal light mow; highs In the 30s. Comics 7A OWtiiarwt lA. M Outlook: fair weather through Friday. Dear Abby 7A Sports National weather map on page 6B. Summary mm Bad winter r. < A powerful snowstorm drove across the Midwest today, stacking highway-closing drifts up to six feet deep, closing schools to continue and businesses and bearing down on Ohio Valley states still crippled by the deep snows of a WASHINGTON (UPI) - This we had become used to In Uie' January blizzard. winter’s cold is rapidly catching up '60s. In Southern California with records set last winter in the "It's characteristic ol a climate, searchers prepared to renew the nation’s estem half and it appears when it 's varying, to cause racariial ] hunt for more than a dozen per­ more of the same is likely for the one kind or another to be ' sons missing from Friday’s next 30 days, the g o v em m ^ ’s chief- quite regularly" deluge. So far, 11 were known long-range forecaster saiiH ^ay. Mitchell said it is really tlw i dead in the wind and rain storm The forecast for mid-February to weather during the past two 4 and the flash floods it triggered. mid-March was due out late today, that was unusual b^ause it but Dr. Donald Gilman told a benign. meeting of the American Association "So the climate is getting back te j SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) - A for the Advancement of Science, "it normal. If you don't like the climate j terrorist bomb exploded today doesn't look like a very warm that we re suffering through outside a downtown Sydney hotel forecast.” now, wait a few years or dt ca4n ” where 12 Asian Commonwealth And a leading climatologist said it Gilman. Mitchell and Strowmew heads of state were meeting, appears our climate is becoming discussed the weather at a net killing at least two persons and in­ more variable, which means we can ference preceding an opening i juring seven others. expect more of the extreme weather of the annual week-long meeting of j None of the visiting dignitaries that has been hitting the nation. the AAAS, largest general icicnea was hurt in the explosion, but 12 "It’s bouncing from one extreme to organization in the United Stele* hours later army experts another,” said Dr. Murray Mitchell, harmlessly detonated a second of the National Oceanic and At­ bomb that was set to go off only mospheric Administration. 300 yards from the site of the first Last winter’s cold got an early Light snow blast. start with an unusually cool fall and did not let up until late February. on the way Gilman said this past autumn was WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ad­ warmer with colder-than-usual By Uniird Pre»» Inlemaltewal ministration efforts to enforce temperatures beginning in Officials throughout New E a g t^ civil rights laws have been signifi­ December in the eastern part of the tuned a cautious ear to fteilite cant, but high unemployment and country. predictions of more snow for I ti poverty still cripple progress for “I just saw the averages for region, one week after the won! bah women and minorities, the U.S. December, January and the first part zard in a century batterad tko Commission on Civil Rights said of February before I left the office northeast seaboard. today. and it’s beginning to get a little dif­ Late Sunday night, the Natiwaf^ The commission said communi­ ficult to tell now — over that iVi- Weather Service was forecoifl^| ty acceptance of school month period — really which could be light snow for the six-state desegregation appears to be considered the colder winter.” Tuesday. growing. But it said this may be • ' X v Another indicator that this winter The Great Dig Out continu due at least in part to the limited is approaching last year's is gas con­ day across the besieged regiowob t scope of desegregation plans put sumption for heat. ficials concentrated on reft ^ into effect last year. Dr. Norton Strommen, of the southern New England to And it said little progress was government’s Center for Climatic semblance of normalcy. made in assuring the rights of and Environmental Assessment, said Remaining Rhode Island i of women. It singled out failure to \ ¥ : the latest estimate, based on the out­ evacuated to emergency ek ratify the Equal Rights Amend­ look for the rest of the season, in­ during last week’s blizzard he ment and restrictions on the use Maura McGeary of South Windsor is crowned Miss Manchester 1978 by her predeces.sor. dicates that the nation’s gas con­ home Sunday and MassacT* lie of medicaid funds for abortion. Cindy Tucker, at pageant ceremonies Saturday night. From left are Carol Mahoney, second sumption this season will be 98 per­ state officials plotted how m ^ runner-up and Colleen D. Wright, first runner-up. (Herald photo by Dunn) cent of last winter’s. commuters could reach their Mitchell said the variability seen a without cars. WASHINGTON (UPI) - War­ recently is a change from the 1950s id The last 70 Rhode IsUnd i ning that striking miners might and 1960s. who spent up to six days In staftf IS. defy any presidential order to dig “Some of us take the view that Defense shelters returned to coal, UMW chief Arnold Miller Maura McGeary picked really what’s happening now is that homes Sunday. Gov. J. t, today attacked the union the weather is more agitated now in Garrahy went on statewide I to bargaining council’s rejection of a a way that was normal — not abnor­ to report progress in the rs proposed contract Sunday. mal — in the recent history of effort by federal, state Had the United Mine Workers climate. authorities to clean up after Council submitted the soft coal Miss Manchester 1978 “Unfortunately, when we look at storm. contract to rank-and-file,miners, the climate that way — that the At the height of the storm, T,< they would have strongly voted to By BETTY RYDER music of “Dancing Shoes” by Dan Pretty Carol Mahoney, 17, and the variable is increasing — it has people sought refuge in the end the record 70-day strike, he Fogelberg. nothing to say about what’s going to emergency shelters. Family Editor daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James said. ’The youngest of five children, she Mahoney of South Windsor was hit us next. It’s just that we’re going Meanwhile, declining coal Trembling like a willow in a is currently a senior at Kingswood- named second runner-up. Carol plans to be buffeted around now more than —See I’age T hree-% I supplies are near the critical windstorm, pretty Maura McGeary Oxford School in West Hartford and to attend the University of Rhode point in Ohio, West Virginia, Ken­ flashed a radiant smite as she was plans to attend Skidmore College or Island and seek a degree in pre-law. tucky and several other states. crowned Miss Manchester 1978 at the the University of Connecticut, The young lady who seemed to Jaycee-sponsored Miss Manchester majoring in psychology with a minor have many ardenj fans in the Groups continue! Scholarship Pageant held Saturday in dance. audience also prov^ to have ad­ BEIRUT, Lebanon (U P I)-T he night at Manchester High School Her reactions to winning the mirers among her fellow con­ Lebanese cabinet today adopted a auditorium. coveted title? “I was just so sur­ testants. proposed law establishing a joint ’This is the tenth annual pageant Donna McCarthy, whose trumpet petitioning fight prised, I guess ‘numb’ is the word,” Lebanese-Syrian tribunal to in­ sponsored by the Jaycees and is a she said. rendition of “What I Did for Love” vestigate and punish those respon­ preliminary to the Miss America First runner-up is Colleen D. from the broadway hit, “A Chorus By GREG PEARSON withdraw his or h e r n a n * sible for four days of warfare Pageant. Miss McGeary is now eligi­ Wright, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. Line,” received the Miss Congeniali­ between Syrian peacekeeping ble to compete on the state level for Herald Reporter Bletchman said. and Mrs. Gil Wright of Manchester. ty award which is voted by the con­ He said that he did not forces and Lebanese rightists. the title of Miss Connecticut. Colleen is a senior at Manchester testants and presented to the one who An effort this weekend by sup­ exact number of withdrawali. ta i The decision came as leftist The daughter of Mrs. June High School and plans to attend was the easiest to get along with sources reported heavy shelling in porters of the Eighth Utilities added, "The number to m McGeary of South Windsor, Maura Fisher Junior College to obtain an during pre-pageant rehearsals and District resulted in more residents southeast Lebanon between something of a massive fi also captured the talent competition associate degree in fashion merchan­ asking that their names be removed Israeli-backed Christian rightists The withdrawals will he with a contemporary ballet to the dising. —See Page Tliree-A from petitions supporting a referen­ and joint Palestinian-Lebanese Tuesday with the town c dum vote on consolidation, which Previous claims have leftist forces. been mail would combine the district and the circulators of the petitiooa knee Town of Manchester. misleading the signers or Begin welcomes attempt The legality of the weekend effort, NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - The representing the facts in the a incompetence of many trial however, is being questioned by Ted Cummings, however.