European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Black if you please january 1978 the stars and stripes Page 11 blizzard City Hopes to have a Ball by Hugh Mulligan a Ever since an american airlines stewardess named Toby Pyle wife of one of our Washington writers told me Buffalo had the worst weather of any City she flew i have admired the spunk and Good humor of its so it comes As no Shock that even before this years Winter decided to remember the great blizzard of by staging a giant Snow Ball Black u you please this one year to the Day after winds howling off Lake Erie began burying the Day under a Snow fall that to Days later measured 43 Tho is not Only taller than most Ber Nard dogs and enough to obliterate nun dress of acres of abandoned but the drifts were higher than Many houses and thousands of people were stranded Fer Days super ten people froze to death in their Auto mobiles out on the Bleak highways where nothing moved but Rescue Snow and another 18 died in blizzard related a including fires that raged out of control As water froze inside fire hoses and hydrants coughed up ice maybe the blizzard was Lousy for Busi Ness and a lot of other but it brought out Fellowship among the people of said Bill an Art gallery proprietor who organized the blizzard most of us had got to know one another the Ball is a Way of keeping All that the memorial blizzard blast is scheduled weather permitting in a Lovely Buffalo mansion called Butler which to me anyway seems exceedingly appropriate As it was the Home of the late Edward the longtime president of the Buff Alo evening i met this lady of great Charm and wit on an air plane once going to Ireland and she wondered aloud whether it would be rain ing when we got i thought it strange that someone from Buffalo should worry about the weather which Eli cited both a laugh and an anecdote from she related that pm year in the Early 1950s was so horrid in Buffalo decided to cheer up her readers by giving them the weather report each Day from by Way of Sug Gesting that things could be the first Day we tried it with a front Page the lady it was 8 below in Buffalo and is above in fair the next Day we slipped to 10 below and Fairbanks was right on the third Day i said to hell with it and went to Fieri those who make it to Buffalo for the big Snow Ball will find that the Indol table Butler spirit and weather Wise people like her invest this upstate new York Community with a rough and ready Pioneer Type which is Why the town became one vast slumber party during its wintry i have no idea who May come to the frostbite but i Hope the guest list includes the impound cop who was mown Over six tunes while on duty that first howling january and All the Guys snowed in at the Bowling Alley who just went on improving their and the weather forecasters who were snowbound in their Observatory out at the it would be Nice if the guest list included the Hubert the priest in Rural Sardinia who bunked Down 30 orphans of the storm and always answered his Judes ski and Ruth the widow with six who cooked up enough soup and goulash to feed 120 refugees camped out in the Volun Teer fire House in also the lady who  make it Home from Nork in the went into a bought a lottery ticket and won a week for the rest of her As police commissioner Thomas Blair the storm brought out the Best and the worst in maybe a few of the More outrageous looters should be on hand for the grand especially the Guy who stole the Snow the big Buzzard Ball undoubtedly will bring out its share of Buffalo blizzard a Large Mouth species Given to endless recitals of How High the drifts were above their second Story bedroom win Dows and How after 10 Days they finally found their faithful family cars out on the thruway and the engine kicked to life right Steve columnist for the Buffalo evening did a classic Snow Job on the blizzard bores when he shovelled up a Yam about his own car being found by four Guys drilling for natural it had been buried More than a but the were on and the radio was playing april in the reassuring thing staging a blizzard Ball in buffaloes that the organizing committee  have to Book the Hall for an alternate Date in the event of in Clement just so Long As the band can make its Way through the drifts play let it let it Snow and similar seasonal letters to the editor thanks for bringing us the mail the Frankfurt Aerial mall terminal German knowhow grannies should shovel off to Buffalo Bojoh Krueger staff writer if theres Ever a free agent open Market Jor super Snow Buffalo should consider of those free swinging German grandmothers who keep in year round shape by religiously sweeping their and gutters every r they Are really primed and in the Pink for the snowfall season and leave miss lil Lian out in the cold when u comes to throw ing out the first once put to shame by Grout Moter Power you forget All about those warnings from and foot about the hazards of Snow show in most youre supposed to have your walk cleared on weekdays by 9 am on sundays and absence or is no excuse for snowy or Slick its up to you to make sure that someone fulfils your you could hire one of those Gogo Snow Cess Long most Apo eligible mall into and out of this is quite a responsibility throughout the As some 51 million pounds of mail Are the greatest concentration of mail movement is during the Christmas As Many of us Are this years Christmas mail Rush was quite extra or the longshoremen Dock the reduced capability of commercial air carriers to transport space available the diversion to Mac for Sam movement both to and from resulting ground transportation the unpredictable and the absence of mechanized equipment All contributed to make the movement of 13 million pounds of Navy and nicotine a recent letter to the editor contained a very interesting remark from 5 Terry Wilson if the army promulgates a smoke free 1978 think of All the you will be arriving your wife greets you at the front and she wont have to you smell like smoke your dry cleaning Bill will be reduced because your closet of clothes will smell like and your eyes will not become bloodshot and tired from working in a smoke filled of that the department of the but what about the Navy  spate mall in november and december even More fortunately everyone frat received tremendous assistance from sever Al organizations throughout without our entire operation would have come to a with them we were to move to each Apo by Christmas All mail received from new York prior to 4 on Christmas thanks to the dedicated personnel of the following organizations postal aug enters for Safe bases and Usa eur communities hq702sairps army postal Europe 228agco 4th trans 108th 37th group and to Frankfurt 435th Aerial port Squadron 435th combat support group Apos and mail rooms the tireless assistance provided by each most certainly made this a Happy Holiday season for literally thousands of Soi Tea and airmen 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