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Las Yegas, Nevada Review Journal January 30, 1943 Mercury Plunges To Ten Above For Most Frigid Night Coldest Weather In Past Six Years Is Recorded The mercury dropped to 10 degrees above zero in Las Ve­gas last night, bringing the coldest weather here in six years, according to C. V. Lang, official observer for the gov­ernment weather bureau at MeCarran Field. On January 25, 1937, the ther­mometer registered only 8 de­grees above zero and the day following the mercury stood at 10 degrees, the weather bureau reports. Shares Cold Las Vegas was sharing a cold wave with California, but the U. S. weather bureau advised to­day that the cold snap there is over, after sending tempera­tures down below freezing prac­tically throughout the state. Yesterday was one of the. cold­est days in Las Vegas in several years, as the daytime maximum was 41 degrees, just 12 degrees above the minimum of the pre­vious night. The drop in day­time temperatures from 70 on Saturday ,to 41 yesterday caused many Las Vegans who had scorned their heavy coats for daytime wear through, most of 'the winter to appear on the streets bundled up for .the cold weather. Frozen water pipes annoyed many householders and con­struction firms this morning. A1 Folger, superintendent of the Las Vegas Land and Water com­pany, stated that complaints had come in from the Hujitridge and Mayfair tracts. Strangely, he said, the older parts of town did not seem to be troubled by the unusually cold weaher, No Difficulty There was no difficulty with the principal water system, as the mains are buried deep, but most of the trouble was in pipes leading from the mains into resi­dences, as these pipes are close to the surface. In North Las Vegas and other parts of the Las Vegas area, peo­ple were out this morning with (Continued on Page Five) tieview-Journal—Boulder City Journal Mercury Plunges To Ten Above For Most Frigid Night teakettles, pouring hot water along the pipes in an effort to thaw them out. At El Rancho Vegas the pipes in the laundry were frozen, and work had to be delayed until this afternoon, it was reported. However, the wa­ter system serving the hotel units and the main building was not affected. Building construction work with concrete was at a standstill in Las Vegas, as the mixture would freeze and would have to be replaced. In'a large section of Las Vegas last night, when electric heaters were going full force to heat the homes on the. coldest night in the year, several transformers went out. Southern Nevada Power company officials stated that the cause of the difficulty was the installation of heating units by House owners without notifying the power company of the extra burden on the trans­formers. Oyerloading of the transformers caused the power to go off. In houses where there Were fireplaces, families huddled about the open blazes. Other homes quickly cooled off in the night, and residents were un­comfortable from the cold. Pipes Frozen At the Basic Magnesium, Inc., plant a few pipes were frozen, but work was not delayed, and operations continued as usual, department . h e a d s reported. Pipes at a few homes in Basic Townsite were frozen, but there was no damage reporte Many places were frozen and some of them broke at the Las Vegas army gunnery school last night, according to army officers. At the post hospital, a water pipe broke, filling a bath tub. Then the water iri the tub froze and the resultant expansion cracked the bath tub. One fire plug was frozen but did not break, and it had to be thawed out this morn­ing. Construction crews at the army camp were busy today re­placing pipes which cracked un­der the strain of ice .last night Autos Frozen Many automobile owners found frozen radiators when they started their cars _ this morning. Garages and filling stations were rushed with cus­tomers attempting to fix up their cars. Many persons were late to work because of difficulty in getting their machines started or finding the radiators frozen solid when they started from their homes. A. G. Boynton, city ihanageTj at Boulder City, reported early this morning that his office had received no complaints of frozen water pipes there and apparent­ly Boulder City had escaped from the trouble which came to other southern Nevadans froir. the cold weather. Pioche reported the coldest weather of the year for that area, when the mercury dropped to zero last night. The cold wave which has grip| ped California for the past two days is over for the present, the. weather bureau in San Francisco announced today. Temperatures had dropped below freezing throughout the San Joaquin val­ley and most of the northern California coast area. Temperatures yesterday, qjorm mg revealed that southern Cali-1 fornia could boast temperatures some 15 degrees higher than for, the rest of the state. At San[ Diego it was 49, while Burbank registered 37. Other readings, however, showed sub-freezing readings on the thermometer. At Redding, it was 22 degrees. Other read­ings were: Chico, 23; Stockton,