The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1983 Page: 1 of 34
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A massive artic cold front shov-
ed Montague County into the
deep freeze Thursday dumping
between 7 and 9 inches of snow on
the area.
The extended weather forcast
called for recuring bouts of sleet,
freezing rain and snow again
Tuesday and Thursday with the
high for through Friday predicted
to be 32 degrees. As a result,
traveler's advisories and warnings
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It began with dropping temperatures and then
just kept on bulding until there was between
seven and nine inches of snow on the ground,
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Nocona News, Perry's,
Cathy's Closet, OTASCO,
Piggly Wiggly. The Shirt
Tale, Toys & Gifts,
Lipscomb's Dry Goods,
Nocona Jewelers, Jim Green
Ford, First National Bank,
Sherry's, Clayton's Ben
Franklin Store, F&M Na-
tional Bank, Nocona Boot
Outlet, Lads & Dads, Belin-
da's. Olney Savings, Ella's
Extras, May's Food Store,
Magic Mirror Beauty Salon,
Nocona Independent
Lumber Co., Bill's Sporting
Goods & Radio Shack,
Lynn's Mens Shop, Nocona
Dairy Queen, Dwight's
Electric, Nocona Tire & Ap-
pliance, Cedi's Pharmacy,
Jerald's HairStyling. Under
the Rainbow.
high Sunday was reached at 32
degrees — at midnight Saturday
night before the thermometer slid
back to the bottom.
Motorists, aware of the slippery
road conditions Friday took extra
care while weekend travel was
restricted by a traveler's warning.
Chances of a white Christmas
— it may be last Thursday's snow,
but anyway white — have been
boosted by forecasts of another
wave of freezing percipitation on
Thursday.
The only benefit from Thurs-
day's freezing blast was the snow
fall formed over the North Central
and lower Panhandle seaions of
Texas without any rain, sleet or
freezing rain. As a result, road-
ways quickly cleared to passable
conditions Friday morning.
Because of the lack of roadway
ice, Nocona Supt. Richard Brown
elected to open school an hour
later than usual Friday rather than
dismiss classes one day early for
Christmas vacation.
Prairie Valley and Montague
Schools followed the same pattern
with Prairie Valley dismissing for
Christmas break on Tuesday.
The temperature rose into the
lower 30's on Saturday before the
low pressure system over
southeastern New Mexico inten-
sified and temperatures dropped
again.
Wind chill factors were recorded
in the -10 to -25 degree range in
North Texas with daytime highs
Sunday and Monday reaching
13-16 degrees with scattered snow
flurries.
Nocona merchants will be
staying open late Friday
night for those last minute
shoppers who forgot that so-
meone special.
Participating retailers will
be open until 9 p.m. to give
shoppers a last minute
ch. nce to find that special
something.
Most merchants are plan-
nihg on keeping their
regular dosing hours on
Saturday, with a few excep-
tions (see holiday closing
story in today's newspaper).
Businesses participating
in the Old Fashioned
Christmas promotion in
Nocona are: Gibbs Drug
Store, Armstrong's Finer
Foods, The Toggery &
Mens II. The Boutique,
Scott Bros. Hardware,
Twenty Five Cents Twenty-four Pages, Three Sections
careful consideration of all holiday
travel.
The storm sent children scurr-
ing to make snowmen Friday
afternoon. Nocona school ad-
ministrators to the office to decide
whether or not to recess for
Christmas vacation a day early
and stockmen to the feed store and
hay barn for feed for their stock.
Temperatures dropped to the
lower teens Saturday, Sunday and
Monday nights as the daytime
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Mesler, Tracy R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1983, newspaper, December 22, 1983; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493929/m1/1/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.