got around to little ol' Virg's comments. Monday I took a bus out the main street of Cleveland (Euclid Ave.) to 79th street in hopes of visiting the Health Museum only to find the snow storm becoming worse and traffic all snarled up. Result, I didn't get there until it had closed. By that time all the east bound traffic had moved over into the Westbound lanes trying to get around some stalled cars in an inter- section. Everybody got stuck solid and it was evident that there were just not going to be any westbound buses for a long time to come. So after standing in the snow under the rain shelter for about 15 minutes considering the situation Charles got to work and informed me that if I didn't take some action I would be frozen to a beautiful TV statue in a short time. Therefore, I walked 12 blocks toward downtown Cleveland in a howling blizzard. I stopped in at a little corner grocery store in the black section to warm up a bit and get some Kleenex to clean up my glasses which were constantly getting fogged up by my breath inside of the scarf I had over my head and around my face. I asked a negro girl and a man standing outside waiting for somebody if they thought I'd be able to catch a ride there. She said "I don't think I'd try." I turned and asked if she meant that it would be dangerous and the man said, "you'd likely wind up dead" so I got the message - "Whitey go home." I did, by walking some more in the snow. Finally came to a gas station and watched people coming in for gas till a nice looking single colored woman stopped and I asked for a lift. She kindly gave me one for about 20 blocks as the west bound lanes were open at this point. I then watched more cars till I could find one with a single white man and he took me clear to the hotel. Thus ended that little adventure but this California girl is not particularly impressed with Ohio blizzards.

That night I was supposed to go on Allen Douglas' show at 10 p.m. to midnight. They asked if I could walk to the station as they had no way of coming for me. So that was about 6 more blocks in snow drifts and in the dark. Fortunately not many others were foolish enough to be out so nothing happened. But when I got to the station Allen had to ask me to cool my heels in his office for 2 hours while he helped unsnarl traffic by carrying on two-way conversations with people who had radio transmitters or phones in their cars. His efforts were much appreciated as lots of people called up later to thank him for helping them home. Most people were 3-6 hours late getting home that night the town was really frozen in. We finally had our interview 12-1:30a.m.

Next morning I called early to Allegheny Airlines to see if my 10:30 flight would go. They said no but I could get on the 11:50 flight, so

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