Dozens upon dozens of such

Dozens upon dozens of such cases occurred, with people suffering from heart ailments, diabetes, pneumonia.

Paths were plowed so that doctors and ambulances could get through. Frequently, still falling snow and drifting quick ly blocked the roads again.

In a number of emergency cases, plows accompanied the 'rescue ambulances, rumbling slowly ahead to clear the way. Sometimes, plows opened roads for ambulances to reach ; isolated dwellings, then had to open them again so that the ambulances could get back ;out with their patients. In several counties, highway crews cleared*' the way for jutility workmen to restore electric power to dwellings [darkened during the storm. | Highway spokesmen in the I Bristol area alone reported [285 cars dug from drifts and ditches, and in one case, a [Workman clutched the rear bumper of a small, foreignbuilt car and held it back from the brink of a 25-foot cliff while his co-workers attached a cable and tugged it to safety with a highway !truck. Many maternity cases were aided along--not so much by the stork as by the snowplow. Sometimes, roads were open ed for family cars and am[bulances to transport prosipective mothers to hospitals --and, sometimes, the women rode in highway trucks. In Amherst county, a Highway Department employe was checking along US Route bOfor stranded motorists late one afternoon. He found a marooned auto in which five college students had been travel ing to a fancy dress ball. The highway worker took them to his home, where his wife fed them supper and kept them company until, about 10 p.m., a taxi arrived. Then the ^ students went to the dance. | I But most of the events were! more critical, and sometimes they were marked by tragedy. A Highway Department foreman at Culpeper collapsed and died of a heart attack. Count