
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 3, 1994                   TAG: 9402030116
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SPRING NOT BEYOND SHADOW OF DOUBT

Phil says one thing. Jimmy and Beauregard say another. What's a groundhog watcher to do?

According to tradition, there will be six more weeks of winter if the chosen few groundhogs saw their shadows. If not, it'll be an early spring.

Highlights from the nation's burrows Wednesday:

About 2,500 people shivered in 2-below-zero cold outside Punxsutawney, Pa., to find out whether Phil would see his shadow. He did, for the 98th time in 108 years, but no matter. Phil's human Inner Circle decides in advance.

There was no shadow for Jimmy in Sun Prairie, Wis., 20 miles northeast of Madison.

French Creek Freddie in central West Virginia saw his shadow. Concord College's groundhog, Concord Charlie, didn't see his shadow, but Charlie doesn't exist.

Gen. Beauregard Lee, in suburban Atlanta, was shadowless.

Lander Lil, a prairie dog near the Rockies in Wyoming, saw her shadow. Yes, HER shadow.

by CNB