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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL THIBUNE Sunday. April 2. 1950 MIS r . f S. . ' I 1 - -4."W St ' 1 IW , --an (Acme Tehpholoi THUNDERJET THUNDER Alr Force r-84 Tliundcrjct pulls up from strafing run after pouring a "thunder" of lead Into ground tar get at the Indian Springs gunnery range at Las Vegas Air Force Base, Nev., during the opening round of the Second Annual Air Force Gun nery Meet. First day's scores demonstrated a big Improvement In pilots' prowess in dive bombing and ground strailng. Patriotism, Profiteering Blamed for Dust Disaster Anadarko, Okla., Apr. 1 U.R Farmers in the "potential dust bowl" of southwestern Oklaho ma today blamed patriotism and short-sighted profiteering for the disaster which threatens 150,000 acres of prairie farmland. The chief villian is the lowly Jjeanut, which robs the soil of ts strength. Peanuts have been a big crop Inee 1043 in Caddo county north of Anadarko. Now sixty thousand acres of Caddo county topsoil are blowing away in the first major outbreak of wind erosion here since 1936. Uraed Bv Government Peanut planting was urged by the federal government starting In 1943, and profits up to $150 per acre per year were guaran teed by price support regula tions. Uncle Sam badly needed peanut oil during World War 11 to replace vegetable oil Imports from overseas. Peanut glowing was not only profitable it was patriotic. In other sections of the south western plains, intensive wheat cultivation is Blamed tor me series of dust storms which slg nal the crisis in the nation's breadbasket. A ilx-m o n t h s drouth in the vast area is the Immediate cause of the soil blowing. Wheat Is the most Important Caddo county crop, but it hasn't raided the topsoil like the pea nut. Made Good Money J. A. Lane, an 82-year-old far mer who has tilled the same . ground since 1907, said he start ed growing peanuts seven years ago. "I really made good money on peanuts," Lane said, "never less than $100 an acre. They were needed for the war and I needed the money." Lane's 160-acre farm Is being destroyed by the wind. He hasn't been able to plant anything this year. He's growing only sand dunes row after row of them along fence rows and around farm buildings. The U. S. conservation serv ice has attempted to curb the growing of peanuts since the end of the war but at the same time the peanut price supports have continued. G. C. Gardner, U. S. soil con servationist for the alfectpd dis trict, said a farmer in Caddo county can snfely put as much as a fourth of his land In pea nuts if he will "strip crop." This requires planting soil-holding grasses or canes alongside the peanuts. "We've advocated It and en MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10:30 P.M. 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Until recently, it has been largely an economic problem because the Chinese have dominated many lines of trade. Now it is also a political consideration. Filipino officials say many Chinese communists have infil trated the Philippines since the civil war began in China. That has aggravated the little republic's own red menace to some extent but the fears are of what might happen in the fu ture rather than what has hap pened already. "Visitors" Unwanted Among the Chinese whom the Philippine government wants to deport to Formosa are about 4.000 who came here since World War II as "temporary vis itors." They do not want to go back to China because the Chi nese communists have in many cases taken over their homes. There is a smaller number of Chinese who came here on tran sit visas and remained in the Philippines. Jose P. Bcngzon, under secre tary of justice and acting com missioner of immigration, said the government is planning to deport the "illegal" Chinese to! 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