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I SIXTEErT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. August 22. 1956 Water Brings 20 Cents a Half Gallon in Parched Texas City Dallas, Tex. (U.RJ An en terprising Dallas dairy is doing a booming business in well wa ter put up in cartons like the best grade A milk and marked with a price tag of 20 cents a half gallon. The people of Dallas, because of a monumental drought, get most of their drinking water from the Red river, about 100 miles away. They also get a lot of salt mixed in it every day. The slow, salty water supply has aroused the greatest inter est in history in bottled water, which at the dairy's rates, is worth more than six times the price of the best Texas crude oil. Price May Co Higher And there are some who think the price of good pure water may go much higher unless there is a break soon in the drought one of the worst in the state's history. Agricultural Commissioner John White estimates the lack of rain this year will cost far mers and ranchers as much as $750 million. It is already too late for general rain to save most of the parched crops. Some ..185 of the state's 2554 counties are classed by the fed eral government as "drought dis aster areas, eligible for reliei. There is . a waiting list of ad ditional counties which have made application for drought re lief. Getting Won The drought has been recur ring for seven or eight years and gradually getting worse. This year only a few counties in the panhandle, south plains and coastal area have received anywhere adequate rain. The rest of the state, including normally wet east Texas and the blacklands, which run through the central part of the state to the Oklahoma line at Red river, has received only about two thirds its normal, rain supply. The U.S. Department of Agri culture says the condition of the range is the worst in 22 years. Stockmen are selling herds of cattle because they can't afford to feed them from the costly and meager supplies of feed av ailable. Along with the drought has Close In, Convenient Sixth and N. Riverside PARKING Merrick Property ' MONTHLY $5 DAILY -40c I come some of the hottest weather j on record. Dallas has had 38 days I this year with temperatures over 100 degrees. The mercury has gone as high as 109 degrees. Hardly a city in the thickly populated northeast Texas area has enough water. Most cities have water rationing. In Dallas, homeowners may water their lawns and shrubs only on al ternate days between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. ' Normally Dallas gets its wa ter from a series of lakes to the north. Today they are so nearly dry that the city has had to go to Red river for a supply of wa ter with a salt content about six times greater than is gener ally regarded as "palatable." With rationing Dallas uses about 170 million gallons of wa ter a day. It is searching desper ately for new and fresher wa ter supplies and has even hired a rain "increaser" at a $1,000 a week fee. So far the rain "increaser," Dr. Irving Krick of Denver, Colo., hasn't found enough clouds to seed. His meterologists conclude that Texas is in the midst of a dry cycle which may last another two to four years. County Reports 26 Communicable Diseases Twenty-six communicable dis eases were reported to the Jack son county health department for the week ending Aug. 17, ac cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. Ten cases of measles were re ported, with Bedford having eight and Ashland two; two amoebic dysentery, Medford one and one Mexican National; one chicken pox in Medford; eight strep throat, Medford two, Ash land four and Central Point two; one infectious hepatitis in Med ford and three impetigo, one each in Gold Hill, Jacksonville and Medford. 1 i FINAL STORY J. Walter Collins (above), 61, United Press manager in the Middle East, died in Cairo, Egypt after brief illness. He was stricken after covering Egypt's nationalization of Suez CanaL Collins had cov ered every major story in the Middle East since 1932. Five Children Die In Apartment Fire Summit, 111. U.R) Five chil dren perished in a fire which destroyed their apartment and critically injured their mother Tuesday night.- The- victims were children of the Jack Davises, and were identified as Rickie. 3 months; Dennis, 1; Jaklin, 2; Allan, 3, and Mike, 4. Their mother, Mrs. Alice Da vis, 25, was hospitalized in criti cal condition from burns and smoke inhalation. Her husband, Jack, 29, was reported in seri ious condition. Flames raced through the family's second floor apartment in a Negro housing project in this Chicago suburb before the family was able tp escape. A bottled gas explosion was blamed by authorities for the fire. SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! ON THIS 1956 LIVE-WATER ACTION ..fr Automatic WASHER and DRYER WASHER ONLY- DRYER 0NLY- 85 AS LITTLE AS $E41 A WEEK f 1 AS LITTLE .UJnJj$Ti4i 'V u Late Robert A. Taft Memorialized by GOP Convention Hall, San Fran cisco U.R) "Mr. Republican" the late Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio was memorialized at the Republican National conven tion Tuesday night. Taft, who lost a bruising one ballot battle to President Eben hower for the 1952 GOP nomi nation, died of cancer in July, 1953. Delegates to the .convention stood with bowed heads and ob served one minute of silence in memory of a man eulogized by Sen. Prescott Bush of Connecti cut as "one of the greatest Re publicans of all time." Rock 'n Roll Used To Empty Boxcars Chicago (U.P.) Rock-n-roll has come to boxcars. A new unloader uses a gentle rocking motion to empty box cars of grain and other free flowing bulk materials. The manufacturer (Link-Bolt Company) said the unloader locks 150.000-pound loaded cars in its grasp on a steel platform. With an eight-degree side tilt and a gentle rocking motion of only three Inches at the endi af the cars, it empties them at a rate of up to four cars per hour. A 25 horsepower motor fur nishes the power for the motion, and one man operates the unloader. Stevenson Sorry Lehman To Quit Libertyville, 111. U.R Adlai E. Stevenson said he was sorry Sen.- Herbert Lehman (D.-N.Y.) decided not to seek reelection this year. In a statement issued from his home here Tuesday-night, the Democratic presidential nomi nee said Senator Lehman has "served his state and nation . . . with gallant courage and great competence." "He has richly earned retire ment," Stevenson said, "and the applause and gratitude of all of us regardless of party." THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd Sale Opens Friday At Ten MAIN AT CENTRAL MEDfORD, OREGON 3 A WEEK wo mm PAYMENT ON THESE LOW LOW PRICES ON APPROVED CREDIT Both automatic. Both, built and backed by General Motors! 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Using a brand new base derived from petroleum, Standard scientists developed oils that last two to three times longer than conventional lubri cants and speed the day when commercial atomic power will help drive planes and ships, and generate electricity for your home. 1 atomic energy will be needed to help ' meet 1975 power demands of nearly twice those of 1956 .9 1975 STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA put ptlrottum progrtf to work for you I "IWV tV' I iH
