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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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