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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1957
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Eight-Year Drought in Southwest
Plains States May Have Ended
Washington (U.R) Officials
of three government agencies
have expressed cautious hope
that the parching, costly eight
year drought in the nation's
western and southwestern plains
has been broken.
Their views were given to the
United Press in response to ques
tions about effects of the recent
severe storms and floods in the
drought states. '
Experts of the Weather Bu
reau, the U.S. Geological Survey
and Agriculture Depart ment
agreed the worst of the drought
is over for the moment at least.
But they also agreed there is no
clear-cut or simple answer to
the question of future prospects
for drought areas,
ftain May Slop
"In some areas, yes, the drou
ght is over," a Weather Bureau
official said. '"In other areas,
no. Fore some corps it is over.
For others it is not over."
"I just don't know," a Geolo
gical Survey official said. "I
would hesitate to say the drought
is over even with a lot of rain,
The water may run off rapidly,
the rain may stop, and in a few
weeks we could be back where
we were before. Would the
drought we've had for eight
years be over and a new one
started?"
"It seems to be over in a sub
stantial part of the area," re
ported an Agriculture Depart
ment expert. "But we will need
a great deal more moisture in
the subsoil for the drought real
ly to be over."
These agencies have dealt with
drought problems since great
arid areas began forming in the
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Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik,
on .American determination to oppose Communist penetration of
the Near East:
"One can only hope that this determination will persist and
will bear fruit in the near future."
Miami Beach, Fla. Lesier Lee. 6, on hearing orer the tele
phone the voice of his mother, whom he had thought died 32
yean ago:
"It was like a voice from the dead."
Chicago Vice President Richard M. Nixon, on President
Eisenhower's vacations:
"He owes it to himself and the nation to take time off to keep
himself in the best mental and physical condition."
Washington Mrs. Jean McCarthy, wife of Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy (R.-Wis.) on the condition of her husband, who ii seriously
111 with hepatitis:
"Everything seems lo be going along quite well now."
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meetings:
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southern great plains in early
1950. The drought first appeared
in Southwest Texas and south
eastern New Mexico. It spread
north and east through what in
normal times was known as a
"sea of grass."
Crops Wouldn't Grow
At the height of the drought
the area was literally "the great
American desert." Crops did not
grow. Pastures withered. Live
stock had to be taken off many
ranges.
: During the past winter severe
storms bringing oceans of rain
and snow swept the arid South
west. The rainstorms are con
tinuing over a large section.
Rivers which for years were dry
now are over their banks. Res
servoirs are filled or filling.
What was dust for years is now
mud.
On April 12, the Weather Bu
reau in a special report said "re
cent upper air circulation pat
terns are changing sufficiently to
give farmers hope that the sev
ers drought may not return in
the coming growing season."
"In southeastern Neb raska,
the western two-thirds of Kan
sas, the; Oklahoma and Texas
Panhandles, the new weather
regime has provided more than
twice the normal precipitation
during March," it said. .
Close Watch Kept
The bureau's long-range wea
ther forecast, issued today, pre
dicted "above normal" rains in
the Northeast and far South
west during the next 30 days. It
also foresaw a tapering off of
ain in central and eastern Texas
which has been "abnormally
heavy."
Kenneth L. Scott, head of Ag
ricultural Credit Services for the
Agriculture Department, said the
drought appears to be broken
in most of the area. He said sec
tions now lacking rainfall are
West Texas, southeast Colorado
and New Mexico.
"It looks like there is enough
moisture so that we can discon
tinue the emergency feed pro
grams for livestock," Scott said.
He emphasized, however, that
when such programs are discon
tinued the department will keep
close watch for resumption . of
the dry spell . ' ,'
He said federal relief pro
grams will swing back into full
operation at the first sign of
new drought difficulties.
Survival Problem
Of f Key Deerr May
Go Before Congress
. Miami U.P.) The survival
problems of the' diminutive deer
which prance and swim in the
Florida Keys may cause a tussle
in Congress.
The deer, which some say are
only a fancy of newspaper pages,
are the tiny "Key. deer" which
roam the Keys as a herd of
about 125 and live on palm
berries. They are believed to
be a unique specimen of deer
perhaps the last of their kind
in the world. '
Florida congressmen are being
caught in a squeeze between
Keys property owners and resi
dents strongly favoring a gov
ernment refuge to insure sur
vival of these creatures.
A bill currently pending in
Congress would make a small
area in the Keys a refuge for
them. The measure was spon
sored by Rep. Charles Bennett
of Jacksonville.
But it has already touched off
a fight in the Keys. Landown
ers say the federal government
has taken over enough land in
Monroe county. . ,
They Are Real
"We have already lost over 65
per cent of our land in Monroe
county to the Everglades Nation
al Park," said Joe Russell, presi
dent of the Lower Keys Prop
erty Owners Association.-"With
population growth, land is go
ing to be scarce."
. Another Keys resident said
the little deer "exist only in the
fantastic news printed by some
one who has never seen the Key
deer."
Naturalists and U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service workers know,
however, that the deer are real.
They are leading the drive for a
refuge for the deer, which are
between 22 and 25 inches high
and weigh from 40 to 60 pounds,
compared with 100 pounds for
Florida mainland deer and the
300-pound bucks of the North.
The tiny herd roams over a
small area on 4he Torch Keys
and Big Pine Keys. They swim
together from island to island
in search of food.
Two Bodies Found,
In Clatsop County
Astoria (U.PJ William E.
Christensen, about 40, and his
wife, Wilma, 42, were found
dead at their home Tuesday in
what Clatsop county authorities
described as an apparent mur
der-suicide.
The two bodies were found
by a neigJibor who' lives
across the street ' from the
Christensens in the Oklahoma
hill section near Wauna, Ore.,
26 miles southeast of here.
T. C. Porter, the neighbor,
told Sheriff Paul Kearney he
heard muffled shots between
9:30 p.m. and 10 D.m. Mondav
but did not investigate. This
morning, he reported,- he saw
Mrs. Christensen's body lying
on the front porch of her home.
Tokyo (U.R) Communist
China said Tuesday its shore bat
teries repulsed . a Nationalist
Chinese warship Sunday off the
Hwangchi peninsula on the Fu
kien coast.
California Drying Up
Fast; Immediate
Project Needs Told
San Francisco (U.R) Calif
ornia is drying up so fast that
only immediate construction of
huge conservation projects will
keep the state water-solvent, an
expert has warned.
The warning came from Har
vey O. Banks, California dir
ector of water resources, in a
speech to the opening session of
the Inter-society Conference on
Irrigation and Drainage.
Banks noted that California's
population has doubled since
1940 and is continuing to grow.
' Californians are now over
drawing on their water supply at
the rate of more than five mil
lion acre feet each year, Banks
said. This amount of water
would cover five million acres
one foot deep. .
By 1965, he said, "It is in
dicated that the net shortage of
developed water supply could
amount to more than 10 million
acre feet per season."
Banks said if the proposed
$1,500,000,000 Feather River
Project were in operation today,
"it would barely overcome the
deficiences of the present." The
project is now held up in the
Legislature because of the rights
dispute between counties of or
igin and counties of need.
Banks said California needs
the immediate construction of
"one or more additional pro
jects of comparable size" to the
Feather River Project.
Most of California's water
over-draft has to be made up
from underground water basins,
with the consequent lowering of
the water table, Banks said. This
means Californians must sink
their wells ever deeper.
Banks said the need for huge
water projects is "acute" be
cause of the lag between plan
ning and actual construction of
any project.
Some 300 American engineers
and water engineers attended the
two-day meeting.
Also sitting in are some of the
300 delegates from 44 nations
who will attend the third World
Congress of the International
Commission on Irrigation and
Drainage, which opens today.
Former Albany Attorney
Gets 60 Days in Jail
Portland (U.R) Robert Mo
Kechnie, 35, former Albany city
attorney, has been sentenced to
60 days in jail by U.S. Judge
William East for failure to file
federal incocme tax returns for
1953 and 1954.
McKechnie was the first of
some 20 persons convicted in
Oregon Federal Court of the mis
demeanor offense to draw a jail
sentence. Other violators had
been .given probation.
Protection Racket
Leads Nine To Trial
Braunschweig, Germany UJ3
Nine ex-convicts were on trial
today on charges of operating a
protection racket for prostitutes.
They were accused of collect
ing money from women in three
cities for "protection" and as
commission for finding cus
tomers. The prosecution charged
a bowling club was a front for
the convicts' activities.
Boston, Mass., first was known
as Shawmut.
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