Texas Farm Land, Recently Dry
Now Looks Like Series of Marshes
Editor' Note: Three United Press
taffmen. riding a chartered plane
fridav to rover the series of prop-ertv-damai-inr.
tornadoes that raked
west Texas, were forced to land and
take refute in a storm cellar when
a squall line headed their way. Here
is their stor.
Br KYLE THOMPSON
United Press Correspondent
Dallas, Tex., W Millions
of square miles of Texas farm
and ranch lands where three
months ago were parched by the
worst drought in history today
are much like a series of marsh
es and swamplands.
A rash of thunderstorms, tor
nadoes and downpours which be
gan lashing the state late in
February has dumped more rain
in many areas than fell in the
past four or five years.
Vast areas of the state from
the Texas panhandle south and
east 500 and 600 miles are a
soggy, rain-saturated mass of
pools, creeks and rivers.
Like Continuous Line
Tons of water in streams built
up by heavy downpours on top
of downpours have floqded al
most every stream in the state.
The area from the Texas plains
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CONTEST WINNERS Jerold W. Swanson, of 798 Garfield
street, Medford, right, is congratulated by Alma Dalton, man
ager of Morse Sewing Center, upon winning a crossword puzzle
contest that appeared in the Medford Mail Tribune recently.
His prize is a Morse "600" sewing machine. In another contest
in Parent's magazine, Mrs. John R. Behnke, 1346 N.E. Evans
street. Grants Pass, above, was national winner. She was award
ed first place for an article she wrote on why she would like to
own a Morse sewing machine. Her prize was the Morse Photo
matic machine, shown above.
Gile Fired- From j Methodist Group
Vehicle Division
Salem HP) Robert G. Gile,
former state representative, has
been fired as supervisor of the
registration divsion of the state
Department of Motor Vehicles.
He said Saturday he was given
no reason for the action.
Gile said, he was called info
the "front office" of James F.
Johnson, director of the depart
ment, and asked to resign. He
said no reason was given. He
refused to resign without an ex
planation, he said and was fired
effective at the close of the day's
work.
Gile was replaced by John C.
Kerrick, manager of the driver's
license division for 17 years.
Kerrick's place was filled by
Edward M. Syring, Kerrick's as
sistant for eight years.
Glie headed the motor vehicle
division when it was under the
secretary of state's office. He
was named to that post in 1951
after serving five terms as state
representative from Douglas
county.
Skyraider Pilot
Killed at Sand Point
Seattle Of) A Navy AD Sky
raider crashed while attempting
to land at the Sand Point Naval
Air station here Saturday, kill
ing the only man aboard.
Navy officials said the pilot
was coming in for a practice
landing when the plane bounced
twice. The plane, an attack I
bomber, did not burn.
The victim was identified as ;
1st Lt. Michael A. Berger, 26,
Seattle.
The crash was the third in the
Seattle area within a 28 hour
period and the second at Sand
Point.
Friday three men died when
their Grumman Sentinel crashed
on takeoff at the Naval station.
And one man lost his life when
his parachute failed to 'open
after he had bailed out of his
crippled F-102 jet fighter over
south Tacoma, 35 miles south
of here.
Opposes H-Bomb
New York (Ifr A poll of
Methodist ministers conducted
by the Fellowship of Methodist
Pacifists showed Saturday that
those responding oppose by
1,676 to 337 the use of hy
drogen bomb warfare even "if
our government saw no other
way to stop Communism."
The questionnaire was mailed
to 16,000 ministers, of whom
2,894 replied.
The respondcrs opposed, by
1.528, as opposed to 572, said
they did not believe our pos
session of the H-bomb would
keep Russia from attacking.
Asked if they beileved the
U.S. should prepare for war as
the best way to insure peace,
1,564 said no, and 575 said yes.
On disarmament, 1,045 said
the U. S. should disarm only if
other powers agree to do so; 405
said the U. S. should set an
example by disarming first; 855
would encourage a revolt against
war by calling on people every
where to lay down their arms.
Although only 337 would "risk
destruction of civilization" with
hydrogen warfare if it seemed
the only way to stop Commu
nism, about twice as many felt
some circumstances would justi
fy the dropping of a hydrogen
bomb on a 'foreign city.
east to the Louisiana border
looks from the air like a contin
uous line of muddy pools, swift
streams and swamped farm and
ranch lands.
Muddy, irregular fingers of
water jut out from numerous
rivers and creeks. Lowlands are
covered by more muddy waters.
Cultivated fields have been
washed out where numerous
small, crooked streams have
sought lower elevations.
The rains in many cases have
been even more disastrous to
farmers than the long years of
drought.
For weeks, in the middle of
the spring planting seasorf, many
farmers have been unable to get
into fields to plant crops. Others
who planted seeds saw them
washed out by torrents of water.
To add to this, a siege of tor
nadoes has smashed the country
side with destructive, black fin
gers, leaving many dead, hun
dreds injured and millions of
dollars in damage.
Over 500 Tornadoes
The weather bureau says more
than 500 of the deadly twisters
have been counted in the coun
try since the "tornado season"
opened early this year.
The tornado is the most fear
ed weather element in the south
west. It strikes suddenly, often
without warning, and will often
wriggle along the ground in er
ratic paths for several hours.
Many of the twisters will swirl
almost harmless across open
country, but occasionally one
will strike a heavily populated
area like the April 2 tornado in
Dallas, when 10 persons were
killed, and 200 injured.
Storm-wise west Texas farm
ers consider a storm cellar as
"standard equipment."
Three United Press staff mem
bers, myself, staffer Jim Erwin
and newspictureman Roddy
Mimms, chasing tornadoes over
west Texas Friday were forced
to land our chartered plane on a
farm road near Turkey, Tex.,
and take refuge in a cellar with
the Irl Twilla family.
' Our pilot saw a squall line
ahead of us. There was a terrific
roar overhead. We made an em
regency landing on a farm-to-market
road.
Twilla said he usually waits
out the storm inside his house,
I but Friday when twisters by the
dozen were lashing the area he
decided it would be safer in the
storm cellar.
"I haven't seen anything like
this weather in years and years,"
Twilla said.
"I just don't know whether
farmers are going to have a crop
this year or not: The past several
weeks it has been too wet to get
out and plant, and if you were
fortunate enough to get some
seed in the ground they mostly
were washed up in the next day
or so. '
Coffee consumption in the
U.S. amounts to 2.6 cups every
day of the year for every man,
woman and child.
Portland Student
Dies in Elevator
Portland (IB Pete Watson, a
17-year-old David Douglas High
school student was killed Friday
in an unusual accident in a
freight elevator in Jackson Tow
ers here.
Police said the boy was help
ing move some equipment from
Bruno's photoghaphic studios in
the building when he was trap
ped between a big steel frace.
Officers said he apparently
strangled before help arrived.
The coroner's office listed
cause of the death as a neck-injury.
Couple Continues
To Share House
After Divorce
Eaton Bray, England
Robert and Violet Knight hare
their divorce but lire on in
the bouse where love has died.
Both are blind.
"When you are blind you
can't just say 'I am going
away' ". 42-year-old Knight
said.
"We sleep in separate
rooms." he explained, "I sup
pose I'm just a lodger.
His 32-year-old former wife,
with whom he travels to a
workship for the blind every
day, said "I will not leave Bob
to manage by himself."
Knight's mother-in-law lives '
with them as well, and "looks
after" their 11-year-old son
Clifford.
Graham Preaches
On N.Y. Streets
New York rtB Evangelist
Billy Graham preached on the
garish, neon-lighted city streets
of New York Friday night to
thousands of persons turned
away from his Madison Square
Garden crusade.
Standing on a table on the
sidewalk just a short distance
from "Strippers Row" and the
bright .lights of Broadway, the
38-year-old North Carolina min
ister spoke to the vast over
flow audience for more than 10
minutes.
"As you are standing here you
can be saved tonight! You don't
have to be in the Garden in a
church to find God," Graham,
with a bible tucked under his
arm, told more than 2,000 per
sons jamming the streets around
the Garden.
More than 50 sidewalk listen
ers made "decision for Christ"
after his brief sermon on the
city's streets.
Inside the famous sports ar
ena Graham addressed his lar
gest audience since he began his
crusade here 10 days ago. A
total of 21,200 persons jammed
the Garden which has a seat
ing capacity for 18,500.
After Graham's sermon, an
other 847 persons came forward
to make "decisions for Christ."
These brought the crusade's 10
day total up to 6,676.
Corvallis Boy, 10,
Dies in Rescue Try
, Corvallis (IP) Firemen Sat
urday recovered the body of a
10-year-old boy who drowned
here after he jumped into the
Marys river to save his compan
ion who had fallen into the
stream. The other boy was able
to scramble to safety when an
eddy carried him against a dam.
Police said David Iverson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Orlin Iver
son, drowned when he jumped
into the river to help Douglas
Lutz, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Lutz.
The two boys were fishing
from the old Corvallis Lumber
mill dam about 200 feet up the
Marys river from its confluence
with the Willamette river. The
Lutz boy said he was able to
grab onto the dam and pull him
self to safety. He said he saw
David go under the water and
then come up and be swept
downstream by the swift cur
rent that pours through the op
ening in the center of the da.a.
The accident occurred about
6:45 a.m.
28 Deaths Blamed
On Mexico Heat Wave
Monterrey, Mexico (W
Schools and most stores closed
Saturday in the face of a heat
wave that his killed 28 chil
dren in four days.
Heat strokes have sent 300 oth
er persons to hospitals and po
lio has struck 40 persons in the
worst outbreak ever reported ;
here. !
Temperatures have ranged
above 100 degrees for a week, j
following a drought that has :
dried up water sources in nor- :t
tfcern Mexico. The city is under
strict water rationing and doc
tors said the children killed by
the heat were virtually 'de
hydrated NT.'YLYWEDS SEPARATED
Emmetsburg. Iowa W j
i:ewly-wed Robert Thomas, 27, j
today began a prolonged separa
tion from his 15-year-old bride.
Thomas was sentenced to five
years in the state penitentiary
for breaking and entering.
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