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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEUKORD. OREGON 1IILMMMV, utiutibn i,, imvi J real!: Plains IFormeirs Team With Science RAW f n CANVAS DAM Dennis Carter of Syracuse, Kansas, places a canvas dam on an irrigation ditch to route the water to a suitable field. In the background is a dry, high plain. (UPI) By JOSEPH CARTER Gov. Henry Bellmon said, "have ployed. Furrows were turned to United Presi International : kept them on the high plains deflect the prevailing winds. wrapi'sp Kan iiipii ' during times of trial." Other plows brought stubble to R.7rf or..! ni.?n. i.,!,L.7l Bellmon, himself a wheat 'the surface to help hold mois M Si &.'a;TaSp:?-- father pu.tur,. j me im-iimee amp ui I'ltiduuiiid, i ovinia iiiiti huuiu Mtuu i 11 c said erratic great plains weath-: drought were developed. Crop er "calls forth the maximum in- j land was diverted to pasture and genuity of individuals who de-, hay - feed storage was used. ruinrl unnn the cnil fnr th.ir The great drought of the 1930s, j livelihood." wnere a not sun ana reienuess abundance today from the dry-: lands of America where the om- j inous threat of "dust bowl" once j lurked. : wind sapped the soil of mois ture, may never be repeated. The black clouds of dust that strangled life and the economy three decades ago have been doused by ingenuity, research and courage. Botanists have bred new drought resistant seeds. Cheap electricity has opened wells for new irrigation. Manufactures have produced new water saving equipment. Behind it, and most staunch, are the great plains farmers. "The sturdy qualities of great plains citizens," Oklahoma Education Department Notes Special Classes OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPD-The Washington State Education De partment, in a report on sum mer school classes, came up with this sentence: "Special interest classes per mit students to pursue classes in their special interest." Drought Hits All Across the plains, the loss of a crop not only affects the farmers but it hits merchants, bankers and vibrates throughout the United States economy. Fighting drought, therefore, is a national problem handled by farmers. The wind burned farmers dusted off the depression a n d'i rirnlinht nf Hi. IQ'tds anrt vmv.H t the dust bowl never would happen again. Strict conserva tion measures were employed. Soil tillers started raising cat tle. Land was allowed to lay fal low one year to accumulate moisture for a crop the next season. Irrigation was encour aged. When widespread electri city came in the 1940s, wells were drilled in dry areas. Water was conserved by new ponds and lakes. Scientific plowing was devel oped. "Chisel" plows that would turn up lumps of damp soil when dry spells arose were em- State Rep. Francis Carter, of Syracuse, a veteran Western Kansas farmer, said the change was radical. He compared the attitude reversal with the switch from horses to tractors. "The drought of the '50s could have been as disasterous as the 1930s," Forest Bcal, Nash, Okla. farmer said, "if the necessary adjustments hadn't been made "There have been some re markable techniques developed since the 1930s," he said. "We have learned to live with t h c weather." Bellmon called "the erratic weather of the great plains" an "almost insurmountable handi cap" 30 years ago. "Present day methods," the Cooper's Urtexpectd Sightings on Earth Confirmed by NASA By ALVIX B. WEBB Jr. CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) -Some experts were flatly con vinced U.S. astronaut, L. Gor don Cooper Jr. was suffering from hallucinations. 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Tong Jr., director of the Great Plains Historical association at Lawton, Okla., said his organization was "con cerned with the general lack of understanding and appreciation of the plains environment. "The region is characterized by a level landscape, absence of trees and a semi-arid climate. "Pcriodaclly," Tong said, "the plains is swept with a drought and people who live on the plains must learn to accept this fact of nature and plan ac cordingly including farmers, bankers, merchants and a 1 1 others concerned. "In order for a man to sur vive in a plains environment," Tong said, "he must adapt to a way of life that is far different from humid area ideas, institu tions and laws." the problem. After weeks of re search, the group came up with its ratner startling answer: Astronaut Cooper saw exact v what he said he saw on earth 1 below during his 22.9-orbit voy age around the globe last May iD-tb. Report Vindicated Thus, with no its, ands or buts. one of the most remarkable sci- j entific reports of the year was ! vindicated. It could have an im-: portant bearing on future1 manned space flights, and even on the development of "spy-in- the-sky satellites for policing military build-ups on earth. All the flurry centered around Cooper's report of spectacular views of earth. At one point, he I said, "1 could detect individual houses and streets" in the Him alaya mountains, on the plains of Tibet and in the southwestern area of the United States. Sees Hoad Clearly On another occasion, the as tronaut said, "I saw what I took to be a vehicle along a road in the Himalaya area and in the Arizona-West Texas area. 1 could first see the dust blowing off the road, then could see the road clearly ..." And still another: 1 saw a steam locomotive by seeing the ' smoke first; then I noted the ob ject moving along what was ap parently a track . . . All of which triggered a hot debate in scientific circles. Ex perts quickly noted that cars. locomotives, houses and such are only a comparatively few feet wide, that road is scant yards across and that Cooper was claiming he saw them from orbital heights of more than 100 miles. Some said outright that it was impossible, that Cooper must have suffered hallucinations or some sort of space-going varia tion of the "raptures of the deep." Others said perhaps the atmosphere magnified the ob jects on earth, or that the as tronaut's vision was improved by the effects of weightlessness in orbit. Confirm Astronaut's Views ! Not a bit of it, said the NASA scientific team headed by Dr. John A. O'Kcefc: ". . . from knowledge of the factors which affect visibility under these con ditions, there appears to be no reason to suspect that these identifications by Cooper were not generally accurate." In the first place, it was pointed out, Cooper has excep tional vision. A recent examina tion measured his eyesight at 20-12 meaning he could see objects at 20 feet that a person with normal 20-20 vision could not detect beyond about 12 feet. Secondly, Cooper enjoyed "unusually good weather condi tions." His report stood out all the more in the light of a gen eral lack of similar sightings by three previous U.S. orbiting as tronauts. But on all three of the earlier flights, cloud cover around earth was heavy. His view was aided by the rarified atmosphere in the Ti betal plain, which rises lfi.tKKI feet above sea level, and by the low humidity, cloudless weather over the U.S. south west. He did not sec other more massive sights such as Los Angeles or Calcutta even though he flew right over them because of obscuring haze or clouds. As for spotting roads of per haps less than SO feet across, the NASA experts pointed out that U.S. Kuckets as far back as the Viking series in the early 1950s had made similar sight ings from altitudes of up to 150 ' miles. I American military leaders are reported to have found Cooper's report impressively encouraging. The Air force is developing a camera-carrying "spy" satellite called Samos to photograph sites on earth from perches in space as lofty as Cooper's. One more point is certain: such grandiose views right out side the spaceship windows should make flights into orbit interesting experiences f o r many years to come. Bin HKOTIIKHS' PLACEKVILLE, Calif. (L'PI) The State of California is us ing a "Big Brother" technique to enforce fire laws. A Division of Forestry airplane with a loudspeaker is warning house holders in Isolated sections of the Sierra Nevada to bo care ful with fire materials. Hat JUl Meek Special $i57oo Model D10S Halo-of-Keal DRYER Multi-Temp. 1 m D...kk.,.. 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