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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1949)
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949 ' PACE SIXTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORECON Air War On Grasshoppers In Wyoming. Montana Puts Down Threat Of Plague By BF.M FtTNK DENVER. July Th lr war est grasshopper la W'yomlng and MMUni hu -temporarily" put 4ni th threat af pler la In (rain Wit. Jim R. Dutton. chief of th U. 8. grasshopper control division, em phaslsed the word "temporary" In n Interview today on the result of an airplane polson-spreadtng cam paign against the hungry insect In those state. The battle Isn't over, he . not by a long iihot. If the Wyoming -Montana "hopper armies had been left alone. Dutton declared, they would have made the currant Nevada battalions look atlly. They would have been fully a tnugh at the locusts swarms that descended on the grain belt in the "30 to lay waste to millions of acres of croplands all the way from Can ada to Texas. We have killed a whale of a tot of grasshoppers and saved lots of Airman Career Program Set By Army The air force will begin operation of ta new "Airman Career Program" within the next few weeks, accord ing to M'Sgt. Clarence E. Moss In charge of the Klamath Falls army and air force recruiting station. The program, which has been un der development for more than a year, will establish a systematic plan of assignment, training and ad vancement In M career fields. New policies will be put Into operation gradually on a world-wide basis, with complete conversion before 19S0. Training programs win be revised to meet the requirements of the new program, M'Sgt. Moss revealed. While promotions under the new system will not begin until stand ards have been art, air force person nel generally may advance in grade dv attending service technical train ing schools, on-the-job training and self-study. Young men of Klamath Falls who are Interested in learning more about these career fields may visit the TJ. S. army and U. S. air force recruiting station located in the post office building. Firemen Dash To Six Calls The city fire department kept practically a continuous run out of the station yesterday afternoon as It answered six calls. At 13:38 the fire wagon went out to Upham and Uerlings street to subdue a small grass fire. The fire boys headed for 2329 B. Sixth at 1:30 and put out a trash lire. The red wagon parked at Pacific Terrace and Auburn at 1:41 pump ing water Into another small grass fire. Then the station received a call at 1:13 to fight a fir on the hill behind Conger school. And about 6:30 firemen squelched a small grass fire In the 1300 block on Raddiffe street. At about 7 p. m. a can came In on a car tire, but this turned out to be a false alarm. rang grass." Dutton said. "But the million and a half acres we sprayed represent only the primary danger area. -Outside that area are millions of acre of infested land on which the 'hoppers are multiplying at a ter rific rate." Oa these lands, he said, many farmers and ranchers are attaeklng grasshoppers at their wa expense, some af then asing planes. The I'SDA started the anlqu aerial campaign against 'hoppers with a $l.0,o appropriation. Con areas, prodded by farmers and ranchers, now is considering an other, larger emergency fund to carry th campaign ta'a successful conelassan. The Nevada hordes of full grown migratory grasshoppers have crossed the northwest border of the state on a 70-mlle front into the fringes of California and Oregon. Moving at the rat of two to six miles a day. they now cover about a million acres. Then hat much that ran be done now to halt this Invasion. Dutton said. Fotson has been spread In advance af the Insects and a good klO as reported fat fields where th grasshoppers land, but often they fly right aver th baited areas. USDA experts are following the hoppers and when they select their rgg-laylng grounds these will be charted for poison bombing next spring, Dutton said. The migration peak in Nevada will be reached In about two weeks. Then the adult hoppers will begin dying But before that happens the fe male will lay their eggs and the stare will be set foe a new ISM gen eration much worse than the mm new la action. Duttaa aid th destruction at ranges In Montana and Wyoming had caused some "distress" sales of cattle. Receipts at the market la Mile City. Mont, hav keen heavy. He also reported heavy selling at livestock m the Black Bills region at South Dakota. RAID SALEM. July 7 OPt Fifteen slot machines were confiscated from a locked storage room in the Eagles club here last night by Marlon county deputies and city police. 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