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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