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...Dalhart...
...fledgling from the U.S. Army air base at Dalhart, Tex. last week bungled his navigation by 45 miles: he mistook the lights of Boise City, Okla. (pop: 1,144) for his practice target. Aiming straight at the Baptist church and Forrest Bourk's garage, he loosed six practice bombs (each bomb: 4 lb. of powder, 96 lb. of sand and shell). The noise of the explosions roared through the sleeping town...
...After the last showing of The Forest Rangers, Coleen Jones, daytime soda dispenser at Hall's drugstore, got as far as the courthouse square: "There were five of us girls with soldiers from Dalhart. ... A bomb dropped. I asked a soldier what it was and he said, 'By God, it's bombs!' We ran just as fast as we could...
...Dalhart, Tex. the words Dust Bowl are fighting words. The Dalhart Texan will pay $50 for information identifying the human Gila monster who coined the term Dust Bowl. "Maybe we did have some wrong farming methods," says Editor Albert Law, "and maybe we did have some dust storms. But we're really getting back to normal. We've got food crops that look like forests...
Last week Dalhart's Last Man's Club held a banquet to celebrate lush crops, a record rainfall, the Dust Bowl's end. During the banquet the air got stuffy, and somebody turned on the long-unused air conditioner. Clouds of dust billowed into the banquet hall, drove the Last Men out into the rain...