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...complaint department of the Cleves (pop. 1,981), Ohio water works. He had to work ten, twelve, sometimes 24 hours a day at his $69-a-week job-partly because his predecessor had run off with $4,300 in water funds. Morris' work increased when drought taxed the water system's wells. On top of all this, the town paid him on the first and third Monday of the month, and he kept running out of money before the fortnight was up. Last week he not only failed to get an expected raise; he got no wages...
...DROUGHT areas in 15 states and Hawaii will continue to get cut-rate emergency feed from the government even though the Commodity Credit Corp. has used up its special $40 million feed allotment. President Eisenhower has told the CCC to use some of its price-support funds...
...Price of Meat Sir: I must congratulate you on your Oct. 26 article High?" ... "Meat It can't be emphasized enough So that the farmer or rancher is lucky to break even on feed costs, and where drought conditions exist, is losing his shirt. It takes just so much and so long to produce beef ready for market, and without price support, you're going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder...
...Drought Relief. In Adel, Iowa, when city officials ordered local tavern operators not to sell him beer, Ivan Gowin sued the city for $25,000 because he had been unable to relieve his "exhausted and dehydrated condition...
...representatives of 71,000 North Carolina tobacco growers met last week in Raleigh's Sir Walter Hotel, they filled the air with their troubles as well as tobacco smoke. The drought had hit most of them hard, postponed the harvest a full two months; growers in the state were hustling to get the big leaves into their curing barns before the first frost came. Moreover, the quality of this year's crop had suffered, and prices were down. To Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, the growers sent their suggestion for a cure: acreage allotments for 1954 should...