Word: droughts
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...that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...
...cities in the drought area have felt little effect so far, but many a smaller city and town has. Hamlin (pop. 1.800). in west Texas, has been out of water for more than a year, is importing it in railroad tank cars at a cost of 60? for 100 gallons. Both wheat and cotton crops in the area have been failing for three years, the town is surrounded by abandoned farms, and many houses and business buildings stand vacant...
...Texans led by Republican National Committeeman Jack Porter, went up to Washington to tell their story and to ask for help. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson flew to Texas to make a speech at a cotton convention in Lubbock, and turned his trip into a drought-inspection tour...
...that had been plowed clear of drifted dust. He gazed at the parched earth, ran some of it through his fingers, then went into conferences with farmers and ranchers. At week's end Benson said he would recommend that the Government do everything it can to give the drought-stricken southwesterners what they want: 1) emergency feed supplies at reasonable cost, 2) a Government buying program to take distress cattle off the market, and 3) emergency, long-term credit...
...Grande's basic trouble is a prolonged, three-year drought along its vast watershed, on the east side of the Rockies. Lower valley residents,unable to do much about the weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back...