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...supplies, but ranchers say that the short-term impact is proving to be severe. Nor are they comforted to know that dairy cattle produce low-quality meat, which cannot compare with tastier ranch beef. "Any extra tonnage is bad," says Paul Hitch, owner of a major feedlot in Guymon, Okla. "If a million cut-rate Chevies come on the market, even Cadillac is going to lose some sales...
...Clean, brisk air, coming more in waves than gusts, buffets the winter wheat and corn that thrust above the occasional snows and seem to sway in time to the thumping of the irrigation pumps. Everywhere a new spirit of enthusiasm and industry is at work. It is felt in Guymon (pop. 6,000), a feed-lot and meatpacking center that is already siphoning business away from Kansas City. There are still trailers here; now they are filled not with migrants but with expectant property owners awaiting completion of their $60,000 houses...
...m.p.h. whipped across 120,000 square miles of the Southwest dust bowl, and the earth boiled into black clouds 20,000 feet high in the sky. The dust was so thick that dawn came invisibly; when rain began to fall, tiny mud balls pelted the town of Guymon, Okla. Schools closed, stores shut down, and thousands of farm families listened tensely at their radios as their lands and livelihoods blew away...
...appointment ended a muddle over Ryan's successor. Harold Jones, onetime CAB member, was first offered the job (TIME, Jan. 17), but the appointment was withdrawn after protests that he was biased against small and nonscheduled lines. The offer was then made to Rizley, a small-town (Guymon, Okla., pop. 4,718) lawyer and ex-state senator, though he had had little experience in airline matters. The airline industry had wanted Eisenhower to reappoint Ryan. But when his term expired last Dec. 31, the White House kept him in the dark about reappointment, gave him no reason...
Rising Temperature. In Guymon, Okla., the Rev. James C. Hester, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, chose as the topic of his Sunday sermon: "Will Hell Be as Hot as the Republican National Convention...