I SPRING MAY BRING 'BLACK BLIZZARDS' OF 1930s "But the demands of two world wars upon land not really suited for cultivation in the first place have given us black dusting ers." Smith said the Jan. 25 storm eroded land from a quarter million acres. More widespread winds would cause storms this spring to the extent that they swirl over additional vulnerable acreage. Smith, with the the SCS 30 years, "sniffed" year's first big duster the day before it darkened the Temple sky. "When you've been working with the soil for as long as have.
it gets in duster your coming blood. in I could feel that my sinuses and I think in my bones," he said. "He analyzed the January howler like this: "It was a very high wind storm that hit the most vulnerfable area in the state." HANDOUT It's togetherness in weather fit. for neither man nor beast as a gray squirrel accepts peanuts from Russell Hamilton during storm in Philadelphia suburb. Ample Water Brings Families Back To Cuba By ELTON C.
FAY AP Military Writer WASHINGTON is -Water, washing in away the gloom in Guantanamo is bringing back the kids and their mothers to thir homes on that U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. was different a year Ago today. Prime Minister Fidel Castro had cut off water supply for the base. Things looked dark, strategically and.
domestically. ington ordered Guantanamo to start sending dependents: back 10 the United States. The base was to become a military garrison. womanless and childless, standing ready to repel attack and laced with water ration. Last.
February, when Castro cut off the water and thought he had turned on a drought. there were 2,994 dependents of military and civilian personnel living on Guantanamo. By Decemher. the total had dropped to 461. But at Christmas time, changed its mind.
The went out 10' permit deponder to CO to Guantanamo. The first began arriving last month, about 250. And more are! on the way. Guantanamo is completely independent of any reliance on Communist Cuba for its water. The Navy had been buying water from Cuba, and the daily water.
consumption of the base time the Reds cut off the supply was about 2.2 million gallons. The immediate, emergency step was to shuttle tanker ships between Florida, and Guantar-: amo to bring in fresh water. But! even then. rationing was. drastic.
Two tanker ships carried on the shuttle and there wasn't water enough for laundries. much less for such things as swimming pools and watering lawns: Even while the first shuttle trips were being the Navy hastened to start permanent setup to replace the ban water supply. It began work on three plants to. distill sea. water into.
fresh water. Three such plants would produce the average 2.2 million gallors daily required in normal functioning of the base. The first plant went into with that land out during and after. World II, Even though the drought might be as acute the 30s, and the wind blow as hard, the black blizzards probably won't be repeated. "The U.S.
Department of Agriculture, through the SCS, has taught farmers basic conservation practices. They furrow the land in rows perpendicular to the wind direction, crops are 10- tated more for cover. range (grazing) practices have improved. and SO forth," said. He makes the point that dust storms as we know them are not phenomena of nature as such.
"In its natural state, that is. grassy and not broken out for soil farming, of that very hule semi-arid of the region would blow away regardless of the weather. ation last August and the first of the two tankers was pulled cut of the shuttle service sociaoin the two tankers was pulled out A second plant began pouring out its share of fresh water in September and the other tanker was withdrawn. The third plant began operation in December. The reservoirs on the base filled.
Water was in abundance, enough to fill the community swimming pools on the base and put water on withered lawns and flowers. The Navy is happy; it says the base now is completely selfsufficient. Funeral Notices COUVILLION Rasory will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Monday Pin for Joseph of William Earthman Covelilion. Chapel.
87, Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. an Tuesday ct St. Ecrthman Joseph's Chapel Catholic and of Church 11 with the Ret. Williom Thanes officiatica. A Baytown resident five months, Couvitiion died at 4:30 p.m.
Sunday In hospital here. A native cf Cotton Port, he was a retired machinist. Survivors are two. caughters. M.rs.
Thelma Lillard af Baytown end Mrs. Rey McPherson cf Housten; a foster daughter, Jane Houston; TwO W. B. Couvillion of Fort Worth, and Alton C. of Houston; two sisters.
Miss Theresa Both Couvillion and Mrs O. Presswood, 'of' Houston: 10 Grandchiidren and nine great grand chitoren. Buric! wilt be in the Garden of Gethsetoni in Houston, Pollstarers will be Johnny LIHard, Bemerd Stanley J. Couviiiion, Couvilion Fred Corriker, Gery Jeroon, Free Puppies MRS. AGNES.
FONTENAT is secking for three puppies. Described as part toy fox teerier, the pups are eight weeks old. Mrs. Fontenot's tele. phone number is 582-7735.
Mothers Club EIGHT SPEECH students cf Mrs. A. C. co*ker will present a program at. 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday for the Baytown. ARM University Mothers Club in co*ker's home. 700 Elmwood. Plans for the annual. chicken oper-liry in April will be made.
EVER HAPPEN TO YOU? By Blake POP MAKES HIS EXIT AFTER GETTING JUNIOR SETTLED I FOR THE 2-8 BALE Monday, February 8, 1965 The Baytown 691n 3 Survive Fall Into Tank TERRELL, Tex, '(AP)-Two Dallas workmen fell the bottom of city water tank they when were working on Sunday a scaffold collapsed. They were trapped several hours before rescue workers extricated them from the 130- foot-tall tank. Injured were Melvin Buckmaster and Travis Horn. The Cincinnati Reds in the last four years show a .577 winpercentage, best record in National League for that span. They won 369, lost 271.
Angeles is next with 575, San Francisco third with .569 and St. Louis fourth with .547, J. W. Couvillion Services Tuesday TEMPLE, Tex. (AP) A fierce January wind that whipped parched West.
Texas topsoil skyward and thousands of miles eastward has aroused fears that this spring may bring the worst dust storms in 30 years. The mammoth Jan. 25 storm, spawned on southern High Plains of Texas, cut visibility to less then two miles at Evanston, 111. It blotted out the sun miles to the east in Dallas, choked of Louisiana and Tennessee parts, and finally sifted down into the Atlantic. To those who could remem-! her, it was uncomfortably similar to blizzaris" 1930s.
thine While weather and soil experts feel that the storm-al month ahead of the normal season' -heralds an unusually gritty, dust-filled spring. they don't look for a repetition of the dust bowl 30s. "Now we've got a whole generation farmers who know what to do." said 11. N. Smith of Temple, director of the Soil Conservation Service in Texas.
bible was and the others worst say the cingle Jan. dust- 25 er since the drought years of the middle 1950s. "We'll probably have more like it this spring if those boys nut there (in West Texas) don't get good rains fast," Smith said. Fielded reports indicate that upward of two million acres in 3 56-county area lie powder dry, barren of cover and ready 10 blow. it takes now is wind," Smith said.
Soil conditions also ere bad in portions of Southeastern Colorado and Eastern New Mexico. But those lands are not yet as vulnerable to wind erosion AS West Texas, he said Conditions are worst to the vest and south. of Lubbock, an arca formerly devoted to ranch crazing, into but crop now cultivation. out of That area going into its third year of drought, according records of Weather Bureau. Rainfall at Lubbock year measured 14 inches, almost 4 inches below normal.
received not quite 8 inches. or 6.61 below normal. said rain in itself won't prevent blowing dust. "The soil on top quickly dries out." he said. "but moisture allows cover vegetation to grow.
That's what holds the soil ricon." The dust bowl of the 30s was actually a relatively small area covering parts of the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico rally where those live states together. World War I there was a great breaking out of land (from that recior." Smith recalled. "Between the war and the de that land was cultirated. pression, Then came the dmught, and the top soil just took off with the wind." Ever.ts have followed the general in the sAme area around Lubbock, he ex- Save Now ONLY More Days To Save By the 10th and Earn a Full 2 Month Dividend Payable March 31st. DIVIDENDS PAID 4 TIMES A YEAR HARRIS COUNTY Federal Savings Loan Association 37 Years of Solid Service "Save Where Thousands a Savo Millions" Over-grazing of has also contributed but not to the extent that breakout land has.
Much of the acreage around Lubbock is in cotton, a big money crop but one that leaves: little residue for holding the soil. Smith said coiton also burns up certain soil elements that tend to resist wind erosion. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported loca! dust have been numerous this year. Some have slowed highway traffic to crawl and caused drivers to turn on their lights at noon. Moisture conditions in parts of the arca are as grave as the 30s and the general situation as bad as middle 50s, the newspaper found.
Part of Terry County, for example, has received only 8 inches of rain in the past year and a half. An Associated Press survey showed that of the former dust bowl states, Oklahoma is in the best condition. "There's no indication of are turn of dust bowl days in Oklahoma," said Stan Holbrook, U.S. Weather Bureau climatologist in Oklahoma City. "We've perienced a couple of dry years but we returned to near normal precipitation last year." Mexico's eastern plains are dry "but I don't think we could say there's 3 dust bowl said Joe Herman Agriculture Marketing Service.
In Colorado it might be a dify ferent story. Paul Swisher, state: agriculture commissioner, said Eastern Colorado easily could have dust storms as severe as in the 30s much more snow is forthcoming. He said unusually strong. winds have raked Colorado recently and loss in the winter wheat crop may reach $70 million, Smith said SCS figures for come other states in regard to recorded wind erosion for Notember-December 1961 were: sember-December acres in No of 1964 and 12,000 in the same period during 1963. and 3,000.
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Tuesday at at Earthman and 11 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church the ing. Rev. William Tinney Baytown resident five months, Couvillion died at 4:30 A p.m, Sunday in a hospital here.
native of Cotton Port, La. he was a retired machinist. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Thelma Lillard of Baytown and Mrs. Ray McPherson of Houston; a foster daughter, Mrs.
Shinsky of Houston; two sons, W. B. Couvillion Fort Worth and Alton C. Couvillion lof Houston; two sisters, Miss' Theresa Couvillion and Mrs. Presswood, both of Houston; 10 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.
Burial will be in the Garden of Gethsemant 'in Houston. Rites For Eddie Ross FUNERAL SERVICES were to be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday for Ronald Edward (Eddie) Ross 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy E.
Ross 'of Pearland, His father is customer services manager of the Sears Roebuck Co. store in Baytown and he is survived also an aunt, Mrs. L. A. Petty of Baytown, two sisters and a brotner.
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