The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 204, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1970 Page: 3 of 6
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Dust Bowl Created
By Careless Man
larniprs t'Alind it th*’ black Kncyrlopapfim Britannica, itph-| in a ffw- years Then rami’
•’h/?nrl It was one of the j ted the dust storms . i l„n« stret. h without i nn
> r't ontinuinR dust storms ia j The mammoth dust, eluod I
Ur nation s history and it rreat-: measured 1 .1 m IP ion suuarr i
■'ll "hat has rome to be known j miles. Some of thi dust mm< J
is The Dust Bowl j from desert like areas. Hut it J
i h' hlavk blizzard" began | also came from what ume had !
'i years ngb, one of America's | been considered farmland.
«at disasters For days on end , Thousands of acres iri the
the dust spread misery to mil- j plains states were ton arid for j
lions throughout the drought- j sustained crop production. Hut
The drought w as bad ei on: h.
In Missouri the''^cistores mie
Iwirie dry Kirmyrs chopped
ti ecs so the i aisle could > at
the leaves. Hut while the
drought was difficult the dust
was impossible
A vast area which included
it a lesson m this for those al grass was stripped by plows
tirh’ing tod iv s abuse of na- or torn by the hoove* of cattle
tore hv man man-made de- ; Soil which had been building
'ct conditions aecording to the1 for eenturies was depleted with
New Portable Oxygen Unit
Aid to Pulmonary Patient
. , . . _. . .. ... ... . . : parts of Oklahoma. Kansas,
stricken western plains There i the sett ers v,imbed and natur- . , . ... . .. ,,
ico, became the dust Itowl Soil
(rum the region wa whipped
into the "air day after day in
1924
On a single day experts es-
timated that. .700 million tons
of rich top soil was lifted by j
the winds from the Oust Howl.
In places w here there had been J
farmsteads there were sand
dunes The dust, like snow.j
drifted fence high. In North!
Dakota dust drifts block'd'
rc aids
One Kansas wheat farmer,
describing the "hlfi’k h!l//nrd
wrote that it "begins to blow!
w ilh only sln.dit breeze
tile w ind increase's its Veto* jty j
.until it is blowing at -10 to 50j
miles an hour Scon every-j
thing is moving the land is ;
blow ing the .very sun is blot- .
ted out." ,
1 if tic could, -survive in- Hie i
gritty hell Corps perished'.' Ton-.p.
ding of j-ivestm k w as opt of tfi'c
'lUestioh 'Then-the people )<-ft.
received ,r.n nnfl Oust Row] far-
mers.
Soil expei Is estimated that
in the JMOs more than a mil
lion ac res of good land was vir-
Thurv Aug 27, 1070 THE CTTERO RECORD Page 8
needy young men in *he fight Hang Kong'a ahar#
to restore the land. The forest1
nf garment trade
. Service planted a shelterbelt of I
tually destroyed by wind eros- j more than jOO million trees Seal 11 HONG KONG fl’TO —
ion. Almost 80 million more a i conservation rules were, put in Kong garment exports take a
■ c-es si.ffer.si serious damage to effect crazing on public commanding share in the !M-
Coming in the midst of th*^ lands whf r?KUiAtP<1 +
great depression, the dust storm Slow ly, the devastated lands , fyv* It'arkef* rt‘ world,
disaster pushed millions into: were made livable again. Bull Hong Kong garments eOOl-
|hivi rty. Ml.eh of the nation had the loss measured in either prised 24 per cent of toe I ?.
been knocked to its knees dollars or misery could riey- ' irn|x»rf.* in iSfiS 12 per cent in
Then began an unpreeedent- er he erased. Britain: 27 per cent in Auatr-i-
ed campaign to salvage the na- --— — Ha, 17 per cent In Canada 1.1
lion's resources. In the spring Puklcx live more glass hit. per rent in Sweden; 10 p*r cent
of 192.2, the Civilian Conserve- ties- than >ny oth r food pr.» in Denmark. 9 per cent in por-
tion Corps w as created The- -fort say s Pickle Pa ex ■"* Ii> j way and 1 per cent in Switser-
government enlisted lOu.OOo tej national. Inc. land
KCFH RADIO THE BIG 16
PRESENTS
ICE DAYS
TALKING DOG, IS CLAIM Kenneth C Owens holds his 8-
\ear-old mongrel Tiger in Ogden, fTtah. as he looks around
for someone' to advance about $20,000 for him to take the
dog on tour. He rlairna Tiger can talk a hit.
log had m
f
fo-dhom Brigg* d#moe»tr«ttf uh of a portable oiryflon unit.
By lOBttT X KOESCH Push-button contro’ allow s
easy regulation of the oxvg»n
that en*er» a patient s nostril*
Central Press A ’'oriofton
Correspondent
HOLLTtvoop Fla — Mere 1 through a polyethylene tub"
t’-i- so million American* who - Th* button provides i
a- • :*t<m.* o' pulmonary or minimum quantity under low
car'll*' d:s*a.**s n«ed extra sup- pressure: larger 'do*., aw r*
J. of oxygen to Stay allv» by Uie two and four-liter
j- - . ps-,t derqrea for pro-; buttons Any .combination of th-
vidlr.r this intake restricted j »bree up to sexen liter- or
tne~ to beds since p-tlents | ** *rnployed hv pushing th* a;
needing this life-giving r.ament propnate buttons auftuttaneou.'
ly
had to obtain tt through outlets
on the wall.
However recently a revolu-
t'.onar.' technique a portable ,"',r Ph
___ rangem.
oxvgeh unit has enabled pro
p> wi*h puimonin emphysema
and e'milsr d'sabihtles to attain
a -new mobility and ea-ry their
ox wen with them
At Doetor* Hospital on Flor-
ida a Fast Coast, for example,
Fordham Briggs, 7*. cnee so in-
capacitated. from pulmonary
emphysema h» vs* rarely able
Portable oxvgen un.ts sr
made available to patients t
inns' order*, and
angements r.i 't>» rr*.',» •
i have the use of one. at heirs'
following hospital oischai5^*
Aided by a walker a pa’ler.t.
can tend to hi* per son*] jy.
gle ne needs and engage ,n
household activities
• • •
IVrm THF Increase of <-'p
smoke, and similar -po!.lut-;on
*7, : ; Li ciiio M- ’ oo mi
to leave his bed literally picked i dicationa are tii*j even
up hi* or-gen and w«s free to
walk atoc’
than tod*', s .10 mtllton Am»ri-
cans—or IS per cent of the pep.
ulation mi v be vlctimlaed hr
eonditior* that require extra
oxvgen intake As an , ahtidotr
to this, the advantage of s
carry a
. pereonal oxygen aourc* with
at Doctors Hospital, him can mean a. great deal In
THF srrRET of. this mobil-
ity :» s 7>x • pound container
r r ed the Unde Walker William! patient being able to
J. ®Jw ards. chief of inhalation
therapy
compares the device with the j ^ morale, fhyslca! ther-
en* fh» astroneuts carry as Rp, mental a'tltude
th- enter spare espsu'e* Because this form of rehab
This n»w artifice 1 or oxvgen nation ha* shown that smlv s
l-r'ak* developed for medical | toD’ intake p»grn!ts better ven-
n a f tla*ifir C a n re e OX\'£ f ' —
u*». b‘ t’nton Carbide contain*
a four-hour, supply of liquid oxv
HlaOnn, e>a'rer
change ..ajuji improved 'muscular
g'-n vhi'h is maintained at 240 } tone, it s a forecast of the fu
ture that more patients will fc
low Fordham Briggs and pirk
up their oxygen and walk.
d*prees b»!ow aero .«< if warm*
up :t becomes a gas to be in-
haled ' '
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The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 204, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1970, newspaper, August 27, 1970; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth702922/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.