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4 Beatrice Pally gmi, JJartHet, 1957 Drought to flood in the Southwest By HALPH MONCIUEF DALLAJ. Tex. (NEA) As the Southwest went into its fifth year of the worst drought on record, a Texas rancher unloaded his parched and grass-starved cattle into an Arkansas ranch near the Mississippi River. As local newsmen Interviewed him about his move to Arkansas, an April shower began to fall. "You'll have to excuse me," the cattleman said.

"I've got to look after my cattle. They've never seen rain and they might stampede." The following day a two- funneled tornado ripped across Dallas. And the rest of the month saw violent rains put an end to the Southwest's drought at cost which stands today at $69.7 mil loin. Between drought and flood, this part of the nation has been gored by the long horns of a dilemma. i Outside of the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles where rainfall has i been just about what is needed for the principal crops wheat, barley and grain have been ruined or delayed from two to six weeks.

i Nevertheless, optimism is high at farm association meetings. Ed Schmitz, a small-acreage farmer i near San Antonio, who has worked part time in town toehold on to his farm through the drought, put it this way: "I'm looking forward to my first real crop. Year after year I I've started out and watched my crops wilt and burn up. This time I hope I make something." I It is a desperate hope. Small 4 farmers have gone deeply into debt throughout the drought to i keep their land.

For them, it's either this year's crop or never. In Gruver, where the first wheat crop in seven yean is almost i reedy to cut. banker R. L. Thorn says the fanners may not have 1 much left after paying up their debjs.

"But at least," he said, "they can start even next year." i In northwest Oklahoma, the (situation is almost hopeless for i many farmers and cattlemen, gardless of the rain. Men whose land is adjacent to I streams and rivers saw high wat- era'cut away many acres of good topsoil only to deposit worthless soil on top of the rich land. These men and others like them across the Southwest have buried thousands of head of drowned stock. According to an Oklahoma i farm extension agent: i "These -men are broken. Their farms will be worthless for a generation." 4 But for the men who have weathered both dry and wet, timism is tempered with reality.

"One good year won't put us on our feet," one of these men said. "You can't come back in one I year." Another farmer added: "An' other dry spell even one 'and we'd be right back where we started." While the heavy rains have op- lened the ranges to cattle again, all that is green is not grass. Much of the native grass was killed during the drought and a heavy crop of weeds is retarding re-growth of these grasses. Some range experts say it will take four to five years of careful handling to bring Tanges back to normal. While most farmers and cattlemen have escaped with their lives through the ravaging storms, however, it has been tragedy after tragedy in urban areas of the Southwest.

After one tornado, Dallas alone buried scores of people and sent hundreds to hospitals for emergency treatment. Listen to Mrs. Lillian Ristow. a homeowner in San Antonio. She and hundreds of others bought their homes during drought years when real estate men could talk with assurance of "ample drainage." Since the first of this year, Mrs.

Ristow's home has been flooded 13 times. She estimates her loss at about $2,000 in damage and another $5,000 In lost value of her home. Sam Granata, Public Works director of San Antonio, estimated that repair of storm damaged streets, bridges, would cost taxpayers $467,000. Within days, a new storm hit. And then another.

The Public Works department is stilt trying to arrive at an estimated cost of repair. result of the drought and the storms which always end them has been a renewed and vigorous attempt to curb the problem in the future with manmade dams and reservoirs. Today, Oklahoma City's reserve lakes and resrvoirs are brim full. Fort Worth's supply is running over. Dallas estimates its now- full supply will see it through a five-tp-seven-year pedod.

And at San Angelo, Lake Nasworthy is filled to capacity. 'Texas' Canadian River dam project is very much And official lights burn late as the state moves to finance dams on many small creeks. Much of the water caught in the recent floods is now being used to charge the underground water supply. Wet-weather lakes used to catch rain water are draining into water-bearing sands, at the rate of a million gallons a day one test spring. Improved Water conservation and farming methods have, for the most part, kept this past drought from being as destructive as the dust bowl of the 1930's.

And officials hope to make the next dry cycle even less noticed. But from West Texas, the news is still grim. A spokesman at El Paso put it this way: "All the floods and rains you have heard about have not ended our drought. So far this year, the rainfall in El Paso has reached 1.22 inches. Normal for the same period is 1.58 inches.

"For some reason, Jupiter Pluvius has neglected us boys west of the Pecos. We don't quite understand it. We are good boys out this Way and far superior in every respect to those people of the effete East around Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston." In heraldry, the lion symbolized bravery and the leopard watchfulness and cunning. switch to never an after-thirst! xnraiiNT itir. TMI IOUIKT COHMMW Dr.

Pepper Bottling Co, of Beatrice SPECIAL White Butter Coke with Butter Creme Icing XXMI Fairmont ICE CREAM ANY FLAVOR gal. 79 Wendelin Baking Co. Wilber (The Own Sert-fee) Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Schlich- temeier and son, Crete, who moved to Ft.

Wayne, visited Mr. and Mrs. Eman Jirsa. Guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Apfelbeck and son were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kemper, Sioux City, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bryan and son and Jean Marie Apfelbeck, Lincoln.

Other afternoon guests were Mr. and Mrs, Bob Apfelbeck and son, Crete. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cantrell had as their dinner guests Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Shimonek and sons, Of Omaha, and Mrs. Orpha Byfield and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Exceen and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Vasak of Crete were visitors of Mrs. Anne Dodson. Mrs.

0. J. Ruzicka, Omaha, Mrs. Blanche Plouzek and A 1 ph Bruha, Crete, visited with Eman Jirsas. Mr.

and Mrs. Don Searcey and son, Lincoln, and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Searcy were visitors of Mr. and Mrs.

Norris Berry and daughter, Myra and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Sweat and Janet, Kansas City, Mo. The men attended the baseball game. They then drove to Weatherby, to visit Mr.

and Mrs. Guy Searcy, parents of Nelson Searcy. Mrs. Eugene Zednik and children, Omaha, spent several days with Mr. and Mrs.

Steve Slepicka while Mr. Zednik Is in Minneapolis. on business. Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer Hoffman and Ronnie, ISncoln, spent a day with Mrs. Pauline Hoffman. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George J.

Hynek and daughter were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jelinek, Dorchester, and Mr. and Mrs. George Hynek.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jelinek of Dorchester, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer and family, Mr.

and Mrs. Lumir Ourecky, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ourecky and Mr. and Mrs.

George J. Hynek and daughter spent a day with Mr. and Mrs. Anton Ourecky. Don Kovar arrived from Ft.

Leonard Wood, to spend his leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kovar and family. He was accompanied from Omaha by Mr. and Mrs.

Otto Jurena and family who spent the day at the Kovar home. Al-c and Mrs. Cletus Billesbach, Lincoln, were Friday visitors at the Lso Billesbach home. Mr. and Mrs.

Hugo Kollekowski, Beatrice, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Vaclav Novak. Guests Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry Hrfeek, of Santa Barbara, spent several days at the Emil Kbstka home. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shimerda were and Mrs. Charles Jelinek, Dorchester.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kunc and family and Mr. Mrs. Dale Kunc and family entertained at a picnic dinner at the Clarence Kunc cabin honoring Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Kunc, Beatrice, on their 47th wedding anniversary. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dorty and family, Topeka, Mr.

and Mrs. Dean Kunc and daughter, of Crab Orchard, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wisby, Lincoln, and Mr. and Mrs.

Keith Canoky, Beatrice. Visitors of Mrs. Belle 1 were Ramon Kunc. Ralston, and Mr. and Mrs.

Rudy Kunc and their grandchildren, Denny and Davy Becker of Lincoln. Bruce Sebek and Bob Travnicek are attending the science and mathe.matics camp in Lawrence, for two weeksi Bruce is attending on a scholarship. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Denis Zlab who returned home that evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Zlab, Lincoln, and Mrs. Anna Stich, Crete, spent a day at the Dennis Zlab home with Debbie and Jody Zlab. Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Krueger and Mrs. Lydia Brehm, Lincoln, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Shestak.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stasenka and son, Big Springs, and Mrs. C. R.

Stasenka and A spent several days in Oklahoma City, where they attended the wedding of Mrs. C. R. Stasenka's niece, Gretchen Vedder and Jess Collins. Mr.

and Mrs. Stasen- ka and son who have been visiting their parents, Mrs. C. R. Stasen- ka and Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Hoffman returnd to their home Big Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Pivonka and family, Lincoln, spent the weekend with Mrs.

Jose phine Pivonka and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hoffman and family. In the evening they visited at the Ernest Fictum home. Bonnie Fritz spent a week in Friend at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Rudolph Slama. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chab, Rev.

and Mrs. H. C. Cordts, Mr, and Mrs. E.

H. Houser and Arthur Fuhrman attended the dedication for the new educational center at the Lutheran Church in DeWitt. Kansas Visitor Mrs. Lumir Fritz and sons, Mrs. Rose Brabec and Mrs.

Josephine Pivonka spent a day in West More Land, with Mr. and Jim Caffrey and family. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allgood and sons, Lincoln, werfe visitors of Mr.

and Mrs. Leonard Chaloupka. Mrs. Bertha Jansen, San Diego, arrived to visit her son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

Adrian Zikmund and Judy. Mrs. Frank Brolliar, spent a day in Lincoln at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brolliar.

Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Koci and sons, Buhl, spent, last week at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Koci and Mrs. Elizabeth Kock, of Dorchester, and Mr. arid Mrs. Ray Houska and family and Mr.

and Mrs. Victor Broz, Wilber. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Springer and Peggy and Mrs.

Del Boatman and son, Lincoln, were dinner, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Springer and Betty Rae. Supper guests were Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Springer and 'son, Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. James Hannon and sons, Cortland and Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Wanek spent a day in Milligan with Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Soukup. Mr. and Mrs.

Dick Lannom and son, Lincoln, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Apfelbeck and Chris Horacek, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Zajicek and family spent a day in DeWitt with Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Janda. Pinochle Club Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Novak entertained the D.

D. Pinocjile Club at ft supper and evening of cards. Prizes were won by Mrs. Nelson Searcy and Ray Glantz high and Mrs. Otto Novak and Lumir Vbsi- ka low.

John Hartz, Lincoln, was a recent house guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Birkett and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schleis and son spent an afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horak, O-3te.

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