Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1947 — Page 2
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HordedOu Formers Cling to Their Hopes With Little Bitterness
Some Expect fo Get Soybeans Plonted; Disaster Has Lost Its Edge Through Years
The Midwest has Just gone th broad, flat. acres in the past have the world. But 1947 is a critical
Howard newspapers have sent Stafr Writer Earl Richert Inte the area to survey the flood’s atfermath. This Is the first of Mr. Richert's
articles,
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a meni rough its worst flood In blatory, Its produced food for ourselves and for time. The Times and the Seripps-
By EARL RICHERT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ELDON, Towa, July 8.—Clarence Hall, a bulky, gnarled farmer of 68,
chewed his unlit cigar and eyed the
tion of his large white house. They were reminders of the successive Des Moines river floods which washed millions of dollars out of the pockets of farmers living along its banks. The two floods swept his 128 acres clean, including 60 0 acres of corn land which during the last four, —
years produced 100 bushels an acre. | “I went through the depression,”
he sald, “If I could go through that |
I can certainly go through this.” “And maybe,” he sald hopefully, “I can get 50 or 100 acres planted in soybeans yet. If they do all] right, I ought to make a little money this year.”
Typical Reaction
Mr. Hall's attitude is typical of (don't realize is that they pay about {four times as much as we get for imeal.
farmers throughout the Des Moines river valley, Like farmers everywhere, they accept disaster at the hands of the weather with little bitterness, “What good would it do?” asked Sam Woods, a nelghbor and an- | other flood victim. Most of the farmer whose land was 80 wet that they could not plant corn in the last week of June hope to recoup to some extent by planting soybeans. Others are takinging jobs in town until the next planting season, but still doing their chores at home, A few tenant farmers are refusing to move back to lowland farms, some because their wives have rebelled at cleaning up muddy floors. Old Story te Him
Mr. Hall, like other valley farm- | © ers, ig accustomed - to floods, but | “"hdne like the two Which Kept him | and his wife away from their farm almost a month. The flood in 1903, he sald, was bad, but Jt came a month earlier and gave the farmers a chance to plant corn after the waters receeded.
. Mr, Hall has lived on his farm more than 50 years, . His father purchased it in 1896 and Mr. Hall bought it in 1911. Mrs. Hall left the farm by motorboat on June 7 and stayed with relatives the rest of the month. They expect to return their registered Hereford cattle to the farm
“" woo, but wjll. sell their‘80 hogs
because they do not have enough corn to feed them and there is no fence. left on the place that would hold a hog. ) Puts Loss at $10,000 Mr. Hall estimates the flood cost him at least $10,000. He lost 150 laying hens and 400 bushels of cribbed corn In addition to his crops, which included 16 acres of alfalfa .and 29 acres of outs. The river aii: nim a8 fdvor by depositing on his “land several + igches of thick black soil it had washed off other farms, Both Mr. Hall and Mr. ‘Woods
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are worried about "future farm prices, “Prices are too high today and we all know it,” Mr. Woods said, “We would be willing to take lower prices if other costs would come [down, particularly for labor and machinery.
Borrowed in Depression “The city folks cuss us for high prices. But what they evidently
» & itn. You can't tell me it costs that much to slaughter, process The depression is a vivid memory | Hall, .During 1932 and 1933, he grew 10,000 bushels ot corn and couldn't even pay his taxes. He kept operating by borrowing from an insurance company, He fears that without government price support those days may return with a drop Inthe world demand for food, and since this country can produce more than fit consumes. He said acreage control wculd have to accompany government price support and that he would be willing to cut down acreage to keep up prices,
Crash Board Urges Higher Flying
WASHINGTON, July 8 (U, P).
investigating board has recommended that commercial airliners double their minimum altitude for night flylng and install electronic devices to warn pilots when they are approaching mountains, Since the investigating board comprises representatives of both the civil aeronautics board and the civil aeronautics administration, the recommendations are expected to become formal regulations without delay. The investigating board, in its third interim report, proposed that pilots flying on instruments’ should be required to clear mountainous territory by 2000 feet. The present minimum altitude is 1000 feet.
borhood city hall forgot.
By “& June 13 accident near Lees-
burg, Va, where & Pennsylvania: Central airliner crashed into a|children. mountain, fh all. ‘50. persons | sister, Sharon Kay, age 6 weeks, aboard. {were bitten by rats last Friday and
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RECOVERING —Six-months-old Sharon Kay Dunn recovers from a rat bite she received while laying in her bassinet. She was bitten on the wrist.
The minimum altitude regom- Tr d gar mendation and that regarding 1d uh a Barbage swand in electronic devices were prompted residen n desperation pay someone to haul it away. Bgrap metal |
rusts in weedv lots adjacent to frame dwellings.
The: rats have grown ‘big down there this season -and altack the That's where 3-year-old Richard | Francis Dunn and his baby
|Man, 40, Breaks Neck:
alleys there for weeks until the |
Sunday nights, They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Dunn, 215 Leota st.
Bitten on Hand, Wrist The baby was bitten on the hand
and sanitation departments forgot.
RUSTING. METAL — Scrap metal rusts in a weedy lot across the street from 215 Leota st. where two children have been bitten by rats. This is part of the Southeast. side veighborheod. the city health
TREATED—Richard Dunn, 3, was bitten on the lip Sunday night as he lay sleeping. He was bested at City hospital,
Trash Piles Up. Rats Grow Big on Forgotten Street
Between Southeastern ave. and the Big Four tracks is the neight
PLAN CARD PARTY The 17th Ward Women's Demo-
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and wrist Friday, The ‘3-year-old was bitten on the lip and mouth
ing: “Mommie.” Mr. Dunn took him to City hospital, Mrs. Dunn said the rats appear
floor in the kitchen. “Since the baby was bitten, I've been keeping the door shut to the | children’s room,” she said. “Sunday’] night, I guess I left it open just a| crack. Then we heard Richard scream.”
Some Buying Homes
neighborhood are young people like
ing their homes. Employment is steady and by degrees they are try- | ing to improve the neighborhood. But theyre working under a handicap. The streets are broken and rutted. The names of the] streets are hidden behind the rust
Directly across Leota st. from the Dunns is a junkyard. Scrap has been accumulating there since dur- |
Garbage Festers in Sun
In the alley between Leota and Oriental sts, bushel baskets of tin
awaiting collection. Garbage festers in the sun. Children are for-| bidden to play back there.
in a while,” sald Curtis Tarter, 1322
don't seem to pick the stuff up even when they come.” . It was to the Tarter's
phone, : Standing Several Weeks “Everett Burton, 224 8. Oriental
‘Walks Mile for Aid - GRANBY, Vt, July 8 (U. Pom Hiram Bowen, 40, hiked a mile back | to a lumber camp after he was hit
[by = falling tree ‘which Qroke his
pe
Sunday night. He woke up scream- | {
to crawl up somewhere through the
A number of the residents in the
the Dunns. Some of them are buy- |
of .the street signs. ’ |
ing the war, {
cans have been lined up for weeks, |
“We paid $5 to have it hauled away & month ago,” said Mrs. | Georgetta Davis, 319 Leota st.” | “We call up the city every once |
Bates st., around the corner, “They (|
Richard was bitten to use the tele,
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TRASH PILES UP — Trash accumulates in the alley
between Leota and Oriental sts. Residents say they have had to pay someone to have it hauled away privately.
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Congress—
House to Pass i Tax Bill Today |
GOP Seeks to Make New Veto Futile
WASHINGTON, July 8 (U, P.).~ The Republican income tax reduce
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Missing Since Yesterday
From Florida Home. PT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 8
U. P).—Ft. Lauderdale police and
some 500 citizens combined with soldiers from two army fields today ina predawn search for 4%-year-old Freddie Zloch, missing from his home here since Bie yesterday. The “very chunky" plod child was reported missing by his grand. mother, Mrs. Brown, laté yesterday afternoon. Police said the. boy is
a short distance from the Tarpon river, one of the canals draining Lake Okeechobee.
In Swimming Suit At least 50 soldiers from nearby Boca Raton army air base and Morrison field at West Palm Beach joined the search of Freddie's neighborhood and along the canal running through town. There were several reports’ from persons who said they saw the blue-eyed youngster yesterday walking in his swimming suit and accompanied by his dog, police said. Meanwhile, an unidentified small girl said she had been playing with Freddie “down around a boat” in
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cratic club will ‘hold a card party|the canal. When a bloodhound led
|-Day Bridegroom Returns Gifts
NEW YORK, July 8 -(U. P).— Joseph Missik carefully repacked his wedding gifts last night for return to the senders and made preparations for the burial this week of | P his bride of oné day. Mr. Missik and Margaret Heliker of North Bergen, N. J, were married Saturday, held a reception for 100 guests at a North Bergen inn Saturday night and fled in a shower of rice and good wishes for New York and a honeymoon. In a New York, hotel late Saturday night, Mrs. Missik was seized by a raging fever. She died of pneumonia Sunday night.
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A Prowler, By Gum CHICAGO, July 8 (U. P.)—Mrs. Ruth Sturch, 20, was walking home from a visit with friends early today, when a man leaped out of some bushes and hit her on the head. Mrs. Sturch opened “her- mouth— wide—and screamed. Her teeth popped out. She told the police the man stooped over and picked something off the sidewalk and then fled. She couldn't find her teeth.
COTTON ACREAGE RISES WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P). ~The agriculture department today estimated that 21,389,000 acres of
at 8 p. m. Monday at the Indiana police to the same boat described Democratic club headquarters, 319|by the girl, they immediately began |
dragging the surrounding water,
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cotton were under cultivation on July 1, compared with 18,180,000 | acres a year ago.
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Flood Control Policy This Session Doubted
President ‘Truman's plan for drafting an extensive flood control program for the Miowest won hearty favor in congr Leaders of both ph admitted there was a crying need for co= ordination of plans already made to prevent a recwrence of the recent disastrous floods. But they saw little chance that congress would get around to the President's proposal before adjourning later this month. >
Refugee Immigration Bill to Be, Delayed
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legislative program President True | man’ s request for permission to ads | mit European refugees to the U.S, Similar expressions came from {house leaders. They contended that such controversial legislation should not be pushed through cons gress in a few weeks.
Greek-Turkish Progam May Get’'No Funds
The house appropriations come mittee reportedly plans to approve a foreign aid bill conteining ne funds for the Greek-Turkish program. A committee member said the group was provoked over the state department's failure to sube mit an itemized account of exe penses for* the $400,000,000 prow gram, 73
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