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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1956
Page
11
A Comanche article urges practical conservation at home and farm. It links caretaking of buildings and land to community character and personal responsibility, stressing that well kept improvements reflect a good caretaker and credit.
A Dallas area farm, the Windsor operation, has shifted from raw crops to an integrated system blending wheat and Forkadeer oats with industrial development. W. C. Windsor Jr. expanded crop rotation, mechanization, and soil conservation to yield 60 bushels wheat and 100 oats per acre, while building a 350 acre industrialized development fueled by flood control and land reclamation, growing from 61,000 to 1,333,860 square feet of factory space across 58 buildings by 1956.
The piece notes an extreme drought across Texas and the southwest, described as the worst in six centuries. It cites the U S Geological Survey and federal awareness since Eisenhower’s 1953 visit, urging national focus, shared water resources, and conservation plans amid growing population and industry demands.
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