Grasshopper Threat to California’s Farm Valleys
State officials report mountain grasshoppers infesting vegetation and moving toward California’s fertile valley farms. Forecasts call for a severe year with large-scale hopper migrations. authorities plan poison bait barriers. Shasta counts reach 225 per square yard. planes scatter bait though rain limits effect. Fronts stretch from Kern east of Arvin Edison to Orange Cove Fresno Tulare. Army plans barriers near Camp Beale to protect pastures.
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Sacramento
Calfornia
Robert W. Harper
State Agriculture Department
Bureau of Entomology
Shasta County
C. Bruce Wade
Shasta
Kern County
Arvin
Edison
Fresno
Tulare
I County
Camp l' Beale
Nevada County
Long Beach Repressure Plans Move Ahead at Speed
Rep. Craig Hosmer told the House Armed Services Committee the city has mobilized a Herculean effort to combat subsidence. By year end repressurizing installations will inject 226,700 barrels daily into the oil field, far beyond the current 82,000 barrels per day of extraction, with oil operators signing a $23.5 million plan for the shipyard area.
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Long Beach
Craig Hosmer
Howe Armed Services
Raymond le Kealer
Donald G. Sutherland
Donald G. Sutherland, , President of the Shipyard Employes] Assn
Colorado farmers battle hopper army with planes
Eight planes fly over nine million acres in 17 counties to protect eastern Colorado wheat crop valued at 110 million dollars. Farmers spray 300,000 acres on their own as the state uses its funds while seeking up to 10 million dollars in federal aid. Government action aims to curb the grasshopper invasion before mid July.
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Gene Foster
Denver
Eastern
Colorado
The
Colorado Agriculture
Dept.is
Eisenhow
Steve Mec
Nichols
Jamarcaney
Benson Defends Nation s Young At Roosevelt High
Secretary of Agriculture Benson praised today s youth during a Roosevelt High School commencement speech where his 18 year old daughter Bonnie graduated. Presidential assistant Carler promised swift action as rural pest invasion threatens Colorado counties and wheat crops. The 4200 acre Mack Johnson farm near Wildhorse illustrates farmers battle to save crops from hungry grasshoppers and rustling fields follow spray planes.
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Washington
Benson
Roosevelt High School
Bonnie
Colorado
Mack Johnson
Wildhorse
Johnson
Woolsey Walking Sky Lives Up to His Name
A 15 month old Otoe boy named Woolsey Walking Sky tumbled from a second story window ledge in Dallas. Hospital attendants found nothing wrong with him after the incident, and he is the son of Mr and Mrs Owen Walking Sky who recently moved from Ponca City Oklahoma.
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Dallas
Tex
Woolsey Walking Sky
Owen Walking Sky
Ponca City
Okla
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