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actaLong Drought, Chinch Bugs, Damaging South Cook CropsShowers Help But Little; Grain, Vegetables Dying in Arid SoilWith showers on Monday and Wednesday nights bringing only alight relief, drought conditions are not only menacing all crops in South Cook county but are rapidly destroying vegetables,Tomorrow Is Day of Poppy Sale by Auxiliary WomenSIhIsoy banns, and small grains of every variety Added to the lack of moisture la the plague of the chinch bug. which this year has attained unpme-Tomorrow will be Poppy duy in Chicago Heights and neighboring villages as well as In thousands of oilier communities throughout the pastures, 1 United States A score of volunteer workers will dtctrlhute the memorial flowers on downtown streets here, oue unit of more than 100,000 women preparing to honor the World war dead and bring relief todented numbers and appetite in the? actrvlvinR sufferers immediate Chicago Heights vlclalty j Arrangements for the local Pop-Fat met s reported yesterday that py day observance have been com-rve, c»t» and otbei small grains I pieted by the women, of the Arner-uot already withered by the drought I ban Legion auxiliary. Unit Numberare being attacked as never before by the fhlncli bug Even early corn, only a few inches ubove the ground111 with the sales committee under chairmanship of Mrs Gladys Blodgett Beginning early in thepresent, Ik being eaten up at i morning and continuing untilplaces by the pests lu their march front field lo field Dais and soy beans planted at the beginning of the season have ulieatly been so badly damaged In Bloom township that It Is questlon-nigh trail, (lie women will offer the bright red flowers for whatever price the public cares to pay Last year iwoic than 2 000 popples were Bold Members of the auxiliary are hopeful for an equally good recordFsable whether they wilt produce even j tomorrow a subnormal crop according lo Kl-l The popple* to be distributed far mer Rowlev, head of the Agricul- and wide are paper repllms the ture department of Bloom high) wild poppies of France whkh grew school Truck farmer* who have ion the battle fields and war rcm-nol equipped their acres with eterle# 1 h*“v have been made by sprinkler Bystein* are facing an disabled veterans working In fifty -equally severe crop failure, tt was eight government hospitals and reported Dally sprinkling is also) auxiliary workrooms in forty states necessary at small gardens in and! Bach soldier who makes them re-near the city i cefves direct remunerationBecause of the aridity of the soil. Will I’w Fund* Mereif•atnnlmany farmers have planted lar lees than their normal acreage thus fur The corn crop is nald to be generally late, while tomatoes am! some other truck products are largely unplanted Because the corn plants have not yet attained much growth, they have suffered generally less than other crops from the drought Som# few farmen are still engaged In corn planting 8oy bean planting is likewise far below average and the small crop that is already out has been severely damaged The shower Wednesday night penetrated to only an inch in nn-(iilllrated ground and only three Inches in loose tilled soil, farmers icported Us Immediate effect was easily visible In reviving plant* but the sub-soil moisture was still far from sufficient tor normal growth Unless the drought ends within two weeks, Ihe crop failure In northern Illinois will be almost | complete Mr Row ley estimated — and this In Rpite of the fact that the Chicago Height# teirllory lias bad more shower* than many other net lions of the stale Only the unusually low temperature whkh todav remained at a level wheie frost was considered likely has prevented an even more rapid destnntion of crops during the dry period In the opinion of ihe fanners If normal Muy weather had accompanied the drought, many crops would have been totally destroyed by this lime, It wan believedPrepare to Eight l’est The, chinch bugs were reported to be at work in all agricultural sections of Bloom township of neighboring Indiana communities, and or Will county Farmers were preparing to combat the pest by meant! of «reo»ote barriers and other expedients,The bulk of the profits accruing to the auxttlary will be retained InfanttheingImtlevChidyi«abisewKillOftill# communily for the relief of'veterans and their families during the coming year. 11 was explained bv Mrs Celeste Abraham president of the local unit A small part will go to support state and national activities of the American Legion and Legion auxiliary for ths disabled and dependent The poppy sal* 1* the one major means of supporting the auxiliary's rehabilitation programTrace Source of Typhoid in Private Wellll(Following the lt;h finite diagnosis.'«f of a lt;use of Uphold flt;ver In «nlslt; Fast aid* family, the state hlt;tilth' dcpuriMM nt mil week will list a sample of water from the* well from whkh the family obtained Its sup ply The ohje* 11* to detei mine the source of eontaglon and prevent further spread of the disco scPity Health t'ommissJoner A H Vannenhorg wild yesterday ih»t hi® department will send in a sp«*lt; lm«*n of the waBr us booh as the state health department forwunis a spe-«ta! lt;ontutricr for thul purpose In advame of tin* analysis however, he de« lured It was fairly certain that the germs tame from the private well, Further use of the well has been forbidden in the meantimeThe typhoid fever patient Is Htsn lev Wiater, 1* y»ars old, of TVby agricultural expert* of the Vni-bh recommended j Bast Twenty-sixth street IB waspc- i versltv of Illinois The spread ofofthe hugs has been promoted In port hj the drought which Is depriving them of a part of their forage \l ftliin the city the drought Is Teller ted only In the unworn! amountstrtiken a week ngo but tt was not until Tuesday night that the tause of Illness was fully determined His ion*)itfri■■ u*lrlt;rday was reported to be not slt; 11ntis Like IMS Outbreak According tn l)r I'unnenbnre th*of dust in Die air and gent rally [ new appcarame of the disease has empty cistern* and rain water bar- the same sort of origin as that ,(the minor «pldemli In 1V1 »lvn nearly a sror* of prrsotis Imlt;hw« Hfrionsly 111 with Uphold In bothrels Commissioner Trank W lie Bolt annmmied this week that the city’s water supply Is Btlll ampleHe added that there I* no occasion • Instances private wells wlilih were as yet to curtail upHnkHn* «r other)not Jot slid or fonstriKt**d properly use or water The lt;lclt;pe»t well 1n.*erlt; held re*pon#|hli Arthe time Ihe city’s water supply svstem held iff the epidemic list year the lt;lty In reserve for Just such emergen- water supply was snuhred and in 1 ties has not been tapped slnto the found to be Irtr from balt;t«r!»J drought began I M-anwhlle health auihorltle*1 ' j . __(throughout northern Illinois wire
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Chicago Heights Star
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, May 25, 1934
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