Volume 18 , Issue 12

16 April 1935 Dust Storms Put On Act For Federal Official Surveying Relief Needs

Here is more news of the "Dust Storms" of 1935 that appeared in the Miami Daily News-Record, out of Miami, Oklahoma, 16 April 1935, Tuesday, page 2, "Dust Storms Put on Act for Federal Official Surveying Relief Needs." Threat of new drouth serves to spur action. Reports of additional havoc come from West Kansas and Colorado.

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Communities far to the West of the area were showered with dust Monday, schools were closed at Trinidad, Colorado; mountain highways were shrouded by a dust fog, while at Granville, in the western part of Utah, airplane and motor car traffic was halted. Two army aviators from Scott field, Belleville, Ill., were forced down by the dust at Ogden, Utah.

Baca county, Colorado, commissioners decided to appeal tot he Red Cross for nurses to help care for the sick. Two of the three physicians in the county were themselves ill and unable to make calls.

Washington, April 16, 1935 -- Dust storms and the threat of another drouth in the middle west appeared today to be rolling up sentiment behind proposals that irrigation, soil erosion and rural rehabilitation projects be given a larger slice of the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund.

A report place din the hands of Secretary Ickes by Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of reclamation, was reported to recommend more than $300,000,000 for irrigation projects.

The relief administration already had authorized use of relief labor in an attempt to protect the farm lands of five western states against further damage by dust storms.

The possibility of heavy work relief expenditures for transplanting farm families was suggested in the event the weather bureau's fears of another drouth materialized. Lawrence Westbrook, director of rural rehabilitation for the FERA, disclosed he had asked for detailed information regarding a proposal already made for one such project. It would involve the transfer of 25,000 families from he Midwest drouth area to western Oregon and Washington.

Four States were in new path of dust storm. Portions of four states received local dust storms as winds whipped out of the south at an 18 to 20 mile gait in pursuit of a low pressure area swinging eastward from he rockies.

There was a fairly severe dust storm there, and other western Kansas points where dust rolled across the prairies included Hays, Garden City and Dresden.

North Platte, Nebraska, had some dust, and there was dust at Springfield, Colorado. Oklahoma reported some dust moving into the western part of the state, but Texas reports were that dust had not made its appearance anywhere in the state that morning.
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