DUST-BOWL STORMS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5

DUST-BOWL STORMS

~ t i " Wheat Blown Out of Ground , in Oklahoma LIGHTS AT NOONDAY (Received 17, 8.45 a.m.) WASH3N GTON, Feb. 15. A message from Guymon, Oklahoma, says dust storms swept the Dust Bowi sectors of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and north-west Kansas, reducing visibility to a hundred feet in the aft'ected area. The winds caught up the loose top soil in the long, dry fields of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle and motorists and housewives were forced to use lights at noonday. Farmers said the wheat must have immediate rain to survive. The wheat. was blown out in several districts, the wind carrying huge black clouds of dust so strong that they broke twenty power lines and left an area near Sand Springs without lights. Boosters crowed in the afternoon at Guymon when the dust lifted momentarily to permit a glimpse of the sun. Meanwhile, blizzards with 15-foot snowdrifts plagued Vermont, Minnesota and Arizona. Many highways are impassable and aid has been rushed to scores who are reported marooned in various outlying diistricts. A huge motorised snow-plough required ten hours to advance seven miles in Arizona. Three deatha are reported in Minnesota.