The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 64, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 8, 1981 Page: 4 of 19
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Besides controlling wind erosion,
the program helps farmers whose
land is subject to serious erosion by
water because of soil type, terrain,
climate, flooding, salinity and other
natural hazards In ■ most Great
Plains counties, 33 different conser-
the Review have made a substantial contribution
to America’s political discourse Pressing their
arguments in erudite and civilized tones, they
have caused the political and economic
orthodoxy of the past to be given a new hearing,
and they have forced the orthodoxy of the
present to be measured against traditional
standards. While we do not agree with many of
the conclusions that Buckley and Co. draw from
such comparisons, we surely recognize the value
of having competitive points of view argued
intelligently
Perhaps the main question at the moment is
how the Review will hold up now that one of its
disciples has been elected president. Will the
magazine trim its conservative sails and stick
with Ronald Reagan when the harsh realities
force him to choose pragmatism over dogmatic
purity? Or will the Review treat him as a fallen
saint?
Can Buckley be as eloquent and titillating
while trying to rationalize disappointments as he
has been for the last 25 years as an amused
outsider sticking hatpins in liberals and their
moderate fellow-travelers?
It will be interesting to watch for the answers.
But there was one thing that made me feel
somewhat better. That thing runs on
electricity and you should see the extension
cord.
That extension cord - and that’s literally
what it is - must be nearly as big around as
my leg. Just one little burp from ole Delta 35
would probably use more electricity than my
whole house would in several weeks.
Boy, ain't I glad I ain't paying that bill!
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Item:
Last Monday night at the Carthage City
Commission meeting several of the city
commissioners and Mayor Lee Chapman
gave the volunteer fire department and chief
Brodie Akins a big slap on the back for the
work they are doing That applause was well
deserved
One of the things that the mayor noted was
the fine participation in the department This
was vividly pointed out a couple of weeks ago
when an alarm went out and all these units
reported back as saying they were enroute
After what seemed like must have been 10
responses, the radio dispatcher came back on
and said, “I don't think we're going to need all
of you fellows "
That simply shows the cooperation is
excellent and the city - as well as surrounding
areas owe these guys a great big thanks
Not only should the applause go to the
Carthage unit, for the surrounding area
units are also excellent Thanks to all of you
fellows
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You may have no trouble with five-digit zip
codes or even a seven-digit variety But those
noxious nines being planned by the Postal Ser
vice will play havoc with us all.
That’s the word from W Ronald Salafia,
professor of phychology at Fairdield (Conn.)
University. He claims we all have a short term
memory ceiling of sever, separate bits of in-
formation.
That ceiling was noted by researchers as long
ago as 25 years and has been confirmed in
numberable times since, according to Salafia
The short-term or immediate, memory retains
information for only one or two seconds hardly
long enought to allow you to consult a zip code
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I thought it a bit strange that right here in
the middle of one of the greatest gas fields in
the whole world that anyone would actually
build a house that did not use any of the local
natural resource
So, what happens? Just take a look over at
the front page. No sooner am I in my
all-electric house than the electric company
wants to go up on the rates
Item:
All my life I have heard about long, tall
Texans Well, it didn’t do a thing for my
stature when I crossed the Louisiana line
heading west
Carthage now has one short, fat Texan. But,
Padnah, I'm proud to be one
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Those humongous draglines up in the
TUGCO mines surely can make everything
else look little.
A few days ago I had a chance to go up to
that part of Beckville and take a look at the
new one that is just now going on line
Friends, that was quite an experience
When you stop to think that one could plop a
right nice size room down in the bucket of that
machine, well, it does make you feel not quite
so big
And the terms they talk of in capacity - they
are just something else Those little ole dump
trucks we see driving up and down the
highways usually hold either five or maybe
eight cubic yards of dirt The bucket on the
new dragline will hold 96 cubic yards
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When National Review magazine was founded
25 years ago, the image of ultraconservatism in
the United States was anything but chic. The
movement was symbolized more by the
boorishness of Wisconsin’s Sen. Joseph
McCarthy than any of the patrician elegance of
past defenders of class and privilege.
Today, the political right still has many
heavy-handed champions but it also has a
growing number of publications that argue its
case thoughtfully — and the Review and its
urbane editor, William Buckley, have in large
measure blazed the way.
Buckley, of course, has become much more
than the editor of a latter-day Tory organ.
Through his syndicated newspaper column, his
television program and his numerous public
appearances, he has also become a celebrity and
showman. In fact he is so theatrical - with arch
demeanor, extravagant vocabulary and witty
flourishes—that his audiences may wonder
sometimes if showmanship is not dispacing
serious political evangelism.
There is no doubt, however, that Buckley and
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More than 57,000 conservation
contracts have been developed on
108 million acres (43 million
hectares I in the ten Great Plains
states Nearly 12,250 contracts now
are in effect on about 30 million
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what belongings they could salvage
and left the Great Plains "The Dust
Bowl need not be repeated,” said
Norman Berg, chief of the USDA's
Soil Conservation Service "With
modern conservation methods and
advanced agricultural technology,
farmers can put up a better fight ”
Berg said the Great Plains
Conservation Program specifically
aims to restore land damaged by the
dust storms of the 1930‘s and to
prevent a return of the Dust Bowl
Under this program, Berg said,
469 counties in the Great Plains
states voluntarily practice extensive
soil and water conservation They
get financial help from the USDA,
and local units of the Soil
Conservation Service provide on the
the-spot knowhow
Another 49 counties soon will be
eligible for the assistance, Berg
said. To qualify for the help, a
county must be designated by the
secretary of agriculture as suscepti-
ble to serious wind erosion
directory. close the book, walk over to your desk
and write the numbers down
Retention for a longer period requires con-
centration and rehearsal If the phone rings or
the baby cries, forget it About the only sure
thing is to keep a paper and pencil handy and
copy the figures from the directory
And all that s just for writing to Aunt Gussie
three times a year As tor committing your own
zip to memory, the woods are full of people
willing to teach us how to expand our permanent
or long-term memory bank. It would seem the
woods also are full of federal panjandrums who
make good money dreaming up preposterous
propositions such as nine-digit zip codes
Item:
Bill Applegate pegged it right when he told
members of the Carthage Noon Lions Club
that the reason the Club’s talent show had
been such a great success over the years was
because people were willing to pay to see
businessmen make fools of themselves
Sure enough, the latest show as a success
And those who turned out at Q M Martin
Auditorium to see a bunch of Carthage
businessmen - along with a few others - make
fools of themselves surely got their money's
worth.
Not the least of those making fools of
themselves was none other than our Mr
Applegate It seems that he sprouted quite a
shock of snow-white and rather abundant hair
just for the occasion.
Not even the shooting of “JR." - and his
insurance salesman-could top Applegate for
the Chib's "act that died the best" award And
you know, "J R." and John Cain died real
good right there on the stage
Item:
Why is it that Yours Truly is always a day
late and a couple of dollars short9
vation practices can qualify a
farmer or rancher to receive
cost sharing assistance
Visualize an aerial view ol the ten
Great Plains states a total land
area of 436 million acres (175 million
hectares) saving the soils looks like
too big a task to think about, but it is
being done, said Berg
"Considerable progress is being
made," he said. "We've had no Dust
Bowls since the 19830's. Much soil
that otherwise would be lost is
staying on the Great Plains
However, well have to do more to
prevent one in the years ahead "
Russ Thompson, a rancher near
Lusk, Wyo , put it this way:
"Despite the especially dry
conditions around Lusk this year, we
were able to manage our ranch so
we did not have to worry about
buying hay or hauling water It
would have been harder to do this
before the Great Plains Conserva-
tion Program That’s why I got
interested in soil conservation in the
first place.”
Thompson said he's using the
program to carry out several
practices to maintain good range
land These include piping livestock
water to various areas and fencing
pastures so animals will graze the
forage evenly.
"I have backed the Great Plains
contract all the way Nobody has a
crystal ball to predict the future
The Great Plains program gives us
the flexibility to modify plans as
operating conditions change,” he
said
Last year, Berg said, the Soil
Conservation Service helped farm
ers and ranchers practice conserva
tion on 3 2 million acres (1 3 million
hectares) of land in the Great
Plains
Among these projects were 163,000
acres (65,200 hectares) of perma-
nent vegetative cover, 3,198 miles
(5,117 kilometers) of terraces, 599
niiles (958 kilometers) of livestock
pipelines and 4,241 acres (1,696
hectares) of windbreaks
This time of year, farmers watch
the sky closer than usual on the
Great Plains of Colorado, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Texas and Wyoming
They're looking for signs high
winds might kick up
in the winter months and on
through May, the strong winds do
their worst to the land, sweeping
tons of topsoil away. It’s sometimes
called the "big blow” season, a time
when a replay of the killing "Dust
Bowl” of the mid-1930's is most
likely to happen-if it ever does
There’s reason to believe it won’t
Many farmers and agencies of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture are
trying to prevent it
A special team effort of farmers
and the USDA's Soil Conservation
Service is called the "Great Plains
Conservation Program.” USDA
records show their achievements
are considerable, but they know
they'll have to do more
People still remember how swiftly
the country's first national dust
storm turned the Great Plains
countryside into a "Dust Bowl"
nearly 50 years ago The catas-
trophe caught the victims by
surprise, although a lack of
adequate conservation practices
had been laying the groundwork for
trouble a long time
Huge clouds darkened by Great
Plains topsoils headed east. Sparse
rainfall in parts of Texas scarcely
slowed the soil’s flight to the Atlantic
Ocean, 2,00 miles (3,200 kilometers)
away. Millions of acres of land were
stripped of plant nutrients. Farm
families by the thousands packed
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now we have just settled into our nice, newly
acquired dwelling.
Our mw house was the first all electric
house we had ever owned and that caused my
wife and I to ponder a little. But not TOO
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Farmers taking part in the
soil saving effort work with special
ists of the USDA agency They
develop conservation plans to meet
the needs of each farm and move
ahead with the government paying
part of the costs The federal share
of the expenses for each conserva
tion practice ranges from 50 to 80
percent. The landowner pays the
rest
President Eisenhower signed the
program into law in 1956 in 1980,
Congress extended the program to
Sept 30, 1981, and authorized $600
million in overall cost-sharing funds
Altogether, cost share payments
cannot exceed $50 million for any
program year
This program, said Berg, is
coordinated with other federal, state
and local governmental agencies
through state and county commit-
tees it's intended to be in addition
to, not a substitute for, other
programs operating in the Great
Plains states
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