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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Toxas, Monday, Juna 19,1989.
Weather
For the Record
Sulphur Springs for June 19,1989
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85
92
94
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69
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Yesterday
High ...
Low... .
Rainfall
..89
..69
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Yesterday Today T’morrow
Normal High
Normal Low
90
70
Last Year High 92
Last Year Low 68
Record High 99
Set In 1971
Record Low 60
Set In 1961
Rainfall to date:
Normal rainfall:
Month
Month
7.40
3.68
91
70
95
68
98
1953
61
1955
Year
Year
91
69
93
67
98
1953
61
1955
29.98
23.02
Local June History
Average mean temperature. 78.5 degrees: warmest June (mean),
81.4 m 1980; coldest June (mean), 74.8 in 1976; average daily high,
89; average overnight low, 68; extremes recorded, 104 in 1953 and
1980 and 49 in 1970; highest rainfall, 8.18 inches in 1961; lowest
rainfall, .50 of an inch in 1971 and 1988; average number of rainy
days, 7.
Texas weather
Weather conditions around the Lone Star State today were clear,
with no precipitation, but forecasters said a chance of rainfall existed
later for eastern and southeastern sections.
Skies were fair except for parts of the mid and upper coasts, with
cloudy conditions.
Winds were light from the south to southeast across most areas
with speeds around 10 mph in parts of West Texas. Early-moming
temperatures were mostly in the 60s and 70s.
The National Weather Service said some morning low cloudiness
was expected in South and North Texas. Otherwise, it should be fair
tonight.
Isolated, mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms were pos-
sible in East and Southeast Texas. Highs should reach the 90s and
100 with some 80s along the coast.
Lows were expected in the 60s and 70s with some 80s along the
coast.
Highs Tuesday were expected in North Texas from 93 to 99, with
lows from 70 to 75. ....
Widely scatt ed mainly daytime thunderstorms should develop in
eastern and southeastern sections, w ith brief late night and morning
cloudiness elsewhere.
Extended forecast
North Texas — West, fair with hot days and warm nights. Lows in
the 70s. Highs in the mid- and upper 90s.
Central, partly cloudy with hot days and warm nights. A slight
chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms mainly Thursday and
Friday. Low temperatures in the 70s. Highs in the mid- and upper
90s
East, a chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms, more
numerous Thursday and Friday. Warm and humid with lows in the
70s and highs in the lower 90s.
South Texas — Cloudy to partly cloudy late at night and during
the early morning hours with partly cloudy to sunny afternoons.
Hill Country and south central Texas highs in the 90s. Lows in the
70s.
Texas coastal bend, a chance of daytime showers. Highs from the
upper 80s beaches to the 90s inland. Lows from near 80 beaches to
the 70s inland. '
Lower Texas Rio Grande valley and plains, highs from the upper
80s beaches to 105 interior plains. Lows from near 80 beaches to the
70s inland.
Southeast Texas and the Upper Texas Coast, a chance of daytime
showers. Highs in the 80s coast and 90s inland. Lows near 80 coast
to 70s inland.
ACROSS
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6 Frenzy
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13 Mississippi re
sort
14 Teased
15 To no purpose
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16 Mope
17 Accounting
agey
19 Totals
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23 Regard
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27 Involve
29 Actress Amy
31 Reddish dye
35 Permeates
with liquid
36 Cloth dealer
37 More uncanny
40 Macaw genus
41 Explosive
labhr.)
44 Ceremonial
46 Sped
48 Nickname for a
Scot
49 Ancient Italian
family
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55 Sights
57 Arrested
58 Head bones
59 Antique car
60 Tropical basket
fiber
DOWN
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9 Oxygen
compound
10 laundering fi
nale
12 Hem
13 Flora and fauna
18 Play a role
21 Thicker
22 Mountain range
24 Poetic
contraction
25 Theater sign
labbrl
26 Mrs Peron
28 Voodoo cult
deity
30 "I like_"
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33 Comparative
suffix
34 Firearm
owners gp
36 low cards
38 Glazed
Answer to Previous Puzzle
39 Give__
whirl
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Daily Crossword
Crazy weather splits across state
Weather patterns from the Rocky Mountains dumped rain over Texas
By DAVID SEDENO
Associated Press H'rilrr
In San Antonio, patrolmen may
be going on water patrols scion if
the South Texas city institutes
water rationing. In the rain-soaked
Dallas area, law enforcement
officials are monitoring overflow-
ing lakes to ensure recreational out-
ings don’t en^t in disaster.
The crazy weather that has
divided the state for more than a
month — flood-like conditions in
the north and hot, windy and dry
conditions in the south — has
sparked concern among city
officials, farmers, ranchers and
recreational outfitters whose
businesses are in danger.
Weather patterns moving out of
the Rocky Mountains have dumped
large amounts of rain over parts of
West and North Texas, flooding
communities, overflowing lakes
and rivers and resulting in at least
18 drowning deaths.
But in drought-plagued South
Texas — most of the area south of
San Antonio — scattered showers
have brought little relief to the area.
In the South Texas community of
Agua Dulce, farmer Joe Dunham is
pretty much convinced that most
South Texas com and grain growers
will have to tighten their belts an-
other notch and wait until next year
for a good crop.
The unseasonably hot, dry and
windy conditions of the past
several weeks have spelled disaster
for many dry land crops, including
his 3.000 acres of com and grain in
Agua Dulce, west of Corpus
Christi.
“We just finished the hottest and
driest May on record. The winds
were unbelievably high,’’ Dunham
said. “It was like a hair dryer blow-
ing in on the crop and it dried
everything completely. There’s not
much there.”
And Clyde Crumley, Frio
County extension agent, says
numerous com and sorghum far-
mers unable to irrigate their crops
in his area are in for another long,
hot summer.
“There are some poor guys out
there who really have had a bad
year. They’ve been through the
wringer,” he said. “It’s been hot
and dry and then there’s been hail
and rain. Some farmers are not
going to get a thing.”
San Antonio is still about 3 in-
ches below its normal rainfall and
before scattered showers brought
relief to the area last week, city
officials were contemplating in-
stituting water rationing measures
and using police to enforce them.
Rain also has missed other South
Texas cities from San Antonio to
the Rip Grande. Laredo is about an
inch below normal; Corpus Christi,
about 3 inches below normal; Vic-
toria, 6 inches below normal; and
Brownsville, an inch below normal.
“The area south of San Antonio
is the worst hit area in the stale,”
said Jose Garcia, meteorologist
with the Southwest Agricultural
Weather Service Center in College
Station.
“Many areas don’t have access
to irrigation, and the drought in that
area will continue to be on the
severe side for the next few
weeks,” Garcia said.
Pleasanton rancher Daniel
Heinen said the drought has broken
farmers and ranchers in his area,
and he has scaled his 5£)0 cows to
200 and will decide at the end of
the summer his next step.
“It’s very critical right now. It’s
about as tough as I’ve ever seen it,”
he said. “We’ve been out of surface
water for a long time and people try
to relate this drought to this year
and last year, but this thing started
six years ago and we haven't had 1
an average rainfall in about seven '.
years.”
While South Texas is scorching,
many areas north of San Antonio ;
have been deluged with rain.
Austin is 14 inches above nor- .
mal; Waco, 6 inches above normal;
Dallas, 13 inches above normal;
and Teirell, east of Dallas, nearly '
15 inches above normal.
Along with the weather-related
deaths, homes and golf courses
were flooded, numerous lakes were
closed to recreational activities and
park rangers patrolled others 1 dis-
courage water activities.
About 61 counties are being con-
sidered for federal funds to cover
losses from heavy storms, and far-
mers’ in other drought-plagued
counties are seeking claims on crop
insurance to cover their losses.
“One of my neighbors just gave
up last week and another is just
about to hang it up and his family
has been around here since the late
1800s,” Heinen said. •
“It doesn’t seem fair with all tne
rain they arc getting up north,” he
said. “They’re'washing away and
we’re not getting a thing. It’s just
like sticking a knife in your back.”
Summer brings articles
on creepy, crawly bugs
ASTRO* GRAPH
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s that
lime of the year when the Agricul-
ture Department’s bug writers lum
out reports about the creepy,
crawly, hoppy things that chew on
crops and livestock.
Some of the reports turned out
by specialists in the department’s
Agricultural Research Service in-
volve space-age technology, for-
eign entomological recruiting and
even sex, one of the favorite
weapons of pest managers.
And when a fierce insect
predator attacks a lace bug ... well,
the details aren’t for small children.
Take the common grasshopper, a
notorious villain with an appetite
for almost anything in the plant
world. Or nematodes, ticks, weevils
and sundry other kinds of critters
that make farmers, ranchers and
home gardeners fret
“Grasshoppers like to sit in the
sun,” says USDA research en-
tomologist Raymond I. Carruthcrs.
“If it’s cold, a grasshopper can’t
develop quickly. It might not de-
velop to adulthood at all during its
growing season — from May into
September.”
Don’t feel sorry for the hopper,
though. Millions of them chew on
pastures each year, destroying al-
most a fourth of the forage grasses
in 17 of 22 Western stales. And
migrating grasshoppers also ravage
potatoes, alfalfa and other crops.
The internal body heat of the
sun-loving hoppers serves the in-
sects another way, by protecting
them against certain diseases. For
example, Carruthcrs said one fun-
gus — Entomphaga grylli — would
show promise as a biological con-
trol if it could stand the heat.
Carruthcrs said the fungus can
stand about 100 degrees Fahrenheit
for six to eight hours before starting
to die. Grasshoppers in laboratory
tests have been shown to “actually
cure themselves by basking in the
light,” he said.
But a type of E. grylli from Aus-
tralia can stand greater heat ex-
posure and may be introduced on
Western rangeland as early as this
summer. Carruthers said.
In parts of Texas and other ran-
geland areas of the West,
snakeweed and other unwanted
brush is a costly and persistent
problem for livestock producers.
Maybe two South American insects
will help.
^ff^thday
June 20, 1989
There are strong indications for finan-
cial growth in the year ahead, but there
are also signs that show you might be
wasteful or extravagant Take advan-
tage of" the former and subdue the
latter.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) This may not
be a good day lor going on a shopping
excursion There's a chance you'll ei-
ther come home empty handed or else
buy something expensive for which
you'll have no real need Know where to
look for romance and you'll find it. The
Astro-Graph Matchmaker instantly re-
veals which signs are romantically per-
fect for you. Mail $2 to Matchmaker, c/o
this newspaper. P.O. Box 91428. Cleve-
land, OH 44101-3428
CANCER (Juna 21-July 22) It might be
difficult to see eye-to-eye today with
someone you usually agreement with.
Don't let differences turn serious
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It could turn out
to be a big mistake today if you attempt
to use flattery in trying to get others to
do your bidding. Be sure your compli-
ments are sincere and deserved
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A combina-
tion of small time wasters could seri-
ously impair your productivity today if
you're not careful. Devote your efforts
to serious projects, not frivolous ones.
LIBRA (Sapl. 23-Oct. 23) You may at-
tempt to please people today who do
not really have your best interest at
heart If this is your primary objective,
you could end up doing yourself a
disservice
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) It's best
not to criticize the ideas or suggestions
of others today unless you're able to of-
fer something more constructive in re-
turn. Fault finding won't enhance your
popularity.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Doc. 21) You
could end up getting a bum deal today if
you are careless or indifferent regard-
ing the way you do business. You might
be asleep at the cash register, but the
other guy won't be
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Be co-
operative with associates today even if
you have to deal with a person who has
not shown you this courtesy previously
Nothing will be gained by following a
bad example
AQUARIUS (Jon. 20-Fob. 19) You
should be able to handle mator prob-
lems in stride today, but petty, little
frustrations could cause you to overre-
act After you scale a mountain, don't
trip over a molehill
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Even
though you'll be in a gregarious mood
today, people who indulge in excessive
small talk could bore you to tears. Seek
out pals who have more depth.
ARIES (March 21-AprM 19) Strive to be
original today instead of attempting to
adapt the ideas of someone else to fit
your requirements What worked for for
them might not for you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Take time
to think things out clearly today before
making any mental assumptions
There's a possibility you may be viewing
life through rose-colored glasses.
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