i REDS ERECT NEW WATCH TOWER--East point "Charlie." Looking on towards tower German border guards, are shown today as and its wide window are a West German they put finishing touches on a new watch policeman, left, and a United States Army tower behind the Berlin Wall opposite check- MP guard. (AP Photo) Prolonged Drought Is Drying Up Across Whole Midwest By MARGERY United Press International One of the worst dry. spells In decades. is drying up crops from Texas. to Wisconsin.
The Midlands need rain- and plenty of it- time to get the land ready for seeding of winter grains. Some 700,000 students registered in 1,800 schools will learn such subjects as: science, mathematics and foreign languages via airborne television, ready to launch its season of broadcasting here Monday. Schools in. a geographic range from Decatur to Canton, Ohio, and from Grand Rapids, to Lexington, are registered this year. About 1,300 participated last year.
Twenty-fives courses will' be aired under the Midwest gram Airborne Television Instruction at a of $1 per student per year MPATI's arcraft cruises at an altitude of 123,000 feet over north central Indiana to enable the TV signals to -reach 200 miles in all directions. Dr. A. Rohnhorst, 'MPATI general manager; reported the "flying classroom" has petitioned the Federal Communica: tions Commission to grant it the use of six channels in order to expand its offerings. Arguments on the petition be heard Oct.
9. All courses care pre-recorded on video taper loaded aboard DC-6, and when airborne, transmitted two channels simultaneously via 24-foot retractable antenna. Lessons will be telecast every Monday through Thursday on UHF channels 172 and 76 in 11- Indian Kentucky, Mich igan, Ohio and Wisconsin. REPAIRS: SLATED BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) -Starting Monday, Baghdad Airport will be' closed to civil aviation traffic 40 days for runway repairs. Plant are being diverted to Al Rashid military camp nearby READ THE CLASSIFIEDS 700,000 To Use TV Teaching LAFAYETTE, Ind: (AP) In Indiana last month, leaves began to curl, turn brown, and fall away many days before normal autumn shedding dates.
The rolling pasture land. of Wisconsin "burned in many areas. Iowa suffered from the longest dry spell in 28 years: At the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, streets and byways were watered daily control clouds of swirling dust. Farther south, fire watchers looked apprehensively for signs of smoke from dry timber land in Illinois' "'Little Egypt." Through most of the Midwest corn belt, mid August rains were too little and too late for advanced crops, although they did serve to slow deterioration. Expectations that the drought seriously damaged crops drove soybean and corn.
futures to: 1964 highs Aug. 26. on the Chicago Board of Trade. A private report circulated on the floor that day called the official Aug. 1 government crop forecast figures 'nothing more than a fantastic The Department of Agriculture had estimated the 1964 corn crop tat 3.8 billion bushels and the soybean crop at 747 billion bushels before the start of the dry spell.
However, the private, report said, "the prolonged heat spell during the last weeks of July and the first week of August, along with the shortage of moisture in many. areas made. for permanent damage to both crops." The A situation state by state: Indiana corn, soybean and tomato crops were particularly hard hit by the drought. Wisconsin Emergency haying and grazing privileges were approved, in 33, counties. Gov.
John Reynolds said the corn crop was at 20 per cent or lower" and that pastures have "long since burned out." Iowa- -The longest dry spell in 28 years left soil moisture short to adequate in the state, particularly in the eastern third. Illinois Southern Illinois lacked rainfall for up to 36 days, according to William Denmark, state Weather Bureau climatologist. The. prolonged drought in July and August came at a time when rain was needed to mature the chief crops, corn and soybeans. Nebraska Seventeen counties were named drought disaster areas.
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of his old 1. drug store. Afterward, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Hubert -Humphrey left. for Rapid City, S.
on, the first leg of.a flight to Denver, Colo, At the family drug store, now operated by his brother, Ralph, Humphrey bustled about like a small town merchant. He rang up a 79-cent bottle of aspirin on the cash register and told the purchaser an unidentified Huron resident: "That's a. very good He strode to the prescription counter and accommodated photographers by going through the motions of filling a prescription pouring tranquilizers from a large bottle into a smaller one. If it really had been a prescription, that was just the way he would have done it, the Minnesota senator assured newsmen; much would it cost? "Four dollars 'and 30 said the senator, I before medicare," his brother added. A newsmen examined a stockman's judging cane and decided he to buy, it.
Humphrey's brother offered the cane as a gift. But the candidate objected: "This is a family store. Make him pay." He made the sale. Singer, TV Director Are Married HOLLYWOOD (AP) Singer Anna Maria Alberghetti and television director Claudio Guzman were married Saturday. The nuptial mass was performed by Msgr.
John Devlin at St. Victor's Church.7 The 28-year-old bride wore a white brocade dress with a matching coat and a white lace mantilla. The newly weds attended a wedding brunch to which hundreds were invited at the home of her personal manager, Pierre Cossette, in. Brentwood. The couple plans a 10-day honeymoon in Hawaii, after which they will to New York where she will rehearsals for her fall nightclub tour and he will direct several TV shows.
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Colorado State Agriculture Commissioner Paul W. Swisher estimated that Colorado farmers lost at least. $50 million this year because of the drought. The wheat crop was estimated at 28 million bushels, compared to an average of 55-60 million bushels. Texas A severe water shortage and one of the hottest sumof pasture M.
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