DUST STORM MENACE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 2

DUST STORM MENACE

U.X.A. LOSINGI TOP SOIL AMAHTLLO, Feb. 15. Although the lirsl bin, dust storm of 197)6 has blown itself out, it is feared that others will soon sweep over the district.

The details of she return of this phenomenon to the five-Slate area in the south-west, seems (o indicate that hist summer's scourge is returning.

Clouds of sifting dust, in places, mixed with fine snow, blew on Thursday night in parts of Oklahoma., Texas. New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas, the. centre of last, year's storms which cut across the country.

Temperatures dropped and added to the discomfort.

Springfield (Colorado) reported that, dust-laden clouds reduced visibility to less than lOO'yds. and disrupted communications.

The hare lop soil of Texas fields was slicked up by a 45-mile-an-hoiir wind and carried toward a- low-pressure area in the

Liberal (Kansas) reported its third dusj storm in six days. If was aggravated by snow, which made visibility only 60ft. Farmers who, a foil night ago. were optimistic over their winter wheat prospects, now say that half of the crop has been lost.