Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 1973 drought kills Buffalo by William Mann India a the old Farmer patted the Buffa los protruding Bones and looked across his Barren the worst thing is getting fodder for the he i have to buy it now be cause i dont have any of my Ramal Manjari Gaoler had interrupted his his two Skinny animals stood like not moving even to blink away the the stick plow they had been an instrument identical to that used by a Mavis had hardly dented the Brown Earth of the acre he had the buffaloes la Maji i have but Only these two can be i take milk from the others and sell it in Jalna to buy food for my family and the Rama i and millions of other Farmers in Central and Western India Are living through the third year of a drought called India most severe of the Rama i is luckier than affluent by Rural India he has 32 acres on the outskirts of this dirty Little town of Central Maharas 200 Miles East of bom an appalling number of buffaloes have died for Lack of fodder and per cent in some his Are the pittance from their milk has kept Rama i on the farm and out of government famine Relief work where an estimated five Mil 1 i o n indians have whiled away Many he has a Soninlaw and a son working in Chip Ping in a few rupees to pro vide for the seven members of his but standing Here a Pink turban protecting him from the Sun and his farm land burning beneath his san daled he does not seem a Lucky when it this is Good he i Plant my and it but it Hast really rained in three and nothing Rama i began blowing after some rain came in Early the first Monsoon to begin on schedule in four then the Rains inexplicably now he has seeds in a the few Days of rain put water in a Lake or two near and Rama i said his family has like most of the land in a Mavis is not Jalna is outside the Perpet Ual drought area of the where Farmers have prepared for the Little rain they do get with crude irrigation sys such a Farmer is rag who lives in a Village called a few dozen Miles from Ranganath irrigates part of his seven acres from a 40foot Well that also provides drink ing and bathing water for his family of 50 nieces and but his system is so Primi Tive that he cannot extend it across the paved Road that bisects his he hauls 50gallon Drums of water in an of cart to the other the family menfolk use earthen jars to pour water on each on Ragga paths irrigated a local Grain called Basra is Waist the unit Ligated Side of the How looks like Ramasis land with Muddy filipinos sentenced to death Manila a a military court has sentenced four Fili pinos to die before a firing squad for kidnapping a wealthy military authorities announced the condemned men Are Nelito a former police chief Domingo a former municipal official Leonides and Rolando All of Ca Vite province South of two men accused of being accomplices were acquitted and another Man is still at the four were found guilty of kidnapping Alfredo a businessman from nearby Pasay City last he was released three Days after his wife paid Iii ran the sentences will be Auto m a t i c a 1 1 y reviewed by the armed forces chief of Romeo and then submitted to president Ferdinand Marcos for final mileage up per cent Chicago motor vehicle mileage increased per cent in 1972 to trillion from 1971s marinate for tenderness Chuck Steak Side 15 Burns Sticks 12 Beer a wieners headcheese Cross roast sausage minced beef minced Western 32 salad dressing Aylmer 25 Glass Cre Mettes 2 or Long Spaghetti 69 55 43 89 at 3 s1 for i prices effective Friday and saturday we Reserve the right to limit quantities Coffee Coffee Tang Orange flavor crystals 14 fruit cocktail Ketchup Cre Mettes 2 Macaroni Western family 16 process cheese spread Kraft 9 Strawberry Jam Cra Bapple or grape 9 Kraft Jelly Western 8 Nippy 4tk cheese slices 2 Solo soft 1 tubs g Margarine 2 Aylmer sliced 14 4fe peaches 3 3 4 mushrooms Western family stems 10 mushrooms 14 halves pears Western family sliced 1q regular 1 Maxwell House instant 10 Corn Candy sodas peas or Aylmer whole Kernel 12 Western All varieties 49 size Paulins Plain or salted 16 4 q5 tins of w Western family 128 69 Aylmer 14 Beans with pork tins 89 200 2 ply sheets facial tissue Aylmer ungraded 14 4 tins Crisp bread Light 8 Rye i Western family 16 co fee Chris ties 7 j bits i Chris ties Cheddar or onion 4 Westons 8s 16 detergent 5 liquid 24 cordon Bleu Boneless 7 Tims 89 medleys whole Small 14 1 rns july is salad month fresh for flavor Large red Cardinal and Green seedless apricots cucumbers pears 2 m 39 Bartletti Cani Fly or 59c a unscented extra dry a Viii Light 6 Pearl dropsy shampoo Large nubian or Laredo Large Freestone peaches Washington Sweet Spanish onions r ;