Members of Congress visiting drouth [drout] stricken areas stopped Thursday [July 2, 1953] night at Carswell Air Force Base en route to Amarillo. Center, Representative William S. Hill, left, of Colorado shakes hands with Brigadier General C. W. Schott, Eighth Air Force deputy commander. Behind the General is Representative Charles B. Hoeven of Iowa. In back row, left to right, are Representatives Robert Dinsmore Harrison of Nebraska, O. C. Fisher of San Angelo, Frank N. Ikard of Wichita Falls, W. R. Poage of Waco, Clark W. Thompson of Galveston, and Walter E. Rogers of Pampa and Henry Smith, head of the Farmers Home Administration production loan division.
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