Soil Conservation Service personnel have long been a part of the scene in Perryton, but it wasn’t always that way.
Drought had been endured before on the plains, but dust storms were something new. They came in 1933 and continued to a peak year of 1935, when it seemed that there was no end to the choking, blinding dust that filled the air.
It was in 1935 that the Soil Cons...