Tales of Deaf Smith County

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain”.--Dolly Parton

December 1957

Due to six weeks of intermittent rains and finally a four inch snow, there were several hundred acres of grain sorgham overdue for harvest. Other than the grain harvest still in the fields, sugar beets and carrot crops were very slowly being harvested.

When some loads of grain were harvested, the …