Letter from Norman Mellor (Winkleman, Arizona) to His Sister Alice

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Rheumatism is crippling him badly at this time, as well as the unbearable heat. The drought has given the Secretary of Agriculture an opportunity to destroy many cattle, to be sent to the needy. Rains over winter were followed by 'A thick pall of dust'. He refers to the Relief Work of the New Deal as 'A joke'