Home of Casey Joness railroad museum in Jackson Tennessee
Jackson Tennessee AP reports on the Casey Jones Railroad Museum housed in Jones family home. The site draws about 250 visitors daily, with peaks near 800, featuring a 10 foot wall enclosing the house and a sister Baldwin locomotive numbered 382. Museum manager J C Barlow notes the engine’s history, and exhibits reflect railroad life of the era. Casey Jones, famed Cannoball Express engineer, died after delaying a freight to save his crew, with his grave later marked and the house opened as a museum in 1957. The collection includes uniforms, lanterns, and locomotive parts, drawing old railroaders who reminisce.
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Casey Jones Railroad Museum
Baldwin
Casey
Vaughn
Miss
J. C. Barlow
City of
Jackson
Illinois Central Railroad
Casey Jones
Jones
Reno Hill
Memphis
Sim Webb
Jone
Barlow
Tales of Hoover emerge from posthumous tellings
Washington recounts Hoover's formidable, feared influence over FBI culture and national policy across decades. Excerpts from new books reveal his isolation, harsh discipline, and the chilling control he exercised over his agents, who feared challenging him or failing his demands.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
America
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Sanford Ungar
FBI
Bureau
Ungar
Clyde Tolson
Wives Attend Legislature Regularly in Augusta
Peg Farnham and Dottie Birt, wives of two Republican lawmakers, rarely miss days of a recent special session. They sit in the House gallery and travel with their husbands, forming a small core of wives who attend sessions, living in a Capitol motel, and enjoying the freedom from housekeeping while Keeping close to their partners’ legislative lives.
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Augusta
Maine
Peg Farnham
Dottie Birt
House
Roderick E. Farnham
Ham
Walter A. Birt
Ast Millinocket
State House
Space colonies may solve world's energy needs
Portland AP report cites NASA Ames scientist Richard D. Johnson outlining space colonies of one million that would self sustain and sell solar power to Earth. He forecast first station in 25 years, lunar irradiation farms, aluminum solar power stations 50 square miles in size, rotating habitats with 10,000 residents per site and 4,000 bushels per acre space crops.
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Portland
Ore
Space Administration
Richard D. Johnson
Johnson
Life Sciences Flight Experiment Office
The
National Aeronautics and
Ames Research Center
Space
Mountain View
Calif
Earth
Space Farm
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