First Woman Indian Superintendant Faces Mounting Backlash at Custer Battlefield
Barbara Booker, the National Park Service superintendent at Custer Battlefield National Monument, draws protests from white Custer fans while Indian leaders hail her as a breakthrough. She has expanded Indian hiring, faces debate over exhibits, and aims to present a fuller history of the Battle of Little Bighorn. Booker grew up in Utah, has glaucoma, is a pilot, and moved from Alaska to Montana for the post. The long controversy centers on bias toward Custer and the 7th Cavalry versus Sioux and Cheyenne perspectives. Booker says she wants to update exhibits and broaden the park brochure while following official guidelines.
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National Weather Outlook Forecast for Showers Across States
A national weather outlook notes a band of showers entering West Virginia and Virginia with rain also expected in Michigan Wyoming and Colorado. Today 60 percent storm chances highs mid 80s. Tonight 60 percent showers and storms with mid 60s lows. Monday 60 percent rain chances with highs near 80. Tuesday and Wednesday showery conditions with highs around 80 and lows near 60. Yesterday Bluefield temps set records with high 85 and low 60 and historical highs of 96 in 1918 and 44 in 1912.
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Regional Weather Summary for Virginia West Virginia and North Carolina
Regional forecast notes mostly sunny conditions across Virginia with highs 80 to 85 and tonight partly cloudy lows in the 60s. West Virginia sees partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and highs in the mid 80s. North Carolina expects a chance of showers or thunderstorms with highs in the 80s and tonight lows in the 70s, 60s in the mountains.
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Oil Wreck Deepens In Alaska Town Fishing Lives Up in Smoke
On site with specialists oil recovery crews debated how much oil a pom-pom could gather while workers, mostly women, labored on oily rocks with steam guns. Oil waste puzzled Exxon reps as tides recontaminated cleaned areas. Port Grahamers face lost fishing, no work, and a ruined way of life. Cleanup costs top $2 billion and counting.
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Battle of the Little Bighorn remembered on Custer battlefield
The Lewins family notes the momentous 1876 clash on the Dakota frontier near Billings. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led about 225 officers and troopers against a vast encampment of 10,000 to 15,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. All soldiers died. no survivor from Custer’s group.
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Jenkin Jones coal town remembered as booming camp
Dessie Evans recalls Jenkinjones as a beautiful town with whitewashed houses and trees and lines for groceries paid in scrip. Clyde McGraw notes the postwar peak, later decline after layoffs, with mines No 6 No 4 and No 8 closing by 1989. Jenkin Jones named after coal baron Jenkin Jones, son Jimmy Jones rose to Pocahontas Fuel Company leadership before dying in 1932.
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