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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1975
Page
5
Scientists test underground housing to cut heating and cooling energy by about 75 percent. Buried buildings use light courtyards to trap sun and reduce energy needs. NSF funds $206,400 for instruments in a buried bookstore study.
Local social round includes visits among families in Burlington and surrounding towns. Aug 25 marks first bale ginned by Burlington Farmers Co op Gin. Minnesota university campus links noted with a bookstore at Ithaca and historical underground homesteading memories referenced.
Prairie settlers built sod houses or soddy shacks from turf blocks called prairie marble. From 1870 to 1910 over a million dotted the plains from Texas to Canada. Walls were two feet thick. roofs of willow and sod leaked mud in rain. sod houses cooled in summer and withstood fires, but often collapsed after years.
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