Peasant Communes Reshape China With Hand Work
In Canton area a Sha ho commune Chen Chun leads a brigade system promoting self sufficiency with minimal equipment. Villagers moved to new homes since 1957, built irrigation, reservoirs, and ditches, expanding crops to two rice harvests and fruit terraces by hand, irrigated by river water. The village hosts 2300 people in 450 households with 1.46 million yuan saved for further development. Ho Chow, chairman, notes eight months of water supply without rain.
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China
Chen Chun
Shaho
Canton
Pearl River
Kwantung Province
Ho Chow
Chen Chun Village
District leader Poage praised for service to constituents
A reader credits Congressman Poage with open door policy and strong leadership in the House. They recount visiting his Sam Rayburn Building office and observing his staff’s courtesy and his thorough agricultural advocacy. The letter notes Poage’s respected role and contends his district benefits from his representation. North American wheat exports reached 1,163 million bushels in 1970, highlighting global trade.
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Washington
Congressman Poage
Sam Rayburn
Capitol
Poage
Why Did Fire Claim a Historic Cameron Home
A devastating blaze in Cameron destroyed the W. R. Newton residence, a landmark in Hefley Heights. Mrs. Newton perished, neighbors assisted by roof watering while firefighters battled a fierce fire fed by cy pressed wood, marking one of the area’s most blistering residential blazes.
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W. R. Newton
Newton
Cameron
Hefley Heights
Thoughts on fortune and love from Hamlet
The excerpt compares personal experience to a disastrous fire at Newton Mansion and ponders why minor incidents and major tragedies differ. It cites Hamlet to reflect on how love, fortune, and fate influence outcomes, noting that our thoughts are ours though others' ends are not.
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Newton
Hamlet
Brighton Belle to End Service as American Bidder Seeks Atlantic Move
The Brighton Belle, a near 75 year old luxury British Rail passenger train, faces retirement at end of April with bids from Americans to move it to the United States. Stainless fittings, marquetry walls, and a champagne party farewell mark its final London Brighton run.
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Richard Norsworthy Reuter
Brighton
England
Queen Mary
London Bridge
America
London
British Railways
Victoria Station
British Rail
Brittania
Ronald Trower
Hocks
Bordeaux
Burgundy
Champagne
Lord Olivier
Laurence Oliver
Theater
Sunday Pullman, Limited
Atlantic
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East First Street
Texas
Frank M. Luecke
Don Scarbrough
Milam
The
Cameron Herald
Atexas
Peter Gregson Reuter
Tery
Mr. Poage
House of Representatives
Bob
Congress
Belle
Rockdale
Lowenbrau
Munich
Pabst
HAUS
Bavaria
C.W. Walston
Cameron Ave
Sharpstown Banking
Charles Patterson
Muther
Patterson
Leon Bohls
Charles Forbes
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