Casey Jones and the Ballad of an American Legend
Carl H. Giles profiles Casey Jones, famed Cannonball engine driver. The piece traces Jones life from Cayce Kentucky to Jackson Tennessee, his role on the Cannonball Express, and the fatal 1900 crash that made him a railroad folk hero.
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Yesteryear
Almst
Railss
Casey Jones
Jonathan Luther Jones
Missouri
Cayce
Kentucky
Casey
The
Ilinois Central
Jackson
Tenn
John Jones
Jonathan
Charles Jones
Chicago
New Orleans
Memphis
Canton
Miss
Sim Webb
Durant
Goodman
Vaughn
Occult Interest Grows in Schools and Churches Across America
UPI reports a rising interest in witchcraft, spiritua l and occult arts as books and courses proliferate in schools and religious debates test traditional church responses. Experts note a hunger for direct contact with a superhuman agency even as secular society questions rational limits. A separate Omaha incident saw a would be burglar apologies in a cabin break in which firearms were stolen or moved.
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Fife
United States
America
David H.C. Read
Astor
Madison
Lefebre
Psychology Today Magazine
Omaha
Neb
UPI
Lake Termina
Sam Nisi
Howie Hustles Seeks Quick Tenant Fill for Landlords
O. Howie Hustles of Cuero Record Classified ads promotes rapid tenant placement. The city’s expert at filling vacant rentals touts dispute 5-3131 and offers fast matching of suitable renters for landlords.
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O. Howie Hustles
Cuero Record
Beef cow cost and income prospects in Texas study
A Texas A and M extension study by Tom Frater analyzes beef cow costs, returns and management actions. Excluding labor, costs per cow range from 84 to 97 dollars with a state average of 90.50. potential income at 459 lb calves and 25 cents per pound is about 101.23, yielding small returns after expenses. Enhanced management like improved forage use, fertility testing, calf weaning weight increases, and herd improvement can raise income. recent rains in DeWitt County boost crop outlook despite Downy mildew in some fields. A new Sorghum Diseases publication is available.
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Tom Frater
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
West Cross Timbers
Central Texas
Gulf Coast Area
Nixon poll shows majority support military action
Republican National Committee released a poll showing 53 percent of 1,053 adults favor Nixon’s 1969 Cambexia military decision, 32 percent disapprove, 15 percent undecided. FAO said China's 1969 rice crop reached about 95 million tons, up from 91 million the year before.
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Republican National Committee
Nixon
Rogers C R. Morton
New York Chilton Organization
China
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Floods in Northern Romania Kill 71, Displace 22,009
Romanian agency Agerpress reports 71 deaths and 22,009 homeless as floods sweep through northern Romania. Satu Mare records 48 fatalities and Mures 23 others found dead. Government allocates 8464 million for immediate relief amid mounting damage.
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Vienna
Upt
Romania
Agerpress
Hes
Satu Mare
Mures
Tanive
Soviets claim water thick as vaseline that cannot freeze
Tass reported that Soviet scientists developed a form of water with viscosity like vaseline that cannot be frozen, a breakthrough announced by the Soviet news agency Tass.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
Arcientists
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