Dixie drawing card: Dixie towns plan case stirs debate
New York reports a Dixie plan to fund factory buildings via municipal industrial bonds in small Southern towns. Mississippi Tennessee and Kentucky have passed laws enabling bond issues to lure factories, with critics warning of socialism and government control. Bond totals reach about 63 million, while dealers fear tax and SEC issues.
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New York
N.Y
Uthern
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Alabma
Oters
Paris
Detroit Harvester Company
Hamilton
Alabama
Hohenwald
Union City
Elizabethton
Securityand Exchange Commission
Grand Opera Comes to North Carolina Towns for $60
Jasper North Carolina hosts Grass Roots Opera Company presenting Cosi fan tutte in English titled School for Lovers. The program, led by Raleigh lawyer A J Fletcher, has reached 75 North Carolina schools with Carmen and La Traviata offered for a $60 guarantee. Local owners express surprise at opera’s appeal after initial skepticism.
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Jasper
N.C
School For Lovers
Grass Roots Opera Company
A. J. Fletcher
Raleigh
York
Metropolitan Opera
North Carolina
Anyi
Rural Roads Modernization Requires Large Federal Aid
A survey of county highway officials finds America's rural highways need about 30 billion dollars to meet modern standards. The plan calls for replacing 430,000 miles of road and rebuilding 72,000 bridges, affecting 68 percent of the 630,000 miles carrying most rural traffic. Truck haulage rose from 60 to 115 billion ton miles in a decade.
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ST. Louis
America
Colorado Community Cited for Help Given Unfortunate Family
In Fruita Colorado a lynch of kindness unfolds as Minter family from Louisiana suffers a wreck en route to Washington. Residents provide shelter meals and hospital costs while workers secure a local truck repair fund. The town abolishes its Jim Crow ordinance amid unanimous council support.
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Colorado
Fruita
Cal
Minter
Melvin Minter
Louisiana
Washington
Margaret
Uranium City to Rise as Saskatchewan Mining Hub
Model Town will become a 5000 resident center by 1954 serving Saskatchewan's uranium area north of Lake Athabaska. Construction starts on 150 acre site along the Fredette River near Martin Lake with an airport already completed. The town will consolidate nearby mines, enforce housing rules to avoid shack towns, and sits on the uranium road from Black Bay to Eldorado Ace Lake Mine.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Uranium City
Lake Athabaska
Saskatchewan Resources Department
Fredette River
Martin Lake
Black Bay
Eldorado
Film Clubs Suggested For Small Town Shows
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Illinois university researchers propose film clubs based on a Book of the Month model to expand access to higher quality cinema in small towns. A survey by Raines suggests teachers and leading citizens form a committee to underwrite regular screenings of cultural, documentary and experimental films not present in local theaters.
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Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois
Raines
Thedea
Wees
Ramah Builds Own High School Amid Community Fever
Ramah New Mexico, a town of 275, launches a volunteer driven effort to fund and construct a $100,000 high school. Leslie Clawson leads the drive urged by overcrowded classrooms for 125 pupils and 120 Navajo children. Local janitor volunteers 300 hours, 50 fathers commit 15,000 hours, firms donate steel girders crane and cement mixer, ordnance depot workers help. Mothers bake, hold teas and dances to raise funds as walls rise and foundation forms take shape.
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Ramah
N.M
Leslie Clawson
Jennie Johnson
Albuquerque Steel
Clawson
Ordnance
Small Communities Can Fluoridate Water Supply
The Wisconsin Dental Society says communities of all sizes can fluoridate their water to fight tooth decay at annual per person costs of four to 14 cents. Small towns under 1000 population are adopting fluoridation, dispelling the belief it is only for large cities. Initial equipment costs range from 500 dollars in small communities to several thousand in big cities, with no extra equipment needed in mid to large cities already using water purification chemicals.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Dental Society
Wisconsin
Townsfolk Push Auxiliary Police For Clarksdale
In Clarksdale Mississippi a civic push backs an auxiliary police force as citizens insist law enforcement is everyone's job The unit originated in 1949 under a police chief plan and now numbers about 20 volunteers trained weekly for duty at events parades and traffic spots The department plans active roles with shifts covering nights and weekends with pay redirected to training funds
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Clarksdale
Miss
Mississippi
National Guard
A. P. Terry
Police Department
Man Ta
Speman
MAI
Treasury
Inguniga
Ghlet
Police
Foreign Students See Life in Small Town
Fourteen foreign students from India, Pakistan, Belgium, Holland, Thailand, Haiti and Nigeria, attending UW graduate studies, visited Brandon Wisconsin to learn how Americans live in a 800-person town. They stayed with Kiwanis hosts, toured local industries and farms, and joined church and community activities to study life on the home town level.
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Brandon
Wis
University of Wisconsin
India
Pakistan
Belgium
Holland
Thailand
Haiti
Nigeria
Kiwanis
America
Egyptian Villages Rated Dirtiest in World by Rockefeller Study
After a three year global survey including India and the West Indies, the Rockefeller Foundation reports Egyptian villages as the most unsanitary. Of 4,000 villages studied, 28.8 points scored vs 53.25 in other regions, with widespread diseases such as amoebic dysentery bilharzia intestinal worms and pellagra, and low dietary variety. The death rate was about three times U S levels.
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Cairo
Egypt
India
China
West Indies
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller
United States
Historic Harpers Ferry Now Attracts Tourists
Harpers Ferry West Virginia, a 700 resident town at the tip of the eastern panhandle, once scene of Civil War battles and John Brown’s raid, is drawing national visitors for its scenic beauty. Figures and quotes from Jefferson and Carl Sandburg highlight the town’s historic allure now revived by tourism.
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Harpers Ferry
W. Va
West Virginia
Panhandle
Maryland
Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
John Brown
Brown
Federal
Jefferson
Spain
Carl Sandburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesspeake and Ohio Canal
Arsenal
Rural Mailboxes Increase Amid Urban Shift
Washington rural mail service director Ed Cooper notes more people move to towns while rural routes see more mail. Growth around cities boosts weekday deliveries even as carrier numbers fall from 45,000 to about 33,000. Better roads cars and closer boxes cut rural staffing. National Rural Mailbox Improvement Week is observed in April.
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Washinton
D.C
Ed Cooper
Rural Mail Service
Cooper Saya
Traffic safety counties are missing link
Chicago safety officials say lack of county action fuels rising traffic accidents. They note rural areas suffer the most, and urge county organizations to coordinate with state and city agencies to curb the toll and support defense efforts.
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Chicago
Til
Mountain Community Self-Help Program Attracts Attention
Prestonburg Kentucky residents in the Big Sandy valley credit a self help program with reducing crime and spurring growth. Improvements include a two way police radio system a modern garbage truck street markers annexation new street lighting equalized assessments and street resurfacing. Mayor Curtis Clark says cooperation with the city council lifted morale and attracted new businesses as lawlessness declined and population rose.
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Prestonsburg
Big Sandy
Kentucky Mountain
Commonwealth
Curtis Clark
Williston Boom Strains City as Oil Discovery Expands
Williston North Dakota adapts to a population surge from roughly 7600 to about 10000 as oil crews flood in. Banks report rising deposits while housing, roads, telephone service, and jail capacity struggle. Merchants prosper yet parking proves scarce and service workers share quarters to cope.
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Williston
N.D
Village Woman's Club Wins National Contest
The Junior Women's Club of Chagrin Falls won the $10,000 top prize in the Build Freedom With Youth contest by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. About 3,000 clubs competed for $25,000, with two thirds of state winners from towns, and the Chagrin Falls group earned the award for its teen-age canteen that served as a welcoming, nonviolent youth center. The Federated Women’s Club of Clarkeston, Wisconsin, earned $9,000 as second prize.
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Chagrin Falls
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Clu
Federated Women's Club
Clarkeston
Povainioe Aeir
Country College Georgia Towns Launch Unique Plans
In Carroll county Georgia three community colleges arose in two years. The College of the Country at Smithfield began 1949 with flexible year lengths and no tuition. Unity Family College and Hulett Sunday Afternoon College followed, offering practical subjects and attendance based diplomas with informal lectures, local teachers, and social dinners as part of classes.
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Smithfield
Carroll County
Georgia
College of
Atlanta
West Georgia State College
West Georgia College
Che Country
Utp
Unity
Unity Family College
Hulett
Carrollton
Colege
Old-Time Book Agents Return to Rural Areas
Washington report on a rural reading conference where educators advise reviving the high pressure book agent model for farms. An experiment with low priced books in farm stores faltered, but a $7.50 livestock feeding book proves farmers will pay for useful works. Experts note competition from movies radio and TV, and propose broader book distribution using mobiles as the most practical method.
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Washington, D.C
Farm Bureau
Fhve
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