Alligator tale brings money to Ponchatoula
In Ponchatoula Louisiana a mean old alligator found by boys becomes a tourist draw. The mayor relocates the reptile to a city pool then builds a cage in town funded by visitors who throw money, after a sign imposes a twenty five dollar fine for anything but money. The scheme pays for the cage and chickens and makes locals and visitors briefly cheered by the spectacle.
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Jules Loh
Ponchatoula
Chappepella Creek
Louisiana
Charles Gideon
Ming
Russians expect to honor grain deal despite bumper Soviet crop
Deputy Secretary John White says Moscow shows no signs of reneging on the five year wheat and corn pact with the United States. USDA estimates Soviet 1977 grain output at 215 million tons, only 4 percent below last year’s record, while U.S. bumper wheat crops push prices down and raise the surplus. Talks in London and next fall aim to coordinate with Canada and others to manage a growing world wheat stockpile within an international framework.
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Washington
Soviet Union
United States
John White
Moscow
White
Agriculture Department
USDA
U.S
Russia
Department
London
Canada
Bob Bergland
Far East
Officials review Lawrence road stripe problems delay
Kansas and federal highway officials observed thermoplastic stripe failures in Lawrence streets and debated when completing the project. Resident Engineer Jim Brown cited lack of contractor presence and stricter application rules as key factors, with epoxy binders and cold weather blamed for the breakups. About 60 percent of the work is done, mainly white lines to accompany existing yellow lines.
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Lawrence
Jim Brown
Kansas Department of Transportation
Brown
State Transportation Department
Federal Highway Administration
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Columbia Masterworks
Victor Red Seal
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