Burman, Catfish Bend Author, Signs Big Deals at 80
Ben Lucien Burman, 80, signs worldwide contracts for his Catfish Bend tales including a Vanguard edition of High Treason at Catfish Bend and a Disney animated film budgeted over 10 million. Edward Padula to stage Catfish Bend as a Broadway musical. Burman’s stories have 600,000 copies in print. Alice Caddy Burman, his wife and illustrator, has recently died. He recalls a career shaped by journalism, river life, and wartime dispatches.
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Wild West notables depart with a whimper in new book
San Francisco reporting notes western outlaws like Butch Cassidy Kid Curry Jim Younger and Jesse James often met death by their own hands or in gun battles A historian James D Horan discusses these tales in The Authentic Wild West The Outlaws from Crown Publishers The piece also cites quotes from Jesse James Frank James Carrie Nation and John N Edwards on the outlaw era
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County approves 21 CETA jobs including Indian counselor
Santa Barbara County supervisors authorized about 318000 in federal CETA funds to create 21 North County jobs. The plan includes an Indian counselor for a pre release program at the Federal Correctional Institution near Lompoc. Also approved was a YMCA program director after a council denial, with firebreak slots adjusted to free the position.
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Touch-typist turned music innovator creates MACKS keyboard
Charlie Carmichael in Baton Rouge merges a typewriter keyboard with an organ to form the MACKS system. The device lets anyone play recognizable tunes on first try, using a letter number code to render sheet music across three octaves. Notes cannot be corrected with backspace.
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