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WHRB's weekly request show, "Barn Howl," will feature live performances by New England and Greater Boston hillbilly stars Sunday, April 20. The program will be designed to appeal to devotees of Western and Hillbilly music...
...rough trail to the Andy Andersen ranch, 60 miles from the scene of his last killing. The owner, who was reading a note dropped from the air, got into his own car and skidded off to telephone the law as Ellis took refuge in Andersen's barn. Soon airplanes began landing on Andersen's sloping fields, sending cattle scurrying in all directions. By noon 100 heavily armed ranchers had the killer surrounded...
...Capture. The posse settled down warily to wait for the law. But Ellis set the barn on fire. It burned to smoldering ruins. When the ranchers discovered that Ellis had taken refuge in a tool shed behind it, they opened up with volleys from deer rifles, pistols, shotguns and .225. Six hundred rounds were fired. "Come out!" a rancher yelled. There was no answer. Several hundred more rounds cracked into the shack. Then Ellis, hit by six bullets, and dying, called "I'm through. Come...
...orator or a great speaker," he said. "I just want to meet people, and discuss . . . issues with them." Then, with snowstorms crippling his schedule, he headed across the state, shook a hand wherever he found one stuck out of a sleeve. He stopped at a cattle sales barn outside North Platte, made a short speech from the auctioneer's stand. At Lexington, when he had to wait until 3 a.m. for a train, he stretched out on a hard bench, pulled his hat over his eyes, and took a nap. Beside him he carefully laid Lexington's gift...
Circuits of Exultation. For the next six weeks, White carried him tirelessly about house, barn and fields. He stood "smiling into space" while Gos tore at his ungloved hand and ripped his cheek. After days of inching progress, Gos accepted a 24-yd. creance (length of twine). White's next job was to teach Gos to fly to his shoulder. At first White cringed as Gos pounced, claws first. There was always the chance that the hawk would strike at his face. Five yards, two yards-soon White could stare at the hawk until he was only...