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...always behind at the bank. One story especially illuminates the Crews' plight during these years: In 1936 they got a little ahead and were able to buy two cows. Early one morning, Mrs. Crews, cleaning the floor with homemade lye, happened to notice their two cows wandering towards a barrel of lead poisoning used for spraying tobacco plants. She yelled for Ray, but far out in the fields he couldn't hear her, and so she started for the cows herself. Two steps out the front door she heard young Harry scream and knew immediately he had swallowed some...
When they got home, the yearling cows were dead, lying already still by the barrel of lead poisoning...
President Carter's blast against the Public Works Bill as a "pork barrel" appropriation [Oct. 16] was dead wrong...
...aside 5% of each year's tax revenues for a reserve against debt. Proponents call the reserve, which would amount to about $63 million this year, a rainy-day fund, while opponents regard it as a slush fund that could be used by spendthrift legislators to underwrite pork-barrel public works projects. The proposition's chances are rated as a tossup...
...short of overriding Carter's veto of a $10 billion public works bill that would have funded 59 highly varied water projects scattered throughout the legislators' home districts. In a three-day publicity blitz, the President had labeled the bill "wasteful," "inflationary" and an example of "pork barrel" politics...