Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Park's lagoons of gators that had already eaten all the park's ducks and were working their way through its fish and turtles. Panicked phone callers-as many as seven a week-report alligators in residential districts, even in the affluent sections bordering Bayou...
John. Several dogs that wandered too close to the water's edge perished when what looked like a log suddenly thrashed into hungry action. The threat has become so great that golfers playing on the bayou-laced local links are advised not to look for balls lost in the water...
White politicians paid little attention to Mound Bayou's hospital while it was struggling along on its own. Once the hospital and medical center began receiving regular federal funds, they became interested. Local officials tried to take over the Mound Bayou program -and its funding-but failed. State agencies attempted to rescind the hospital's license on the ground that it failed to meet state standards. They were stymied when Mound Bayou obtained OEO funds to renovate some of its most outmoded facilities...
...Mound Bayou's latest trials began in 1973, when the Nixon Administration dismantled OEO and transferred its health-services program to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which lacks the statutory authority to finance the hospital. HEW will continue to fund the outpatient programs conducted at Mound Bayou's health center. But the money to support the hospital is being cut off. By next June, all financial aid will...
...equipped to provide quality care. Local officials, and even the hospital staff, agree that the hospital is obsolete but insist nonetheless that it is essential. Other, white-run hospitals in the area will not admit indigent blacks. Thus, unless these patients can continue to get free care at Mound Bayou's hospital, most will get no care...