Word: brazoria
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...nearly 9 in. of rain that pelted their headwaters last month, overflowed their banks for miles, sweeping away buildings and vehicles. With losses in the tens of millions of dollars and 15 dead, 25 counties were designated as disaster areas by President Bush. Lamented James Phillips, chief administrator in Brazoria County: "Nobody expected this in a hundred years. We were practically defenseless...
...complex system of dams, reservoirs and levees along major waterways like the Brazos. The Texas floods were inevitable because of the size of the downpour that fell on an already soaked region. But their destructiveness was multiplied when runoffs from unexpected points turned quiet creeks into torrents. In Brazoria County, Oyster Creek flooded and combined with the Brazos to create a lake nine miles wide and up to 50 ft. deep...
...suspensions of minor Agriculture officials came to light. The men were office managers for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service-the agency embroiled in Billie Sol's fraudulent cotton-allotment dealings. They were ousted in connection with $28,000 worth of illegal rice-allotment sales in Texas' Brazoria and Matagorda counties over the past three years. Both cotton and rice allotments are valuable, since without them farmers are subject to unprofitably stiff penalties for planting and marketing-but their sale is distinctly illegal. Smarting at the new scandal. Freeman turned the case over...
...Diamond Glenn" now has 300 employes, figures his staff of engineers, geologists, drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...
...large part of it to schools and colleges. Appraisal last week revealed the extent of the bequests: a total of $2,618,568. In the discretion of Brother ''Mike'' Hogg, $1,923,568 is bequeathed for a proposed Varner School to be established in Brazoria County, Tex., on the Hogg plantation, The Varner, as a memorial to the late Governor Hogg and his wife. A vocational school "for training poor boys and possibly girls, of good family history, sound morals and good scholarship, graduates of South Texas high schools." Varner School would give courses in husbandry...