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...teenage girl in a photograph in the middle of Townships, a new compilation of essays by midwestern authors, smiles. She sits with legs crossed in front of a restaurant window with the words "Fresh Catfish or T-bone--2 for $8" written on it in soap...
...Room 306, where he conferred with his lieutenants moments before he was shot on the adjoining balcony. "There was some discussion of populating Room 306 with figures," Eisterhold recalls but acknowledges that this seemed close to blasphemy. Nevertheless, he defends the decision to re- % create King's last supper (catfish) with a room-service tray and dirty dishes, as well as to leave a copy of the April 4, 1968, Memphis Press- Scimitar open on the bed. "It seemed," Eisterhold argues, "that we had to indicate some evidence of habitation...
Last week the Delta was drying out after the wettest April and May on record. The giant Deere tractors with their 12-row cultivators left tails of dust as they stirred the baking fields. Ed Scott of Minter City was up at 5 a.m. to tend his eight catfish ponds. If all goes well, the black entrepreneur this year will sell nearly half a million pounds of catfish, the Delta's second biggest crop after cotton. In Arcola, Billy Percy was in a battered pickup as crop dusters in their yellow Air Tractors swooped around him, spraying rice and cotton...
Bumpers' staff explains that the Senator has a deep interest in aquaculture. The money is to be used for construction and renovations at the catfish farm in Stuttgart, Ark. Why should the Federal Government dole out funds to an industry that is already flourishing because of the surge in interest in simple down-home cooking? Because Bumpers, who has been in the Senate since 1974, is likely to run for another term...
...catfish that oinks and other tales of how Congress wastes money on dubious projects...