Word: cattaraugus
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...rural Cattaraugus County, 40 miles south of Buffalo, the West Valley nuclear reprocessing plant has been shut down since 1973, when the Getty Oil Co. ceased operations there. Meanwhile, the radioactive waste created by the plant is buried in landfill trenches. Some of the poisonous garbage periodically leaks into Cattaraugus Creek, which feeds into Lake Erie, the source of water for Buffalo and surrounding communities...
...have delayed the Democratization of Upstate. But the results of the elections last year and last week strongly suggest that it has finally arrived. In 1964, Robert Kennedy piled up significant majorities in traditionally Republican counties like Onondaga (Syracuse), Oneida (Utica and Rome), Rensselaer (Troy), and Chautauqua and Cattaraugus (Southern Tier). Democratic Assembly and Senate candidates also were swept in, producing the first Democratic legislature in thirty years...
While Ellsworth R. Schindler, a Seneca Indian, was working last year in the Detroit plant of Ford Motor Co. he contracted with Contract Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess...
...Buffalo, N. Y., last month occurred a sordid sex murder involving two red women. Into the home of Henri Marchand, artist for the Buffalo Natural History Museum, had walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...
...sands with water. After about a year of this treatment, it is said, the petroleum left in the pockets is forced toward the old well-shafts, and can be pumped out in considerable quantities. New York State owns extensive though run-down oil fields in Allegheny and Cattaraugus Counties; it is estimated that the high grade oil obtainable there through the new flooding process will cost only $2 a barrel to extract, and can readily be sold for twice that sum. The State geologists estimate the recoverable oil in these fields as being worth $510 millions, with a possibility...