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...brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie and I talked about the situation, about bird hunting, deer hunting, and the two good coon dogs I got. It's over and done with...
...quality. Peter gets an "A 83"-A for admit; the 83 warns that a lop-off is still possible when Rogers re-examines legacy applications in April. The committee moves on to "John": "Third in his class, 730 verbal, a genuine interest in history," says Committee Member Steve Coon, "and he can hit the long ball...
...last May, moreover, a blue APCO work trailer has been parked on Route 698 to serve as an advance base for surveying teams. But most people have lived in the Gap all their lives, and life is as it has been for 100 years. The men meet at the Coon Hunters Club to swap stories. The women spend a good deal of time making quilts. They also keep the Methodist church as near as in the days when they had their own preacher. APCO is offering "a fair market value" for the land, which means...
That spirit explains why in the past few months the Coon Club and the church, like Holmes' store, have been pressed into service as centers for meetings and fund-raising schemes. All told, $10,500 has been collected so far for the legal fees involved in seeking an injunction to block exploratory drilling or digging by APCO−at least until some thorough environmental studies have been made. The case is scheduled for trial in the Abingdon Circuit Court at the end of this month, but the town is beginning to realize that whatever the decision, later appeals...
...lives, the people of Brumley Gap have at least got their resistance going early in the proceedings. Most of them cannot imagine defeat. Says Cletis Leonard, a tall, rawboned woman with her silver hair drawn back in a bun: "I sold three quilts at that auction down at the Coon Club last October. Made $200. Maybe I'll do even better next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake was not getting guns and running the APCO people out when they first appeared, gloomily confronts...