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BORN: Sept. 27, 1938, Sioux City EDUCATION: U of Iowa; U of Tulsa FAMILY: Wife, Nancy; four children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1955-56; Army Reserve, 1956-63 OCCUPATION: Radio broadcaster; store owner; police officer; farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Corsicana, Texas, city commission, 1974-76; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: 2711 Grand Avenue, Des Moines...
...city agony columnists like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren might turn up their powdered noses at such rural dilemmas. But Janice Tate, 37, the go-getting wife of a Corsicana, Texas insurance agent, is making a name for herself with her home-style answers to the problems that perplex the folks down on the farm. Though she had no journalistic experience, blue-eyed Jan Tate decided last summer that she could fill a Lone Star need by advising Texas small-towners on their big-sounding Texas problems. Packing her three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch...
...barrel-chested, Odie Seagraves got the gambler's itch when he was barely 15, ran away from his father's farm in Corsicana, Texas to find a way to make the money flow faster. His qualifications, as his daughter later said, consisted only of "a lot of books, a lot of guts and a lot of ambition." Odie became a hotel broker, a man who lurks in hotel lobbies ready to spring out at a passing acquaintance with the magical whisper: "I've got a deal...
Weapon. In Corsicana, Tex., police charged a man with beating a woman over the head with his wooden...
...prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana...